Robert C

Hey melraz, did you ever check how many bars you're getting on signal strength for the XBOX?

Considering some of the things that network reality shows have done, THAT is saying something . . . Yep, I have some shithead neighbors. Found the Wiki page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_the_Neighborhood_(TV_series)

Got some more negative rep - had to be from the last time we were on. I'm thinking it was probably the guy that unwisely challenged the mayor to a 1:1 deathmatch. I don't think he liked me and RUkered killing him over and over. I'm down to 36% approval rating now. Maybe the mayor even got some as well.

I used to use one, cause my router and xbox are on opposite corners of the house. It did a decent job. My house is all one story though, so I don't know how it will work with a basement. Is the xbox showing that you're getting low signal strength? I'm using a powerline kit now for it, and that is better, for the most part. I'm definitely getting more bandwidth than I was with the signal booster. Only issue is that the signal gets noisy with some higher power electrical devices running at the same time, and can cause me to lose connection. That may be caused by the shitty wiring in my house though.

We had a reality show filmed 5 houses down the street probably 6-7 years ago. The premise was people were competing to win the house. It never made it on television (think it was ABC). Apparently it managed to be so offensive, and show my neighbors to be such asshats, that the network didn't think it could be shown. One good/funny thing did come of it. One of the neighbors on the show was apparently over the top homophobic. A few years after the filming his son came out of the closet. He's now changed his tune and has been fairly vocal in speaking out for gay rights.

Finally got round to playing some. Finished the prologue and started wandering around the hinterlands. I can tell I'm gonna have my Skyrim issue - I get so distracted wandering around encountering random stuff that I forget to actually play the game. I only have the starting 4 party members so far. Varric making me laugh has been the high point. I may never finish this thing. I've played about 10000000 hours of Skyrim and still haven't finished the main story there.

I've never watched a reality tv show, but I would damn sure watch one that focused on melraz shopping on black Friday. Really need to pick this game up again. It's a good game, I've just taken a break for some reason.

I was thinking the same thing. Waiting for the "No! You fucking game!" moment.

If you'd like, I did some multiplayer the other day and can help get you going on it? This copy is on PS4. I might get another for the 360 for multi-player after a bit.

Good Lord did we get into a giant pile of shit last night. Most of it was a hell of a lot of fun. Nobody was on when I started up, so I just wandered around aimlessly, sticky bombing fools. One guy put a $1000 bounty on me which pissed me off. I mean, if you're gonna do that, do it right. I found a group of 3 up near the expensive apartments, so I got into it with them. 3 on 1 became 5 on 1 quickly, then the guy that put the bounty started sniping me from up the hill. About that time Stout got on and found me surrounded by dots. He made it 6 on 2, and we ran five of em off. Bounty boy tried to stick with us, but he ate many a sniper round before he turned tail. We had a few smaller fights till we wound up at the Mors Mutual site, like Stout said. ThatMyHusband (sadly his crew wasn't Ba-Ding) was driving around in that yellow hearse with SweetyM. I put an RPG into the hearse, and things went downhill from there. I know we blew up that hearse at least 3 times apiece. There were a couple Zentornos that would continually spawn. I know I blew up the green one at least 6 times, and the silver one at least 3. Eventually we ran all those folks off as well, and got into some more small fights. We shot one guy out of a buzzard, and then went about 40-3 on him. We just kept mauling folks, and even stuff that should have got us killed was working. At one point I ran out in the middle of the street while people were in cover on either side of me. Managed to get both of em with gratuitous Mary Lous. Then Stout got kicked, and I found 3 dots near the expensive apartments again. This time things were very, very different - as Stout described. That fight must've gone on for well over an hour, and I don't think there were ever fewer than 9-10 people involved. I know there was 1 group of 3, but I think the rest were just singletons. It was about the biggest clusterfuck I've ever seen in freemode. Everybody was high level, and everybody was good to very good. I think I finished up on all but 2 of them, but I didn't dominate anybody. It was all like 22-18 kind of scores. I had one guy 12-8 at one point, before he started whipping me. Probably finished down 20-14 to him. Stout, in his wisdom, summed it up perfectly - "we need to learn the fine art of quitting while we're ahead". I've never been allah akbared so much in one session. Still it was a damn good night. Got at least 250 kills. Blew up probably close to 30 personal vehicles, with a ton of Adders/Zentornos/Entities in the mix. Went throuh my entire supply of sticky bombs and RPGs at least 3 times. Probably cost me between 400K and 500K. Favorite little things: - in the middle of that giant fight, found myself on the edge of a wall with another guy right on the other side, maybe 10 feet away. he came out of cover right as I threw a sticky bomb at him. Hit him right in the crotch and detonated it. He collapsed to his knees, then his body slumped forward do it was resting on his forehead and knees. - One guy in that mess nailed me with a Zentorno. I wasn't killed, but wound up lying face up and spreadeagled. He dropped a sticky bomb between my legs, drove off, and detonated while I deafened Stout with my laughter. - Shot GearGrinderGary out of his personal truck. Ran up all set to sticky bomb it when the world exploded. The explosion got the truck, Stout's car, me, and Stout. Seems he had the same idea I had, but was a little quick on the trigger.

My copy should get delivered today. Kinda wishing it was a bit later, because I don't really have time to play it before Friday, and it's just gonna sit there tempting me. Of course, I've got 12 days off work after Friday, so I should hopefully get to play a some in between a thousand things that need to be done around the house.

In that case, I suggest fixing the router the same way I did my old one. I used my Winchester 1300 Defender, but I'm sure you can find a similarly useful tool for the job.

We gotta fix this shit. Can't have a city without its mayor. I tried to explain that shit to Dragon, but it's probably more of a you had to be there thing. First room last night was a bunch of terrible guys. Don't think I've ever gone psycho faster than that. Last room was a giant, chaotic mess. We were in this continuous firefight east of the mall. I counted 9 that one time, but I think there must've been 15-20 all told, since people kept coming and leaving. We were the last people standing after it was all over. Early highlight was being challenged to a one on one deathmatch by a level 3. Poor little fella tried to hide in a gas station before the final kill.

Sounds about right. Does anybody else feel like they're getting motion sickness from those FPS videos? Not sure my stomach could handle em on a big screen.

Which boss? Which VH are you playing? I got Wilhelm to 50 without too much hassle. That said his special ability is awesome as it distracts the enemy while dealing decent damage. I'm playing as the gunslinger (can't remember her name) mainly because I love her special ability.

I'm enjoying it so far. I mean, it's Borderlands, you pretty much know what you're gonna get. I'm stuck on one boss right now. Pretty much cruised through the game up to this point, but the difficulty level jumped about 10x with this one encounter. Figure it should be fairly easy for two or more people, or even one if I actually had a decent corrosive weapon.

I've never understood that. I mean, if they've spent more than 5 minutes in freemode they ought to know it's the wild west with more powerful weapons. If I bring personal vehicles in there, I assume they'll get blown up as a matter of course. Last time melraz and I were on somebody came barreling into the middle of our firefight in a white Zentorno. He made a run right at me, so I shot him in the face for his trouble and ran a short distance to cover. Dude immediately goes off the radar like he's gonna get his revenge or something. I have no idea what for. I mean, he was trying to kill me when I got him, he just wasn't successful. I didn't even blow his car up. I put a sticky bomb on it, but he didn't know that. I warned melraz to watch out for that Zentorno since guy was off radar. Soon as I said that, I saw the car about a block away. Then I gave him something to be pissed about.

Yeah, I'm on 360 for that one. Playing as the gunslinger so I can use auto-aim. Damn NPC bad guys keep pulling Mary Lous on me and pissing me off.

I've been playing some of the new one when nobody's on for GTA. Up to about level 15 or so.

I'll probably be boring and do the same as usual. Same thing as you, cept replace elf with human.

Those guys were bad enough, but the Colombians around the construction site on the second island were murder. The hardest thing I've ever done in a game is complete all 12 levels of the ambulance mini-game in GTA3. Partly it was because if you failed you had to start over at level 1, and partly it was because I had to drive way the hell out of my way to avoid those guys.

Yeah, you did have hang out to keep relationships up. I just didn't give a shit. Everybody probably hated me by the end. I do remember some missions in earlier games annoying me by making me drive over to start the mission again. Can't remember specifics though. The ending of 3 gave me fits too till I figured out you can pick up a shitload of guns/ammo/explosives/body armor/health by going back to your safehouse nearby - assuming you'd already dealt with the pain of finding all the hidden packages. That was the nice thing about the PS2/XBOX period games. A lot of the harder missions could be made easier by setting things up in your advantage beforehand. Also, speaking of GTA3, I want a damned flamethrower for freemode.

That may be the perfect explanation of why I stopped playing.

Might be that there was pretty much nothing I liked about the game. I finished it, but that was more out of stubbornness than anything else. I figured out very quickly that any time the phone rang it would be something annoying, so I just hung up on anybody that was calling before they could start talking.

What do you mean? GTA 4 and Episodes from LC were this gen. Apparently I managed to block out the existence of GTA4 from my mind. Pretty remarkable actually, but I couldn't even remember the game existed.