{"id":40,"date":"2011-03-21T18:24:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T22:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mightyrobot.com\/loadingreadyrun\/?p=40"},"modified":"2011-03-21T18:24:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T22:24:13","slug":"random-black-ops-thought-compound-noun-hilarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mightyrobot.com\/loadingreadyrun\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Random Black-Ops Thought: Compound Noun Hilarity!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Call of Duty: Black Ops<\/em> expanded its Create-a-Class feature by letting players customize the appearance of their righteous souljah classes. It&#8217;s a stealthy way of combining A) playing with guns with B) playing with dolls. But if you don&#8217;t ask, they won&#8217;t tell. <\/p>\n<p>One unlockable player customization feature is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.callofduty7-blackops.com\/2010\/11\/high-quality-screenshots-of-every-face.html\" target=\"_blank\">face paint<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mightyrobot.com\/loadingreadyrun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/blackopsfacepaintmantis.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"blackopsfacepaintmantis\" width=\"480\" height=\"311\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mightyrobot.com\/loadingreadyrun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/blackopsfacepaintmantis.png 480w, https:\/\/www.mightyrobot.com\/loadingreadyrun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/blackopsfacepaintmantis-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For a nominal fee, you can look like Dutch from <em>Predator<\/em>, an NFL linebacker, or something else that you and only you will care about, but ironically will never actually see (unless it&#8217;s on the killcam, but to want that is just plain masochistic). Regardless, unlocking features in the game is inevitable: you play, you gain XP, you level up. <\/p>\n<p>Upon reaching level 31, I returned to the game lobby and was greeted with the following message: <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mightyrobot.com\/loadingreadyrun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/blackopsfacepaintunlock.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"blackopsfacepaintunlock\" width=\"480\" height=\"268\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mightyrobot.com\/loadingreadyrun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/blackopsfacepaintunlock.png 480w, https:\/\/www.mightyrobot.com\/loadingreadyrun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/blackopsfacepaintunlock-300x167.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Uh, it&#8217;s a <em>loadout<\/em>, and not your <em>load<\/em> out, right? Waaaaaat! Somebody set us up the closed compound word!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call of Duty: Black Ops expanded its Create-a-Class feature by letting players customize the appearance of their righteous souljah classes. It&#8217;s a stealthy way of combining A) playing with guns with B) playing with dolls. But if you don&#8217;t ask, they won&#8217;t tell. One unlockable player customization feature is face paint: For a nominal fee, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyrobot.com\/loadingreadyrun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyrobot.com\/loadingreadyrun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyrobot.com\/loadingreadyrun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyrobot.com\/loadingreadyrun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyrobot.com\/loadingreadyrun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyrobot.com\/loadingreadyrun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyrobot.com\/loadingreadyrun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyrobot.com\/loadingreadyrun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyrobot.com\/loadingreadyrun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}