I fell off on writing in recent months, so I'm digging back in by doing Combat Mission AARs for a friend. It's great experience, even if I'm not doing fiction but just trying to recap events. I'd let myself forget how much I enjoy writing.

It's like… the point of the game was ostensibly, the point of being on an actual SWAT team, which is not to KILL EVERYONE, but to try and have everyone walk out of a situation alive and only use deadly force if absolutely necessary.

Or how if you subdued a suspect, but forgot to cuff them, they were entirely capable of not only getting up and running away, but picking their gun back up as well so they could shoot you.

It is absurd that SWAT 4 still stands out with how some of the enemy AI worked. The game was capable of differentiating between random street punks and hardened terrorists, so if you tossed a flashbang inside a door and then hit the street punk with a non-lethal round, he's instantly surrender (sometimes, they'd…

Oh, it's more than Italian football now. I'm pretty sure it's across soccer, and sports. I know I've heard it at a few college football games.

I did not know about Last Chance U. I will add it to my queue post-haste, as that's RIGHT up my aisle.

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I wish more games had picked up and built on what Batman: Arkham Asylum had done. You offed a dude in that, other people noticed and got more terrified and would start moving in groups and stuff.

Splinter Cell: Conviction is probably my favorite Splinter Cell game. But it's getting harder and harder for me not to get annoyed by games like that, where you slowly whittle a squad of 10 guards, all equipped with radios, down to 2, and no-one notices that Bob, Mike, Jim and Tom have all suddenly stopped checking…

I finished Life Is Strange this week. And I have a bunch of quibbles about it…

Ah crud, I was looking forward to this. I'll probably still check this out though, I fully enjoyed the first 3 movies.

I mean, that'd actually be a shitload of fun!

Speaking from personal experience, I'd rather get rudely, publicly dumped than ghosted.

Yeah, it's weird to present it as something minorities invented, when literally the entire history of the country has revolved around political movements using a very explicit brand of "identity politics" for one particular demographic.

Phil Mushnick's gonna shit a brick over this.

Times change. Chris Rock's "Bring the Pain" is legendary, but even he stopped doing the "Black people vs. Niggas" bit. (The section on OJ Simpson is also… whoof.)

I think Blazing Saddles still works fine, because, at least from what I remember, it so clearly and repeatedly makes the point that racists and racism are so utterly idiotic.

Yeah, I'm not even trying to address offensive-ness or not, but I was sitting there going "I'm… I'm almost 100% sure anyone doing that would be charged with sexual assault." Hell, I work in the news, I'm reasonably sure I've seen a story roughly like that in the last 3-5 years.

I was re-watching "How I Met Your Mother" while doing some cleaning yesterday and I came across a scene where Barney says something to the effect of that he had pretended to be a casting director in order to fool fresh-off-the-bus women who didn't know what a casting director could legally ask them to remove or lick…

Same. I'm here for this silliness.