Nerdgasm

Halo 3 and Heroes. I repeat: Halo 3 and Heroes. Halo 3 and Heroes. Halo 3 and Heroes. Halo 3 and Heroes. Both in the same night. Last night. Yeah. Somewhere, a huge group of nerds must have done the most amazing thing in order for karma to put together a night with both the season premier of Heroes and the release of Halo 3. Thank you, altruistic nerds, for your good deeds that prompted the universe to such ecstatic heights.

So my brother, mehen, and I have been planning for the release of Halo 3 for a while now. We set up our very own mancave in my brother's basement, fully equipped with microwave, refrigerator, goodbutnotgreat sound system, and a couple of recliners. Mehen pointed out that we've recreated the dorm experience pretty well down there. All we need is a hot plate and a splendid array of soiled laundry to really flesh out the motif. We of course also made plans to buy the video at 12:01 when the game first hit stores for sale to the general public.

The evening started out with my brother's family and mehen's family all coming over here for pizza. The idea was that if we all got together, the agony of waiting until 12:01 would somehow be lessened. It was like the night before Christmas. But worse because there wasn't any chance of any of us sleeping for any amount of time before the hour arrived. So we all got together and paced around for a bit, watched the kids pound on each other, ate pizza. . .

Then we went to the mancave, played some Halo 2, watched some of the various Halo 3 promotional preview type things, watched the old triumph at the opening of Star Wars because the release of Halo 3 promised to have many things in common with the premier of a Star Wars movie, and basically wasted some time. Then at a little after eleven we went to the store. There was a pretty big line of dudes in t-shirts and shorts already cued up and waiting for the moment. It was kind of funny, when a girl showed up, everyone watched her as she made her way to the back of the line. What's a girl doing here? A chick that plays Halo? That is so hot. And so on, as the dudes pretended not to be looking at her.

Anyway, I've dragged this on for long enough. The game kicks ass. A lot of ass. If you have some ass, don't get it too close to the game because it will get kicked. . . We played through the beginning of the campaign (co-op) mode, and it was all Halo, just tweaked from the last time we encountered it. As often happens with the cooperative mode, we started off screwing around, experimenting with all the shinyshiny coolness, and of course attacking each other. Then when we got into actually playing the game seriously, we started accidentally attacking each other. In the new version of the game, the button that you used to use to reload is now used to throw some special grenade-type weapons. So we'd all be standing in a group when someone would decide to try to reload and "Damnit! Who did that?" Fun.

Heroes was really good too. I'd write about it, but I fear that many of my readers have already been turned off by this outpouring of nerdocity. So I'll leave you with some gratitude.

I'm grateful for. . . well. . . you know. . . nerd stuff. . . (20).