I think you also have to factor in how the series separates the broader Continental / High Table world from civilians.  Everyone who gets hurt or killed deserves it and they seemingly take care to conduct their business away from normal people on the street.  It’s nonsense, but if you’re complaining about realism in…

Unless you’re gay, disabled, disfigured, neuro-atypical, Jewish, English isn’t your first language, or god-forbid, poor, then you forfeit those along with everyone else that’s not deemed worthy to be “a real American.”

Imagine if we went about seizing guns for almost no reasons, where are they now? Nowhere, probably becasue this affects mostly poor and brown people

I’m gonna step in and defend you here.

Thieves love copper and EV chargers have some way of tripping if there’s a fault. IIRC the US chargers don’t even lock on both ends like the euros do, so basically they just unplug your car and then snip the other end off at the charger. In Europe it’s a bit more complicated…

As a HUGE liberal weenie on guns, personally, I can see your point about gun culture. I do think it helps that the JW films (especially after the first one) walk a very deliberate line between being fantastical and having a very grounded approach to the moment-to-moment mechanics of violence. (It helps that, past the…

Are you joking? A couple of problems with your scenario: A) Electrocution and B) Ruining a cable by cutting it, rendering it useless. 

You willing to cut through a live power cable flowing 100's of volts and 10's of amps? Please have your next of kin record it and post it on youtube. How do you know if the power cable is live or not?

sigh... for a car blog, this article lacks an amazing understanding about how road’s and streets are built, owned, & maintained in the US.

There is a reason you don’t see street side chargers built in the US, no one place owns all the roads. And cities are notoriously bad at building their own infrastructure. 

Given how our criminals love to steal both catalytic converters and whole cars (especially Kias & Hyundais), what would/does keep someone with a pair of bolt cutters from going after all of these owner-supplied power cords?

Killing off the mentor after a final piece of advice to the protagonist is a pretty common trope, almost as common as dead mom/absent parents, sometimes there’s a combination of the two! Bonus points if they are elderly! Not...that great of a catalyst if you actually read fiction often.

It’s weird to me that a franchise is so universally loved when it puts so much focus on guns. Yeah, it’s fun, it’s fantasy. But maybe a slideshow celebrating headshots doesn’t help when we’re trying to shrink the gun culture.

The key with buying a house is the mortgage - if you actually stay for a while, it’s basically like personal rent control. Even including property taxes and everything else, your mortgage can be higher than your rent would be now but in a decade your mortgage isn’t any higher than when you started while your rent has…

Absolutely. Then you have stuff like what my parents have gone through with their water system over the years: When they bought the house there were only a couple houses in the area and the house filter was all that was needed. Then developments went in, the water table started going down and so over the past ~15ish…

Troy Baker has always struck me as a guy who has drank the ND/Druckmann Kool-Aid and thinks TLOU is more important and a bigger deal than it is. That he’d get into some weird “both sides are equally bad and interesting and that’s what makes this so deep and great” thing doesn’t terribly surprise me?

Absurd to read the ‘this guy was too cartoony evil villain for the show’ replies when these kind of people are literally all over the internet and the far-right. Have people forgotten the madness of TV evangelists and cults and now Q-anon and alt-right/nazis everywhere? The monthly reveals that basically every priest…

despite the questionable morality of Joel’s violent actions, he’s somehow equal to a cannibal and sexual predator.

He’s basically the definition of a vexatious litigant. He used his status as a lawyer to intimidate the developers into capitulating to his demands - demands which would not have held up in any court. His “claim” to the game mode is based on some guide he wrote with suggestions about how to play the game. At no point…

I think what the game was trying to do, and what North was alluding to in his interviews, was a question of whether David has always been a monster or like many others in the story, driven to becoming a monster because of his circumstances?

Honestly confused about why this dude got pissed and went rogue. He just wanted his name in the credits earlier than he was getting? Like why would you receive credit before your content is even present in the game? Is there something I'm not getting here?

This is one of those “People tell you exactly who they are” moments where someone will fully and completely tell on themselves.