Random Black-Ops Thought: Compound Noun Hilarity!
Call of Duty: Black Ops expanded its Create-a-Class feature by letting players customize the appearance of their righteous souljah classes. It’s a stealthy way of combining A) playing with guns with B) playing with dolls. But if you don’t ask, they won’t tell.
One unlockable player customization feature is face paint:
For a nominal fee, you can look like Dutch from Predator, an NFL linebacker, or something else that you and only you will care about, but ironically will never actually see (unless it’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.
Upon reaching level 31, I returned to the game lobby and was greeted with the following message:
Uh, it’s a loadout, and not your load out, right? Waaaaaat! Somebody set us up the closed compound word!