u/Chungois

I’ll never buy another game from them.

I’m a PC Player. I’m unable to access and play my purchased copies of 5 games, bought on Steam. Rockstar has no customer service recourse for the common authorization problem that i have. It’s the most common complaint about the PC versions of their games, that their system, which they’ve had for years and refuse to change, locks people out of their account with no way to fix it.

And you can not reach a human being to fix it.

They’re literally forcing a significant number of people to 🏴‍☠️ their games just to be able to play them.

Having finally read Mr Marr’s autobiography, it strikes me that in his career post-Smiths he has handled the question of "what do you do after you’ve changed music with an important band?" better than most.

What I mean is, that some say things like, "what’s he doing just being a side man most of the time?" (Ignoring the fact of his own bands, soundtracks and solo projects, which apparently some people do.)

But he seems to have had a pure way of looking at projects, using his nose to guide him from project to interesting project, rather than getting a notion of what he wanted his "career" to be doing and devising a project to fit, or cynically cashing in, thinking primarily about the money etc.

He seems to have had a humble enough nature to approach each project as "how can i contribute to this music and make it really sing" rather than "how can i show i’m still relevant" or "where’s the spotlight?"

In a way, it’s good he wasn’t the front man in The Smiths, because there’s less baggage. He could step into these incredible creative support roles with other bands and add something special and new, without it feeling like he was eating all the energy in the room.

Any other thoughts on his memoir?

I felt it was balanced, and treated Morrissey with respect and kindness rather than rancor, which was a pleasant surprise after reading Chris Frantz’s autobio, where he seemed to be gleefully tarrring and feathering David Byrne. I’m sure i’ll return to Marr’s book now and again as a comfort read. It was a joy to read the details about how he created Smiths tracks, especially.