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When you don’t do what’s true to your heart, at the end of the day, you’ll end up hating yourself more than anything.

Splinter Cell: Conviction was awesome-riffic, and by awesome-riffic, I mean that I haven’t beat it yet. Yeah, yeah, I already hear the murmurings coming from the other side of the interwebs. It’s only like a 10 minute long game, yes, I understand. However, I’ve found myself trying to play it old school Fisher style. By this I mean I want to play like the stealthy bad ass he is, and thus the “restart from checkpoint” option in the pause menu gets used a lot in my end. Marcos tells me otherwise, saying he loved the freedom to be a pure bad ass and rip a new hole into everybody he met, only after a botched stealth attempt. I’ve done that a couple of times, sure, but it’s not as satisfying to me. Call me a perfectionist, I guess.

No seriously, call me a perfectionist. Shit don’t get done in my eyes until it’s good and ready in my mind. It’s the worst thing one could ever be.

Anyway, I should be done with the game by today, and then will it be time to completely embrace the coop mode, to get lost in what essentially is game number two on one disc. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, I wish more games would do similar things, actually. Gears of War 2, for example. Marcos was Xbox-less for a long time, and thus I just sped through it. I’d love to go through that campaign one more time, but some lobe in my brain is telling me it’s high time for me to move on from that game, mostly because there’s nothing new to find. Keep in mind, I have the new coop campaign DLC from a few months back, as well. My brain dictates. I follow. God forbid video games were a woman.

Now, I await two days. Two days for me to move from Street Fighter 4, which seems like it was sitting there vicariously, all in hopes for Super Street Fighter 4 to come down and take over its hard reign. I will miss you, Street Fighter 4. You were what ignited everything back up in the fighting world, and for that I feel somewhat shamed that I will be putting you in your case for the last time. It’s earned its rest, however, as a long year and few months in, it’s done me well. We fought long and hard, he and I, and we learned new things, but it’s your younger brother who will come in, and show me your true strength, what you wanted to be from day one. Here’s to a good retirement, chum. Believe it or not, I’ll miss your announcer, he had a hell of a lot more heart than this new guy.

Now, to just sit and wait patiently for SSF4.

… I’m so boned.