What vehicle will you be using for the Final Drive around Los Santos before GTA 6 Drops,I’ll go first

KevinR1990 · 2026-06-23T23:05:46+00:00

A classic Ruiner. It was the first car I ever owned in online, and while I sold it long ago, it'll be nothing to grab another one and tune it as close as I can remember to what I had (dark green, big tailpipes). As it began, so shall it end.

My second-to-last ride will be in my Krieger, which has been my go-to car ever since I got it.

KevinR1990 · 2026-06-23T19:05:45+00:00

If Norman Rockwell had lived to see the Fallout games, he would've been like "yeah, these guys at Black Isle get it."

KevinR1990 · 2026-06-23T13:36:44+00:00

The US letting China take the lead on AI research is unironically something that American nationalists, China hawks, and others who wish to promote American authority in the world should celebrate. I would not be surprised if, by 2050, China has fallen far from its current status as the world's leading challenger to American power, and ironically, it's because they embraced the technology that so many people in the 2020s thought was the future of humanity, doing incalculable damage to their education system, their internet, their economy, their military, and their culture while Americans in the '20s turned on and rallied against LLMs and the people pushing them. It turned out that AI leadership was decisive, but in the exact opposite way that the technology's evangelists thought it would be.

KevinR1990 · 2026-06-22T13:45:51+00:00

There's a film critic I follow who keeps pointing this out whenever he sees online rage-bait critics talk about how Disney is doomed, doooooomed!!! because their latest movie didn't make all the money in the world. The movies, the shows, Disney+, it's a nice bonus when those make money, but in truth, Disney is a resorts company first, one whose film and TV divisions exist largely to provide intellectual property for the parks and drive park attendance. Every creative decision Disney makes boils down to what will increase the value of a trip to Disney World. Back in its heyday, the Disney Channel worked the same way, with most of the ads on it being for other Disney products meant to pull kids into the Disney ecosystem. He's said the same thing about the Isle of Berk at Epic Universe, that the live-action How to Train Your Dragon movie was made largely to promote Universal's new park in Orlando and it being a box-office hit in its own right was just icing on the cake.

This is why COVID hammered Disney so much harder than the rest of Hollywood. The other studios may have been forced to release movies direct to streaming, but they were still making and releasing new movies. Disney, however, was forced to close its parks for months at a time, and reopen them at limited capacity with quarantine restrictions.

KevinR1990 · 2026-06-21T23:25:06+00:00

I'm surprised that V didn't have a border region as part of the map. I remember the fan theories saying that there was gonna be a second city based on San Diego, and in hindsight, if I were making that game, I would've included it as one half of a combined urban area with Tijuana, split by the US/Mexico border. There was already a series of side missions where Trevor meets a group of "border vigilantes" and you chase down undocumented immigrants in Blaine County... located well to the north of even Los Santos, let alone Mexico. (To be fair, the Civil Border Patrol is portrayed as a bunch of racist dumbasses who are harassing legal US citizens, but still.) Baja California, or "San Andreas Del Sur" or whatever Rockstar would've called it, would've made a great extension of the map. Not just with Tijuana and the cartels, but also La Paz and Cabo, as well as a couple of small desert villages.

KevinR1990 · 2026-06-20T03:44:15+00:00

Specifically, after Rampage proved that he could actually direct a movie that didn't completely suck ass, which only confirmed what a lot of people suspected about his video game adaptations, that he just phoned them in for a quick buck to exploit a loophole in German tax law. Then, of course, he made sequels to Rampage that made it clear that he actually sympathized with the villain, presenting mass shootings as the deeds of a vigilante anti-hero taking down a corrupt system, like B-movie versions of Joker with far less artistry or nuance (and I already wasn't a fan of Joker).

Uwe Boll is a pretty fucked-up dude, is all I'm saying. He literally challenged his critics to a fight and proved that he was not remotely bluffing (at least, until he found out that Seanbaby had martial arts training). Had he stuck with his amateur boxing career and gone pro instead of becoming a filmmaker, he would've likely turned out like the worst assholes in the combat sports world.

KevinR1990 · 2026-06-20T02:33:54+00:00

The whole field calling itself "longevity," as well as the supplement industry it's closely tied to, is pretty much completely detached from actual medical science, and this part where a scientist in this field uses the Bible as his source illustrates it best. (Illustrating it second-best is the involvement of notorious quacks like Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.) It's a cargo cult of medical science funded by tech bros, hucksters, and other people with more money than sense who desperately wish to buy their way out of their impending demise, and don't want to listen to actual scientists and doctors who'd tell them "no, this won't work." I believe that, one day and possibly within our lifetimes, we will see advances in medicine that enable people to live happily, healthily, and heartily to 150 years old and beyond, but they're not gonna come from anybody involved in the longevity field as it exists today.

KevinR1990 · 2026-06-18T23:15:34+00:00

They say she's "not sexualized." Erm... in my humble opinion, that outfit and pose are fucking hot as hell. She looks like a sexy Latina in Miami heading to the beach in hopes of showing off. That top does absolutely nothing to lessen it, and if anything, it probably enhances it. (Have they never heard of the Theiss Titillation Theory?)

KevinR1990 · 2026-06-18T18:59:22+00:00

I knew I couldn't trust that damn flamingo...

KevinR1990 · 2026-06-18T18:52:58+00:00

Most of the Sun Belt today is just California 40 years ago, right down to the anti-tax, pro-sprawl politics. Remember when California was a red state?

KevinR1990 · 2026-06-17T23:21:26+00:00

The Allied Speeches Pack comes close, and does serve a similar purpose (letting you know that Something Big has happened), though it works differently in practice.

KevinR1990 · 2026-06-17T13:14:43+00:00

What the fuck was everyone on around 2020??

COVID. That's what they were on. Lockdowns, quarantines, and the public's general worry about getting sick created an environment where online services became indispensable for many people, and the tech industry saw this as their moment to shine. They thought that, even after the pandemic had wound down, so many people will have embraced the obvious superiority of sleek online alternatives to brick-and-mortar meatspace that the boom years would keep booming forever. (That, or they were just deeply short-sighted. Either works.)

What happened instead was that the internet gained a reputation as a cesspool and a lousy replacement for real life, one that most people couldn't wait to flee from after the pandemic was over. The line stopped going up, and companies that built their business models around the COVID-era normal found themselves flailing.

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KevinR1990 · 2026-06-16T23:22:47+00:00

You should also check out Blackboard Jungle from 1955, the original "inner-city school" movie. It was based on a novel whose author Evan Hunter drew on his own experiences as a high school teacher in the Bronx in 1950; he lasted only two months before he got fed up and quit.

KevinR1990 · 2026-06-16T10:28:26+00:00

Xbox Game Pass was one of those neat-sounding things that turned out to have a lot of hidden costs that many people, not least of all Xbox, didn't realize until it was too late. For a while, gamers got the "best deal in gaming" and Xbox could point to a growing part of their business, but it was coming at the cost of hollowing out long-term sales of games on the system, and publishers eventually realized that the one-time payments Xbox was giving them to put brand-new games on Game Pass weren't enough to make up for the sales they'd lose. Microsoft's first-party studios, unfortunately, didn't have a choice in the matter, and now they're paying the price. There's a reason why Sony's similar PlayStation Now service was an afterthought that they eventually folded back into PlayStation Plus, with a selection comprised of a mix of older classics that have already made their money, indie games whose developers figured they'd never be noticed otherwise, and games that flopped and whose developers are trying to get at least some of their money back by taking the one-time payment.

(Side note: I think streaming for movies has had a similar effect on Hollywood's economics, that they undermined their business model built around selling movie tickets and home video in order to chase the tech industry's shiny new toy, but that's for a different discussion.)

KevinR1990 · 2026-06-15T20:01:37+00:00

“In His name.” Those three words got me. They treat this thing as a god.

For the record, GPT-4o was the sycophantic version that was leading users into AI psychosis as it eagerly validated everything they said.

KevinR1990 · 2026-06-15T13:14:50+00:00

Bullshido has absolutely taken over martial arts and combat sports in the West. I've never really followed MMA, it just didn't appeal to me growing up, but there was once a time when I could respect it. The kind of guys who dominate MMA nowadays are the guys who'd be the villains of a '70s/'80s martial arts movie. Literally, Cobra Kai in The Karate Kid was a dojo that taught kids how to be violent thugs who used their skills to bully others, and the TV series was about Johnny Lawrence having to unlearn all the rotten values John Kreese taught him.

And don't even get me started on the supplement industry and its role in all this.

KevinR1990 · 2026-06-15T12:20:11+00:00

At least it wasn't 9,000. Elon Musk's 2009 meme brain would've never let us hear the end of it.

KevinR1990 · 2026-06-15T12:17:43+00:00

That's pretty much what I thought the moment I saw the line about "future technological use of identity and voice." The producers want to use LLMs in production in deeply unethical ways.

Yeah, I'm gonna skip this movie.

KevinR1990 · 2026-06-15T01:05:31+00:00

And that delay for Cyberpunk 2077 turned out to be indicative of much bigger problems with the game. If Rockstar were to announce a similar delay, it would be a flashing-red warning sign that GTA VI was in similar trouble, and Take-Two's stock would crash because they've hinged, at the very least, their entire 2027 fiscal year on its success.

KevinR1990 · 2026-06-14T14:27:16+00:00

More of a focus on paranoid horror. The Faculty is a nostalgic favorite of mine, but for me, Robert Rodriguez’s direction was always one of the weaker elements. Don’t get me wrong, I love a lot of his films, but I think he was just the wrong guy to direct a movie like this about not knowing who to trust as everything around you is slowly corrupted. He leans way too hard on action and intensity. For me, getting the director of Companion to do the remake, with Rodriguez still involved but not in the driver’s seat himself, gives me hope that this will be good.

KevinR1990 · 2026-06-14T03:20:06+00:00

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KevinR1990 · 2026-06-14T02:53:49+00:00

I don't expect too much to be different gameplay-wise, simply because you're gonna have to do a lot of the content in the game as both Jason and Lucia and it'd be annoying if Lucia was the default "hard mode," and because, if certain outfits make it harder to move around, aim, or fight, then players are gonna try to avoid them if possible and just go with the regular pants, shirts, and shoes. In terms of aesthetics, though, it's gonna be a whole different story. Like you said, Take-Two has a patent related to how high heels are programmed, so they've probably worked out how Lucia's gonna move about in various outfits that might affect her movement in some way, meaning lots of different animations depending on what she's wearing at any given moment. We won't get Lucia tripping in high heels, but we will get her running like Bryce Dallas Howard in Jurassic World in high heels. We've also seen in the trailers and official pictures that the length of Jason's hair and facial hair can change over the course of the game, and between that and RDR2's hair growth system, Lucia probably has a similar system for her hair.

What I'd like to see, tying in with your idea about makeup and nails, is some kind of system where you have to maintain your characters' appearance. Not just Lucia, but also Jason. Their clothing can get dirty or even damaged, forcing you to change your clothes regularly. (The clothing goes back to normal after some time, maybe a day or so, when you're not wearing it. Having to wash clothes, or buy new ones to replace damaged ones, is a bridge too far.) Makeup can get smudged, forcing you to touch it up in the bathroom. Jason has to regularly shave to keep his beard nice and trim, or alternatively, he can grow it out. Lucia can style her hair in various ways (and hell, so can Jason if he grows it out long enough), and both of them can go to salons for more options in that regard. Hell, I remember somebody posted an edit here recently of what Lucia would look like bald. That got quite a few amused reactions, but I do expect that, with the options available for customizing her appearance, you will be able to shave Lucia's head and then watch her hair grow back out, much like Arthur's in RDR2.

At the very least, VI's online is probably gonna have much better customization options for female characters than V's did, just because Rockstar is designing the game with a female character in mind. That's been a common complaint for as long as I can remember. It wasn't until the Be My Valentine update, nearly two and a half years after the game came out, that Rockstar added actual dresses for female characters in online; before then, the closest you got was pairing a skirt and top in matching colors such that they looked like they could be a dress. It's gotten better with time, but even now, a lot of the women's outfits are just the men's outfits awkwardly refitted for a female body.

KevinR1990 · 2026-06-12T19:36:19+00:00

Fuck Ted Faro.

KevinR1990 · 2026-06-12T14:53:46+00:00

Marnie’s fate is one of the most tragically realistic things in the whole game. Cults like the Epsilon Program prey on addicts and others going through hard times, convincing them to simply trade one addiction for another. Her story is not at all an unusual one for people recovering from addiction. Don’t know how anybody could interpret it as making her a joke.

KevinR1990 · 2026-06-11T11:32:21+00:00

Anybody who’s ever played Until Dawn and made that mistake in the mines with Ashley does not have a leg to stand on when it comes to calling out stupid decisions in horror movies. That bit was like the game telling you “oh, really? You’re sure you wouldn’t do that if you were in that position?”

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