Cobalt Frost

Confirmed Weapons and Possibly Confirmed Perks and Killstreaks in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

2011-07-06T17:26:00.000-07:00

I did some research lately and found some 'info' on MW3. The list of perks and killstreaks came from a mere message board fodder but actually came across very well-assembled and believable. I'll link the site containing the confirmed weaponry, as it definitely looked real and without much doubt it is, but know that the list isn't by any means complete. It crossed me as believable but don't take it as total truth. So don't wrinkle your Randy Travis poster, piss the seat and hide your keys when you read this.

The following is not in my own words, except for the editor's note at the bottom of it.

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Perk 1

Name: Covert
Feature I: The first feature to the Perk ‘Covert’ stops the enemy from viewing their killcam when they are killed by you. The main feature also prevents deathmarks from being placed when you kill a member of the enemy team making it hard for hostile forces to pinpoint your location.
Feature II: The second feature to ‘Covert’ allows you to remain hidden from enemy UAVs. In addition you will no longer render a red name or crosshair when an enemy is close to you.
Feature III: The final feature is as expected, you remain hidden from all enemy killstreak rewards making it easy to venture throughout the map without having any trouble from any killstreak reward owned by a hostile player with the exception of Counter UAVs.

Name: Recon
Feature I: The main feature to the Perk ‘Recon’ allows you to gain killstreak rewards with one less kill than normally required. This is the ‘traditional’ feature to Hardline in the last two games.
Feature II: You can now switch your airdrops one time for a chance to get a better reward by double tapping the Square (ps3) or the X (xbox). In addition you can also capture enemy airdrops faster. And finally you can detect when a hostile has booby trapped an airdrop.
Feature III: The final feature is slightly more complicated. Let’s say an enemy calls in an airstrike, well on your screen you will see a long red line showing exactly where the airstrike is going to hit, this is also shown on your minimap. The same goes for when an enemy calls in a helicopter, you will be able to see exactly where they called it in to. Overall this Perk is mainly for players who want to benefit with their team and on their own depending on which features they choose to act on.

Name: Specialist
Feature I: The main feature to this Perk allows you to move faster similarly to Lightweight from previous games. Not much else to say about this.
Feature II: The second feature to Specialist allows you to run for a longer duration much like Marathon from previous games. Again, not much else to say on the second feature to Specialist.
Feature III: The third and final feature of Specialist allows you to walk crouched or prone faster.

Name: Scavenger
Feature I: Pretty obviously the main feature to Scavenger allows you to resupply from dead enemies, from this you can resupply rounds and lethal grenades.
Feature II: The second feature to this Perk allows you to resupply tactical grenades and equipment from dead enemies.
Feature III: HAVEN’T DECIDED.

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Perk 2

Name: Sleight of Hand
Feature I: The main feature to Sleight of Hand allows you to reload all weapons faster. Not much else to it.
Feature II: The second feature to Sleight of Hand gives you the ability to ADS faster.
Feature III: The final feature to Sleight of Hand allows you to switch weapons faster. Not much else to this Perk.

Name: Reflexes
Feature I: The main feature of ‘Reflexes’ allows you to use your knife a lot quicker.
Feature II: The second feature to ‘Reflexes’ grants you less flinch when shot at.
Feature III: The final feature to ‘Reflexes’ allows you to crouch/prone/stand up a lot quicker.

Name: Sharpshooter
Feature I: The main feature of this Perk doesn’t reduce your recoil but it makes it more controllable and more predictable. For example, it will recoil more in the middle and top rather than to the left and right every so often, this Perk doesn’t decrease recoil, that’s what Grip is for.
Feature II: The second feature to Sharpshooter increases your hip fire accuracy.
Feature III: The final feature to Sharpshooter reduces your idle sway, you can also hold your breath longer if you have a sniper rifle equipped.

Name: Bling
Feature I: Allows you to equip three attachments to your primary weapon (default being 2).
Feature II: The second feature to Bling allows you to equip two attachments on your secondary (default being 1).
Feature III: The final feature to Bling allows you to equip two pieces of equipment.
NOTE: This Perk cannot be combined with a Grenade Launcher, and normally Grenade Launchers take up two attachments.

Name: Weapon Master
Feature I: The first feature to ‘Weapon Master’ replaces your secondary with another primary weapon.
Feature II: The second feature allows you to drop no weapon on death.
Feature III: The third and final feature allows you to equip a pistol of your choice along side.

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Perk 3

Name: Bandolier
Feature I: This Perk is pretty much the pro to Scavenger along with some extra helpful features. The main feature to this Perk allows you to spawn with full ammunition at the start of matches and every time you respawn. Very helpful when it comes to big games, combined with Scavenger this feature makes it dominant.
Feature II: The second feature to this Perk allows you to have up to two lethal grenade slots and three tactical grenade slots. You also spawn with the extra grenades.
Feature III: The third and final feature of this Perk allows you to hold three extra magazines onto your loadout. So if your gun usually holds 200 bullets and each mag was 30 bullets you would end up with 290 bullets, if you combine this with Scavenger it will be dominant over one man army and teamplay operations.

Name: Tactician
Feature I: Allows you to take no falling damage.
Feature II: You can throw grenades quicker and farther.
Feature III: The final feature to ‘Tactician’ allows you to reset the fuse on grenades when throwing them back.

Name: Infiltrator
Feature I: Your footsteps are silent.
Feature II: Enemy equipment no longer affects you unless it’s a proximity explosive.
Feature III: Your knifing, defusing, reloading and etc is now silent.

Name: Engineer
Feature I: You can see enemy equipment through walls.
Feature II: You can now booby trap enemy airdrops and you can hack enemy equipment.
Feature III: Finally, you can defuse the bomb quicker in bomb based game modes.

Name: Navigator
Feature I: Enemies who have shown on the radar now last longer before fading, in addition it also shows the direction enemies are facing.
Feature II: You are no longer affected by Counter UAVs.
Feature III: Finally, enemies close to you will get their radar slowly jammed, the closer they get.

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Killstreaks

3) Mortar Team (1 location)
3) UAV
4) Counter-UAV
4) SAM Turret
4) Care Package
5) Precision Air Strike
5) Sentry Gun
6) Artillery (3 location)
6) Predator Missile
7) Attack Helicopter
7) Stealth Bomber
8 ) Harrier Airstrike
8 ) GlobalHawk (Blackbird effect)
9) Fire Scout UAV (UAV + Attack Helicopter effect)
9) Pavelow
9) Emergency Airdrop (4 Package)
9) EMP (lasts for 60 sec.)
13) AC-130
15) Chopper Gunner
18 ) Nuclear EMP (Disable Perks for opponent team for 30 sec. only, Eletronics and Air Killstreaks won't be destroyed.)
~~25) Tactical Nuke~~

(Editor's note: they apparently had the nuke in the game at first, then removed it eventually in an effort to reduce boosting, and because the Killstreak was annoying like hell when it went off.)

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Now, for the weapons. I grabbed these pictures and this list of weaponry from here. I take no credit for this, therefore.

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Primary Weapons

Assault Rifles

AK-47

M4A1

Remington ACR

FAL

(No MW3 image available, so here's an image of the gun in general.)

G36

FAMAS

SCAR-L

M14 EBR

Sub Machine Guns

MP5

AK74u

(No MW3 picture)

UMP45

P90

(No picture, but a trailer with the gun featured can be found here.)

Vector

Light Machine Guns

RPD

Sniper Rifles

Barrett .50 Cal

M21 EBR

RSASS

Secondary Weapons

Shotguns

AA-12

Model 1887

Striker

SPAS-12

(No MW3 picture available.)

KSG

Handguns

Walter P99

MP412

Machine Pistols

Skorpian

Magpul FMG

Launchers

AT-4

(No picture available, but can be seen by clicking here.)

M320

XM25

(No picture available, but can be seen by clicking here.)

Attachments

Holographic, Suppressor

Dual Scope

Foregrip, ACOG Scope

Bi-Pod

Laser Sight

Grenade Launcher

(No MW3 image.)

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New Law Coming Around to Imprison Watchers of Copyrighted Streaming Content

2011-07-02T14:00:00.000-07:00

Basically, what's happening is, some big businesses got pissed about copyright infringement (or maybe they just want to leech more cash from us) and they went to Congress (or did they lobby?) about it, and now, a bill's churning through the legislative process as I type this for approval to enforce that anyone who streams copyrighted content more than ten times, or surpassing $2500 in production costs combined, will receive a jail sentence not more than five years. Here's a site striking against the bill, you can fill out your details in a letter on the right and have it sent to Congress.

And here's the bill's content, verbatim.

I doubt it'll be passed. Honestly, think about it... You're destroying several large businesses and potentially jailing a very large portion of the country's people. I can't see it being consistently enforced. I thought we were trying to make jobs, not destroy them... Unless you count building new jails all over the country as 'jobs', with all the offenders they'll try to imprison.

But there's always FEMA camps to turn to...

Anarchy, Government, Religion, Education, Illuminati, New World Order pt. 1

2011-06-29T20:56:00.000-07:00

(Important: The information presented in this post is not complete. I will continue to explain everything in future posts which I will present soon over the next few days, perhaps weeks.)

(Ownership Notice: I do not own any of the videos or pictures in this blog post.)

I do not ask that believe everything I tell you here. I only ask that you open your mind enough to consider and weigh the information I am giving you in your conscience and deciding for yourself what makes the most sense. I am simply giving an alternative to the version of reality spoon-fed to us by our leaders. Some of what I say here could be wrong, but it doesn't go without evidence and common sense to back it up. I've spent years researching this. I had to come through a lot of deception and bullshit to come to the information I believe here. Please respect my time to explain this to you.

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When the people fight against the elite, it's an act of terror.
When the elite terrorizes the people, it's called justice.

Anarchy is widely thought to be about destruction and incendiary devices, Molotovs and guns, riots, teenagers and young adults rebelling against the establishment and destroying things because it's 'cool' and 'fun'.

That's anarchy in it's much-suppressed state, painted a color aside from it's own and given the stigma of something out of a Hollywood movie. It's scapegoated as the evil of the establishment by regard as the absolute absence of order, thus utter chaos and free reign to hate, kill, steal, destroy, etc., which we are taught is our natural tendency - then the same people who tell us this turn around and support our government's 'accomplishments' by claiming we're godly creatures with a tendency to love. Funny, huh.

Typical anarchist flag.

But why should you expect better... No tyrannical government wants to open us up to a promise of something better than what they already give us. They want you to think the establishment they control is the epitome of our existence, why would they ever bother to tell us what anarchy really is? That would undermine the whole purpose of controlling us. They don't give a shit about you, and you're their corporate slave.

Anarchy is just an establishment of peace without imposing physical force or violence on its citizens. The exception is using violence as an absolute necessity in self-defense. Anyone claiming they're an anarchist while supporting pointless, senseless destruction or violence isn't a true anarchist - anarchy at its core is about peace, love and freedom for all. It's not anything like we're taught. It's the absence of a 'government', depending what you define 'government' to be. Anarchists usually regard it as a system of social regulation involving the use of physical force to enforce its laws - in other words, government has definite control over you because they can and will physically harm or subjugate you. Anarchy is just a system where, if you choose to play by the rules, that's fine, but if not, nobody's going to hurt you, unless you go out of your way to deliberately hurt an innocent individual. Most non-anarchistic people interpret this as, 'no laws, total chaos, perpetual violence.' That's not the case. In anarchy, that element of physical force is removed, but the people live in harmony, acceptance, sharing, love and peace together - versus the government's system of using violence to control its population. How anarchy can successfully work within the grounds of our current world's corruption, I don't know, but I suspect it's impossible at the moment. Naturally, that's most peoples' first reactions - "It can't work." And they're right, to a degree. In theory, there will always be that one person who doesn't want to do good for others. All the theories I've heard concerning how anarchy can 'work' had some flaw where you had individuals in positions of unfair power, where some check or balance along the way couldn't be made no matter how flawless the system seemed. There will always be some way in which the 'system' can take advantage of the people, just because it's made up of people. People have feelings, biases, consciousness... It's not like a video game where everyone follows a strict code. The New World Order is intended to do that, really - 'program' us to follow strict rules. That's what we're trying to avoid. We're inherently good, spiritual beings with free, spontaneous, open, loving, creative minds - not computers following a rigid, structured, conformist regimen. Can I prove this? No, not me personally, but I can lead you to where I believe you can find answers if your mind is open enough. Just know that I don't consider myself automatically 'right'. Could I be wrong? Absolutely... but I really don't feel I am. Open-minded holistic thinking is where you can start. I'll cap this off in Anarchy, Government, Religion, Education, Illuminati, New World Order pt. 2. For now I've just got too much shit to cover in this one post alone.

The world needs a transformation before we can begin to consider how a sovereign, utopian or anarchistic state of society can work. Everyone has their own version of how that transformation will go about. To me, it's David Icke's ideals, since he just makes the most sense in my eyes. If you disagree, well... Go post a comment about it. Again, I'll highlight David Icke in pt. 2.

Here's a video to explain anarchy, probably better than I can:

Credit is due to MistrBrit on YouTube for this video. Please visit his channel and subscribe if you're interested in resisting the New World Order and receiving non-mainstream updates about world matters as well as advice on how to survive upcoming potential catastrophes. Thanks.

Christians are led to believe anarchy is Satanic on implication, principle and practice. People are so conditioned by their own government to believe government is the only source of working peace between the people, they fear the implications of the version of 'anarchy' introduced to them by the society they survive under which the government controls militantly. When it's all you've ever known coming up, you don't imagine much better than what you've been told - which is really part of the problem with the world... Parents, teachers, pastors, government officials, and other respected individuals in positions of prestige and power have conditioned and programmed the youth to come up a certain way, bent in a certain direction, to conform rigidly and accept the facts as they're introduced, and not as free-thinking, questioning, spontaneous individuals capable of critical thought. I should know - my parents did this to me. So did my school, which my parents pushed me to do well in, and the government that backed that school. Every morning in that school - like every other - you had to stand and pledge your allegiance to America. In History class, they try to ennoble America's upbringing and the 'wonderful' government we have, on lies and bias. In Government class, they teach deliberate lies to keep us from figuring out what a fucked up system we live under - for instance, they still teach the media's version of 9/11. And it hurt when the test came around and I had to fill in the answer they considered 'right' even though I knew it was wrong. That's the system we come up in - militaristic expectation of rigid conformity. They don't give a fuck what you feel - they're always right, so you should shut the fuck up and eat up everything the textbook says.

And these teachers, who live their own lives as troubled humans like myself and those reading this, tell us they really care about our education, shown by the college degree they put four to eight years into earning for the title as a certified 'teacher' in the public school system. Here's the irony (and you probably know it already): most of what we're taught in high school is bullshit. It's either lies, or it has no use in our lives. We're told repeatedly - I was told repeatedly - the same thing when the question is posed: "It will be useful to you sometime in your life, and you may develop an interest in pursuing a career using this information." So study up and get that A. Don't question the validity of the information you receive - because the government is always right, and so is your school. They would never lie to us, what could they possibly gain by doing that?

What they 'gain' is, a new generation of humans who can't think for themselves. They don't see the big picture, therefore the big lie. And people like me who sit here trying to explain it are deemed 'insane' or 'misinformed', or just 'trying to get attention'. I am trying to get your attention - I want you to know a side of reality they wouldn't tell you. I want to help people. That's why I took the time to type this up.

Starting with education, I'll explain how the system works.

The standard accepted method of teaching is left-brained and conformist, by-the-book, by the clock, on time and rigidly scheduled, always busy, rushing and working on sheets of paper demanding regurgitation of the version of reality they laid out before you, and expect you to devote your life and soul to it, nothing else matters. Fuck your personal issues, let's learn Algebra 3! Because that's totally useful fifty years ahead in your life, especially if you plan to attend college to become a P.E. teacher, right? Yes, because physical education is all about the concepts you learn in Algebra 3 - and also sitting your fat American ass down for seven hours a day doing paperwork under the promising premise and propaganda of college. Then you get to go home and spend another three hours doing more fucking work, creatively dubbed 'homework', as if you didn't get enough of it in school. Then everyone wants to know why American kids are obese and blame America's youth for being 'lazy' when we're never given the time or the right food to stay healthy, and meanwhile we happen to be working our asses off doing the work they shove on us.

It's catch-twenty-two.

After the kids have been beaten up over their 'typical Americanism', parents are blamed for not raising us 'properly' (which many parents don't, but in their interest, I credit them for trying) and are told we need to be pushed harder, like we're not pushed hard enough to succeed by the time we're entering fucking Kindergarten with all the tests they make you fill. I just graduated from my high school two weeks ago and I still remember all the tests they gave me in Kindergarten, first and second grade like they were yesterday. IQ tests, logic tests, mental marathons, official entry placement exams - and I'm five years old waking up at seven in the morning to do all this shit they throw at me. If I refuse to, they label me as 'mentally disordered', which they did for awhile. They said I was bipolar and even thought I might've been retarded - just because I didn't want to do their fucking work at five years of age. Then I was given medicine for it, for awhile - of course, nobody could see that nothing was wrong with me, and that the medicine did jack shit to help. I didn't understand back then, though. I was a lil' tot, what did I know about the world, aside from my addict mother destroying everything we had.

The schools serve shit for food. It's been that way from elementary up through high school, and I've attended maybe thirteen or so schools in my life from all the times my parents moved. They're all the same deal. The lunches at one of my elementary schools consisted of a single slice of pizza, or a burrito or taco, or chicken, something along those lines - weighing in at 700-1,000 calories. That didn't include the sides and drink. Multiply the estimated 1,000-1,400 or so calories by two for the kids who weren't well-enough fed by just one of the ridiculously small lunches for the caloric intake, and you're now looking at a third grader putting on over 2,000 calories just on lunch alone - more than the average adult is supposed to take in from all three daily meals combined. Of course, that standard is also government-regulated, but let's use some common sense - 2,000 calories is a lot, but it's reasonable enough. Kids put on pounds from this and the shit-for-food we're often served at home, straight off the supermarket shelves. The rushed, pushy expectations of school life often stress kids to the point of comfort eating - usually the kinds of foods you're supposed to eat sparingly, if ever. As we put on weight, we're then expected to drink diet drinks - not the uber-healthy FRS or Naked or Bolthouse you find at rather expensive (but worthwhile) prices in stores these days, but diet soda, diet flavored water (how fucking ridiculous does this get), which contain aspartame and other artificial sweeteners, typically paired also with colorings and preservatives and other additives that damage your body in more ways than most are led to believe. In fact, I'll go ahead and touch up on some of the shit you should avoid.

Artificial Sweeteners
Aspartame is a highly notorious and hated sweetener that doubles as a neurotoxin, destroying brain cells and degenerating the nervous system. It also causes clinical depression and a number of other issues. Very toxic, avoid at all costs. Some sites report that other sweeteners - saccharin, acesulfame potassium, neotame and sucralose - are perfectly safe, while others claim they are harmful, even deadly. I opt to avoid all of them since they're synthetic, and given the FDA's support of aspartame, I choose to believe those sweeteners are, in all likelihood, dangerous. Neotame especially, since it's an aspartame derivative. I have no reason at all to trust any artificial sweetener, let alone an aspartame derivative, and neither do you. Therefore, I avoid all artificial sweeteners, period. Easiest way to do this is to simply stay away from drinks with a 'diet' prefix, and flavored waters. If in doubt, check the ingredients. The sweeteners listed above are generally the only ones you'll find.

Safe Alternatives
Sugar, stevia, sugar cane, brown sugar, turbinado sugar, sucanat, molasses, honey, evaporated cane juice, rapadura, agave nectar, brown rice syrup, and maple syrup. These are natural and safe. However, like anything else in this world - no matter how safe they are, too much will harm your body.

Artificially Fluoridated Consumables
We're also told that as part of a healthy lifestyle (and to lose weight), we should drink plenty of water. Yes, we definitely should, except... there's a variation of fluoride in our tap water that's actually a byproduct of chemical factories... And we're led to believe it's there because it's good for our teeth. Here's the reality: true, natural fluoride is good for our teeth - but the kind they put in our water - sodium fluoride and fluorosalidic acid - is a neurotoxin that ravages the nervous system and destroys brain cells, like the artificial sweetener aspartame, and is extremely toxic in incredibly minute amounts. It also causes cavities and dental fluorosis - the exact opposite of what it's advertised to do in both toothpastes and our tap water alike. In countries and states without artificial fluoridation, the cavity rates tend to be much lower - sometimes nonexistent. The harm of brushing your teeth with it aside from topical application directly to the enamel, is the potential to swallow trace amounts of it and the veins underneath your tongue, which can absorb various vitamins, minerals, and other such materials, possibly including waste fluoride. If you've observantly inspected the back of the toothpaste box, including the tubes, they warn you not to swallow it - otherwise, you're to call the Poison Control Center immediately. We're given toxic overdoses of this in each cup of water we drink, every day - and don't go thinking you can buy Aquafina or Dasani and expect any better, because they too have the poison in them. This type of fluoride also calcifies the pineal gland, which is apparently responsible for spiritual connection, which in turn makes us weaker because we're more confined to the physical realm in our perception. (However, I believe we're still capable of physically manifesting psychic ability and spiritual connection without the gland.) And finally - here's the bombshell - the fluoride fed to us was used during WWII in the Nazi regime to keep the Nazi armies subordinate to Hitler's command. Here's the video:

Safe Alternatives
Brush with baking soda. It's cheaper, all-natural, comes in larger amounts, and apparently whitens your teeth better than typical toothpastes, plus can be used to clean various other things besides your teeth, and is safe to swallow. It's used sometimes to treat certain minor conditions, like heartburn, where you swallow some of it with some water, or gargled (like salt) for tonsillitis or other similar ailments. The only foreseeable issue of brushing with it is the abrasiveness of the crystals against your enamels can possibly wear them down over many years. I've been brushing with baking soda for almost a year now and it works just fine, and keeps my teeth whiter than toothpaste did. Also, in terms of drinking water - you'll have to find a site that can ship you pure water with only natural fluoride (or none whatsoever), because nothing off the shelves comes without the toxic variant. In fact, I went the extra mile and found a site that I know for a fact is reliable and delivers the best water you'll ever taste - pure and unfluoridated. The prices are low, a case of twenty-four twenty ounce bottles goes for $8.95. They too know about the fluoride lie and use a specialized process to strip their water of it. Click here to visit Le Bleu's website.

Microwaves
Natural microwaves from the sun are healthy for you. Microwaves in our kitchens are not. They use two different methods of heating through two different types of currents. I'll leave the whole science behind a microwave's functionality to your own research, since I'm only here to tell you how it can harm you. The Soviet Union banned the use of microwaves in 1976 due to discovered harms of the device's impact on food as well as its immediate impact on humans near the device while it's running. Microwaves destroy most or all nutrients in affected foods and turn many of those nutrients or substances into carcinogens and other substances. There are too many adverse effects to list them all here, but microwaves are highly hazardous and cause a whole host of adverse health reactions, including hormonal imbalance (potentially causing acne), temporary (even permanent) slowing of the brain's processing capability, memory issues, clinical-emotional imbalance, cancer, disease triggers, and everything else imaginable right down the list. Advice - throw away your microwave, and eat your food cold if there's no other way to warm it. I'll leave it to this website to explain the whole science behind it.

Safe Alternatives
Use an oven, toaster, or one of those mini plug-in ovens. Start a fire, heat it on a grill. Or just eat it cold.

Having touched up on health issues, I'll go back to finishing my boring rant on education...

In a teacher-student relationship, there's no artistic freedom or inventive questioning or creation, or pondering one's own purpose or true, inner feelings or desires. Instead of teaching us about happiness and how to achieve it, we're taught how to be obedient drones to capitalism. Even Art class in my high school was left-brained (as opposed to the creative, spiritual, personal, emotional, free-flowing right-brained setting you'd expect). You were given some freedom, but it was usually with a rigid undertone, which grew more apparent as I moved up in Art classes, until I reached Art 3, when I'd had enough. See, in this system, when you're asked what your goals are, you can't be open and say, "I just wanna be happy." No, that doesn't fly. You can't be 'happy'. You have to be something. 'Happiness' isn't something. Grownups have outgrown the need for happiness. When they pose that question, what they really mean is, "What position as a slave of American consumerism do you plan to take after your seventeen to twenty-one years of indoctrinatory left-brained programming?" Or, better yet, "In what industry do you plan to be a slave-owner?" to those who plan on running a huge business. School only serves the rich by indoctrinating the young.

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life." - John Lennon

Here's a video explaining the college lie, and some of the high school lie, too:

Why do you think we've come up from a very young age being told 'God bless America' and having to pledge the allegiance in our schools? It's subliminal programming. Did you ever ask why God should bless America? Why not one of the poorer countries, with filth and starvation? Don't they need God more than we do? "Don't question, son, you'll burn in Hell," Remo Conscious quips in the words of the traditional religious American parent in his rap about the myriad lies in American society. Here's the song, it's really a good rap, have a listen. You might learn something new:

Why does our court system appear to run on Christianity, what with swearing on the Bible? Do they assume we're all Christian? What happens when a Muslim or a Buddhist is forced to swear on the Bible? And this country apparently doesn't mix religion with government... I guess that's why 'God Bless America' is stamped into our currency, huh. And the Illuminati's pyramid on the back of our dollar bills. Ever wonder why nobody seems to know what that pyramid stands for? I remember asking as a little kid. I'll explain what that pyramid is later.

But see, you can't ever ask those questions. No, shut up, you can't ask those questions. God says you can't or you'll go to Hell. Government says you can't or they'll imprison you. Teacher says you can't or they'll detain you. Fear is such powerful tool to control the masses, and it only takes one little lie. It's a weak emotion, as Lupe Fiasco says:

By the way, here's Lupe's album art:

There's that anarchy sign again.

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - FDR

Fear is the single most powerful weapon on the planet. I have zero doubts fear is a much more powerful weapon than a nuclear strike could ever amount to. Religion is generally used as a business and as a source of fear. The whole idea behind typical American Christianity is to scare people with 'hellfire and brimstone' evangelism to force them into the belief. These people align with the belief and become indoctrinated by the theme that you are never good enough, you are weak, you are a filthy, worthless sinner, and you must rely on a higher power (Jesus) to 'save' you. Why does that sound familiar? You're weak, you must rely on your government to feed you, defend your freedom and educate you, because you're a filthy, hateful, untrained animal like everyone else, and government's the only way to keep the peace. You must obey every word your parents tell you because they always know what's best. You must obey school rules and pay attention in class, because school always teaches you the truth, and if you don't you will fail miserably at life. You get the idea. Christianity has a Commandment reading, 'Honor thy mother and father'. Problem is, kids hear this and feel forced by the belief to obey their parents more closely, thus following the school's regime more closely, supporting their government with greater conviction, and aligning more tightly with their religious beliefs, because their parents asked them to. Thus, it becomes a vicious cycle of obedience. You're never allowed to be yourself, you always have to do or be what someone else tells you. And who tells you what to do or be? The same people you're always told to obey - parents, government, school, religion.

"Have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority, because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account. Do this so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no benefit to you." - Hebrews 13:17

^ If you can't tell, that's a Bible quote. I'd agree with it - if our government were pure. But it isn't. So this only serves to send readers the message that we should always accept the version of reality they give us and do as they order without question.

"Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion." - Jon Stewart

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." - Steven Weinberg

"Infinite punishment is infinite cruelty, endless injustice, immortal meanness. To worship an eternal gaoler hardens, debases, and pollutes even the vilest soul. While there is one sad and breaking heart in the universe, no good being can be perfectly happy. The God of Hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A God who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not loved. Cursed, not worshiped. A heaven presided over by such a God must be below the lowest hell. I want no part in any heaven in which the saved, the ransomed and redeemed will drown with shouts of joy the cries and sobs of hell in which happiness will forget misery, where the tears of the lost only increase laughter and double bliss." - Robert G. Ingersoll

"Why the loss of the religious element? Simply, the role of the "church" was the fertile planting ground in the minds of people for "just believing what you're told". That was where I grew up. Not only was it a SIN to question the powers we were told of, it was also wrong." - YouTube commentor

It's all built to make you feel weak, subordinate, subjugated, and reliant on something 'more powerful than you' so they always have control over every part of your life. The worst part is, it's set up so that the victims of all this subjugation do this to themselves - so they have nobody to blame but themselves for the freedom they lost in taking that road. They can't rationally accuse the government or their religion for it - they didn't force you to make that choice, did they? They just scared you enough that you did it yourself, so they didn't have to. And they just reap the benefits of it, because you let them convince you that you're too weak to be independent and free.

It's all pushed on you when you're young, when you feel the weakest and most reliant on others, so it's easier to plant that seed in your mind than if they started much later, because you're much more willing to accept it as a small child, trusting and dependent on your leaders. Of course as you grow, it becomes automatic and we never think of it, so we just act on the automation instead of processing whether it really makes rational sense, or if it really agrees with our conscience. It's deliberately timed so when you're old enough to go out on your own and actually think and ask questions, you're too locked into what you've been conditioned to believe, so you never think about it or question it. It's like they keep you at three years of age your entire life, totally trusting and dependent on powers-that-be, even after you've reached an age where you're breaking away from parental command. The poisons fed to us along with the conditioning are to keep your increasing IQ and mental strength from sharpening to the point of asking questions and realizing the reality, or to keep you from using that IQ or mental strength. And if you do 'wake up' and realize some things, you'll be kept subjugated by fear anyway, so you'll never take action.

I was Christian once of my own accord, read the Bible and prayed nightly by my own choosing. That lasted a year and a half before I resigned it after I opened my eyes to the Bible's bloodshed and the senseless anathema, what with an omnibenevolent God thinking it was a better representation of his ever pure, infinite, eternal, unconditional forgiveness and love to burn his 'beloved children' in Hell for eternity over their God-given imperfections and right to ask questions and refuse the faith when it doesn't agree with their God-given logic or conscience. So we're punished for being good people, then told we as sinners made Hell, not God - which just denies the statement that God is creator of 'everything'. Then of course, Christians will say God didn't break the Commandment 'thou shalt not kill' what with all of God's killing (Great Flood, anyone) and commanding his 'chosen men' to kill others, including perfectly innocent infants, just because they needed a place to live, like they couldn't be arsed to knock and ask nicely or something. It's nothing short of mass murder and Christians won't accept it. Then you have all the denominations of the faith - who knows which one is right, they all have different rules and according to each, different prerequisites to either buy you a ticket to Heaven or Hell. And then there's the different versions of Bibles over the ages. Why does it need to be rephrased? If God's 'holy chosen' wrote it down a certain way, why can't we leave it the perfect little way it was? No - the obviously imperfect humans behind the big Bible-binding business had to rephrase it, and apparently, God's perfectly okay with it. Then you have anti-Illuminati Christians that can't accept the fact the Illuminati could alter the Bible's content before printing it. Christians arrogantly maintain God wouldn't 'let it happen'. For the record, it's well-established that the Illuminati are the reason behind religion's existence.

Notice - every word is capitalized except 'god'.

If you've read this exhaustingly long post down to this point, you've heard me mention the government's version of 9/11 being a lie, a couple times. I'll be happy to explain that. For one thing - many videos have been captured noticing sequential flashes running down the sides of the towers with seemingly orderly blasts of smoke ejected from the buildings. People later said they smelled cordite in the air. Also, the towers' collapses were straight-down collapses on themselves. What does this mean? All the evidence points toward a controlled demolition of the towers, moreover backed by the FBI's presence in the towers a few weeks before the catastrophe, where the buildings were locked down for whatever unspecified reason the agency gave. Here's the killer: they were with a controlled-demolition crew. Put two and two together - evidently, this was to plant the charges. The government would have us believe the towers collapsed because the jet fuel from the planes burned hot enough to melt the reinforced steel supports. Reality: jet fuel doesn't burn anywhere near hot enough to melt the grade of steel used in the construction of the towers. Also, many towers similar to the World Trade Center towers have had the same structure with the same type of steel and design that have suffered much greater fires than the twin towers did on 9/11 - not a single one of them collapsed. That would make the World Trade Center towers the first of their kind in history to have ever collapsed from a mere fire - let alone, a fire caused by a fuel source that can't burn hot enough to affect their supports. Many people also noted strange blasts - several of them. Not just one big explosion from the planes crashing, but several little blasts following. This also points toward a controlled demolition. There's footage of a number of people, including people who knew the traits of controlled demolitions, saying this definitely looked and sounded like it was a controlled demolition. One man reported he was in the lobby on the bottom floor and heard a loud blast from the wall on the other side of the room, where papers and destroyed material went flying across the room - like a bomb. Many people said, the blasts were like bombs.

Here's a video that will cover just about everything you need to know and more about the 9/11 lie, and show you that our government was the true perpetrator with very little question, if any at all, about this conclusion. But know one thing: I don't ask you to believe me, or the video. I only ask that you accept it with an open mind, and weigh it in your conscience, deciding only then what makes the most sense to you.

Here it is:

Here's another video you should really, really have a look at, it's much shorter and erased doubts I had left about the perpatrators of 9/11:

All of this programming in our education system, including the colleges, is designed to ultimately dumb you down and disconnect you from personal, spiritual feeling and to lose touch with your emotions. This causes you to see things in a very limited perspective and thus makes you very easily blinded and herded by what the media tells you. This means the only way you can earn a position of power and prestige in this country is to pass through their indoctrination courses, which means most everyone in those positions of power are narrow-minded, left-brained, disconnected, and highly obedient.

It's to control you in favor of the rich. The government serves the rich.

(Continued.)

Black Ops Sucks

2011-06-26T11:54:00.000-07:00

Maybe Treyarch isn't a cash cow now that I think of it. I know they broke MW2's sales record on release day, but looking at the new crap they tossed in, maybe they ended up sacrificing the multiplayer quality for the new Theater mode, Combat Training (finally, AI in CoD's multiplayer), Zombies, the unique main menu, and the rest of the makeovers they did. They tried to do some good based on the complaints players had against MW2, mainly involving the Commando perk, killstreaks stacking kills, Tactical Nuke, too much Killstreak chaos, and the desire for greater customizability, among other things I can't really remember right now. But none of it's mind-blowingly revolutionary, and the good doesn't outweigh the bad by any means.

It's apparent Treyarch lobbied the popular game review sites, as they generally give the game a very high rating, and the back of the game case even reads, "Ludicrously deep multiplayer experience" by GamePro, and "We weren't just impressed with Black Ops, we were blown away" by OXM. Really? Because a good chunk of the player community doesn't think so - go Google it, or YouTube it. A lot of people hate this game. And trust me - it's not because we suck. I have a 2.5 K/D ratio in this game, which is pretty fair, and even I have to say it sucks.

"And here... we... go." - The Joker

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--- Graphics are shit. Textures are poor. Polygon counts are low. There's this generally cartoonish feel to the game with the colors and cel-like design to the lighting and shading effects. Even on an HDTV in HD mode the graphics are bad, albeit crisper than my 20-year-old tube TV, but all the other games I play on there look great. Black Ops is the only one that looks like shit.

--- Sound effects are shit. So is the sound quality. The MP5k sounds like someone whipping the wall of a public restroom with a belt, and the RPK reload makes sickening plastic crunching sounds. Grenades sound like firecrackers and sniper rifles make this ridiculous 'POOF' when you shoot them. Those are just a few examples... And the Final Killcam, when it slows down, reveals that for each single shot you fire from an automatic gun, you hear three shots fired. Clearly Treyarch was banking on regular gameplay being too quick for players to notice this, thus warranted a half-assed attempt at stitching synchronized gunfire sound effects together. That's how we know Treyarch cares for the players. And again, this has nothing to do with my tube TV... All the other games sound nice on it, and on an HDTV in HD mode, the sounds are hardly better. It's only Black Ops...

--- The hit detection is the worst of any game I've ever seen. I have a blazing 30-40mbps connection and even when I'm host it's evident the detection is fucked up in both directions, whether I'm shooting or being shot. That, matched with the fact that everyone who isn't host has lag to deal with, and you have a game that's already broken before we've gone on to rate the actual gameplay itself. I picked out four videos to prove it.

--- The worst, most chaotic spawn system you'll ever see. Players often spawn next to enemy players, either behind them (so the guy you just killed spawns behind you and kills you back) or in front of them (you can kill the same guy again). Another game-breaker.

--- All of the guns feel the same. SMGs are designed for close-quarters combat and assault rifles are designed with range in mind - yet they're both equally good at either distance. ACOG on a sniper rifle makes it feel more like a semi-auto assault rifle, and likewise, assault rifles feel like sniper rifles when you put Thermal on them, or Variable Zoom for the G11. LMGs are just like SMGs and assault rifles, except they're heavier with bigger clips, the latter being meaningless since SMGs and assault rifles can have lightning reloads with Sleight of Hand and Dual Mags, so it's like you have one huge clip with all your ammo compounded in it. Shotguns and pistols both feel like knifing (because that's usually what you resort to), and launchers and the Crossbow both feel like the grande launcher on SMGs and assault rifles, albeit replenishable, and are as likely to kill someone as no weapon at all.

--- Knifing hit detection... My god. You either have this hidden Commando perk where you teleport 15 feet to stab, or you have this death scythe that allows you to stab from 15 feet away. And then sometimes when you stab someone - actually, absolutely, undeniably stab someone - it won't do a damned thing.

--- Perk setup is meh. You can use Marathon and Lightweight, for instance, but you can't use Ninja with them. Some perks have impractical PRO versions, and some of those PRO versions don't really make much sense. For instance, Hacker PRO is impractical, and Warlord PRO is kinda random, more like something Scavenger PRO should've had, while Warlord PRO should've maintained MW2's Bling PRO effect, allowing you to put two attachments on secondary weapons. And Marathon is a joke... The PRO version is just the original effect made infinite, as opposed to MW2 where it was infinite from the start (like it should've been) with faster climbing for the PRO version, complimenting the original effect very well. Consider the usefulness of the perk in the first place... Marathon doesn't do anything actually useful to your capacity to kill. In fact it probably gets you killed more often since you're more inclined to sprint knowing you have an unlimited amount of it. To me, Marathon should have a more definite and useful effect, since the stop-and-go of depleted sprint using a perk intended to lengthen your sprint is annoying at best. In MW2, when Marathon was combined with Lightweight and Ninja and both of their PRO effects, you had a very nice perk setup where all three perks complimented each other. Or, you could've used Commando in place of Ninja and been immune to Heartbeat Sensors and fall damage. So all in one class you had a 'mobility' setup:

-speed boost

-quick aim after sprinting

-infinite sprint

-faster climbing

-longer knife range / immunity to HBS

-no fall damage / silent footsteps

In Black Ops you get a similar set up, but the effects aren't as complimentary or flexible. Perhaps they're more useful in some cases, but I personally feel it's more disorganized than MW2's mobility perk setup:

-speed boost

-no fall damage

-infinite sprint / silent footsteps and louder enemy footsteps

-more accurate hip-fire

-quick aim after sprinting
-quicker recovery from knifing

You can't use Marathon with Ninja in Black Ops. To Treyarch's credit, a tighter hip-fire spread is very useful for a mobility class since you can simply strafe and fire, instead of slowing to a crawl to aim down your sights, unless you're using an SMG, which most will do with a mobility class since they're more mobile, making Steady Aim a little less useful than it could've been. They should've made Steady Aim also reduce the loss to movement speed while aiming down your sights, and grant the capability to hold your breath longer. There are much better ways to manage your breath than using an entire perk slot (Scout) to double the time you can hold it. As a sniper, Scout's original effect is utterly useless to me - but its PRO effect is quite nice. Scavenger also doesn't replenish Masterkey or flamethrower ammo, and Tactical Mask's original effect is almost totally useless.

List of Black Op's perks.

--- Shotguns were made primary again and are now even weaker than they were in CoD4 or WaW. At least shotguns back in those games were fairly useful as primaries but MW2 did us a great favor by making them secondary. WTF was Treyarch thinking?

--- Pistols are terrible unless dual-wielded. in CoD4, WaW and MW2, you could kill someone quickly with a single pistol. In this game, you find yourself landing 4-5 hitmarkers before getting the kill.

--- The ballistic knife should be an equipment item, not a weapon. I would can the throwing hatchet and replace it with this.

--- Maps are campfests, look bad, and some have unoriginal names. That one map that took place in the jungle - yeah, that one's called Jungle. Damn... I never would've guessed that one. But hey, Radiation has a cool name.

--- Camera Spike, Motion Sensor and Claymore are profound camping tools... Which just goes perfectly the camptastic maps. Claymore is a one-shot deal, but the sound it makes when tripped is so quiet you can't tell you tripped it until after it blows up on you, which is almost instantaneous, so interpreting the sound effect would be useless anyway. Lightweight doesn't allow you run past it. The only way to effectively avoid Claymores in this game is with Flak Jacket or Hacker - neither of which are commonly used because there are better perks out there. Oh, and here's a picture I took off my phone:


If Treyarch made Black Ops' multiplayer from the players' suggestions, then I guess their fan base never bitched about campers. It becomes too obvious they intended you to pitch a tent and get comfortable with the Camera Spike.

--- In Combat Training and Private Match, you're not allowed to use Camera Spike. Why? Because your pal can watch your camera while screen-hopping? I guess it never occurred to Treyarch that maybe players want to play Combat Training with a friend on the same team and use the camera to watch each other's backs. And why can't we use Tactical Insertion in Free For All in the same manner? Online it's understandable, but this is fucking Private Match, can't players arrange that themselves without Trey telling us how to customize our own matches? Maybe we want to be able to tactically insert ourselves anywhere we want - maybe they agreed not to boost, or maybe they ARE boosting because they're trying something out - but who cares? As long as it's not online, it shouldn't matter.

--- They took out quickscoping. Which is okay anyway, because sniping in this game is a joke. Don't get me wrong, I've had some really nice sniping matches, but not without being cheated out of a large number of kills along the way due to hit detection.

--- You can put a grenade launcher on the AK74u. I don't really get this. What else I don't get, is why the Stoner63 has such a small clip.

--- The 'CLASSIFIED' weapons aren't anything special - in fact, they tend to be slightly retarded. The Stoner63's the classified LMG. While a good weapon, it has a 30-round clip - and that's what must make it so special. The G11's basically an M16 with a lot of ammo and an optional low-power scope attachment that proves worse than ACOG, in my opinion. The Kiparis is no different from any other SMG in any respect that I can see. The classified sniper rifle is actually damned good, but the classified shotgun is just a SPAS-12 with half the clip size and can actually be dual-wielded. But it's useless used dual anyway because the accuracy is absolute shit without Steady Aim, and even with it you can't hit someone from more than ten feet away - and if you do, you might be fortunate if more than one or two pellets actually produce a hitmarker. In fact, if you were standing ten feet away from a doorway with an enemy standing in it, and you fired both shotties at them, you're going to hurt the door frame more than the enemy. When you Prestige and lose everything, you can't see the classified weapons anymore, even though you already know what they are - so you can't compare stats or anything, because they treat you like a newb who hasn't seen them.

--- The GUI's pretty ugly, to me. Maybe it looks okay to everyone else, but I never liked the GUI, or the Create-a-Class GUI setup especially.

--- Combat Training is probably the most fun part of the whole game, for me. Shamefully, you have to be online to play it, and the customization is limited. Still, why do you need to be online for this feature?

--- Theater mode is a very cool addition. But would someone like to explain why I can't at least record Combat Training sessions? At least leave a watermark on the recording so everyone doesn't confuse it with actual gameplay (something we'd be sure to abuse). And why can we only save up to 6 total items, pictures and videos combined? Halo 3 - a four year old game - did this so much better than Black Ops. In fact, it does EVERYTHING better...

--- Callsigns and camos aren't earned based on skillful completion of certain tasks. They used to be earned and shown off for your accomplishments in MW2 - now, you just reach the appropriate level and you automatically get every camo and callsign available to you at once, with the exception of the canary-yellow excuse for Gold camo, which you don't get until 14th or15th Prestige, and a couple callsigns which, again, you don't get without Prestiging. The Callsign Titles look like ass and don't have the cool catchphrases they did in MW2, or 3D moving emblems to go with them. Instead, you create your own emblem using the assortment of images they give you, which opens you up to world of opportunity to create racist, sexist, hateful, and/or sexually explicit content, which can get pretty bad. Here's one I took a pic of on my cell phone:

Customizing your emblem in Black Ops was a great idea, wasn't it?

... Or, we can just pull some off the interwebz:

Hey, maybe this level of customization isn't so bad after all.

--- Just like callsigns and camos, weapon attachments aren't unlocked based on completing a set requirements that require a certain skill to be exercised. Now, whenever you get a gun, you start off with every single attachment unlocked, except, you need to CoD points to buy it.

--- Clan tags no longer allow you to use symbols in them, except maybe the @ symbol. Everything else has to be letters and numbers. Also, you can't color your clag tag like you could in WaW anymore without Prestiging 13 times. Why'd they do this?...

--- The new CoD points system they have is stupid as fuck. Basically, every single little thing you ever get in the game aside from what's spoon-fed to you at the very lowest levels has to be unlocked twice. So the same two prerequisites must be met for everything you get - first, you have to reach the level/Prestige (or both) to UNLOCK it, then you have to have the points (which accumulate slowly, especially in lower levels) to purchase it. This is the evil behind all the unlockable content in the game, is knowing that no matter what requirements you meet, you always have to buy your way into everything. Killstreaks, weapons, attachments, camos, callsigns, callsigns and clan tags on guns, emblem layers, clan tag colors, face paints, reticules, reticule colors, lens colors, Prestige leaderboards, maybe even Custom Class slots. Nothing is paid in skill, just with the kills you and your camping ass get from sitting in a corner the whole match.

--- No Stopping Power means there's no perk to balance out the other perks... Everyone used SP from CoD4 up through MW2 because they NEEDED that extra damage. This made other perks in the same slot as SP more uncommon, but the difference is, SP is a neutral perk, so its dominance of that perk slot just meant everyone died quicker, which was likable and realistic. Now, there's no SP anymore - so everyone gravitates to the next best perk, Ghost, which is stealth-oriented, thus ruining the original ages-old UAV concept that's become a standard feature in CoD, and combined with silencers, campy maps, and campy inventory, games become very slow and players are discouraged from venturing out and actually finding other players. Ghost also gives you a ghillie suit, whether you're a sniper or not, which just complicates the matter of determining a sniper from anyone else, and gives you even more stealth. This makes CoD less a game of tactical killing, and more a game of stealth and patiently waiting in a corner for the whole match for some unsuspecting enemy to pass by. Also, no SP means everyone's 40% tougher to kill, although I have a feeling this isn't the whole story behind everyone being excessively tough to kill in Black Ops. In MW2, even without SP, you could kill someone quicker than in this game. It often takes the better half of a 30-round clip to kill someone in Black Ops, and they're given too much time to run from you, or to turn around and kill you. They sound like cap-guns and look cartoonish, so why not make 'em weak, too?

--- RC-XD is, like the Spy Plane, a three-killstreak, making it the easiest killstreak in the game to get. It can be earned in as little at two kills with Hardline. It's excessively used and unfortunately nigh-impossible to avoid, since it can't be outrun, and is too tiny and fast to be noticed easily or destroyed before it reaches you. This is made worse by the fact that many use the Ghost perk, so players often opt to fill their three-killstreak slot with the RC instead. This means that every little corner-camper now wants to use this little bugger instead. It's not uncommon to hear, "Heads up, enemy RC-XD inbound!" every minute or two in a match. This frequent appearance of the killstreak encourages everyone else who isn't camping to camp for cover from the campers who're using the RC in the first place. And finally, this killstreak is quite capable of multiple kills in a single blast, but even if that's too much to hope for, you're almost always guaranteed a single kill anyway. So for every two or three kills you get, you could have one of these little fuckers - now multiply that by 6-8 players on a team. If your team needs 75-100 kills to win a match, that's a lot of RCs.

--- The new Prestige system is unoriginal and just... fucking stupid. Now there's 50 levels instead of 70, and 15 levels of Prestige. And guess what? You still lose EVERYTHING when you Prestige - except your callsign. Yeah, even your CoD points go down the drain.

--- There's not much about the game that's really 'new'. Sure, they fixed some complaints of MW2, like killstreaks stacking kills, and they added new things like changing up your Red Dot Sight... But still no selector switches or custom stocks, bullet types (FMJ, hollow-tip, etc.), calibers or barrels, or armor of any kind short of Flak Jacket, if you can call that 'armor customization'. Attachment system is the same it's always been, and nobody at Treyarch had the idea to maybe categorize attachments so players could easily use multiple attachments. There's fewer perks in this game than the previous three, and whatever happened to 'Create-a-Class 2.0' Treyarch promised us? There's about the same number of guns and attachments in this game as MW2, everything being right about the same with little change except Treyarch adding or subtracting little pieces from the big picture. If they really listened to players and built their game based on what we suggest, then their fanbase is obviously comprised of 12-year-olds, because I find it hard to believe that too few people requested actual customizability, like stocks, barrels, ammo, armor, etc. for them to be arsed to add it. They even took quickscoping out - who knows if we can call that n00bish, I don't think anyone ever really understood QS took skill, but instead of 'easy, nooby QS', we got 'high-skill Camera Spikes and Motion Sensors and Ghost'. MW2 was made for fun - I'm sure they acknowledged Commando was a dick in everyone's ass, but it wasn't unstoppable, and it was really fun when you applied it yourself. Sometimes, that's the sacrifice you make for some freedom and fun. But they stripped Black Ops of all that in an attempt to make it a 'skilled, big-boy' version of MW2, and did so with camptastic gameplay. Black Ops, in all honesty, is just a stripped-down carbon copy of MW2 pasted in the Cold War era instead. And it's boring.

--- Treyarch needs to stop making Zombies maps now and just give up. Zombies was great in WaW, worthy of its own game back in those days. Now? Now the maps suck, the new features in each new map are too limited or confusing, or they work against the player, or are just too difficult or useless to employ. The maps got better and better in WaW - in BO, I feel like they're getting worse and worse. The latest map, Call of the Dead, has some new features to it that I'm sure nobody asked for. For being a company that supposedly listens to it's players, I have a question to ask: did the majority of your loyal players run to your forums requesting a cast of horror movie actors as the characters? Is this what Treyarch's been spending their time doing with that map, just adding a new cast of characters (which has no bearing on the gameplay) and adding a couple new guns? Hey, I DID like the explosive sniper rifle and the new Wunderwaffe-esque gun they added, and the zipline was cool, but come on, did your fanbase really insist that was all they wanted? It's a waste of a map and a shame Treyarch won't actually do what we ask them to. Like... A huge, open, free-reign map. Or multi-upgradeable guns. Or a whole cache of new guns. Why can't we buy a bandolier off the wall for 10,000 points which triples our ammo stock? What about buying/earning killstreaks to use against the zombies? Driving cars or tanks, using money to build up a fort against a zombie attack with Sentry Guns and fortified windows that take longer for zombies to break through? Maybe allow us to rescue or buy some AI allies to help us out? But no - we can't do any of this. Instead, we get to play as the girl from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, woo! Seriously, IW could do it better.

Black Ops gets a 5/10 from me, just because I'm sure there are far worse games out there, but for me personally, it's the worst I've ever laid hands on, and would be a 2/10 just compared to what I've played.

When I tell people how poorly I think of the game, the first reaction I almost always get is, "But the storyline was great." And that might be true, I wouldn't know since I didn't finish the campaign. Personally I didn't like it much. But honestly, who are these people kidding? People don't play CoD for the storyline, they play for the multiplayer. Campaign is a one-shot deal, the replay value's not that great, maybe just to re-run it once for Veteran completion. Maybe a campaign is considered necessary for a full gaming experience, but I'm considering that CoD would be better off without one, with all efforts on the multiplayer experience instead. What would Black Ops' multiplayer be like then? When you get down to it, multiplayer stacks up days, often weeks worth of hours in playtime - what does campaign add up to? I'd rather have a lasting experience with superior replay value that'll keep me going for years than a quick ten-hour runthrough that takes two days to complete before the game collects dust for the remainder of its existence.

But why should Treyarch care? They broke the record for sales the first day, they made their money, and they get to keep it... And Activision's happy enough with that to let them make another CoD. Black Ops might've broken the record for the number of sales made on release day... but I bet it broke the record for the number of returns the next day, too.