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That's why they have closed lobbies, if you're not in one then its fair game imo. I don't get annoyed when people try to kill me, it's GTA, the whole point is to kill people. Plus it's a game.

There is no banter with FIFA... Only anger and depression.

No worries Stretch, you'll need to hop on Skype with us too! I have a feeling tonight will be epic. We should limit ourselves to races mostly though cause the 4 player missions always split us up. ! ATTENTION ! ALL CREW MEMBERS ONLINE TONIGHT. PUT ASIDE THE MISSIONS AND RACE WITH US. THERE'S MORE MONEY INVOLVED IN THE LONG RUN AND MORE LAUGHS OVERALL. JUST FUCKING DO IT.

Yeah I'm with you Brede, it's like, you can knife now? Wtf is that?

We should have some random moments in free mode too, me and Rich had like an 8 hour session the other day and the shit that happened was just hilarious! One moment was when my character randomly fell down some stairs then right over the barrier at the bottom in spectacular fashion!

I have quite the semi!

Yeah, sorry. I have the first 3 done. I'll upload them tonight if I get the chance. Sorry I haven't been too active on here recently.

There are a lot of studies that show kids only need one positive influence in their lives to greatly increase their chances of succeeding. Kids can grow up in absolute shit, but if just one person loves them, and shows them there life doesn't have to be like they've experienced, there are other ways to live, they can make it. I grew up in an absolute mess. My mom had me at 16, parents did drugs, divorce, etc., etc., etc... but I also spent a lot of time with my grandparents. They're both my best friends today. They gave me a little hope. They showed me that life didn't have to be like that. I hope you don't write your cousins kids off. You could be that one person in their lives that gives them a peek at a "normal" life.

Flip side of the coin vs. the grinding gears thread I feel we need a positive story outlet. It might be misconstrued into a "cool story bro" brag post thread but I'm chill with it because I like hearing other peoples triumphs, any size, be them personal, professional, financial or otherwise. < That rhymes At times reading about others good fortune picks me up if I'm feeling down. Like Bees winning loot on scratchies. Thats awesome! I’ll start by sharing: last night I officially converted from oil to natural gas as my primary heating fossil fuel. I’ve been in my house 4 years last month and the rising cost of oil has shit hammered me into investing in an alternative. Our oil boiler, which did heat and hot water - I have radiator heat, was running well below 70% efficiency. I got a Rinnai combi unit that does both heat and hot water at 95% efficiency. Which is awesome because if we’re using hot water it will only fire up for what we use and then turn off; also it will burn at a lower percentage if we aren’t hard on the hot water. The old boiler burned at 100% every time it kicked on. My plumber was curious so I got my pay slips and calculated it cost me $4,800 in oil last year. I never let the tank get below 1/2 so sludge wouldn’t get sucked through the line, clog the filter and have me stinking like oil for 2 days because I had to do minor maintenance, but in the winter I was calling every month for deliveries. Now I don’t have to call anyone! Very excited and can’t wait to see what the savings will be!

Darrel licks his fingers and shakes that dudes hand. Then he gets sick? Darrel was eating something... Pig?

Well those are 2 of my 3 favourite scenes. Good job sir. This isn't the greatest movie ever but the first part of this scene is incredible. It was filmed with one camera in one take with no editing. Massive credit to the makers, stuntmen and Tony Jaa

So this is a new series I'm going to be doing when I can record. The overall winner will be decided when we can't play GTA anymore. So be prepared for a lot of videos to be posted in this thread

Do some rally races, we did some last night and it was epic! I had dylan co-driving me and didnt know his left from his right!! We still managed to beat stretch and Jack though!

This. Me and Tam are already sorted with ours. You could spend that money upgrading that car.

Rich you need to get your colour coordinated mustang for our Englishman,Scotsman and Irishman series!

I didn't know you could see people if they are in missions Trolling fer dayz!

An idea is born this day. A good one too. I'm gonna spend all me money today so I don't have to worry about dying and I'm just gonna go ham on the unsuspecting bastards. Rich, you're a genius.

Another idea i thought of, which actually came from watching my house mate play, is to go around in groups and piss other people off. My house mate found this guy in a massive lorry and started shooting out the tires, the dude went nutty and then we found out he was half way through a mission Everyone in his mission started telling him to hurry up but he kept saying i can't cuz this dick keeps shooting me. It was pure comedy!! In the end he ends up shooting the guy then blowing up the lorry It's such an asshole thing to do, but according to the other thread we are assholes soooo..... If there are 4 people in a car, then the gameplay will actually show us all, which would be another good thing.....if you get me?

Getting your tires shot it sucks but if you collect one of the repair things then your good to go, I'm easy either way

Your audio will pick up on a lot of laughter. I couldn't stop last night xD

Impromptu races are a must have too. That way we can set larger than life races and will allow for commentaries.

I can't like that enough!!! ^

Yes mate, can you get on skype later?

Team America quote needed here xD I still haven't found anyone holding that amount yet. As soon as I get into free mode, I'm on the phone depositing my moolah haha

I think I may have been the first one, before online was even working properly I managed to get in a game with Sean and killed him stealing over 5k! Fuck yeah!

I knew someone was going to say "sort it out" or something along those lines. I would do but i hardly get a chance to game anyway at the moment but i might reconsider when i get my new PC.

So it turns out nearly everyone has been an asshole. Myself included

I haven't got any more series ideas right now but I'm up for getting on Skype. Rich, you need to come to my apartment and hit the bong. It's great, I never run out of weed hahaha

Sweet!! I'll see you then man! My landlords coming over later so i'll have to jump off for a while but apart from that, i'll be till later as i've got tomorrow off.

Nearly right If I'm on now it will just be for an hour due to work, main sessions will be weekends, the racing is pretty much the best thing at the moment, need to see whats added.

Quickest way to check for updates to your graphics card drivers is to head over to either the nVidia or AMD website and run their system checker. I slso get emails from them whenever any new drivers for my card are released

Just bought my apartment! Feeling like a proper G right now!

Jesus Christ! This game is infuriating! I just don't understand the mind set of the pricks that play it...why must they exploit every flaw in he game to win at all costs? Iv played 2 types of players this weekend, noobs who don't have a clue and you just beat them silly Or, people who just exploit every little thing, nothing but lobbed through balls, they also know heading is OP even after the patch, and just pace down the wings an produce a perfect cross every time... I'm building my attack through good passing mixtures of tactics trying to create a shooting opportunity, lose the ball, big boot up field, perfect touch! My defenders are charging in the opposite direction, opponent through on goal scores every time... AAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!

Thanks Dids! You got a mighty nice site here man, I read all the auptek and clive shit on the old forum, shame, but this place reminds me much more of the good ol mw2 forum days. good to be here!

Wow. Now that the puppet master has left the room, Activision can really show their true colours and their attitude towards gamers as consumers. I'll bet this is a nail biting time for many of the staff, and this could herald a massive change in the way we see Actiblizzard does things. I always thought that Vivendi really crunched Blizzard's creativity in particular in favour of share prices and investors. Everyone always said that Activision was the evil mastermind behind all their poor decisions, myself included. However, now that Vivendi has been taken out of the picture, it's sink or swim for Activision. I have no doubt that Blizzard will be fine, they still have a reputation to rest on, but Activision has some repairing to do. Let's wait and see. I sincerely hope that Kotick isn't the evil mastermind everyone thought he is, he's in a position to do great things for these guys. Good luck to 'em.

Uninstall/re-install, that's what I'd do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sAxrWl5DGU

Well, I recently put this in my PPR, but it made me so excited I want to contribute it to this thread. Background: When I was 16, I got into a bad car accident (not my fault) which in the end made me an epileptic. Because of that, I wasn't able to drive anymore, doctors orders. It gradually got worse and I ended up having a temporal lobectomy done (which was all documented in my PPR on the MW2forum). I had some seizures through the healing process of the surgery, but I haven't had a seizure since. So now onto my happy story! Just this past Friday night, for the first time since I was 16 years old (the night of my accident), I actually got the courage up to drive at night. I drove for about an hour with my relative and it made me really happy. For the first time, I wasn't scared of the lights and even though I was really tense the whole time, it made me feel at peace. Needless to say, I can't wait until my next nighttime outing.

My Step Daughter put a pair of Dr Martin's boots on Ebay the other day, simply because she never wore them and she wanted to try and make some money to fund a new lens for her camera. She paid £120 originally, she sold them for £265!!! Needless to say she's happy, which as a usually grumpy teenager is a BIG bonus!

Ok, I'm proud of myself on this one. We had guests over yesterday and after everything was done I put my son to bed. He's 8 and big into zombies and monsters and whatnot, but lately he's scared himself and started wanting a night light on again. Last night he asked if I would sleep in his room with him, so I talked with him and had him tell me exactly what he was afraid of. It was mostly the imaginary monsters, with a little bit of old house noises and an odd shadow on his wall. We fixed the shadow issue by moving some stuff around, explained the house noises and the imaginary nature of monsters. I could tell this helped a little, and even though he accepted it was imaginary, he was still scared. So, imaginary guardians to combat imaginary monsters. I told him that if the bad guys are imaginary, then imaginary good guys could protect him. He agreed to this concept. I took a bunch of his stuffed toys and put them in the bed with him. We talked about the fighting prowess of the various species (shark, dragon, bear, etc.) The chicken ended up being a lookout. Santa and the Cat in the Hat were the captains. I told him he was now the general of a stuffed animal army, and not only was he excited about the "game", he was ready to go to sleep by himself. He's in there explaining his defense to his mom now.

To be perfectly honest, I win now because I fucked up so dramatically early on but eventually learned from it. I've worked hard, but I've also had some lucky breaks and God, whatever that may encompass, has smiled on me at some pivotal moments. Tiger's wrong. I did give up. For about three years, give or take. I just didn't stay there. I typed out a bunch of stuff, and then realized that it didn't matter and it didn't fit this thread. So, instead, just let me tell you a story Wayne Carter, a teacher who influenced me greatly in high school, once told me. A traveling salesman approaches an old farmer on his porch. The saleman hears a dog whimpering and moaning, and as he steps on the porch he sees a hound pup laying on the porch near the old farmer's rocking chair. He ignores the pup and starts talking to farmer about his wares, but the dogs moaning and whimpering grow and grow. The farmer never mentions the dog or pays any mind to the sounds, but the salesman has finally had enough. The salesman asks, "what's wrong with your dog, mister?" The farmer replies, "he's laying on a tack." The salesman mulls this over and says, "well, why doesn't he move off of it?" The farmer replies, "I guess he hasn't experienced enough pain yet." That's it. No moral was given. In the brashness of youth I thought the lesson was "stop bitching and moaning, fix the problem." I still think that's part of it. The other part took me some years and experience to truly grasp. How much pain will you put up with because the surroundings are familiar? Because its the status quo, because its the easiest course of action, because its all you know up to that point and you aren't willing to expand your horizons or upset the routine? Probably more than you think. Once you adapt your worldview its no longer about complain or fix it. Its discovering what the tacks are, if they are big enough to make you move, and what moving entails. Some tacks you'll live with. Some you won't. How much pain will it take you to move?

In my case I say it's my education which lead to my current job From 1982-1985 Achieved mu BSEE (engineering bachelor's in just over 2 years and graduated 1st in Class). From 1992-1994 MSEE (masters) + PhD This lead to Jobs with ATI (now AMD), Cisco systems and Intel and a pretty darn good living for me a my family. With this we were able to instill the importance of education to our kids. My son should be going to University next year and has been accepted (already) in Canada's top 5 University. my daughter is looking into engineer.

I don't know if its much of a story, but I've increased my net worth by a fuzz over $200,000 since I started keeping track in '02. I grew up without much money and was completely ignorant as to how to handle it. At that time, I had owned three Camaros and a Corvette (one at a time, I traded "up" often), was about $36k in debt, and living off of the GI Bill and an entry level IT job. I was actually living off of credit, but too ignorant to realize (or possibly to depressed and drunk to care) the long term impact. For person reasons I think I've explained in the past, I wanted to hit the "reset" button and went overseas as a contractor. I was instantly making a lot more money and having a lot fewer temptations to spend. I realized that I now had surplus money and had no idea what to do with it. I decided I should educate myself and started with Ric Edelman's book, "The Truth About Money." That book fascinated me and lead me to "The Richest Man in Babylon." Both books contain the simple concept of "no matter what you make, someone is getting by on 10% less. Find out how, live like that, and invest that 10% in your future." So, I did. Because I seldom half ass get interested in anything, I continued to educate myself. I read more books, I took online classes, I subscribed to a few periodicals on personal finance, etc. This was the single most important thing I've done educationally speaking. Now some will doubtlessly say, well of course its easy to increase your net worth when you suddenly get a high paying job. is is easy to continue that when your pay is cut dramatically? Because that's what happens next. I contracted for two years, which let me put the lid on a lot of my debt and get some emergency savings put up. I came home with about $40k net worth, including the equity in a house that I put a reasonable down payment on, cash savings, and the starts of my investment funds. When I came back stateside I worked two part time jobs. My total income was less than $22k for the year, and I had a new wife and son. I still increased my net worth by $5k that year. After that year I got on the police department, which required a move to a new city. While the salary was reasonable (especially after the first two years), I couldn't sell my old house and it sat on the market for a year. Plus I had the expenses of moving. I reluctantly became a landlord. Today, not including my pension and 300 hours of accumulated time off the dept has to pay me for if I leave or retire, my net worth sits at around $165k. $8300 in ready cash, $66,000 in stocks, gov't bonds, and other investments, and $91,000 in equity in real estate. I have one property paid off, and two still with a mortgage. The only non-mortgage debt I have is my 2012 Dodge Ram truck loan at 1.39%, the first brand new vehicle I ever bought. Not bad for a single income household. Some of it has been skill and education, without that I couldn't have continued to be disciplined and invested, but I've also had some great luck. I've wasted money, I've made mistakes, but overall the past 10 years has been a success. At this point in my life, I could save more if I wanted to, but I've struck a nice balance between saving for the future and spending on today, but without the knowledge and discipline that would be a lot harder to do.

Awesome thread idea, dude! Dude. I understand you're in a tough situation. Many of us have been there. But... this is a thread for accomplishments, feel good stories, etc. If you want a thread that is about your situation, and how crap it makes you feel, create it. But this isn't really the place. Don't rain on this parade. I recently found out that I'm moving to day shift after 6-1/2 years of night shift. That's really exciting for me. I'll get to sleep in the same bed as my wife more than 1 night a week. I'll get to be there at night and make my family feel safe. I'll feel better physically and emotionally. I'm very excited to move to days. The guy I'll be working with is a good dude too, so that's a bonus.

Most likely not exciting for you blokes at all, but here is my FUCK YEA!!!! Years ago the Dept of Education created the "90/10 rule" "The 90/10 rule requires for-profit colleges to get no more than 90% of their revenues from Title IV federal student aid." For years now at work, we have been asking the bean counters to let us run the numbers for this, but they wouldn't, it was to important for "IT" to get a hold of, and to screw up. There was also some moaning that SQL databases couldn't handle the # of equations involved in this and only Excel could accurately handle it. (Actual quote from the head Accountant, OMG I laughed so hard, in his face when he said it to me. So the Accounting department created this huge series of spreadsheets that pull data from our Financial Aid database (SQL), then they perform this huge series of really poorly written calculations against it, and let it chug along. A 3.2ghz quad core, 12gb Ramm system, with nothing on it but Office, takes about 36 hours for Excel to finish running and spit out the final answer. God help you, if you try to even move the mouse in that period of time as the whole thing could screw up. Figure this thing is parsing a grand total of 556732 payments and invoices, sorting them down into one record for every student for 40869 total records (Yes, these are actual number of records). Then it Codes each item to what type it is, and then tallies it all. From there it starts breaking things apart by Pell, Sub, Unsub, Credit Card, GAE, DANTES, Cash, Scholarship, etc... Super complex to say the least. About 3 weeks ago, I finally had enough of all the bitching about this report, and how hard it is. So I swiped a copy of all of it, and I started recreating it all in SQL. I finished it Wednesday, and presented it to the Presidents Council yesterday morning. While there, we all caught a change from the DoE that was missed and that I didn't know about. They asked me to correct the report and come back next week when the re-run was complete. I changed it on the spot, reran all the numbers, and had a new answer for them within 5 minutes. The accountants didnt' believe me that it could be run that fast, so I ran it again with them watching. And then again, and again, etc.... It only takes about 27 seconds (Depending on server load) for SQL to do what it took Excel 36+ hours. They were not happy with me to say the least. But my boss, and the CIO grabbed me for lunch and want to send me to DBA classes so I can be a proper SQL admin.

http://youtu.be/PE9Qm8mShik

I've always been a sucker for revolvers...