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Played Counterstrike tonight on the Xbox. Sweet game. Almost perfect in certain respects. The 'buy time' is annoying (you have 3.4 seconds to outfit yourself!), but play is fun and quick. I played the SAS Stadium bombing run as Counter-Terrorst a few times, and had a ball. Anyone out there in XBL land have it?

UNTIL

Got UNTIL: Defenders of Freedom today. Hasn't sucked me in like I'd hoped, yet, but that's only on a couple cursory read overs.

Have been doing some super hero scribbling at work. Done some notes on AEGIS, the multi-national spy organization headed by the Veteran on a Stick, and the PSiberians, a group of mutants who are the children of dissident Soviet mutants banished to Siberia.

The main hook for the PSiberians is a fairly totalitarian Professor X type (not a mutant supremacist like Magneto, but more a mutant separatist, so he's really evil). I'm still working on their goals and power structure, and I'm gonna have to hogtie someone to give me some Russian translations. And do some reading on gulags.

EDIT: 10 Million dead. I should tread carefully on that last one.