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I know it is odd to put such varied topics as console game thoughts and heavy political stuff in one article, but... this isn't a professional blog. This is just a repository of thought, belief, disbelief, exploration, fantasy, and the rest.
Today being what it is, blogs and other sites have put things up in remembrance. I don't, always. Sometimes my thoughts are personal. When I go to log onto my blog I found, since it doesn't work as it should, that the fastest way to gain access is to visit the main Google search engine site and patch in from there. So I do. I have heard about, and acted upon, the notoriously anti-American, un-American, or un-patriotic nature of Google (depending on how you see things) by not using them where I can spare it. I kept seeing something on the site today, a little picture. I simply didn't know what it meant or was for. And, actually, I won't claim to at this moment either. The picture is of a black ribbon, like the pink one's for breast cancer awareness (pro-abortion), and such. Only, as I said, the one at Google was black. Finally, I realized it might be about what happened on 9/11. Yeah, yeah, hush it. But what does a black ribbon represent? A quick search seems to indicate that the black ribbon is in memory of the European victims of communism and socialism (often called nazism by today's European and American socialists (governments), albeit). So, what is up with that? It wouldn't surprise me at all to learn that Google is blaming American politics for the attack, directly, indirectly, through conspiracy theories, or whatnot. But I don't actually know. I only have their bad rep, what is shown, and a little research to go on.
Okay, on to gaming. I am playing "007 Quantum of Solace". No, it is not a great game. It is pretty cookie cutter with no real challenges unless you allow your aim to be reduced to luck and the enemy health and movement to be set to absurd. While combat might be tricky at times, a good soldier usually doesn't have a difficult time with it. Imagine if the Army wanted to make better soldiers so they made the sights more difficult to use and packed them down with 50 pounds worth of clothing on top of their gear loadouts. Yeah, no. Still, I remember again why I enjoyed Bond movies as a kid, if there are few... "ugly, mean, stupid, girls" in the game portion. I still remembering not thinking too highly of girls in school, as a social ordered thing, at least publicly. Girl cooties and stuff. But I also remember going to the movies to watch Bond with my fellow anti-girl crew and... enjoying the grown up version of girls very much. As well, the impossibility of what Bond does, as if it was nothing, is fun too. While we have excellent soldiers, sailors, marines, intelligence agents, and such, none of them can simply walk through a hail of bullets every other building they enter and then just have a martini to make it all better. Impossible is fun. One advantage to this game is that, for the most part, it is so static that I can just view the upcoming chapters on YouTube, then go do.
Why would I spoil it? Well... if you are serious at all about things, everybody would. You can try to invent your own wheel but that is rather non-productive. If you can learn floor plans, at least a bit, do walkthroughs, see what works, and mentally (or better) practice, before doing something, and you have the time, why wouldn't you? Imagine never having worked on an engine and deciding to do a complete teardown of your only driver? Or imagine never having cooked and deciding to make some feast come to life? Do you think our special forces and intelligence agents are just parachuted into enemy territory with little more than a communication device, navigation equipment, and some questionable and old intelligence reports? Well, not if otherwise possible. Heck, they will reconstruct mockups of places they will be entering for a major event, if given the time leeway necessary, including adding guards, cameras, obstacles, locks, and whatever else is known to be in place, plus some possibles but unlikely additives. Yeah, so I... look ahead, plan. Not much to it with this game. I guess I just hate surprises, to boot.
Later.
That's the first Bond movie I've ever seen (if you can believe it).
ReplyDeleteThe impossibility of his situations just makes it that much more entertaining in my view. Pure testosterone.
Yeah, that it is.
ReplyDeleteNow, I've got to say, I've done some impossible things. Some of which is beyond a doubt because people I know remember, and just as I do. I have fought seven men at once and won without a doubt. But there is impossible and there is impossible. I ain't no Bond, just faster than the average... cat. :p