Scott and I recorded a Daily Affirmation (daily?) a couple nights ago, about his Veteran’s Day strip that ran on November 11. The one where Cole slaps the controller out of Francis’ hand because he’s playing something like Call of Duty: World at War multiplayer.

Now I love games and lately my interest has really upticked. I’m not sure why. But I become really defensive when anyone says “games are just violence for kids” or “games are murder simulators.”

So you can hear Scott’s and my thoughts on it in that podcast up there, plus our usual ramblings. It’s about 45 minutes long.

But here’s my addendum to the games discussion. I’ve seen a couple trailers for Call of Duty: World at War. That’s the latest one, it just came out on November 11. I kind of wanted to pick it up, given that I like war games and I enjoyed all the previous CoDs. But… I got upset when I saw how the game was handling the visuals.

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Let’s talk about games a little since I’ve had an hour or two to spare them lately. Tonight I won’t — I’m going to take care of some shipping once I get home. But we have here, now, this moment. You and I.

I got Dead Space for the 360 recently, which you may know is sci-fi horror, two of my favorite things combined. It’s basically John Carpenter’s The Thing on the set of Event Horizon. I made the mistake of burning through about a third of the game on Easy, and thought “this is not very scary.” Then I stopped and changed my mind. I paid good money for this game (actually I sold back GTA4 and CoD4 for it), so I should get the full experience and not play it like an FPS.

One low-to-moderate spoiler follows after the jump — I haven’t gotten that far in the game.
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