Well, not quite. My parents' breakup is still on-going. My mum is still unreluctant to leave me here with my dad and brother.
I've told my mum to hurry up and leave- don't get me wrong, I'm not being hostile. The tensions and awkward atmosphere between my mum and dad is grating right now, and she gets a lot of stick from my brother and dad (my brother still blanks her and only criticises her).
I supppose one could question why she is the one expected to leave. Afterall, she is the only one in the house with a freakin' job! Dad quit his job to try save his marriage or something, so now my mum has been working overtime to try support the family.
She undoubtably feels a moral obligation to leave because she was the one who had the affair; the deciding factor. I'd, however, beg to differ- it was dad who said he didn't want to be with mum anymore (although since then he has reconciled his position and it is mum's decision not to stay married to him). The biggest factor in my eyes is that she is the one with the job. If she is providing entirely for the family, why is it not her that keeps the house?
Right now she deserves it.
Not to mention I'd probably rather stay living with my mum (lesser of two evils of course ¬_¬) since my dad's cooking makes me want to throw up and he has a tendancy to 'clean up' (read: throw things away).
Recently my dad wrecked my entire life-time's worth of games by putting everything (N64 catridge, PC CD, gamecube disc) in a big bag and putting them in the camper van over winter. Now every single box is covered in dents and cracks where the boxes jostled eachother, and every manual and paper covering is distorted from dampness.
That was a little off-topic. =p I guess I still haven't forgiven him.
But yeah. To be honest I'd rather my parents kicked me out. That way I could focus on dying rather than spending every day sleeping, getting up, thinking about sleep, sleeping...
By far the most interesting thing I've done recently was 'help' DeathAwaitsU's social life. The term 'help' being used loosely, of course.
If only I wasn't such a brilliantly social and popular person...
I suppose you could tell me to get up and go do something interesting. I would if I could summon the interest and strength to do it. I SHOULD be working on these flash games for a competition (good amount of price money too), but just can't bring myself to want to do it.
Going to see Ema on the 3rd of June. Maybe that will fix things. I've been relatively distracted by various things so I haven't been spending every waking minute thinking about her (instead, only about 99% of my time is spent thinking about her ¬_¬). Been playing Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri a bit... tried playing a massive map (250 by 250) but it got boring; I actually much rather prefer playing on the small map. The conflict and democracy is great!
Now if I only had human players to play against... *cough* that means you, Theodis, Jon88, Mertek, Thorg and so on... *cough*.
I need a new gamecube game. I've also lost The Twin Snakes... I think my dad has put it somewhere.
The other day I practised a good deal on Soul Calibur 2 for the Gamecube. Ema always beats me... in fact, everyone always beats me. As my friend Ben said: "Will, you can't beat anything that isn't fundamentally a machine". Once at Ema's house I played Ben 30 matches of Soul Calibur and lost every single one. I won the 31st game and by that time it was very late at night and we had to go home!
Even my mum beats me. I spend hours learning every combo- I normally play as Knightmare, Link, Cervantes or Taki, but I've also been mastering Mitsuguri and Ivy (who is a VERY powerful character in skilled hands)- but I still lose.
Hopefully when I go up to see Ema I will take my Gamecube and beat her. =)
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Ouch. That sucks. My fav. GCN game is Mario Kart DD. =]
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I am now giving you your purpose in life. Get better at Soul Caliber II. Ivy is a very good character, and deserves more attention. Stop playing against those computer characters, the more you 'practice' on them, the worse you become against human players.
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Really? Is that true? (about the human-computer practise thing).
Oh, and yeah- Ivy totally dominates (literally =|) at mid + long range (and her throws are enough to persuade anyone from getting too close). |
You know what you need to play...Pokemon Stadium. Just sit down with pop corn and listen to the jolly words "Gotta catch em all, POKEMON!!"
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I suppose you could tell me to get up and go do something interesting. I would if I could summon the interest and strength to do it Your local library is fun and free! Visit your local library today. |
Fire Dynasty: IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE!
Gughunter: I used to spend my time in the library when skiving lessons. =p Vexonater: Noo! Ema *always* uses Raphael with the Queens Guard. I swear he's overpowered. =( Artekia: Talim's a babe and can be very powerful, but she mostly sucks. =p |
Really? Is that true? (about the human-computer practise thing).
Well, there are certain moves that can be abused against the comp., but not against a person. For example, you can nearly always kill the comp. by using over and over again Nightmare's forward-forward-vertical combo (the one where Nightmare slashes downwards, knocking the enemey down, and then sidesteps). A human player would eventually figure out that he can just sidestep to avoid Nightmare's attack, but the computer never seems to. |
=P I have more honour and self-respect than to cheap an AI into submission... I leave the cheap moves for beating the humans (kidding. Although once I just smacked Ema to hell with Knightmare using a similar move).
I think the reason why I get beaten by the human players is because they suck. The people I play against do pointlessly random moves, never guard-parry or sidestep, never use any real tactics. And that's what catches me out. =p I'm always aware of moves that the AI will pull on me that the rubbishness of the human players gets the better of me. =( |
"Theodis, Jon88, Mertek, Thorg and so on... *cough*."
And Vortezz! Elation, if I ever come to Britain, we are going to hang out and play Gamecube, kay? I got Metroid Prime and Mario Sunshine (I couldn't pick between the two :\) and have been playing Sunshine pretty obsessively. I played Prime a little bit but was overwhelmed by the interface (no freelook with the C-stick? :() but I will get into it once I tire of Sunshine. I'm going to Ottawa 'til next Monday and I am going to miss two things: Torre and Mario. Blee! Later bud <3 |
Personaly I actualy find Human players easier to beat than computer players, unfortunately the old button bash still works against human players, and I'll use it.
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Vortezz said:
Elation, if I ever come to Britain, we are going to hang out and play Gamecube, kay? Sure thing. =) Metroid Prime has an odd method of controlling but you get used to it relatively quickly. Once you're over that you'll love it! See you, homie. =p Acebloke: you make talim =( now |