Not known on my blog, but known from close friends. I'm a 49ers fan. Always have been. From the 49ers as my top tier, the next two teams just beneath it are the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints. From there, I got teams I like and don't like but it's all depending on the game. And yes, I do like the Raiders, which is bad as an SF fan, but it was long after the battle of the bay took it's toll. The two teams really have no rivalry now, and even Raiders fans like the niners and vice versa (or so I'm told). I don't like Tom Cable coaching them cuz he messed up my alma mater, but that's another story.
So I like the 49ers...who don't I like? The Packers. I hate hate hate hate Packers. Fuck you Packers. beating us in the playoffs every single year with Favre having refs kiss his ass on STUPID calls. The moment SF does it to you (The Catch II) you start bitching and moaning cuz the roles are reversed. Beyond Packers, I hate Brett Favre and the Brett Favre Team (when do the Minnesota Vikings come back?)Beyond that, Cowboys, Patriots and Steelers.
Cowboys is obvious, this "America's team" bullshit is more arrogant than I ever could be. Ditto for the Patriots and the cloud of arrogance and spygate that plague that team. The Steelers? Two reasons: Ben Roethlesburger (sic) and Super Bowl 40.
I may live in Seattle, but I don't really have any Seahawk memorabilia (unless you count the Miller Light Can that has the logo on it) but I cheered for them in Super Bowl 40. That game was crazy ridiculous. While I'm not whining how the Seahawks messed up every single opportunity they had (beyond those terrible calls from the refs) they did get screwed. Look at what the Steelers blatantly got away with compared to the Seahawks. Bullshit. The game was planned from the beginning. Not that it meant anything anyways-the hawks couldn't pull of a play with the gazillion opportunities they had. The two times they did were met with resistance...but they should have had a lot more blown calls.
That and Big Ben is a serial rapist (allegedly)
Ok, I'm rambling. So I hate the Steelers, Brett Favre Team, Cowboys, and the FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU GREENBAYYYYYY PACKERS!
So I am in two fantasy leagues this year. One is a random draft(because the league owner has friends all over the country and getting a scheduled manual draft would be impossible). I finally got a look at my team today...and what does the fucking automated draft leave me with?
Aaron Rodgers
Yeah, thanks a lot asshole. So I start a trade with the guy who has Drew Brees. I offer up Rodgers and a shitty wide receiver from the Brett Favre Team thinking he'd take it...cuz apparently Rodgers is gonna be SO FUCKING GOOD BUT HE SUCKED LAST YEAR DOESNT MATTER CUZ ITS GREENBAY AND RODGERS WILL RULE!!! The choice would be obvious. Instead rejection.
Oh and my wide receiver? Randy Moss. I want no part in cheering the Patriots on...ever. Luckily I got rid of Moss pretty quick, I found Reggie Wayne (who made me mad points last year) and started a trade. Moss may be the better WR, but Wayne is crazy sick when Manning is in his prime.
As for getting rid of Rodgers, well I'm going for Peyton Manning now, maybe they'll trade him up.
Thanks a lot automated draft. Give me players that I want nothing to do cheering for.
I'll give my whole team out soon. My actual draft where I choose stuff (big league) is next week. Hopefully I won't have a packer on my team.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Street Fighter IV made me a noob.
Once in awhile, I bust out Street Fighter IV (or Super SFIV for some of you) and I have a grand ole time. A few of my friends up here play it, I usually dominate with Akuma or uh...Bison, and we have a great time. We simply beat the shit outta each other until one runs out of energy. More often than not, I'm still standing.
But I hate playing Xbox live. I still play it, but I hate it and stop after only a few matches.
Why? Because SFIV isn't fun on Xbox live. SFIV is fun against your buddies. Xbox live takes half the fun out of it-because there's usually a mound of people who only play this, sacrifice social gatherings for this, and beat the living tar out of you for it.
I only play Street Fighter as a diversion. I hold my own most of the time during parties. I don't have a drive to be as good as these guys nor do I care to play the way they do. You're probably wondering why...because most of the players on Xbox live-are cheap. Plain and simple they are cheap. They make the game unfun.
Sacrilege! "Oh no he didn't! He didn't say that!"
Yep, I did. SFIV's cheap players ruin things for me. Apparently, thanks to message boards and dicks that got insanely good at this game, saying "cheap" anywhere near SFIV's refined and flawless gameplay is a no-no. There is a way out of everything, there is a silver bullet to every cheap play-style, every annoying Guile defense...whatever.
Great! You guys spend your entire lives with one game figuring all that shit out. I'm gonna go play something else. Pathetic. Serriously, I just want to play the game and have fun, and I can't because some cheap dick who has "Fledgling Fighter" for a icon is doing annoying Guile shit (I'm not going into it-we all know what I'm talking about). This forces me to scream at the top of my lungs (cuz I hate losing), hit the arms of the couch and then go on tilt punching walls.
"Oh no Pat! You just arn't playing the game enough. There's a way around some of that shit, you just gotta play more. You're just a noob if you're saying SFIV is cheap."
Ok. I'm a noob. I'm a fucking Noob. NOOB IS ME. There, you're right, I am. Which means now I can say-your fucking game is loaded with cheap dicks that exploit it. I don't want to spend an hour figuring out how to time something against Bison perfectly only to have my opponent choose that luchador and do some other cheap move. I don't care enough to. Why can't they just fight without all this crap? Cuz they will lose.
It's funny too, I'll find people who play normal, good patterns, pokes, unpredictable behavior, but once they start losing-they get cheap. See, cuz I'm a noob I have the right to say that, so go fuck yourselves.
See, this higharchy of people learning, "character tiers" advance skills=ridiculous. It's what ruined MVC2. Where is the fun in only two traps you are going to use, that will no doubt confuse someone, unless they can come up with some repetive, annoying, CHEAP tactic to get out of it. What happened to just beating the tar out of it.
"Pat you don't play enough. You don't know what you're talking about"
You're right! I don't play enough, and guess what? I don't intend on playing more. I have too much time to learn all that shit in one game. I've got a book, a paid journalism gig, and a 40 hour week job. I don't want to waste my time learning this crap. I'm never going to play in tournaments. What glory to I get in SFIV besides unwinding every night? None. There is no bragging rights in beating someone on Xbox live.
Who's "Spoogeking083?"
"Oh I beat him last night. He had 10,000 battle points"
"Loser."
Yeah. For those of you who have played the game to the point where you know all these traps. Awesome, you are better than me, because I am forever a noob.
I don't know why people get pissed about that word anyways. Noob. Jesus, it really isn't a word anyways. Somehow people have it in high regards as the N-word when it's said. Get over it. If someone calls you a noob-it only means you've gotten laid, had a better social life, and overall had it much better than the name caller ever will. You are better for being called a noob-your life is that much better when they call you a noob.
Because typically (and I mean typically) the people who call the others noobs are people who salvage gamefaqs, scratch checks for strategy guides, and spend hours outside of their favorite game, as well as IN their favorite game. Calling you a noob only says "I spent my entire life on this and have nothing else to look forward to. You can never get to my level so don't."
Or it just means you really really suck at something and there's no hope for you. In my case-yes, apparently I do suck at SFIV, because I refuse to sit for hours and learn all these traps, salvage faqs on what to do, and basically suck the "unwinding fun" out of the game.
Noob am I. SFIV is loaded with cheap dicks. If you play SFIV and are cheap...STOP DOING IT!
The noobs appreciate it.
But I hate playing Xbox live. I still play it, but I hate it and stop after only a few matches.
Why? Because SFIV isn't fun on Xbox live. SFIV is fun against your buddies. Xbox live takes half the fun out of it-because there's usually a mound of people who only play this, sacrifice social gatherings for this, and beat the living tar out of you for it.
I only play Street Fighter as a diversion. I hold my own most of the time during parties. I don't have a drive to be as good as these guys nor do I care to play the way they do. You're probably wondering why...because most of the players on Xbox live-are cheap. Plain and simple they are cheap. They make the game unfun.
Sacrilege! "Oh no he didn't! He didn't say that!"
Yep, I did. SFIV's cheap players ruin things for me. Apparently, thanks to message boards and dicks that got insanely good at this game, saying "cheap" anywhere near SFIV's refined and flawless gameplay is a no-no. There is a way out of everything, there is a silver bullet to every cheap play-style, every annoying Guile defense...whatever.
Great! You guys spend your entire lives with one game figuring all that shit out. I'm gonna go play something else. Pathetic. Serriously, I just want to play the game and have fun, and I can't because some cheap dick who has "Fledgling Fighter" for a icon is doing annoying Guile shit (I'm not going into it-we all know what I'm talking about). This forces me to scream at the top of my lungs (cuz I hate losing), hit the arms of the couch and then go on tilt punching walls.
"Oh no Pat! You just arn't playing the game enough. There's a way around some of that shit, you just gotta play more. You're just a noob if you're saying SFIV is cheap."
Ok. I'm a noob. I'm a fucking Noob. NOOB IS ME. There, you're right, I am. Which means now I can say-your fucking game is loaded with cheap dicks that exploit it. I don't want to spend an hour figuring out how to time something against Bison perfectly only to have my opponent choose that luchador and do some other cheap move. I don't care enough to. Why can't they just fight without all this crap? Cuz they will lose.
It's funny too, I'll find people who play normal, good patterns, pokes, unpredictable behavior, but once they start losing-they get cheap. See, cuz I'm a noob I have the right to say that, so go fuck yourselves.
See, this higharchy of people learning, "character tiers" advance skills=ridiculous. It's what ruined MVC2. Where is the fun in only two traps you are going to use, that will no doubt confuse someone, unless they can come up with some repetive, annoying, CHEAP tactic to get out of it. What happened to just beating the tar out of it.
"Pat you don't play enough. You don't know what you're talking about"
You're right! I don't play enough, and guess what? I don't intend on playing more. I have too much time to learn all that shit in one game. I've got a book, a paid journalism gig, and a 40 hour week job. I don't want to waste my time learning this crap. I'm never going to play in tournaments. What glory to I get in SFIV besides unwinding every night? None. There is no bragging rights in beating someone on Xbox live.
Who's "Spoogeking083?"
"Oh I beat him last night. He had 10,000 battle points"
"Loser."
Yeah. For those of you who have played the game to the point where you know all these traps. Awesome, you are better than me, because I am forever a noob.
I don't know why people get pissed about that word anyways. Noob. Jesus, it really isn't a word anyways. Somehow people have it in high regards as the N-word when it's said. Get over it. If someone calls you a noob-it only means you've gotten laid, had a better social life, and overall had it much better than the name caller ever will. You are better for being called a noob-your life is that much better when they call you a noob.
Because typically (and I mean typically) the people who call the others noobs are people who salvage gamefaqs, scratch checks for strategy guides, and spend hours outside of their favorite game, as well as IN their favorite game. Calling you a noob only says "I spent my entire life on this and have nothing else to look forward to. You can never get to my level so don't."
Or it just means you really really suck at something and there's no hope for you. In my case-yes, apparently I do suck at SFIV, because I refuse to sit for hours and learn all these traps, salvage faqs on what to do, and basically suck the "unwinding fun" out of the game.
Noob am I. SFIV is loaded with cheap dicks. If you play SFIV and are cheap...STOP DOING IT!
The noobs appreciate it.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
There are the those with skill, and then there's this
Now, I'm not usually the guy that rubs other writers, I just don't do it. If I give the rub, they have to have done something, seen something, or commented on something that makes me want to give them the rub.
Most never do, so I never mention them in my blog. Nothing against them, I just don't do it.
http://http://www.gamesradar.com/wii/super-mario-world-virtual-console/news/insane-super-mario-world-glitch-video-helps-explain-advanced-exploits/a-20100819163329282048/g-20070228102225721044
Not the case here, Michael Grimm stumbled on what quite possibly is the most insane video I've ever seen of Super Mario World. Someone takes the fat plumber, a map editor and makes a level so hard, I wouldn't be able to take one step before I died.
This video shows a guy whose name I don't know, and probably don't care to. This guy makes a level totally dependent on glitches. You have to know how to use Mario World's glitches to survive, this includes grabbing Yoshi and jumping on/off him to get out of lava before he sinks, using the wall to grapple up to a platform, and fighting Big Boo with only moving koopa shells as the means of "floor that won't kill you when you step on it."
Un-friggen-believable. There is no way I could ever do this. I thought i was good at Mario when I beat the Star Road. I thought I was good, when I discovered "Top Secret Area." I thought I was good, until I saw this and realised that I am nothing but a peon.
Good find Mike. There is something though that makes me feel better about this. To begin, I would never even attempt mastery of such magnitude on my own time. This game is nearly two decades old, and at this point simply not worth it. I also know that there are even bigger losers than people who play WoW. I'm not kidding. The time it would take to pull what this guy pulls off, would take far more than jacking up all character classes to level 80. Not only is this guy playing a game that is past it's prime, as far as current generations go, he's also playing it to the point where it's unhealthy.
Damn, I thought beating Super Mario Bros 3 in nine minutes was an accomplishment. That compared to this, is level 1 of the original Mario. That's how simple that is to this.
Hats off to you unknown player. Mike and I can continue to realise our lives are good since yours apparently was sacrificed for nine minutes of pure awesomeness.
Most never do, so I never mention them in my blog. Nothing against them, I just don't do it.
http://http://www.gamesradar.com/wii/super-mario-world-virtual-console/news/insane-super-mario-world-glitch-video-helps-explain-advanced-exploits/a-20100819163329282048/g-20070228102225721044
Not the case here, Michael Grimm stumbled on what quite possibly is the most insane video I've ever seen of Super Mario World. Someone takes the fat plumber, a map editor and makes a level so hard, I wouldn't be able to take one step before I died.
This video shows a guy whose name I don't know, and probably don't care to. This guy makes a level totally dependent on glitches. You have to know how to use Mario World's glitches to survive, this includes grabbing Yoshi and jumping on/off him to get out of lava before he sinks, using the wall to grapple up to a platform, and fighting Big Boo with only moving koopa shells as the means of "floor that won't kill you when you step on it."
Un-friggen-believable. There is no way I could ever do this. I thought i was good at Mario when I beat the Star Road. I thought I was good, when I discovered "Top Secret Area." I thought I was good, until I saw this and realised that I am nothing but a peon.
Good find Mike. There is something though that makes me feel better about this. To begin, I would never even attempt mastery of such magnitude on my own time. This game is nearly two decades old, and at this point simply not worth it. I also know that there are even bigger losers than people who play WoW. I'm not kidding. The time it would take to pull what this guy pulls off, would take far more than jacking up all character classes to level 80. Not only is this guy playing a game that is past it's prime, as far as current generations go, he's also playing it to the point where it's unhealthy.
Damn, I thought beating Super Mario Bros 3 in nine minutes was an accomplishment. That compared to this, is level 1 of the original Mario. That's how simple that is to this.
Hats off to you unknown player. Mike and I can continue to realise our lives are good since yours apparently was sacrificed for nine minutes of pure awesomeness.
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