An Academic Year in Review

I’ve just completed a highly successful year at the University of South Florida. All business pre-reqs have been met, and I’ll never ever have to deal with Financial Accounting and Managerial Accounting ever again. Those two classes were the most aggravating, most difficult, and most time consuming courses I’ve ever taken. I got B’s in both courses, but the spring semester B in managerial accounting was a fucking struggle right to the very end.  Although I was a full time student, it seemed liked accounting took a disproportionate amount of my study time, I would estimate that it was around 65%. At the conclusion of the semester I briefly thought about attending summer school, but I’ve never done well in summer school in general and also I really need a break from school to sort of recharge myself.

This upcoming Fall begins the race to the finish line in the following Fall of 2012. I’m in my major now, I only have a handful of core business classes left and the rest is all Marketing courses. I’m really looking forward to taking Marketing Management and Marketing research next semester in order to get a more in depth look into the industry itself.

Black Ops review: Treyarch is the B team, and Black Ops is garbage. Any questions?

I wanted to love Black Ops. I really did. The first few weeks were fun, but there were some major red flags from the day one. Lets get right to the heart of the matter, Black Ops has the absolute worst fucking hit detection in Call of Duty history. If an FPS developer fails in the most basic area (that being the shooting/contact mechanic) then the game itself is completely worthless. Treyarch further complicates matters by implementing a new unwanted dumb feature called flinch. Essentially flinch is when you roll up on a dude, shoot him, he shoots you, but remember your not shooting a dude you’re shooting a hit box with an assigned numerical value. So while you’re trying to kill that hit box, the dude is shooting you and that causes you to flinch and jerk your gun off target and make you inaccurate. This inevitably results in sloppy gun fights, and a feeling of being ripped off if the other guy gets the kill even though you hit him first. But that’s only one part of the problem.

There’s also the laggy ass kill cam. It’s been like this since Call of Duty 4, but I think it’s at it’s worse in Black Ops. How many times do you have to roll up on a dude, shoot the shit out of him, get two or three hit markers, get killed, then you see that laggy kill cam that shows you barely even getting a shot off. Something is fundamentally wrong with the how the Call of Duty engine processes one on one gun battles. It’s never quite worked right. But it’s become horrendous in Black Ops. To the point were I can’t even play this stupid game anymore. Oh, and I didn’t even mention the horrible fucking spawning and those garbage ass inaccurate recoil weapons. Basically if you’re using anything other than the Commando, Ak47, or AKu, well good luck because you’ll need it.

I retire with a 1.71 k/d         And a 1.00 broken controller percentage.

Tampa, a city of fucking morons.

Come to picturesque Tampa and see our crappy downtown!

Well, as I predicted, the dumb asses of Hillsborough county (aka the teabaggers) voted down the ballot referendum to fund light rail. And the margin wasn’t even close. The ballot measure was defeated by over 15%.

To the the 100,000+ people who voted for county wide transportation, my advice to you is to punish this shit hole county and state by taking your talents and skills else where. You’re too good for this place.

I love how these teabag a-holes think that by maintaining the unsustainable status quo it will somehow make Tampa a better place to live, create more jobs, and attract or retain more educated workers. These teabagger shitheads in Tampa need to learn the hard way. This city/county/state is going no where. I can’t wait to leave. I’ve only got three semesters left. I will use this anger as motivation. Fuck this place.

A defining moment for Tampa

It’s certainly not an understatement to say that tuesday November 2nd 2010 will be a day that defines the Tampa Bay area for generations. For the first time ever Hillsborough county voters will have a chance to approve funding for light rail, increased bus services, and road improvements. It’s really pathetic that Tampa is so far behind other comparable mid-sized cities such as Charlotte, Denver and Phoenix when it comes to public transportation.

So now we have a ballot referendum. Let the people’s will be done. Well, not so fast my friend. One of the problems with ballot referendums is that even stupid people get to vote on them. Even teabaggers get to vote, even knuckle dragging mouth breathing morons get to vote. Even the moronic “what’s in it for me” crowd gets to vote. And that’s what scares me. There is way too much on the line here and way too many stupid people out there who may fuck it up. To further complicate matters, there is generally a negative mood out there towards any kind of tax increase even if the benefits of it are so obvious and significant.

Anyone who has spent a day in Tampa knows that this place lacks a lot of things and generally doesn’t offer much. As I mentioned before it’s far behind other comparable mid-sized cities. Add the non-existent job market and the shitty traffic situation and you have to ask yourself why the fuck would anyone want to live here?  The traffic here is so bad that it’s literally anger inducing. The traffic situation here is irrationally bad. The kind of thing that will ruin your day before it even begins. The kind of thing that will ruin your commute home and make you want to punch the wall when you get there. Let me be completely clear about this, you have to be a complete fucking moron to vote against this transit proposal. Unfortunately, Tampa has no shortage of morons, teabaggers, and uneducated people. Sadly there might be enough of them to defeat this proposal and set Tampa back another decade.

Will this class change my life?

Ok maybe that title is a bit dramatic, but this is my first law class since like high school mock trial. If this class goes well and if the subject really interests me then it’s certainly possible that I will take the LSAT’s after graduation. Assuming of course that I can graduate with a GPA around 3.25 or better.

Is Modern Warfare 2 the biggest piece of shit in video game history? In a word, yes.

I’ve written previously about my disdain for Modern Warfare 2. This is my second time owning the game since it was originally released. I ebayed the game last January for $45 then bought it on sale this summer for $29.99. Obviously having taken a four month break from the game I had forgotten what a broken piece of shit Modern Warfare 2 is. When playing MW2 It doesn’t take to long to realize there is something majorly wrong with the game, or maybe I should say that there are several things majorly wrong with MW2.

The biggest problem with MW2 is it’s philosophical foundation. Rather than improve upon Call of Duty 4 and make a hardcore realistic shooter, IW went in the exact opposite direction. They mixed COD4 with Halo to make it more accessible to the mindless fucking retards of the world. Skill and being able to make a shot are no longer needed, cartoony bullshit now is the law of the land. Infinity Ward went perk crazy and made it easier for shitty players to feel like they are accomplishing something even when they’re doing nothing to actually win games or play smart.

Hey shitty player, can’t make a shot? Well don’t worry IW is gonna give you super speed and the pac man commando knife. Knife beats gun in MW2. Hey shitty player, are you tired of getting killed by helicopters because you’re too fucking stupid and incompetent to shoot them down? Well fear not, now you’ll have the highly unrealistic cold blooded homo perk to make you magically invisible to those pesky helicopters! Very realistic huh? Hey shitty player, how about a seemly useless perk that will go on to become one of the worst exploit perks in the game? And the lord called it One Man Army! The thing that really pissed me off the most is how cold blooded  has completely ruined  hardcore modes. What’s the point of getting a kill streak when every little bitch on the other team is using cold blooded?

It’s only fitting that there has been so much drama between Infinity Ward and Activision. Who knew that making almost a billion dollars in revenue would cause such discord. Well frankly Infinity Ward you don’t deserve a fucking dime. You put out a half tested half assed dumbed down version of Call of Duty 4.5  and apparently your idea of beta testing is bringing in untalented fucks like Curtis Jackson and Dane Cook to beta test it for you. No wonder the game came out so fucked up.

As the fall semester approaches I no longer need a shitty game like MW2 in my life, I will ebay it by August 14th at the latest. The only reason I’m even playing it is because I needed a shooter for the summer. I should have just re-bought Battlefield but I couldn’t find it on sale at the time. MW2 is just a ghetto for the stupidest, most unintelligent, most untalented, and most incompetent gamers in the world. But if  your a booster, or an OMA exploiter, or a clownish runner/knifer commando asshole, or a fucking idiot who camps in objective games, or a stupid fuck using cold blooded in hardcore mode, or a retard who doesn’t bother to shoot down helicopters, if you’re that dude well MW2 is truly the paradise you’ve been looking for!

Fuck I hate July

Good riddens. July is always the most boringest drag on month of the year. When I’m in July all I can think about is getting to August and getting back down to business in late August early September. I’ve always loved late September early October when the temperature starts to drop and the leaves begin to change. Unfortunately I don’t get to see that right now because I’m currently in Tampa. Fortunately I only have to spend one more July, one more summer in the place I hate, then I’ll be free. Then I’ll be able to see the changing of the leaves again.

Another reason why Tampa sucks.

In reference to the baron wasteland known as downtown Tampa. This quote is from the shitty local Tampa newspaper that I won’t link to.

“All that vacant property is really going to be up for grabs for a while,” said Michael English, an urban planner with the WilsonMiller land planning firm. “There’s no market to put people in big new buildings.”

Translation- Tampa is a failed city. There are no jobs in Tampa. Anyone who can get the fuck out of Tampa should and will. Anyone who can get the fuck out of the state of Florida will. During the real estate boom asshole developers and asshole Hillsborough county commissioners and moronic Tampa officials thought is was more important to create sprawl rather than renew Tampa’s urban core. But hey lets look on the bright side, Charlotte NC just got 25 million to fund their street car system.