This was terrible game design. But I squeezed some lemonade out of it. I'll explain
Call of Duty Warzone added a new map, "Rebirth Island". It's a new battle royale island, which is great, but it's very, very small. Super small, actually. They even know this because they currently only have about 50 people on it max.
To "celebrate", they added an "event" with about 15 "achievements" so you could win themed watches, patches, the usual. One of them was that achievement, "BRB", which is "Pilot a Vehicle on the Island for 20 Minutes".
Problems are multiple. First - the island is super small - you have to drive in circles around very tight turns. Also: It's a small space so EVERYBODY shoots at you because they HATE you because you're a jerk in a vehicle on a small island. You're just spreading anger.
So it sucks for everybody.
Luckily, I discovered I could play a new mode of Call Of Duty Warzone I have entitled SURPRISE JEEP.
SURPRISE JEEP makes for an interesting game where you THINK you're playing battle royale but nah, there's a jeep in your face.
And don't worry. SURPRISE JEEP fits EVERYWHERE. Call of Duty plays one second of the other player's headset sounds when you hit them. It is not pretty.
Anyway, to get this achievement I had to essentially ruin other people's games and act like a griefer, which is not cool, people.
But I got to bring back one case of REVENGE WHIRLYMURDER. So what do I know
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@DavidEDaveWall1 So, my least favorite response to tragedy and tales of people being hurt (intentionally or unintentionally) is the person who steps in, and with the pale of authority, says "Well, if I had been there, I'd have done things quite differently, and not made such a mistake."
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The fact that everyone is walking around like a character in a Philip K. Dick is like me being told that Egg Nog is free or everybody's being assigned a vintage radio; it's just grandiosely beautiful fortune out of tragedy. Masks are amazing and awesome.
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I should rush to say this is absolutely not the first time this material's online; there have been scans and we actually have them up online. There's even a CD-ROM available with (also) crappy scans of YIPL and TAP. It's at archive.org/details/TAP_an…
HAVE YOU CONSIDERED GIVING THE GIFT OF SKEUOMORPHISM
Well, there's an new service over at Internet Archive that just popped up and the gift never stops giving. It involves an awful lot of human knowledge, a strong dash of serendipity, and BOOKS GALORE
It's called OPEN LIBRARY EXPLORER and it's essentially an experimental approach to bringing some online version of the experience of browsing and moving among classifications. It's fun for the whole family, and at the end of it you get to read!