Random is as Random does

A Herd of Cats opinion by Blackwalt.

Except for when it isn’t.

I am no expert on random, we need Ice for that. But I do know that Herd of Cats has the motto of Random is a Strategy. Although, admittedly, its more of a guideline.

Look at our style of play in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Now I am not saying that we play with anything resembling a strategy because we don’t. However, we do play the game to win – which is a strategy in itself. We are point whores, rank whores, and “that next weapon” whores. Our strategy is anything but random. Although sometimes it is hard to tell.

We play for points, mainly against each other. All we want to do is beat the next clan guy. Makes sense and makes for a fun game.

But random? No. Not random.

We need to mix it up. Randomize it so to speak.

Go pistols only. Knifes only!

Clan member with the lowest score wins!

Hop everywhere. Crawl everywhere! Run backwards everywhere!

Finish with Zero.

No goals at all.

First kill wins! Or, better, first kill loses!!

Of course, since I wrote these down, they aren’t really random anymore, are they?

And I expect we will generate all sorts of random (and maybe not so random) abuse and comments from anyone on the opposite team, and worse (for them) anyone on our team.

So lets work on randomizing our play strategy next time. It doesn't have to be ever night we play, but I expect the occasional Random Day will liven up the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare experience.

Either Random is our Strategy or it isn’t.




And here is the Random version of this column (sadly better) written by Creativity Tools Random Paragraph Generator.

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