Back in the day, me and my buds used to spend almost every summer afternoon playing a little-known game: Half-Life. A first-person shooter, HL was awesome not only because it had quick and interesting gameplay with little need for an amazing computer, but because it was so moddable. What that meant was that people could take the original came and build upon it to essentially make an entirely separate game that was equally as fun.

One of those mods was Team Fortress. In this game, you got to run around as one of (I believe) eight different types of characters, doing things such as building sentry guns, dropping mines, using rocket launchers, and disguising yourself as the opposite team so you could sneak in, grab their flag, and bring it back to your base.

Now, almost 10 years later, Team Fortress 2 is being released, and boy does it look like fun. It’s styled not unlike a redneck comic book, and what I’ve seen from the videos, it looks absolutely hysterically fun. For their advertising campaign, they’ve decided to do something called “Meet the ______,” where they take the different classes of characters (the ones I explained earlier) and give them a little backstory to keep you interested. Check them out. It’s worth it:

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Last Friday, my dad, my little brother, and I headed off to Boston where I go to school at Emerson College. We took the Lake Express Ferry at 6:00 AM, across Lake Michigan and through Canada to get to Boston (here are the detailed directions).

I decided before the trip to attach my iSight camera to the dashboard of the car we drove, and I started taking a picture every 5 seconds starting at the Lake Express Ferry Terminal in Muskegon, MI. It falls a couple times due to it being mounted duct-taped to the car, but I left it in because, well, I frankly believe it gives it character. Here’s the outcome:

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