When I'm surfing the sea of YouTube video essays, one genre is pretty much guaranteed to get my attention: painstaking, granular analyses of video game details that don't actually matter.
Few people will ever notice these details, and most that do won't find that they affect their gameplay experience at all, but throwing them under the microscope still makes for a darn good watch. Video game geologist, historian, cartographer, and potamologist Any Austin has made a career out of this stuff, and his latest deep dive is an exhaustive look into the traffic signs of GTA 5 and how they stack up with the real laws of California, the state where the game's city of Los Santos is set.
