November 5, 2017

This morning I woke up at eight o'clock and thanks to Daylight Savings, even though I went to bed at two o'clock in the morning, I got seven hours of sleep. That worked out pretty well for me. When I first got up I read through my presentation script. Surprisingly there were only a couple small changes that I needed to make. It took me about twenty-five minutes to read through it, which isn't too bad. I think there's still one more slide I want to add and I can do the news audit handout activity if I decide I need to fill time. I'm feeling good about it. And I'll feel better about it when it's over.

For brunch I made pancakes and eggs. I haven't made pancakes in months and I was out of practice, so they weren't the best I've ever made, but they weren't bad. I also should have used a different pan for the eggs or let it cool down more after the pancakes because they cooked way too fast. They weren't pretty, but like the pancakes, they weren't bad.

After I ate I played Wolfenstein 2 and managed to finish the main story. There are still a bunch of side quests, going around and killing Nazi commanders, but the main game is over, until the DLC stuff comes out. It was a really fun and satisfying game. It also had a happy ending and set things up for the third game. That's going to take awhile to come out, probably, and in the mean time I want to go back and play the previous two games, which include the first game in the trilogy and the prequel to the trilogy. I look forward to it.

Following that I started playing the CoD: WWII campaign. I think I played the first three missions. It's nice going back to the WWII setting and getting out of the future. It's also got an interesting health system, where your health doesn't regenerate. You have to use a health pack, and if you don't have one, you can either find them in the level or request one from one of your squadmates. That kind of makes me not want to play it on the the highest difficulty level because I think that would just be beyond frustrating.

After playing the campaign I did the prologue zombie level and got to see David Tennant's character, which was pretty cool. I'm an awful zombie player, and I wish I wasn't because it seems like it could be fun if I could survive more than a few waves. I think I'll probably try it again, just to see if I can get more of the story, but I imagine I'll probably end up just watching YouTube videos or Twitch streams.

I played one multiplayer match and went even, because thankfully the other team wasn't that great. It allowed me to get a taste of the game without getting completely frustrated with it. We'll see how my hands hold up but there is potential for it to be pretty fun. One issue I have discovered is with my mouse, which is an MMO mouse and has twelve buttons on the side. In the game, hitting the number 1 cycles your weapon. I have discovered that I keep inadvertently hitting that button in the middle of gunfights and switching to my pistol. This has yet to work out in my favor. I need to figure out a better system.

Throughout the day I watched The Race livestream because today was the last day for it and by the afternoon all the guys were there. It was a lot of fun to watch. In the last couple of hours they had a couple crazy donation trains that let them hit their goal of $100,000, and then in the last few minutes they managed to pass $125,000. It was intense. And then, to top it off, Activision donated $125,000, because they said they would match whatever was raised during the stream up to a certain amount. I don't think any of the guys were expecting Activision to actually do it during the stream because they all momentarily lost their minds. It was pretty cool.

Tonight I played a few more multiplayer matches in CoD: WW2 and I was reminded of how bad I am at the game. But I'm still trying to figure things out. And I can use that excuse for at least a little while. One of the coolest things about this new game is the headquarters, which kind of reminds me of the safe houses in The Division, where you're in a 3D environment and you can go to various people and interact with them. They also have a shooting range, so you can try out your weapons. I haven't figured out yet how to change weapons. They also have an area where you can try out killstreaks, which is a lot of fun because I'll never earn some of the cooler ones. But at least now I can play with them a little bit.

It is now late and I'm going to record my audio journal so I can go to bed. I close tomorrow so I'm looking forward to sleeping in, and maybe playing a little more CoD: WW2 if I can talk myself into getting out of bed.