Easy......ya just don't lead 'em so much

So today's a very special topic.....and no it's not the "notable gingers" column making a comeback. Although I should really get off my lazy ass and write something on that one of these days.  Most of you that know me know I'm pretty much a nerd at heart and love me some video games......more specifically Call of Duty.  I've played this game series since the original Call of Duty on playstation where you storm the beaches of Normandy and I've played every game they've released since then.  I mean, the game is the sole reason I purchased an Xbox 360 to begin with.  This past Tuesday, November 10th, marked the release of the latest installment of the series, Modern Warfare 2.  Needless to say, I was excited, along with my roommates and apparently the other 2.6 million people that are playing the game on live. I mean....I took off from work all day Tuesday just so I could play the game.  I've been waiting for this for as long as I've heard about it bout, more than six months ago; probably closer to a year ago.  Let me just put it into perspective for you: I was perusing gamestop's website and read that some stores were opening the 10th at midnight to release the game if you had pre-ordered it.  So I went up to the local gamestop, told the guy I had read about opening at 12 and if the Rome store was going to. He said yes and that I could preorder the game now.  My reply? A big "fuck yeah!!!" The sales associate gave me a weird look....I just looked at him and said," Sorry man, this is the most exciting thing I have going on in my life right now." That was about 2 weeks before the game came out.  My roommates and I decided to wait in line at the gamestop Monday night, grab that shit at midnight, and be on xbox live by 12:15 to play for the remainder of the night.  Monday night rolls around, we get to the gamestop at about 8 or so that evening to sit and wait.  After about an hour we're already tired of standing so we call up one of our roommates to bring us some lawn chairs.....twenty minutes later he shows up all Johnny on the spot like with some lawn chairs and a clutch six-pack.  Nothing really exciting happens from 8:30 till 11 so I'll just skip that.  When 11 hit, a buzz of excitement was in the air......the acclaimed "most anticipated game of the decade" was coming out in an hour.  By this point, the line had grown a considerable amount, stretching a few hundred yards or so. and this line was about two abreast so if it would have been single file it would have been one long ass line.  I kept thinking to myself when people would drive by and gawk," What the fuck are they staring at? Obviously a video game is coming out and we're standing in line for this shit!" Then I took a look at some of my fellow linestanders.......a frightening sight.  I'm talkin about your stereotypical gamers. You ever seen that episode of South Park where the kids play World of Warcraft and get all fat and pimply??? If not, you're an r-tard. just kidding. but seriously.  But that was pretty much it.....there was some kid, could only have been 5'8, at least 250 pounds was walking around smoking Marlboro Reds (100s no less) and chugging a 2 liter of Mountain Dew. The guy next to me leaned over and said, "Jesus Christ I dunno if that kid will even make it back to his house." I think he was right.....that poor bastard was destined for a short life.  I can't really say anything though, I was standing in line with these fuckers.  And I had been in that line for an hour or two longer than them.  Like I said...I'm a nerd at heart.  By the time 11:30 rolls around the mood turned from anxiousness to straight up violent. People trying to push their way to the front of the line, cursing, yelling to let them in the fucking door. haha, this shit was hilarious. Although I was right alongside them, yelling and cursing too,  I wanted to play the damn game so bad.  Tension was running high and I found my relief in a bare ass.  Around 11:45, while everybody's standing there we hear a horn honk and someone yell, "HEY YOU FUCKING NERDS!" We all turn around to see this Oldsmobile Cutlass driving by and the passenger sticking his big pale white ass out the window and proceeded to drive past the entire line honking and flicking us off.  It was a much needed relief as everybody started crackin up, throwing food at the passing car, and returning the favor.  I'd say it was almost worth standing in line just to see that.  I still crack up just thinking about that shit.  Midnight rolls around, we get the game, and make it back to the house.  All three of us that went had already ripped the shrink wrap off and prolly taken the discs out of the cases by the time it took us to get from the truck to the front door.  My xbox had been out of commission so one of my roommates let me use his for the evening.  So my roommates Logan and Allen have already loaded their disc's in their consoles and they are honestly running around the house screaming they're so excited.  I go to load my disc and then it happens....the most epic failure ever, the little blue screen pops up saying that the disc is unreadable. I look at Allen and tell him, this fucker thinks I'm kidding; he laughs and all like yeah that would suck. I said no motherfucker it does suck. We tried all of our discs in it and not a single one worked. Other games worked in it and the the discs all worked in the other xbox's. I was crushed...just my luck to stand in line for four hours and when I get back the fucking xbox doesn't even work. I couldn't do anything but laugh.  I watched both of my roommates play it a bit but then I decided to go to sleep cause I couldn't handle just sitting and watching, I had to play it! I got up around 6:30 or so the next morning to the sounds of a warzone blasting through our front room. I'm talking airstrikes, helicopter gunships and fully automatic small arms fire. I go to the front and Logan's still sitting there, in a daze, eyes glazed over still going at the game. It was a sight. So I pretty much took over from him, let him get some rest, and I got to playing.  All I can say is HOLY SHIT! This is by far, the best video game ever. I've only played a little bit of the single player campaign and the two-player special ops. I mostly stick with the online play and it is ridiculous.  I'd go into details but I wouldn't want to bore those who don't play and everybody that does play already knows about it.  Needless to say I've been calling in AC-130's and wrecking folks. I mean come on, the plane has a 105 mm howitzer on it...what's not to love about that shit.  Watching me play reminds me of that scene from Full Metal Jacket with the door gunner on the Jolly Green who says "get some". No it's not that I shoot women and kids, cause that'd be easy (joke, I'd never shoot women or kids).....it's that I'm so fucking good, that ain't no shit neither.  If you're ever on xbox live, my gamertag is RonnieAtTheBar, get at me.  If you're lucky I'll put on a clinic for your ass.