Yesterday was a good day!
(I'm typing this up for the second time because the first time I tried it my computer crashed.)
Things I did yesterday:
- went shopping with a friend
- got a Costco card
- got a haircut [1]
- browsed Gamestop
- bought a new multiplayer game
- played SSBM with friends
- got beaten in SSBM [2]
- watched a few games of Magic: The Gathering [3]
- discovered new aspects of a dorm mate [4]
[1] I don't like my hair, and it's nice to not need to pull it back to wash my face, destroy brushes, and look like Napoleon Dynamite.
[2] I'm good at Melee. I'm the best among my group of friends up in Humboldt, except for maybe Pat. I like a challenge, and I don't often get one. Since I've been down here I've met two people who put up a good fight, and this guy tonight beat me handily. We played 3 matches, 5 lives each. The first match, I got him down to 3 lives left. The second match, 2 left. The third, 3 left again. Now just meeting somebody that can beat me would be fun, but he also said I was the best challenge he'd had in 3 years. That made my day. Well, it would have. There were several things yesterday that made my day. It was an overly-made day. He's a friend of a dorm mate, so hopefully he'll be back sometime. I asked if he lived on campus, and he doesn't. If he had I would've gotten his building/room number.
[3] I know enough about Magic to appreciate the clever uses of cards, the tricky moves, and the intense battles. I don't want to play it myself, but watching is fun. For example, there's a card that can be tapped to turn target creature into a 0/2 (0 attack, 2 defense) until the end of the round, and there's a card that can be tapped to switch a target creature's attack and defense. If you use them in that order, it becomes a 0/2, then a 2/0, and since it has no defense (life), it dies instantly. Mike used this on one of Alex's cards that was enchanted with +2/+2, but because it was enchanted, it became a 2/4 (instead of 0/2) and then a 4/2 (instead of a 2/0 and dying). Mike was like, damn, enchantments shouldn't still work. Later that game he tried again:
Mike: "I tap this and this. That's now dead." (he pointed to a creature that wasn't enchanted)
Alex: "In response to your first move, I use this card's ability to sacrifice a creature to give this +1/+1."
Mike: "Fuck!"
So basically, Mike tapped the first card to make Alex's creature a 0/2. In response to that, Alex used one of his card's abilities to sacrifice a weak creature he didn't care about to give it +1/+1, making it a 1/3. Then Mike's second tap happened and it became 3/1. It lived!
[4] I've got 5 dorm mates: Alex, Matthew, Nick, Cortland, and Jun. Alex is pretty good at SSBM, and he's willing to play it pretty often (unlike a lot of people). We play other stuff too, like Timesplitters. We're both in the Anime Club - for me it's more of a passing interest, for him it's a passion. We're both into D&D too. Last night (well, this morning, until 5am or so) I learned he's into simple action-based games, like me. A friend of mine (hi Lee) gave me Armadillo Run awhile ago. Think The Incredible Machine with more physics and less objects. It seems like a pretty obscure game - I'd certainly never heard of it before he gave it to me. Anyway, I played it a bit, and then got bored and moved onto something else. Last night/this morning I learned that Alex plays it too, and he's really into it. He's made levels and everything. I had some fun beating his levels in ways he didn't expect. I like working within the rules of the system to do things differently. I like games with physics engines, because they can always be made to do things they shouldn't.
Things I did yesterday:
- went shopping with a friend
- got a Costco card
- got a haircut [1]
- browsed Gamestop
- bought a new multiplayer game
- played SSBM with friends
- got beaten in SSBM [2]
- watched a few games of Magic: The Gathering [3]
- discovered new aspects of a dorm mate [4]
[1] I don't like my hair, and it's nice to not need to pull it back to wash my face, destroy brushes, and look like Napoleon Dynamite.
[2] I'm good at Melee. I'm the best among my group of friends up in Humboldt, except for maybe Pat. I like a challenge, and I don't often get one. Since I've been down here I've met two people who put up a good fight, and this guy tonight beat me handily. We played 3 matches, 5 lives each. The first match, I got him down to 3 lives left. The second match, 2 left. The third, 3 left again. Now just meeting somebody that can beat me would be fun, but he also said I was the best challenge he'd had in 3 years. That made my day. Well, it would have. There were several things yesterday that made my day. It was an overly-made day. He's a friend of a dorm mate, so hopefully he'll be back sometime. I asked if he lived on campus, and he doesn't. If he had I would've gotten his building/room number.
[3] I know enough about Magic to appreciate the clever uses of cards, the tricky moves, and the intense battles. I don't want to play it myself, but watching is fun. For example, there's a card that can be tapped to turn target creature into a 0/2 (0 attack, 2 defense) until the end of the round, and there's a card that can be tapped to switch a target creature's attack and defense. If you use them in that order, it becomes a 0/2, then a 2/0, and since it has no defense (life), it dies instantly. Mike used this on one of Alex's cards that was enchanted with +2/+2, but because it was enchanted, it became a 2/4 (instead of 0/2) and then a 4/2 (instead of a 2/0 and dying). Mike was like, damn, enchantments shouldn't still work. Later that game he tried again:
Mike: "I tap this and this. That's now dead." (he pointed to a creature that wasn't enchanted)
Alex: "In response to your first move, I use this card's ability to sacrifice a creature to give this +1/+1."
Mike: "Fuck!"
So basically, Mike tapped the first card to make Alex's creature a 0/2. In response to that, Alex used one of his card's abilities to sacrifice a weak creature he didn't care about to give it +1/+1, making it a 1/3. Then Mike's second tap happened and it became 3/1. It lived!
[4] I've got 5 dorm mates: Alex, Matthew, Nick, Cortland, and Jun. Alex is pretty good at SSBM, and he's willing to play it pretty often (unlike a lot of people). We play other stuff too, like Timesplitters. We're both in the Anime Club - for me it's more of a passing interest, for him it's a passion. We're both into D&D too. Last night (well, this morning, until 5am or so) I learned he's into simple action-based games, like me. A friend of mine (hi Lee) gave me Armadillo Run awhile ago. Think The Incredible Machine with more physics and less objects. It seems like a pretty obscure game - I'd certainly never heard of it before he gave it to me. Anyway, I played it a bit, and then got bored and moved onto something else. Last night/this morning I learned that Alex plays it too, and he's really into it. He's made levels and everything. I had some fun beating his levels in ways he didn't expect. I like working within the rules of the system to do things differently. I like games with physics engines, because they can always be made to do things they shouldn't.