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- simpletwist, on 05/14/2008, -0/+6810. If you can't figure out how to buy pants, beat a cashier to death with your fists.
- mentallyinhell, on 05/14/2008, -1/+6312. You can always get your money back. Even if you have to kill the hoe.
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -1/+5311. Rocket launchers cause more problems than they solve. In this metaphor, rocket launchers are temper tantrums
- Hiji, on 05/14/2008, -4/+568. Mo Money, Mo Problems.
9. If a bitch acts up, slap her. - deadnoob, on 05/14/2008, -3/+3413. Getting a blow job can heal any wound.
- Ayavaron, on 05/14/2008, -1/+33I've noticed in GTA IV (and I'm only about 30% through the story) that all the characters who do cocaine either die or end up in prison, sort of an understated anti-cocaine message you can take from the game if nothing else.
- cli006, on 05/14/2008, -1/+2613. Prank calling emergency services can be fun!
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -0/+18Drunk Driving is challenging!
- NeoNightmareX, on 05/14/2008, -3/+201) If you wanna make an omelet, you gotta break some eggs. GTA IV teaches you that when you want to accomplish something, you should go for it without worrying too much about stepping on other people's toes. When you carjack an old lady and only have 30 seconds to make it from the gun store to the respray shop, some people are gonna get run over in the process. If you want your boss's job, you might have to get him fired before you get the position. When you get what you want, people may get hurt. It comes with the territory.
2) Trust no one. Everyone you meet has an agenda. Let me repeat that. Everyone you meet has an agenda. Of course, some may have a more malicious agenda than others. Regardless, everyone around you is almost always looking out for #1: themselves. Look at Ghandi -- that guy was practically begging to get 15 minutes of fame with some sort of "MTV True Life: I'm a Revolutionary Peacemaker" documentary. Think about it. GTA IV lets you experience "friends" lying, cheating, stealing and stabbing you in the back to get what they want. Only trust yourself.
3) Plan for the best, but prepare for the worst. Pretend you're in GTA, you just got assigned a new mission, and you envision yourself kicking ass: running, ducking, diving, all while taking out gangbangers with expertly timed shotgun blasts and never getting a scratch on you. So do you walk in to the gun fight with one-third of your health, no body armor and low ammo? Hell no. You stock up. You prepare for the worst. *****, buy some rocket launchers while you're at it. Why not. In life, you never know what could go wrong. It always pays to be prepared.
4) The more nice ***** you have, the more people respect you. We live in a shallow society folks, and GTA IV understands this by letting your character get all types of ***** that doesn't have anything to do with the actual game. You can buy nice suits & expensive shoes, move into penthouse bachelor pads, and of course, drive baller whips. If you pick up a chick on a date (yes, the game lets you do this), she'll verbally tell you how impressed she is when you pull up in a luxury car similar to the one 2Pac got shot in. Art is modeled after real life guys. People notice these things. Respect yourself by getting some nice digs.
5) Get revenge when it counts. Don't let people walk all over you. Donald Trump has touted this for years, and its actually good advice. If people know they can screw you and you won't do anything about it, prepare for it to happen with greater and greater frequency. If someone wrongs you, get them back, and make absolute sure everyone sees it so they know you're not one to be messed with. In GTA IV when someone disrespects your crew, you don't sneak around and poison their morning tea -- you roll up right on the basketball court and blow his brains out in front of all of his homies plus a few random bystanders. See how everyone else runs away? This is called leading by example.
6) If you want something, you have to work for it. America is the land of opportunity, not the land of uh-here-take-this. Don't expect things to be given to you on a silver platter, or for the world to be fair. Sometimes when you want something, you have to be prepared to take it. When Niko arrives in Liberty City, he has nothing. By the middle of the game he's got a highrise apartment and a pile of money, not to mention tons of guns and bitches. Get out there and fight.
7) Go off the beaten path. Don't blindly follow the guidelines that society lays out for you. If you followed every traffic law in GTA IV you would get so bored playing that you'd eventually turn off the game, which in real life would be the equivalent of killing yourself. Make life interesting. Think outside the box. There's no one right way to do something. Steve Jobs took the mobile phone market and turned it upside down with the iPhone, a device no one had ever seen before. In one GTA IV mission, Niko dresses up as a gay guy to take another gay man out on a date for the sole purpose of killing him. This type of unorthodox thinking is what you need to succeed in the work place as well as in life. Make it happen. - jedisushi, on 05/14/2008, -1/+1713. Bros before hos.
- sockpuppets, on 05/14/2008, -0/+15That's unpossible!
- sockpuppets, on 05/14/2008, -0/+15I posted it at my blog first, you just copied it from me:
http://www.clownpenis.fart - grayiscolorful, on 05/14/2008, -2/+14They are life lessons, none that I apply or believe in, but they are lessons. Then again, you can be taught to shove eggs up your butt without cracking them, that's a lesson too, not necessarily smart or useful, but a lesson nonetheless.
- dezertrat, on 05/14/2008, -0/+11word of the day calender?
- sdcarter, on 05/14/2008, -1/+99a. If bitch doesn't back down calmly ask, "Is Wayne Brady gonna hafta choke a bitch?"
- lovedunks, on 05/14/2008, -0/+8The guy is a *****, don't fear him. Nobody should silence their voice or not say something out of fear of that guy.
- travis6690, on 05/14/2008, -1/+9In the butt.
- MisterMajusty, on 05/14/2008, -2/+9I think by reading this article and following it, I'll get the bad ending for myself. He forgets the underlying moral consequence. Can you actually live with your conscience after all of this?
- dood, on 05/14/2008, -0/+10There's also a rather strong "don't drink and drive" message in the game, given how incredibly annoying it is to drive a car while your character is drunk.
- sp4rty, on 05/14/2008, -0/+68) Always wear your seatbelt.
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -0/+6Seeing as how it's a social news site, where popular articles are chosen by the masses... the popular topics will appear more. Obama. Bashing Hilary. GTA. Linux. Bashing Microsoft. iPhone 2.0.
The Diggmob knows what it wants, and it continues to digg those stories up. Problem is that it's hard to get anything that's actually NEWs on here. - Dotcommer, on 05/14/2008, -1/+7NO! Now stfu.
- sockpuppets, on 05/14/2008, -0/+6Oh. My. God.
- sockpuppets, on 05/14/2008, -0/+5Nope.
- lead2thehead, on 05/14/2008, -0/+6If you steal a police car, you can pull people over and rob them.
- purplehaze420, on 05/14/2008, -1/+6No but thankfully there is a way to digg you down.
- PabloIV, on 05/14/2008, -1/+6At #1
Although stepping on toes is inevitable, you shouldn't make a point of going out and doing it. If you have 2 options for which the rewards are comparable and one involves not stepping on toes, choose that one. You leave more doors open and more friendly faces when you need them. - Motocompo, on 05/14/2008, -0/+5Life is shallow, get use to it.
- sockpuppets, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4Could we still offer you some kind of incentive to do it anyway?
- Goldbricker, on 05/14/2008, -0/+5***** I miss this game. God Damned Red Ring of Death.
- Morality, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4Niko if you drink and drive you are a bloody idiot!
- DontEatTheFish, on 05/14/2008, -0/+5dugg, for assuming that this is original content that you made.
- TheCasablancan, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3Omelette.
- FatLoser, on 05/14/2008, -1/+5What what?
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -1/+4Mirror: http://www.seattleluxe.com/indexPageImages/clear-m ...
- noangelcame, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3DUDE!!! Give out a friggin ***SPOILER WARNING***,.. while you're giving away an important part of the ending in a comment about a game most people haven't completed yet. Damn, Seriously!!!
- SolidSnak, on 05/14/2008, -1/+49b. Slap the bitch before she acts up so she doesn't do it in the first place.
- ZurMacht, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3No one is quoting the article... they are making up their own that relate to what happened to them when they played GTA IV...
- ChronicColonic, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3Comments like these are the very reason I added you as a friend many moons ago...I laughed out loud...my family thinks I'm nuts (they're right).
- centran, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4This is true. However lets use their job scenario. If you want to move up in a company you have two options. Fast or slow. Your method is the slow one. The fast method is stepping on peoples toes. In the extreme evil case in the article... getting your boss fired. BUT, the next best thing that people do to get ahead is jump ladders into another department of another company. Do you think for a second that you are not screwing over people already in that department or company by a new comer suddenly jumping ahead of people who have been their for years.
Is it right for companies to not promote from within and get new hires... hell no. I hate it, but it happens at a lot of companies.
Either way, you are probably screwing people over. The question is do you do it in a blatant evil way or the more "civilized" way. - DeeMoore, on 05/14/2008, -0/+5That website is not loading.
- Grolsch, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3Yes I can. Wake up to the real world. Just think how can you apply this in your personal and business life. Just get some balls and live your life, I think this is the whole message there.
- wrillo, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4how do you guys spell omelet?
- CertifyedGoon, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2And perhaps the most important life lesson of all: If you're going to use a hooker, kill her afterwards. That way you get your money back and she can't tell anyone.
- PabloIV, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2Oh, I own my companies. I don't really believe in that whole "corporate ladder" fairy tale.
- Groggie, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2I like to think of it as having a "steep learning curve."
- TheCasablancan, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2Yes, but that doesn't keep them from being true in many instances.
- Acglaphotis, on 05/14/2008, -1/+3From the boondocks : http://youtube.com/watch?v=DV2U3yLSDvQ
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