I have hinted at the fun my crew of gamer friends often have jumping from game to game over the course of 20+ years. I think the tag #lanfest should bring up a couple of the posts but a gamer is who I am (as well as a beerologist, family man, rockstar, tournament fighter, crypto enthusiast, sailor, business owner, and I forget.)

I have been waiting for a real game to land so I can slip back into hardcore MMO mode with https://lordsofdeath.com More one them as that develops. In the meantime, we have been playing multiplayer games to keep sharp and have fun. Despite being addmittedly late to the ball (waited until it was $14,) the latest one is...

For those of you who don't know the premise, you are a car-stealing, murdering, mercenary sociopath in a city named Los Santos. Or maybe that's just me.

Let me tell you the tale through the screenshots in my folder......of exploits.

The character creation interface is WAY more involved than it needs to be. The result of this is the fact that you can spend an hour making a character that will make you and your friends laugh through hundreds of hours of gaming. Or, you can spent 10 minutes trying to pick the parents of the gangsta you wanna be in this game like Zeke.

ZekePickleman almost instantly fell in with the bad crew. Most notably, @parabyte (aka moog) who had a rather bad attitude and valued his privacy while at the ammunition store. There were quite a few nights of debauchery and outright psychotic silliness before it was time to hook up with....

@evileddy. He prefers the dirt roads and outskirts where there are fewer hooligans,robotic locals, and long sessions gazing bitterly over the surf rolling in over the beach.

He has some boss wheels and a pad that is a slight upgrade from a trailer in the sticks.

Zeke is no stranger to the lifestyle though. His smokey den is really not the place for an aspiring business person to build an empire of fortune and excess. Maybe he can convince @evileddy to pack up some ordinance and hit up the green-haired king pin?

Tune in next episode to see our 2-bit thugs catch a glimpse of next-level crime, and meet the man who would usher in the next chapter of thuggery.