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As of tonight I have earned exactly 6000 gamerpoints. And I haven’t finished that one game I’m working on finishing which will most likely make it into my top 10 but now I have to make tough decisions again and you could always spoil it for yourselves and see what I’ve been doing through my gamercard.

So. No matter what I say in the next few days. You have to buy the Orange Box. And if you don’t want to play it on a PC, the 360 version is really well done (other than a Microsoft violation involving their press start screen and the Guitar Hero II guitar) (also, the 360 version has prettied up versions of Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode One, while the PC version only got re-releases). If you saw the Half-Life 2 demo video in the summer of 2003 and you saw something there, something that you didn’t think you’d ever see. Something in the way that floating a mattress in water was different from floating some pieces wood. You owe it to yourself to play through the game again. And you more than owe it to yourself to play through the Episodes. Just fucking do it already.

And as soon as I’m done here, I’m going to run through Gears of War, probably multiple times, because I want to see where it stands. While I love the game, and I decry it as the best game on the Xbox 360, I never played through it. I don’t even think I played past the second chapter. But now I have to. It’s a personal mission. So if you have Live, let’s get our co-op on. It’s time, my brothers.