-I hate people that make ya feel small-

Been playing some more of the Orange Box, hoping to get some more achievements. Alas, I forgot that I had loaded the dreaded Gnome profile. I'm stuck at a part right after you meet a Combine Advisor and kill some Hunters. After trying vainly to keep the Gnome in the car(I guess the Gnome is from another dimension, it just phases through). I resolve to shooting the Gnome as high and as far as I can, hoping that I can somehow send the God-Forsaken thing into the tunnel I need to reach. My hopes dashed, I resolve to drive Alyx(who named her?!) close to the Gnome, then dashing out of the semi-solid hot rod and punting the Gnome into the distance. Sprinting back to the car under helicopter fire and losing all my health, blinded by gunfire and wounded by bombs, I leap into the car and hit the gas. Punishing the pavement I go, only to find the Gnome blown away and over a fence by the Hell-I-Copter(see, it's a pun.) When I retrieve the plastic devil, I start the hellacious cycle all over again. Hours later, I reach the tunnel, only to be struck down by the Hell-I-Copters hollow points. Feeling my heart go and seeing blood in my eyes makes me want that 30 something points all the more. Oh, to hear that bloop-bloop, to see that wonderful gray and green panel open up, and take me through the whole in the window caused by a wayward controller, to fly me gently into the arms of Micro$oft Heaven. Oh, to be loved.

Sorry if that freaked ya out. I get kind of miffed by these things.