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I am now bummed that there is only one Gaslamp Killer cut on the GTA5 radio stations. Nissim is a great track but it is not: WORLDWIDE FM~!

I thought you won, Mark? You were the one storming along when my interwebs wet the bed. I am glad to hear that Moongirl is working out. Definitely the opposite of the Veelox experiment I conducted a while back. I am surprised by the number of actual females that play GTA Online and I always seem to meet them while playing golf.

The Mako's main mass accelerator cannon completely blows if you aim tight through the sights. Zoom in to use the auto-cannon and zoom out to use the main gun. And what Rippa said. You are the only person in the galaxy that gets to use a fighting vehicle while other humanoids are forced to fight you on foot. Exploit the range of the main cannon and you should win 90% of battles with conventional enemies. Thresher Maws are crapshoot, though.

If you get a Special Crate, you receive the Los Santos Belle t-shirt. There is a bug associated with it though. It will sometimes take the place of another t-shirt you have and even if you go back to the store and purchase it again, your old shirt won't pop back into your closet. The reward t-shirt always stays in your wardrobe. The other reward t-shirt is the Red Skull shirt that IIRC you get for getting the most kills in a Survival match.. I wear the Red Skull shirt with my Lonewolf leather jacket, Ranch Chocolate Jeans and Hinterland Brown Boots. That is usually my default Deathmatch ass-stomping uniform if I have time to change clothes.

Transferring my essay on the nuclear fable (using THEM! and Gojira as examples) to this thread. I used to write for Move Feast before work destroyed my soul.

I wear two of the tattoos I have unlocked: Wages of Sin tattoo on my back and the Grim Reaper / Shotgun tattoo on my right arm. I wore the Dual Wielding Evil Clown tattoo on my back before that. I recently got the Angel back tattoo for winning every event at least once, but I have grown attached to the Wages of Sin one I currently wear, Our own dok aka cyberinsekt aka Pete from the UK proudly wears the Devil Girl tattoo on his left arm which means that he has held a World Record in a race. That guy is also a beast behind the wheel. I don't think he plays much GTA Online anymore. I am happy to see that the three and out tactic works. Mark and I will probably job out to each other in LS Forum in a GTA match to unlock that tattoo. I'd love to get the Seven Deadly Sins scroll tattoo, but I am neither competitive nor bloodthirsty enough to kack 1000 players total in this lifetime . My Total Players Killed stat is barely over 200 and most of those have come from in-house deathmatches. Getting 1K kills by just running around on pub servers shooting people isn't my idea of fun. I have no idea why they just don't deathmatch and get it over with. I'd love to score on a Special Crate (I actually collect the t-shirts) but someone seems to always try to camp the crate before it drops, which bugs the crate so that it never shows up. This has happened to me about five or six times.

Yep. I am ashamed to say I also use this tactic on dudes that shoot at me first and then bitch out and run to Los Santos Customs thinking that I don't have the Sticky Bombs or the patience to wait them out. A couple of nights ago, some asshole named Gorilla316 sniped me when I was coming out of a clothing store so I haunted him to LSC and blew him and the premium car he repoed for Simeon skyhigh. The Negative Rep (Unsporting is now up to 43%) and the vulgar voice PM I got over Live Messenger were both worth it.

I have only beaten Moonglrl in one motorcycle race out of about ten. I am five and five in sports car races, though, and only because I do not think she has a custom sports car and I always race my modded Elegy. I got dumped into a public session when my internet blipped and I got kicked out of SEAL TEAM 6. Two assholes tried to cap me in front of my apartment as soon as I spawned in the room, but they forgot that Rank 70+ guys have access to grenade launchers. I collected a $2K bounty with that blast! Nineteen more bounties to collect before I unlock a new tattoo!

That and absoltutely zero crate drops after nearly two hours of play. Game is so fucking bugged.

That's my girl! I am an excellent wheelman, but a barely above average racer. Moongirl is a great driver and an even sicker racer, especially on a motorcycle. We had a gust of wind at my apartment complex that clocked at about 45MPH and fubared one of the comm lines upstream from me, which is why my internet was sporadic after I was kicking ass in deathmatches (Dragon needed Fresh's help to beat me at that villa we were all fightig in) and I went silent. I took it as a sign that I should quit for a bit and watch some of my unrated director's cut of Riddick.

Bwah. Almost forgot. I was on a public server this morning looking for a random deathmatch invite and noticed that there was a Special Crate drop coming inbound. Problem was that there were already two players waiting in the drop zone. There is glitch in the game where if a player is in the "green circle" before the server gets the "A Crate Has Been Dropped" message, the crate will never drop. I went to the drop zone in anger and sniped some of the crate campers that were unaware of the bug. Hopefully one day I will be lucky enough to score on a SC and get my Los Santos Belle t-shirt.

Only on holiday weekends. Otherwise, it is the NCIS network.

Back in the good old days when work did not entirely destroy my free time, I was a regular contributor to Movie Feast. I was inspired by my Fallout 3 gameplay to review a bunch of classic sci-fi nuclear fables and the articles didn't turn out half bad. Here I prattle on about Godzilla and Them

There was an interview with Padilah yesterday on HBO's entertainment show. His enthusiasm about this project is infectious and genuine and I find myself suddenly getting stoked for the reboot..

Or you could have gotten snow day today like us cool kids I was praying for the "Open, but with liberal leave" loophole, but the CG kept business hours normal. Understandable because the roads were fine, but I'd have still kept liberal leave open to give parents whose kids got a snow day the option to stay home with the young'uns. Richmond and Chesterfield closed, but IIRC, Colonial Heights, Hopewell, and Petersburg opted for early dismissal. My kid is with her grandparents aka my ex-wife's folks (ie. not so affectionately known as my out-laws), so she is solid. News says that the CG is tapping out and sending us home at high noon. For once, we have a garrison commander that didn't spend his winters in Afghanistan and realizes that if commuters and snow plows are on the street at the same time, it kinda fucks with public safety. The entire base is closing at the same time that snow plows will be out and about and the local schools that opted for early dismissal instead of closure will be releasing students. The commute home should be very interesting.

Even when Embry worked as a babyface, there was something about him that said "Do not trust this guy."

Yeah, that telephone pole sucks. I just try to pop those guys as fast as I can with an assault rifle. I have found that when it comes to that particular Survival map, it is usually best if two guys go in instead of three or four, because the inbreds just keep attacking en force and don't bother to take cover. You can just mow them down at your leisure. There is a wrecked school bus where spawns get stuck, so the remaining enemies are usually camped out there. You died from a shoulder shot with full armor on? Guy must've had a heavy sniper.

If Mark was there, then must've shown you the White Trailer tactic. And yeah, keeping 50 bucks handy for the Sprunk machine in the Hangar is a tried and true tactic. but they guys taking the positions behind the trailer can knock off the hillbillies 300 Battle of Thermopylae style without throwing themselves too far into harm's way. The meth dealers all just come running in to their doom and are bullet fodder for an SMG or an Assault Rifle. The attack heli's are problematic because they wiil sometimes sweep out of your field of fire and you have to make a target of yourself to get it to come into range..

Ow! Most players are pussies when it comes to tennis or darts. Players will stick around to the bitter end for a golf match if they think they can come back, but will tap out with the swiftness in a tennis match. Mark and I had to trade five set epics in order to get our respective platinum medals.

Oy. I can't see the embed image. Is that Boneyard? Chefk out Ollie's Boneyard survival vid on the YouTubes. I have dragged both Mark and Fresh kicking and screaming to Wave 10 by hiding behind the white trailer and picking off whomever. I soloed it once: a feat I don't think I'll ever try to repeat. The Helicopters can get tricky, but so long as you watch your health you should be able to do the death of a thousand cuts thing with a sniper rifle or an assault rifle and get the job done. Once Rippa has an assault rifle and can max out his ammo for the AR and can afford a few hundred SR rounds, I'll get him through Boneyard.

That medal was pretty easy to get even without the map. Most of the gang attacks in lower SA are active at night, so you don't have to stray too far out of the city. The fight with Merryweather at the construction site near Alton Street and the Balla attack near Simeon's dealership are literally right around the block from each other.

The Snowpocallypse of 2014 is allegedly on the way to the 804. Right now it is a balmy 36 degrees and the skies are barely cloudy, but if I manage to score a snow day tomorrow that will be cool.

Finally found my favorite Gannosuke match on the YouTubes. Thank God for our Spanish speaking brothers to the south. Gannosuke vs. Hayabusa for the World Brass Knucks title (30 April 1998) Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDS_5nTXSZg Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IByujhodkJg The heel arm work is Anderson Brothers level of sweet, especially the 10:10 mark of Part 1 where Gannosuke fucking running bulldogs Hayabusa right on his shoulder. Gannosuke is your personal wrestling Jesus.

I avoided the sketchy money. I tend to jump from server to server rather rapidly. If there are no active bounties or I don't see a crate drop message within fifteen minutes, I move on. I stick around long enough to watch WEAZEL at my apartment and see what the rest of the players on the server are doing. A good tool for finding tank rampagers and snipers camping on rooftops.

You've been watching too many old eps of The Lone Gunmen. Next thing you'll be telling me we staged the moon landings. I know who signs your checks pal. I KNOW THE TRUTH. I am very Jeffersonian which actually makes me a subversive in today's political climate.