While the battle between the COGS and the Locust seems like an endless struggle, yours truly has finally decided to hang up his weapons

at least for ranked purposes. Everyone seems to be getting the Seriously achievement now so I decided to do one better and get another 10K kills. No glitching, no team stacking, no having others play my account for a spot on the leaderboards, no modding, no clans; just me, my skills, and a lot of free time. While the game has been addicting for me to play online, I can honestly say I can do without everything I stated above that cheapens the leaderboards in addition to the loud, annoying, obnoxious, and racist people who seem to have migrated from Halo 2 to this game. Plus I feel like I have nothing left to prove on this game (other than that I Can't Quit You Dom achievement). Furthermore, this will now free up my time for the 10 or so games I bought since last November and my upcoming transition out of the active duty Army. Check out my score if you want the only thing that will change is my rank which is 477 in the world.

[UPDATE]: I can't stop playing this game on ranked. It's like crack. Or like the ex-wife you would forget about if it was not for the fact that you are paying child support. And by child-support I mean my burgeoning stats and my rank in the top 500. Top 400 when you factor in the people who play legit.

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At long last I have finally acquired one of the most famous games never to be released. A game so innovative yet so violent, the evil empire known as EA wouldn't even allow other publishers to sell it because they were afraid of damaging their pristine reputation. Thank goodness for the internet as I was able to acquire the full version of the game to play (thank goodness for CDI files ) on my Dreamcast. For those still unfamiliar with the game it was going to be the first fighting game to feature 4 player action before the Dreamcast game Powerstone and also featured the handicapped, the amputated, and the criminally insane who would fight to the spiritual death in a reimagined hell and all for a demon's amusement. No noble battles of good versus evil, no path to enlightenment through combat, just self preservation and carnage for carnage's sake made this one of the most honest fighting games storywise. The game would later see an incarnation in Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style which would turn out to be crap while this game could have added another facet to EA or brought legitimacy to another up-and-coming publisher. Oh well, at least I'll enjoy it.

Well it took all of 7 years to finally get something that I want and worthwhile from the Army....and all I had to do was go through two branches of service to do it. On July 27th I will get an honorable discharge from the active duty Army and join the National Guard. If you are not familiar with the Guard they have 100% tuition assistance to any college in your state. I also get a two year stabilization which means that I will not have to worry about being deployed anytime soon. This is all to set up my enrollment to Wake Tech for their two year degree program in Simulation and Game Developement that opened up a year ago. That's right, now I can finally get on track to a career and not just a job; and one that I actually like to do and have years of unofficial experience doing. I also reclass to information systems specialist to fall back on and soon will be on track to get picked up to make my sergeant rank which automatically puts me in most managerial positions I would apply for in the civilian sector. Hopefully, I will get an internship at, say, Epic Games which is in Cary and I live in Raleigh which is about a shade under an hour's drive from where I will live. Now that Microsoft Creator's Club is starting to look like I should buy it...