Greatest Trip to Target, Ever.

On Saturday I ended up in a Target not planning to buy a single thing, I was there with my girlfriend who wanted to make a few purchases for her apartment. Anyway, I started walking around and stumbled across the automotive section where what caught my eye, but an extending ice scraper/snow brush! I think it was like $8 and it was something that I had been planning to get for a while but never got around to, score!

I think this might be the exact one...

After that I remembered that I had to get some ink for my printer, so I headed over to electronics. While browsing the wonderful selection of HP ink, I noticed that they had an all-in-one printer, scanner, copier for $40, the same price as the ink I was about to buy. Now I had been jonesing for one of these suckers for a long time, so I copped that real quick. I also got some photo paper and another color ink for only $10 thanks to an on the box coupon.

Boom baby!

After grabbing that, what did I stumble upon next? A set of inner ear headphones with a mic for $18, double score! I had also been looking for these for a long time since the ones that come with the iPhone suck, and most cost around $80. The sound quality isn't great for music, but it's fine for talking and that's all i want it for since the iPhones speakerphone is kinda whack. It's not worth finding a picture of these, I don't remember what brand they are.

And finally, the piece de resistance. I decided to purchase Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. I played COD:MW on my computer back in the day (2008) and it was a sick game. I bought World at War for PS3 but wasn't too impressed. However, I had heard great things about MW2 since it was back with Infinity Ward (game developers). I decided to buy it on the spot, and now after playing it for a few hours these past couple days, I'll give brief review.

Overall the game is sick. It's pulled me in a lot more than World at War ever did. Maybe it's because modern weapons are cooler, I'm not sure, but I've had tons of fun playing it. The game features some cool new features like a gun with a heartbeat sensor so you can see when enemies are approaching (not all guns have this). It also has really great cut scenes, which MW1 also had. Overall the game play is pretty good. I like that there is some slight auto aim if you get close enough to an enemy and then look down your sight, it helps when transitioning from the PC. I also think that it does pretty well at realism, at certain times I've felt like I have no idea what's going on and I'm just shooting everywhere as my jeep tears through a city which probably happens more often than we think. Not everything is perfect though, you die when getting runover by a snowmobile, however when you're driving the snowmobile and hit a tree it just slows you down, you don't even get knocked off. I might update as I play more, and I haven't played online yet, but I've heard it's pretty good.

One other thing, maybe I'm giving Infinity Ward too much credit, but one of the storylines is that Russia attacks the US on our own soil, so you end up fighting in Northern Virginia, and maybe other places. I just think it's really outside of the box thinking to not use the same old world hot spots (Middle East, Afghanistan, Kosovo) for all the missions to occur. It's weird trying to fight your way over to Burger Town and Nate's Diner to get ground to air missles.