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Mary-Lou, Sally, Savannah & Barbara - Dominator Race Night!
by Mark Verstappen- 1 follower
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Mary-Lou, Sally, Savannah & Barbara Come and join us on Wednesday 18th of August at 20:00 UK Time for Dominator Race Night! Just turn up to the parking lot behind Tequi-la-la in any of the 4 generations of Dominator. We will determine who has the best taste in Dominator before we start a playlist to determine who is the Master Dominator! The first 4 races we will do mixed racing where you'll be once in each generation. For the other 4 races we will all race one generation per race from oldest to Newest. Don't worry if you don't own all/any of the Dominators, we can spawn them in for you. All 4 generations of Dominator will be race…
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Random Duos Race Night
by JuniorChubb- 1 follower
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Come and join us this Wednesday for an excellent opportunity to hide your poor racing ability by hiding behind the skills of a better driver in the Random Duos Race Night. We will also be discussing whether racenight is one word or two, pretending to laugh at Dave's jokes, spending 15 minutes on the grid of each race setting things up and ignoring the host! Come along in any race-able car you can find and we will try and incorporate it into the evenings festivities! Can't really remember what else to say... post below to get involved! 1. Chubb 2. Stapp 3. Muld 4.
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MONICA!!!
by Mark Verstappen- 1 follower
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MONICA!!! Come and join us on Wednesday the 4th of August at 20:00 UK Time for Monica! Just turn up to the back of the Los Santos Car Meet in your favorite eligible Sports Car you sign up with. We will determine who has the best car before we start a playlist to determine the winner of Monica! We will race the Eclipse (Penumbra FF), Integra (Remus), Civic Sedan (Sultan) & RX-7 (ZR-350) against each other. We change into each others cars each race because the cars are slightly different pace from each other. We will be doing Race wars (The drag str*p), a long rockstar like track with traffic and regular races. And more if people see fit. Don't…
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Helmut's European Autos B Sports
by Mark Verstappen- 1 follower
- 6 replies
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Helmut's European Autos B Sports Come and join us on Wednesday the 14th of July at 20:00 UK Time for Helmut's European Autos B Sports! Just turn up to the parking lot of Helmut's European Autos in Paleto Bay just of U.S. Route 1 in your favorite Sports Car you sign up with. We will determine who has the best car before we start a playlist to determine the winner of Helmut's European Autos B Sports! We will race the 8F Drafter, Feltzer, Jester (Regular & Racecar allowed), Massacro (Regular & Racecar allowed), Neon & Schlagen GT against each other. You stay the whole night with the car you choose so choose wisely. These cars should be all about th…
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Mystery Car June 2021
by Mark Verstappen- 2 replies
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Come and join us for Mystery Car on Wednesday 21st of April at 20:00 GMT. We will start out in free roam at Kortz Center from where we will have to follow the clues to find the Mystery Car. Once the car is revealed we will all buy it if needed, modify it, then spend the night racing it. The price of the car will be less than $100k so don't worry about having to spend millions to join in. The usual rules will apply, don't bring the emergency services along with you in free roam, don't kill other players, race clean and respect the other racers.... Basically don't be a bellend. Post below to get involved! Verstappen Mulder Badinga R…
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Old vs New Tech
by Mark Verstappen- 4 replies
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Old vs New Tech Come and join us on Wednesday the 23rd of June at 20:00 UK Time for Old vs New Tech! Just turn up to the top of the parking structure of the South Los Santos Hospital in your favorite eligible car you sign up with. We will determine who has the best car before we start a playlist to determine the winner of Old vs New Tech! We will race the Neon vs the Elegy Retro Custom. You stay the whole night with the car you choose so choose wisely. These two cars should be about the same pace with their very different own strengths and weaknesses. Don't worry if you don't own any of the eligible cars, we can spawn some in for you where needed. …
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Festival of Sound
by Mark Verstappen- 1 follower
- 6 replies
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Come one, come all! Morningwood has invited drivers to the Festival of Sound on Wednesday 16th of June. The Festival will consist of a series of races featuring some of the best sounding vehicles Los Santos has to offer (which may have been subjectively chosen by myself). From screaming V12s in the Tigon, to rumbling V8s in the Fränken Stange, to raspy rotaries in the Savestra, and more. You might wanna bring some ear defenders, it's gonna get loud! Just turn up in your best sounding car at the Ron gas station in Morningwood, and we'll vote for the best car before starting. Don't worry if you don't own any of the cars, we'll spawn them in if required. Pos…
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Survive the Hunt
by Mark Verstappen- 1 follower
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Survive the Hunt Come and join us in Survive the Hunt, where the aim is to... well, survive the hunt! Wednesday 2nd of June 20:00 UK time starting from the parking lot of the Vinewood Bowl. What is Survive The Hunt? Essentially, Survive The Hunt is a freeroam game mode where one player is "hunted" by 8+ other players. There is no radar, HUD or name-tags in order to make this a bit more interesting. While there is no set tactic, the most popular and effective one is for the hunted player to "blend in" with the game AI - either on foot or in a car. This means obeying traffic laws, following the road at an AI-ish pace, stopping at traffic lights etc. The hunters …
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The Real SUVs
by Mark Verstappen- 1 follower
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The Real SUVs Come and join us on Wednesday 26th of May at 20:00 UK Time for The Real SUVs! Just turn up to the parking lot in Banning South East of the Maze Bank Arena in any of the 4 listed SUVs. We will determine who has the best taste in cars before we start a playlist to determine who will be the winner of The big boys! Don't worry if you don't own all/any of the SUVs, we can spawn them in for you. Have you ever noticed I hate SUVs? The name means Sports Utility vehicle. But are any of the ones nowadays really worthy of having Utility in the name? I think not. So lets get the real SUVs out there for a change instead of these stupid luxury people c…
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Helmut's European Autos B Classic
by Mark Verstappen- 1 follower
- 12 replies
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Helmut's European Autos B Classic Come and join us on Wednesday the 12th of May at 20:00 UK Time for Helmut's European Autos B Classic! Just turn up to the parking lot of Pleasure Pier in your favorite eligable Classic you sign up with. We will determine who has the best car before we start a playlist to determine the winner of Helmut's European Autos B Classic! We will race the Pigalle, Retinue, Savestra, Viseris, Z-Type & Zion Classic against each other. You stay the whole night with the car you choose so choose wisely. These cars should be all about the same pace with their own strengths. Don't worry if you don't own any of the eligible cars, w…
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Your Machine Hidden
by Mark Verstappen- 1 follower
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Your Machine Hidden Come and join us on Wednesday 5th of May at 20:00 UK Time for Your Machine Hidden! Just turn up to the parking lot of the str*p Mall in Harmony in a random NPC or Pegasus car. Instead of determining of who has the best car before we start a playlist everyone who signs up has to hide their car in Los Santos which we have to find as we do in Mystery Car. This means that you get to shout clues of the location/car instead of me. For this event everyone picks a raceable car they want us to race in and picks a general area to search in so each car wont take as long as my searches and we shouldn't be able to accidentally find other peopl…
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Mystery Car April 2021
by Mark Verstappen- 1 follower
- 6 replies
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Come and join us for Mystery Car on Wednesday 21st of April at 20:00 GMT. We will start out in free roam at Kortz Center from where we will have to follow the clues to find the Mystery Car. Once the car is revealed we will all buy it if needed, modify it, then spend the night racing it. The price of the car will be less than $100k so don't worry about having to spend millions to join in. The usual rules will apply, don't bring the emergency services along with you in free roam, don't kill other players, race clean and respect the other racers.... Basically don't be a bellend. Verstappen Mulder Warriors Catman Badinga Dave
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The Favourites (Muscle Part 2)
by Mark Verstappen- 1 follower
- 5 replies
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The Favourites (Muscle Part 2) Come and join us on Wednesday 14th of April at 20:00 UK Time for The Favorites! Just turn up to the parking lot underneath the Peckerwood sign opposite Los Santos City Hall on Occupation Avenue in Alta, Vinewood in your favorite eligible Muscle car you sign up with. We will determine who has the best Muscle Car before we start a playlist to determine the winner of The Favourites! We will race all Muscle cars against each other where people will vote before each race which they'd like to drive in. To not have things like people having to race Slamvans against Yosemites I have omitted the fastest and slowest in the class.…
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Come join us this Wednesday 7th for The Ingenious Themeless Seamless Playlist. Or if we want to give it a shorter name it would be great if someone came with an acronym. There will be a variety of races scavenged and scraped deep from the bowels of my bookmarks, There'll be some tried and tested favourites and there'll be some I've briefly played with randoms over the last few years and hit L1 to bookmark, sometimes by accident. Amongst some classic race tracks old and new there willl also be..... A mountain tme trial in Monster Trucks A Tomb Raideresque platform game in Pantos Almost certainly American Grand Park A weird recreation of …
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Is this an Off-Road?
by Mark Verstappen- 1 follower
- 12 replies
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Is this an Off-Road? Come and join us on Wednesday 31st of March at 20:00 UK Time for is this Off-Road! Just turn up to the Windfarm west of the Palmer-Taylor Power station in any of the eligible Off-Roads. Ever noticed there's a few Off-Road vehicles available in the Off-Roads class that aren't actually in Off-Road? Probably not but that doesn't matter... Here's the eligible vehicles! Trophy Truck Dune Guardian Patriot Paradise Mariachi Tornado Outlaw Winky We will determine who has the best car before we start a playlist to determine who knows his Off-Roads best! We will race each race as a one make …
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The PR2NCE Patriot Stretch
by Mark Verstappen- 1 follower
- 7 replies
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The PR2NCE Come and join us on Wednesday 24th of March at 20:00 UK Time for PR2NCE! Just turn up to the parking lot south of ULSA (Los Santos University) in a Patriot Stretch. We will determine who has the Stretches before we start a playlist to determine who is Tony's biggest fan! Don't worry if you don't own the Patriot Stretch, we can spawn one in for you. Post below to get involved! Verstappen Dave Mulder Catman Warriors Reserves: Paulie
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Karin, not Karen. This Wednesday 17th 8pm
by SkyeDave- 11 replies
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This Wednesday night we're gonna race all the Karins. Exept maybe the Dilettante. I might do a better write up than this. I may just add a Karen meme and be done with it. Be assured it will be good. They have too many good cars for it not to be. I mean, all the Sultans. The Kutuma The 190Z. The Rusty Rebel. The Everon. Fancy a Beejay? We might do that. Intruders Vs Asteropes? Probably not but still not convinced? Well you know what other car they make? That's right, the Friggin Futo. King of the Vans Wednesday night. Convinced? I thought so. Sign up or just turn up. See you Wednesday.
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Rigged Random Car Extravaganza Pt5
by Mark Verstappen- 5 replies
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Come and join us on Wednesday 10th of March at 8 PM British time for Part 5 of the Rigged Random Car Extravaganza. After a meet up in free roam behind the Sumac Restaurant in Del Perro we will launch into a playlist of races where you will only know what car we will be racing each race when we get to the race lobbies. Each car is determined by a random generator with a few exclusions like not more than 3 cars from the same class, used recently in an event or often used cars in regular races (I.E. cars like the Krieger in Supers). We will run GTA races so we can spawn in cars for those who do not have them. Verstappen SKYEDAVE Mulder Wilki…
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The Favourites (Muscle Part 1)
by Mark Verstappen- 1 follower
- 7 replies
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The Favourites (Muscle Part 1) Come and join us on Wednesday 24th of February at 20:00 UK Time for The Favorites! Just turn up to the parking lot of the Vinewood Bowl in your favorite eligible Muscle car you sign up with. We will determine who has the best Sports Classic before we start a playlist to determine the winner of The Favourites! We will race all Muscle cars against each other where people will vote before each race which they'd like to drive in. To not have things like people having to race Slamvans against Yosemites I have omitted the fastest and slowest in the class. They are divided into two groups since the class is so big and has such…
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Putting the U in SUV
by Mark Verstappen- 7 replies
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Putting the U in SUV Come and join us on Wednesday 17th of February at 20:00 UK Time for The U! Just turn up to the parking lot in Banning South East of the Maze Bank Arena in any of the 4 listed SUVs. We will determine who has the best taste in cars before we start a playlist to determine who will be the winner of The U! Don't worry if you don't own all/any of the SUVs, we can spawn them in for you. Have you ever noticed I hate SUVs? The name means Sports Utility vehicle. But are any of the ones nowadays really worthy of having Utility in the name? I think not. So lets get the actually vehicles with some U out there for a chang…
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GT Sports Car Cup: WEDNESDAY 10th FEBRUARY
by SkyeDave- 1 follower
- 13 replies
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Now that the snow is all over Scotland and is playing havoc with y plans in real life it has at least reminded me that San Andreas is now a snowless zone and we can go ahead with the previously postponed GT Sports Car Cup. I'll leave the previous sign up up to remind everybody and you can just say AYE or NAY all over again below. This Wednesday we'll be racing GT Cars against each other on some of our favourite tracks to see which is the best driver/car combo. You pick one car and you race it all night. Some of these cars are better on the tight and twisty stuff whereas some are better in a straight line so each will have their moment to shine. …
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Mystery Car February 2021
by Mark Verstappen- 1 follower
- 17 replies
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Come and join us for Mystery Car on Wednesday 3rd of February at 20:00 GMT. We will start out in free roam at Lester's Contact Missions Lockup from where we will have to follow the clues to find the Mystery Car. Once the car is revealed we will all buy it if needed, modify it, then spend the night racing it. The price of the car will be less than $100k so don't worry about having to spend millions to join in. The usual rules will apply, don't bring the emergency services along with you in free roam, don't kill other players, race clean and respect the other racers.... Basically don't be a bellend. Verstappen Mulder Dave Paulie Catma…
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Wednesday 27th, Whacky Races with XDBX
by SkyeDave- 1 follower
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This Wednesday we've been invited to join XDBX for some whacky races! We've already got 11 sign ups so come join us!
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C3 (Classic Compacts Championship)
by Mark Verstappen- 1 follower
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C3 (Classic Compacts Championship) Come and join us on Wednesday the 20th of Janurary at 20:00 UK Time for C3! Just turn up to the small parking lot between the Beach Houses on Del Perro Beach in your favorite Classic Compact you sign up with. We will determine who has the best quarter-sized car before we start a playlist to determine the winner of C3! We will race the Weevil, Issi classic and Brioso 300 against each other where people will drive at least twice in each vehicle. Who drives what the last 2 races will be determined on the night. To balance the cars performance the Weevils must run stock suspension and both the Weevil and Issi Classic may not u…
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The Random Touchpad
by Mark Verstappen- 1 follower
- 11 replies
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The Random Touchpad Come and join us on Wednesday the 13th of January at 20:00 UK Time for the Random Touchpad! Just turn up to the parking lot of the San An Taqueria Mexican Restaurant north of Fridgit Cold Storage in La Mesa in a stock or close to stock looking vehicle. No custom rims! You might have seen it before, or might have never seen if before. But GTA has a random car selector! And we will be using it! We will use this function with customs off in random cars so we wont have half the field driving stock cars and the other customs. Before each race a random class will be selected in which we use the random function. Only pres…
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179Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
Throne of Blood (1957) dir Akira Kurosawa This is Kurosawa's version of Macbeth. It's not like the more usual Shakespearian adaptations that use the original lines, rather it's the same basic story with different lines in a different setting; medieval Japan. It's unmistakeably Macbeth right from the start as the camera pans across a misty, mysterious, highland landscape. Toshirô Mifune stars Washizu (i.e. Macbeth), initially a soldier (I guess you would say Samurai, although I am not totally sure of the correct usage of that) in the army of the local lord (i.e. King Duncan). Washizu and another soldier, Miki (i.e. Macduff), are on the way back from a victorious battle to their lord's castle. They get lost in forest and come across a spirit (equivalent of the witches) who foretells their promotion and that eventually Washizu will be the new lord but it will be Miki's son who succeeds him. They are promoted, Washizu tells his wife (Lady Macbeth, obviously) about the prophecy and it is she who encourages him on the path of deceit, betrayal and murder that will see him full-fill the rest of the prophecy but attempt to change it so that a son of his own succeeds him. One thing I did find slightly odd, and funny, is that whereas in Shakespeare's original (and the historical facts it is based on) Macbeth becomes King of Scotland, here Washizu becomes Lord of Spider's Web Castle. I am assuming that in Japanese “Spider's Web Castle” sounds more impressive than it does in English. It is very well made, of course, and the actors are good, particularly Isuzu Yamada as Lady Washizu. Like Olivier's Shakespeare adaptions it does not seem dated, and I think the Shakespearian style is what helps there. There is some very impressive cinematography, both of the landscapes and some of the castle interior scenes. One that sticks in my mind is when Lady Washizu hatches one of her plans we see her walk into another room, that is pitch black and then emerge shortly after carrying some bottles of drugged saki. The camera stays fixed for all of this, with the doorway to the dark room in the centre so it's almost like she disappears and then reappears, as if using magic. Definitely well worth watching if you are into Shakespeare or Samurai films. 9 / 10- 1
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588What was the most recent thing you bought?
Here's the last thing I bought! It's mighty expensive at $1600, but it makes a easy go of a complex operation. Set it and forget it and keep a sponge wet it's about all it takes! All it takes is a 4-day dry and a 4-day cure. -
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I agree @djw180 The Fall of the House of Usher is worth a watch for Mark Hamill’s performance alone. Plus, I’ve been on the fence about watching Kaos. I will definitely give it a go now. Thanks!- 2
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I just finished watching The Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix. Highly recommended! It's a horror-drama in 8 episodes, very loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe short stories or poems with each episode named after a different work of his. I have never read any of them and some had not even heard of, but I now at least know the brief synopsis of them from Wikipedia. What the creators have done is woven together a plot primarily based on the short story "The Fall of the House of Usher" that greatly expands on that. The first episode has the same name as the whole series. Roderick Usher, corrupt billionaire head of a major pharmaceutical company, invites an old adversary, lawyer August Dupin, to his family's derelict house, to confess to a host of crimes. Dupin has been trying to prosecute the Ushers for decades but they always got away with it. Now, following the recent deaths of all six of his children, supposedly in freak, horrific, unrelated accidents, Roderick wants to come clean. Most of the story is now told in flash back, both to the early years of Roderick and his sister Maddie (the brains behind their rise to power) and the children's recent deaths. The next 6 episode each focus on the violent deaths of a different son or daughter, each related in some way to the Edgar Allen Poe story that episode is named after. The final episode, The Raven, then brings everything to it's conclusion, revealing the true cause of all that has happened. It's very, very good. It is a bit bloody and gory at times, but never over-the-top, always done for a reason and usually to fit in with the story that death is named after. It features Mark Hamil in the most un-Luke-Skywalker-like role you can imagine. I never really rated him as an actor in Star Wars, but here, as the Usher's ruthless lawyer he is excellent. Another Netflix series I think is worth a mention is Kaos It's a modern day story of Greek Gods and Heroes, in a world where they most definitely exist and are still worshipped by mortals. Jeff Goldblum is Zeus and there's other recognisable faces amongst the rest of the cast, including David Thewlis as one of Zeus' brothers and fellow god Hades and Suzie Izzard as one of the Fates. It loosely follows the story of Orpheus in the Underworld, but this is part of a bigger plot with both gods and mortals having to accept what fate has in store for them, whether they like it or not.- 1
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