Practicum: Tyla #2

ManOnTheMoon320: that's my gamertag! Did you know you have to pay to change your name? I tried changing it to WomManOnTheMood320... cute right? My friends (who named it that) weren't having it. Anyway, I have been practicing! I played Halo:Reach today. My teammates were DongDipper2 and NobsFavreone...it is pretty hilarious to see all of the names. I asked DongDipper2 why that was his name (because I can talk to him via the headset) and he told me that initially he was DongDipper but Xbox deleted the name and made him change it because it was too vulgar or something. So he named renamed the gamertag to DongDipper2. My other teammate I actually knew, he is a friend of mine who is interning in Kansas right now, so I was able to play a game with him and talk about life at the same time!

Anyway, I played Elite Slayer on (the map) Asylum... In Elite Slayer everybody is an alien, including me. You can either be red or blue, I was blue today. I guess it is random, tomorrow I could be red. That's only for "elite" though- the aliens. I was super pumped to pick out my weapon and learned another new thing, that depending on your class, you have a different weapon and perk. (I'm beginning to talk like a video player, instead of calling myself the avatar I am thinking of it as myself, me...my weapon, my perk.) So I was "dark assassin" which meant that my weapon was the Needler and my perk was invisibility, only for a certain amount of time though.

I had one kill, which was a big deal for me. While playing I was really excited about the kill but right now I feel a little creepy...admitting that I had a kill? It's interesting to see how people take the game sooooo seriously. I had to wait my turn to play the game, so we would pass around the controller and I would watch how these boys would get so heated and upset when their avatar died. One boy even through his controller because he was killed and didn't rank the highest on the number of kills. It's an intense game. Everyone takes everything so personal.