"Kake Bake" (kakebake)
09/27/2013 at 21:46 • Filed to: GTA V
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"Kake Bake" (kakebake)
09/27/2013 at 21:46 • Filed to: GTA V | 3
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*Non-Story Spoilers* The last triathlon in GTAV ("gee-tav" to the kids) is one half hour long. You begin by swimming the Alamo Sea longways, then you bike from Blaine County over the mountains into Los Santos, whereupon you circumnavigate the entire city. Last is a jog up to the Kortz Center.
As I was jogging, I figured I press the A button about four times per second to run/swim fast/bike fast. Franklin, my preferred character and the one I used for the triathlon, has 100/100 stamina. That means I never ran out of stamina throughout the 30-minute ordeal. At ~4 button presses/second for 30 minutes, I can roughly estimate that I engaged the A button around 7,200 times over the course of the event.
My thumb hurts.
TurboSloth
> Kake Bake
09/27/2013 at 21:52 |
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OKAY, TIME TO TO THIS TRIATHALON. MY THUMBS ARE READY.
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Kake Bake
> TurboSloth
09/27/2013 at 21:56 |
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You cannot prepare your thumbs for this.
DasWauto
> Kake Bake
09/27/2013 at 22:01 |
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I did them all with Michael. He gained the max stamina partway through the swim which was useful. I took at least 3 or 4 breaks during the event though. What a pain.
Burrito de EJ25
> Kake Bake
09/27/2013 at 22:02 |
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I wish Lamar was playable. He is hilarious.
dieselwagon
> Kake Bake
09/27/2013 at 22:04 |
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A button bashing for 30 minutes? Not sure about that... Do the kids really call it "gee-tav"?
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Kake Bake
> DasWauto
09/27/2013 at 23:27 |
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Ugh, if Michael wasn't required to finish the story, I would've never switched to him.
*SPOILERS AHEAD*
At first, though, Trevor was the one I couldn't get along with. Then the story humanized him (a bit) and he won me over. I swore up and down that if I could play the last mission as Trevor, I'd kill Michael in a heartbeat.
It had to be good old caught-in-the-middle Franklin saving both of his buddies, though. What a shame.
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Kake Bake
> Burrito de EJ25
09/27/2013 at 23:31 |
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He seemed a lot more genuine than Franklin sometimes. I'm just tired of the whole Rockstar "educated gangster trying to get out of the hood" motif. Mr. Gold Card needs to quit asking people when he's getting paid.
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DasWauto
> Kake Bake
09/27/2013 at 23:31 |
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Spoiler alert. :P
It's fine though, I'm spending too much time screwing around in the game anyway.
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Kake Bake
> dieselwagon
09/27/2013 at 23:32 |
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I'm sure there are some special cases that don't understand Roman Numerals. I can't see them fitting into an elementary or middle-school curriculum nowadays, anyhow. Kids don't even learn cursive anymore, what's the use teaching them that V can mean five?
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Kake Bake
> DasWauto
09/27/2013 at 23:34 |
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Oh shoot, sorry about that! I wasn't even thinking.
There goes queen bee syndrome: assuming that because I did something, everybody else should have as well.
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dieselwagon
> Kake Bake
09/27/2013 at 23:41 |
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I guess kids these days don't have the Rocky film series to learn from either.
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Kake Bake
> dieselwagon
09/27/2013 at 23:46 |
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Ha, I guess not.
To prove my Simpsons-worthiness, I recall that Bart is trying to avoid a Tiger in this scene, correct? I'll spare myself the embarrassment of having to pull up Wikiquote to paste a line from the episode.
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Burrito de EJ25
> Kake Bake
09/27/2013 at 23:48 |
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It's not really been part of a Rockstar storyline. San Andreas wasn't about "getting out of the hood". CJ more or less reveled in it.
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Burrito de EJ25
> Kake Bake
09/27/2013 at 23:49 |
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Though, I do think making these characters out to be hypocrites was by design.
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Kake Bake
> Burrito de EJ25
09/27/2013 at 23:58 |
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You couldn't tell Big Smoke and Ryder that. Every other line of their dialogue was about how CJ was getting too good for the hood. CJ did love his family and his friends (gang) but I felt that the big picture for him was that he couldn't adjust to life on Grove Street after tooling around Liberty City.
He always complained about doing the same things and having to take care of the same problems that plagued him before he left.