Haha. If Star Citizen ends up being even a quarter of what its most devoted fans expect it to be, I'll eat my hat. That game has fanboy-backlash-in-waiting written all over it.

That's great. But I wish they mattered enough that employers would pay them what I make in the same job with a similar level of qualification and experience.

I guess my question is, why is that the barometer? How is that not just ticking a box? When you're writing a story, you aren't sitting there saying "Well jeez, how can we make this as diverse as possible?" You're not treating that as your primary concern. As somebody who actually gives a shit about diversity, like, in…

And what level of involvement should she have had in order for Rockstar to avoid scrutiny here? Who should they have sent the script to for the final word on this?

Like I said, when everybody's an asshole, as they tend to be in GTA games, you can't really expect these strong, morally-upright characters to receive anything more than background treatment. A bit of earnestness, set in the middle of thick satire and parody, goes a long way.

Is the game about her? Of course not. But she is a character in it. Ultimately, GTA games aren't about upstanding, moral people. I know it must come as a shock, but that's the way it is.

Huh? Franklin wasn't escaping a dangerous lifestyle. He merely slipped from one into the other. I don't think even he imagined that this wasn't the case. He simply figured that he'd rather be putting shit on the line for a real payoff, rather than running schemes that would fall apart in the end. The shaming he…

There is one single strong female character in the entire game and she's only there for a minute or two, depending how fast you drive, and her entire reason for existing is that you rescue her. When you later hire her for a job, she is given no room to be a person and accepts a wage much, much lower than any other…

Naturally, there will be no mention of the fact that the only upstanding, unimpeachable character in the GTA 5 universe is Franklin's erstwhile girlfriend, Tanisha.

Yes.

I used to live in Tuscaloosa and have to deal with those fuckers taking over the city during home game weekends, so this makes me very happy as well.

Wait, so has the movie even been shot yet? If not, talk of a release is putting the cart before the horse. There would be so many ways this thing could die before 2016. Words are wind in Hollywood, folks.

You're not required to interact with anyone else, but you're encouraged, at every step of the process of setting up a game, to do so. You'd know this if you had even the slightest experience of the game. It's not like you launch the game and there are singleplayer and multiplayer buttons. You have to essentially opt…

Have you ever played the game or seen it played? It is designed to be played with others. It doesn't matter if the game does or doesn't need server-side processing or what have you. It's designed to be played collaboratively.

Oh yeah, you obviously weren't trying to make the DRM claim when you critiqued the "always-on" aspect of the game. You're making a nuanced argument that just happens to look like the typical tripe we commonly see in comments about SimCity. Sure thing, brah.

I realize it's pointless to even get into the debate with you, but it's an online game. The fact that you didn't want it to be an online game doesn't change that. Moreover, reducing every single online experience that you don't appreciate to "always-online DRM" cheapens the anti-DRM argument (which is totally valid)…

People were pissed at EA because there was ZERO reason for the game to demand always-on: THAT was the fury, not because the game broke the servers, as that was expected.

There is no "obvious" dark context here. Trying to find some telling detail about the regime in every little thing we see is absurd.

Again, it's not like people are going to watch this video and forget that North Korea is terrible. You're preaching to the choir, but with such little purpose, and the butt of your criticism is a group of talented little kids who haven't known any other life and are 100% blameless in the acts of the Kim regime. One…

Okay, so it's impossible to demean innocent North Koreans simply because the regime is horrible? These are little children, not party operatives. What the hell else do they know, other than this life that they've lived so far? How does talking shit about their performance, which is quite awesome, help them or any…