If the kids did the fucking dishes they could play a decent game.

There's nothing stopping anyone from doing any of these things in real life. But look at what happens. You get arrested or killed, and most likely killed. Remember that lockdown drill you had at school? Well, this game will let you pretend to be the gunman for a little while, but you're going to die. Sadly, yes, if you kill hookers then you're probably going to get away with it for a long time. In a larger city, or a place like Detroit, you could probably just walk up to someone and blow them away without getting into trouble.

People in real life break the law, and they do often go to jail. Not always, but they do. Real life has assassins, drug runners, car accidents, and senseless violence. Where we live is often isolated, but other countries you can be killed for no reason, or for made-up reasons.

Now see how this guy lost his temper and destroyed that [spoiler edit]? Now he's got to pay for it, and that's something that would happen if you tried that for real. That's why I carry millions of dollars in insurance, in case I break something.

On the other hand, look at what happens if you volunteer as a firefighter, or get a job as a paramedic, or even drive a taxi. You get way more money AND nobody is trying to arrest you, or use what they know against you. Even going exploring is a better use of your time than killing someone at random.

Yes, those of us who are single parents will take our kids to EB to buy GTA:V then the liquor store to buy beer.

ALL THESE THINGS ARE FOR DAD

I had a daydream where I came home from work, and the kids were there playing GTA: Legacies (or whatever it'll be in 5-6 years) and I bust them. I look at the screen, look at them, say, "you drive like shit, shove over." then going through the ambulance missions.

"I've been playing this since before you were born."

Indeed, I'm 36 and I've got a 7 and 9 year old. If I hadn't had a chance to pick it up at launch-day lunch, then I promise you that I would have gone to the store with them in tow on the weekend. The game is not for them. Yes, parents play video games. (Although I'm not sure how it happened that now I'm the guy who says we have to turn the games off and do homework / go play outside / go to bed.)

Anyway, my kids are aware the game exists and they know it's not appropriate for them to play. At the age they're at, we have more fun with Ultimate Alliance.

They only did it to get the little badge.

I support the development of an AI, no matter what its initial purpose is, or who funds it.

Imagine it. How long have we been asking, "are we alone?" "will we ever contact another intelligence?" Sure, we have scifi shows about aliens, we have fables about angels and gods, but face it, as far as we know, this is the only planet with life.

At some point we can answer, "no, we are not alone. We created life, intelligent life, and saw it open its eyes." We would never be alone again.

I seriously don't give a shit what its first message is.

Most parks are full of sewer systems.

In order to have a happy, functional park, you require drainage. The correct term for the drainage system is a sewer. Although pop culture calls only the poop type "sewer", that's called the "sanitary sewer". The pipes that drain storm water (e.g. the rain runoff from parks) is the "storm sewer". (And neither type flows just downhill.)

I've spent some of my co-op time digging up a park and putting in a storm sewer system so that the fields could be used all year round. Of course, we got to the end and there was a water main in the way (I wasn't involved in the design) and long story short the head PE for the city came down to figure out how to fix it.

Yep, $25 application fee, get 100k applications, screen out all but 100 applicants, make them do some impossible tasks until they flunk, then oh well, you all fail.

Thanks for the moneeies.

I'm using it now.

Audio goes through with no problems, it's the data accompanying the audio that doesn't go through. The track info doesn't show up on my stereo, although it did before I flashed to CM. It's a known problem, but it's waiting for the Google API to update (presumably in Android 4.3) for implementation.

I've got an S3, but it's only got the one SIM card. It's easily accessible though.

What Cyanogenmod is missing is Bluetooth support. They have the basic functions down, but they redid the stack to be technically correct and now it doesn't work. They're waiting for Google to release some future API in a supposedly-upcoming release.

Also, GTA: Vice City doesn't work. But that's a minor thing.

No, it's so that we finally have an excuse to go on a shotgun rampage without guilt.

Plus, we're already all zombies anyway so it doesn't matter much anyway.

Sure, it's obscure, except all our chips are being made in a country that is actively in an electroni

THE PEOPLE'S GLORIOUS REPUBLIC DENIES THESE CLAIMS.

There are also procedures for marking stuff as classified, and you can't just stamp it on anything that's embarrassing. (There are tables, there's no reason to post them here.)

If you do, that's a violation of the same act that she's talking about.

I've spent more and time on board games this year than video games.

Speak for yourself -- I've done so many pushups I'm technically a perky "B" cup.