February 28th, 2008
Well, i’ve never actually cared until today…The day before. Tomorow happens to be leap year, and the first time ive noticed. So as follows im doing research to figure it out. I can think of a few theories. The most being that our lunar year is off slightly so we compensate every four years with an extra day. Hmm. Maybe it has something to do with the time changes twice a year, however im pretty sure those are just a waste of time. There just a way for the farmers to get an extra couple hours during planting season. Which to me is a waste of time for the rest of us. Ok maybe there is no connection that i can see for the that last one, but i wanted to complain anyways.
So i simply went to wikipedia and found this “In the Gregorian calendar, the current standard calendar in most of the world, most years that are divisible by 4 are leap years. In a leap year, the month of February has 29 days instead of 28. Adding an extra day to the calendar every four years compensates for the fact that a solar year is almost 6 hours longer than 365 days.” Check it out here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year. There is mroe info on it.
Kinda solves it all. I guess i was right on my first theory.
Author: Jason Rogers
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February 25th, 2008
Well i bought Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare about 4-5 days ago for a whopping $64 total. After getting home and popping it into my Ps3 I was pretty dissapointed. Actaully to the fact that i turned it off, and proceeded to complain and whine. My biggest mistake was going into believing it was going to be super tactical, something like Ghost Recon or Rainbow Six. So i cant really take it back so sunday i turned it back on. This time however i realised i just hated the first few levels.
The game is remarkable realistic. From the start picking up grenades and throwing them back at people sounds simple, but actually doing it in a game is uber. One of my only complaints is that in the PC version you can lean around a corner, however the Ps3 cannot do this. It’s pretty upsetting, but i can see why the developers didn’t do this….becuase there aren’t enough buttons on the controller. Another up is the sniping, pretty well done. If you click the left stick and hold it down your character will take a deep breath and the gun will steady until he cant hold it any more. The game is not just realistic visually, but story wise also. I wont give anything away, but they dramatisize several aspects of the story. Kinda hard to stomach some of the things they do. Reminds of a old war movie that makes you want to cringe at some of the things they do to people.
Im not sure of the value of reply however. After beating it i went back and tried to play certain missions again, and found myself bored. However im ready to try the online gameplay. We’ll see how that goes next week.
All and all the game was pretty good had some difficulty getting into it, but thats probably just me being retarded. I give it a 8.5/10. Oh yeah when you finish it, wait till the end of the credits.
Author: Jason Rogers
Tags: games. call of duty 4
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