Tuesday, September 25, 2007

The Hilarity of Mic'ed Multiplayer Video Gaming

Pwned!

Today, my fiancee's brother, Zach, came over at 8:15 a.m. to play the newly released Halo 3. His house was being sprayed for spiders, so we spent the morning frolicking in the various multi-player maps within the game. I've never played online multiplayer video games before, but I have to say it was surprisingly fun. The microphone feature is what really makes the experience. We started off with a few "slayer" death-matches in which the other players admitted to skipping all of their morning classes to play.

One guy was noisily eating a sandwich during an entire round, another insisted on shouted "suck it, biotches!" in a falsetto voice after every kill, and yet another (with the gamertag Oprahs Taint) admitted to masturbating to the sound of Zach's voice. The complete silliness of college freshmen after seven or eight bottles of mountain dew "gaming fuel" makes the game not just fun and exciting, but hilarious as well. God Bless broadband internet.

Don't tase me, bro! Don't resist arrest, bro.