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Temporary Un-neglection October 13, 2010

So, I just realized I’ve been utterly bogus, as usual, and not bothered updating my blog for close to 2 months.

It’s a time thing really, university being near the end of semester is getting to that Crunch-time period where everything is happening. This is a terrible excuse because when I wasn’t updating my blog in the past 2 months, it wasn’t ALL crunch-time, in fact it was probably spent playing videogames or something.

In terms of news:

I’ve made up for coming dead-last in the first major Perth-based Super Street Fighter 4 tournament (which I blame on lack of sleep and assignmental stress) during the Perth EVO APAC qualifier by coming 7th in the second Perth major SSF4 tournament losing to two different Asian people named Daniel in the process.

The not-exactly-huge Perth Arcade Tekken 6 scene has been brutally massacred by the mole of a Timezone arcade manager claiming we were ‘abusing the system’. Previously you could pay $10 for an “Unlimited Play” half hour package that allowed you to swipe once a minute for a max of 30 credits (assuming you were being efficient and swiped exactly on the minute, pretty easy to do if you have any kind of stopwatch, or a stopwatch iPhone program).

Wednesday nights were when we congregated and did like a rotation system sharing cards and taking turns in paying for credits. So, the manageress didn’t like the fact we were doing this and now the packages have been changed so the only one usable is a “20 Credit for $30″ package, making it $1.50 a credit. Note that this is an arcade fighting game where a credit lasts generally lasts you like… 2-3 minutes tops. Also, the game itself has been out for YEARS and you can buy yourself a PS3 copy for $50 now and it’s pretty bullshit.

So the hope really is that we end up fostering a strong-ish console based scene ala Street Fighter with, again, the problem being a lack of hardware (not everyone in the Tekken scene owns a decent arcade stick and a lag-less monitor which really matters since Tekken is a game where frame display lag really matters) and finding a venue that has enough space for everyone to congregate. Sad days.

In more me-related news, I’ve been doing a twice-a-week kickboxing class at the gym at uni for the past six weeks and I have a pretty vicious side-kick. I’ve also sort-of-front-kicked a girl in the face (accidentally! It was entirely her fault!) but that’s another story for another time.

Maybe a return to monumental walls of text when I finish with exams for the year in mid November.

Till then, reader-who-I’m-writing-to-who-doesn’t-really-exist, au revoir.

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