CoD Linkage

Late start yesterday AM at the HQ. I only had three Yuenglings Saturday, so I think it was the mega-dose of coffee earlier that ruined my sleep. While prepping links and whatnot, I drank nearly a whole pot of coffee. Not that it helped, except for two good games (which garnered complaints about my camping - Hey, if you don't want to eat my claymores don't come thru the same avenue of approach 4 or 5 times!), I was everyone's Modern Warfare 2 bitch all day long. My two worst games were on Highrise, where I essentially spent the game in respawn, and on Skid Row, where the match started off with a team-killing douchebag who killed Matt64 and me and then left the match. I never got my mojo back after that. Matt64 and Reibo both had some good games. Reibo had an especially good one on Terminal where I pretty much just hung in the center getting shot while he and Matt64 vaporized anyone coming up on the right from the gate or on the left from the excalator. Matt64 also had a scorching good game on Salvage. He forted up and waited for the enemy to funnel through a doorway - which they did over and over and over. He finished 18/2 on that one. Tho I didn't make a habit of it, I had two bad accidental teamkills. On Afghan, a friendly (at least he started out friendly) apparently wanted to mock my camping ways. While I was waiting around a corner for the enemies, he snuck in on my left and pressed himself against me. All I saw was a dark shape on my left and I whipped around and put a burst into him. I said over the mic "That was ill-advised." And he took exception, saying that I should have known that an enemy wouldn't be giving me a bodyrub... Whatever. Serves him right for being a smart-ass. In any case, he came around and killed me a couple of times to confirm his general douchebaggery.
On Overgrown, we were holding the library house, and, while I was watching the gas station from the broken wall, Reibo went down the stairs on the right. I didn't see him. An explosion sounded downstairs, where there was a claymore, and I duck-walked to the head of the stairs as Reibo came through the doorway. Again, all I saw was a dark mass in front of me, and I cut him in two with the SCAR-H. Not my fault. Really.
I did eke out a promotion, and I unlocked the Silencer for the MP5K and the Glock18, which made me really happy. Sure wasn't much else to perk up spirits, gaming-wise. Today's featured MW2 vid is a quick clip of multiple achievements by Ronin6337. Next up is a booster hunt montage by Shadowunter745, who takes on the boosters Sandy Ravage-style. Finally, Hutch shows exactly why I frackin' hated the CoD4 map Countdown: The "fish in a barrel" spawn trap. Is it a legit tactic? Yeah, I guess. But it beats me that players complain about camping to hold a spawn area, but trapping a team in a spawn and wasting them as they appear is OK. FWIW, I think it's douchier to sit outside waiting to kill players the second they appear than to fort up and wait for the enemy to assault. On to the links:

• Not-news from IGN: Modern Warfare 3 in development.

Featured MW2 YouTube Video

Non-Gaming Links:

• GameSpot: iPad hands-on.
• AnandTech: Apple iPad review.
• Merch: iCade iPad gaming cabinet, $150 from ThinkGeek. I'm a big fan of ThinkGeek. I get a lot of t-shirts there that help me express my geek nature.
• AfterDawn: Apple developing a smaller iPad for 2011?
• Gizmodo: iPad Dashboard App Rejected For "Contradicting iPad's User Experience".
• Ars Technica: How iPhone OS demolishes Windows 7 phone OS without even shipping.
• MaximumPC: Download of the Week: Firefox Lorentz. FTA: "The various tabs you open in Firefox Lorentz remain isolated from each other's wicked ways, in that crashing plugins will only affect the page or tab they're on - prompting a gray fade-out of your screen and an automatic reload, if you so choose. The rest of your multi-tab browser will stay exactly the same as it was pre-crash."

• Examiner: South Park mocks ginger kid who ranted on YouTube about South Park ginger kids episode. He should have kept his yap shut. Look:

• LiveLeak: Cute girl with huge tongue. Man... I'm going straight to Hell. In a flaming chariot.