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  1. 28 straight sets of Daily Objectives later, $500,000 bonus... $8,000,000 in the bank. Might have to start actually buying some of the heist vehicles now.
  2. So, how long do we wait before we stop using spoiler boxes then? Is it like the day of the US release, or the Monday after, or what? Considering Iron Man 3 ended with Stark taking the shrapnel out of his chest and destroying all of his armours, you'd think that this movie would at least take a second to explain why he's built more Suits and is back Iron Manning it up. But it doesn't.
  3. I'm playing Uncharted 2 right now, having just completed 1 (I already completed 3 first). So far 2 is a lot better than 1, because you can aim grenades without tilting your joypad all over the place. Too soon to say if it's better than 3 or not, but it seems a bit more coherent at least. It's odd that we're also talking about the violence in Last of Us because the way the killing is handled in that game is kind of Naughty Dog's reaction to Nathan Drake's bizarre personality shift between the fun, affable 'Aw Shucks, I just try my best' guy he is in the cutscenes, and the ruthless executioner he is during gameplay. You'd think being a guy who'd killed over 300 people in the last couple of days would have an effect on someone's personality, but apparently not.
  4. Speak for yourself Zeidler. The Z is in Germany, Natural and me are in England. About the three lasers thing from a few pages ago: That box is not that unclickable. This one is very unclickable:
  5. Saw Age of Ultron this afternoon. It's really good! Don't click the spoiler box until you've seen it. Seriously, just don't. Someone at Marvel was really paying attention to the criticisms of Superman endangering civilians in Man of Steel. Avoiding civilian casualties is an overriding obsession with every character in this movie. Even the genocidal character, it's mentioned he doesn't kill civilians who surrender, only those who try to fight. Is this what you're looking for? Language!
  6. The whole stip at Extreme Rules is that the RKO is banned, so Orton can't use his 'greatest weapon'. What great timing, to have his opponent stop using his own finisher on the go-home show.
  7. FF8? Well, that's the Fant4stic franchise buggered. It's a good job those guys who make rubbish parody movies seem to have stopped. Because you know they'd have thought The Fat and the Furious was the funniest idea ever.
  8. The Faster and the Furiouser.
  9. This is from the Guardian, but it won't let me post the link so I've c&p'ed it. You should probably try and read it on the paper's website though, it's got links and pictures and that. 'Rap is the new wrestling': how hip-hop heavyweights compare with WWE stars A$AP Rocky says hip-hop acts are adopting the same theatrical antics of WWE’s superstars. Here’s a look at rap’s biggest acts and their wrestling counterparts New York rap and fashion maven A$AP Rocky thinks hip-hop has become like the theatrical, body-slam heavy world of WWE. Speaking to Elliott Wilson at a live recording of the CRWN hip-hop podcast at the Tribeca film festival, the 26-year-old rapper said: “Rap is the new wrestling,” before adding that in the world of contemporary hip-hop, rappers pick a strange name, say some ridiculous things and then wait until people pay attention (isn’t that just a guide to becoming famous in 2015?). He has a point though, even if there is more than a hint of irony in that theory coming from a rapper whose name is A$AP Rocky and whose biggest hit was called Fuckin’ Problems complaining about outlandish and gauche hip-hop acts with daft names. We’ve taken his assertion as a starting point and tried to figure out which WWE superstars (past and present) line up with contemporary rap stars. Vince McMahon and Jay ZFookTwitterPin Jay Z might have had a slight stutter with Tidal, his music streaming service which – – hasn’t really taken off, but since the 1990s he’s provided the rocksteady ballast that’s given hip-hop stability. Just like Vince McMahon, Jay Z is that ever present paternal figure casting a shadow over the rest of the rap fraternity. It’s not just all voyeuristic overlord stuff though, when Jay Z turns up on a track or as a political consultant – it’s a big deal – just as when McMahon turns up at ringside he can still turn heads and produce a chorus of boos. He’s also had his own business missteps, . LB Rick Ross and Ric FlairFacebookTwitterPinteres One is a flamboyant, self-obsessed narcissist with a habit of apocryphal boasts, the other is Ric Flair. On the surface the two Ric(k)s might not exactly seem like doppelgängers, but Flair’s nature boy arrogant-douche shtick is pretty close to the brag-until-you-drop ethos that has seen Rick Ross go from correctional officer to the world’s biggest pretend drug dealer rapper bloke. Take, for example, Flair’s “ ” promo and compare it with, well, almost any Rick Ross lyric. Neither are exactly brother-in-law material, but they’d be great value at a dinner party (you’d probably have to serve caviar and crystal though, or maybe just some gluten-free cornbread). LB The Rock and Kanye WestFacebookTwittePinterest Multi-discipline dominance is what both the Rock (Dwayne Johnson) and Kanye West are all about. The Rock has managed to traverse the worlds of wrestling, music and film by being a confident charismatic on-stage and on-screen performer, Kanye hasn’t quite got there yet opting, for a more direct, in-your-face, give-me-it-now approach. Kanye’s wrestling “persona” would surely be somewhere near the Rock though. Putting people in their place, interrupting promo videos and generally revelling in being both the biggest heel/babyface in the WWE. LB Waka Flocka Flame and The Ultimate Warrior FacebookTwitterPinterest This comparison is based solely on two videos. One is Waka Flocka Flame in the studio recording a series of increasingly , the other is a compilation of the Ultimate Warriors bizarre promos where he and other non sequiturs. Apart from the intense energy both bring, other similarities include long hair and a penchant for wearing face-paint and fake blood. Also, Waka Flocka Flame clearly already has a wrestling name and could start a tag team with Gucci Mane simply called The Brick Squad. It’s on a plate. LB Drake and Roman ReignsFacebookTwitterPinteres Drake and Roman Reigns. Photograph: PR These guys are what you end up with if you let a market research team design you a superstar. They’re what people who don’t like wrestling or rap think people who do like wrestling or rap like, or maybe should like; toothless facsimiles combing traits found favorable through focus groups held in midwestern shopping malls. Roman Reigns looks like a cut-price Dothraki with a stylist, Drake’s best and most believable performance as either MC or actor will always be that commercial where he plays a robot powered by Sprite. Plus, they both have these weird wet eyes like they got their feelings hurt and are trying super hard not to cry. TB LL Cool J and John CenaacebookTwitterPinterest Both seem genuinely nice, look a little like muscle-bound toddlers, are talented yet strangely inauthentic (has the threat of being knocked unconscious ever ?), and when you think about it it’s weird neither have been in a Fast and Furious movie yet. There’s a point in the future of that franchise where LL Cool J is going to play an NFL star who needs Vin Diesel’s help to clear his name after being accused of murder and Cena is going to play the federal marshal hunting them down until he realizes it’s all about family, nothing is more important than family, and then they team up. TB CM Punk and Tupac ShakurFacebookTwitterPint It’s hard to tell if these two are actually the smartest people in their fields or just come off as really smart because no one else around them seems to value intelligence. Actually, what they really have in common is probably frustration at being so smart, surrounded by dummies, and needing everyone watching to recognize the distinction. That kind of thing can make a person intensely unlikable (see Kelsey Grammer) unless they can really back it up, and both Punk and Tupac had no trouble with that. Actually, what they share in common most strongly is that fans of both refuse to believe they’re actually gone and jump at even the slightest hint they might come back. TB Macho Man Randy Savage and NasFacebookTwitterPin Nas and Macho Man are both probably more talented than their more popular contemporaries, and not to say that they’re not popular on their own but neither ever made it all the way to the top. Maybe it’s because neither of them seems very comfortable in their skin or easy to get along with, maybe it’s because they both seem a bit put off at not being considered the greatest of all time. Or maybe it’s because of how uncompromising they are in their more far-out beliefs: Nas’s that he saw an alien spaceship over Los Angeles in 2001, Macho Man’s that Slim Jims are the ideal form of sustenance for human life.
  10. I think it was a tv show about Gram Parsons where they were interviewing one of his friends, and they asked him "If he hadn't died, what do you think he'd be doing now?" The guy thought about it for a second, and then replied "If he hadn't died, he'd still be dead."
  11. Valonquar means little brother. Cersei is a few minutes older than Jaime, ergo he is as likely to be the Valonquar as Tyrion is. Although how he'll wrap his hands around her throat when he only has the one actual hand, and the other is a lump of metal in a permanent Kung Fu grip... Why are there no Secret Bastard theories about Tywin having other children? It's all Secret Targaryen bastards all the way. Let's make one up... Tyrion's first wife Tysha was secretly Tywin's bastard daughter and that's why Tywin was so keen to get rid of her. I hope the show does put the Happy Port in one of the Braavos scenes, and have the Sailor's Wife and Lanna be in there. Even if it's just as an Easter Egg thing.
  12. Somehow I've unlocked Free Chrome Rims - Tuner. When did that become a thing you could do? And are they expensive when they aren't free? I though they were a next gen thing.
  13. When I were a lad, all we 'ad to play footy on were hypodermic needles and dogshit. You young'uns don't know yer born with all yer fancy astrerterf an' that.
  14. I have nothing to be jealous of. You're only good at freemode and team Deathmatches (where I'm carrying the team). I'm good at everything.
  15. This morning in Capture hell, I met someone too stupid to understand the Prox Mine on the bag trick only works once. You do it right at the start to make them cautious, or you do it right at the end because you know they aren't. Also, the one Prox Mine they did get me with was on my base, so I delivered the package no worries before I blew up. Then I shot the one they left on their base to collect the final package safely... and they blew themselves up with the mine they dropped on my base to stop me delivering. Ha ha. Bribe the cops and cause havoc has screwed me twice. The time I went into Fort Zancudo and stole a fighter jet, I blew up some Army cars and got a wanted level when I still had 90 seconds of blind eye left. The next time, I was coming up from the docks, and I got blind eye at that crossroads near the cop station. Time was running out and I hadn't destroyed enough stuff, so I shot some cops... and got a wanted level. When I had 25 seconds of blind eye left. I think the game is broken somehow.
  16. I think Piranesi was talking about Pall Blart 2. Or he's confused Texas Chainsaw with Devil's Rejects, although the person getting hit a by huge truck wasn't played for laughs in that. Unless you have a very unconventional sense of humour.
  17. Well, the show list is a lot shorter than the book list at this point, isn't it? She's only got 4 names left on the show.... I don't think she'll get to Cersei, I don't see how she'll get to Ser Meryn Trant, the Mountain isn't really the Mountain any more... the show hasn't really established how much the younger Freys are at one another's throats and how the whole house basically balances on a knife edge, so old Walder is less precarious here than in the books. So maybe Arya does get close enough to kill him at some point.
  18. Piece of Mind is named after the Iron Maiden album, surely? Avada Kedvara is just a drunk guy trying to say Abra Cadabra. If he wanted to name it after a decent cultural reference, he'd have called it the Klaatu Barada Nurgha hurrur urra ungha... I'm Done!
  19. It's odd, isn't it, that the Spider-Man movies never got that right. It seems like the majority of the public in those films always accepted that Spidey was a good guy and J Jonah Jameson's anti-Spidey propaganda was a pack of lies. You almost wonder how the Bugle stayed in business, if nobody agreed with what it constantly printed.
  20. He was asked: "Why is DC focusing on making it's characters gritty as Marvel keeps outselling them with the more modern approach? It feels so silly and weird and as behind the time(sic) as I'm sure they seemed when Marvel first came to the spotlight?" How would you have him respond to that question? How would you respond to it? Other than asking the questioner to re-word the question it until it made a bit more sense, like?
  21. He was asked a question based on a supposition, and responded with a statement (which hypothetically accepted said supposition) full of 'if' and 'it feels like' and 'maybe I'm talking out of my ass'. Why do you want him to fuck off? It's not like he said 'DC are making shit movies because they're a bunch of useless arse suckers'. Would you rather nobody say anything ever?
  22. I had 'Destroy 5 Vehicles' once. I drove some guy's Massacro into the ocean and it didn't count This morning, when I was in Capture Hell, I found myself doing this new one called Claustrophobia, where it's a really small map shaped like a dog bone. Me and one other guy, locked to pistols. He seemed to have this spawn trap gimmick going, where he picked up my duffel bag and then went behind my base, so I'd spawn with my back to him and he could get free headshots at me before I could turn around and shoot him back. There was also Armour and Health that spawned on the spot he was in, so he probably thought free pistol kills and a nice little pad of the old K/D. Only that's not how it worked out... So I went in cover behind a stack of crates, and put on the Pussy helmet, and then when we went shot for shot, he was taking more damage than me because of my level. So he runs around for health and I just camp and let my health regenerate, and eventually I get his head and he dies. And drops the bag where he died, so he's going to have a hard time getting it back. I deliver his bag to go one up in the score, and he rage quits like a bitch. Which was a bit of a theme this morning. Everything I won had someone walking out before it was over. The other time I was in Capture hell, it was one of those "RP Hack! $$$$!" things, only it was set up so all the bags were right next to the base and it's a back and forth foot race with no weapons but a Jerry Can. It lasted 90 seconds and the RP rewards were 200 to the winner and 150 to second place. Not worth the effort at all.
  23. They banned the Curb Stomp to protect the necks of Wrestlers. So Seth starts doing a Single-Arm DDT as a finisher. Which is the move that Shane Douglas broke Pitbull 1's neck with.
  24. Good job. What's your best score and what's mine? Feel free to go back and check, if you need to. You can also check our scores on Chase a Parachute. Volk Han Score 570, Gold 0, Silver 1, Bronze 0 Excallq Score 511 Gold 0, Silver 2, Bronze 47 AxBloodTheory Score 489, Gold 0, Silver 1, Bronze 2
  25. I was thinking that if they need a Super-powered person to cause mass death and destruction in a way that ties in with Shield... hasn't someone who is in SHIELD just now gained Earthquake powers? Which could potentially cause huge amounts of death and destruction?
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