Who wants to play a game where you can't do anything without bounty hunters ruining it?

[hotdiggitydog]

personally i never really had any issues with bounty hunters. i only really found it annoying when i'd be 

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riding around near the town Rhodes in chapter 3 when they'd come out of nowhere and start shooting at me.

besides that, bounty hunters were never an issue.

[Limey77]

Chapter 7????

Bounty Hunters have never been an issue in either of my playthroughs. Ignore the bounty until it gets to the $100+ region then just pay it off. Once you clear ch 2 you're never short of cash. I always had $2500+ on hand and never had a bounty over $250, so bounty hunters were never even a slight consideration, let alone a problem.

[YodaMan 3D]

11 hours ago, Nightwulf1974 said:

Lol at this guy.  Learn to play and use the system to your advantage noob.  

Please, no need for name calling.  

[Kormath]

18 hours ago, Limey77 said:

Chapter 7????

Bounty Hunters have never been an issue in either of my playthroughs. Ignore the bounty until it gets to the $100+ region then just pay it off. Once you clear ch 2 you're never short of cash. I always had $2500+ on hand and never had a bounty over $250, so bounty hunters were never even a slight consideration, let alone a problem.

I like bounties   I'm playing as red as i can get this play through.  Maxed my bounty up to $500 in chapter 2 in all 3 states.  just started chapter 3, not sure if it goes higher than $500 in chapter 3.  My son was in chapter 4 or 5 and had his up to $650, have to see if that's the max when i get up that far in the story.

That also explains why i'm always struggling for money lol. 

[BropolloCreed79]

19 hours ago, Nightwulf1974 said:

Learn to play and use the system to your advantage noob.  

"Learn to Play"?  Was "Git Gud" too trite?  No two players have identical synaptic potential or eye-hand coordination.  I'm middle-aged, and would get absolutely annihilated in an FPS when going up against a 15-year old kid doped out on ADHD medication.  Strategy and planning can only do so much.

And "noob"?  What is this, 2002?

Edit, I'd be willing to bet that more than half of the people who use "noob" can't even tell you the etymology without using the ol' Googlemachine to get an answer.

Because they're "noobs"

[Kormath]

1 hour ago, BropolloCreed79 said:

"Learn to Play"?  Was "Git Gud" too trite?  No two players have identical synaptic potential or eye-hand coordination.  I'm middle-aged, and would get absolutely annihilated in an FPS when going up against a 15-year old kid doped out on ADHD medication.  Strategy and planning can only do so much.

And "noob"?  What is this, 2002?

Edit, I'd be willing to bet that more than half of the people who use "noob" can't even tell you the etymology without using the ol' Googlemachine to get an answer.

Because they're "noobs"

Get that troll!    Let's hogtie him and leave him on the tracks.  

Guy hasn't said one helpful thing at all in the forums, look at his posts and they're all like that.

[rick249kdr]

18 hours ago, BropolloCreed79 said:

"Learn to Play"?  Was "Git Gud" too trite?  No two players have identical synaptic potential or eye-hand coordination.  I'm middle-aged, and would get absolutely annihilated in an FPS when going up against a 15-year old kid doped out on ADHD medication.  Strategy and planning can only do so much.

And "noob"?  What is this, 2002?

Edit, I'd be willing to bet that more than half of the people who use "noob" can't even tell you the etymology without using the ol' Googlemachine to get an answer.

Because they're "noobs"

They certainly couldn't tell you what etymology means. Let alone synaptic potential.

[BropolloCreed79]

40 minutes ago, rick249kdr said:

They certainly couldn't tell you what etymology means. Let alone synaptic potential.

To be fair, I learned it from watching televised spelling bees.  Although nowadays, the kids always ask for "the language of origin".

Noobs.

[Poggy]

n00bs and nubs ... I like this modern vernacular.  

[rick249kdr]

The zeroes! I forget about those. Good stuff.

[Kormath]

L2P Noob, nub, nOOB, newb  that's most of what i recall from the early WoW addiction i had lol.  Note that the older players like me would usually use Newb, the kids failing school playing games instead do the other variations   What's sad is a teacher friend of mine showed me an essay he made his 4th grade class write.  There were numerous papers with chat slang in them.  I feel really sorry for the future of this world.  Doctorate Thesis' will be riddled with Ur, abt, af, afaik, 2nite, etc. and made up words like fleek, and whatever else the millenials are coming up with lol

[Kean_1]

I remember the word newbie being used but not necessarily in a negative sense.  It simply meant that person was new to the game, job, activity....whatever.  From what I remember, when n00b started getting thrown around it was typically meant as an insult. 

Hell, many of the words the younger generations use these days I have to look up.  We're way beyond the simple "lol" type words of the past that were easy enough to figure out.  At this point however, I'm too old to even try or care for that matter what these terms / abbreviations / labels even mean.  I had enough of acronyms, terminology, etc. from business when I was still working.  

Funny, I remember first hearing people start to use the term "net net" in the office.   ......what the? (I thought to myself).  Had to ask someone after we got out of a meeting.  What did he mean "net net"? Turns out they can't just say "net" or "the bottom line" but now it's "net net".  From one meeting to the next, it just caught on as I'm sure it had in other businesses.  .....same thing happens in gaming and online communities.

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[Kormath]

10 minutes ago, Kean_1 said:

Hell, many of the words the younger generations use these days I have to look up.  We're way beyond the simple "lol" type words of the past that were easy enough to figure out.  At this point however, I'm too old to even try or care for that matter what these terms / abbreviations / labels even mean.  I had enough of acronyms, terminology, etc. from business when I was still working.  

Agreed.  I had to tell my son to use English when he texts me so i know what he's talking about.  This was after he needed something for school that was important a couple years back but i had no clue what his text said and missed the deadline.  He was mad when i got home and threw a fit about it, told him to text english and he'll get what he needs when it's needed.  seemed to work, i rarely get a text anymore from him i can't understand.

what bugs me now is they can't put more than a few words in a text.  I get 10 texts for something they can do in 1 or maybe 2.  If i do it back to them I get "DAD! STOP!" lol

[BropolloCreed79]

23 minutes ago, Kormath said:

what bugs me now is they can't put more than a few words in a text.  I get 10 texts for something they can do in 1 or maybe 2.  If i do it back to them I get "DAD! STOP!" lol

My oldest is only 8, so he's a few years from having a phone, but Ground Rule #1 is definitely going to be, "Thou Shall NOT Use Internet Slang Nor Colloquialisms When Messaging Thy Parents."

Neither Mrs. Creed nor myself use shorthand when texting.  Mrs. Creed's biggest sin is emoticons, but otherwise, we "Habla Ingles" and avoid shorthand because as former athletes (decades ago), we adhere to "you play how you practice".  It's solid advice for just about everything, and we stress it for our kids even when studying:  sit down and relax when studying, because when testing in school, the instructors don't allow you to walk around the room, use the restroom, eat, or glance at your phone/device.

The same can be said of writing habits.  If 75% of someone's communication is done via text, full of acronyms, shorthand, and emoticons, they will be functionally illiterate when they need to produce papers in an academic environment.  Practice how you want to play, indeed.

[Volt]

I think the first time I heard that term was during Ultima Online. When the game was new. We were all learning to play in that big sandbox open world game. ImaNewbie made a series of online comics about his adventures in Britannia. I was such a newbie back then. Still am.

http://www.imanewbie.com/
 

[Limey77]

5 hours ago, BropolloCreed79 said:

My oldest is only 8, so he's a few years from having a phone, but Ground Rule #1 is definitely going to be, "Thou Shall NOT Use Internet Slang Nor Colloquialisms When Messaging Thy Parents."

Neither Mrs. Creed nor myself use shorthand when texting.  Mrs. Creed's biggest sin is emoticons, but otherwise, we "Habla Ingles" and avoid shorthand because as former athletes (decades ago), we adhere to "you play how you practice".  It's solid advice for just about everything, and we stress it for our kids even when studying:  sit down and relax when studying, because when testing in school, the instructors don't allow you to walk around the room, use the restroom, eat, or glance at your phone/device.

The same can be said of writing habits.  If 75% of someone's communication is done via text, full of acronyms, shorthand, and emoticons, they will be functionally illiterate when they need to produce papers in an academic environment.  Practice how you want to play, indeed.

Ha ha, a few years from having a phone? Mine's 9 and has to have a phone. At least she texts in English and with punctuation.

[BropolloCreed79]

1 hour ago, Limey77 said:

Ha ha, a few years from having a phone? Mine's 9 and has to have a phone. At least she texts in English and with punctuation.

He's going to have his own .22 before he has his own phone.  I need to see that he can be responsible enough to respect his possessions and treat them with the care they warrant.  Next summer, I'll take him to the farm and he'll get to shoot for the first time.   He already helps me clean my gun and pack my kit when I go deer hunting every year, and he should be ready for the increased level of responsibility.

[Poggy]

I'm pretty sure there no clear causal link between texting with net-speak use and illiteracy.  Indeed, I think I came across some research one time indicating the opposite - somewhat akin to the myth of swearing being a sign of linguistic ineptitude.

Probably far more a simple correlation between stupid kids in dysfunctional environments spending lots of time on a phone.

 

[Kormath]

3 hours ago, Poggy said:

Probably far more a simple correlation between stupid kids in dysfunctional environments spending lots of time on a phone.

That's exactly it.

I went out with friends for pizza and beers last night.  Brought the conversation here up with my teacher friend as i was curious what he did with the papers.  He gave those kids an F on their English essay.  One parent threw an epic fit about her child getting an F.  Something about that's how English is now, look it up online they're real words.  'Cause anything on the internet is true right?  Just ask the state farm insurance girl and her french boyfriend.  He said the mom was looking at urbandictionary.com  because it's a real valid dictionary so everything in it is real English and should be allowed in their papers she thinks.  

Parental failure, idiots breed and teach their kids to be idiots.  And that family is very dysfunctional, she was a problem teen, knocked up at 15 had this kid at 16.  Her parents took custody as she got into drugs and had a new boyfriend every other week, not to mention the guys she slept with for her drugs.  She finally cleaned up her act, at least enough to get custody back, and now she's the vengeful, my kid is a saint, type parent.  Really feel sorry for the kid, but what can you do.

[Kean_1]

15 hours ago, BropolloCreed79 said:

He's going to have his own .22 before he has his own phone.  I need to see that he can be responsible enough to respect his possessions and treat them with the care they warrant.  Next summer, I'll take him to the farm and he'll get to shoot for the first time.   He already helps me clean my gun and pack my kit when I go deer hunting every year, and he should be ready for the increased level of responsibility.

That's a big step.  While not old (mature) enough in my mind yet to wield a firearm (he's a little younger than yours), I still quiz my son on the 4 basic rules that all children should know about when they encounter them "in the wild".  .....stop, don't touch, get out of the area and tell a family member / adult.  

As he gets older we'll be talking about the 4 basic rules of gun safety when handling firearms.  My dad taught me on BB guns in our backyard.  Nowadays I have been entertaining the idea of Airsoft guns as a decent alternative for instruction. 

I have my old Ruger MkII and 10/22 when he's ready to move up to the real thing.   .....fun times.

[Kormath]

1 minute ago, Kean_1 said:

That's a big step.  While not old (mature) enough in my mind yet to wield a firearm (he's a little younger than yours), I still quiz my son on the 4 basic rules that all children should know about when they encounter them "in the wild".  .....stop, don't touch, get out of the area and tell a family member / adult.  

As he gets older we'll be talking about the 4 basic rules of gun safety when handling firearms.  My dad taught me on BB guns in our backyard.  Nowadays I have been entertaining the idea of Airsoft guns as a decent alternative for instruction. 

I have my old Ruger MkII and 10/22 when he's ready to move up to the real thing.   .....fun times.

That's what i did with my boy.  Airsoft/BB gun when he was 6, .243 youth at 10 to go hunting with me.  Then when he decided hunting wasn't for him i swapped out the stock on the .243 and it's mine   Can't have too many rifles... 

His first hunting trip was a draw hunt for Pronghorn.  They're worse than rabbits around my brothers ranch.  So we went there to hunt some in his fields.  First time we saw a herd we snuck up on them and used the brush around a power pole as cover.  Till my son sat down on a thistle and yelped and scared them away.  Jump back in the truck, drive across a couple fields to the next herd, he slams the truck door on accident and they go running off.  found a 3rd herd in a field a few to the south.  Had a great big Case tractor in the corner we hid near for cover.  Had a perfect line on a doe broadside but then he got buck fever.  Sit and aim and fidget, aim and fidget, then the doe turned and trotted off and he called it.  "Dad my butt hurts and i'm done, lets go home" lol

Gotta love those first hunting trips

[Kean_1]

22 minutes ago, Kormath said:

That's what i did with my boy.  Airsoft/BB gun when he was 6, .243 youth at 10 to go hunting with me.  Then when he decided hunting wasn't for him i swapped out the stock on the .243 and it's mine   Can't have too many rifles... 

His first hunting trip was a draw hunt for Pronghorn.  They're worse than rabbits around my brothers ranch.  So we went there to hunt some in his fields.  First time we saw a herd we snuck up on them and used the brush around a power pole as cover.  Till my son sat down on a thistle and yelped and scared them away.  Jump back in the truck, drive across a couple fields to the next herd, he slams the truck door on accident and they go running off.  found a 3rd herd in a field a few to the south.  Had a great big Case tractor in the corner we hid near for cover.  Had a perfect line on a doe broadside but then he got buck fever.  Sit and aim and fidget, aim and fidget, then the doe turned and trotted off and he called it.  "Dad my butt hurts and i'm done, lets go home" lol

Gotta love those first hunting trips

Lol....  Yeah, hunting is not my bag either but still one of those skills I wish I had learned. 

I have my old Ruger MkII and 10/22 for when my kid gets older but yeah, the airsoft route is beginning to look like a good route for an intro.

The only rifle I want now is an M1A Scout then I'll be happy.