Everything posted by unr3al
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New multiplayer Co-op for Grand Theft Auto V
That's not a focus right now, and likely won't be for some time. We already have LSPDFR and RageHook to worry about.
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ACtive shooter SAn Bernadino
New update: Shootings officially being investigated as terrorism according to CNN. Farooks wife pledged allegiance to ISIS the day of the shooting. She is from Pakistan. Farook took her as a wife during a trip to Mecca and brought her home. They smashed their cell phones in an effort to conceal evidence.
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vehicle spawner
It's easier to just make yourself invulnerable using the trainer so you don't have to do either of those things.
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Noticing Unmarked Government Cars in Public
How are they supposed to signal people to pull people over without lights and sirens? With a gun, again? And people call the U.S. police aggressive.
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Turkey Shoots Down Russian Jet
The United States has been bombing and droning in that area for far longer than any other country. We spearhead NATO. France and Russia are new participants. Russia is bombing to keep their raw material connections in tact, we are bombing to keep our raw material connections in tact and to stem the tide of ISIS. Once Russia gets enough Islamic terrorist attacks on their soil, they'll probably go after these people more aggressively. Who knows how many it will take. Other NATO countries will likely have the U.S. do the heavy lifting unless its absolutely necessary they throw more of their might against the middle eastern militias who oppose us.
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ACtive shooter SAn Bernadino
So a quick update on the possibility of terrorism: An FBI spokesperson who wished to remain anonymous since they're technically not allowed to talk about the case says that Farook was in contact with terrorist organizations via the internet. That being said, he says they are not ready to call him a terrorist yet. Farook's brothers said he recently memorized the Qu'ran, was very religious and prayed every day. The other person who helped with the attack was his wife. They dropped their 6 month old daughter off with relatives earlier that day. Source: http://news.yahoo.com/14-dead-17-wounded-california-081816288.html
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ACtive shooter SAn Bernadino
I would like to tweak that statement just slightly by adding in "on a massive scale". That recent Planned Parenthood gunman is a hardcore Christian according to an ex-lover of his, which would make sense considering Planned Parenthood's notoriety for providing birth control methods and abortions to those who need it. Oddly enough, Islam doesn't support the idea of the spirit entering the body until the 40th day or the 120th depending on how you interpret the passages, unlike Christianity which actually makes Islam better on subjects such as stem cell research or necessary abortions as a result of rape. Although then again, Islamic culture paints the woman at fault and suggest that she should be killed, not the rapist. All religions are pretty terrible, in my view, but considering the frequency of these terror attacks committed in the name of Islam, it's very difficult to argue that this particular religion poses the greatest threat to the rest of the world and to its own people.
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Turkey Shoots Down Russian Jet
He's not really doing either of those two last things you mentioned. He's doing what the U.S.A. has been doing for years; attempting to keep the "right people" in power to keep the most "productive" relationship possible.
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ACtive shooter SAn Bernadino
The suspect we've been talking about was in the medical field himself, which is one of the possible reasons for choosing the target; he knew it was there and it was going to be easy. Keep in mind that Muslims in western countries often follow their religion a little differently in order to be able to function in society. I see many Muslim women who do not wear burkas, but they have their heads covered, often have their faces covered and always wear long sleeve shirts and pants. That would not be allowed in Gaza, but it's acceptable in western culture and it technically follows "female dress code" of the Qu'ran so it's good enough while living here. A female may have been used in this instance for the same reason Americans and Europeans are used in terrorist groups: Because they're an available asset. Remember Johnny Taliban or Jihadi John? Or this new Russian kid who debuted today: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/new-jihadi-john-isis-release-6943049 Considering who they are, they should have no business committing terrorism in the name of Islam, yet here they are. Details as you said will emerge in the coming days. We can only wait and see.
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ACtive shooter SAn Bernadino
The problem with those targets are they are all extremely well secured against people with ski masks and assault rifles compared to the one that was hit today. It would be the equivalent of having a choice between assaulting a police station vs. an ice cream shop. Which target is going to be easier to destroy? America takes terrorism, and therefore it's security measures more seriously than European countries do, I'm afraid, because they have not had a 9/11 yet. If someone is going to kill a boss or an ex-wife in a crime of passion, you don't need a team of people with assault rifles and a getaway SUV to do it.
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ACtive shooter SAn Bernadino
How is this a waste of time? This will be grabbing headlines for weeks, which is what terrorists want. The people in the past few years who have tried and failed to set off bombs in their shoes or underwear wasted their time, but that's because they f*cked up. These people picked a soft target where kills would be guaranteed, and they did so quite successfully.
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ACtive shooter SAn Bernadino
That's my point. This can't be passed off as being a consequence of being a "rough area". These people likely aren't tied to gangs (at least the primary suspect isn't) and there was certainly no money in this. Turns out that this guy did indeed have a decent paying job as a government employee: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVRXTX0VAAAzlc-.jpg:large
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ACtive shooter SAn Bernadino
How many Qatari gangs do you have there? *EDIT* When asked if the suspect (Syed Farook) was religious, his brother in law declined to comment. He stood by the leaders of the Council for American-Islamic Relations while giving his statement that his family is deeply sorry for what happened.
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ACtive shooter SAn Bernadino
Because the primary religion in that country is Islam, and considering that the suspects were Middle Eastern, this is more than likely yet another terrorist attack that attracted people who identify with the Qu'ran's dangerous passages more than they do with their actual social status in life. These people likely have the same seemingly unfathomable reasons to do this similar to why Americans with good jobs leave the U.S. to go join ISIS or Al Queda. This sh*t needs to stop. I'm sick of the gun laws in this country, and I am sick of people being overly politically correct when it comes to theology belonging to another region of the world. These principles need to be identified as a problem. As much as I like President Obama, he is not helping by refusing to use the word 'Islamic' when referring to terrorism that happens in its name. The rest of the world needs to get on the same page and go after these terrorist organizations with a vengeance, and start giving proper exposure and funding to Muslims who wish to reform their religion into something that won't condone this type of violent behavior. It's medieval and needs to stop. *EDIT* 14 dead, by the way, as of a few hours ago. I don't even care to look at what the death toll is now. I'm too upset. *EDIT #2* I read recently that apparently a woman who was previously in a relationship with the Planned Parenthood gunman said something to the degree of "he is a hardcore Christian lunatic".
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Some facts about the Eric Garner case
Jay-walking is barely even a crime, so is speeding, so is theft of penny candy, so is dodging child support, so it software piracy. Where do we draw the line? Don't feed me that bullsh*t. That's the mentality of someone who commits crimes of opportunity, weighing the risk/reward scale to be in their favor even if they get caught. The fact that you sympathize with and condone criminal activity compromises your judgement of this scenario. He was informed what his crime was and he was being taken into custody. That's not a new concept for somebody who's been arrested 30 times, it's not a misunderstanding, it's a refusal to go to jail. You're first problem is insinuating that it's not only a few bad apples for the same reason that I suggest that it is. The difference is I've met and know a lot of police officers, sheriffs deputies, state troopers and even U.S. Marshalls and a D.E.A. agents from multiple states. I've seen them do their job, I've been with them when they do their job, I've even been stopped on the side of the road by a few of them. Most of them are stand up people. I've only had one unjustified negative experience with a police officer. The second problem is that you're for some reason mixing up my disgust with people being too collective when discussing bad police work with me trying to close of a conversation about it. If I was trying to close off any kind of conversation or debate with you about the police, I would have stopped replying long ago. It's not character assassination. I'm not demonizing, I'm just reporting. The records show he was not a law abiding citizen. That's a fact, not an opinion. I'm showing you that there's a pattern to his behavior. Several of his past charges are selling un-taxed items on the street corner. Guess what the police stopped him for that day? You need to read. I have the right to judge Garner's behavior because I'm a fellow citizen. I thought it didn't matter if I'm black or not, right? You're bringing up race victimization again despite the fact that you're insisting that you aren't. What the police did wasn't irresponsible, because they have a duty to take a criminal into custody. I already discussed with you that they can't simply walk away when faced with the issue of physical force being necessary to facilitate an arrest. You can walk away from a fight at a bar with another guy, but you can't abandon your duties as a police officer. I discussed all of those things with you already. You're forcing this conversation to go around in circles. There's no proof of any harassment, profiling or trumped up chargers. You're simply speculating to give Garner a way out of this. And you're asking if I watched the video? After I explained all of the physical techniques used and the events leading up to the arrest itself? Did I watch the video? Gee, where have I heard that line before? Garner did give up immediately, just as the choke hold was released immediately, which is why the whole choke hold business is a non-issue other than looking like something violent for the cameras and an opportunity for people who dislike the police to brow beat or otherwise convince neutral parties to sympathize with the person being arrested in cases like these. The coroner ruled that the death was a homicide as a result of the police officers actions because without the altercation that day, his heart attack may not have been triggered. But due to the fact that it was brought on by physical exertion, that means he could have had it running away from a rabid dog, or breaking up another fight, or having his next meal. That's all speculation. The fact that he had heart disease, asthma and was morbidly obese is not speculation. It's fact. If you're not here to be educated by me then you're essentially not here to listen to me which makes this entire thread a colossal waste of time. Having access to the same information only helps if you bother to make an attempt to read it and understand it. You keep bringing this conversation away from Garner and trying to put focus on people of another social status and economic class. You want childish? Not staying on topic and not arguing the points is childish. It's a cop-out to complain that there are bigger and similar crimes being committed elsewhere. If you still wish to complain about Wall Street, I'll reiterate: it's not a high property or physical crime area, and street cops don't get to enforce banking and stock trading regulations. As I mentioned earlier, this conversation is going around in circles, veering off course at some point during each of your replies until I force you to get back to Garner. At least I can close out my reply to you with him being the focal point. There are reasons behind the laws to enforce sales tax on items in the state of New York. If you'd like to know them in depth, you can read some speeches Rudy Giuliani gave. The problem with cracking down on low crime in this instance is that it got elevated to a point of high crime unnecessarily. Instead of taking a trip to county, bonding or signing himself out of jail or waiting overnight to dispute the charge in court; he escalated the interaction with police to the point where it got violent. Garner made the decision he wasn't going to jail. And don't try and feed me op-ed bullshit on Garner telling me he was a great guy just because his neighbors and family say so. You know who else was supposed to be a great person according to family and friends? Any number of murderers or other criminals who have to stand trial in this country every day. Take Philip Chism as an example. He was a great kid who enjoyed playing sports, was enthusiastic in class and lived in a loving family with a father who served in the military. Besides being all of those things, you know what else he was? He was a murderer and somebody who raped the corpse of a 24 year old teacher he killed with a box cutter, before dumping the body in a waste bin with a tree branch shoved up her vagina. Nearly every case where the family or friends of the accused are asked to comment on them, they generally say the same thing: "My baby was a great person, he'd never do anything to harm anybody, I didn't see this coming." Nobody saw Garner's decision to fight coming other than the cops who were called for backup. They were ready as they could be for a fight against a fat guy determined not to go to jail. Garner was not ready for a fight with anyone, taking into consideration his state of health. The person responsible for the decision to fight that day was Garner, the person responsible for getting taken down the way he did was Garner and the person who worked himself into physical distress despite having a bunch of pre-existing medical conditions was Garner.
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N/A
Injured people get taken by EMS in real life, the police don't act as a taxi service. Any minor scrapes or what-not are handled by the nurses at the jail, just outside the holding cells. Ambulance functionality is something I want too, although I believe other mods already cover that. Los Angeles is a massive city that unfortunately has a big crime problem. As such, patrol car saturation is very much a real thing, and helicopters are always in the air. Backup units can be on top of a pursuit in under a minute in a lot of cases. Not all cases of course, especially out in the country side where the LAPD isn't present and the CHP is relied on instead. The key issues with the 2-5 minutes is that if someone is running on a highway, in GTA V you'll be able to lap around half the map in 5 minutes if you don't make any successful PIT attempts. That's not realistic at all. Most pursuits only last about 3 minutes or less on average in the real world and therefore don't cover that kind of distance. Armor is customize-able as Lundy said, or you can always use the 'Fix Player' command in Simple Native Trainer, and that gives you a full health bar and full armor.
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Turkey Shoots Down Russian Jet
Turkey is one of many Muslim countries that does unfortunately share some ideals with ISIS. A large portion of them don't, keep in mind, but consider this brief talking point about Turkey: https://youtu.be/nsUfHqMSeaA?t=2m22s 75 million people, about 8% of them share ISIS ideals according to interviews, polls and surveys. That sounds small, but that's 6 million people. I'm sorry, but that's a large number. The theory of Turkey holding back its involvement in the war against terror is very plausible.
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Some facts about the Eric Garner case
"What was his crime?" If I didn't know any better, I'd say you've never actually read anything about this case or watched the entire video, because a lot of the questions you pose or the assumptions you're making would be answered and validated/invalidated respectively if you did. Nobody here is saying the police can do no wrong and that there aren't bad guys on the force interspersed throughout the country. The problem is that people such as yourself are somehow able to get away with grouping all officers together as "the police" in such a way that when one man violates his oath or the law; all of them do it. That's a huge problem in this country and it's one that's increasingly putting the police and this countries citizens at odds. People who firmly believe that the police as a collective term are bad are either close minded nitwits who don't have a real grip on the world or people who've had a bad experience with the police themselves and want to pass blame onto the cops instead of themselves. I think first I'm going to have to clarify what is and isn't "okay" with you when we're talking about the Eric Garner take down, which might be difficult, since you seem to think that the police had no reason to contact him at all in the first place. If we are to break down this event's history in chronological order by reading the background story of both Eric Garner and this particular interaction with the police, we can start with the fact that Eric was a career criminal. He had been arrested 30 times from charges ranging from reselling items without tax (which is a crime in New York City whether you like it or not) all the way to, assault, resisting arrest and grand larceny. At the time of his last interaction with police, he was out on bail for possession of marijuana, selling un-taxed cigarettes (seems to be a pattern here), driving without a license and providing a false name to police. So lets start off with that. Eric was not a good guy, and this wasn't exactly his first rodeo. Fast forwarding to the interaction with police that led to his death, he was accused of once again selling un-taxed items to people on the street, which a plain clothed officer caught him doing. When a police officer approaches you, announces himself as one and states his intent to place you under arrest; that should be 'all she wrote'. I've said this before, and I'll say it again: You are not going to fight your court case out on the street. Arguing and resisting arrest is only going to pile on more charges. The smart thing to do would be to go along with the program, bail out, and sue the police later if they wrongfully arrested you. Judging by the pattern of Garner's criminal career, chances are that the accusations of the plain clothed officer were not unfounded. The officer did inform Eric what he was going to be placed under arrest for, but Eric simply protested by giving the typical "I didn't do nuthin', ya'll harrassin' me" line. After Eric continued to refuse to put his hands behind his back and submit to arrest, it became clear to the plain clothed officer that he's not going to be able to win a fight against somebody that much bigger than him. At that point, backup officers finally arrived on scene, at which time a forceful arrest had to be made. Eric had stated his intent to resist leading up to the attempt at a blood choke takedown that was caught on film, and indeed he did resist as the video shows. As was discussed days ago, a blood choke would be the perfect takedown in an ideal world where it's perfectly executed and the suspect doesn't expect it, because it eliminates physical resistance in a matter of seconds without having to beat somebody into submission or pierce their skin with a bullet or taser probes. Unfortunately; this not being an ideal world we live in, the chokehold was not secure and instead the takedown did not go smoothly due to Eric's size and determination to resist arrest no matter what. Despite this, the overwhelming presence of backup officers were able to get his hands behind his back, the chokehold was released after a total of about 5 seconds, and the scuffle was over. Eric was placed on his side in the recovery position after the officers handcuffed him. At this point he was still breathing and complaining as more units and EMS were called to the scene. What I described above covers who, what, when where, why and how. I can articulate all of those things because I watched the video, and I read about Eric and the street cops who approached him. Most people who comment on this topic have not done most or sometimes even any of those things, and I have a suspicion you're among them. Despite that, you can now consider yourself educated as to why Eric did what he did and why the police did what they did. These scenarios of resisting arrest occur every day all across America, but this happened to be a situation where the guy resisting arrest had heart disease, asthma and was morbidly obese. He knew all of those things prior to resisting arrest, and the police did not. That being said, even if the police knew his medical history; it would be debatable as to whether an arrest using a taser would have been any better. Studies have shown that there is no direct link between electric shocks from a taser and heart attacks, but it is inconclusive as to whether it can irritate pre-existing heart conditions or anatomical oddities at birth that compromise the functionality of the heart. Among ignoring the evidence, my chief problem with you in this thread is that you're making excuses but you're not owning up to them. It's very obvious that you're trying to emphasize that the police were harassing him with no direct evidence of that, and that they picked on him because he wasn't wearing a suit like the stereotypical whiter capitalists you seem to hate. Do you know why they don't pick on guys on Wall Street in suits? Because they don't sell un-taxed items outside of a convenience store on the street corner. You know why they aren't arrested or ticketing for jay walking? Because they have a Mercedes they climb into at the end of their work day. Inequality in today's society and the disappearing middle class is a problem in America, but its a problem for another thread. It has no place here other than to serve as a last resort talking point for you when the fact is that there is no legal or moral justification for resisting arrest, making what Eric did that day wrong. The same goes for your crackpot theory about this being a police state. If you want to experience what a real police state is like, get on a plane, take a flight over to South Korea, and then cross the border to the north. You'll be begging to go back to the supposed hell you live in here.
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Some facts about the Eric Garner case
You're already ignoring everything I just said. Arrests by physical force don't just fall out of the sky, Riley. If you're going to play the "he didn't do anything" game, then this conversation isn't going to go anywhere. It's not irrelevant. The whole point was that it was not a secure choke, meaning that neither his airway nor his blood supply to the brain were compromised. The choke is a faux concern for people who don't know any better. Then he probably shouldn't physically resist having handcuffs put on him. Resisting arrest is cause for doing what the police officer has to do to place someone in custody. What kind of an example would you set as a police officer? "Put your hands behind your back, you're under arrest." "No." "Oh, shucks. Alright then, I'll be leaving now." Get real, Riley. That's not the world we live in. Your mindset is no different than Garner's or any other YouTube troll. The problem with you and most other people who like to be a keyboard linebacker about this incident is that you refuse to take the blinders off and look at it from a perspective other than the suspects. He's losing the fight, so surely he must be the underdog and deserve all of the sympathy. I'll repeat what I said earlier; arrests with physical force don't fall out of the sky on random people. You're in no position to say he was harassed since you weren't there. You can only make assumptions. A death at the hands of another person is by definition a homicide. But the physical exertion Garner used that day triggered a heart condition and possibly his asthma. The police didn't give him those medical conditions. One he was born with, the other he obtained by living an unhealthy life style. The medical fact is that a fit person most likely would have been fine during such a scuffle. He died doing something he shouldn't have been doing knowing what poor health he had. Obeying the law has nothing to do with class. It's your responsibility as a citizen of the United States to obey the law of the land. If you don't like it, leave the country or be prepared to deal with the consequences. If you wan't to paint me as a person with no sympathy for a dead person to make your argument look better, you go right ahead. It still won't validate your argument. A death of nearly any kind is regrettable, but this was not a senseless death. It was a death of cause and effect. Yes, yes I would. Looks like you're actually playing the race card, not the fat card. You're insinuating I'd give more of a sh*t if Garner was white. I wouldn't. Stupidity transcends skin colors. Police don't get the chance to patrol the hallways of office buildings in down town New York. If you want to pass the buck and say we need change in Wall Street; I agree. The challenge I present to you is to go do something about it. How many times have you e-mailed your senator about it? How many petitions have you signed? Did you attend any of the occupy protests? Did you vote Democrat in the last two elections? All you're doing is sidestepping the issue. Police don't get to monitor businesses. We have agencies that do that, and they do a very poor job. The only way to change that is to be active in politics that go beyond casual YouTube browsing. If you want change that badly, I suggest you stop debating this topic and go do something. I see your point, but your point is wrong. Your argument boils down to "He was picked on because he's black, the police are a bunch of thugs, we're all going to live in a police state like Nazi Germany soon, thanks Obama". It's the same sh*t I see on my Facebook feed every week that makes me question why I was friends with any of these people back when I was in high school. Basic sociology involves impartial thought and multiple viewpoints. That's multiculturalism. You're viewing it through the minority victim's point of view only. That's called monoculturalism.
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New car releases
Really? Two weeks is a long time?
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So, I just tried coffee for the first time in a couple years.
I don't drink coffee; everyone I know does. I'm convinced they're weird/weak since they need it multiple times per day, every day. Unfortunately I've had to drink energy drinks once every couple of days *takes sip of one now* to keep myself going due to the inconsistent sleep schedule between classes and work. They taste gross, but slightly less gross than coffee. Also, I've tried Mountain Dew Kickstart, and when I drink it, this doesn't happen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjwUVZHBcoY I feel ripped off. I don't doubt that it makes some people convulse like the fat guy at the beginning of the video after he takes a sip or makes you see sh*t like creatures coming out of the wall.
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New multiplayer Co-op for Grand Theft Auto V
We'd first have to clarify which method of 3rd party multiplayer is acceptable to Rockstar/TakeTwo, if any at all, or to see if there's at least a way around their idea of multiplayer that doesn't violate the terms of service. This may require some hard studying of the ToS and methods to approach hosting since there are always two parties involved in multiplayer games: The host and the client. (Could we convince them to host 2-3 official servers with a password, and an administrator keeping an eye out 24/7 and zero anti-cheat measurements besides inability to kill other players or destroy their cars? Could we convince them to allow private client-based instances of the GTA V map that the person who starts them has control over? Could we find a way to do this via a web browser? If so, which one?) The next step would be to figure out how to apply the LSPDFR mod to these game instances. (Do we use the inefficient and unstable method LCPDFR players used by having each connecting player start their own instance of the mod? If so, do we force it or do we rely on the players to go on duty by themselves? Do we allow people to go off duty? What happens if their script crashes? Are they able to restart it? How so? Do we somehow figure out a way to apply LSPDFR to the GTA V world itself before players even join? How will that be done? Via web browser? Via script?) I'm not a developer for G17, I'm on the testing team. But I've done a little bit of coding before, and I can tell you from experience that all of these logistical problems (and more) need to be figured out before we can even think of starting any serious work on a multiplayer mode for LSPDFR. It would also be unwise to take a mod that's incomplete and still has many feature updates to go and try and do anything even more complicated with it. That's asking for a virtual flood of support requests on top of the ones the G17 team already has. The right thing to do would be to get the meat and potatoes of this mod working and polished before we try and develop a formula for multiple people to play on the same map. Luckily, since people haven't found a confirmed legit way to co-op play GTA V, that gives us some time to do just that.
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Let's talk about Prostitutes
I'd just keep your clock between 11pm and 3am. Keep using Simple Native Trainer to keep the time in between those hours.
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Let's talk about Prostitutes
Prostitute pickups are random chance. They come out late at night, you can generally find them all around the boardwalk area across the highway from Vespucci Beach, and the road entering the highway near the boardwalk entrance. Vespucci beach itself has a few here and there on the back roads, and there are a bunch of other places, but I like those areas since there are a ton of them with a whole bunch of cars that go by. Good attention grabber for a thread title, btw. I was hoping this would be a more exciting thread, if I'm honest. Maybe I can help with something police/prostitute related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neEevCiZjfc
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Active Shooter- Colorado Springs Shopping Center-4 Cops Hit
Considering planned parenthood was the target, I have a feeling this man will turn out to be a hardcore Christian, with an anti-government mentality due to them legalizing abortion and contraception methods. No known motive yet, but that's my guess. We'll see if it pans out.