Robert C

You had me worried for a minute there. Didn't want to have to buy a HD. Then I remembered I was being a dumbass and I've got this for my 360, which actually has a decent sized HD, unlike my PS3. Hopefully they'll do something to freshen up online. Of course, with a big update I'm worried about how many new bugs they will introduce.

I warned you about that deathmatch before we started. Those guys (never did get their crew name) were something else. I did two DMs with them, one in a bank, and then the the Governmental match that you joined. They did forced pistols for both. The one in the bank was a team of me and 5 or 6 of them. They wiped the floor with our opponents. I finished something like 7-9. The next lowest guy on my team had 25+ kills. We only won the Governmental DM because we had one of their guys, and he wound up with about 40 kills. 4 or 5 of those fuckers would roll up on you at the same time, all doing coordinated Mary Lous. Best I could do was get one before they got me. Funny thing about that. I looked up their K/D ratios while we were waiting for that last match to start. None of them was particularly high. One was about 1.75. The rest were all significantly lower than me. The big scrum down by the tennis club on the beach was cool because nobody was working together against us. I racked up a shitload of kills. Then you showed up and we ran most of em off. The poor guy up on the hillside trying to snipe had a hard time. I was even with him till everybody else bailed, then we wiped the floor with him. Glad to know I pissed him off enough to warrant a $9k bounty. I particularly liked it when he bailed out, then tried to come back all sneaky like, taking cover behind his purple Zentorno. Sniped him in the head for his trouble, then sniped the gas tank for good measure. We'd probably still be killing him if the tanks hadn't rolled up. Fish boy sending us the texts was funny. He didn't do much. He sniped me once to claim my bounty, which was fine by me. He sniped the guy we were massacring once when he got a bounty as well. The rest of the time I guess he was just watching from afar. Those two tank boys were just sad. Multiple tanks, invisible tanks, muggers, mercs. They couldn't do anything in a straight up fight. Before you joined up, I was just wandering around in freemode when I stole a tractor/trailer. Waylon came on the radio as soon as I started, so I figured I'd just drive around and listen. About halfway through the song, I picked up a tail. He opened up on me, so I got out and shot him. Then I went to town on him. Mary Lous, spawn snipes, the works. He hid behind a wall, so I bounced a grenade onto him off the building behind. He hid behind my truck, so I put an RPG into that. He did finally get a kill on me, so it ended up about 15-1. He needed to learn him a lesson - you don't mess with a man while he's busy listening to Waylon Jennings.

My Winchester 1300 does the same, but the dove are just gonna laugh at me if I try using that thing. Plus I'd like to keep my shoulder attached to my body, so I'll stick with the Beretta. Going with my dad, and he attracts wardens, so I ain't risking anything. Will you be combat rolling between shots at doves, Mary Lou? Gonna pass on that, I think. I try any tumbling on ground that hasn't seen rain in months and is hard as a rock, and I'm gonna be in traction for the rest of the year. From the amount of kicking going on, it sounds like my son is doing combat rolls in the womb, though. Doing his daddy proud already.

More than the pronunciation, I'm curious how hearth comes up in your work conversations. Don't know that I've ever heard it spoken.

It'll be interesting to see how badly my trigger happiness in this game screws up my shooting when dove season opens Monday. Haven't shot since my last trip to the skeet range in January, and it took me a good three boxes of shells to settle down and wait for my shot then. Gotta remember my Beretta ain't the assault SG, and only holds 3 rounds. I'm thinking my task would be a whole lot easier if I had a minimap that showed the birds as white dots, and if I had auto-aim.

Just come to Austin during F1 week in November. Place is thick with those types of cars as all the rich wannabes show up. Can barely head anywhere without seeing at least a couple supercars. About the only one I haven't run into is the Koenigsegg (Entity). Still haven't seen anything as spectacular as the chrome Aventador (Zentorno) that Dolfan snapped a picture of before applying a sticky bomb.

I've never actually turned on my headset in a freemode, other than in a party. I imagine it would just make me want to kill dots even more. Never really look at levels either, unless it's a case where I'm wearing somebody out. Then I either feel bad for destroying a low level guy, or figure a high level should be putting up a better fight. The only time I can remember having my headset on outside of a party was back when I was spamming Down The Drain to level up my second character. One guy kept bragging about how he and one of his buddies had traded wins to get all the performance upgrades, and how none of us could compete. He bailed after 3 races, with no wins to show for it.

That A&M game was certainly a welcome surprise. I figured the offense would still be good, but wasn't expecting anything from the defense tonight. The mental breakdowns and coverage lapses were still there, but at least they weren't getting blown 5 yards off the line of scrimmage like they were last year against even average teams. Trying to quell my irrational exuberance. I mean I know the defense isn't actually good, and the Aggies aren't gonna win the SEC west or anything. I could maybe see 10-3 if lots of stuff goes right. Listening to the SEC network folks, I'm laughing at the Myles Garrett = Jadeveon Clowney and Kenny Hill = JFF comparisons. Guess they gotta hype something.

Apparently A&M now has the exact opposite problem: can't cover anybody more than 10 yards downfield. That's been a longterm problem - A&M has been unusually susceptible to deep throws over the middle going back at least to Sherman's tenure. Usually it's from terrible safeties. I still have nightmares about watching Howard Mathews trying to cover the wheel route last year vs Auburn. Tonight it's Everett being more useless than normal. At least the run defense looks like it might be better than last year. Rice looked better against the run defense in the opener last year than South Carolina has so far.

No Jobber Thursday for me tonight. The inaugural SEC Network game tonight features my Aggies, minus JFF but still with their shitty, shitty defense. I might have to log on later to take my frustrations out on white dots afterwards.

I'll still be on GTA. I'm getting Destiny at some point, just not sure when, and for which system. Got clearance to buy myself one of the next gen systems this fall, so I might get it for that.

Same here. For as long as I have played this game, I have only seen three or four crews actually protect one another in free mode. I think we do so well because we embrace the alien concept of looking out for each other. To this day, the only crew that I think has really given us a run for our money was the former Church of Satan. We were handling them fine till Jet Boy/Jet Girl showed up. Afterwards, not so much.

I almost always seem to do better with crew. I think the reason is probably my preferred strategy of "hey, there's 6 red dots over there, I'm gonna go piss em all off". That usually works better with somebody else around to prevent me getting spawn sniped. I can usually hold my own when I do that solo, but I've got my ass whipped a few times doing it. I think my finest freemode accomplishment so far has been charging into a group of 4 on the pier and driving all four of them into passive. Wound up with at least 50 kills, mainly sniper kills after we all spawned on the beach. Killed two of them with one heavy sniper shot as they tried to escape on a jetski. Last guy got sniped about 15 times in a row. He managed to get into his personal Banshee near one of those little ponds on the beach. I did the old shoot him out of the car and leave him a sticky bomb surprise. That was his final straw.

I'd be a lot more excited if I wasn't expecting to watch South Carolina rush for 970897345 yards against my Aggies tonight.

I guess with y'all I gotta be clearer on which explosions I meant. They do seem to be a common occurrence after all. I was referring to the second series of explosions, after we had cleared out the hanger, but before the Titan had taken off.

That was Dolfan blowing up shit at that point. I was sitting in the cockpit of the titan, so I had a perfect view of that. Damn trailer would've flown even further if it hadn't hit the side of the hanger.

I started laughing as soon as I heard he still didn't have bulletproof tires last night. Party because of the ridiculousness of it, and partly because I knew what your reaction would be.

Fortunately explosives turned out to be the solution to the Titan problem, as well as the source.

Herby was a whole lot more relaxed over the whole thing than I would've been. I think he lost the job because he was a contract worker. They usually have a whole lot less protection. I obviously have no room to complain about GTA rhythmic gymnastics, since I pretty much Mary Lou in my sleep at this point, but it does get old. Especially when I get into a tumbling contest with somebody that hits double digits on the Mary Lou count before one of us gets the other. I've had people do the forward roll on me, and I've used it myself. Usually happens in close combat when you're running right at somebody in cover. I've got to the point of just hanging out behind walls rather than going into cover behind them, so I can do my Mary Lou when the guy coming around the corner tries his. Main thing is timing. If I think a guy is gonna Mary Lou, I'll try not to target him until after he has started the roll. Doesn't always work, but I'm getting better. Forgot about RUkered giving some poor, unsuspecting white dots a lesson on the dangers of hanging out around gas stations. That was hilarious. Whole left side of my screen lit up with all the death notices.

Freemode was mostly notable last night for the return of Herby, who's a whole lot more relaxed about being hit by a car in real life than I would've been. The one DM we did was funny. Phil, Valcourt and I all ended up with 10 kills at the end of it. Don't think I've ever seen that happen before. We found a new and novel way to fuck up LS Connection last night. We got through the hacking portion with a minimum of damage to us. I started off the clown show be deciding to walk through the tail rotor of Stout's buzzard. RUkered proceeded to do the same, exact thing. Then Stout's chopper crashed, killing him and his remaining passenger. Forgot to mention - UFOs have returned.

Mostly the XBOX crew tends to play on weeknights. Every once in a while we'll have a few people on during a weekend, but not often.

TXDOT has been doing that with one of the two major north/south highways through Austin for months now. Guessing which set of lines to follow, and which set the people around you will use is a joy. There are stretches of I-35 around here that have been under constant construction since I started high school. I graduated 25 years ago.

For me, it's the variety to freemode that I like. I've done a shitload of deathmatches, and I still like them, but the types of combat you get don't usually vary that much. I got a freemode kill last night with an ignition bomb. Got another by suicide bombing a tank. Had a guy sticky bomb me out of a buzzard. That's my favorite type of stuff, and you very rarely see it in deathmatches. Of my favorite kills in the game, only one has been in a DM - sticky bombing a tanker truck then waiting for melraz to wander by it.

I'm guessing the good news of the new god mode trick has not yet spread far and wide in the GTA little bitch community. I helped RUkered and misanthrope cut a swathe of destruction through freemode last night, and we never did see any god mode hackers. What we did see were some folks that seriously need to work no their skills and/or choice of opponents. One low level clown made the mistake of trying to take on both RUkered and myself while we were camped on top of the mall. End result was him getting sniped about 50 times. Guy just would not learn. HIs basic approach was this: 1 - Go into a position where he thought he had cover 2 - get sniped 3 - spawn 4 - run back to the exact same spot 5 - Rinse, repeat Surprised we could shoot straight from laughing at his expense so much.

I blame Rockstar. If that's not what they meant, they shoulda been more specific.