How I got into playing Call of Duty

Fast forward to late 2003 into early 2004 and the 1^st time I broke one of my legs.

I had just got Call of Duty for Christmas on my PS2… I couldn’t get enough of it. I wished I could just sit at home and play it all day. Well, my wish was granted. Long story short, in January of ’04 I broke my leg and I was laid up for 3 months… and, I got to play a lot of Call of Duty.

I’ve casually played most of the COD titles on the PS2, PS3 and now PS4.

How I got really good at playing Call of Duty

Fast forward to January 1st, 2014… I broke my other leg, really bad…by looking awesome on a feature snowboarding but didn’t quite stick the landing. So that allowed me to sit on the couch with my right leg in the air for 7 months.

I played a ton of COD during that time, like, many hours each day. And that’s when I started to get really good at COD.

During that time, I taught both of my daughters how to play COD on my account. They were 4 and 5 when I broke my leg the 2nd time. I had them all over Team Deathmatch running around shooting butterflies, walls, fences… racking up 0 kills and 30 deaths. It was all in good fun and still is.

Actually, my youngest daughter, to this day, loves riding the motorcycle in Warzone like it’s an offroad championship until she gets shot off the bike then, 97 out of 100 times, she’ll die in the Gulag. She’ll play 20 games in a row not caring at all that she just died 40 times without a single kill. And that’s okay.

My goal with my COD account from the get-go was to have fun. With me having my girls start playing COD at a very young age, it wasn’t about winning… it was about them having fun and developing better hand/ eye coordination. And that goal still hasn’t changed.

The best idea ever

Fast forward to November 2020. I get the idea that, because there are many video gamers who are millionaires from just playing games, I can do the same thing. Then I got Covid.

So, while laying on the couch super sick, I started cooking up a plan to make money playing video games, but I had to get over Covid 1st. Then, within days of getting over Covid… I broke my right arm the 2nd week of January 2021 (snowboarding of course), so had to wait approximately 3 more months to be able to even attempt to play video games again.

And due to my radius and scaphoid both being broken and numbing through the tip of my thumb, my thumb was “spiked” in the cast for that 3 months. That means the cast went to the tip of my thumb and I had no motion with my thumb.

Late March ’21, I picked up a controller again for the very 1st time and wow, I sucked. I had numbness on the tip of my thumb, no reflexes to speak of and no dexterity at all. It wasn’t until around June that I started to feel comfortable playing Call of Duty again.

Most of the numbness finally went away around Christmas 2021.

Though the numbness is gone, my right thumb will still slip every once in a while, like my thumb just kind of gives out. The Dr. said my nerves will repair themselves and it just takes time. So if you ever see my aim go all over the place out of the blue… that’s what’s up. All I can do is laugh about it.

And side note: remember when you’re snowboarding to “make a fist to save a wrist” when you fall.

The Hammer Incident

Well… I’m not a carpenter. God and Jesus have made that quite clear as the last time I used a hammer I hit my left index finger with it. It was bad, I saw my bone and the joint of my knuckle. This happened in June of 2022. This combined with me breaking my arm and still having a slight bit of numbness in my left arm has made my reflexes as slow as a snail. I’ll probably never game as good as I once did… and that’s okay.

I’m getting ready to put out some cool content that still includes me gaming and will have other content as the prime focus. I look forward to entertaining you.

Regardless of why you’re reading this, thank you for taking your time to do so. Time is our most valuable commodity and I truly appreciate you spending yours with me. Have an amazingly awesome day!!!

– Brian