While I preferred MW2 to MW, I still really liked MW and thought it was better than all others besides MW2. I just got really good at cheesing certain class combos in MW2, which was the only way for me to be good at those games. I’m only OK at FPS games and was able to make use of things like the riot shield for holding points or heartbeat sensor and reload perks for C4 to get good K/D ratios. In MW I got a decent percentage of my kills from Danger Close because I died a lot, and goddamn that was a funny way to kill someone. I also felt MW2 was less sniper-friendly, and I suck both as a sniper and against snipers.

Is it rude to say, “You know what? I think I’ll walk.”

Nah, as a taxpayer I strongly advocate making our military vehicles look like animals.

Really? Dammit!

I had a whole animal based joke playing out with bird fish seal, but I couldn’t find an animal term for an army person. I thought about saying seal but couldn’t tell what kind of military person it was sliding down the line.

I fucking love the picture of the bird flying the boat while the dude slides down the line.

Only if you are pushing boundaries of the performance of the helicopter. Yes, they are designed with a specific balance in mind, but that balance is an envelope not a single number. They need to have capability to add people as well as have those people move around in flight. Some are designed to carry payloads/cargo, too, which can be variable in weight and shape. Have you ever seen a rescue helicopter flying with a gurney dangling by a line, swinging in the wind with a patient strapped to it? Same thing.

Yeah, the main story was pretty terrible. The console controls for broom flying were also criminally bad.

I really liked the combat, though, and exploring the world was nice. Playing some of the puzzles was also fun. Even though the collect-them-all achievements were extremely vast (so much so that I didn’t even both trying for any of them when I found how ridiculously tedious it would have been to go after them), it wasn’t a deep game. But it was fun for a short time.

The combat looks a bit repetitive.

That looked far better than I expected. It had a lot of Horizon Forbidden West vibes to the gameplay, but the graphics definitely felt like being in the Star Wars universe.

The game came with the account. I ostensibly bought the game, but the guy gave me control of the account the game was locked to.

Not as a protest. I just didn’t feel the need to create an account for a game, so I bought an account that was already created.

I bought a Steam account back in 2007-ish. I wanted to play HL2 but didn’t want to create a Steam account. I thought then, and still think now, that I shouldn’t need to create an online account just to play an offline game.

The guy gave me his login information, and then I went in to change the email and all other info to generic info. I’ve been using that account for 17 years, but I did eventually have to give them real info to buy new games.

What are the chances this goes to PS5?

If I were to have guessed I would have said squid came from both squalo meaning shark and squamata for reptiles like snakes. A squid is like a snake shark, so squa-ish. Add some shift in sounds over the centuries and it becomes squid.

I had the original Xbox with Live to play with friends, and I played XBLA on the 360; but I didn’t know about the Arcade function on the original. I don’t remember hearing any of my gaming friends talk about it, either.

Some people don’t want their intellectual property packaged in a paid system without getting paid themselves.

I have a beard because my fiancé says I have to keep it. I’d have a stubble face (clippers only, no razors) every day if I could.

And my understanding is that Amarone wines also let the grapes dry out a little to concentrate the flavors. Not raisined, but just a bit shriveled. I love Amarones.

It isn’t about tolerating it. I haven’t even found the microtransactions yet. I’m not tolerating them at all, they just aren’t a part of the game that I’m playing.

Limiting clock speed because so many things were tied to CPU cycles and wouldn’t function on new hardware?

I remember the day I learned this lesson.