The Rockstar Protagonist
Since it was released several months ago, I have sunk a good many hours of my precious and fleeting life into the Goliath that is Red Dead Redemption II. It is a true landmark in video game history, and for quite a while seemed to be an unstoppable cultural phenomenon. And it was natural that it would be so very successful, after years of Rockstar Games abusing their employees and probably breaking many labor laws, in the pursuit of carefully animated shitting horse assholes.