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I wish I could grow an epic Bones beard,(not like I physically can't) but then everyone at home will think I got super religious and traveling will become even more of a nuisance.

My beautiful guitar and my ugly mug.

*Dislike*

Hopefully there is a Real Estate Business that you can buy. And to increase your daily income from the business you have to do missions where you evict squatters from the properties in the Hood areas of Los Santos. The squatters in these run-down Projects are usually armed to the teeth with AK47's, Mac 10's and have explosives and other automatic weapons ( these guys are usually Drug Dealers and/or Gang Bangers ). So after you have cleaned out the House/Building of it's pest infestation, you have the option to leave it the way it is ( Dilapidated and Run-Down ), or you can renovate the property to boost the price of other properties in the area and increase the amount of rental income you receive from it. ( I was going to put a scene from "The Sopranos" where Tony pays a Black Community Leader to pay some local gangbangers to evict some crackheads/ and I couldn't find it /........... but if you know what I'm talking about you should understand ). Maybe you could also take over Businesses from Criminal Organisations ( like Drug Cartels, the Russian/ Italian Mafia or Triads ) which act as fronts for Illegal Rackets ( like Drug Manufacturing & Distribution/ Prostitution/ Gambling/ Protection etc ). These missions are much more dangerous due to the enemies having better equipment ( like Body Armour/ and Better Weapons ), and being generally smarter and more organised than street level gangsters. But once these businesses are taken you can then start investing money into making the rackets more efficient, and increase their protection ( by hiring armed guards/ installing surveillance/ and adding walls with razor wire to better secure the Rackets compound ), this then helps defend against rival gangs trying to take it over. Also each of the rackets has a different type of mission involved with helping increase it's daily income. For the Drug one you have to escort your shipments into Los Santos ( by plane/ and then by van or car ), evading rival gangs and/or the police. Other missions for the Drug Racket involve taking out rival operations, stealing rivals drug shipments ( and eliminating it's escort ). For the Prostitution Racket you have missions involving eliminating rival Pimps, and recruiting strippers/ other prostitutes to your racket ( by a coercion/ charm mini-game..... or you could just knock them out and kidnap them ). The Gambling Racket involves taking down rival establishments, and match fixing local Football/ Baseball games ( for instance breaking a star quarter back's legs to influence the outcome of a match ). Lastly the Protection Racket would involve strong arming local business owners into paying you money ( by beating them/ smashing up their store ), and taking down rival rackets through Assassinations of their leaders or elimination of most of the soldiers and captains within their organisation.

LOL!!!

This isn't Saints Row. . I heard there is a store within a mall or something that you can get ancient weapons like axes and swords from, could be wrong though. Been a long time since I have been logged on. That was some BS "leak" posted on crap sites.

Right, I forget about the other line later. Well, Michael and Trevor used to work together, and you're not going to be doing enough heists to get federal attention where Trevor is living. So, either he's been living in the ass end of nowhere long enough - and Los Santos has changed enough - that he considers himself new in Los Santos, or he and Michael used to do their heists in another city or multiple other cities, and not Los Santos. Alternatively, he and Michael used to commit smaller crimes in that area (Trevor does say that Michael is back in town, implying he at least used to live in the same area as Trevor), and decided to do something big in the only location in the countryside that would actually get the attention of the FIB - the military base. But, that's strictly speculation, there's nothing implying it.

My understanding from reading EVERY FUCKING PAGE (and hopefully interpreting it correctly) is that the Zancundo River is the southern of the two rivers on the west side of Alamo Sea. Watch me get that wrong...

You don't need a Marina to buy a boat you retards, Michael has a pool.

Nah man, all you gotta do is sport a red white and blue turbin that says " america fuck yeah" on the back. When someone asks you if youre a terrrorist, point to the headgear.

I thoroughly appreciate how specific that response is. Alright, I believe you're not a djinn... for now.

That took me a second. I had forgotten what color you were.

Are you planning on bumping a lot of inactive topics and telling people to stop arguing when there is no argument?

I take solace in the fact that parts of that beard will forever be weaved into the fibers of the Vault 101 hoodie.

Every person needs a bones beard.

Nope... Just n00b jibber jabber.

I didn't understand either of the two previous posts. Anyone else?

Regarding different grenade types: the "smart" plans, typically involving lots of expensive planning and preparation, could plausibly be simplified with two simple grenades. A flashbang followed by a smoke grenade. Toss them in in that order, go in, grab the take, and walk out. You wouldn't even need to spend money on concealing your face.

"The planet is fine -- the people are fucked." --Carlin

Yeah, I saw that CVG video too... http://www.computera...and-gta-online/ And I doubt it. Rockstar usually throws us into the present and the backstory is explained in the first few hours of gameplay through dialogue (with the exception of L.A Noire, different writer). That seems to be the style of direction that Sam and Dan Houser cling to. Plus that prologue in Mafia 2 (and Saints Row 3) kinda threw off the pacing for me... my opinion, though, I guess.

Id join a crew, but i want to spend the 1st 2 weeks exploring the map, discovering cool things, and beating the missions.. Multiplayer is last on my list... Plus i guarantee Multiplayer is going to be extremely laggy for the 1st week of release...

Well it was based on realistic weapons. They did say there would be more meelee weapons. Maybe the different grenades was far fetched but if stealth is going to be apart of the game then I'd hope some sort of stealth would be in as well.

I want

I got the impression that Michael had lived in SA during the glory days (cue Springsteen) and had moved to another part of America during negotiations with the FIB, then returned following the settlement.

I was surprised to find that she was not 12. Totally ruined it for me.

Let's be honest, here. Both of those bitches are ugly and look like they have the clap.

That is a damn fine guitar.

well i actually did read it, and those are great ideas and i hope they're in the game too

I miss Vlad. I also miss other members who would remember Vlad.

A member here was a dealer in college and when a drug deal went wrong attempted to disarm a guy with a gun (what a fucking badass). Other people will have the deetz on this, i didn't really know vlad

This is all my little fantasy After saving the life of a crooked politicians daughter, you are accepted into one of the most prestigious Ivy League schools in the US. Now, the argument can be made that you caused the life threatening circumstances that nearly killed this girl, but that doesn't matter since she was drunk and her daddy's Skull and Bones connections have given you access the richest trust fund babies in the world. Will you be friend them, bend them to your will, or flatten them where they stand? Classes will surely come up again, but this time I want to pick a major. A major would create a focused skill set for the character, such as majoring in law would make you a more effective speaker, majoring in medicine would make you a more effective fighter, majoring in chemistry drug maker/dealer. As you pass various classes skills increase. Don't want to do the work, bully or pay someone to do it for you. Since you're at college with future white collar criminals, set up scams to blackmail professors and fellow students. Throwing a party would be a good way to lower inhibitions so you can take some incriminating photos. Buy off local townies to control the drug trade. Write the perfect essay to bang your Feminist Studies teacher. Get on it Rockstar. I'll give you my money.

I would say that the only "shithead" around here is you, Im under age but, seriously that was ignorant... By the way i will bring my mom and its cool i dont have to pay for it. I would go more in details with you but I would be lowering myself to your level. And its cool to bring my mom, she sont mind what game is it, or why its rated Mature HP You pretty much proved his point. Perhaps 'shithead' was a bit harsh but you just fit the stereotype of what he is talking about. Your mom comes and pays for the game...when you're older you won't wear that as a badge of honor. The fact that your mom doesn't care what a game is, or its rating shows exactly what is wrong with parents these days. Its moms like that who have the children that commit acts of violence and then blame it on video games when they should have been monitoring what their child was playing. Ok, if you were an under-age-GTA-fan, you (and obviously him) would like your (his)mother to come and get it at GameStop... Also it could be a friend, not necesarily has to be a mom. BTW there's nothing wrong bout mom buying games for their sons, mom and sons' communication.

i watched the IGN live stream demo of saints row IV and i was not impressed... at all ...

No matter how much I read this post, I still laugh just as hard as I did the first time.

You still have a small dick.

It's all portfolio work. I'm not making a blockbuster game or anything, that shit takes years with a whole team. I'm only making scenes of which can show my ability to work professionally. With all my work finished, i'll display it online, on a showreel disc, and send it to various development teams. When i show enough competence, i may get a job out of it. If you guys want to actually roam around in any of my finished game environments, i can upload a unreal.exe for you guys, but i'll only do that when i get to a semi-finished state. Maybe that'd be a good idea for feedback. You guys can tell me what looks good, what doesn't, and how i can improve it?

This is long, but I love it and definitely worth a read to any of those who support aestheticism. “What is the use of beauty in woman? Provided a woman is physically well made and capable of bearing children, she will always be good enough in the opinion of economists. What is the use of music? -- of painting? Who would be fool enough nowadays to prefer Mozart to Carrel, Michael Angelo to the inventor of white mustard? There is nothing really beautiful save what is of no possible use. Everything useful is ugly, for it expresses a need, and man's needs are low and disgusting, like his own poor, wretched nature. The most useful place in a house is the water-closet. For my part, saving these gentry's presence, I am of those to whom superfluities are necessaries, and I am fond of things and people in inverse ratio to the service they render me. I prefer a Chinese vase with its mandarins and dragons, which is perfectly useless to me, to a utensil which I do use, and the particular talent of mine which I set most store by is that which enables me not to guess logogriphs and charades. I would very willingly renounce my rights as a Frenchman and a citizen for the sight of an undoubted painting by Raphael, or of a beautiful nude woman, -- Princess Borghese, for instance, when she posed for Canova, or Julia Grisi when she is entering her bath. I would most willingly consent to the return of that cannibal, Charles X., if he brought me, from his residence in Bohemia, a case of Tokai or Johannisberg; and the electoral laws would be quite liberal enough, to my mind, were some of our streets broader and some other things less broad. Though I am not a dilettante, I prefer the sound of a poor fiddle and tambourines to that of the Speaker's bell. I would sell my breeches for a ring, and my bread for jam. The occupation which best befits civilized man seems to me to be idleness or analytically smoking a pipe or cigar. I think highly of those who play skittles, and also of those who write verse. You may perceive that my principles are not utilitarian, and that I shall never be the editor of a virtuous paper, unless I am converted, which would be very comical. Instead of founding a Monthyon prize for the reward of virtue, I would rather bestow -- like Sardanapalus, that great, misunderstood philosopher -- a large reward to him who should invent a new pleasure; for to me enjoyment seems to be the end of life and the only useful thing on this earth. God willed it to be so, for he created women, perfumes, light, lovely flowers, good wine, spirited horses, lapdogs, and Angora cats; for He did not say to his angels, 'Be virtuous,' but, 'Love,' and gave us lips more sensitive than the rest of the skin that we might kiss women, eyes looking upward that we might behold the light, a subtile sense of smell that we might breathe in the soul of the flowers, muscular limbs that we might press the flanks of stallions and fly swift as thought without railway or steam-kettle, delicate hands that we might stroke the long heads of greyhounds, the velvety fur of cats, and the polished shoulder of not very virtuous creatures, and, finally, granted to us alone the triple and glorious privilege of drinking without being thirsty, striking fire, and making love in all seasons, whereby we are very much more distinguished from brutes than by the custom of reading newspapers and framing constitutions.” ― Théophile Gautier, Mademoiselle de Maupin

The most beautiful words I've ever read (and re-read countless times), by E.E. Cummings. Most simply put, I believe he's trying to say that "you are my everything". But it's the desperate manner and the intimacy of the words that makes them so immeasurable! Almost as if his love is no longer something he wants, but rather a necessity of his existence. Amazing, on so many levels. Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: Yours is the darkness of my soul's return, - You are my sun, my moon, and my stars (Also, read it to the backdrop of Einaudi's I Giorni) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhuGfmoIv_M

Could be, I never saw Roman's death coming but it was pretty damn sad. Never went bowling again.

"Dude, what happened to your wife and kids?" "Black guys..."