Halo: ODST. Fun game, or funnest game? by Kyle W.

Alright, so that funnest game part is a lie. It's also terrible grammar. But I do love ODST, for a myriad of reasons.

1. Firefight. It's by far the best game mode ever. If you've played Gears of War 2 Horde mode, or Call of Duty's Nazi Zombies, then you've played something similar to Firefight. But unlike those two games, ODST wins harder than both. IT'S TOO MUCH FUN.

2. Instead of being the unstoppable super soldier, Master Chief, or the tragic hero of the Elites, The Arbiter, I get to be an ODST. ODST is an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper. So you can't charge into a group of Covenant and expect to come out alive. It's possible, but improbable. Tactics, teamwork, weapon usage, and level knowledge plays a huge part, and makes it infinitely more fun.

3. Getting to fight a bunch of different Halo Covenent species, including Brutes, Drones, Grunts, Jackals, and Hunters, along with the different weapon classes these enemies can come in means that variety runs rampant. Bungie also included a relatively unknown new race called Engineers, who serve no actual combat role but give Overshield to any unit within a certain range of them. Ultimate support units, these Engineers, and they can really ruin a team if not taken out quickly.

4. With the addition of "skulls" to Firefight, it vastly changes the difficulty from round to round, meaning that a team not working together can get royally fucked when a skull like "Enemies have 2x health" comes on.

5. And of course, the new campaign is extremely fun. It differs from the last Halos by concentrating more on a self contained story about the ODST squad instead of the entire war. I actually cared about what happened to all my squad mates. Also, the ambience and atmosphere of the campaign is top notch, giving an extreme sense of loneliness when playing as The Rookie in destroyed New Mombasa, and the classic Halo feel when playing as a different ODST like Buck or Romeo.

Buy this game if you even remotely liked any Halo, if you like Nazi Zombies, or even Horde Mode on Gears 2.

My gamertag again is Nightwing1191, add me and we'll Firefight it up. ODST out.

Take That, Bank Of America

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Dalton Chiscolm is unhappy about Bank of America's customer service -- really, really unhappy.

Chiscolm in August sued the largest U.S. bank and its board, demanding that "1,784 billion, trillion dollars" be deposited into his account the next day. He also demanded an additional $200,164,000, court papers show.

Attempts to reach Chiscolm were unsuccessful. A Bank of America spokesman declined to comment.

"Incomprehensible," U.S. District Judge Denny Chin said in a brief order released Thursday in Manhattan federal court.

"He seems to be complaining that he placed a series of calls to the bank in New York and received inconsistent information from a 'Spanish woman,'" the judge wrote. "He apparently alleges that checks have been rejected because of incomplete routing numbers."

Bank of America Corp faces real legal problems, including New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's threat to sue its chief executive and a judge's embarrassing rejection of a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Yet the money Chiscolm wants could dwarf all the bank's other problems. It's larger than a sextillion dollars, or a 1 followed by 21 zeros. Chiscolm's request is equivalent 1 followed by 22 digits. The sum also dwarfs the world's 2008 gross domestic product of $60 trillion, as estimated by the World Bank.

"These are the kind of numbers you deal with only on a cosmic scale," said Sylvain Cappell, New York University's Silver Professor at the Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences. "If he thinks Bank of America has branches on every planet in the cosmos, then it might start to make some sense."

Judge Chin gave Chiscolm until October 23 to better explain the basis for his claims, or else see his complaint dismissed. (story courtesy of Reuters)



Bravo, Dalton Chiscolm, bravo. While lazy pussies like Michael Moore are making cute little movies poking fun at our economic crisis and the banks that are not being held accountable for their role in it, mavericks like Dalton Chiscolm are taking real action and trying to hit these crooks where it hurts: right in their big, fat pockets.

Judge Chin can call this lawsuit incomprehensible all he wants, but the facts are staring him right in the face and they point directly to a victory for Mr. Chiscolm. The place is called Bank of America, not bank of Spain. When you call up customer service, you should be speaking to an American, plain and simple. Game, set, match for Chiscolm. I bet after he wins this landmark case, BOA won't be fucking up his routing number this time.

Then you've got Sylvain Cappell smugly poking fun at Mr. Chiscolm's case. Listen, asshole, when's the last time you went up on Space Shuttle Discovery? If you haven't been to every planet in the cosmos then don't dismiss the possibility of there being a Bank of America on each any every one of them. That's probably what helped them stay afloat in the first place.

Andre Cuomo's potential case against BOA is good, don't get me wrong, but everybody needs to realize that Dalton Chiscolm's suit is as real as it gets. Bank of America clearly has 1,784 billion, trillion dollars hidden away somewhere; you know it, I know it, and Dalton Chiscolm knows it. He got fucked by the long dick of the American banking system only he didn't take it sitting down like the rest of us. He acted swiftly and decisively and if Bank of America knew what was good for them, they would stop counting how many zeros are actually in 1,784 billion, trillion and fucking pay up because Dalton Chiscolm does not fuck around, this guy plays for keeps.

Seriously, I would be afraid to even ask him for a dime for the soda machine at work out of fear that he'd charge me 5,000,000 years interest on it if I didn't repay him the next day and then slit my throat in my sleep just to send a message to the rest of the office.