Here is a review of Left 4 Dead 2

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Last night Sarah and I decided to pick up the new Left 4 Dead. It sort of came on us out of nowhere, like a zombie lunging around from behind the stacked washer/dryer when you slip into your buddy's utility room to pull a frozen pizza out of the freezer. Suddenly it was 17 November. The timing was not so great, as I just upgraded to a new phone (Android is great!) and flew to Milwaukee and Sarah just bought new car repair, but whatever, we're reckless, etc. Also we enjoyed the first game quite a lot.

 

Also Sarah agreed to buy me tacos and beer if I picked up the game on the way home from work.

 

So, as you probably already know if you've read reviews online (I wasn't able to, really, as my company's network classifies sites like IGN as Deadly as Porn), this new game is basically the old game refined in several ways: new, more, and more intricate campaigns, new game modes, more special infected zombies, several new items (instead of having one item particular to each slot on your d-pad, you now have classes assigned to each slot on your d-pad, so that you can elect to hold a health pack, or a defibrillator for reviving dead players, or special ammo packs, etc.

 

We played the Dark Carnival campaign last night and slew the zombies over about 2 hours 10 minutes. I expect versus to be the real draw, though, as you can now play as a greater variety of undead in your quest to kill the living.

 

--Okay that review is over and it's time for other thoughts—

 

1) Are you doing anything great for Thanksgiving? We're having a pizza and probably a 60 year-old man.

 

2) This student came in to get math tutoring Monday. He walked in from about 45 minutes off because his car had been towed. Well, the math tutor was gone. I gave him some take-home stuff and advised him to call before he walks in to make sure one of the math people will be here. WELL TODAY HE SHOWED UP AGAIN UNEXPECTED and I had to send him off with more take-home work.

 

LAME.

 

You gotta call, buddy.

 

Lest I be stuck playing the part of the dick.

 

3) I have dreams fairly frequently (once every two months or so) wherein things get too ridiculous and the narrative kind of skews off the tracks and I am then visited by an avatar of my unconsciousness. We then engage in a profound conversation, which always turns out to have been purest gibberish.

 

Disappointment.

 

4) Recently I went to Milwaukee? Did you know? (You did now, because I mentione dit earlier.) That city isn't so bad. Sort of drives home the lamer aspects of Orlando, w hich makes is like a double insult.

 

5) Here is a book I am reading: The Kindly Ones. It's about the German side of WWII.

 

It's great!

 

6) Should Sarah and I go see 2001 in a theater Tuesday night?

 

PROS: Tickets are $5

PROS: They serve stuff like hummus and pizzas, and reasonably priced beer.

PROS: The next day is the last day of work before the holiday break.

CONS: It starts at 9:30, and that movie is longass.