Wow. I can imagine how your ears felt.

It's not so much the .50 that does obvious things to my ears as when I get on the minigun in the Marka Breakdown mission... I always wear earplugs for that one. Apparently it feels really weird upstairs, since that one is such a fast vibration in the floor. Sadly, I can't experience any of this, as I am the only one in my family who will touch a first-person shooter. =l

You must expand your horizons, then.

Try Mass Effect.

Can't until this December. I turn seventeen then, and my parents will allow M-rated games (finally).