La Favorita
Posted 3 years, 9 months ago at 10:35. 0 comments
January is always a family-centric time of year for me. I have two brothers who were born ten days apart at the end of the month — yes, in different years — so I end up seeing a whole lot of everyone.
Tonight, the family assembled to celebrate Bob’s birthday. Bob’s a little picky when it comes to food, so while my gift of homemade chocolate ice cream covered off dessert, for dinner, we headed to La Favorita on McArthur for some seafood indulgence. Oh my, was it ever good. We went the seafood platter route, which resulted in a truly prodigious amount of cooked aquatic life showing up at our table. At first I couldn’t even see the crab legs with all those pesky lobsters piled on top of them, along with the scallops, and mussels, and shrimp… I probably exceeded my mercury quota for the next decade, but I did my best to make sure that no mollusc was left behind. Highly recommended.
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Until now, I’ve been concentrating almost exlcusively on the single-player online experience of Halo 2. This past weekend, I started playing more of the team-based games, largely because Dan happened to be online and sent me a party invite.
I enjoyed playing the team variants with Dan and his friends because they all seemed focused on the mission objectives, Playing with the general Halo populace leaves something to be desired, though. At the lower levels, it was quite easy to dominate people or even whole teams who had no idea what they were doing. But as I started to increase levels to where I seem to naturally plateau (around level 10), some really annoying issues started to crop up.
Most matches pit teams of 4 against each other, but that doesn’t mean they will end with 4 players a side. Quite often, players seem to bolt from games if the team gets down by a few kills, leaving the remaining players to fend for themselves with reduced numbers. Good bloody luck, is all I can say. I’ve also had a real problem when the matchmaking server has put me in a match where I have one bar of connection quality while everyone else is at full. Due to the level ranking system employed by Halo, if I quit out of that game, I am automatically ranked last for that match (unless others also quit), but if I decide to play it out, I have little hope of being competitive while the other players run circles around my lagging ass. It can be incredibly frustrating.
