jstout

I figure I'll start adding the logo and crew colors to my cars as a real long-term project after I get them modded the way I want, if I ever make it that far. Both are way too expensive. Things at this point I hope to never do again: 1. The "Down the Drain" race. 2. I'd really prefer to never do a race in GTA mode again. Too damn stupid.

Now that the WON HOF is out, I'm really ready to get back to talking about Bob Evans in that note. Is Bob Evans one of those places that has breakfast all day long?

Held accountable how? Fucking charged with a crime? Flogged in the streets? And why? Reporters have gotten things wrong before. What a tool. Don't make me put you back on the ignore list, I'm trying to move past that.

It's very easy to believe a redneck would spend the last of his money on unnecessary bling. But it would've been easy to say that a wealthy fan sent a package addressed to Jay at the Chicken Ranch with the belt and a note saying "I bought you this 'cause you never lost the title in the first place and you're the real champion."

I can't decide whether to go with the Adder, the Entity XF (very similar in specs for a lot less money) or the Pegassi Monroe. I got the cheapest apartment I could get with a 10-car garage, and that's all I need.

No biggie, I never know who I'm inviting. We did have an all-crew run at the one where you fetch a Monet for Martin. I was getting all sorts of jobs I've never done last night. I avoid the one that requires the helicopter 'cause I'm not ponying up the dough for one. The first time I did that one, I couldn't call for a helicopter, so I tried to call for helicopter backup and then shoot the pilot and the co-pilot so I can try to steal the helicopter, but it crashed on the way down. I did one last night where you have to go underground, and all four of us blew it to such an absurd degree. I had to jump online to figure out what I was supposed to do, then was like "oh well, better luck next time" and blew myself up with a grenade. I just sold a car at a LSC and ran up a ladder and onto a roof to buy myself some time to ATM my cash, 'cause there were other players around. I then heard footsteps coming up the ladder and walked over, pointed my shotgun at the guy's head and stood there until he climbed back down. I then quick-joined a race to get out of there without having to come back down. This is what passes as a moral victory in my world.

EJ slummin' with the C team on the NBA TV pregame show - completely unmerciful. And what do you know, the Lakers are on for the 45,000th time this season already. Woohoo!

All the wrestlers could fight the whole show and then get together at the end and have dinner together and pray and talk about how they fight sometimes, but they're still family at the end of the day.

I found it funny you running like mad from me yesterday. Everyone else in the game's guilty of being a griefer until proven otherwise - if anybody gets near me on the radar, I stay away from them because I assume they're coming to fuck with me. I accidentally bumped into the back of a guy's Jeep yesterday (didn't see him there) and he took it real personal. He got a couple of kills in before he thankfully gave up and moved on.

You should be able to mod a bike to look like Pee-Wee's. I've thought about spending the $5,000 on the game's version of a Vespa Scooter to go bopping around town in, but I get griefed enough as is.

So I didn't start watching until that glorified squash with the Usos, and my, was what I watched piss-poor. It felt like there were 1,000,000 commercial breaks, and I don't understand their obsession with warning you about what's next. Does anyone say "holy shit, a divas match, I'd better stick around," or "holy shit, a divas match, that gives me more time to see what's going on with the Packers and the Bears?" And that "main event" segment, what crap. Went on for three days before the WWE-trademarked three-day long beatdown (though all the crazy-quick camera switches during all the chairshots was kind of a nifty trick). The big damn question during these forever beatdowns remains - why doesn't someone try to help the guy? Show helped Golddust and Cody win the titles, where were they? Show's buddies with Daniel Bryan, where was he? Wouldn't it add to the drama to have someone try to save him, but fail? It makes Show look friendless and stupid and everyone else look weak - "I ain't goin' out there."

They did that when they came to my town about a year or so ago - the night opened with a match from the two top guys in the big local fed. I got in for free, but if I'd paid I would've been slightly irritated by it. I'm glad the guys got to work a match in the local big arena, but still... Most of the people who are big enough wrestling fans to go see the local promotions are gonna go see TNA anyway.

My favorite vehicle just to drive around the map is my Bati 801 motorcycle - those things will pinball around all over the place. You can drive hilariously fast and sloppy and very little will happen to you. Plus they obviously go between cars in traffic better than cars do. The rest of the cars I keep only because I can occasionally race them. I'm thinking of selling my Elegy because I've already got my Fusilade modified and I don't need two sports cars. I'd like to find my other "ideal cars" on the map and steal them (except for the Super class, of course), but they're hard to find. Basically, it seems that most people who are racing use either the Super, Sports and Motorcycle classes fairly exclusively, with Muscle and Sports Classics used sometimes. It was fairly easy to steal a Dominator, so I've got Muscle covered. Those things spin out if you look at them wrong, though. Edit: A new idea for the Elegy emerges...

I wouldn't even have a on-camera president, since the whole concept is so played out. I'd have a never-shown, never-named Board of Directors that the announcer refers to only when necessary. Wrestling booking should be simple: Let's say you have three champions - a world champ, tag team champs and a secondary champ. That's three feuds for the belts and three feuds for the no. 1 contendership for the belts. That's six right there. Then a couple of "I don't like you" grudges and you're golden.

That indy Corgan runs in Chicago's going over well, isn't it, he says sarcastically. Also: 1. Smashing Pumpkins nerds gettin' ready to rumble all up in here over their favorite band's minutiae is the Internet equivalent of the Jimmy-Timmy cripple fight from South Park (I kid!) 2. Maybe the DVDVR Grand Theft Auto 5 online posse (represent~!) can team up and buy TNA with GTA 5 Online bucks when we get our reparations. 3. We need to start and spread an outlandish rumor over someone buying TNA to see if it gainis any traction at all within the fabled IWC. Let's see, who's very odd, but actually possible? Mickey Rourke's gonna buy it and make Randy the Ram the on-screen authority figure. Paul McCartney's gonna buy it 'cause he loved watching Big Daddy Shirley Crabtree when he was younger. Let your imaginations run wild.

He'll move all the jobs to India and everyone wll geek out 'cause Ring Ka King's back.

and i countered by trying to explain, in fact, what we see. It was met by befuddlement for the most part and certainly no real attempt to reach a middle ground of understanding. I don't care if people agree with me or not. I do care that they make an effort to at least understand, especially if they come in with a statement like that. Sometimes it's hard to articulate a feeling. Like I know you guys really like Alberto Del Rio in the ring and say he's one of the best in the ring, but something about him just bores me to tears. There's something about him that makes me think he's one of the most boring ones out there, and I can't really put my finger on it except to say I find him lacking in charisma, the "it" factor. That's about as analytical as I can get with Del Rio.

If it were possible given the available talent level, I'd change everything about the company at first - the name, the announcers, all of the talent. I'd try to bring in completely fresh talent at first, then bring in established names slowly as "he wants to earn his chance to compete here" or give them other reasons to pop up, as mentor figures, or old friends, or something. No invasion angles without short timetables to their definite conclusions - six months max. No heel or face commissioners, period. I'd probably come out first show and say "we're never doing the following things..." Three or four PPVs, limited house shows in areas of strength, try to not bleed money and build from there.

I dunno about that. I think Henry's appeal is that he's a throwback to the days when wrestling was awesome in our eyes (being of a generally older mindset here at the DVDVR board). Henry would've fit in with any era of wrestling that any of us like - the Rock 'n Wrestling days, the cool old days of WCW, hell, even in Japan as a big foreigner. It's easy to see why some people think he's boring, because they didn't grow up being exposed to that style. And it's easy to see why some people hold his bad Sexual Chocolate early days against him and have let that taint his character here forward. I don't think there's a litmus test for wrestling fandom like "if you don't like X, you're not a true fan."

Daniel Bryan's heel turn, if he does the arrogant heel "I've got 'til five" thing, could be big. He could go corporate at the end of this thing with HHH and become the new corporate champ.

Or it could be that you've stolen a really nice car that's too nice to respray/mod/sell like something in the Super class.

By freeing up roster spots that could go to people who MIGHT make the man event. I'm not saying they will, but they could. Zack Ryder and Curt Hawkins aren't going to make the main event, guaranteed.

I wasn't suggesting getting rid of them - they can help build new people up. There's people in the midcard who could probably go. The "reality" show clouds the waters as to whether the Divas are a necessary part of the show.

I think the big problem with WWE is that they need more new faces in the mix. People have taken to Daniel Bryan because he's relatively new on the WWE scene, much like they took to Punk. But he's still facing Randy Orton and Triple H, who have both been around forever. John Cena's been on top for years now. Orton is one of the least compelling main eventers ever. J.R. made a great point about people overstaying their welcome - if it means getting rid of some old faces to bring up some new ones, so be it.

Trump could buy it and put all the C-listers from "Celebrity Apprentice" in charge and still probably do better than TNA's done in the last few years.