Kill Confirmed on MW3...

I'm still playing, but not as much, my College Algebra class is taking a lot of my time during this summer semester and I'm playing much less, down from 2 or 3 hours a day to 2 or 3 hours a week...ugh.

I've also started watching Being Human (the UK version), I'm through season 1 and have really enjoyed it, I need something to watch until the Walking Dead and Game of Thrones come back on.

All Good Things

All good things must come to an end, including another enjoyable semester with Professor Howell.  I have thoroughly enjoyed myself, and have learned some things that may actually change the way I communicate on the world wide web.  As enjoyable as it was though, it was tough, five papers in a semester is a lot, maybe too much for me as a writer. I felt like my papers would've been better given more time.  My classmates were pleasant and encouraging, that helped me get through the grind of writing what seemed to be an insurmountable number of papers at the beginning.  Thanks to everyone for such a fun semester in ENG111.   

I Am Juggernaut!

I was going to post this yesterday, but the encoding settings and size of the YouTube upload (almost 4GBs) took the upload well into the night and past midnight...sheesh, 6 freaking hours just to upload.  This was a fun MW3 episode where I got a care package for a Juggernaut, a kind of super soldier in MW3, but they are really slow, too slow, I like to run and gun, which is just impossible while weighed down with all that armor, I hate that about them..  It was fun nonetheless, even though most of the time I was just running (or walking it seemed because of the speed of the Juggernaut) trying to find enemies to kill.  I get the Juggernaut at about the 2:00 mark.

Must See Movie

I'm not your average guy when it comes to humor, so others may think this looks stupid, but stupid is funny to me...sometimes.  That said, I will definitely be seeing The Dictator, I was a huge fan of Ali G, so this will be right up my alley.

Old Man Hands

My old man hands are still doin' their thing.  I am a little over a month into my switch from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. to Modern Warfare 3 and am loving it.  The depth of the game (kill streak rewards, gun variety, etc.) has me hooked, and the speed of the gameplay has me wanting to improve to keep up with the youngins and all their smack talk.  I finally broke the 30 kill barrier in a game beasting on some kids, some probably half or even one third my age, these old man hands aren't ready to pass the torch on to the next generation...not just yet, not when I can still do what I do, beast on n00bs.  This mode of gameplay is called Kill Confirmed and I like it better than the other types like Team Deathmatch, because there is less camping (staying in one spot all game). In Kill Confirmed you have to not only kill someone, but someone on your team has to pick up their dog tags for you to score points for your team.  It does no good to just snipe someone from long range if there is no one there on your team to get the tags.

TV

I am a very happy camper right now, and no, I don't mean Modern Warfare 3.  All of my favorite shows are back on just in time to hold me over during The Walking Dead off season, Community, Eastbound and Down, Game of Thrones, and Modern Family, just to name a few.  The only problem is that now I have these shows in addition to my gaming addiction to keep my mind off of school work...not good, at least for my grades.  I really need to focus during these last few weeks of classes or I might end up with a B or two, and <gasp> maybe even a C...ouch.

Also, here's a funny clip about one of my favorite shows of all time, LOST, it's old, but still makes me laugh years later.

Modern Warfare Weekend

STEAM had Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer available for free this weekend and I thought I would check out the newest installment of a series I hadn't played in a while.  The last games in the Call of Duty series I played were Modern Warfare and World at War a few years ago.  My son plays MW2 online with his friends and likes it, so I bought that this weekend ( $4.99 on Amazon) and decided to try out the MW3 free weekend with him as well.  It was really fun and contradicted a lot of things that I had heard about it that had kept me away for so long. First I played MW2 with my son running some of the Spec Ops missions.  Then I did one myself, the gameplay is a bit different than S.T.A.L.K.E.R. ( the only other FPS series that I play) but in the end they are actually quite similar.