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Entry Title: FML
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Published On: 04-29-2009 01:37 AM

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**** my life.

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Published On: 01-09-2009 10:57 PM

One guy innocently posts a deal on Leonidas chocolates. Hilarity ensues.

"Madness?
This is chocolate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Spartans! Ready your chocolate and eat hearty... For tonight, we dine in hell!"

"Our chocolates will blot out the sun...Then we will eat in the shade"

"A thousand chocolates of the Belgian nation descend upon you."

http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=0&t=1109007

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Entry Title: Liberty City Stories
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Published On: 12-21-2008 12:34 AM

In the mission Bringing the House Down, right before Toni is to escape through the padlocked gate at the entrance of the abandoned subway in Fort Staunton, two Forelli goons blocked a main exit that Toni intended to pass through. Where did this exit lead to? Certainly not a known passageway in Staunton Island.


Also, we learn in LCS that the tunnel in Shoreside Vale that was blocked off to commuters in III provided the passageway to Upstate. I kind of wished we were allowed to explore outside of Liberty City, but not have the feeling we are airdropped there. In GTA:SA, the mission Saint Mark's Bistro satisfied our enthusiasm for revisiting nostalgia with an illusion that San Andreas and Liberty City exist in the same physical universe, but that's all it was - an illusion. In actuality the Bistro was an isolated entity that we are to be automatically transported to for one time in the whole saga. In my opinion, it wasn't enough. Bypassing the long flight to LC is one thing, but denying us the opportunity to scope out the world that Don Forelli once held with his fist and the subsequent transition of power over the neighborhoods is another.


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Published On: 12-13-2008 06:04 PM

The question of whether Tommy was a "made" member who enjoyed full protection from the Forelli organization until Sonny's betrayal or simply recognized as an associate in the hierarchy without such protection, however valued his services were to Sonny, has never been addressed in the plot. However, regardless of Tommy's official position in the hierarchy, it was learned that Sonny and Tommy were once friends, as Sonny claimed. As for the circumstances led to Sonny's betrayal, one popular theory holds that Sonny offered Tommy to a rival gang(s) as an appeasement. Perhaps Tommy had assassinated one too many high ranking rival gang members, making Sonny and others high up in the chain of command huge targets for retribution, and Sonny decided that surrendering Tommy to his rivals was a small price to pay in order to avoid a full scale war that could have threatened the Forelli family's enviable position as the dominant mafia organization in Liberty City.


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Published On: 03-02-2008 08:21 PM

If you have played GTA: Vice City, you would know that the protagonist, Tommy Vercetti, was a professional criminal who worked for the Forelli family of the Liberty City Mafia until 1971, when he was sent to prison for multiple counts of homicide, even though Tommy was ordered by his boss, Sonny Forelli, the Don of the Forelli Family, to kill just one man. Apparently, Tommy was ambushed and was forced to fight his way out and was eventually arrested and imprisoned for the killings, which earned Tommy the nickname "The Harwood Butcher." It is later revealed that Sonny Forelli indeed orchestrated the ambush. However, thanks to his connections to the Forelli family , Tommy served a relatively light sentence of 15 years in prison. Tommy is released from prison in 1986 and Sonny quickly realizes that having "The Harwood Butcher" returning to Liberty City and working on behalf of the Forellis in Liberty City would be harmful to business, so he decides to send Tommy down south to Vice City to set a drug ring, which was supposed to be the beginning of the Forellis' expansion plans.

In a shrewd move, Sonny kills two birds with one stone by having "The Harwood Butcher" out of the neighborhoods of Liberty City and instead, doing the dirty work for the family in the lucrative drug business in Vice City. Nevertheless, considering that Sonny arranged for Tommy to be killed fifteen years ago, the question is why Sonny did not immediately disown Tommy after his imprisonment?

One answer is that Tommy is actually a valued "made" member of the family, so Sonny, whose secret plan to eliminate Tommy had failed, was forced to "make it up" to Tommy by pulling strings and calling in favors and ultimately getting Tommy a lighter sentence, and moreover, treating him as an old friend and giving him a job after he was released.

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01-25-2009 10:30 AM
Originally Posted by realmofotalk
What happened to all your pictures?
I trimmed my profile down a little.  I didn't think anyone was even looking at those things anymore.
04-13-2008 09:21 PM
Originally Posted by DirtyKash
Underrated. Where he is now, nobody rates him high. But the kid has skills. And he's been able to show them thanks to increased playing time over the last two weeks with the Pistons having nothing to play for and just going through the motions to finish off the regular season.

One thing's for sure, he's going to have to play good off the bench if Detroit wants a chance to beat Boston, or even to hold on Cleveland if LeBron does what he did last year.
Well, by overrated, I meant that he was the worst kept secret in the draft. But I agree that he's a good player off the bench as is Aaron Affalo. As for the bench come playoff time, they'll be better than they were a year ago, when they were counting on Chris Webber and Nazr Mohammed.
04-13-2008 09:08 PM
Originally Posted by realmofotalk
Rodney Stuckey: overrated or underrated?
Underrated. Where he is now, nobody rates him high. But the kid has skills. And he's been able to show them thanks to increased playing time over the last two weeks with the Pistons having nothing to play for and just going through the motions to finish off the regular season.

One thing's for sure, he's going to have to play good off the bench if Detroit wants a chance to beat Boston, or even to hold on Cleveland if LeBron does what he did last year.
03-03-2008 05:17 PM
posted a blog for the thinking fans of GTA, an oxymoron, I know.
02-28-2008 11:20 PM
Dustin Brown is underrated for now. The media hasn't yet panted all over Brown so much that he would be overrated, a la with Ben Wallace.
02-28-2008 10:38 PM
Dustin Brown of the LA Kings: underrated or overrated?
02-22-2008 11:33 PM
I think you want Foster. I'm actually 2 doors to your right.
02-19-2008 11:37 PM
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