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  1. Apparently the next update is so big, that anyone with a 12 Gig PS3 won't be able to play GTA Online anymore (without buying a Hard Drive). And Cara Delavigne (Supermodel/ Michelle Rodriguez girlfriend/ GTA 5 Non Stop Pop DJ) has apparently tweeted about recording more radio commentary last week, so we might be getting a Lost & Damned type thing soon. Or something big anyway.

     

    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.

  2. First, Robert sends me an automatic invite to a deathmatch, so I think "what the hell?" and join. There's 12 or 13 in the room, forced pistols. Everyone in the room but me is Mary Louing like mad - it looked like ballet. I finished 0-7 and would've done much worse if I didn't cower behind a large wall for at least 3 minutes until someone found me. Made something like $15,000 when my team won despite my best efforts.

     

    We then go into different Freemode rooms, but my room's boring so I join Robert's. He's in a scrum with about four or five at the beach by that tennis resort. So I glide on in, arrive and snipe some fool who doesn't even know I'm alive in the head. "Oh, you're in here now," Robert says.

     

    We then prepare to thin the herd, with Robert doing the most of the work but me benefiting greatly from none of those dudes being all that good. There was one guy on a hill sniping us and giving us trouble, but as soon as the crowd on the ground ran for their lives and we could turn our attention to him, we beat him from the tennis resort to Del Perro Pier, racing to snipe him on the spawn all the way.

     

    There was a guy camped on a rooftop who sniped both of us once or so, but I noticed that after a while, he was sniping the guy we were fighting quite a bit and not sniping us at all, despite the fact that we weren't in cover or anything. When he texted Fireman Robert, of all people, about getting a fire truck when dude went into passive, I knew we had an ally.

     

    Then two dudes with tanks rolled in for no reason. One was just a little moron. I think the other would've been good in a scrap, but he couldn't stay out of his tank long enough to fight with some damn honor and bravery. And of course as soon as the tanks blew up, they came out in passive. Yellow-bellied egg-sucking dogs.

     

    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.

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  3. My 870 SuperMag holds 7+1 =)

     

    Granted I'm not supposed to take that into the woods, but... I suggest taking the plug out and staying away from GW's

     

    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.

     

     

    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.

    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.

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  4. 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.

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  5. I've heard people call a Zentorno a Lamborghini, but if they hadn't done that, I'd have no idea. 

     

    I've seen the real-life equivalents of the Baller, Bee Jay, Dubsta, Penumbra and some of the SUVs around town, but you don't see many Boo-gattis or Lamborghinis in the sticks of East Tennessee. I didn't know a Baller was a Range Rover until someone said it was. Did I mention that I know NOTHING about cars?

     

    See, Mis, you gotta stay on the good side of the Merriweather chopper pilot. He tells such entertaining stories. His dad wanted him to be a pilot, but he wanted to cut hair at Bob Mulet.

     

    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.

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  6. 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.

  7. 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.

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

    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.

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    I almost always seem to do better with crew. 

     

    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.

  10. 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.

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  11. Herby~! would do Rooftop with a PV with no bulletproof tires, much to my consternation when the dudes in the SUVs would shoot out his tires. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T HAVE BULLETPROOF TIRES ON THIS THING? AT LEAST PUT THEM ON ONE CAR AND USE THAT CAR, I'M BEGGING YOU."

     

    I remember distinctly that when I leveled up to bulletproof tires, I immediately put them on every vehicle. I'd had my tires shot out enough in Freemode and GTA races to want to do that immediately.

     

     

    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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

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  14. Fuck you Virginia Department of Transportation for making me this morning try to figure out my lane thanks to this.  

     

     

    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.

     

    Heh.

     

    I've come to the personal conclusion that St. Louis-area highways will never be not under construction.

     

    There are stretches of I-35 around here that have been under constant construction since I started high school.  I graduated 25 years ago.

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    It wouldn't kill my cash, I'd still have half a million left over. And I think Freemode is stupid, really. I like to get paid for Deathmatches, I don't understand why everyone's so determined to do them for free. Did you know that in the update, you can now set a preferred length for a One on One Deathmatch (instead of it just being 5 minutes everytime) and the maximum length is 60 minutes? I'm going to set mine to that. Everyone will rage quit, giving me the win. Not that I need the wins (and they don't actually count as Deathmatch wins anyway).

     

     

    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.

  16. 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.

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