BropolloCreed79

Just start everyone around the perimeter of the map on horseback, randomly spaced apart, or have preselected spawns but random assignments. To drive everyone closer together, have either tornadoes or wildfire closing in.

Cheating is the equivalent of buying a billboard next to the freeway and declaring to the public at large that "I suck, and cannot hang with the average player. I need a competitive advantage to be good at something!" Exactly. That'd be like me walking up to the counter of my local apothecary and asking for sildenafil citrate to gain a competitive advantage. Fixed. The difference here, is that you aren't using it to gain a competitive advantage or to troll other players. BIG difference. I can't speak for others, but when I have the opportunity to game with friends, both cooperatively and competitively, it enhances the experience exponentially. The online component of games like RDRO, The Division, or GTAO have an allure that's essentially a smaller scale version of an MMORPG or an ARPG, especially with the level of detail in the case of RDR2. Building a posse/crew/gang online and having fun together can be a very rewarding experience among like-minded individuals.

I take my role-playing seriously.

Speak for yourself. I'm going to be a functioning alcoholic.

That's fantastic. I can dig it.

I'm actually heading out this weekend to pick up an internal SSD to do a swap. Probably 1 TB. The PITA will be dropping everything onto an external first as a backup before swapping out the drives. I figure 1 TB will give me plenty of space since I don't download movies and I only play about 2-3 games at a time. But on a 500GB drive? 100+GBs of data is too much of the space. Plus, it's the original HD, so I know that'll go sooner as opposed to later.

I don't know about all that. I specialize in Stromboli and Pie. And now, cinnamon burgers.

Not nasty yellow French's nonsense. We like that sophisticated Grey Poupon stuff. It adds a nice bit of bitterness to the bark and infuses the meat that pairs well with everything else that goes on.

Not much to it really, just that Jack, and then smoking with apple cider vinegar and some hickory chips. Coats the meat with mustard before he starts so the "bark" has a nice base to build off of. He uses a probe to make sure the meat is at the serve safe temp and pulls it. I'll ask him when he gets back into town.

My old man smokes pork shoulder for Thanksgiving, and one of the things he does is inject the meat with Jack 2 or 3 days before he smokes it. I agree with your assessment of the magic of Jack's meat-curing properties.

Ah, yes, the last appearance of "classic Jennifer" before she was replaced by Elisabeth Shue in the sequel:

Ready to have your mind blown? Cinnamon burgers. Just form up a patty, and absolutely coat that sucker with pure, unadulterated ground cinnamon (like a thick coat of dry rub). Tuns out, it's only the best burger ever. No need for cheese or condiments, just meat and bun. It tastes nothing like you'd expect it to, because cinnamon is so married to sugar in baking that we all expect it to be sweet. As it turns out, it's nothing like that AT ALL. It was the juiciest, most savory and compelling burger I ever had. I made a second to confirm, and upped the amount of cinnamon. It was even better the second time around.

They absolutely should have this in RDO. It's a form of competitive balance. When a small number of players have access to the best items in the game, there should be an element of strategy involved in maintaining that competitive edge. If I have an overpowered scattergun, I shouldn't be able to just roll through common areas blasting away with impunity. At some point natural degradation of the firearm should be a legitimate concern, just as it was back then. Even now, the military routinely tracks the number of rounds fired by each weapon, and gunsmiths or armorers are on-site to maintain, repair, or replace weapons that meet certain thresholds for basic maintenance. Police forces replace weapons that have had a certain number of rounds fired based on manufacturer's specifications. Having the need to maintain and devote time and resources to the online component is a natural extension of the slavish adherence to realism R* is permeating the game with. If the physics of horse testicles was that important, this is a no-brainer by extension.

The whole thing is part and parcel for working in a production environment when you're up against a deadline. I worked for a media company that was producing content in the past, and I routinely worked 36-48 hour shifts when we were up against it, but that would literally be once every three or four months, and not a regular occurrence. They'd feed us, let us sleep on couches, and we'd get paid overtime for it, so there really wasn't much to complain about it. Those are also offset by entire months of regular to light duty, especially in a ROWE (Results Only Work Environment). If anything, the need for a crunch at the end of production is the result of poor planning by the project manager, who clearly didn't build in enough time into the schedule, or create a realistic, workable timeframe to begin with. A good project manager anticipates those things, and has the power and blessing of upper management to initiate corrective measures and actions against team members who routinely under-perform or miss project goals. I've seen entire projects bogged down by the actions/incompetence/apathy of ONE individual. A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link, so it takes a project manager with tremendous vision to prevent things like crunch sessions from being a necessity.

It's gaming, bro, I need the freedom of movement that results from clothing at all to perform at my absolute peak. Also, leather couches feel fantastic on an exposed derriere. And when you flatulate? Pure magic.

You haven't messaged me yet.

That just looks filthy. May as well be the title slate for an entertainment company that specializes in mature content.

Not even...

I'm actually about to pick up F13 again because (a) it was free on PS Plus this month, and (b)there's huge xp/cp bonuses actibe. I need you, @Truth, @Freddie Mercury, @NthnButAGoodTime, & @TheHansonGoons to talk me down from the ledge on that one.

Spoiler alert, @Truth, I broke the forums again. Edit: I bet "artesianal charcuterie" is what got me flagged. It just sounds dirty.

I literally cannot wait.

Hey, if I'm going to spend frivolously, it's going to be on important stuff, like craft beer, imported liquor, and artesianal charcuterie boards.

Screw that, you have a TALKING HORSE! You're rich!

A Marsden as a GMan would be interesting.