me about to die

After 14hrs 57mins, 1900 kills and 1755 deaths – this is what happens when you constantly run into fully guarded Domination points – someone finally called me a little bitch. Not sure the reason; we were in the lobby, I don’t remember killing him repeatedly or getting murdered by him in previous matches. Maybe he didn’t like me because out of all the gamertags in the lobby, mine didn’t have brackets or numbers or numbers subbing for letters or every other consonant in caps. These names look like they should be passwords.

So if you see me and my pronounceable handle in MW2 killing someone, your chances of dropping me are pretty good – destined, in fact.

I recently began Dawn of War 2, and to my surprise and dislike, I had to sign in with my Live account. Now, I can live without Live. It does nothing for me – because I hardly play online, because I hardly ever venture to the Marketplace even for free shit.

And recently I noticed that DoW2, a game exclusively for my PC monitor, carries over to Xbox Live on my television. I find this odd and a bit disconcerting because even though they are both using a Microsoft service, I’d much rather keep my console and PC experiences separate. But this isn’t my main concern.

When I noticed DoW2 through my Xbox I also noticed a stat Live tracks: the last time I played a particular game. I’m really not sure why this bugs me. I don’t care if people look through my library. I don’t care if people know what I’m playing at the moment. But the last time I played a particular game? Why would anyone need to know? What is the value in this?

“So I see you haven’t played GTA IV in a while.”
“Go fuck yourself.”