And the last work day is here...

Gungal^TM of the Day

 Gungal^TM takes aim... Duck!

    As this auto-posts on the HQ, the final work day is here, and it'll be a short one. With Easter tomorrow, I plugged in four hours off for the 2nd half. My plan is to go to the Albany pad, crash hard, and then rocket home to my beloved Effie first thing in the morning. Effie, honey, I love you!! I'll be home tomorrow morning!!!

    I managed to slouch over to the grocery store and picked up a cart full of possibles for the Albany pad, plus a few items for the home front. Best of all, I was able to Skype chat for a while with my beloved Effie for a bit before work. That was pretty dang awesome!! She took Monday off, so fingers crossed that we can chill and recuperate a bit then. The short week home is an awful tease, since it's only three days. The first day is blown since I'm on full zombie auto-pilot after working all night. The other two days go too quick for my liking, lol. As my honey and I were saying, this lottery thing needs to come through for us so we can begin the decadent life of leisure we've been planning for so long.

    Today's featured video is a crossbow montage from Half-life 2, one of my all time favorite (and still unfinished, lol!) first person shooter games. I always thought that the perfect shooter would be a hybrid of the Half-life Source engine with Call of Duty gameplay mechanics, including aim down the sights. Maybe someday that will actually be accomplished... I think the Unreal 3 engine game Killing Floor comes close to having that feel, but I haven't researched to see whether there are any military flavor shooters that are using the same engine. Moving on...

• [YouTube] Three way discussion on Black Ops 2 leaked info. (Warning: About an hour of just talk, no gameplay.)

• [Interview] Spec Ops: The Line on GamaSutra.
• [Preview] Borderlands 2 PC hands on from Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Also previewed on CVG.
• [Video] Borderlands 2 PC tech demo video. Also this on YouTube: Borderlands 2 gameplay blowout video.
• Mass Effect 3: Resurgence free DLC announcement.
• [YouTube version] Mass Effect 3: Resurgence trailer.
• More info on Mass Effect 3: The Extended Cut from BioWare. Also, this: Mass Effect 3 can be played without Origin.
• [YouTube] Witcher 2 PC versus Xbox 360 comparison.
• Calculating how big the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim overworld environment is in the real world.
• Fully functional ZX Spectrum emulator found in Nintendo 64 GoldenEye game. And here's a YouTube video of the emulator in use.
• Hackers can steal credit card data from used Xbox 360s.
• [Feature] Ten Legend of Zelda facts you may have missed out on.
• Tor Frick, graphic artist creates entire 3D environment with just two textures. (Original image link credit: Valfri on Reddit Games.)

• Hermes spacecraft aims to join the tourism space race.
• Dark spots on Mars' Northern hemisphere are volcanic glass.
• First evidence of string theory at the Large Hadron Collider.
• [Nano-news] Transparent, flexible, heat-resistant memory chips.
• New method neuters your dog without removing his testicles. Was going to make a joke about wives, testicles, and neutering, but I thought better of it...
• [Update] Cops let woman keep $12,000 tip.
• Google Glass, the next Evolution of Android.
• Why Google is not concerned about Android revenue. It might also have something to do with Google having more than 350 million users.