[Saints Row VERSUS GTA]

I believe that's the clear difference, story narrative and a unique twist from the people behind it, namely Dan Houser, someone who's not a lifer in terms of videogame design/scripting, so there's a unique perspective. Saints Row maybe looking to separate from the comparisons by involving more from story and characters, but the mechanics those two games share will likely stay the same, for one thing, it's intuitive to share control scheme across platforms, games, systems, etc.

[Rockstar looking for Voice actors for GTA V]

We're covering this on our new GTA site as we scour for breaking leads. I commented there as here, that why not have the same voice actor? Anyone know why that might be?? I think he's such a unique voice in SA, it's hard to find some alternative that would seem or sound like him

[Grand Theft Auto 5 inadvertently confirmed on Twitter?]

In my last comment I point out he admitted, that being the SOURCE for this story, that he is making this Twitter quote up and it spread like wildfire, but it not accurate to go by, since he claimed it was pulled off Twitter, without a "cut and paste" using the Print [PRT] "SCR" key to copy live content you find online, there's no way to back things up.

However, I did advise speculation on music or voice actors, James Pedeaston being a key radio personality for example, if they hire someone new for him, as we suspect, the same voice from GTA SA, Why not use the same actor? I can't see that going well. I'm rather miffed, the Eskimo tried to pull wool over players and fans eyes, we don't enjoy false leads, I am pretty sure I speak for everyone on that!

[Saints Row VERSUS GTA]

I am not all that active, since I am committed to my friends forum and offline typo things, so not sure why I can't find a Saints Row topic here, but if you're like me, Saints Row and any GTA inspired game is less a rip-off then it is more of the same style 3D FreeRoaming Real World adventure game, and the ideas as I see it can be plenty, however, I don't like them deviating too far. The next title out this fall;

Saints Row THE THIRD

Looks to actually steal more thunder from GTA which as a title, sits idle.

With the Teaser amount of information thus far, what are your opinions? Do you think You'll be more or less impressed as more is known? Will you be getting one or the other, or... GTA for sure, a given??

As far as the title, I was not sure where to post any SR topics as we learn more about it, but it looks rather revamped thus far.

[Grand Theft Auto 5 inadvertently confirmed on Twitter?]

The Eskimo lead on, eventually that this was a hoax that he orchestrated because I wager, he was himself, bored of the inactivity as far as any information to go on, however, the recent casting notice and idea that GTA is using a temp title "Rush" to throw people off, however, it could be they are coming up with other game ideas, I should think, like RDR, taking the RAGE and Euphoria tools, RN and Rockstar Games can make some new sagas to partake in. In the future, however, my friend suggests it will take a new hardware (CONSOLE) release to bring with it a new GTA. That would take far too long as it is!

[Grand Theft Auto 5 inadvertently confirmed on Twitter?]

I'm American, and I know of him for years now, but if you listen to excerpts of Howard Stern radio on YouTube, you can see what Howard thinks of his firing from Aflak. Voicing the talking duck, and there is video from the VIEW ladies, specifically comic female/actor Whoopie Goldberg tells of her feelings being a comedian and having a job responsibility, outside of that, my first impression is that he knows of GTA, some actors do, make no mistake... and felt to rebut the comments about his jokes, he'd jump on this public information quest for GTA news. For gamers, it's pretty well known the information regarding the series is very secretive, and he could know that and be milking it. In the last game, Iggy Pop let slip he was hired to do the radio gig for GTA4, that was true, of course! I think it would cause it's own controversy given he's been overtly tasteless and crass with those 'jokes', I don't hate his comedy but this is low, most would at least contribute some funds to help Japan, or offer prayers for their well being. I mentioned, if he'd lost his home and family would he care people found it amusing to laugh it off?

[Rockstar registering GTA V domain names?]

In looking for any sign of movement under the proverbial radar, Site domains are one avenue of course, however, I should remind all that when Conan O Brien joked about a website that didn't exist, the NBC lawyers at that time gave him stern reprimand over the matter, If you were lucky enough to catch that episode, NBC/GE/Universal had to buy the domain for the mentioned site, as Conan explained it was some legal requirement, so I believe it COULD be the same for Rockstar and their fictional sites. Someone should find mentioned of the legalities surrounding such matters. I believe Conando though!

[Lord Save Us From Your Followers]

There's an Old Man in the Sky? that's a new one on me, I think many things you can't explain could be God's proof to you, maybe you forgot what the word Miracle means? It's a proof that God exists, as I understand it. I believe in Good, Evil, sin in the World, and the mortal Soul.

If things were as simple as black and white, then your Faith would not be tested, once you die and HE judges you, then things are that simple...black and white. In simple terms. God is the final judge of your character, I just think it behooves you to be a caring person, see the folks helping the Japanese, helping their Global Neighbors?

Well, I say, God bless those folks, they've got the right idea, that's for sure

[R.I.P. Thread]

Due to the very sad Unceremonious dismissal by GM of both Pontiac Firebird, then PMD, and Cadillac Eldorado, along with Oldsmobile line of cars, I want to update here a consumer's opinion thread of your thoughts on the matter, experience owning, driving, what happened to the marques that was so wrong, etc??

Most Pontiac and GM diehard fans think it could just be a matter of time before they are eventually revived, however, for now, just the Chevrolet Camaro and Corvette harken back to historical lineage. I find it truly sad that even with the Bailout of Detriot and US Automakers, there's still a lack of tempting car design. Look at all the Cadillac Eldorados ever made, they all have something to offer and set them apart. Simple fact is less numbers per year in sales hit the coupe, or 2 door motor car styles really hard. Eventually we saw Hummer become an unneeded weight around General Motors' neck.

Olds I needn't remind had a significant lineage in the Motor car history of the World as well. And played a part in the Muscle Car era, that persisted with the Hurst marque into the 1980s as well.

[Favourite Music Genre]

Pretty much, CLASSIC ROCK, Hard Rock and Heavy Metal, but I like artists like The Eagles, Joe Walsh...of course, Sheryl Crow, Heart, new age, acoustic, some country in moderation, some rap in even more moderation, though I become a fan not by choice, but exposure and then I get the REAL quality out of something I normally would not entertain buying. Or tuning to radio to hear. When I do listen to a song I deem EXCELLENT, I wish the whole world could get into it in the same way....It's often very euphoric, I kid you not!

[What Movie Did You Last Watch?]

Superman The Movie on BluRay, had not watched the film since it was in theaters I believe, so friggin long ago! I really am not a comic book fan, but love the Lethal Weapon movies and as such, director Dick Donner

Before hand, I watched the HD presentation of RoboCop on BluRay, no special features on that, sadly, but it looks and sounds great.

I actually bought some 99 cent VHS films as well, decided it was cheaper then renting them at that price! haha

[Blu Ray Titles 2 Watch]

We seem to be missing threads for BluRay and General HiDef content. I bought a 32 inch HDTV, and now another LCD TV, this one an 18 inch but seems DTV or HD complient, it looks good, though not as good quality. After the 32inch, I bought a BluRay DVD ROM, it's not working flawlessly via PC as a standalone like PS3 might, but I felt I got a good deal on it for $55 USD

Anywho, I'd report the two disc Big "4" to start with, a follow up to the 1990's show Clash of the Titans, only this time, we lose Alice in Chains (RIP, guys!) and have Slayer, Anthrax, Metallica, and MegaDaves, er, Megadeth with David Ellefson on bass again.... all at one show, in HD, in DTS Surround sound and looking mighty awesome. The crowd and weather effects of the day are all in HD as mentioned, and the two disc concert film is actually affordable! I love that both Megadeth and Metallica mended their differences after so many damn bitter years of in-fighting all made possible by voracious drug consumption habits, thanks, guys! Anywho, seriously, this is a must for all metal music fans, and I would point out, I hear a lot of metal shows announcing in my town, get out and enjoy some, support your local music scene, and perhaps, you might be in the audience for a major disc release, I was!! (first G3 video with Satriani and Steve Vai!)

[Banned Bugs Bunny Racist Scene (Seriously Banned)]

A long time ago, when I made a habit of collecting LaserDiscs, prior to DVD mind you, I'd heard about some RARE, OOP (Out of Print) collector titles, ones to watch out for, just like LP collectors, this is still a practice for those who mount impressive collections for Home Theater, one just happens to be a Disney film, not Bugs Bunny, but a motion picture that came under fire for it's Southern themes of the time and the racism issues of the 60s onward, of course the 1950s and prior did have segregation and race quality issues, but this animated film put on LaserDisc to preserve the work of the studio came under fire like most films, for the subject matter. It's supposedly one of the hardest and costliest to obtain of all LaserDiscs that were printed. I could be missing data, I can't recall the film title to be honest, but it may peak your interest to know.

[Looking for Headphones]

I wound up with a handful of Sonys standard Walkman headsets, they work consistently great, and when I had to choose some quality ones for home use, look no further then Sony Studio Monitor model V6. Dated now, but never loss in quality audio over the time they've been around! Just replace the wire or earpads and your back in business!

As for in the ear type, KOSS' The Plug. With replaceable rubber covers, they are the best in ear I'd say, that I ever used. Try eBay for both. Koss since the Plug was available have replaced them and several other brands jumped on the concept Koss came up with, but you can't go wrong with the original I bought a replacement and use them sparingly

[Pirate Metal]

German metal band LEGENDS Running Wild with Under Jolly Roger. You don't get more Pirate Metal then that, I'd say!!

[Silence Ain't Golden]

Expect a MetalHead to say such a thing, right??

But in honesty, I'm talking about GTA Five, I'd been speculating with friends about the GTA 5 information expectancy, and trying not to lose any sleep over it, but Rockstar and Take2 have in the past few months, pointed out that their gaming Franchise will take all required time and not be rushed out the door, but hint of a list provided to Gamestop IIRC, showed a GTA mention for early next year, and of course, If Les Benzies, Sam Houser, or Dan Houser's up for renewal contract with Take2, as I understand it, claimed to be a sign something can be expected before hand. I am not sure beyond rumor what kind of fact that might be, I think Rockstar North have to show something of the game in a year leading up to the release, most likely some stills to entice a setting and story speculation in motion

[Mutha Boards]

How many of you have encountered blown or burnt capacitors on a motherboard? I read an interesting history online that a scientist stole a capacitor formulation and sold it to a Taiwanese manufacturer, Major computer companies bought the subsequent parts from this firm, the stolen formula allowed gases to emit and leak, as well as burst, the electrolytic Capacitors regulating the CPU voltage, and the like. As such, if a board malfunctions and you can physically see the damaged cylindrical caps, you can in fact get a soldering iron and replace them, I'd started doing that after putting off the project for some time, the most effective procedure is using a good spare board with other damage to pull needed caps from and then insert then in the holes of the damaged board, to do that, you have to remove the bad caps as well. It takes 30 minutes or so to do about 5 caps, and I wound up with 9 working computers I had collected for $5 each!!

Some other electronics were also harmed by batches of bad caps because the companies do not make these smaller parts, they buy in bulk from other firms, so brands like IBM, DELL, and Canon, Sony, were all effected in the past 15 years by bad batch capacitors used, My testing and repair showed that just from working the simplest measure of heating mounting solder and gently rocking a damaged cap out and pressuring another in it's place, got a board refurbished, as a result, I had dirt cheap Dual Core status, DDR2 Ram, PCI Express x16 boards for less then $10 USD!

Might wanna think twice about tossing things out you can keep for spare parts!!

[Have you been banned on another forum?]

I was banned for "spamming the PM box" Don't know who, but I am still a vet of GTAforums till my dyin day. I wish I'd been there longer, a year or so, a REAL VET of the scene and I could have been since I got GTA3 when Vice had not come out yet, but it took Vice to convert me to full on admiration Society member. I recall a Ghost of Delete Key from there, likely the same guy who's not been banned yet??

I went in with a friend at an attempt to counter the treatment with his idea for a forum, falling under the short name of GTAC, you may know but if you don't rumor was it was my forum simply for the fact I was banned from the GTA Networks, they got fed up with me, I type a lot of thoughts in my head, and people eventually just wanna pull the plug, so I looked for some sorta alternative. Well, I was banned from "my own Forum" is the upshot. Chris had been more then accommodating, my hats off to you, good Sir. Keep up the good work!

To those opposed, say "nay"? "I"! Anywho, I just wanted to express ones self within reason, other people have their own problem with it, I can't figure that out and I never will, but I can understand things that DO make sense. Not all of it does, quite frankly.

My bans include GTAF, GTAC, and GTAG, Gaming that is, and a lot of GTAF'ers hang out there, so it would feel like "home", however, I can't contact my old BUDDIES, and I did have a few, over many years at GTAForums, I'll just recall the good times there, but GoDK took some cheap shots at me because he's just not comfortable being himself, he goes out of his way to make others look bad, just like a bully would (he's got to own that Rockstar game!)

I noted this is very old, and bumped my GoDK a year prior! He mentions GTAHole, that site is dormant but we hope to revive at some point, it's my friend Tripmills got the keys to that door.

We encouraged Modding experts to join up, but people were more tuned into to lurking for the latest RN GTA news, more then just taking part, sadly, that continues. GTAF is hard to ignore once the mods turn their sights on you and you're removed. You have little recourse, the Mods get sick and tired of just volume of complaints and that could be the same daily members over and over, railing on you

Just to shed light on what happens, us Ban Hammer gamers are still out there, we have to now entertain ourselves some other way, down but not out, and infamous if you wanna call that lucky! haha

[Porn virus holds gamers to ransom]

Most of us use Free AntiVirus, and some Rootkit protection, but they always say it's free for a reason, you're not getting SOLID protection, I'll use Avira after I heard it's pretty good for the free version, and used to use GriSoft and AVG, however, most started charging. My second PC came with Norton 2006/07, my first computer in 2000 had Windows ME and no AV software, no Firewall, nada

Now I use Microsoft's Security Essentials. Have you had to go above and beyond any of that? Use to try some others out. Malware Bytes I was invited to try as it was just getting off the ground, it's got a very nice user interface given that fact

[Japan's Chernobyl]

I've not been on here for some time, trying things elsewhere, but it's time to make presence known again. I am most curious about how Japan stems a Nuclear meltdown, something the world has not worried about since Chernobyl in the Ukraine, 1986. It was not until tested workers in Sweden noticed high levels of radiation that the outside World became aware something was simply not right.

Years of secrecy and working under their own guidelines meant that systems and buildings were not up to standards of the World. The plants in Japan were built in the 60s or 70s and are problematic we are finding out through reported faults at GE who pressed on with their designs at that time.

The worst case scenarios came to fruition as we noticed, so much misunderstanding that Californians live in more fear of the fallout then an upcoming quake on their side of the Ocean. More then the unrest in Libya and Yeman, Bahrain, etc, which is compelling to say the least, the nuclear incident and Tsunami along with snow and cold winter there, almost too much to even imagine going through!!

In light of the events, I used YouTube to watch documented video and news on both Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, I was in High School in 1986, when it happened and my memory is just too foggy. Even recalling Muammar Qaddafi at that time, as Ronald Reagan referred to him, the Mad Dog of the Middle East, the UN Resolution of a No Fly Zone there has resulted in French Air Strikes against the military hardware he's since amassed. I wonder if you guys were discussing these events already and I missed it, if so, cut and paste my addition there! I advise if you're in the USA and watching MSNBC clips on Xbox Live, check out that Chernobyl updates but make sure to see the Russian footage shot at the time, to get an understanding of events, I feel they only got HALF the story, if even that.

[Why do girls always go after bad guys and the Jerks]

They won't tell me, since I'm lazy, rather ugly, stupid, worthless, and I'm too busy gaming to really care too much. Sadly, Internet X seems to justify a lack of love life! hahaha

[Give Up the Ghost]

When a tech problem becomes so obscure or so large, you are faced with the option of replacing and discarding, how do you tackle it? I become somewhat attached to my gear, I take in old gear to run through tests and put back into use, as a hobby and a bit of the Geeky nature I have. Right now, the impetus for this thread is a DVD RW drive I hoped would last some time, however, it's Pioneer branded PC IDE, and my experience is such that if I never use Pioneer PC drives again, I can be happy. This one was MADE in 2006, and it's stopped reading DVDs and CDs. Much less record anything. The price of DVD recorders is now about $30 to $50USD, however, I hate spending money you don't have to. A laptop DVD Recorder costs more like $50 to $100 range, and BluRay Recording for PC is about $180 on up.

Still pretty expensive getting new tech, any way you slice it. At the moment I'm thinking a cleaning or even Firmware flash if possible could help save the drive, but I may also just sell it AS IS for someone else to tackle refurbishing it. One thing I know is I can't find the will to actually throw a drive like this in the trash. I've seen good working stuff just tossed out for the garbage man, and I know it's working because I will test something out that looks good.

I don't bother with the glut of old TVS people are casting out though, in favor of LCD. It's just too much bother and you know TVs can be a complicated mess to repair!

I did find this link related to my item;

http://forums.techguy.org/hardware/654833-drive-problems-pioneer-dvd-rw.html

I opted not to specifically post about that model or just DVD drives, but allow you to comment on premature problems of your own, I'm sure you wondered what some repair professional might say, or refer to Google to see if someone's in the same boat you happen to be in!??

[Post your mugshots v3!]

GTA gal never posts a pic on our own Forum, that I know of, but nice to "SEE" who I talk with! hahaha

I got more, I think I've been lazy, Working with my buddy Mike to build our own GTAC website and though it's growing, there's few taking part still, the lack of GTA games is not helping one bit! We hope to cover a GTA 5 sometime this year!!

Ok, I have a big one here from the ole' webcam, but maybe TOO big for this??

[Have a Habit?]

I'm cursed, I tried to tell myself I wouldn't buy a new PC till I sell something, parts or full working desktop or laptop, and what happens, I see a PC deal or one discarded I am driven to power up and refurbish. As it happens, I've built up a collection of PC and laptop that rivals the cat and dog hoarders of the World, or women and their makeup and shoe buying habits, that's bad folks!!

So, when and how many, say you?

If you have a pictures of what one YouTuber described as his "Nerd Cave", that would be the general idea with this thread.

I just gave away two old PCs for free, and I did spend as much time as I could updating them entirely, the best VERSIONS of software that would run on a machine with Windows 98 and 32MB of RAM, to use the last one for an example. I have a Toshiba 90Mhz Satellite laptop that has a proprietary memory module, only 42MB or something, shared by system Ram, however, do you guys even know what EDO DIMMs look like?!? hahaha

[Snow N Sun]

Well, There's considerable debate over the issue of Global Warming, I had a local discussion where I brought up the recent report on World Population and Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth.

Scientists were in a weather special on PBS not long after I had personal debates with two people I know who think the Earth is not gravely impacted by our Carbon Footprint, or Human impact. Save the Amazon, well, Polar Ice caps melting and warming the Oceans seems to be fact enough, and the Extreme waves of cold and warm causing violent storms is now presenting itself.

You see here, right this minute snow and wind are culminating in what is a MidWest Nor-Easter. We are over 10 inches of snow in one day and it won't end till 4PM on Monday! Two days, we have over a months' snow total in 12 hours, folks!

Over 60 inches when this winter closes. I've had enough, I can't tell someone I can get to a new job when I can't drive in the never ending, never fully plowed snow! I just came in from shoveling! Back breaking work and I am covered in sweat! That's the fun of winter, and then consider Emergencies and just driving ANYWHERE?!?!? Fires? In ice cold, don't expect to get them put out easily!