Just joined this site to make this one post - THANK YOU DIGEMAN YOU ARE A FUCKIN LEGEND!!! Got same bug - was 60% of the way through the game and had reload a save at 20% only to hit the exact same bug at the same point and was about to sell the game! The taxi fix works. You sir are a gentleman...
One of the sites that weren't blocked on the school's network was some file uploading sites. I would upload some games, write down the URL and take it to school one day.
my school has a chrome extension called light speed filter agent and it legit blocks YouTube pfps since the file cdn(I think aka yt3.ggpht.com) is classed as mature
It was easy to bypass some of the restrictions, as one of the admins left a registry key in the administrative shares drive, which allowed me to get around the blocking of some sites.