Call of Duty still sucks without Cold-blooded

From my 10 February Blog:

   [I forgot to mention in the other day's blog about one of the things which made me ragequit. We went into a match on Favela, and one of the douches on the enemy team (one of three or four @holes on that team) announced that if anyone on our team used the care package glitch, he would file complaints against our entire team. You can see where this is headed: He and two or three of his clan buddies proceeded to glitch through the entire match... Seriously, Dante missed out on one additional Circle of Hell: The Circle of Douchebags.]

   Last night, I managed to hook up with Reibo for some MW2 for a little while. I had a nice game on Estate covering the left side of the power station with the FAMAS assault rifle. I got a couple of nice twitch kills through the foliage at the top of the ridge near the camping house. I played a couple of medium-range maps (Quarry and Underpass) exclusively with the SMGs, principally the Vector and the MP5K. Using them more heavily, I see why up close and personal, I often lose against the SMG when I've got an AR. I also used the TAR-21, a rifle I usually hate, with some success on Skidrow, covering the tunnel. I'm trying to rotate the weapons to get the maximum XP out of them, since the chance of my getting some amazing run of kills is practically nil.
    Perkwise, I've also come to appreciate the Hardline perk. Since I don't get Cold-blooded for a few more levels, I'm getting some freebies from Hardline. The Tier 1 perk of choice is Scavenger, now ranked up to get extra ammo, which comes in handy on the SMGs. On my LMG class, I'm using Bling, since there's little likelihood that I'll live long enough to run out of ammo. :) On to the links:

• BASHandSlash: CoD State of the Union Address (PC-centric).

    More Gaming Links:

• PSM Magazine via VG247: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 a better FPS than Modern Warfare 2.
• PlayStationLife: Battlefield 2 will have first-day content available through in-game store. Here's the entire Worthplaying interview with Patrick Bach, senior producer of Bad Company 2.
• Today's Xbox Live Suspension Forum nugget o' gold.

• Bioshock 2 review round-up: Ars Technica; 1Up; JoyStiq (single player); GameDaily; GamePro; GameTrailers video review; TeamXbox; Kotaku; Wired's spoiler-laden review; GameInformer; GameSpy; IncGamers; BigShinyRobot; Sydney Morning Herald; GiantBomb; Escapist; GameSpot; UGO; Zergwatch.
• IGN: EA teases with "something far-reaching" for Mass Effect coming in 2010.
• AtomicGamer: EA reveals release plans for 2010 and early 2011, including Crysis 2 and a new Dragon Age.
• Wired: 21st Century Shooters are no country for old men.
• Co-Optimus op-ed: Who's next? The future of band-centric music games.

    Non-Gaming Links:

• Ars Technica feature: The Lost Souls of Telecommunications History.
• Slashdot: Statistical Analysis of U of Chicago Graffiti.
• Infoworld via Slashdot: The iPad Questions Apple Won't Answer.
• Tom's Hardware: Google runs 3 month old commercial on Super Bowl. How do you impress a French girl? Surrender. Heh.
• Gizmodo: Buy a Trexa car platform (Tesla model wheels, drive train, and frame) for $15,999, chassis, interior, etc. extra. So you get this: