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Last night during one of our COD4 Xbox Live pwning sessions, Tyler and I came across a group of gentlemen all of whom carried the clan tag [IW]. Tyler first joked that it might have been a team of developers from Infinity Ward, the company that created Call of Duty 4 (and 1 and 2). But after getting thoroughly spanked by them, and listening to their  conversations in the pregame lobby, we looked at their bios and it tuned out that they were in fact IW developers.

 We played a couple Ground War Team Deathmatches with them, but because they were a large group, we were always on the other team. We got the chance to chat and joke around with them a little bit, and they made me completely jealous. Not because of anything specific, but because they seemed like they are doing exactly what they want to do in life, and are now enjoying the benefits of their labor.  They were good, too. Every match was just air strike after helicopter after air strike after two more helicopters. If it wasn’t them we were playing against, and just some random schmoes, it wouldn’t have been fun at all. But when we did kill one of them, there was a definite sense of satisfaction in knowing that, just for a second, we beat them at their own game.