Left 4 Dead

Ok, so I broke down and bought Mirrors Edge and Left 4 Dead yesterday. To start off, Mirrors Edge is pretty. It’s extremely pretty, and the action is awesome. In the intro to the game the main character talks about how everything flows. When you first start out, it won’t seem like it, but within the first 20 minutes you’re jumping over obstacles, running walls, jumping from roof to roof, and much more, like you’ve run that same exact path hundreds of times (which sometimes you will in order to make it through an area alive.)

So needless to say, Mirrors Edge is a nice change of pace from the traditional FPS Shoot-em-up games.

Speaking of shoot-em-up FPS, Left 4 Dead. Best multiplay experience I’ve seen in a game in a long time. L4D is a game of forced cooperation, I don’t care who you are or how good you think you are. You stray to far from the group, get hit by a boomer, and try to fight off the ensuing horde all by your lonesome, I dare you. Multiplayer co-op was extremely fun with working through the different chapters of each campaign, but the fun didn’t truely begin until I played Versus. The cooperation required by the infected to take down the survivors, and the even larger amount of cooperation needed by the survivors to make it through the onslaught of AI common zombies and PC special infected. Valve did a great job yet again with creating a game that has a mind-blowing multiplayer experience.

So if you’re looking for a couple games to pick up this holiday weekend I would definately go for L4D and Mirrors Edge.

If you already have L4D send me a friend request on xbl, my gamertag is Teh Sparrow

Let the zombie slaying begin!

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No...Just, no

It's cold, too bloody cold.
Snow is not melting when it hits the ground, not cool.
Although I did get a laugh today. When I was exiting off of I235W onto ValleyWest dr there was a car flipped on it's top on the bridge over the interstate. I know it's bad, but I still laughed, it's not even slick out yet (this was at about 3:20am) and somehow this car managed to get flipped onto it's top. I don't even want to know. The speed limit is only 35 there, so I mean, either the person was just not paying attention and being stupid, speeding, or both. But there was a firetruck, tow truck, and like 3 cop cars.

And yesterday when i was exiting I35N I80E onto University, some girl had rearended the car in front of her, and there was a cop there too. It's like, comeon people, it's Iowa. You only have to live here for a year be here long enough to know that when winter starts to set in, DRIVE NICE. Not a very complicated concept. But, who am I to talk, I was just getting onto I35N from I35/80, at about 65mph, when my truck decided it wanted to go into overdrive. 65mph, sudden jump from about 3000rpm to 5000rpm, wet roads, about 35 degrees F. . .not very good odds there. Well needless to say, I went into a good 45degree drift at about 70mph, overcorrected the first time and threw it even further when it came around, but somehow still managed to save it and get my traction back. Didn't really scare me, I just haven't driven like that on purpose for a long time, so I had like a HUGE adrenaline rush, it was crazy.

But yeah, I'm just bored and all because our CIC client is down so I can't take any calls right now, but I also really just don't have anything else to say right now, so I guess I'll see you all on the flip side, and post again later.

Work

Work is, well, work. That's all there is too it. You wake up, get ready, go to work, do ur shit, take a break or 2, maybe even lunch, finish ur shit, then go home. By now, you're probably at work now, I am too, but I've been here since about 3:30am. I'm on the whole lunch part of work right now and I have about. . .hold on. . .1min 30secs before i have to clock back in. Well..at least get back on the phones, I can't clock in since our timecard server is DOWN, yes, DOWN. But don't be surprised, everything else is working right now (knock on wood) so I mean, SOMETHING had to be down. Says it's scheduled maint, I'd be worried, but since it is another company maybe THEY can keep to a time schedule. Who knows, guess I'll just have to wait and find out. one moment. . .

yeah, so I'm back on the phones now, waiting for some idiot customer to call in and tell me he KNOWS exactly what is going on and what I HAVE to do to fix it. heh, moron. I already had one of those today. He scared the shit out of me. I was talking to him and couldn't figure out how ...got a call...ok..so i'm not on hold w/ dispatch.. the guy knew all the signals, till he finally tells me he's in the modem and I was like...fuck...luckily, at that point, I was able to just get him out of the modem, schedule a trouble call and get him off the phone haha.

I like the hold music for dispatch. It's REAL music. Ours is just midi tracks, it's annoying as hell. and it repeats after like only 2 minutes, it's rediculous.

Blah...I'm done ranting here for a bit, I think I'll head on over to schwah's page for a bit. y'all should check it. schwahsrandomness.blogspot.com

later me peeples

Hola. ¿como esta?

Yeah, so I'm Jake, I prefer to be called Birdy, but noone seems to care anymore so I guess I'm just Jake. And I just went on break so I will return in about 15 minutes!

. . . . . . .(15 minutes later). . . . . . . .

It's too damn cold outside...
But anyways, the first posts I have on here are poems, the 2 immediatly before this one are songs, Curved-Like Letters was written with a jackass friend whom I don't speak to anymore, written for his ex, how ironic huh? I still like the song so I've just taken it as mine. Second Chance is lyrics I wrote for a song for a girl I so foolishly left a couple years ago, tried to get her back, but she just wouldn't hear it.

but yeah, I'm done for now, prolly post again by the time I leave work.

Curved-Like Letters (song)

i want to write a song to you
that explains how fate can always come true
i want to talk about the day
that we were both drawn to
20,000 'round and you the most
beautiful of all
and i felt nothing could go on without you

would you turn me down
if i never saw you around
or would you want this everytime i
call you mine i would say
we're made for each other
but that might just be a cover
but i know there's nothing better
than screaming curved like letters

every time i think of you now
i can show no more than that evil smile
i even gave you all 8 spots on my speed dial
i've never been in such a rush
to understand how two hearts can touch
but every minute i wait is too much

it will be a while before
i'm around
but with you my feet are
on the ground
you gave me reason
to call on a savior
to change all my
old behavior

would you turn me down
if i never saw you around
or would you want this everytime i
call you mine i would say
we're made for each other
but that might just be a cover
but i know there's nothing better
than screaming curved like letters

after talking to you i knew what
i must do
to ask for a chance to prove
what i feel for you
to say that i love you
and to fully follow through
in everything i say or do
i promise you

would you turn me down
if i never saw you around
or would you want this everytime i
call you mine i would say
we're made for each other
but that might just be a cover
but i know there's nothing better
than screaming curved like letters

i want to write a song to you
that explains how fate can always come true
i want to talk about the day that we were
both drawn to
20,000 'round and you the most
beautiful of all
and i felt nothing could go on without you

Second Chance (lyrics to a song never written for a girl who wouldn't stay)

The time we spent
doing nothing at all
the time we wasted
just screwing around
it wasn't much
but it was enough
my perfection
in human form.

This pain so great
nothing can compare
longing for love
that has long passed away
I fucked up hard
and I'm sorry babe
but all I ask
is a second chance.

In the target lot
eating our McDonald's food
in the target lot
watching the people play
it wasn't much
but it made me smile
my happiness
in loving form.

This pain so great
nothing can compare
longing for love
that has long passed away
I fucked up hard
and I'm sorry babe
but all I ask
is a second chance.

I'm sorry babe
I know I've done wrong
but I've changed
Ive come a long way I swear
just please
please girl
just take me back

This pain so great
nothing can compare
longing for love
that has long passed away
I fucked up hard
and I'm sorry babe
but all I ask
is a second chance.

in my empty room
just talking on the phone
in my empty room
just listening to you
it wasn't much
but you made me laugh
my hopes and dreams
in perfection's form.

This pain so great
nothing can compare
longing for love
that has long passed away
I fucked up hard
and I'm sorry babe
but all I ask
is a second chance.

all I ask
is a second chance.

Life

As I look around at the world today
all I see is a vile decay
of what life
used to be.

Our contry is always out fighting some war
under the guise of protecting the poor
trying to make life
what it used to be.

Our streets are littered with the sick and the poor
while we sit at home where we're all safe and warm
leaving them to wish life
was what it used to be.

So the moral of this story, if you'd please listen well
is to put your foot down and stand up for yourself
to make your life
what you want it to be.

For until we learn we can help none but ourselves
and throw down all our weapons and step down from our thrones
we will never have life
as we know it should be.

Ignorance

In a time of darkness
in a time of death
when evil stepped up
when God had left
many lives were saved
although many were lost
a super race was to be made
but first the impure must be slain
a group of people
who had done nothing wrong
were taken to camps
where the days were long
they were hit
and beat
and shot
and killed
this one group of people
who did nothing but live.

And now to a time
of life and light
where we look back
and talk of days past
and the cruelty that was done
we say to ourselves
"Never again."
as we fail to look around
but if we would
we would see
the many cases
of suffering and death
against none other
than one group
men are hit
and beat
and shot
and killed.

Some may ask "Why?"
because of the color of his skin?
or his religious beliefs?
No
because in the end
it comes down to one thing
the simple fact
that he exist.

Knight in Shining White Armor

the sorrow in her voice
the pain in her tears
the longing in her eyes
the loneliness inside
are merely but a few
of the many misdeeds
done to her
by those she had freed

again and again
she tries and she tries
to get away from the hell
that destroys her inside
and with every step that she takes
she gets hit with a problem
that just holds her in place
in this hellish square one

And although she has thought
of a quick suicide
she refuses to die
and makes on with her life
for she knows that someday
no matter how far
she will eventually find
her knight
in shining white armor.

Love

Atop this dungeon
I call home,
I stand by my window
and watch you go.
Every nightI lay in regret,
Wondering whyI can not forget.
Day after day
I hope and I pray,
That you will come back
And love me some day.
As cold and as hard
As I try to be,
Everyone can see
Right through me.
Whether being with friends
Or sitting alone,
Rushing thoughts
Or silent mind.
I can not control
From the day that we parted,
The tears
Of the faint hearted.

Emptiness

I need to see you
I can't stand to be away
Without you I feel
As if I'm dying
Dying slowly inside.

My heart beats faster
I can't stop shaking
the thought of crying
deep in my stomach
all at the thought of you.

Love.

Fear

Lights
Sirens
Flashing
Pinpricks in the darkness
Death and dying
Gunshots
The sound of planes overhead
Darkness
Deep, thick, heavy darkness
Weighing down on their souls
The fear
The anxiety
The adrenaline
The hate.

Patience

waiting
let them come
waiting
the whites of their eyes
waiting
they're nearly here
waiting
here they are.
Fire.

Suicide

Ringing
only ringing
the sound of breaking
a feeble heart breaking
the weight of the world
pressing down on my shoulders
nothing but the cracking
my fatigued will cracking
the feeling of falling
the last of my life falling
the last few breaths
'till it goes in with a bullet and out with my heart.