Mutual assured destruction

So this morning, I got up at freakin’ 4 am to make it into work at 5. I needed to push a few buttons (which could have been set the night before on a timer) and hang around while other people tried not to break stuff that would cause me to do more work. Luckily that’s all done now.  But the good thing about that is that when I walk out the door ridiculously early, no one will complain.

Anyway, my first post last night has at this time 2 comments. I was shocked. I kind of figured that frankly if someone did read it they would quickly move on.

Last night, before the post, I did have a pretty good night playing Gears of War. Again.  Baine took some pleasure in killing me as usual, but the EvilBitch™ of the night was FL Krack3r. Don’t let the small gamerscore fool you; he’s actually a decent player. No less than three or four times did we kill each other simultaneously. Here’s how it typically went down. I am a sniper whore. Typically I run around with that as much as I can. I would see him “sneaking” up on me, and attempt to switch to the machine gun/chainsaw. By the time the damn thing loads up, he’s right in front of me, and I know I can’t shoot to kill before I am dead. Chainsaw it is. The shitty thing here is that he uses the grenades melee style. He tags me, I cut him in half, then blow up. Its Mutual assured destruction, but isn't that supposed to prevent people from trying it? Looks cool, but then we both would have to watch the other 5 or 6 guys play. I did win a few shotgun vs sniper (me) battles, one at point blank range. I must have gotten lucky, because all I saw was blood on my screen.

With GoW multiplayer, I am torn. I want to play with people on my friends list, so I have been playing mostly private unranked matches. But I also want my kills to work towards some achievements. For now I will stay unranked, but I hope they make it easier to play ranked with Friends.