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y u no Pitman?

I tried and couldn't really come up with anything to distinguish him by. I already felt guilty for the "4tus" under this: haha.

I'd love it if some US GN'R dates are coming!

The little touches have had me howling with laughter on many occasions.

The mission where you need to use your dog to find the guy in the train yard is hilarious. When you go in to the dog's eye view and all of a sudden he runs off in a random direction and starts fucking that other dog had me in stitches.

Same in the mission where you have to booby trap that Life Invader dude's phone. The part when you're on that dude's computer in the office and all the pop ups keep blocking the screen with porn and big titties was great.

Thought that was hilarious as well! I stole a passenger jet yesterday and flew around for a bit. Ended up somewhere WAY up in the mountains. I found myself just exploring that whole area for quite sometime after that instead of doing anything to advance the game. It was really a lot of fun.

Does anyone happen to have any clue when this is coming out in the US? It was supposed to release on 09/03 but then it was pushed to 09/17 but now everywhere listing it isn't showing a release date.

I've been listening to this far too much lately:

I love this season unabashedly, free from the liberal cringe induced reasons I considered S1 a guilty pleasure. I will be pissed if they've Sam & Dianed Will and Mac, though. Sorkin should know better, unless he was really unconfident about a third season being greenlit. The sexual tension and interplay between them is one of the most enjoyable aspects of the show, and I hope he's got a plan as to how he's going to keep their relationship interesting if they're going to be together next year.

Season 3 is a go now but my guess is that it was in limbo when he wrote and shot this finale. I'm certain he'll give Will and Mac plenty of distress as soon as season 3 starts.

Anyone play this yet? I'm debating going after work to get it, hopefully my wife doesn't have plans for the month.

A lot of people are playing and discussing here:

http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?/topic/194895-grand-theft-auto-v/page-18

LOL, the person accusing other people of being stuck in high school is "reporting" people to the principal.......classic.

This seems like a good place to touch on Reporting: The mods and admins regularly cruise this site at all hours due to all of us being in different times zones. IMO, Reporting isn't needed just because someone is disagreeing with someone else. The Reporting system should be used when a user clearly crosses the line with something like a personal attack or obvious insults, etc. IN this case, it seems to me that you two specifically could use at least a little bit of a break from each other. If at all possible, I'd try to just ignore each other for a little bit. Not trying to tell you what to do, just making a suggestion.

On topic:

I don't think anything a person does should be excused because of their celebrity or how good they are at something but it seems a lot of the world disagrees with me.

My forum life is complete now.

You're weclome? haha.

Thought the finale was good but not great. McAvoy's proposal just seemed too out of the blue. The season never really was about Mack and McAvoy, so it felt out of place for the season to end with their engagement. And I was really hoping they'd cover how some of the other networks were covering the election (i.e. Karl Rove's meltdown seemed like prime material to tackle).

I'd give the season a 9 out of 10, with the finale getting an 8 out of 10. Still no other show on television like it. Too bad more people around here aren't into it.

I agree on that rating of the season finale and season as a whole. I agree the engagement was a bit out of the blue but I'm hoping for dialog in the next season opener explaining more of where Will's head was at.

Fucking amazing game loving it so far been playing for about 2 hours

Fuck me some of the side missions are brilliant

Just did the one where you get high and have to fight off aliens

I only got about an hour and a half with it last night but what I played was great. I cannot wait to get more involved in the side missions are they're sounding WAY cooler this time around.

Seems like a good place to use these:

you rock, russ!

very cool

not to be a dick though, no slash?

Thanks!

I can work up a Slash and Bucket as well. I honestly thought the site had a Slash one already but I'll be happy to work one up soon along with The Man From The Chicken Coop.

I took the entire week off. Bam. This is going to be good.

My buddy is picking it up at midnight so I went ahead and took tomorrow off.

Beta is not Axl's handler though. Axl has explicitly said she's more of an adopted mother. Why does she respond so coldly to this instance of Axl fondly recalling an old friend?

Oh I know, I was just making a loose comparison. I can't even begin to speculate on their relationship so I try not to guess too much on that specifically. I was just taking a guess as to why she took him away in that instance.

I've viewed that and wondered the same thing in the past. But I've also had interactions with famous people that are like that and their "handlers" come in and cut everything off. Sometimes that'd just one of the functions that person is supposed to handle. Not saying it's right, just saying I've seen it from a lot of other famous people.

Are they out fucking up another band? Are they fucking each other? Where are they?

Hahaha "out fucking up another band".

I'd always thought they were just some studio horn players that got put together through Guns specifically for that tour.

Bonaroo, Coachella, Lolla, Sturgis, Firefly, Rock In Rio

Didn't play Sturgis or am I remembering that wrong?

I'll go with this answer: Neither.

The current version of Guns N' Roses is a far different animal than the original and it's not trying to be the original either. Slash isn't trying to do so either.

So I just feel like neither are ever trying to represent the original.

There really aren't that many loose ends. Declan (And assumedly the cartel) is out of the picture, the DEA is out of the picture now, that leaves the family/Walt's associates (Jesse, Saul, etc.), and the Super Nazi Bros.

That's how I feel about it. Since so many of those things will be tied to the Nazi's, it seems like a pretty easy scenario to tie up in 2 episodes. I personally believe that Jesse and the family will be delt with in the next episode.

From the reviews I've read so far, seems like the only real criticisms of the game (for some) have been likeability of the leading characters, the excessive violence, and the game's misogynistic tone. All other aspects of the game are receiving universal praise. I'm not really too concerned about the gripes listed since it's kind of what I come to expect from a GTA game.

Oh, if you have an iPhone, check out the app iFruit. It's by Rockstar and meant to work alongside the game. It sounds like a fun add-on. Check out the description here.

Also, for XBOX 360 users, they're saying not to install the play disc, otherwise the game won't run as well. The game comes with two discs, and install disc and a play disc. Not sure why installing the play disc would detract the game's performance, but anyway, that's what they're saying.

I read that about the loading as well. They had some explanation about how it was coded to be optimized when streaming from the optical drive along with bits it installs on the HDD. Either way, I'm just glad I heard about it prior to getting the game later.

Also-

The cheat codes have leaked. I didn't want to post them here in case people don't want to see them, but you can get them at IGN.com so I'm sure they're elsewhere too.

If it's a live album / blu-ray combo, I'll buy it for sure.

Aren't we still about a year in the show's timeline from that scene in the diner at the start of the season? If so is it reasonable to speculate that Walt's disappearing act is to give him time to plan his next move and make the Nazis and the cops think he's no longer an issue?

We're about 6-8 months out max, first episode of season 5 had his 51st birthday at home and the flashforward 52nd, when Walt finishes in the business with the huge stack of money its been about four months approx, adding in time for Walt to get to the mass production stage and time afterwards I would say maybe 7 months is the most likely. Something certainly has to happen to kick start his return as the house was ruined when he returned.

One thing I really enjoyed about this episode was how throughout the entire series Jr had always taken Walt's side and been hostile towards Skylar so it was awesome to see him protecting her.

Probably a couple months tops from the flash forwards, maybe less. In this episode we found out Holly is currently 18 months. On top of that, Walt was diagnosed with cancer and went into remission before Holly was born, so that's gotta be another few months. It's entirely possible that Walt comes back to NM in a month's time or so.

Got home from LA, watched BrBa. Then watched Talking Bad. Then watched BrBa again. What an amazing episode!

I have Talking on right now and was just thinking I'd throw Breaking back on afterward.

I watched like 20 minutes of the episode and turned it off, should I even bother with the rest?

There's one episode left, dude. Might as well finish the series.

What Lithium said. I came very close to turning it off as well but thought the same thing; might as well finish it out now.

Wow, I forgot this was even on tonight, that's how bad it is at this point. Or, maybe that's just how good Breaking Bad is?

I watched BrBa, The Newsroom and then Dexter. I really should have waited a day or two to watch Dexter. It was bad in the first place but watching it right after an amazing BrBa and an excellent season finale for The Newsroom made it all the worse.