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Your Guide to Businesswear Learn To Look Good, And Look Professional. Lola Mendoza Good day, Los Santos! Have you ever struggled with the selection of your outfits, more so with the decision about which clothing style is the most suitable for the fitting occasion? Saints News is bringing a refreshing subject for our dear readers, one which will hopefully lighten your regular day-to-day inconveniences - a fashion blog! Today we'll be covering business attires for ladies! Soon enough we'll publish more fashion blogs for other events too (male audience included), so stay tuned! "In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." Now you may wonder, what is business attire? Business attire is the clothing you wear in professional settings. You might decide how to dress depending on the type of office you work in, for an interview or for a meeting. There are varying levels of business attire ranging from “casual” to “business formal.” Based on the setting, you can decide which kind of business attire is appropriate. Our focus will remain on "business professional" and "business casual" styles, but you can find a full list of business attires down below: Casual Smart casual Business casual Business professional Business formal Gender-neutral "Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality." BUSINESS PROFESSIONAL Business professional is a traditional form of attire used in more conservative settings or companies with strict dress codes. You might wear business-professional in industries like accounting, banking, finance, government or law. Business professional clothes should be well-fitted and may be tailored to fit you specifically. Model: Lola Mendoza Photographer: Marques King BUSINESS CASUAL Business casual is a common form of dress worn in many offices. While many classic business staples are used in business casual wear, there are casual elements included like khakis. Business casual is appropriate for many interviews, client meetings, and office settings. Because it is not very casual and also not very formal, this is usually an appropriate way to dress if you’re unsure about the setting. Model: Lola Mendoza Photographer: Marques King BUSINESS ATTIRE TIPS You might use different styles of business attire for different settings or occasions. Pay attention to the dress code, if applicable. If not, look to other people’s style of dress or ask around if needed. Dressing appropriately can help you be seen as a professional employee who cares about their success in the role. DISCLAIMER As it stands, tastes can be disputed, and I certainly do not claim to be all-knowledgable when it comes to fashion. My aim here was to provide a swift and easy solution to those that cannot seem to trigger their fashion senses. For deeper research, I strongly advise that you check actual modeling and fashion websites. ___________________________________ More From Saints Body Found On Beach Onohara Murder, Yakuza & Aurora Siliciano Glow Night 19' - HEAT NIGHTCLUB Saints News #ForSaintsBySaints

Short description: Make it so that when you vehicle duplicate your keys to another player, they keep the keys until they /vreturn. Detailed description: If we are being realistic and you roleplay this command, you’ve given the keys to your vehicle to this individual, and they should therefor continue to have access to the vehicle until the return of the keys is roleplayed. Thus I suggest implanting a new script command in the form of /Vreturn to return Vdup’d keys, so the person continues to have the keys to that car you’ve given them until returned, even if the owner logs off, goes inactive or whatever. Ultimately it’s a heavy roleplay server, and it’s weird that after a disconnect or the owner logging off, you magically can’t drive the vehicle the person gave you the keys to. Commands to add: /vreturn to return Vdup keys, which otherwise remain with the player who received them. Items to add: n/a How would your suggestion improve the server? Additional information: It’s more immersive and realistic and lends itself to partners sharing a vehicle, people borrowing a vehicle, more of a basis for car rental businesses owned by players, and just generally improving realism with the simple implantation of some coding (I assume). Spoken to a lot of people who think this really simple idea would improve their immersion massively.

Roy Santino Capra (born September 18th, 1968) is a 50 year old organized crime figure of Italian-American heritage, who presently resides in Los Santos, San Andreas. Roy is believed to serve as second in command, or Underboss to mafia veteran Salvatore "The Cheat" Lena, who has recently taken the reigns of the historical Los Santos crime family. The L.S. based family is said to have amalgamated power in the spring of 2019, allegedly serving as an auxiliary to the the waning Kansas city mafia (Civella crime family), of which several of its inducted members hold ties. Early Life Roy was born to parents Roger and Camilla Capra on a Friday afternoon in September of 1968. The youngest of five children in the family, three brothers and two sisters, the family’s finances were stretched thin for most of his upbringing. Roger and Camilla operated a small diner in the metropolitan area of Kansas City, beneath the relatively small three-bedroom apartment the Capra family called home. It was no secret that Roger dipped into some shady side business to pay the bills and bring home the bread. The diner was known to frequent several individuals with connections to La Cosa Nostra in K.C. and Roger himself would rent out the restaurant’s basement for a local book making operation. In his youth, Roy was noted as a quiet child and an introvert. He was often bullied by older classmates due to his height, a shortcoming that has stuck with him his entire life as he measures in at an adult height of five foot, eight inches tall. This caused him to withdraw and develop social anxieties as he progressed towards his teenage years. He made an almost compulsive habit out of body building to compensate as a teenager, and expressed his insecurities by lashing out at those he felt targeted him as a weakling in his youth - teachers and classmates included. His lashing out and temperament issues often landed him in detention and suspensions, but to a struggling blue collar family, Roy’s issues were not a necessary focus. Roger developed an alcohol addiction in Roy’s early teen years, and his health further deteriorated as he worked himself sick. On Roy’s 14th birthday Roger suffered from a heart attack and was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment. There was nothing to be done, and Camilla was left a widow and her five children fatherless. Capra Brothers Gang The Capra boys came together after the death of their father to keep the family’s head above the water. Nicholas, the eldest brother of Roy, had some small-time connections with a cocaine supplier in the K.C. area known as “Joey Fingers” Mezzasalma, an individual who also held associate status in the Civella crime family. They decided to take up peddling the narcotic throughout their individual circles, and use their profits to help Camilla pay the bills in the household. They did this out of a few fronts, their father’s old diner as well as a local gym that Roy and a few other brothers spent most of their free time. Dime bag peddling soon advanced into moving eight balls, ounces, and so on, which generated a need for enforcing, collecting, and punishment. It was Roy’s time to shine, and at age 16, he dropped out of school to pursue a life of crime full time. The Capra boys drug operation was eventually picked up by the watchful eye of a local neighborhood wiseguy, Samuel “Sammy Shanks” Eppolito, an older generation mafioso allegedly serving the infamous Salvatore “The Cheat” Lena as a soldier or “made man” in his crew. Samuel saw the potential the young men had in the world of Cosa Nostra and began mentoring them in the ways of the criminal underworld. He took particular interest in Roy due to his tough-gun persona and his inclination towards the art of “physical persuasion.” With the backing of a made member of Civella, the brothers’ sight lines expanded and their tools of the trade as well. They began to take on new horizons, focused more so on theft rings including B&Es, a chop shop, and ransoms. The drug operation would ultimately dissolve in 1991 after Mezzasalma was reported missing; presumably deceased. Ascending The Ladder Roy's turn from the realm of narcotics into the world of enforcing brought him into an entirely new social ring. In mobbed up social clubs throughout the neighborhood, Roy would rub elbows with some of the most prominent mafiosi in the K.C. LCN scene; simultaneously building a reputation for himself as a dependable problem solver. A direct consequence of his new-found friendships and ties lead to Roy transitioning away from his siblings in the Capra Brothers Gang. By the late '90s, Roy was formally introduced to street legend Salvatore “The Cheat” Lena, the caporegime pulling the strings of a profitable crew to which Roy belonged. This process of coming face to face with a captain to become a direct link in his chain is a phenomenon referred to in the world of Cosa Nostra as “going on the record." At the same time, his brothers mostly stuck to their guns with gritty, small time criminality. They never quite progressed in the underworld the same way that Roy did, causing some what of a rivalry between him and the other Capra siblings. Their relationship is still unstable even up to present day, with the geographical distance keeping them from each others throats. Working for “The Cheat” directly offered Roy an opportunity to assist with a statewide loan sharking operation. Alongside Lena’s son-in-law Carmine “The Pinch” Basciano, Roy worked as a collections liaison and was ultimately put in charge of retribution and settling disputes between loan takers and guys like Carmine who dealt with the books. In 2001, Roy was contracted by Salvatore Lena himself to execute a hit upon an associate to the crew by the name of William DeLuna. Evidence had surfaced through Lena’s street intel that DeLuna had been operating an “off the record” loan sharking ring within Kansas City. Undercutting and undermining his superior's racket, DeLuna offered a lower interest rate than what Lena charged. In the world of La Cosa Nostra, every member on the record is expected to fork over a cut of any profits made through the underworld. Any act to hide money or skim profits that belong to the upper echelon, is often met with great consequence and even death. “The Cheat” held no mercy for this rule. His reputation was on the line, and Roy was informed that seeing this task through to the end would earn him his personal nod of approval to become a made member once the family was considering new membership (referred to as “opening the books”). Spilling Blood On a rainy, cold night in November of 2004, Roy received word from a crooked officer on the crew's pay-roll that William DeLuna had just been pulled over on account of reckless driving when attempting to cross the Missouri-Illinois border. The officer placed DeLuna into custody, and Roy was then given an address to an abandoned meat plant as a meeting place. It was here that Roy discovered DeLuna, cuffed to a metal chair in the midst of the decrepit slaughterhouse. Two solemn shots from a .22 handgun would break the silence of the night as DeLuna’s blood was spilled; bringing an end to the rival loan sharking operation. A lesson was sent to the ranks of the K.C. mob - undermine “The Cheat” and your days are numbered. Months later, a suitcase sunk in the depths of a marsh on the Illinois border was uncovered during a highway expansion operation. Inside the suitcase were remnants of the deceased, weighed down by a steel anchor that had been chained around the outside. Although police determined that it was clear mob involvement was the reason behind the crime, no leads as to whom had actually committed the execution were found. Meanwhile, in the dim light basement of Salvatore Lena's vacation home on the Gulf, Roy celebrated the next chapter of his life in the mafia. He was officially inducted into the ranks of the Civella family as a soldier. The Westward Movement After a 3 year stint in Jackson County Corrections for firearm related charges, Roy would re-emerge on the streets as a respected soldier for the Kansas City mafia. He was called upon by the underboss of the family, Peter Simone, to have a sit down regarding his future in the family. Also present at this meeting was John “Johnny Joe” Sciortino (presently the alleged head of the K.C. family), and Salvatore Lena. The specifics of what were discussed during this meeting are unclear, however a suitcase was exchanged before the group shared embrace and parted ways. Roy was spotted days later boarding a flight to Las Venturas, San Andreas. Authorities now suspect that Roy was given free reign to earn in Venturas while his main focus was assigned to enforcing a skimming operation, mainly focused on Caligula's Casino, which has been a money maker for the K.C. family since the ‘80s. It is also thought that at this time, Salvatore Lena retired from a long, prosperous career in organized crime to remain tied to the family as a neutral party and adviser. Recent activity from San Andreas, however, have led this suspicion to be doubted. Throughout the late 2000s and as recent as 2017, Roy spent his days living in Las Venturas and ensuring the family’s interests ran smoothly without hiccups caused by outside forces. Simultaneously, with a small band of trusted associates, he ran his own protection rackets throughout a string of Payday loan shops along the L.V. strip as well as bookmaking rackets centered around thoroughbred horse and hound racing. Several of these payday loan establishments doubled as a front for money laundering. Roy would have his dirty money recorded in falsified income documents throughout the shops, which would then put his money back on the street in the hands of gamblers and tourists looking to cash in on Venturas’ reputation for turning rags into riches. The money would then circle back in through repayment, which Roy and his crew would ensure happened in a timely manner, as clean money that Roy could reclaim. For Roy, life was good. Living large and lavish in Las Venturas would eventually come to a halt for Roy in 2017 when federal authorities unearthed a dark secret of Salvatore Lena and Carmine Basicano. Buried in a shallow forest grave along a popular jogging path, the remains of Joseph “Joey Fingers” Mezzasalma were discovered an alarming 26 years after he had been reported missing. For years, investigators alleged Mezzasalma was not a missing person, and rather a murder victim. An unnamed witness provided police with information regarding the disappearance of Joey Fingers, claiming he’d been rubbed out on orders from Salvatore “The Cheat” Lena over providing his daughter with narcotics. Fearing the arrests of Salvatore and Carmine would lead to indictments all over the west coast, the Civella family withdrew its interests from Las Venturas and began “spring cleaning” to hide as much of their illegal interests as possible. Roy departed Las Venturas on orders of the family’s acting boss, and remained inactive in Kansas City while he waited for the heat surrounding the bust to die down. The trial for the murders proceeded for several weeks, as prosecutors and law enforcement alike scrambled to find physical connections between their witness testimonies and the accused. Although confident that they had finally caught their big fish, the Kansas City detectives were ultimately let down by a deadlocked jury that could not come to a unanimous decision and thus the two Cosa Nostra figures were released on mistrial. During this time of deliberation, Roy Capra made a number of personal visits to those connected to the case to ensure their heads were in the right place, and that events were being recalled clearly and fairly. Out of the twelve member jury, only two continuously returned with a not guilty verdict. Coincidentally, Roy had allegedly visited these two individuals several times over the course of the trial. Salvatore Lena eventually made his return to the sunny state of San Andreas, leaving the events of the trial behind him with his head held high. He, along with others in the family, expected his son in law Carmine to follow suit and return to their operations in the west, but were surprised when he seemed to vanish off the face of the Earth. Suspicious that the pressures of the trial had caused Carmine’s loyalties to be tested, Salvatore requested Roy to investigate further. Lining the pockets of the right people and applying pressure where it was needed lead Roy to discover what he and Salvatore hoped to not be true, Carmine was cooperating with law enforcement post trial in exchange for witness protection and criminal pardon for his connection to criminal activities involving “The Cheat.” Betrayed by the selfish act of his own family, Salvatore immediately gave Roy the go ahead on liquidating his once loyal soldier Carmine - the husband of his youngest daughter, and father of his three grandchildren. Weeks later, Roy bought himself a one way ticket to Los Santos to regroup with Salvatore and continue the Civella family interests on the west coast. In his wake he left behind the lifeless body of Carmine “The Pinch” Basicano; found in his family’s residence in late December with two .22 caliber gunshots in the back of his head. The Chronicles of the Clinton Avenue Crew With the loose lips silenced and a gradual decline of the heat on Salvatore Lena, it was time for the crew to re-establish its roots and obtain a hold in the city once more. To assist Salvatore, Roy decided to permanently relocate to the city of Los Santos. Along with Roy joined Frank “Cheech” Piccarelli, a strong up-and-comer in the family who became an official member around the same time as Roy. Frank was known as a quiet, level headed type who operated often times in the shadows. A contrast to Roy who made an effort to cultivate a strong street presence, no matter his setting. Frank was known to be a tight acquaintance of Lawrence Iraci, nephew of the long-time Civella soldier Pasquale “Patsy” Iraci who came up in the generation of old-timers which included Salvatore Lena. This is likely the connection which brought him to the west coast, as a replacement in the wake of Patsy’s retirement and move back to the mid-west. Frank came joined by long time associate Peter “Moe” Conti from Kansas City, while Roy hand picked several fellow Las Venturas based gangsters such as Michael “Mikey Balls” Balotelli and John “Johnny the Gimp” Gallo to aid the crew’s expansion. Their decline during the trials inevitably caused the loss of the Textile District, more specifically Simmet Alley, from the crew's grasp. Roy and the crew situated themselves on Clinton Avenue, a historically Italian-American area located in the heart of Vinewood. Book making, extortion, drug trafficking and the sale of illegal firearms were just a few of the activities which the crew began making moves in, quickly popping up on the radar of fellow criminal organizations. Their allies grew from gangs operating in the ghettos of South Central, Los Santos to criminals of Eurasian descent (believed to be associated with Vor v Zakone). All of this aided the crew in becoming more profitable themselves and attracting a new generation of born-and-bred mobsters. During this time, Roy and his band of like-minded associates developed a strong foothold in the city’s profitable drug trade. A grow-op was sprung by in partnership with Jamestown Mafia to meet the city’s growing marijuana market. By supplying various gang sets affiliated with Wah Ching and sureno culture respectively, Roy’s income and tribute to the crew grew immensely. This was due in part to the work of his right hand man, an associate of the crew and Liberty City native known as Thomas “Tommy Verbatim” Alo, or “Tommy Sunshine” as he was dubbed by Roy due to his bright head and eagerness to impress. Unfortunately, expansion into a “cowboy state” like San Andreas (a state which isn’t claimed by one particular group, but is rather an open playing field for various outfits) doesn’t come without competition. Roy and the others quickly became aware of another Italian-American organization within Los Santos shortly after they regained footing in the state. Not known to have any connection to a bigger family, individuals such as Anthony Scutari and Donald Pagano stood out to the Clinton Avenue Crew as the men believed to be heading the rival faction. To Roy, the other power did not cause concern as they operated much more openly and erratically in comparison, acting as a “heat magnet” and a distraction from Clinton’s activities. This neutral co-existence, however, experienced its first trouble when an associate of high notoriety made news. Frank “Freddie Icarus” Russo was pinned by R&R news, mislabeled as an associate to Scutari’s goon Paul Mazzanti. The pair were spotted together in public on several occasions after Frank was questioned in relation to a homicide connected to Scutari’s members. The legitimacy of Russo’s waste management firm was also implored in this article, which caused great concern for Salvatore Lena and Frank Picarrelli - both of which had invested interest in the company. This combined with Roy’s personal distaste of Frank Russo were the motives behind his death in April of 2019. Already strained by the open nature of the rivals, Roy was personally affected when one of his associates was targeted by Donald Pagano over an argument involving his girlfriend. Scutari claimed self defense as the reason for the slaying, however the story given was loose and in Roy’s mind didn’t add up. Simultaneously, the traditionally Del Perro based mob was moving in on Vinewood, an area established to be the Clinton crew’s territory. No attempts were made to offer forward a cut of the operations on good faith to the crew. Coupled with this, Salvatore Lena questioned where permission for the murder came from and called out Scutari’s actions as breaking code. An attempt at a sit down was made, and ultimately failed with strong words exchanged between Lena and Scutari. It was at this time the deaths of both Anthony Scutari and Donald Pagano were ordered. Roy was placed in charge of executing the hits, and he chose Thomas Alo as his partner in the endeavour. Donald Pagano was the first to fall, conveniently for Roy it came at the hands of Scutari’s own crew over suspicions that Pagano had flipped to authorities. Meticulous weeks of planning came to a climax in May of 2019. With his connections to gangland leaders Catalina Juarez and Cristian “Jumper” Valdez from the Jamestown Mafia sureno set, Roy had Scutari lured into a trap house with his newly appointment second in command Benito Fallone. Roy and Thomas entered the trap and executed Scutari and Fallone in cold blood where they sat. The whereabouts of the remains are known only by few, and LSPD suspects the disappearance to be an internal issue rather than a move by a bigger power. Establishment of the L.S. Situation After the eradication of the Del Perro based rivals, the group saw a more formal structure take form. Salvatore Lena returned from a trip home to Kansas City, where he was believed to meet with Civella family administration in regard to the group’s activity on the west coast. What was discussed in the aforementioned meeting, at this point, is entirely unknown. However the consequences marked a re-establishment of the historical L.S. crime family with Salvatore Lena at the helm. With him he took Roy as his underboss, and Frank Piccarelli as a consigliere. Shortly following the event, both Peter Conti and Thomas Alo were said to have received official induction into the crime family’s membership. Personality Traits A generally stoic looking individual, Roy’s bleak emotion and cold crystal blue eyes can leave those around him feeling uneasy and troubled if they’re unfamiliar with him on a personal level. Once that connection is made, Roy transforms into loyal and devoted individual. By those who know him, Roy described as being charismatic with dramatic highs and lows in accordance to his mood. When he’s happy, he can be your best friend, but when he hits an emotional low through anger or frustration, he’s often quite unforgiving and vicious. An unnamed accomplice once commented, “I’ve seen [Roy] go from hugging a guy and asking him about his family to turning around and saying he’d break his neck if he ever pissed him off. Working for him, you knew to stay in his good graces and God forbid you did something to flip that switch. ‘Cause when he’s seeing red, he’s totally unpredictable.” His mind is one that is plagued by psychopathic and sociopathic traits, which lends well to his chosen path in life as a career criminal and Cosa Nostra member. It is alleged that at this point in his life, Roy has participated in over 18 murders, either by his own personal handiwork or arranged through an outside party.

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Strawberry Has Been Stereotypical Gang Territory In Media The Perception of Gangs Exclusive Interview with a Los Santos-based Gang Member. Kalyani Jamil Los Santos - a city full of glamour, a nightlife constantly reinventing itself, big-budget film studios, and, perhaps more carefully hidden away by the Tourism Board, a long history with gang crime. We sat down with one of those gang members to see if what we have learnt from films and television is true, what it's actually like to be in a gang, how one joins a gang and whether the government and the police are doing enough to elevate those who feel that this is the only life out there for them. In this, we spoke to a man who identified himself with a nickname, preferring to keep his real identity a secret. Warning: This interview contains strong language some readers may find disturbing. So can I ask how you got yourself involved in a gang? Sure. So I was going in an outta juvenile since I was twelve, my fourth stint in, I was like fourteen. Dudes were banging on me hard. When you locked up, you gotta click up with neutrons if you not banging. Niggas kept hitting on me and shit, you feel me? Always getting podded up an shit. So I was like, all right, fuck it, and just clicked up with the same set my brother's from. Shit's in the bloodline. Is that sense of brotherhood felt strongly in a gang? Most definitely. Most people think of it as some phoney shit, but when you don't have anything then it's gonna be your basis. My moms' was always at work, my dad been serving a twenty-year sentence for a long minute now. Those were my brothers, sisters, and the bigger homeys wus like my fathers. There are rival gangs I'm assuming? How do you feel towards them? What would you do if you saw someone from another gang, for example? It depends. The organization that I'm in, we on that new-age time you feel me? A lot of these dudes out here be acting like it's the seventies, on that old-time type stuff. If dudes got into it with my folks then we gonna get into it, that's off the top. But I ain't gone run up on some dude cause he flossing some colour or none of that. Nobody's trying to get locked up over some nigga wearing blue or red chuck Taylors, you feel me? But the organization that I been getting into it with, it's new on the books. Some dudes trying to rule shit like the usual. Got into it with my little homey. Type shit like that. If I saw uh dude from and enemy set, then by code I gotta jump off and do something to them. And if you were offered the chance to leave, like a winning lottery ticket, what would you do? I mean, I don't know. I'm trying to leave right now but it's only so much you can do. You can take an animal out the wild, but at the end of the day, he's still gonna be on that other time he's been on for all his life. Do you feel anger towards the police department or the government for the way they've marginalised minority races, like Hispanics, Asians, and African Americans? That's the thang with me. When you move how you move within an organization and y'all start making noise, of course, the police are going to come and try to suppress. That's by injunctions or whatever the hell they try to plant on a block, you feel me? Maybe it's more dudes going in and out than usual. So when it comes to all that, I don't mind. It's just that- sometimes, they are forgetting that the dudes out here are humans too, you feel me? A Wall Covered In Graffiti In South Los Santos So you don't think there's more for the government to do to help people like you get out of poverty and that kind of crime? I mean, I don't know. If it is, it ain't doing that well as it is. You got teenagers moving like grown-ass men, you feel me? Yeah, of course. My little homey just got outta juvenile and he's like fifteen. Already got shot at two times. Seen his big brother die last week, you feel me? Shit's bred in the mind mad young. And what about your life expectancy? Doesn't it bother you that you could die any day for the colours you wear? I don't think on that shit. Like, anybody can die where ever you're at, you feel me? I can go to Vinewood and get shot by some whiteboy just cause he got his noodle touched when he was three years ago. I could go to Vespucci and get chopt up by them Salvatrucha niggas or them skinheads, you feel me? There may be a lot of misconceptions about how gangs operate and the people inside of them, based on perceptions from music and films, what would you like to clear up about those misconceptions? Oh yeah, most niggas are thinking that we be on that old-vibes type shit like some uh these Mexicans out here. We don't be on the corner, sucking dick and not getting shit done by the hour. We're really out here, you feel me? On top of that, there's a different between uh gang member and a gang banger. You can be apart of an organization and not get into shit. Might be ina little tussle here or there, but you going to school and getting shit done. [And that's a gang-member] A gang banger is the nigga with the strap, rolling up an down the rivals spot and talking hot shit. Staking niggas spots out. Banging niggas out. Whacking niggas out on the walls and shit, you feel me? That's the active niggas. If you gang banging, you in that shit a hundred per cent. Ain't no half stepping. And no way out? That's another thing. Niggas think dudes out here moving like mobsters- you can leave when you want. My moms' wus a Nutt way back in the day and dropped out during a little stint, you feel me? I know plenty dudes that used to bang but they just drop flags. If you drop out and join a whole new organization though, then that's when it becomes uh problem. You not gonna drop flags on Bloods then try to link up with them rabbit niggas around the corner, you feel me? I just wanna pitch in- My little homey Raskal just got locked up like two days on a bullshit charge, so free him. An R-I-P Wooski, my nigga. On hoods. ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ What Are Your Thoughts? Leave your comments below, or send your opinions to 7687 or via email. More From Saints DRESS TO IMPRESS (Businesswear) Body Found On Beach Onohara Murder, Yakuza & Aurora Siliciano Glow Night 19' - HEAT NIGHTCLUB Saints News #ForSaintsBySaints

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« We should totally hang out! » by that person you'll never hear from again It was a nice moment, at the HEAT Club! Some nice beats offered by DJ Yaoi, some great drinks offered by bartenders pretending to be French, even a man selling wonderful smoked salt from south America, which people smelled with delight. Its aromas would certainly spice up their pizzas and roasts! It's in this wonderful ambience that a man, named Wilson, came across another customer, named Bob. While waiting for their drinks, they started talking about one thing, then the next, then the next... After a mere ten minutes, a true deep bond of friendship had formed between them. Their dreams, hopes, ambitions, were perfectly in sync! Of course, as étiquette imposes, they made sure to say "no homo" at regular intervals. Then their drinks arrived, and neither of them judged it was a good idea to go dance with full glasses, hence why they remained leaning against the bar, exchanging and laughing in earnest. At some point, unfortunately, that moment came to an end. The club had to close, and its denizens were forced to leave and find another place to sweat their unsatisfied arousal. However, as they were going to separate, Bob had a wonderful idea: « We should totally hang out! » he gleefully offered. Wilson agreed, and this is why they exchanged numbers immediately, to make sure this bond wouldn't end up drowned in the tides of polluted sea water that clean Los Santos of its finest citizens at regular intervals. Alas! poor Wilson. A week later now, he still hasn't heard back from Bob. Some mention he could have called him, but he just hasn't thought about it at all. When we asked, he merely stated: « Oh, yeah, it was cool, I should text him or something, after I finish that. ». He then focused on his search for a job, not sure whether he'd rather be an exotic dancer, a bartender, or a mechanic, the three main careers available in LS. Will Bob and Wilson ever meet again? Nothing's certain, but they should totally hang out. Paints news is a news outlet, providing the most dubious information from the less reliable sources. Nothing we post should be taken as fact, unless you really have no critical sense. For more not-so-dependable information, do follow us on Facebrowser. We cannot, however, help you make friends.

Trucker job should never ever rely fully on active players for income. Make points for NPC businesses which would buy the goods from truckers.

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Just downloaded it, very dope mod. Makes it so much easier to hear shots from a distance.

I've been in a few bars that have drum kits up on the stage which is what gave me the idea of wanting to start a band.

A functioning Los Santos Bank faction with account managing (suspicious deposits) and financial help for players who are excessive spenders. Perhaps even dipping toes in stocks of different companies. Or something like a sport organisation with multiple teams to compete over scripted/role played games. (Just an idea)

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Just chiming in, I would love it if there was an animation for drums. I was going to try to put a band together that way there could be some live music instead of just DJ's playing robot music everywhere, but all I can do as a drummer is just sit behind the kit.

Username: Riri Comment: I absolutely ADORE your work, Lola. Clearly borrowing one of these looks to my closet!

A cult. That'd be tight as fuck.

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Emotes are always in third person by general roleplay standard so I'm not sure why this discussion even went there. If one does first person emotes, they should be reported because that's not a thing. - Avatarism happens because people commonly use this game as a coping mechanism for their real life issues. You like to admit it or not, the game is an escapade from real life struggles. It's a safe haven where one can put pink glasses on and dream on to whatever they long for. It's why there's so few people who roleplay the bad along the good and also why some people are able to make a clear distinction between what's OOC and what's IC. People don't understand it's about making a character and letting said character take its course rather than trying to force specifics to happen In Character because you have an Out of Character desire to it. The second you start being reactionary to what happens in game and don't question how would your character react instead of acting upon your own instincts and muscle memory, it's a problem. There's no recipe or formula you can follow to be detached from the game, other than to take steps and completely separate yourself from what you want to portray. It's why, in retrospective, I enjoy portraying women more than men, for example, because it creates one more layer I cannot relate to myself so I feel pretty detached. What you need to do next is define a clear background you're going to stick to for your character. You're going to want to know what education they have, how did they do in school, what happened next in their life, how did their family environment influence them, and so forth, especially ifyou wanna start a character off as a young adult like the vast majority. You will understand what you want to portray and stick to that script in everything that goes on forward and account for development going forward. For example, I primarily roleplay a dude from a small town whose graduation choices were Army, Navy, Marine Corps or the Coast Guard because he was influenced that way. With little education past that the US armed forces served as a way to indoctrinate this guy and break whatever he stood for and turn him into an asset, a soldier, a warfighter. The existential drama for him is when he comes home and nobody exactly cares for what happens in the places he went and fought. Nobody pays no mind to what's happening to the thousands of troops deployed across the globe. And nobody is gonna care he's no longer that much of a young adult and he barely has any further education past getting into the auto shop trade. He doesn't understand society for what it really is and he's just one more guy who's torn apart that way, thus he'll certainly be awkward, gullible, naive, and clingy, and slowly learn how to actually develop a personality he uses which isn't him nor how he feels but he must given peer pressure and the social constructs he revolves around. Because he doesn't know how to live a statesides life and he's way behind his generation. Now that's my character but it sure isn't me, nor something I want to be, nor do I relate to such traits. So it's fun for me to portray him and dissect how he's gonna react to what happens around him. Whatever floats your boats, I guess.

Probably biased but I'd love to see more legal factions and businesses in general!

@plekke Who's this Miro guy that steals my customers

White collar crime faction would be nice

BLACK FACTION IS WHAT WE NEED !!!!!!!! BLACK FACTION IS WHAT WE NEED !!!!!!!! BLACK FACTION IS WHAT WE NEED !!!!!!!! BLACK FACTION IS WHAT WE NEED !!!!!!!! BLACK FACTION IS WHAT WE NEED !!!!!!!! BLACK FACTION IS WHAT WE NEED !!!!!!!! BLACK FACTION IS WHAT WE NEED !!!!!!!!

russian organised crime is so over saturated in gta world we need a proper all american mob

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Short description: Allow the selection of a parent skin independently from the face shape, since they don't seem to be linked Detailed description: Hello there! I've started playing a little with Menyoo, and one setting in particular intrigued me, the "Tone inherited from Father/Mother" one. After playing around with it a little bit, I realized it allows you to set your mother/father's skin INDEPENDENTLY from their faces. That means you can get the face of #19 but the skin of #21. Now, why is it a big deal? Well, there are some father/mother (or father/father or mother/mother) combinations that have interesting shapes, but unfortunately, she skin tone is horrendous and will make you look like you have some horrible skin disease, or like you're 95 years old. Unfortunately, not that many father/mother combos have both an interesting shape and an ok skin, which means we often see the same combos everywhere. I don't have the stats but I'd be ready to bet at least 40% of females have Misty, Charlotte or Natalie, in part because of this. Same for males, who often have similar combos. However, allowing to change the skins in addition to the shapes can lead to a much greater variety, and it will make some combos that were ignored perfectly viable and interesting. A few examples, I only fiddled for a minute without going in-depth... But the results are already surprising. This one looks like she's... I don't know, man. Like a Vampire from Buffy the Vampire Slayer or something: But change the skin, and: Now, you're gonna say "it's a bit better but not amazing". True! So, Let's go a bit further, and use a 13/40 combo. Why doesn't anyone use 13? That's why: Yeah. I know. But switch the skin and you have: Customize it a little and she becomes pretty cute instead of looking like she has some sort of disease that made her age tenfold. The exact same effect applies to male chars, to a greater extent even, since many default males have really fucking weird skin tones and shapes. Allowing one to select the skin tone from a specific parent, separate to the parent shape, would solve that for good. Commands to add: None - character creator to be slightly modified Items to add: N/A How would your suggestion improve the server? A lot more face combinations would become considerably more attractive than they currently are, possibly leading to a greater variety of face types and combos on the server. Additional information: N/A

Howling Relic: Great Chaparral Mine Shaft Emilia Russo The last time I recounted my exploring was at the Baytree Canyon View. From there the entire scope of Blaine County like a theme park; the peaks of the San Chianski Mountains, the sway of the Alamo Sea and the winding dirt paths that intersect with long stretches of tarmac. Here on a snaking path that splits Galileo Road from the Route 68 end of Mount Vinewood Drive is where an abandoned mine shaft dwells behind valley oak and pine trees. The mine was set up to bleed ancient gold-bearing quartz veins dry as a part of the 19th Century Gold Rush that dominated territories dotted around the Sacramento River to the far Northwest. The industrial surge quickly swept down towards Southern areas such as San Andreas to attract immigrant drifters seeking their fortune as gold became increasingly rare. This is one of over 25,000 sites on the West Coast left behind by the boom when it was closed in the 1940s; what was once a bustling nook of a flourishing industry for over half a century just sits in a crumbling state of disrepair in the hands of the Bureau of Land Management. The boarded entrance to the drift mine. Drift mines have entry points or access indented into a slope and carve a horizontal path inside, all above sea level. Outside is what appears to be a deliberate display of old tools and mining equipment. What looks like a rusted bench weight for Arnold Schwarzenegger is in fact a set of cart wheels dumped next to a pile of gravel. Now as exciting as trudging deeper into the unknown can be, there are risks. The warning sign nailed to the creaking wooden barrier is not a tourist-baiting party piece, it’s a warning for the potential collapse or subsistence of the mine, deceptive vertical drops hidden in the darkness, a choking build-up of toxic or combustible gases and a potential lack of essential oxygen. So it’s with a sturdy helmet and a strong LED headlamp that I pass through the flimsy entrance to set foot inside. Stepping from earth to gravel crusted mining rails marks the first step of a journey into the dank recesses of the shaft, your first decision since stepping in comes with a split in the rails leading to equally ominous paths. The first fork in the rails littered with old barrels, antique pots, mine hoses and tubing that runs through the entire shaft. The tubes might have helped ventilate the shaft back in simpler times. Down to the left is another fork, the right hand side barricaded against what looks like an intentional rock wall. More relics show the way to an access tunnel likely used by miners to step between the rolling carts winding up and down the main tunnels. Heading left here takes you down a long curving path that straightens out into another barricade. Heading right is a brisk walk that ends in the only way it can, a barricade. This surprise access tunnel ends in another boarded up path found throughout the mine to discourage people from digging further. An unmistakable barricade ends the far-left path of the shaft. Stumbling back up to the first split, I decided to head down to the right into the shortest route in the entire shaft. A familiar sight looms out of the black: The shaft today is a literal shell of its heyday, lurking deeper is the thought that this dusty, eerie splinter of the earth’s bones were once manned by men dead set on excavating their livelihood and overburdening local city and rural accommodation. Rickety floor slats creak beneath your feet, rotting wooden beams and moth riddled tarps can be perceived as spectral cloaks. I ponder how years ago people bashed at the walls here for minerals and ores worth more than the essentials to survive, I couldn’t help thinking of the small chance of the ageing support beams splintering apart under the weight. From there you have no way back and you are at the mercy of history; rocks crash down, dirt cascades down to choke you, split wood pokes your skin and you’re lost in a black void. It’s not a pleasant idea but some people thrive from this constant danger. The mine's location and its underground layout. Exploring mine shafts is dangerous and should only be done with due care and caution to your environment and personal safety. Always inform somebody where you are and how long you expect to be gone, take the appropriate equipment and don’t take the structure for granted. ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ More From Saints  The Perception Of Gangs DRESS TO IMPRESS (Businesswear) Body Found On Beach  Onohara Murder, Yakuza & Aurora Siliciano Saints Travel #ForSaintsBySaints

San Andreas Highway Patrol and National Guard.

NITTY RLY WHOOPIN IT THAT WAY

I support this idea so much. I actually discussed this idea elsewhere on a GTA World related discord but it was shot down because ''there is no need for it''. Who cares? At this point in our playerbase we can think of ideas like this. I mean, think of it. Every State of the United States (which we roleplay as) has a National Guard. This isn't the US Militairy, nor a seperate militairy faction. As explained by the website of the National Guard Bureau; ''The Army National Guard exists in all 50 states, three territories and the District of Columbia. The state, territory or district leadership are the Commanders in Chief for each Guard. Their Adjutants General are answerable to them for the training and readiness of the units. At the state level, the governors reserve the ability, under the Constitution of the United States, to call up members of the National Guard in time of domestic emergencies or need. The Army National Guard's state mission is perhaps the most visible and well known. Nearly everyone has seen or heard of Guard units responding to battle fires or helping communities deal with floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, snowstorms or other emergency situations. In times of civil unrest, the citizens of a state can rest assured that the Guard will be ready to respond, if needed.'' People shouted out as reasons for not doing this ''Imagine the army patrolling in an empty city''. Who is talking about patrolling? Whenever I see that reasoning I imagine they never understood what a national guard actually is. As stated above, they are ready to be deployed incase of natural disasters, civil unrest, and hostile actions against the well being of the state. They also fall partially under the governance of the Governor, making sure that bullshit reasons of ''Oh they wont listen to the State as its a federal organisation'' are not legitimate, as they /do/ listen to the governor. People often compare such an idea with ''they will take liberties and jurisdiction from PD!'' first off, people should not, ever, compare a police faction with a militairy faction. They are vastely different; One of them serves and protects the people while the other one fights the enemies of the state. If either one of them becomes both, the enemies of the state tend to become the people. Second, hasnt it ever occured that the liberties and jurisdictions taken from PD would literally be those that it shouldn't have in the first place? People often forget one thing; the militairy does not patrol. The militairy does not enforce the law. The militairy is not a Law Enforcement Organisation like the LSPD. The most obvious exemple of this recently would be the two YouTubers cought behind the borders of Area 51; they werent arrested by the Militairy Police. They were arrested by the Clark County Sheriff's Office, who have legal jurisdiction over the outside borders of the militairy installations including Area 51's borders. The Militairy does not enforce the law, to such an extent, that they wont even do that when people are literally trespassing militairy property. And what if there is a situation the LSPD cant handle? They call up SWAT. What if SWAT cant handle the situation? All is lost because there is /no/ next line of defense. A militairy faction could come to aid ''when SWAT calls 911''. I think the addition of a militairy faction, properly monitored by Faction Managed, would be a good inclusion to GTA:World. It opens up the server to roleplay things such as natural disasters, and actually having an active Coast Guard (never seen the LSPD do this, I can literally buy a boat and do all my business on open sea). A strong leadership combined with good and stable communication and coordination are the key to such a faction being a huge succes.

FOLLOWING THE CRASH

i learned this way of rping (i call it story rp) through playing here, before that (and my first few months on here) i was playing like the players that we're criticising here and the best way to describe it is "rpg mentality", making a character as an extension of you is basically what gtao is and it lacks any depth, which is okay, just not on this server or any story rp server but this is always something so difficult to get across, newer rp servers nowadays define heavy rp as strict requirements on realism, instead of requiring people to make a fleshed-out character - it's evident in the biggest problem they make, which is requiring your character to work for anything they'd really start off with in any story (this one's also difficult to explain to some people since they see it as freebies for nothing)

"MAKE SURE YOU FOLLOW THE ROAD LAWS"