Morning Vent, 17 August 2010

Girls of Hogue testing Machine Guns - in Bikinis

Uploaded 10 January 2010 on HogueInc

    Mom got installed at the local nursing home yesterday for 2-3 weeks of physical rehab. It was a bit worrisome that she was running a temperature when she was admitted. We're hoping that the infection that had left her so weak while at St. Francis hasn't flared up again. In the meantime, the agenda is to get her ambulatory as much as possible, which will require a lot of effort on her part. We're continuing to pray for a complete recovery.

   Today, mysteriously, a lot of the MIA gungirl thumbnails have reappeared on ImageShack. Would love to think that it's because the Powers-that-be over at that image host site heard the rumblings from the Olympus that is the HQ - but I know I only have one regular and a few other occasional readers. But it's nice to fantasize. In any case, any new gungirl is going to be stored on Imgur from now on.

   A flurry of stories and opinion features is starting up as facts about the Medal of Honor 'Taliban option' start to rile up the sensationalizing general news media and to worry the overly sensitive gaming news media. Is Electronic Arts taking a page out of Activision's book by having some controversial 'controlling the enemy' segment in Medal of Honor? I frackin' hope not. In this case, imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery. It would be laziness combined with a lack of imagination and blatant exploitation. I'm certainly not going to judge sight unseen, but I hope that it's not like the ill-advised 'No Russian' segment from Modern Warfare 2. I'm not squeamish - especially having been trained by Uncle Sam to do Bad Things to People Wearing the Wrong Uniform at any distance out to 300 meters - but I thought it was a graceless thing to have in a videogame...
   Today's featured Modern Warfare 2 vid is a barebones FFA match on Estate using the MP5K. In the second vid, Pyrotoz explores the capabilities of the MW2 .50 Barrett sniper rifle. Moving on...