One thing I've managed to get plenty of is MAG. After playing it for 250+ hours I realised how close I am to my first Playstation platinum trophy, so the last few days have been grinding in an attempt to get a large portion of the in-game medals and ribbons out of the way: for repairing. Sweet Jesus, I have huge respect for the players who by will grasp their repair kit in hand and zap the magical welding flashy stick every day. Seriously, I've never been so bored, frustrated and distressed whilst gaming. Especially whilst getting the harder medals - though I did find a great method of obtaining the AAA repair medal. For those who play Valor, first platoon defending Domination. Sneak past enemy lines, repair the AAA, then hide in the red shack by the attacker's bridge or in the bushes surrounding it. I managed to get 8 repairs into one match this way, repairing it, hiding, and watching from the bushes as squad after squad of pissed-off soldiers stormed by grumbling about the magical self-repairing AAA. It's also great to top it off by blowing up the bridge to further delay their assault when the AAA is back up & fending them back. During my repairing stint I must say I've also formulated the perfect Field Support/Commando loadout. Shotgun, silenced Pistol, Sensor Jammer, Medical Kit and Repair Kit with improved light armor. Flawless for the whole support business. Now onto LMG and AR ribbons!The folks at Zipper also dropped a bomb on the community today: the good kind of bomb, the one that makes people love you. Without a doubt the greatest additions to their game yet. An entirely new game mode with maps that look stunning, 3 new weapons for each faction with a revised skill point and credit system. I won't explain it in the detail they have but if you're interested check out the blog post.
Another thing I've done with my time off is to arrive to a shocking verdict on an issue with my music listening habits: I'm going to stop using last.fm. I've been scrobbling to last.fm for about a year and a half now and I keep finding myself in positions of musical desensitization, ie. I just can't enjoy listening to music at times. I traced the issue to it's source by accident one day when I pondered playing my iPod on shuffle but I dismissed it because I thought "no, it might play something like Collective Soul and I don't want people to think I really actually to them". Then it hit me, the amount of times I've not listened to an artist because I want more plays for another or because it wouldn't look good on my profile. I, like most people, would like to claim that they don't care what others think about them. But I'd be lying to myself, it's just who I am as a person. I tend to often think about people's impressions of me and I try my best to avoid situations of being observed. But that's what last.fm was doing: throwing out me and my private listening habits on public display. And though it was self-inflicted and seemingly harmless, it's harmed the way I enjoy music.So I've removed the last.fm scrobbler from my dock and logged out from the site for what I believe to be a very long time. I'm going to try and weed out this approach to listening I've developed. I'm still going to keep my profile there just in case, and I will scrobble my iPod plays at irregular intervals if I feel like it, just to keep some sort of accuracy to my profile. If I don't like what's happening, I'll uninstall the scrobbler and remove my profile.
Well it's been a pretty dece update if you enjoy MAG but other than that not much interesting to see here. That's all, guys! Oh, and keep up with Ctrl+Alt+Del.
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