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Need for Speed movie hits $100M at box office, becomes 18th best-performing game movie of all time

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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Total lifetime box office 
receipts for Aaron Paul racing movie cruise to $126 million, blowing 
past the film's $66 million production budget.</span></h3>
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<em>Need for Speed</em>, the film based on Electronic Arts' racing franchise and starring <em>Breaking Bad</em>'s
 Aaron Paul, has cruised to over $100 million in total lifetime box 
office grosses. In the United States, the movie has banked $30.5 
million, while international receipts total over $96.1 million.</div>
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Combined,
 Need for Speed's worldwide box office performance so far has reached 
$126.6 million. The data comes from Hollywood box office reporting 
service Box Office Mojo.</div>
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<em>Need for Speed</em>
 had a $66 million production budget, so the film has now reached 
profitability, just two weeks after its initial debut on March 14.</div>
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According to the site's Video Game Adaptation chart, <em>Need for Speed</em>
 is now the 18th best-performing movie based on a video game in United 
States box office history. The number one film, by a large margin, is 
2001's <em>Lara Croft: Tomb Raider</em>.</div>
<em>I saw Need for Speed and found it to be both great and terrible. Have you seen it? Let us know what you think of the high-octane action racing movie in the comments below.</em></div>

Need for Speed movie hits $100M at box office, becomes 18th best-performing game movie of all time

Total lifetime box office receipts for Aaron Paul racing movie cruise to $126 million, blowing past the film's $66 million productio...

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GTA 5: The 5 Best Cheats You Should Know About

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We've all cheated before, way back to the NES days (think Konami Code). 
But cheats excel that joy in a game and bring new, unique twists. Here, 
we've come up with the five best cheats in <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Grand Theft Auto 5</strong></span>
 you should know, as well as a detailed-description for each one. Note 
that these codes will block your achievement/trophy attempts, so keep a 
separate save file if you're still working on them. Enjoy! <br /><br />Note:
 Use the D-Pad for inputting directional codes, not the analog sticks. 
For instance, the cheat may say "Left." This is entirely easier because 
your commands may be skewed from moving the sticks. <br /><br /><strong>1. Upgrade Your Arsenal Free (Give Weapons)</strong>  <br /><br /><img alt="" height="242" src="http://www.primagames.com/dims3/PRIMA/http://www.primagames.com/media/files/gta5cheats-1-%28436x247%29.jpg" width="436" /><br /><br />Do
 you find it rather depressing spending your hard-earned cash at 
Ammu-Nation? Well, this code should take care of that; it grants you all
 the good weapons (Tier 1), including the Rocket Launcher. Re-enter it 
as much as you please to replenish your ammo. <br /><br />Xbox 360: Y, RT, Left, LB, A, Right, Y, Down, X, LB, LB, LB<br />PS3: Triangle, R2, Left, L1, X, Right, Triangle, Down, Square, L1, L1, L1<br /><br /><strong>2. These Bullets Explode (Bang Bang!)</strong> <br /><br /><img alt="" height="242" src="http://www.primagames.com/dims3/PRIMA/http://www.primagames.com/media/files/gta5cheats-2-%28436x245%29.jpg" width="436" /><br /><br />What
 could be better, further accurate and more fun than the Rocket 
Launcher? Bullets that explode. Not only does this cheat work great 
against vehicles (they can easily tip them over or detonate them), but 
it also has a hilarious outcome on humans. If someone talks smack, 
launch them hard with a single bullet. This is extremely helpful against
 cops, the Army, and missions with large waves of enemies.       <br /><br />Xbox 360: Right, X, A, Left, RB, RT, Left, Right, Right, LB, LB, LB<br />PS3: Right, Square, X, Left, R1, R2, Left, Right, Right, L1, L1, L1<br /><br /><strong>3. Get to the Chopper (Spawn a Buzzard)</strong>  <br /><br /><img alt="" height="242" src="http://www.primagames.com/dims3/PRIMA/http://www.primagames.com/media/files/gta5cheats-3-%28436x245%29.jpg" width="436" /><br /><br />The
 exclusive Blimp included in the game package was nice, but we found a 
far better aerial craft to use and get around in GTA 5. The Buzzard is a
 helicopter that allows you to fly around Los Santos and Blaine County 
quickly and see its beautiful sceneries. Even better, it comes equipped 
with both a turret and rockets in case you ever want to defend yourself –
 or just have the urge to cause havoc.<br /><br />Xbox 360: B, B, LB, B, B, B, LB, LT, RB, Y, B, Y<br />PS3: Circle, Circle, L1, Circle, Circle, Circle, L1, L2, R1, Triangle, Circle, Triangle<br /><br /><strong>4. I'm Learning to Fly, But I Ain't Got Wings (Skyfall)</strong>   <br /><br /><img alt="" height="242" src="http://www.primagames.com/dims3/PRIMA/http://www.primagames.com/media/files/gta5cheats-4-%28436x247%29.jpg" width="436" /><br /><br />It's
 a Bird, it's a plane, it's...Michael De Santa? Perhaps one of the 
coolest cheats ever, inputting this code will automatically spawn your 
character in the sky (above your position from the ground). That's right
 – you'll be flying in the air as wind smacks you in the face fiercely. 
This predicament is similar to skydiving (you still descend as you move 
onward), but it's simply pure fun. Unfortunately, you won't be able to 
use your parachute in the process unless you ram into a landscape 
somehow and resurface in the air. This can easily result in an instant 
death, but you can always activate the Invincibility cheat (covered 
below) and combine it with this code; it's by far the most enjoyable and
 fastest way to travel. <br /><br />Xbox 360: LB, LT, RB, RT, Left, Right, Left, Right, LB, LT, RB, RT, Left, Right, Left, Right<br />PS3: L1, L2, R1, R2, Left, Right, Left, Right, L1, L2, R1, R2, Left, Right, Left, Right<br /><br /><strong>5. Can't Touch This – Invincibility</strong> <br /><br /><img alt="" height="242" src="http://www.primagames.com/dims3/PRIMA/http://www.primagames.com/media/files/gta5cheats-5-%28436x245%29.jpg" width="436" /><br /><br />There's
 one cheat that refills your health and armor, but this code is a tad 
better. Keep in mind the Invincibility cheat only lasts FIVE minutes; 
you'll have to re-input it when the time runs out. (The time limit is 
shown on the lower-right of the screen.) That's a bummer, but it gives 
you plenty of time to unleash chaos and not have to worry about taking a
 trip to the hospital and paying that expensive fee. Besides defending 
yourself with a handful of enemies and preventing injury, this cheat 
allows you to explore unique experiments with the game. Try hopping out 
of a plane, skydiving, or parachuting, and then nail the ground from far
 above. No worries for death here – or even a scratch.  <br /><br />Xbox 360: Right, A, Right, Left, Right, RB, Right, Left, A, Y<br />PS3: Right, X, Right, Left, Right, R1, Right, Left, X, Triangle</div>

GTA 5: The 5 Best Cheats You Should Know About

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9 Best GTA 5 Missions

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Life in Grand Theft Auto 5 is never dull. The vast state of
 San Andreas plays host to midair collisions, savage gunfights, and 
talking animals in dozens of outrageous missions. We’ve created a list 
of the nine GTA 5 missions that represent the best excitement, humor, 
and spectacular escapism you can find in Los Santos.
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<u><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Risk Assessment</span></b></i></u></div>
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A wonderful exercise in absurdity, Risk Assessment is memorable for a
 single, marvelous bit of writing. Franklin meets a barking dog, and 
inexplicably strikes up a conversation with the animal. The dog tells 
Franklin that a skydiver is trapped in a tree nearby, and engages in a 
complex ethical discussion as they jog to the tree. Once they reach the 
skydiver, Franklin comments “That’s a cool ass dog you got.”<br />

“What dog?” replies the skydiver. Franklin looks around, and there’s no dog. None of this is ever explained.<br />
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<u><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Caida Libre</span></b></i></u></div>
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Caida Libre is the kind of goofy action movie scenario GTA 5 excels 
at. Trevor pressures Michael into taking down a passing jet, then chases
 the plummeting, smoke-trailing plane across half the San Andreas map on
 a dirt bike, speeding through mountainous open terrain and making some 
death-defying jumps in order to retrieve a briefcase from the cockpit.<br />

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<u><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Deep Inside</span></b></i></u></div>
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For all the driving you do in GTA, vehicle combat is rarely featured 
in missions, so being handed the keys to a spike-dropping superspy Aston
 Martin is a real treat. Rockstar indulges our James Bond fantasies in 
this farcical tribute to movie magic, ejection seats, and chase scene 
hijinks. The scenario writers even figured out a plausible excuse for 
getting Franklin decked out in the signature white Connery tux. The 
mission culminates in an unexpected belly-laugh punchline built around 
finding out what the red button does.<br />

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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>The Third Way</b></i></span></div>
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Of the three possible choices Franklin can make at the end of GTA 5, 
The Third Way is the only one that really seems to fit his character, 
and leads to far and away the most rewarding finish. The massive, 
desperate gun battle against legions of crooks forced us to constantly 
switch players to stay ahead of the tides of enemies. Watching Michael, 
Franklin, and Trevor discover some peace in overcoming their common 
enemy wraps up the campy GTA story in a nice, satisfying bow, and leave 
us free to explore Los Santos post-game with all three members of the 
old crew intact.<br />

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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><i><b>The Paleto Score</b></i></u></span></div>
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One of the best GTA heist moments comes early in this small-town bank
 robbery. Trevor emerges from the lobby to face a formidable police 
blockade wrapped in a bulletproof hard-armour suit and wielding a 
minigun. Completely impervious to small-arms fire, the need to monitor 
Trevor’s life meter is replaced by the threat of police bullets 
shredding the money bags draped around his body. The better we fought, 
the more money we took home. Mercenary tanks eventually roll down the 
streets as the crew embarks on a desperate race to catch a speeding 
train before they are overwhelmed.<br />

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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><i><b>The Big Score</b></i></u></span></div>
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Whether you choose to tackle it clean or dirty, The Big Score is the 
ultimate, satisfying fulfillment of the heist mechanic. The tremendous 
snatch-and-grab job ropes in a huge team of crooks, legions of cops, a 
running air-to-air battle, several stand-up gunfights, a helicopter drop
 onto a moving train, and a high-speed getaway. Almost every skill we’d 
developed over hours of game play was tested and put to use in a single,
 perfectly paced, and explosive gauntlet.<br />

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<u><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Lamar Down</span></b></i></u></div>
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Small-time hood Lamar is played up for a lot of comic relief, but his
 friendship with Franklin is one of the storytelling touchstones of GTA 
5, and it’s nice to see the team band together when he finds himself in 
way over his head. Taking advantage of the player-switching mechanic, 
the coordinated assault on the remote gang compound is pure combat from 
start to finish, and has a more tactical feel than most of the 
run-and-gun shootouts in the game.<br />

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<u><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Friend Request</span></b></i></u></div>
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Hands down the funniest mission in GTA 5, Friend Request is a clever 
parody of Silicon Valley’s self-absorbed culture. Poking fun at 
technofetishism, social networking, and workplace ageism, Friend Request
 charges Michael with infiltrating a Facebook-like company while posing 
as an employee. Purchasing a mismatched vest, shorts, and sandals allows
 Michael to sneak inside a farcical office that exudes the most odious 
aspects of San Francisco startups. The mission mechanics are honestly 
pretty dull...we’re here for the jokes, and they’re delivered again and 
again in the clever, satirical dialogue.<br />

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<u><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Minor Turbulence</span></b></i></u></div>
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Minor Turbulence is blockbuster-grade Michael Bay wish fulfillment. 
Trevor flies a biplane into the open back end of a Cargo Jet in midair. 
He engages in a heated gun battle in the open hold, hijacks the larger 
plane, and climbs for the edge of the sky. A fighter jet pulls up behind
 him and fires a missile into one of the engines, sending him spiraling 
toward earth, so Trevor leaps into a jeep in the cargo bay and drives it
 straight out the back door into open space, then vaults out the side 
and parachutes to safety.<br />

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5 Things Critics Love About 'GTA V' (That Actually Suck)

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             Since its release, <i>Grand Theft Auto V</i> has become 
one of the biggest critical and commercial successes in any media. It 
made more than a half-billion dollars in its first week, and its 
Metacritic rating of 97 means we agree as a people that it's perfect. 
Its online launch and iOS companion game were a disaster, but 
everything's online launch and iOS companion game are disasters. The 
whole point of the Internet is to destroy what you love, which is what 
I'm about to do, here. Here are the five best but also worst parts of <i>GTA 5</i>.<br />

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#5. Comedy</h2>
<span class="Title">The Good:</span><br />

<img align="right" src="http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/5/5/9/215559.jpg?v=1" style="margin-left: 1em;" /><i>GTA</i>
 is a relentless engine of unplanned comedy. Every pedestrian you sucker
 punch or intersection you cartwheel a truck through can set off a chain
 of ridiculous events, usually ending in death by tank. The citizens of 
Los Santos exist only to add screaming sounds to your explosions. Their 
lives are so pointless the only thing they have to discuss during their 
afterlife is the hilarious ways we killed them. I'm not much of a 
theologist, but <i>Donkey Kong</i> probably had to build an entire new 
wing of video game heaven after I found out driving on sidewalks was 
faster than weaving through traffic. I murder so often and stupidly in <i>GTA</i> that even the worst lawyer could convince a jury I was too retarded to execute.<br />

On top of all the emergent funny, <i>GTA V</i> includes a massive 
amount of scripted material. As you probably know, it's set in a parody 
of Los Angeles with every detail dedicated to mocking it. But before LA 
starts crying, it should know the jokes are as clumsy as a photo caption
 in <i>Maxim</i> and as incomplete as a photo of tits in <i>Maxim</i>. Whatever wrote <i>GTA V</i>
 learned how to make jokes by devouring the brain of an Earth cosmonaut.
 Hour after hour, comedic premises are set up, and then no punchlines 
arrive. It's like this sentence was the Mayor of Farts, and he walks 
into his town's finest jar store.<br />

<i>GTA V</i> criticizes American culture with all the elegance of a 
grumpy pastor watching his first reality show. Missions have you acting 
as a paparazzo to catch a wholesome actress with a dong up her ass, 
massacring hallucinations after too much marijuana, and terrorizing 
immigrants. Most media outlets praise the game for outrageously mocking 
every aspect of Los Angeles, but it mocks them without any understanding
 or tact. If you held a gun to the head of the most secluded Eskimo seal
 farmer and said, "List California stereotypes," you would not be able 
to distinguish his list from a <i>GTA V</i> Mission FAQ.<br />
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<i>GTA V</i> has such a robotic sense of humor that Jenny McCarthy 
has linked it to PS3 vaccinations. If a forensic psychologist found a 
poem on a suicide victim called "WHY EVERYONE IN MY HIGH SCHOOL SUCKS," 
his summary of that poem would be identical to any gag in <i>Grand Theft Auto V</i>.
 Each one follows the same two-step structure: Clearly explain what it's
 mocking, then nothing else. It'd be almost sad if it wasn't so 
mean-spirited.<br />
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Satire and parody are more complicated than <i>Scary Movie 11</i> would have you believe. You need to do more than point at social trends and call a dwarf casting agency. For instance, the <i>GTA V</i>
 writers explore fertile comedy ground with the idea of women being dumb
 whores. Any idiot will tell you that ridicule is a hilarious 
alternative to leering when you're dealing with giant-breasted sluts, 
but <i>GTA</i> attacks with no wit. And when you mock something without wit, you're just a cranky bully. <i>Grand Theft Auto V</i>'s writers read the instructions on a rape kit and decided they knew everything they needed to know about women and comedy.<br />

If a holocaust survivor was reunited with his captor and spent an afternoon explaining the jokes in <i>LA Story</i>, that elderly Nazi would write a funnier, more biting satire of Los Angeles culture than <i>GTA V</i> did.<br />

Hating things brings people together more than liking them. It's why 
Republicans were able to shut down a government out of spite, yet can't 
cure gay out of love. It's also why the dickish bullying in <i>GTA V</i>
 really resonates with people. Because they hate caricatures of awful 
things, too! Ha ha, I hope they mention how dumb stupid people are next!
 I've read dozens of reviews praising its comedy, so maybe I'm a snob 
for thinking good jokes require more than a tired premise and a 
stumbling, predictable execution. Plus, now that I think about it, there
 are a few gags in the game that totally work. For example:<br />

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#4. Size</h2>
<span class="Title">The Good:</span><br />

<i>GTA</i> is enormous and detailed beyond reason. There are hundreds of activities and missions, and nearly some of them are fun.<br />

<img align="right" src="http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/6/0/5/217605.jpg?v=1" style="margin-left: 1em;" />As
 you might imagine, having a billion square miles stops being 
interesting long before you've seen them all. Since it's a video game, 
your first instinct will be to climb over and look behind everything to 
get little items. You'll stop doing this after 500 back alleys and 
mysterious structures are completely empty. You have a better chance of 
finding a crate of guns on a real roof than on a <i>GTA V</i> roof. It's
 possible scientists made this game in order to see exactly how little 
cheese you need before rats stop running a maze.<br />

Do you like playing video darts? Of course you don't. Who would? But 
you can! Plus yoga! And car towing. Dog training. Photography. Cargo 
crane operation. Underwater welding. It seems like <i>GTA V</i> stole 
its game design from a trade school commercial. There are so, so many 
boring activities you're required or at least encouraged to do, and 
they're separated by miles and miles of collectibles-free highway. <i>GTA</i>
 isn't really a fun story as much as it is an interactive encyclopedia 
on the totality of the human experience. There's a pretty decent 
adventure buried under all the dull garbage, but that's like saying 
there are a couple of interesting-looking vaginas in a heap of pig 
carcasses.<br />
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 the game is a sprawling expanse of detailed nothing, but it's not all 
bad. Finding your way around is easy! You simply press pause and wait 
for a short loading screen to finish. This will bring up your map. 
Scroll along the map with your thumbstick for a moment before you 
remember this isn't actually the map. It's only the menu option for the 
map. Press A to go to the actual map and search for your destination. If
 your destination is too far away and you'd rather play the game instead
 of driving across it, exit out of the map and open your smart phone. 
Slowly scroll down your contact list since quickly isn't an option. 
Press A to call a taxi. Let it ring until a dispatcher picks up. If you 
are not playing the black character, a taxi will arrive 15 to 30 seconds
 later. It will be approximately one block from you, so look for it in 
the center of an exploding traffic jam it caused. It may start 
confusedly fleeing the crime scene, so tap the sprint button before it 
gets away. If you're not hit by emergency vehicles, you may be able to 
catch it! Now, simply scroll through the 75 possible locations until you
 find the one you want! While the taxi begins its long journey, it is 
the perfect time to ask your screaming spouse, parents, or children why 
you can't do just one god damn mission.<br />
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Games are supposed to waste your time. That might even be their main 
goal. Roger Ebert already said they'll never be art, and according to 
psychologists, they don't even train you to kill better. But <i>Grand Theft Auto</i> might be the first game specifically designed to make you <i>feel</i> your time being wasted. When I first looked up from <i>Skyrim</i> to check the time, I was shocked to find I was off by 25 days. <i>Grand Theft Auto V</i> isn't like that. Like all <i>GTA</i>
 games, the constant arguments with the camera, cover system, and 
controls will remind you you're playing a game. And since so much of 
that game involves boring activities and travel, you'll feel like you're
 wasting your time within your time wasting. Maybe I'm spoiled from 
playing this game before only with a bat belt, bionic jumping power, 
parachute and grappling hook, or 300 playable LEGO superheroes, but so 
much of <i>GTA V</i> is a boring commute. If I wanted to run errands all day for a brief moment of amoral fun, I'd get a job as Jude Law's nanny.<br />

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#3. Naughtiness</h2>
<span class="Title">The Good:</span><br />

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 you're looking to blame something for the moral decline of society or 
just your own horrible child, it's hard to find a better scapegoat than <i>Grand Theft Auto</i>. Thousands of editorial columns and sensationalized news pieces have warned us that <i>GTA</i>
 lurks in the shadows, waiting for a lapse in our vigilance. I once even
 had a news crew in my own home interviewing me about the 
"controversial" <i>Grand Theft Auto 3</i>. Personally, I think the word 
"controversy" is just a warning that nearby idiots are about to turn 
their confusion into arguments. And sure enough, the producer spent an 
hour trying to bait me into squeeing about all gamers' need for hooker 
murder. But instead of offering my opinion on grenade launchering women 
(strongly against), I talked about how amazing <i>GTA 3</i> was and how 
blessed we were as a nation to have it in our Playstations. My exact 
words were, "It's a masterpiece of video gaming." Later at the station, 
he took that clip and added a voiceover: <b>"A MURDEROUS MASTERPIECE."</b> For a stupid bitch, I think he saved a lot of lives that night.<br />

My point is, only stupid bitches are afraid of video games. Also, I 
sort of love them for it. Besides the cheap laughs, whenever someone 
rallies against games it suggests my ability to distinguish between 
make-believe and reality puts me in some kind of intellectually elite 
group. It's the same feeling I get when I Google the active ingredients 
of herbal penis enhancements and then buy them cheaper at the grocery 
store. It seems so easy being this smart! Why isn't everyone?<br />

I feel strongly that anyone calling for the censorship of anything is
 just lashing out because their herbal penis enhancements backfired. But
 holy fuck, Rockstar Games, consider a little cultural responsibility. 
You're not angsty teenagers poking fun at the establishment anymore. As 
one of the largest media properties, you're absolutely the 
establishment. Go ahead and mock culture, but "culture" is something 
you're kind of in charge of now. And when you have a mini-game about 
yanking teeth out of an innocent, shrieking prisoner, that's not cutely 
naughty. That's criminally insane. I'm fairly certain not one extra 
person will be tortured because <i>GTA V</i> exists, but with an 
audience in the tens of millions, that mission is arguably the biggest 
torture promotion in the history of mankind.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">A recreation of the <i>GTA V</i> creative process based on an actual <i>GTA V</i> mission.</span></div>
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To its credit, <i>GTA V</i> sort of built a disclaimer into its 
torture mission. When you're done interrogating your victim, you drive 
the remaining chunks of him to the airport and explain the very act of 
torture has no point other than to make torturers happy. That's how 
badly this game is written. You spend 15 minutes in a dull, interactive 
waterboarding sequence that probably took more man hours to produce than
 every NES cartridge combined, and when it's over, the goddamn game 
apologizes to you for it. Like all great art, it stops what it's doing 
to explain itself, and the moral of the scene is ... well, I guess it's 
"Aside from the boners, torture is pointless!" Rockstar, on behalf of 
the public, apology accepted.<br />

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