Last day before work, lol.

    Had a wonderful day with my Pretty Gal yesterday! We love just spending time together, just being with each other. That's an awesome feeling, when anything you do is just wonderful just because you're with the one you love!! Have to savor every moment together, as tomorrow, work beckons for a three night rotation up North. Hopefully, the week will go quick, and I'll be rocketing back to my Honey in no time!!

    Played some Black Ops bots for a little while yesterday, in between chores at the HQ. I'm beating the bots on FFA on regular difficulty, well, regularly now. I ramped their skill level to Hardened and started getting beat. The bots, being computer controlled AI, have unerring aim. They make seemingly impossible shots with SMGs at long distance. They are also inhumanly alert, sometimes whipping around 180 degrees to target my middle-aged ass just when I think I have the drop on them.

      I still think the bots have real value for a relatively pain-free way of learning the maps and weapons. It's remarkable to me, tho, that Unreal Tournament 1999 bots and the AI from the original Half-life were so much better than the ones in Call of Duty: Black Ops. After all, that technology is literally decades old, and the AI in those two classic games from the last century (!) was uncanny. Moving on...

• Opinion: Well, of course, there's going to be a Call of Duty subscription model.

• Miyamoto says Zelda Skyward Sword only 'half complete'.
• PC version of Battlefield 3 getting 'special effort'. But that effort won't include Windows XP, lol.
• Homefront preview: Hooked Gamers.
• Finalized 3DS pics, video leaked.
• Hackers shred PS3 security.
• [video] Lost Planet 2 has great ass jiggle physics.
• [image, wallpaper] Big Daddy reaching through your monitor screen.(Thanks, thekenzo on Reddit Gaming.)

 

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Sunset on Mars

(Credit: streeter5000 on Reddit)

 

• NASA reveals rules for 'space taxis'. 
• Four new exoplanets discovered - without a telescope.
• Test results from the crows which fell mysteriously dead from the skies over the Amazon.
• Forty-one percent of new smartphone buyers choose Android. Apparently, this is the droid you're looking for, lol. Also: My Five Essential Android Apps.
• [images] Women laughing - alone - with salad. What's up with these weird images? Do salads make women happy? 
• 2012 declared most absurd sci fi film by NASA. Apparently, no one from NASA has seen The Core or The Day After Tomorrow.
• R.I.P., Pete Postlewaithe.

 

Dirty Harry Potter

(Credit: frickfrock99 on Reddit)