Trigger Happy

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I'm so pumped for Halo 3 ODST right now its not even funny. It runs wild tomorrow and my copy should be delivered tomorrow thanks to Amazon's release date delivery. What's odd is they waited until today to ship it with 1 day shipping. You'd think it would be more cost effective to use slower shipping and ship it on Friday or something especially since it only costs $5.98 for release date shipping. Anyway, I keep watching the live-action trailer, mouth watering with anticipation. I can't wait any longer!

Arguably one of the most difficult achievements Halo 3 has to offer is the Vidmaster Challenge: Annual. I've never had a big motivation to try it since its 0 points and I don't really care about getting Recon armor, but a bunch of people at Co-Optimus have been looking for help. I figured I might as well give it a try, so Saturday night, Erika and I joined up with Bakken Hood and husky trooper and gave it a try. Actually our first attempt was with Bakken Hood and DSiJanCarlo but it was so embarrassing we won't talk about it. We did take one thing from that failure though, do not try the grenade jump shortcut. Its a waste of time and extremely frustrating.

With husky trooper, we managed to get up to the top of the structure without too much trouble. It took two tries to kill the tin can but only because I got too close and he launched me off the bridge with his wind attack. On our way out our own deployable turrets took us out a few times (note to self: destroy turrets before going inside). Husky trooper informed us to clear the ice path before getting the ghosts, that probably saved us quite a bit of time. The part that took the longest was the final stretch where you're racing to the ship while the Halo is falling apart. After a TON of respawns we finally made it to the ship. We probably would have had better luck if Erika and I hadn't been lagging so much.

We had some pretty amusing moments. Being killed by our own turrets multiple times made us laugh every time. There were also a few jumps that we completely missed. The one that cracked me up the most was when I clipped the wall while going off a ledge because my ghost turned to auto-aim at a flood enemy. I rolled out of my ghost which stayed on the ledge while I flew off the ledge along with my team mates (note to self: turn off auto-aim).

At the end, it was a fun hour and 37 minutes. I'd do it again if anyone needs help. I must warn you though, the two of us aren't the greatest on the ghosts!

• Vidmaster Challenge: Annual
• Date Earned: Sunday, September 20, 2009
• After 9/25/08, completed Halo on 4-player Legendary LIVE co-op, with Iron, and everyone in Ghosts.

Vidmaster Annual Success - [Bungie.net]

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I've come to realize that I will never be able to please everyone. I can only be who I am and not the person everyone expects me to be. And who I am... is a very kind, very giving, very loving, very forward and at times a very dirrty minded, creative woman and nothing turns me on more than a very kind, gentle, dirrty minded, video game lovin', computer savvy geek;)

Five geeks I'm lovin at the moment are-

#1 Smurph "Mind if I defrag your hard drive?"

#2 Jay Baruchel "Every animal in God's creation is pooing in the jungle and its raining 12 times a day so theres just a good ol influx of fresh feces for us to enjoy"

#3 Valerie Poxleitner "I'm lights- a fairly small-sized, Canadian girl who makes Intergalactic-Electro music"

#4 Mila Kunis "Oh yeah, you gotta be in a guild...every 12 year old boy knows what I'm talking about"

#5 Seth Rogen "I just wanna have sex with that bag right now" - talking about his love for ketchup flavored potato chips