Robert C
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32 minutes ago, Technico Support said:
I just did the mission where you need to get the RV from Sandy Shores (Meth'd Up) and my team spawned, to start the mission, way out in the ocean behind Michael's psychiatrist's office. WTF
Game's only been out 8 1/2 years. Give em time. They'll get it right. (Yeah, I'm not afraid to run that joke into the ground).
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34 minutes ago, J.T. said:
It will be hard. I am not into balancing. If any man were guilty of the crime of loving the taste of salty food, it is me.
I am smart enough to know when to make better decisions and take care of myself, though. I will miss Worcestershire Sauce something awful.
If you haven't already, you might want to look at having a sleep study done. I resisted for years and wish I hadn't. My results basically came out as "why haven't you died in your sleep yet?"
The CPAP bugged me for a couple days, but now I don't notice it really. Got my BP down 30 points, to well within the "safe" range, just by doing that.
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Shadowmere is great at distracting dragons. And at luring em down to ground level, so I can stop messing around with my bow and start whacking em with axes.
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I'm enjoying Wonderlands so far. Whacking Smurfs with an axe will never get old.
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Sadly, GTA5 has had them for years now, so that wouldn't be much of a surprise. The flying motorcycles are worse.
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How exactly is Miami close enough to winning anything significant that they need to give up that many draft picks and hand over that much guaranteed to Hill? Are they really one high end WR (whose countdown to going WR batshit crazy can't have long left on it) away from anything?
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The Packers existing purely to shit on Aaron Rodgers from on high is magical. They’re gonna make me a Green Bay fan in spite of themselves.
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I’m about as big a Christian Kirk fan as you’re likely to meet, but that’s an awful lot of money for a pretty good WR.
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20 hours ago, Technico Support said:
I was having a great time grinding the vehicle warehouse, but lately it's nothing but shithead griefers blowing up my cars and I'm fucking sick of it. Nothing but payphone hits and random missions lately.
I'll never understand that. I'll freely admit I'm a shithead griefer. That said, I'll leave people alone whenever they're in the middle of delivering stuff, unless they decide to head right at me. Only time I've gone out of my way to to mess with somebody's delivery was using a sticky bomb rigged jetski to take out a submarine. That was just too good to pass up.
I can't imagine how annoying car deliveries are now that you have to contend with the the Nimbus Mk 2 users.
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I'll wind up buying the online portion. Again.
Still haven't bothered to finish a lot of story mode after all these years, so I really don't need to buy that.
melraz and I were talking last night about how different the economy of the game has become. Somehow, earning money doing the occasional mission/heist has actually become a viable strategy. It's an amazing change from the days of car duping/spamming Rooftop Rumble.
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I dunno where exactly fire and potential meltdown at a nuclear plant that’s being actively shelled as part of insane war during a global pandemic sit on the scale of nightmare scenarios, but I’ve got to figure they’re up towards to top.
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5 hours ago, BrianS81177 said:
Don't get me wrong, I certainly hope nobody was hurt and no property was damaged, but that would have pretty damn funny to see I imagine.
Scared the living shit out of me when it happened. Went by my face so fast I didn't even see it, but I damn sure felt it. Took me a couple seconds to recover, and then I started laughing my ass off. Left a dent in the ceiling and everything. Thankfully the whole kitchen didn't wind up covered in beans.
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Lesson I learned today - if you heat up a can of black beans, then put it in a thermos for your kid and then it gets misplaced and left in the heat for a week, when you open it the top will be come quite an impressive projectile.
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47 minutes ago, J.T. said:
I do not like the guy working for Benethor at his store. He keeps following me out when I leave. I think he is racially profiling me. He would be right that I have a penchant for kleptomania, but I don't appreciate him giving me the stink eye.
It's hard to beat Solaf and his even more annoying brother when it comes to merchants I want to feed to the dragons
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10 hours ago, Ramo2653 said:
Between dragons and vampires it's interesting to see who isn't an essential character. RIP to Adrianne Avenicci in Whiterun and Balimund in Riften in my last playthrough.
I haven't so much as seen a vampire in ages, and I did as much as possible before triggering the dragons, yet I still have a bunch of inheritance letters from random NPCs stuck in a drawer somewhere. Dunno what's killing these guys off. Should probably check to see if I've lost any housecarls.
Actually, since I haven't done anything for Dawnguard yet, and I've never played either DLC before, does kicking that thing off start random vampire attacks on NPCs?
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The missions getting more linear seems like it's got progressively worse with each game, starting with San Andreas. For GTA3 and Vice City, you were really limited only by the gear/vehicles/etc you had available. SA car chases were the first missions that stuck out to me this way, where I realized I couldn't really do anything to whoever I was chasing until a trigger event had happened. Real linearity was almost unavoidable for V, with the three character setup.
I kinda share Neil's pessimism. The last single player GTA I got into was SA. I HATED IV, and it took me two or three years to finish V.
Online at least still allows the opportunity for creative, or ridiculous, solutions. (We're gonna do this mission standing on the roof of ambulance. Then we'll do a heist setup in a Winnebago.)
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Or hand a five year old kid a pair of electric clippers and tell him to go to town. That was my first haircut during Covid. Honestly, I've had worse.
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Assuming GTA6 and GTA Online are paired like Online was with GTA5, I don’t think we’ll see anything that’s not present day. Gotta make that sweet, sweet Shark Card money somehow, and I don’t see 12 year olds spending $25 in real money for a ‘71 Nova. They’d riot without their shiny super cars and weaponized vehicles.
they’d better give me Vice City, though. Hopefully with a random encounter or two with old, washed up survivors from the 80s.
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Does this mean we can sue to get the Yellowstone scene added back to Major League?
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2 hours ago, Hayabusa said:
We hit 81 yesterday, today some areas got snow, others got snow flurries. Fucking central TX
1st half of the week was nearly Summer like afternoons
Might be the first time I've dripped my pipes on a day that started in the 80s. And now my deck is covered in ice.
Of course my son thinks he's gonna wake up to last February's snow tomorrow. Trying to explain to him that his grandparents were kids the previous time we saw that much snow.
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Got a call about an hour ago that my son was probably exposed to Covid Friday. The fact that I'm relieved that's what the call was about, instead of something worse, tells you how my week is going so far.
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2 hours ago, Technico Support said:
Playing online after a long layoff. Randos are still hit or miss, mission-wise. They're either experienced and really great OR fucking sociopaths who crash their Shark Card-bought supercar 15 times on the way to the mission and proceed to play like morons. I was just trying to grind on and off for a few days to afford an Agency and do the Franklin stuff. The good news is that Agencies are 25% off this week, so I'm set.
Are missions even worth grinding for money at this point? I haven't done one in years, but if they haven't raised the payouts there are quicker ways. If you have the sub or auto shop, and don't mind grinding, you can make serious money quickly from Cayo Perico or the contracts. The agency stuff pays well too after you get into that.
2 hours ago, Technico Support said:There's also a really shitty glitch where if you've played the last Dr. Dre mission (which I joined at random by picking "Contact Mission" on the phone), then the LSIA hangar (used in the mission with a wall over the front, forcing you to sneak in the back) has a transparent wall blocking the front of it for any other mission that uses that hangar. That REALLY fucked up my ability to quickly beat Dispatch II. Instead of driving up, bazooking the plane, and driving off, we have to sit and wait for the plane to try to leave, as it hilariously glitches through the wall, then hit it with 2-3 missiles as it takes off. So yeah, putting a wall on the hangar for one mission caused the wall to be there for every other mission. WTF Rockstar?
Game's only been out eight and a half years. Give em time. They'll get it right, I'm sure
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2 hours ago, J.T. said:
I don't even think I post in this thread more than once every two years since I stopped playing GTAO.
I blame myself. I was cheap and did not want to buy a XB1 at launch.
Now I own a launch S/X. I have learned from past mistakes.
I forgot what year this is. So it was actually six years ago. And y'all had left for Uranus at least a year before that thing even came out. I've been playing this dumb game a long, long time.
2 hours ago, J.T. said:TS talking about LSIA reminds me of that dumb steal the cargo plane mission. Dan was our best pilot and fucking Fresh would always use up all our team lives driving directly into enemy gunfire and getting blown up inside of his car.
Good times.
Were you ever around to play the mission where you have to break into the military base to take out a witness for Madrazo after we found the real way to do that?
step 1, steal an ambulance
step 2, put everybody but the driver on the roof of said ambulance
step 3, jump into Zancudo
step 4, everybody shoot rocket launchers
step 5, profit
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Y'all be quiet. Everybody make sure not to tell JT they put that out five years ago.
Heck, I think Stout still has a whole garage of em somewhere from the good old days of car duping.
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A General Grand Theft Auto Discussion Thread
in COMPUTERS & GAMES & TECH
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Did my first freemode runs in at least six months over the last two days. And the first runs on the new Online version. Noticed the dots seem to be a lot higher level than I remembered. Level 800+ folks seem to be in every room now.
Found out the hard way that they've somehow put something in the game that may actually be worse than the Nimbus MKII. Some new cars actually allow you to go off radar permanently, as long as you're near the car (apparently 500 meters, whatever that works out to in GTA land), and provided you don't kill another player. It also allows your entire CEO org/motorcycle club to be off radar along with you. And your org/club doesn't have that second qualifier. They have to be near the car, but they can kill as many dots as they want. Ran into several people abusing that last night. Thought it was a bug exploit. Come to find out, it's actually a feature. WTAF?