Ultra Street Fighter IV

[cale]

Surely the large would be fine for you, no?

[Camel]

No, XL or they end up too short and people gag when they see my pasty white belly

Oh also, I bought SFxT PS3 from Zavvi as it was under a tenner and I want to play as an annoying cat and a Pac-Man-controlled robot.

I'll probably just use Dhalsim and Rufus.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Why not hunch a bit when you wear it

[Camel]

Good idea.

[ah]

Tings:

1. Skullgirls patch is finished and due on PS3 tomorrow! But it's still on the route to approval for Xbox 360, which means this news might as well not exist for most of us. I want to play it some more so if anyone fancies a game against a fellow novice (literally less than an hour on the clock for my copy) then let me know.

2. Haggar I too have been playing Dark Souls but my laptop's network adapter has died so I'm offline, which means I can't see people coming online when I'm playing and switch to SF4 to fight them. I'm planning to finish the game solo and then attempt all kinds of crazy system restore-type shenanigans that might delete my data so I'm wary to try it while I'm midway through a game. Sad times.

3. I haven't read any Delillo, but I've made my girlfriend read some because she gets through books much quicker than me, and she says he's good. I'm still re-reading The Pale King, but I've just finished the last of my favourite sections (Shane Drinion levitating in a bar while he concentrates on a sad story) so the last few pages are probably going to take weeks.

4. Hi 5 JLM!

[Plopboy]

Oh my this one is great. it is from a different site here http://www.welovefine.com/184-sanrio-x-capcom and is in XL

and this one

[mayor_mike_haggar]

rereading it already? wow. I have underworld and mccarthys border trilogy, then another stab at gravitys rainbow, then updike's rabbit series, then dealing with my inevitable divorce and then and only then, will I try rereading infinite jest.

maybe

[Camel]

Good work plopboy. Sadly those ones are slim fit women's tees

[ah]

Oh man, I'm probably never going near Gravity's Rainbow. Half of Against the Day and a quick run through The Crying of Lot 49 have taught me that the guy is just not for me.

I picked The Pale King up again in a hurry one morning because I was rebelling against my self-imposed writing-on-the-bus regime, and ended up just sticking with it. I read a couple of short recent books by other people (you know, the kind that get nominated for prizes and have about 20 interesting pages in the middle of a bunch of faux-revelatory nonsense about what it's like to be young, or what it's like to be middle aged, or what it's like to be old, or what it's like to marry a tiger or whatever) between chapters but it was a pretty entertaining re-read. Not really sure what to read next - I think I need to go book shopping.

[Lyrical Donut]

Good work plopboy. Sadly those ones are slim fit women's tees

Surely that's easily sorted out with a sex change.

GGs to Jellum and also imp the other night. I'm finding Yun quite fun these days, my shit confirms are now almost like proper hit confirms and everything. Geneijining is fun too.

I've been working from home a bit recently, but I might pop on right now for a bit, but probably won't* be on too late.

*lie

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Have you read much by Cormack McCarthy? The stuff he writes always sticks in my mind

I know what you mean about Pynchon though, really hard going most of the time. Not quite as bad as Joyce, mind. Ulysses is more than I'll ever be able to manage, what with not having a degree in classics from Oxford.

Also I might be on from maybe half ten or so if anyone will be up that late.

[ah]

So would you say your shit confirms are becoming legit confirms?

Incidentally, for me "shit confirm" is a term for doing something to check whether or not my opponent is rubbish, e.g. jab jab block, or dive kick dive kick dive kick. "legit confirm", I guess, would be similar but with the suspicion that your opponent is good: doing a raw blanka ball to see if they could punish it, or suchlike. I have a sneaking suspicion that JLM and I were trying to think of a good word for this the other day but couldn't think of one. Or maybe he actually thought of exactly this one and I've just blanked it from my memory so I can steal the credit.

To round out this post I guess we should also mention JLM's "sit confirms", i.e. doing stuff with Zangief to verify that your opponent is committed to down-back before going for the SPD.

[Plopboy]

Good work plopboy. Sadly those ones are slim fit women's tees

I tried and failed

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Jlm landing three combos on nate is a quit confirm

[ah]

Have you read much by Cormack McCarthy? The stuff he writes always sticks in my mind

I know what you mean about Pynchon though, really hard going most of the time. Not quite as bad as Joyce, mind. Ulysses is more than I'll ever be able to manage, what with not having a degree in classics from Oxford.

Also I might be on from maybe half ten or so if anyone will be up that late.

You know, I did mean to read some McCarthy. Maybe I'll do that. It's hard, though, because I walk into the bookshop with all these specific names in my head and I walk back out with some Czech novella or something that has a pretty cover, or yet another book about growing up poor in India.

I remember really enjoying Ulysses but I was 20 when I read it. I seem to recall that there's a really, really funny bit a few hundred pages in. I didn't enjoy Dubliners and didn't finish that Portait of the Artist... book. Pynchon just riles me, somehow - I feel like he's highly interested in spinning a complex story with lots of clever ideas but not quite interested enough in communicating much to the reader. Which is fine, if that's his thing. There are some genuinely great bits in Against the Day's first half, but in the end the cleverness of it all just kind of wore me down a bit. I should probably just give in and read The Hunger Games or something. I hear it's pretty good.

[Yasawas]

Have you read much by Cormack McCarthy? The stuff he writes always sticks in my mind

Blood Meridian is fantastic. The Road was too, although a completely different read. He is a talented man. I still have about £7 Amazon credit left, I should pick up another one of his as those are the only two I've read.

Thomas Pynchon intimidates me because there's a student on my train with a furious beard who wears a lambda armband every day and has a manbag with a "my other car is a Pynchon novel" sticker on it and I don't know what to make of it at all.

[joeplus]

The Hunger Games is enjoyable but it made me feel vaguely dirty after reading them, cos it's for kids really innit. So are videogames though I suppose.

The Border Trilogy is a bit of a slog but also hugely satisfying, and as Haggar says it kind of stays with you. I liked it more than McCarthy's other books.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Yeah, McCarthy is just so relentlessly brutal in the stuff he writes about. The raw stark violence and brutality. Miserable bugger. Blood meridian is haunting in places.

[joeplus]

I should really play some Street Fighter again soon. Half Life 2 is not actually proving that much fun, at least not compared to the first one.

[cale]

If you're talking about other games then I would say that Dishonored is not really living up to my expectations. It's like Deus Ex: HR but not as oomphy and even though it originally lured me to it, I'm not feeling the art style particularly (Bioshock-lite).

I am playing as a goody-two-shoes though, rather than a badass so maybe that's the problem. Doubt it though.

If my wife had the decency to go to bed at an earlier time then I might just possibly be able to fight some of you guys on the streets. Inconsiderate!

[Lyrical Donut]

Oh, other games! I bought the Nerve Wrack pack for NSMB2. Fuck. Ing Hell. Oh and I finally got round to unlocking all the levels so I can finally challenge Joffo's streetpass I acquired at heggfest.

I think Haggar might have been doing unblockables on me just now. Either that or I just wasn't blocking. It was probably a wild combination of both.

Also, comboing Cammy crouch fierce punch into EX things? Naughty man.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

I know cammy has one on gun, but I don't know what it is. J.lk of a back throw I expect. That was an excellent set. Back and fourth wins, perfects, guile theme comebacks. I think I even deliberately hit a few frame traps. Wild times.

I hate repeatedly walking into lunge punches. Also that bloody shoulder move. Aaaaaagh.

I came up with that spin knuckle fadc gimmick on the fly. Didn't even know it would fadc until I tried. Will be using that much more often!

[joffocakes]

Oh, other games! I bought the Nerve Wrack pack for NSMB2. Fuck. Ing Hell. Oh and I finally got round to unlocking all the levels so I can finally challenge Joffo's streetpass I acquired at heggfest.

Ooooh! Let me know how you do with the nerve wrack pack! I have a pretty good score on it, though it's definitely beatable. For an idea of how much I played that pack, I had around 400,000 coins after finishing the main game but, after playing the nerve wrack pack only for a couple of days, I had 1.2 million. It's addictive.

The other DLC level packs felt a bit pointless though, because of the 30,000 coin limit on your score. All my Street Passes are basically that Gold Rush pack now. You don't even get a medal for matching their score, so it's basically pointless even playing. Heavy sigh. Coin Rush is basically an absolutely brilliant addition to Mario that they've managed to mess up at the last hurdle. At least 30k seems kinda impossible, or at least hilariously difficult, in the Nerve Wrack Pack. I hope they do another set of levels like those.

I am looking forward to NSMBU. Probably not at launch though.

[Lyrical Donut]

Ooooh! Let me know how you do with the nerve wrack pack! I have a pretty good score on it, though it's definitely beatable. For an idea of how much I played that pack, I had around 400,000 coins after finishing the main game but, after playing the nerve wrack pack only for a couple of days, I had 1.2 million. It's addictive.

The other DLC level packs felt a bit pointless though, because of the 30,000 coin limit on your score. All my Street Passes are basically that Gold Rush pack now. You don't even get a medal for matching their score, so it's basically pointless even playing. Heavy sigh. Coin Rush is basically an absolutely brilliant addition to Mario that they've managed to mess up at the last hurdle. At least 30k seems kinda impossible, or at least hilariously difficult, in the Nerve Wrack Pack. I hope they do another set of levels like those.

I am looking forward to NSMBU. Probably not at launch though.

I'll probably get stuck into it once this work is out of the way.

The Wii U is going to be the first Nintendo console I haven't bought at launch since the n64. I'd only really want TTT2 and Mario anyway. I wish there was a new Excite Truck, that game was the business.

I would've posted that last paragraph in the Wii U thread, but its a fucking nightmare over there at the moment.

Video games!

[Plopboy]

I'm just waiting for Bayonetta 2 to come out before I commit to the U.

I other news I was just in the middle of getting dressed this morning and I asked the wife if she wanted anything (she is a bit poorly at the moment) and she replied with "in that moment you looked like Zangief". Then she rolled over and went back to sleep.

Is this a compliment? I think I will take it as such.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Borges!

This morning I read the Borges short story The Garden of Forking Paths, in which he basically invents the concept of the choose your own adventure novel. Also in it a Chinese man shoots another man, purely because he wants to prove to his masters that chinese men can also be good at spying. Good old Borges.

Also I normally scoff when people describe matches as 'momentum based', but yun-cammy is exactly that. The match can so easily completely turn on one landed jab, divekick or throw. I might try and upload that wild replay where you got me down to chippable health and then I somehow managed to comeback. Which I somehow suspect you let me do.

[ah]

MMH it has come to my attention due to posts elsewhere on the forum that you know what Gears of War 2 is. Let's play it some time. I suck at it.

Maybe when we've completed Street Fighter.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Aha.

My copy of that is probably fossilised by now I shouldn't wonder. I somehow completed it though.

[ah]

I played the campaign to death THEY'RE SINKING CITIES WITH A GIANT WORM ahem and it is amazing but I'm dreadful at any multiplayer FPS game games so the multiplayer was always a bit of a challenge. Until Dark Souls came out I think it was the best game.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Yes. I really quite liked it. Especially the utterly ludicrous story, which I kind of hoped they thought would be all serious and have emotional resonance. Dom shooting his wife was just wildly hilarious.

For some mad reason I never bought 3, though.