Shadowrun

So I buy the game used yesterday for $49.00 with my EB Discount card and take it home. I watch my weekly movie with the wife, "Stranger than Fiction", which was really good. I then get the kids into bed as they've been reading and playing in their rooms during the movie. I sit down, put in the shiny used disk, start up the training session and immediately get invited to a game! I haven't even trained yet and have no clue what I'm doing.

The people in the game are all under 17 and speak really really fast. I pick dwarf, cause I can relate, and someone on the other team tells me I can't be a dwarf cause they want to do something. WTF? So I switch to human while waiting for the last slot to fill. It does and suddenly a long string of obscenities and instructions all spoken at 1000 words per minute are shouted through the headpiece... and the game starts.

I start running around a bit, getting my bearing, killing a few people but the rest of the team is standing there letting the other team kill them. I kill a few more, I cap the point a couple times. Everyone is just kinda standing around.

I'm suddenly dumped back to the lobby with some child screaming F bombs at me and I'm dumped from the server. I look at his gametag and he's got 44,580 Game points! I have 2500.

What I gathered they were doing was letting the teams kill each other where they could collect achievements. What a waste of life. What do you get out of those points and the hours you put into them? Your made up name is at the top of a list that less than 10,000 people on the planet even bother the read? Looking at the score on this asshat's gametag shows the dedication to mediocrity some of today's youth is striving for.

After this little gem of life I'll soon be forgetting, I went to 2old2play and found the Shadowrun Forum. I used the "Add to friends list" link to add a whole bunch of people to my friends list and almost immediately found a game. A personal thanks to "Lithium" whom I followed around from match to match.