reminiscing on days when I had a mustang

The roomie grilled up some stuff on the grill Saturday, good eating as always. His hometown friend G's gf E from M brought over a dip, which was also tasty. Flicking through the channels that night, finally saw the Top Gear goes to America ep on BBC America. I'm a little offended at their portrayal! ( How the UK sees us Colonials )

Sunday, when I went to zarathrustra94 and turdburgler's for geek fun, brought over WO so I could get Lu Bu's PI. I tried getting it on my own, but I just can't kill 1000 in 9 minutes. I had accomplished it in about 10:30, but I could never shave that minute and a half off. So T and I both played Lu Bu, as you can just combine the kills if both players are playing as him, and its no problem for both of us to get around ~500 within that time limit.

I also tried the Stranglehold (the video game sequel to John Woo classic Hard Boiled) demo on the 360. Its pretty sweet. I'm kinda a gimp when it comes to non-light gun shooters though. Time Crisis, Silent Scope, and all those other arcade shooters, I rock at. I mean, top 30 overall in the SS2 contest (4th in GA!) and I think I can do the two gun thing pretty effectively as well. And I do okay at 2-d scrollers like Contra or Gradius. But 3d run and gunning? Not so well. I eventually got better at the controls, but I'd be toast at a more difficult difficulty setting. In any case, I love the destructable environments. Everything shootable, and you can do all sorts of trick shots like blowing up propane tanks or causing things like signs to fall on enemies.

And you can be all stylish- running up/sliding down banisters as you go all two gun on your enemies. In fact, you go into bullet time when you do, and the "bullet time" meter is replenished with more stylish kills. You also get another meter which is "tequila time". You can use it to refill health if there's no medpack nearby, or you can go into "precision aiming mode" which is kinda like sniper mode. You can do head shots, throat shots, crotch shots, and the enemy acts accordingly. Though there was this time I went for a gut shot, and ended up hitting to the side of his groin, so the shot went through and exited out his buttcheek. But even though I shot him from the front, the game reacted like I only clipped him, as the guy kinda did that comical, "I got shot in the ass!" thing you see in movies when someone gets clipped in the butt, but was still in the fight.

I also ended up unlocking the "tequila bomb" (which also uses Tequila time) which I didn't get to try, but I hear its like the "death blossom" attack from the Last Starfighter- Tequila will starting spinning and gunning down everyone within a certain spherical radius, but in that typical John Woo style. There's also Mexican standoff mode, which happens when you get in a Mexican standoff. You go into bullet time and use the left stick to lean left or right to dodge the bullets (which are doing that matrix thing so you can see where they're going) and the right to aim your own gun to shoot the bad guys. For all my claimed gimpiness, I did well in that mode, I think.

Friday Night Lights commentary: ( cut for spoilers )