Shylock

I must have gotten extremely fucking lucky the last three times I got Tennis for a daily objective. Some of these people are cheap, fucking sore losing pieces of shit. If they're not winning, they go and quit. And Rockstar are so stupid for not allowing that to count. I played two things of tennis. Six sets on one. The guy was on serve and stopped doing it. Fault fault etc.. Then he did one serve. Stopped doing anything again. Fuck's sake. Then he quit out. I was actually ahead. It counts as a win, apparently, cause it said I was 1 Win, 3 Losses as before that I didn't have a single win. Still, doesn't count towards the objective. So I go away, gather myself, cause I'm irritated at this point. Try another match. Guy has a winning record, so I'm like "Ok, maybe I'll actually get to go a full set." And I thought sets were games of 7? Cause I was up 4 games to 3 and it started another. So I figure "ok, I guess I have to win by two sets." I win this one, it's 5 to 3, starts ANOTHER game. I get all the way to the end. Match point. Fucking dickhole leaves. He quits out. And it still doesn't count on my objectives. On every other goddamn objective it counts. If they quit out, as I've had them do on the Versus missions, it still counts there. Tennis is the only objective where it doesn't. Update: I can't catch a fucking break. I played one. Intentionally trying to lose, but not too bad. The guy is up 4 to 1, then leaves. Fuck some of these people.

I have a Tornado, Gauntlet (I think), a Sanchez and an Enduro in that garage that I'll probably get rid of at some time or another if I need the cash or space. Just did a GTA Capture to fulfill one of my Daily Objectives (i'm at almost a month and two weeks on it). The one with the busses. It was fun with just two people, but I can imagine if the whole lobby is filled that it'd get fairly insane. Beat the guy 3 to 1. I think I have done one with the Lazers a while ago, but I don't remember fairing that well since I can't land those things worth a shit. I'm surprised some of these don't get that more people jumping in, cause it's rather fun.

My Z-Type must drag me down. Pretty much every time whatever ability I have in GTA freemode goes down the shitter when I have it set as my personal vehicle. And it's not just while driving. Just having it set as my personal vehicle usually means that if trouble finds me, it's going to beat me down into a puddle of nothing. Some guy sent a mugger on me. Since I just finished my Daily Objectives, I went after him. Wound up going down 7 - 1 on that guy and 3 - 1 on another guy that was around after my initial deaths. Both assholes probably got more than though. I went in passive trying to figure out how the fuck I'm going to get away from the airbase and both guys, one in a car and one in the jet, started running me down. The guy in the jet was swooping down on me killing me with the wing of his plane. How the fuck are people so damn good with those jets? I wish I would have had my Hydra when I was going after him. I would have, if I'd have known he'd be in the jet. I could just give chase behind and used the guns, since they are easier to aim in the Hydra even when using the jet mode on it. Found another guy who killed me, inside my Z-Type, as I'm trying to get it into my garage after I used the "continue heist" thing in my phone to get away from the other two. Got my Turismo, gave chase. Ran him down while he was on foot. Against my better judgment I tried going after him again after that, and I got killed 3 times. Each followed by a taunting text and him running off to some other area on the map. I had him down by Del Perro Pier, he goes off the radar, finds my car and unloads his minigun into it, gets in a jetski and runs off while sending another annoying text. In turn, I complimented him on his running and suggested he probably had good cardio. Wound up killing him twice after catching up to him, then he disappeared. So, moral of the story: My Z-Type is a dick and it won't be used for a while. Not only is it grounded, but I placed it in my 'Garage of Misfit Cars'. The cars I generally like, but I don't use on any regular basis. Off Roads, certain Muscle cars, dirtbikes, stuff like that.

Slightly over level 100. I figure once I get access to the Minigun that might even things out even more if I get into problems with a jet.

So I go into the Eastern most Customs shop noticing that some guy is around and he's in red, so I know he's been up to shit. So I'm conscious of that. I come out, he's down the road a bit. And I'm thinking he probably put proxies down around the ramp up so that he could blow up my car. I'm driving cautious and before I think "Hey, maybe get out of the car and scan the area?" I get blown up and I can hear the guy chuckle during my death scene thing. I usually have the chat off, but it comes on if someone killed me if they're saying anything. That just bugged the shit out of me for some reason. I summoned my buzzard, which A - Z) The flying sucks just in general for some of the heli's in this game, so I'm normally not great at maneuvering it. I take it for a run. Find the guy, someone else was with him and I fired off a homing rocket and I had it locked on the wrong person. Blew his friend up. Then the main guy blew me up. What followed was about a 30 or so minute back and forth with me versus two other guys going from the barren area east of the Sandy Shores Airfield all the way into town (where I basically jumped into passive so I could get somewhere I could get into cover). Kept it real close with both. I think one was 12 - 9 or 10, and the other one was up by one I think. I don't know if those guys just kinda sucked or if I've gotten much better at the PvP stuff in this game, but I felt pretty good after it for hanging against two people who were trying to gun me down. Speaking of blowing up, what's the strategy for trying to kill some douche in a jet if you're on land and too far away from the base to get one yourself? Homing launcher is useless if they're halfway decent at evasive flying.

So this is the worst fucking day I've had on this game. Got that 1.2 mil earlier from some hacker, ran into some other asshole who couldn't be killed, nor could his car be blown up. Reported that. Ran into another dickhead earlier who I couldn't kill at all. I decided to buy a Buzzard and give it a whirl. Tried shooting at some guy, all of a sudden shit is exploding all around me in the air, fire is coming out fo the propellers and I get kicked from the Buzzard, as it's being taken back by Pegasus due to being destroyed or something and apparently I committed suicide. I try shooting at the guy (no dent was put in him) and he winds up driving off. So I go back to my car, go find him. I am right behind him, sticky bomb out the window, all ready, and I get kicked out of my car. Like my guy is just standing in the middle of the road and the car kept going a bit without me. Went to get my car, figured it was him, took his fucking name down. Went back after him, tossed a sticky at his car, blew it up and his passenger, and he fucking walks out of it like the goddamn terminator. All of a sudden my wanted level goes up gradually to a 5 star, he kills me. I respawn. Same thing with the wanted level, tried sending a message through the text thing. The auto complete field was empty, my controllers spazzing, so I quit out of the game. What the fuck?

Soooo I've got a question. I decided to do a random setup that popped up on my phone. The Insurgents one. Finish that up. Get in my car, the Valkyrie one pops up. Hadn't played that yet. I decide to go for it. Leave session, load the new one. It's on that foggy screen of the guy's house before you load in, then I hear the clank sound whenever you pick something up on the game. Quite a few of them. Then the session doesn't load, I spawn back into my garage and.. my question is: What do you do when someone spawns $1.2 million on your person? From what I understand, you won't get banned or anything for being the recipient.. but should I be reporting this somewhere just in case or do I just go on and delightfully spend this money?

Yeah, PS3. And Petrol took me through the Pac Standard heist the other day. I was a bit janky, as I hadn't gone through any of the setups before. And a quick, belated shout out to him for letting me join up on it. Tried the Prison Break heist once more. First time as demolitions. I'm excited, cause it means I don't have to be in the prison or fly around aimlessly in a jet until the guys in the prison finish up. Get the bus, drive towards Sandy Shores Airfield... and then the prisoner fails. No idea why, but his blip was near the prison and the other guys was near the bus. Second time, the velum gets destroyed before its anywhere near where it needs to go. Third time, the heist runner quits out. And I also got a month's worth of Daily Objectives and the 500k that comes along with it. I do not like the captures at all. Everything else I generally got past, even the 1v1 deathmatch objectives. Got a kill 5 players objective the other day. Drove up, shot some guy. Drove down the way and there was a group there, that when I arrived near them were driving away from the police all in the same car. Stupid me, I threw the sticky at their car, was too anxious, and detonated before I got out of range. Said I killed all 4, but it didn't count towards the objective. I guess cause I killed myself too in the blast.

Tried getting out of the plane when the guy landed one time, but it wouldn't allow it. Maybe best course of action is to have the one guy flying around and we lose the wanted level while in the vehicle and then meet up somewhere else.

As far as I'm concerned, I think that Prison Break heist is cursed for me. 9/10, I get put as either the Guard or Prisoner. The one time we were near the end of the prison, the first time for me, the fucking pilot quits. The one time I'm the pilot, it's taking the people in the prison for-fucking-ever to go through. It seemed like they were in the same middle area of the damn prison for pretty much the duration of my evasive flying section of the mission. Wound up fucking that one up by just saying to hell with it and landing. Then the one time. ONE TIME. I got out of the prison, all the way to the plane. Flying off. The Lose The Cops thing gets glitched to fuck. No matter whether we're out at sea or high above, the wanted level never goes down. Biggest waste of over probably an hour of time. It came to the point where I was about ready to message the pilot to plunge us into the ocean for sweet release. And he wound up doing exactly that a short while later.

Tried some Heist stuff earlier today. Did the Trash Truck again. And correct me if I'm wrong on this strategy, but shouldn't you back into the alleys to A.) use the truck to assist with cover and B.) give the collectors an advantage on time for tossing the trash in there? Cause it seems both this time, and the last time I tried this setup, everyone jumps off early rather than sitting put until I'm backed in and parked. And tried the Pacific Standard heist and it kicked my ass. And I think I had a pretty decent crew this time, for once, and that alleyway still mauls everyone going through. Forget about getting away on the bikes. Rockstar, I think, really should add something where you can fill up your whole inventory of Body Armor on the Restart/Continue screen instead of just one. On a few attempts, I go through all of mine and then I can only grab one piece.

So I've got a problem. I go into my apartment and there's two things: 1) If I try to pause the game, that little loading circle comes up and stays there forever so I have to hit circle to go back to normal. 2) When I go to start a heist I can confirm settings. Go to the invite area.. then if I go to any of the options, "From Last Heist", "My Friends", "From Current Session" etc, it goes in, nothing shows except the little loading circle thing in the bottom right. Then it takes forever to come up. I try backing out after, and it takes forever again. Etc. Now this wasn't happening when I was just joining the heists beforehand and it didn't happen during the Fleeca one, nor the first setup of the Prison Break one. I'm not sure what's up with this loading thing. And that pause menu problem wasn't happening either. Not sure why this is going on, but figured I'd ask just in case.

PS3.

For future reference, which option would I report this under?

This guy with an armored Kuruma killed me, and it seemed he was playing with a group of people who drove them. So I tried going after him. First time I just gave up, cause he was further away. Started a gang attack and the fucker came in and shot me dead. So I came back, beat the gang attack and he was on the other side of the construction area, seemingly stuck. I shot him three times with my homing launcher, and I'm pretty sure at least two of them landed.. and nothing. He wound up getting me from across the way. Tried to get him again a bit later, he blew me up. So I decided to say fuck it. I put several sticky bombs on my car, drove it at him and exploded it. He drove away seemingly unscathed. Some guy I noticed driving around with him got killed and respawned near me, so I riddled him with bullets, two clips, before he fucking died. And then I got in the cop car, looking to go down and find the other guy. He winds up ramming me, I spin in the air, but wind up attaching THREE sticky bombs to his kuruma and blowing it up (killling myself int he process). And he drove the fuck away. What. The. Fuck? Can an armored Kuruma, w/ fully upgraded armor, survive that shit? Or is he cheating somehow? Apparently he's level 1000. Edit: And sending mercenaries after him apparently did the trick. Weird.

I just did that one the other day. When it popped up in my phone, I decided to jump at the chance since apparently it's one of the higher paying missions in the game. First try, everyone's in their car and one dude winds up blowing up everything in the first area, including the Granger the game specifically says you need to get into. Second try we made it past that fine, but I think the same dude from the first time around went and got himself a heli with bombing capabilities (it wasn't a Buzzard) and lobs them all through the second area despite the other three of us being on the ground attempting to clear the area. He does the same thing at the hanger too. Even after we get what we need, one of the other players got in a buzzard and this idiot fires one off at it and blows it up. I tried taking him down with a rocket launcher, hit him point blank and the chopper didn't blow up. Don't know if it was one of those that are more heavily armored or whatever, but he wound up diving at me with the propellers, taking me out and almost killing himself. Thankfully the other player was laying back and drove off to Madrazo's house. It's why I really love it when I randomly find a group that just clicks and everything goes smoothly, especially if they keep doing missions in succession like I got the other night. This experience above is probably one of the few that I've had that were awful. Some insist on playing these missions as if they're the only guy there.

Getting more accustomed to the Online portion of the game. It seems the best (most fun + most money) way to get money is the survival modes. Boneyard and Processed feel like they're the easiest ones of the bunch to survive Wave 10. Haven't played Legion Square yet. Maze Bank & Del Perro Pier are crapshoots. I want to give Processed a shot solo, but it seems whenever I get there, I trigger a gang attack job.

Some of these custom jobs need to be weeded out. For the second time I went into some course where it's basically "get over this wall or you fucking die because someone will get to whatever weapons there are before you." The first person who gets to whatever stash of weapons is basically the defacto winner. Every time you spawn, you spawn in the pit where you need to jump out of it and for the next twenty fucking minutes or whatever, you're basically dead for the remainder of the session. Or you get penalized for quitting out (which is bullshit, I don't want to sit there and get mowed down constantly for 20 minutes or so). Are all the custom jobs on GTA Online this way?

Which one do you feel is the best succession law of the bunch? I went with Elective earliest I could, because my first born (the one that I'd take over as) had shitty stats. That's another thing that confuses me with educating a child. I've sent most of my daughters to people with large intrigue stats, but they wind up stronger in other areas.

I've got a question. My demesne was one over the limit, so I wanted to hand away a title to someone. I gave it away to some guy that wasn't on my council, and I wound up losing my steward and chaplain.. Is there any way to tell who I'm going to lose when I hand away a title? Also. The Council actions: If I don't recall them, do they still go about doing whatever it is that I wanted? Say I wanted my Chancellor to Fabricate a Claim somewhere so I can go after some other land.. do I just leave him there and not recall him and wait? Other than some things I'm still off about, I'm really enjoying learning how this game is played. Right now my main game is Sicily. I started with (I think.. I don't remember his name right now) King William of Sicily..? It's the late 1100's that he was available. I love some of the random things that happened with him. He kept kicking my Chancellor off the council for a horse (he acquired the Lunatic quality)... and one event happened where he saw the moon and just howled at it. Yet he still managed to get his Queen's brother's wife into bed with him. It seems like the "there's this much chance to gain the 'Lustful' attribute and this much chance to get your mistress pregnant." is more of a ".. or possibly both!", cause both times I went through with it, the lover got pregnant.

I say FX should bring back Terriers. The Americans (which is a great show) doesn't exactly get the best ratings, but they're 3 seasons in with a 4th already ordered. Why couldn't they do the same for Terriers? I'm still pissed that show never got a second season.

Probably the best episode of the season, I think. And I was also psyched when I realized the guns guy with Mike and Man Mountain was Trevor from GTA V.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt?

The one thing that I haven't seen anyone mention here that happened in Breaking Bad that might have some relevance (spoilered for people who haven't seen BB yet):

If I'm remembering right, didn't he have a 3 year contract with ICE that he had to serve out every day of or else they'd kill his deal?