Man, people here are wonderful AND helpful! 

I say be awkward and own it. That's what I do. 

People are far too entitled these days. Nobody has the right to call someone's home and threaten their family and FURTHERMORE nobody should ever have to walk into a white collar desk job and fear for their lives or the lives of their loved ones. I understand that "it happens", but that doesn't make it any more or less excuseable. I mean seriously. Who the hell buys a game and thinks, "I like this game!" then buys the sequel and says, "this game sucks compared to the first! I'm gonna kill the family of whoever made this!"? 

depends on which one is more important to you. There's always going to be the give and take, and you won't always be able to do some things that you want to do; whether that be watching a shitty move, going to a cher concert, or passing on your cocaine infused violent orgies. I wouldn't date someone that needed me to stop drinking, but I would quit smoking to date someone I was really interested in. Also, I would never quit video games, anyone who asks you to do that is a communist. 

I think it's funny when people compare suicide victims to themselves. To me that's like saying, "that paranoid-schizophrenic thought his dog was a quiche! lolz, doesn't he know what quiches look like?". There are people out there that are wired differently than you, and create unliveable situations out of things that YOU might consider benign. I've known 2 people in the past that have commited suicide; one of them was weird, confused, frightening, and neurotic, the other was introspective, but otherwise outwardly normal. Given myself in either of their situations (neither of them really had it bad in my eyes), I'd just say f*** it and move on, but they were different people than I am, and they had their own screwy way of handling the situation. 

The problem with the internet in all of this is that you have people who are depressed, or in a very different place mentally from the rest of us, and you let them loose with an internet full of trolls and angry people where all of these horrible people have a voice that they otherwise wouldn't have. If you're looking at these people, thinking 'well, I wouldn't have done that at all!', and that's your rationale for not feeling bad for them, then I truly, and completely worry for you. 

Do bro's count? I feel that bro's are responsible for all the wars in the world. 

I think it's very hard to discredit CoD for being what it is. It's not a bad game in particular, it just caters to its fans in a way that's profitable. To me, the CoD franchise is a lot like many of the fighting game franchises out there. There's a reason you have several versions of Street Fighter 2; partly because you want to make the game more viable through balancing and inclusion of new systems, and also because you know the whole community will have/want to upgrade.

I remember when CoD:MW came out. The last CoD game before that wasn't all that good, and it was the jump from WWII to a more modern setting, everyone was SUPER excited about it, and for good reason. The game was GOOD and a pretty decent step up in terms of its casual, but intense multiplayer. Saying that CoD:BO2 is bad because it doesn't change enough is kind of trite. If you're taking a game that is good, and you're updating it graphically, and adding new maps, you're not making the game WORSE. 

The problem I think a lot of people have with CoD is that A) it's a money grab (which is a smart, smart move on the part of the company) and B) Everyone and their mother plays it. The game isn't bad. It's a bit stale, but not bad.