SavageSig

Anyone know how to check out your Steam achievements? I keep getting random little pop ups telling me what achievement I unlocked, but not what it means or how close I am to other achievements. I found the CoD achievements, but that's not what I'm looking for.

It's not an office building, but I am attached to one other business. Actually, all the problems started when they moved in. When it was lying vacant for several years, nobody bothered us at all. It's an odd situation with parking, because we're both right behind a gas station, and we have some common parking spots. The rub is whether we can use our drive thru or whether they want to make it an exclusive thoroughfare for the business attached to us, so people can pull around the building to park right next to them.

I was just there. They only had .25, 9mm, and .40 left in pistol calibers. Several rifle calibers left, and a few boxes of Remington 550 Golden Bullets along with sundry .22 in smaller lots. The Federal 9mm is only 9.XX a box. Quite a deal

Oh, I know it. Lawyer fees add up quickly. Fortunately there is a clause in the lease which says that if a legal dispute is initiated, whoever loses has to pay all legal fees. I'm guessing this is why she hasn't hired a lawyer to write these threatening lawyers, and is instead writing them herself. The repairs might even be cheaper than hiring a lawyer, but I don't want to set a precedent where she can boss me around.

We have a lease, but I guess we're reading it differently. The lease says we are responsible for maintaining the interior. We take that to mean to make sure the interior is safe for use. She's taking that to mean that we must fix all cosmetic flaws. Also, if something isn't mentioned in the lease, who is assumed to control that particular aspect? For instance, we're fighting about use of parking areas around the building. Nothing is mentioned in the lease about this. Do we have control of the parking area, or does the landlord?

Beautiful.

I think their view is that the lease has always allowed them to do this, but the old man never thought he needed to before. I wonder if the courts will look at the first 7 years of our trouble free tenancy and say if they had a problem with us, they should have kicked us out long ago.

Oh, most definitely she's trying to do #1. I have a 30 year lease on this spot, and at the end of a very threatening letter with notice of termination of lease, she said that she would let me move out and break the lease with no repairs needing to be made. I thought that's the way evictions work, but thanks for verifying. And I have a very nice drill

Thank you for the comments. I'm convinced that she's trying to scare me, but I didn't like the idea of going to open up the store and finding the locks had been changed. She can't do that unless she goes through court first, right? And she's claiming that I'm in default on the maintenance clause of the lease. I'm just curious to see what sort of latitude the court would give me. Surely they can't evict for refusing to fix, say, a small mark on the wall. Where is the limit? I thought the old owner was a stand up guy, but he seems to have given his approval of all this. He's getting CC'd any correspondence. I am planning on writing a note to him. I also know that the previous tenants of the spot are still in business across town. I was thinking about going over there to see if they will testify as to the condition of the place when they left. What were you referring to in your point #4? And for all people signing leases now, remember to take lots of pictures. I wish I had taken some when I had taken over this place.

I signed a long term lease on a property back in 2003. The lease is pretty standard, but the person handling it has changed. It was a pleasant old fellow who did everything by handshake, but now it's his daughter and she wants me out of there. When I first moved in, the place had been a beauty shop. The tile was old, the carpet was cheap, the bathroom was old, etc. The layout was not suited to my needs, but the landlord said he didn't want to spend any money on the interior. He told me to do whatever I needed to make the space suit my needs. This meant knocking out a piece of drywall so I could install a large piece of equipment. He would often come by to chat, and he definitely looked at the modification and OK'd it. The new landlord is saying that I have to provide a statement from a contractor that it's structurally sound and that the wiring is safe. Is that true if it's been there for over 7 years? They were quite sneaky. I asked them to come look at two leaks, but instead they took pictures of the entire place without my knowledge. I have also utilized a space as a drive through since the beginning of the lease. Is there a way to grandfather this practice in, or if she says I have to stop, do I have to stop? When I told her I wouldn't stop, she put up 4 or 5 signs around the area, telling people not to use it. Can I take those signs down? Is this a breach of my quiet enjoyment? What exactly is quiet enjoyment? Does that include not being harassed and "inspected" by the landlord all the time (as she threatened in a letter)? They do have to give some sort of notice before coming in, right? There is a maintenance clause in the lease that says I have to maintain the interior to "present condition" while they have to maintain the exterior. The new landlord is saying that if I don't make a ton of repairs, that they can terminate my lease within 10 days of notice. The problem is, a lot of the repairs they're talking about are issues that were there when I took the place. I don't feel I need to replace the tile when it hasn't changed one bit. The only possible complaint that I can concede is factual are three dents or holes in the drywall in the back and a large stain on the carpet where nobody even looks. Can she force me to repair those right now? I was under the impression that these could be fixed when the lease was up. What's the threshold? Will a judge back me up that those repairs are trivial and not worth breaking the lease over? There are also two leaks which I've asked be addressed. Their response was that they couldn't find any evidence of a leak, and any water stains are normal and my problem. I know they didn't even look because they couldn't find the trap door to the attic. Can I demand they fix those before I fix anything? If they don't fix it, can I somehow compel them to or force them to buy our lease out? Thanks for any help. And if anybody knows a great commercial lease lawyer, I would be so grateful. Or if you're a lawyer who'd want to look over my papers, see if I have a case, and then we can talk about hiring. The lease provides that the losing party pay for all lawyer fees in a dispute. Maybe a contractor too, if I do need to get my modification OK'd.

Academy actually had a flyer out today advertising this pistol in 9mm or .40 for 299 plus 50 dollar rebate.

If anyones looking for spare mags, I have 3 for sale in the classifieds section.

So what prizes were being offered?

Anyone want to play some 2-player Spec-Ops missions on Steam? I'm Quacker on there

I suppose it will be, once I unlock something that can shoot down predator drones. My first MP game was me getting mowed down over and over again by flying things with so much lag I couldn't shoot anybody. Hopefully all games won't be this laggy, but I'm not optimistic: I had 3 green bars for my ping

I cracked and bought the PC version. I am very, very, very disappointed. I'm only 4 missions in and I'm bored already. It's a lot of run, cover, shoot 15 bad guys, then run some more. And did I seriously spend 5 minutes doing virtual ice climbing? Left click, right click, left click, right click....snooze. And without leaning, it's unnecessarily hard. All for the "bargain" price of 60 dollars. Oh, I am so disappointed in my weak will power. I implore everyone else with a PC to wait until the price drops.

Haha, awesome! I'm going to have to start picking up stray balls at the course.

Wait, so does a golf ball vaporize when hit or does it actually take off like somebody just swatted it?

Hmm, well, I thought I saw a banner up saying something like Lock and Load and a picture of a M16. Thanks for checking it out guys, and sorry for the false alarm.

Strapped with Bungee cords on the roof. Make SURE you keep your hand on it while you drive, because that'll totally help

I may have been seeing things, but I think I saw a new gun store near Bellevue Mall? I'm rarely in the area, but as I was driving by a strip mall (I think near the Applebees?) I saw a sign that said "Lock and Load" or something like that. Can anyone confirm?

Hands-On With OnLive Streaming Gaming Service at GDC 09 - PC World The future is now!

Well, I think the future of gaming is streaming. There will be no Xbox 720 or PS 4 or whatever. No more hardware requirements for anybody beyond an input device and a screen. In any case, computer gaming has hit a plateau. I haven't upgraded my rig in 5 years now. The days of needing to upgrade your stuff every 6 months are over and done with.

You can play doom on an Iphone and not lose anything. You cannot play CS with thumbsticks and expect the gameplay to be the same at all. Console ports are rather pathetic, actually. FPS on consoles seems to be "put reticule in general direction and start spraying". Nowhere near the pixel precision of gaming on a computer. So I propose that they stop trying to make hardcore games for consoles, and instead focus on softer FPS. I think No One Lives Forever is a great example of a FPS franchise that wouldn't lose anything from fuzzy aiming. There was a time when precision was mimicked in consoles. Halo 1 scoped pistol, remember that little gem? But they know the formula now: make it fuzzy and make it easy for non-gamers to feel like they're getting their moneys worth, instead of being easy meat for others with a little more playing time and quicker reflexes.

I've been playing FPS since Doom. I remember when you could bunny hop with a Deagle and still pop someone in the head from all the way across the map in CS. This was all with a simple mouse and keyboard, and the only determination in whether you could pull it off was your skill level. If you have to use weak computer assisted aiming because your method of input isn't precise enough, then I don't want to play.