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  1. PS: Fair warning, I used an infinite money cheat.

     

    Did you exploit Gruppe Sechs on the stock market? I reached a point in-game that I think was around the 30% mark where their stock would continually rise and fall each time I slept to pass game time and I was netting ridiculously massive profits. I could easily have accumulated fortunes in the trillions for each character had I wanted, but ultimately I decided ~$500 billion each was way more than I'd ever use.

  2. I do after years of brow-beating at GTAForums, they ban me over and over before the permaban over 2 years ago now,. if memory serves. It's a select bunch of people who treat you like an outcast and just don't know you personally, enough to pass judgment in any way that has some merit. It seems too much to me like what goes on at GTAForums all the time, people being apprised of how worthless their contribution is, no matter what it is, it always seems like a 'Hey, I'm Better Then You' stance they take.

     

    Anyway, I started our own forums trying to eliminate that type of staffing entirely. I think that's a great place to start, and though we don't have the people contributing, at least at present despite all the GTA news actually going on, this seems common outside of GTAForums for some time.

     

    I've never been a member of GTAForums, so I can't comment with any authority on how they do things.

     

     

    There wasn't the original Hot Coffee mod as made by Rockstar in GTA IV, that's my point, BTW. It would have been some REAL news on the Web or otherwise.

    The REAL mod as discovered in 2005 was in San Andreas for the older game systems

     

    And my point was that such was irrelevant to the topic because it was regarding a fan-made Hot Coffee mod for GTA IV, of which I'd imagine multiple exist.

  3. I didn't think Frank Darabont had Scott Gimple's job, so that's interesting, but if you recall your TV and films well, Frank's reputation in the business was cemented with the works of Stephen King! You can't go wrong cutting your chops on his material...or can you?? hahaha

    I suppose so.

     

    The reasons behind what Gimple said about the scripting don't preclude anything Robert Kirkman who originated it, has said. What we don't know is how they come up with alternate story, what to include, and what not to.

     

    But there was a stated difference of opinion on how that should play out, and someone left due to that, Was it Frank Durabont? Perhaps. 

    Anyway, what I heard said was that more of the middle of a predetermined path for the TV SERIES is fudged about in an ongoing process so it's likely debated and discussed months before shooting.

    I'm assuming he meant that only the TV series had a planned ending that could be reached perhaps, if need be to end the TV series, the comic or graphic novels don't have to adhere to the TV medium by their sheet nature

     

    The show runner has his hands in everything, he/she is essentially equivalent to the director of a feature film. Directors of TV series are actually a lot lower on the food chain (unless they hold other, higher production roles like Greg Nicotero does on TWD), because otherwise every one would be an absolute mess with individual directors of episodes going in different, often contradictory, directions. Imagine a scenario in TWD where, say, Maggie is the sweetest and most virtuous girl in the world in one episode, then in the next she's suddenly the meanest skank in the world who sleeps with every male character on the show every chance she gets.

     

    I'm not taking anything away from Frank Durabont's "chops", just relating the most common story I've heard concerning his departure and the reasons for it.

     

    Kirkman has actually stated that when the comic ends, he's going to end it on a high note. So there's really no conflict there between it and the TV series.

  4. Trevor, I don't mean offense either, but that is something I and I'm sure others would take personally. you denounce the merit of my posts. Just like GTAForums, the reason for bans and off topic reasons is staff don't even understand the fundamental concept of a forum, and the fact GTAF formerly GTA3 forums, were more then just about users talking GTA and gaming, that fact escapes them. 

    The other thing that escapes their mind is that people from ALL WALKS OF LIFE inhabit the Earth, and as such, a small piece of that Earth, namely a forum on the Internet, Information Super Highway.... Expect non conforming souls abound. I tried in the 70s to conform to fellow class mates mandates of what was accepted and cool, I regret that to this day. Stand up for INDIVIDUALITY, and by your self and damn proud of that fact!

     

    The means may have changed, but the fundamentals of communication and what makes humans human HAS NOT.

    So as I gripe about GTAforums unrealistic user treatment, I would ask that you consider some facts... Anyone can post within reason, and it does not have to adhere to gaming in particular, as long as the section is the right one.

     

    The other thing is generational age gaps, I was born in the mid 1960s, Sam Houser and Dan at the beginning of the 1970s. Most people in gaming are young, SURE, but that doesn't exclude the young at heart either. I've lived it since day one you could say, before 1966, what home electronics were YOU using!?? See what I mean? 

     

    It's simple in my mind. Allow fans of electronic gaming a Forum to 'mouthoff' if you will

     

    Well, I'm sorry you're taking it personally, but that doesn't change the fact that it wasn't intended that way. Hence why I don't respond to many of the topics you've recently made and why I don't respond to most of the stunt compiliation videos and such that get posted here. I'm honestly not trying to be rude, but I feel many of your posts drag on into subjects unrelated to the topic they're posted in and that sometimes you're a bit overly defensive. Remember the help topic about a user having trouble installing a Hot Coffee mod for GTA IV and how you went off about there being no such thing in spite of obvious proof otherwise?

  5. The Center for Disease Control doctor (I'm bad remembering ALL the character names) whispered something before blowing up the compound, I believe if that wasn't the factoid mentioning infection pre-existing prior to 'turning' then it might come into play later. It's hard to remember small scenes like that that aren't explained in short order.

     

    Dr. Jenner. What he told Rick was revealed in the last episode of S3, that everyone is already infected with whatever is causing it. And actually, if one turns their TV up loud enough, it can be heard that he tells Rick something like, "It's already inside of us."

     

     

     

    RE: my comment about Scott Gimple, word is and likely mentioned in the Wiki for the series that the original producer quit over seeing the scripting differently. Kirkman doesn't seem too self absorbed to be angered about others working on the formulation, but the details I don't think were made public. I saw Robert Kirkman on the IFC series about writing series, and I hope people can find that to view somewhere. It allowed insight into how Walking Dead came about and his personal vision for it.

     

    The series might already be shelved, it seemed shortlived and I lost access to IFC after a year of introductory cable service mandated a change in my premium channels. I'm glad I got that viewing in! The series was already going for several seasons, and it aired probably about a year ago. I stand by what I said about Gimple's statements, I believe he voiced that nearly verbatim on The Talking Dead with Chris Hardwick

     

    I highly doubt Kirkman is going to let someone go in a completely contradictionary direction, though. As far as Frank Durabont's departure, the true reason has never been clarified, IIRC. Durabont claims he was fired while AMC claims he quit and both parties are sticking to their guns.

  6. As for the cause, we got some idea in the CDC visit early in the series,

     

    No, that was insight on how it works, not what it is. And even then, it's still scant enough to keep the mystery floating.

     

     

     

    but Scott Gimple, current producer and writer (I believe he writes the final script IIRC) has stated that he wouldn't work on something where you didn't have a start and finish line already envisioned and filling in the middle is what they spend time working on, and the graphic novels will account for some of this, but not all.

     

    Scott Gimple can go suck a dildo, Robert Kirkman is the final authority and he stated in a Letter Hacks that he has no intention of going into exacting details.

  7. Starz' Black Sails just had its season finale this past Saturday and I can't wait for S3. Blackbeard's in the house, bitches!

     

    My immediate thoughts on Fear the Walking Dead are that LA is a great setting, for the simple fact that the show's main focus is day-to-day survival while LA would become an extremely difficult place to live once public utilities (water, electricity, etc.) go out. I just hope it doesn't spoil the whole franchise by revealing the cause of the epidemic or going into the wider state of the world.

  8. There's been talk of more assassination missions for well over a year now, but it would seem those aren't coming. For now, though, I would just be happy if they'd fix the SP bugs caused by the Heists Update, such as owned aircraft disappearing from hangars and helipads.

  9. There really isn't anything I didn't like about it. I do think it's a fallacy to dislike it for lacking improvements and features introduced in later games, though. Said additions came to be as a direct result of feedback from gamers playing GTA 3 in the first place. What do you expect them to do, rerelease a new version of it every time a subsequent game improves on its mechanics in some way?

  10. The movie will eventually get released. Once the world forgets about Dim Kim II's empty little hissy fit in a few months and moves on to more important matters, it'll get a quiet DVD and streaming release.

     

    hackers are supposedly Korean but no direct ties to the North Korean leader who was the 'target' of the film's plot.

     

    BS, they're his puppets and anyone in the world with half a brain knows it.

     

    It seems to me in a geopolitical sense, this is about the politics between China, Korea, and Japan.

     

    No, it's just the typical grandstanding we always get from NK. Dim Kim I made similar "threats" when Team America came out, yet nothing ever happened.

  11. I really didn't expect Beth to die how and when she did. At first I didn't even realize what had happened, all I knew was that Beth stabbed Dawn, there was a gunshot, and I didn't know what that red spot on the back of her head was. It didn't sink in until I saw her collapse and how the rest of the group reacted. My GF and I both expected her to die protecting someone and that her eventual death would resemble Lori's in the comic.

  12. All I know is we were told there would be an announcement regarding Story Mode DLC continuing Michael's, Franklin's, and Trevor's story by the end of 2014, but yet 2014 is almost over now and we haven't heard a peep. New weapons and vehicles are great, but it would be nice if we got something a little deeper. There was also talk early on when the game first released on PS3/360 of expanding the game world, but anything like that has yet to materialize either.

  13. The scary scene in Minneapolis the other day, a car driving over protesters appeared to be a deadly incident

     

    Considering footage of people being pulled out of their cars and beaten during the 92 riots, I don't blame the driver. I'd go GTA on their asses myself if I felt I was in danger.

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