Sidelined!

    So, the best laid plans... I wound up cutting the week short due to cutting my finger! I sliced open the knuckle on my left index finger while prepping dinner. I just wasn't having a good day... I got lucky tho that I missed the tendon on top of the knuckle. It wasn't a big cut, but it was pretty dang deep, and it didn't seem to want to stop bleeding at first. The doc at the walk-in said stitches were required because of the location. A bandage and/or dermabond weren't going to cut it, no pun intended. On the bright side, it means I'll be seeing my Sweet Gal tomorrow sometime, tho I won't be doing anything strenuous, lol.

    On the gaming front, I wound up ordering Unreal Tournament 2004 on eBay. It was a fraction of what it would cost retail, and it was far easier than rooting through the 10,000 CD jewelboxes that litter the vaults of the HQ. I'm hoping to have that by the time I get back from this work rotation. It's a very good FPS shooter, with a lot of variety, especially with umods. I can do a few quick matches in a half hour, keep my hand in, so to speak, in gaming. The campaign modes of other games just take far, far too long to plow through, good as they are. More shooters should have bots, like Black Ops, to allow for some quick diversion when not able to delve into a full game. Moving on...

• GamePro op-ed: More Warfare.
• [Image] Dogs overpowered? (Credit: cardiokush on Reddit Black Ops)

 

Dogs overpowered? Ya think?

 

(Credit: cardiokush on Reddit Black Ops)

 

• L.A. Noire comparison: Which version looks better?
• NPR feature: L.A. Noire, a video game that's like a film?
• Gears of War 3 preorders top 1 million.
• Resident Evil in 2011 and beyond.
• [Image] Incredible high-def overview of Battlefield 3's Wake Island map.
• Sony: PlayStation Store will return 24 May 2011.
• [Video] Op-ed: Extra Credit's 'The Myth of the Gun', why the US has traditionally produced more FPS games than Japan.
• [Images] What video games would look like if the Atari 2600 was still made today.
• [YouTube] Follow-up to the Portal 2 adoption 'controversy'.
• [YouTube] GLaDOS surprise.

 

'Portal Kombat'

 (Credit: clifwith1f on Reddit Gaming)

 

• Is rocky alien planet Gliese 581d habitable? Mebbe, but still too far to commute.
• Astronauts installing 'big magnet' on space station.
• Astronaut Mark Kelly: Don't take 'vibrant' US space program for granted.
• [YouTube] Virgin Galactic Spaceship 2's first 'feather flight'. 
• Record 18.7% efficiency on flexible plastic solar cells.
• Neuromancer in pre-production.
• [Image] Arnold's powerful genes will live on. LOL.
• R.I.P., Macho Man Randy Savage dies in auto accident.

 

Goodnight, Sweet Prince!