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Gamer's guilt got thrown to the skags as I knocked off another full day of Borderlands this Sunday. Details to follow. 

Mark and I finished the General Knoxx DLC, or rather we finally got tired of driving those long highways. We left two missions unfinished. One was the mission to beat Crawmerax. This is one impossible land crab. It's always about four levels above the highest level player, so you have to come up with some serious strategy. Mark and I, at level 45 each, couldn't dent it and got killed almost immediately. It's likely you need certain types of equipment and possibly four players. We tried to bring in a Japanese friend of ours, Blackfeather0, but apparently the Japanese version of the game isn't compatible with the N.A. one, so we left it open for randoms, but no one showed up. We didn't try it for very long though. The other undone mission was the last one for Marcus. For some reason, the General Knoxx boss wouldn't respawn. We couldn't figure out why, so we just moved on to the last DLC, Claptrap's Robot Revolution. 

This DLC is a lot of fun. We first switched to Playthrough 2. This is like a difficulty level - everything gets harder. You have to replay a few missions at the begining of the main campaign before you find a teleporter to take you to the DLC areas. We did that and started Claptrap's Robot Revolution. We managed to finish the main quest just as the night ended. I unlocked a bunch of achievements, one for every boss. I think I didn't actually play this DLC the first time around. I remember getting frustrated with the game after the second DLC, Moxxi's Underdome, and then just watched Mark finish the rest. This time, I hosted, so got credit for finishing the missions. 

Tomorrow, Mark and I will play some more. I want to finish all the side missions in Claptrap's Revolution and then play Moxxi's Underdome. There are several achievements tied to both that I can get, mostly collectibles and some special missions. I probably won't get all the achievements in this game unless I can figure out a way to beat Crawmerax in the General Knoxx DLC. There are two achievements attached to that. 

We'll, that's a day. Aren't Borderlands characters delightfully perverse? I'm developing a thing for Tanis, the female mad scientist, but she'd probably put my brain in a jar and attach me to a Skag or a giant robot. Oh well, my lover's lament would make a wonderful poem that would fit perfectly into an additional piece of Borderlands DLC.