Yea the crux of it probably isn't whether he's guilty or not, but the simple fact he didn't get a fair trial.

& yea, the insurance said it wouldn't cover the cost of his claim of $36mil so the state & officers were liable.

I think the conspiracy COULD'VE been carried out by 2-4 people & everyone else just bought into it.
There was definitely a narrow focus of investigation, like they were determined to prove he was guilty w/o investigating anyone else. 2 or 3 people could easily have set it in motion, or at least covered it up to put the blame on Avery.
I dunno. It's really fucked, guilty or not it's a miscarriage of justice how the result has come about. How people got away with some of their behaviour is just crazy.

I think also compared to earlier films of this sort like the west Memphis 3 or a thin blue line, this case, obviously, really benefits from the internets reaction. Even more than the recent the jinx show, prob due to Netflix reaching a larger audience.

Love that Lennon tune.
Axl was obv on a big Dylan phase during UYI's construction. the long rambling stream of conscious songs/lyrics. Dylan phases are the best. Best guy ever.
Izzy was always the most natural rock n roll songwriter in the band. Love his lyrics, almost throwaway in their simplicity but perfectly tied down to the mood of the tune. Same could be said of his riff's actually, they just sound so easy that it's like, how come nobody wrote it before him?! How did people manage to miss out on his songs before he got them?! Timeless is what Izzy's style is.

I genuinely thought you were joking the first time you said this. It still makes me laugh anyway.
Fortus as band leader! Whatever next?!

Maybe you're thinking of when he's on tour with Rihanna or someone.

Saying that tho, I wonder how many gigs each current member has actually played as GnR..

well, in theory, the gta you bought was gtaV & you got the online game 'free' with it. there's still plenty of traditional games built from beginning to end without any microtransactions involved.

but yea f2p has become the predominant model - & look how many f2p games are already out there on the ps4 & there's only going to be more coming.
it's a bummer but what can you do?

i debated this to death when gtao first launched. it was my first real time playing a f2p online multiplayer & it was a bit of a culture shock for me - i'd played android & ios f2p games before but always deleted them when my progress was locked behind in-app purchases.

i think i'd have much preferred an older style, subscription based model to support gtao. (one of the benefits of that would've been to cut out the amount of children that have access to the game).

as it is, i seriously doubt i'd have played it for very long if i hadn't been able to glitch gta$.
maybe i'd have bought a shark card or two.. i dunno. prob not as i was really against the idea at the time. ive warmed to it a lot more since.

it is entirely possible to play it legit, even without investing in shark cards. but it's such a grind that the people i know who did that have long since stopped playing (& wish they had taken advantage of the glitches now).

i can see why they went with f2p in that it keeps the game open to everyone but there are numerous downsides to the approach (insurance, exorbitant prices for stuff online - i noticed yesterday a friend of mine spent 230K on clothes ffs - or just the notion someone can buy their way to an advantage means the game is fundamentally unfair from the very get go). it's just not a very customer friendly approach.
i'm not one to judge but they've probably struck an ok balance , especially since heists & making money legit is much easier than it used to be (bar those lamar payouts!), but still.. i don't think i'd have done the grind w/o cheating!

i fucking loved it tho. i do miss this game. i was completely obsessed with it that first year or so. the first 6 months i played nothing else. was having all day sessions on it, i was even skipping work, & whatever else just to play it. i was like a kid again.
really wish i could get back to that but the guys that i used to play it with have mostly moved on. maybe if there was another batch of heists released they'd come back. but i think r* are doing single player dlc next.