November 8, 2015

Despite going to bed around two o'clock in the morning I woke up this morning at 7:30AM. That was unfortunate. I made the best of it though and got a start on my research paper. I worked on that for a bit and then took a study break.

I ended up buying Black Ops 3 last night because it was on sale and I downloaded it while I slept. Except I didn't sleep long enough because it was still going when I woke up. But it was ready for my study break so I went in and played with the emblem and calling card or whatever it's called. Then I went into Nuketown. It was a pre-order bonus and I didn't pre-order the game so when it showed up in the download I was pleasantly surprised. It was my favorite map in the first Black Ops and the main reason I bought Black Ops 2. I haven't played a CoD game in several years, since Black Ops 2, and I've never played on PC. This became very clear when I got into the game. I didn't do too bad the first match because I got in near the end and I used an SMG. For the second game I apparently wanted to torture myself because I went with a shotgun. I got 9 kills and died 51 times. One person posted in the chat after and just said “9 and 51. Wow.” That pretty much sums it up. Thankfully I know my skill, or lack of it, and don't play for the K/D.

Throughout the day I worked on my research paper. I did a bit of research, downloaded a couple more things, wrote the introduction, and started on the first section. I'm at about one page, which isn't great, but I'm getting there. I ended up calling it a night around 8:30PM because at that point I was just staring at words and not comprehending anything. Tomorrow at work I'll start looking through the articles I have and hopefully be able to divide them up to create sections for my paper.

I also replied to a couple discussion posts today. So it was a fairly productive day. I didn't finish my paper like I would have liked but I did things.

I ended the night with some Black Ops 3 campaign. I decided to go with the Realistic difficulty mode, which is one above Veteran, which used to be the highest level. My greatest gaming achievement is still beating CoD: World at War on Veteran. I'm interested in the story of Black Ops 3 but I mainly just wanted to make it last longer. I also think I want frustration that isn't school related. I can completely focus on getting completely destroyed. In Veteran, one bullet kills you. It's an interesting change from World at War Veteran where it turned into an endless grenade party. It is unforgiving and there are some definite BS moments but that's what you get. The worst part is actually hearing the restart noise over and over again. And the same dialog over and over again. It would be nice if there was a way to turn that off. Or set it so it only plays a certain number of times, because after the twentieth death it gets old.

It is now after 12:30AM and it has taken me forever to write this because I turned on The Race livestream. It's very distracting. But I need to go to bed because I got very little sleep last night and I'm going to get very little sleep tonight. My new goal is to get my paper tomorrow but recently my poor sleep schedule on weekends has led to early bed times on Mondays. That's not conducive to finishing a paper. We'll see how it goes.