It's Thanksgiving break here at our house. That means at least 5 days of "Mom, can I play on the PS3?" Which will probably get a "yes" response unless there's something good on tv. (Good is a relative term.)
Yesterday, the 8 year old (previously referred to as "Nuke") is having his fill of PS3. He likes the Star Wars games and the Lego games, but when it comes right down to it...the game he appears to get the biggest kick out of is "Call of Duty - Modern Warfare." (For you grammatical folks, I'm not sure if that should be in quotes or underlined. I could ask my geek student husband or my geek student 7th grader, but I'm not going to...you're just going to have to live with it!)
Yes, CoD is rated "M" for Mature. Probably because of all the shooting!? There's no flying blood splatter or guts or anything like that though, so...that a "good" thing, right?! Most of the time he doesn't even have the sound of the game on. He leaves the audio set on whatever cartoon channel he was previously watching...usually it's Spongebob or Drake and Josh. (Grammar fiends, I apologize again for just leaving those titles naked altogether.)
This idea came to him when I was watching him play "online" one day. There were a lot of people apparently playing with those bluetooth headsets/microphones. I heard quite a bit of profanity - not from the 8 year old - not from the game - but from the online gamers who get pretty peeved when their dude gets shot! So, anyway, I asked him to turn down the sound so I didn't have to listen to that. I guess he decided that "tv" audio was better than no audio.
But, I stray from the reason for this post...
Back to yesterday...Nuke asked his dear ol' dad to play CoD with him. This is not new. They frequently play against each other; some two-player mode, probably called "team deathmatch" or something like that, I'm not really sure. He agrees and the fun begins.
There are few things that bring endless giggles to Nuke like shooting the crap out of his father! (Not for real people...video game!)
It doesn't matter the scenario, good guy or bad guy, which gun he's using...none of it matters...he can beat his dad almost every time. If he gets him 3 times in a row, he gets to call in an airstrike! That apparently rocks! Every time his father loses, his father says "NO WAY!? HOW DID YOU DO THAT?!" (Yes, every time!) I'd say it was probably after about an hour of this when after one of those "NO WAY" comments, I heard the jewel from the 8 year old's mouth... (No it wasn't profanity!)
"Yeah, well...that's the way the W-man rolls."
Yeah, you read that right! From the 8 year old! It's not like we speak that way around the house. I'm really not sure where he came up with it. But, I think it might be one of the funniest things I've every heard!
So, from now on, "the 8 year old formerly known as Nuke", shall now be "W-man!"
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