allright. So instead of going to the movie tonight(gonna go tomorrow matinee styley instead) I stayed home and played Doom 3 and beat it.

Doom 3 is the epitomy of what shooters ought to be. There isn’t a great deal of time before gunfights, there isn’t a great plot where you’ve got to do something complicated(basically it’s fetch quests), and the monsters you kill a bad ass. And it takes itself SERIOUSLY, something that Halo in all its glory could not do.

And I’ve got to say…Doom 3 scared me more than Resident Evil 4 did. Resident Evil 4 scared me…once. It was towards the end in the lab area when one of those crazy monster frozen things woke up, and the background music hit you.

Now imagine 8-10 hours of things like that. There is no music in Doom 3. Just ambient noise. Just the rattle and clank and the hum of heavy machinery. And then there’s the voices, the whispers, the maniacal laughter(well the last one could have been me, but I doubt it)…man. The ONLY thing that they could have done to make me more jumpy and more heavy on the trigger finger at the slightest movements would have been to put monsters in the crawling areas where you’re moving around with the flashlight.

This game had the most suspenseful atmosphere of any video game so far that I’ve played, and that includes Eternal Darkenss, RE 1,2 and 4. Doom 3 would scare the pants off them, make them wet themselves, and cause them to go crying home to mommy.

And there was a gradual increase in difficulty evident. i played it on normal difficulty level, and towards the end I was DESPERATE for body armor. I would not save until I found some, that’s how bad it was, and I usually save every five minutes.

So. In closing, Doom 3. The ultimate First Person Horror Shooter. Or horror game I’ve ever played. Although I’ve heard good things about the silent hill games, but I’ll stick with Doom 3 for now.

go see kung fu hustle tonight?

if so, give me a call.

probably the 9:15 showing?

Anyone?

Gimme a call.

E-mail distractions hurt IQ more than pot.

no wunderr i lik chekin mi emayl so much.

man, i got thu munchieeeeees!

moe and sailer vote against a bill offering some cash to higher ed.

thanks guys. I know you say that the bill ‘doesn’t do enough’, but while you’re bitching and moaning about the poor students, and someone comes up with a FIRST STEP to get some MUCH NEEDED monies out there, you shouldn’t vote against it.

So if Moe and Sailer had their way, there’d be another session of complaining, backstabbing, and filibustering and NOTHING WOULD GET DONE. Higher ed would still have no money and another school year would go by without any help.

Compromise is the first step to helping something, and refusing and whining because it doesn’t do enough produces ZERO RESULTS. Which if you’ll notice is on the other spectrum of doing, because if Moe and Sailer keep arguing, NOTHING WILL GET DONE.

At least this way, something gets done.

So, thanks to you college democrats who put in a rep who has missed committee meetings on getting money to BSU AND votes against a bill helping higher education. I hope you’re happy.

Me? I feel a bit betrayed by politicians claiming to stand for something and then when the chance comes to help even a little bit, they vote against it.