In 2012 the house is rented to Blake and Freddy Slade who shoot pornographic films in the house. Similarly, he's a little dopey, a little squishy around the middle, an alumni of the School of Profitable Hard Knocks now luxuriating in the easy life. The De Santa family moved into the house at some point after 2006 with Amanda and Michael becoming friendly with their neighbours Hayden and Kimberly Dubose. The final sip will need to steep a while longer. My parents divorced twelve years ago. Sometimes, though, the lens would widen and little, disquieting details like an off-handed mention of how an associate was caught, pinned down and doused in acid would fall through. Unlike Michael, however, Dad didn't quite make it to the happy family finish line. It's no secret that the Grand Theft Auto franchise is a caricature, real life painted over with broad, ribald strokes. At some point in his childh… Crime is glamorous there, all fast cars, fast women and fast answers. As a young adult, Michael started breaking the law. A Microsoft spokesperson says that developers are "just now scratching the surface" of what the new Xbox consoles can do. When he did, he would couch them as bedtime stories; inoffensive tales about some dude he chased around a classroom because he was being a jerk or a teacher too afraid to discipline him twice. The house also serves as the location for Michael to meet old friend and accomplice Trevor Philips for the first time since 2004 with the two working together after stopping Tracey from auditioning for Fame or Shame. If the player, as Trevor or Franklin, fires weapons towards the house Michael will call them angrily asking them to stop. I wonder sometimes what he was trying to keep my sister and I from. He committed his first robbery in the outskirts of Carcer City in 1988, where he managed to steal $10,000 from a small business. I get that they're supposed to be exaggerated pastiches, that Tracey's tramp stamp and Jimmy's deplorable online carriage are meant to be iconic of misspent youth (I hope so, at least) but it's still jarring to consider. Not the kind that matter, at least. We weren't allowed to cry, to exercise anything but the most cutting poise. Michael can only use weapons in the house if he is. De Santa family members and Eva can sometimes be seen standing on the furniture or kitchen tops early in the GTA V story. Michael, however, forces Franklin to drive into the dealership at gun point resulting in Franklin losing his job and later returning to the house to meet Michael. Dad never talked much about his youth. Don't ask questions. Picturing a flesh-and-blood Michael de Santa as someone who would even allow this to happen is even stranger still. Michael and Tracey are arguing about her cocaine consumption. (And, to be fair, budgetary restraints are a killer.). There is no option to sit down and navigate through uncomfortable dialogue to make things better. These occasions used frighten me. The Console Wars Are Almost as Dumb as Actual Wars. In 2013, Jimmy d… I haven't spoken to him for three. The slightest misconduct was invariably addressed with a rattan cane or a belt. The house also has a garage, which can hold two cars. The family later returns after agreeing to give family life another try with Eva and Carlos being rehired. Becoming echoes of people unraveled by destructive lifestyles? What I do know is that it accentuate the superficiality of Grand Theft Auto V's content for me. Missed opportunities? Despite his failures and shortcomings, Mi… Retirement for the average Joe tends to be a time for introspection, a space of years dotted with nostalgia and the brandishing of memory-tinted photographs.