Quick and Dirty
I think that's what I should start calling my Friday's...but it was really meant to describe this post. I've already wasted enough time in the last two days. I want to get some more of my World Religions book read before my 2:00 class. -_-
I don't have time to give that detailed description of my birthday. I guess I could just blab about last night. It was a definite waste of time...but that shouldn't upset me as much as it does. This semester has put me into the mindset where if I'm not doing work...I'm questioning "What else could I be doing to stay above water?".
Just off the top of my head...there are two exams next week, a book report, and a lab write up due. That's all on top of regular assignments of course. We haven't done much for Senior Design in the last week or so...
Things just won't stop looking shitty on the school front.
As for last night I really did have some fun. I was over there from about 4-12. Eight hours of free time is almost unheard of if it’s not Friday or Saturday. We started off playing Magic. The last week before we came back to school I got a box of Betrayers and Saviors as an "early b-day present". In other words I got on e-bay and bought the boxes relatively cheap with the parents’ credit card. I remember the days when other people bought my b-day presents...
Magic has experienced a slight comeback again this semester. In the spring all things nerd gave way to WoW. They still do in some respect...but not as often thankfully. Anyway...we played until Brett came running in saying he finished DLing Advent Children. At that point we threw the Magic cards to the side and proceeded to watch what had to be the coolest animated movie ever. If you've played FFVII...or even _heard_ of it...you owe it to yourself to watch that movie. There were a couple things I had problems with. Really though...I think I'll get over them.
It was 8:00 at that point and I figured I would go home. We spent a good 30min babbling about different FF games...and it ended with Ron loading up his FFX save file to show us the toughest boss ever invented. It was quite retarded...and anyone that took the time to beat that thing needs to be shot (including Ron).
I was denied my chance to leave though when we convinced Ron to stop masturbating with his maxed out characters and SCII was put in. I've been kicking some serious ass in that game lately...and that isn't necessarily a good thing. You see...Ron has an ego problem. It doesn't just pertain to SCII...but rather every competitive activity known to man. He just doesn't like to lose consistently at anything. Two years ago Ron had never touched a Soul Calibur game. The first match I ever played against him I gave him infinite life...and I won the match by managing to ring him out three times in a row. Ever since then he's taken each defeat as a cue to crack out on the game for hours on end.
He's very good at the game now...and is convinced he's better than everyone else. I subtly try to deny this by going on 8-10 win streaks and the like every time we sit down to play. Granted I don't like toot my own horn very often...but damit I'm really good! >_> It also bothers me that Brett has told me Ron talks down my victories when I’m not around. Is that really necessary?!
Losing always prompts his transformation in to what we call "Gay Ron". GR is the name for the particular play style he likes to adopt when he's lost too much in one sitting. He slows way down...defends attacks until he can parry something, grabs whenever he can, and basically abuses every "cheap" move in the game. Now all this is "legal" of course. Moves I think are cheap are ones that have high priority for interrupting stuff. These are also moves that force you to block them over and over while painstakingly looking for an opening...which of course is near impossible because high priority moves have almost zero recovery time. -_- Blah...game lingo. He forces you to fight at his pace and (in my case) frustrates you to the point where you get sick of waiting. This causes you to die by being too aggressive. It's an awesome strategy to win...but it sucks every last bit of fun out of the game. It removes the prospect of chance and turns it into a game of numbers (where Ron always winds up).
Ron loves to have an absolute victory condition, he's a stat whore, and he won't rest until you admit he's #1.
Blah again...I didn't mean to ramble on so long. Maybe this is why I stopped writing journal entries. -_- We finished up the night by watching the two newest episodes of Naruto...which thanks to the manga...have been a complete waste of time. I'm sure some people are happy that Hinata is now somewhat useful...but yea. Let's just say I'm excited that Lee is going to be in the next few episodes.
I guess that about does it for me. I'm going to go read for a while. I'm sure the guys are going to go on their Molten Core run as usual...so I'm going to have to find something to do. There's always the movies...or some anime I haven't watched yet...or even RPing. Sadly those are all things I'd probably have to do by myself...and I've had the urge to be social lately. Guess I'll just see what happens...
I don't have time to give that detailed description of my birthday. I guess I could just blab about last night. It was a definite waste of time...but that shouldn't upset me as much as it does. This semester has put me into the mindset where if I'm not doing work...I'm questioning "What else could I be doing to stay above water?".
Just off the top of my head...there are two exams next week, a book report, and a lab write up due. That's all on top of regular assignments of course. We haven't done much for Senior Design in the last week or so...
Things just won't stop looking shitty on the school front.
As for last night I really did have some fun. I was over there from about 4-12. Eight hours of free time is almost unheard of if it’s not Friday or Saturday. We started off playing Magic. The last week before we came back to school I got a box of Betrayers and Saviors as an "early b-day present". In other words I got on e-bay and bought the boxes relatively cheap with the parents’ credit card. I remember the days when other people bought my b-day presents...
Magic has experienced a slight comeback again this semester. In the spring all things nerd gave way to WoW. They still do in some respect...but not as often thankfully. Anyway...we played until Brett came running in saying he finished DLing Advent Children. At that point we threw the Magic cards to the side and proceeded to watch what had to be the coolest animated movie ever. If you've played FFVII...or even _heard_ of it...you owe it to yourself to watch that movie. There were a couple things I had problems with. Really though...I think I'll get over them.
It was 8:00 at that point and I figured I would go home. We spent a good 30min babbling about different FF games...and it ended with Ron loading up his FFX save file to show us the toughest boss ever invented. It was quite retarded...and anyone that took the time to beat that thing needs to be shot (including Ron).
I was denied my chance to leave though when we convinced Ron to stop masturbating with his maxed out characters and SCII was put in. I've been kicking some serious ass in that game lately...and that isn't necessarily a good thing. You see...Ron has an ego problem. It doesn't just pertain to SCII...but rather every competitive activity known to man. He just doesn't like to lose consistently at anything. Two years ago Ron had never touched a Soul Calibur game. The first match I ever played against him I gave him infinite life...and I won the match by managing to ring him out three times in a row. Ever since then he's taken each defeat as a cue to crack out on the game for hours on end.
He's very good at the game now...and is convinced he's better than everyone else. I subtly try to deny this by going on 8-10 win streaks and the like every time we sit down to play. Granted I don't like toot my own horn very often...but damit I'm really good! >_> It also bothers me that Brett has told me Ron talks down my victories when I’m not around. Is that really necessary?!
Losing always prompts his transformation in to what we call "Gay Ron". GR is the name for the particular play style he likes to adopt when he's lost too much in one sitting. He slows way down...defends attacks until he can parry something, grabs whenever he can, and basically abuses every "cheap" move in the game. Now all this is "legal" of course. Moves I think are cheap are ones that have high priority for interrupting stuff. These are also moves that force you to block them over and over while painstakingly looking for an opening...which of course is near impossible because high priority moves have almost zero recovery time. -_- Blah...game lingo. He forces you to fight at his pace and (in my case) frustrates you to the point where you get sick of waiting. This causes you to die by being too aggressive. It's an awesome strategy to win...but it sucks every last bit of fun out of the game. It removes the prospect of chance and turns it into a game of numbers (where Ron always winds up).
Ron loves to have an absolute victory condition, he's a stat whore, and he won't rest until you admit he's #1.
Blah again...I didn't mean to ramble on so long. Maybe this is why I stopped writing journal entries. -_- We finished up the night by watching the two newest episodes of Naruto...which thanks to the manga...have been a complete waste of time. I'm sure some people are happy that Hinata is now somewhat useful...but yea. Let's just say I'm excited that Lee is going to be in the next few episodes.
I guess that about does it for me. I'm going to go read for a while. I'm sure the guys are going to go on their Molten Core run as usual...so I'm going to have to find something to do. There's always the movies...or some anime I haven't watched yet...or even RPing. Sadly those are all things I'd probably have to do by myself...and I've had the urge to be social lately. Guess I'll just see what happens...