Tuesday, early in the AM
GungalTM of the Day
Bikini GungalTM jiggling under sniper rifle recoil...
As it happens my visit to have my venerable Jeep serviced was indeed painless and quick. Afterward, I went to visit Mama and Papa Joker, and spent the afternoon hanging with them and trying to retrieve some items needed for home, without as much luck as I had hoped. No matter, there's always another day, lol. My Effie and I are in this for the long haul, after all.
On the gaming front, I did get back to Call of Duty 4 after all. I played some free-for-all and team deathmatch, my laptop huffing, puffing, and stuttering all the way. I had no great success stories to tell. I actually had to bail out of the only game where I was doing well, lol. But there was one incident I enjoyed that I'll pass on: I'm old, see... And my reflexes are poor, and my laptop is underpowered, so it's usually just chugging along barely displaying images fast enough to keep in the game. So, on a FFA match on Overgrown, some douchebag thought it would be cool to dance around me, while I tried to shoot him from the prone. It wasn't working for me, he was way too fast, so I cunningly started cooking off a grenade. Douchebag tired of his sport and knifed me... And then he ate my grenade. I typed a quick 'Hah!' and logged off to let the cable guy do his stuff on our line. There's still some life left in the old tiger. Just sayin, lol.
Recently, I mentioned Tribes: Ascend, so I was interested to note that EuroGamer is giving the free-to-play FPS a 10/10 in its review piece, linked below. If Activision was smart, they'd make Call of Duty 4 or some such a free-to-play title and suck in lots of potentially money-generating players. It worked for Valve on Team Fortress 2, tho, of course, Valve is a much better developer, community-wise and finished product-wise than Activision and it's CoD sequel-generating bastard children. Moving on...
Featured Modern Warfare 3 Video
http://youtu.be/hILKjzHvnDk
Uploaded 11 April 2012 on ImProbablyUnemployed
Call of Duty Links:
- [Feature] Call of Duty Elite: The Future.
- Whither fourzerotwo? To White Castle for a business lunch, lol...
More Gaming Links:
http://youtu.be/r5nB9u4jjy4
- Crysis 3 release date and screen shots on Rock, Paper Shotgun.
- [Review] Tribes: Ascend gets 10/10 on EuroGamer.
- [Preview] Sniper Elite V2 gameplay impressions on Violent Game Reviews.
- [Mods] Black Mesa Source soundtrack to be released soon, with full Half-life 2 mod following two weeks after.
- Electronic Arts to lay off 500+ employees. But apparently, EA is denying the layoff reports.
- Free Witcher 2 PC back-up available from Good Old Games. If you own it, no matter where you bought it, you can get a back up online at GOG.
- [Op-Ed] How Valve 'devalued' video games, and how that's great news for developers and players.
- [Image] Portal GLaDOS papercraft sculpture. (Original image link credit: actonesceneone on Reddit Gaming.)
- Bonus cosplay link: Another pic of the human GLaDOS at the New York Comic Con. (Original image link credit: Altrieth on Reddit Gaming.)
Non-Gaming Links:
- [Images] NASA space shuttle Discovery in extreme detail.
- NASA flight readiness review for SpaceX mission under way.
- [Only mostly dead] Researchers claim evidence for recent lunar volcanic activity.
- Unemployed game designer makes PC solar system exploration app.
- Silly putty for potholes.
- [Image] Huge hailstone from Kansas hailstorm. (Original image link: derrtydenim on Reddit Pics.)
- [YouTube] Obesity: The epidemic for every body.
- Advice for diet soda dinkers: Skip the chips.
- MPAA just won't quit: Jumps into legal debate, saying embeds and links are copyright infringement.
- All five living Star Trek captains to unite for an London event appearance.
- [Image] What the alien from Alien really looked like. (Original image link credit: StencilPrinter on Reddit Movies.)
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