This is why we can’t have nice things.

https://twitter.com/#!/whit_toria

You crazy, crazy bitch.

Fucked with a capital F.

Yeah. Screwed up a 25% assignment, I don’t even know how yet. First F I’ve gotten in my academic career, not counting my O-level Geography. That F was gotten on purpose.

There’s a 30% test tomorrow morning, I’ve barely skimmed the most basic of concepts.

Like I said, with a capital F.

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Main DenLiner set is complete. A friend helped me pick up kinliner and ryuuliner at the john little sale. Kingliner I’ll only get if I can find one for $20. The GaohLiner I want more, but ZeroLiner I want most.

SICs wise, narrowed it down to DiEnd and IXA. Picking up Super-1 when Uncle ST returns from Japan. DiEnd is going to be pricey as fuck. IXA I managed to get new for SGD30.

The money situation has freed up somewhat. Made some money off my SHFs and spare Switches. CNY is coming so I expect more leeway in the toyetic budget. The fucked up thing now though is the standing preorder I have for Makai-Kadou Gouten. I don’t need another Gouten, I don’t know WHY I ordered a new Gouten in the first place. Now that Raigou is coming out, I’m hurting even more.

Madougu Set and Jyaaku, hopefully I can pay them off by Saturday.

I do NOT listen to J-Pop.

I really don’t. I like watching the odd music video here and there though.

Now I can see why there are so many male K-pop fans. Guys, it’s not embarrassing to like looking at boobs. Girls….. I don’t know. The male artistes look like women anyway, maybe K-pop is a front for a burgeoning lesbian movement?

I jest.

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Bit of a prose thing related to what I’ve been doing lately.

“The edict of the Nameless Pharaoh was not to be defied, and so the Gravekeepers’ duty is carried out even today. The Descendant imparts to his Descendants the knowledge and skill needed to guard the Valley of Sleeping Kings. Not against outsiders, but against the One slumbering in the Necrovalley. The God of Obelisk.”

Seeing this made me go out and buy the TCG SDMA. Playing with a theme and background story just seems so fulfilling when compared to just following the meta game.

暗殺拳 in 3 easy steps.

Some sf updates.

Ken has been a major breakthrough for me. I don’t know if it’s the AE2012 changes or because of other reasons, but I’m winning my matches much more consistently now. I feel it’s because Ken is a rather basic character when played at my level, so I’m forced to think more creatively when dealing with characters like Akuma and Adon.

Beat a Dudley soundly in 3 matches. I don’t know whether he knew what he was doing though. He had the basics down, but only the barest essentials. He didn’t follow up his cr.hk with anything even though I fell for that at least 4 times. He kept spamming throw even after I figured him out.

Won a Guy today, but that was because he stopped halfway during the second round. Was kind of a meh match because of the lag. Couldn’t do anything so I kept mashing air tatsus and uppercuts.

Lost to a Hakan/Dan player, lost to the matchup more than anything else. This guy was pretty good though. Played against his Chun-Li while using my horrendous Akuma.

Lost to a B rank Ryu twice. First match performance was pathetic so I went for another one. Did much better in the second match but still lost.

I also figured out what was wrong with my Sagat. It’s actually a mental block more than anything else. Quite stupid now that I know what’s going on. Because I’ve been using Sagat since vanilla, I’ve become very used to playing him in a certain way. I don’t know what to do with Sagat now. Even though he’s my favorite character I perform very poorly when using him. For now I’ve decided to confine him to training before I do anything else.

Played against a Rose while using Gouken. Can’t remember what changes I liked off the top of my head, but I felt it’s much easier to cancel moves with him now. Lost by pixels to the C-Rose so yeah, pretty happy but I think the Rose just hadn’t played against enough Goukens.

Yesterday I went to the arcade, forgetting that they were still running AE instead of 2012. Not bad though, Ken beat a Viper twice (iirc), lost to an Abel. Again, lost because of (lack of) matchup experience. Sagat got beat up so I quickly switched back to Ken.

Finally, Shinryuken’s hitbox. Wow.

Review – GB-42 Chogokin Mechanic Lightan

Most of the time I only buy toys from series I watch/read, i.e. Kamen Rider or the Walking Dead. Every now and then though I chance upon a toy that I instantly fall in (platonic) love with even though I’ve never seen it anywhere before.

Mechanic Lightan and his 5 friends are in that category.

This was procured from Uncle Ng’s at CSC when I was there last Sunday. He had a stack of these on clearance. I asked him what it was, he couldn’t explain it to me properly so he passed me a loose piece to play with. Obviously, I bought one.

Mechanic Lightan is what a toy should be. Simple and durable, but still fun and able to let your imagination fill in the blanks.

The toy itself is SOLID METAL. Mechanic Lightan is basically a lighter that transforms into a robot, because why not?

There are supposed to be missiles and power tools in the chest compartment (hence the Mechanic), but I didn’t remove them from the packaging. They’re roughly half the size of a fingernail (another testament to the “fuck the kids” sentiment of toy regulations back then). and really easy to lose.

That’s all for Mechanic Lightan. I intended to “review” THE Chogokin GT-08 Combattler V as well, but I guess that’ll wait until I get Getter-1 and Mach Baron.

Caroling in candlelight.

iPhone camera’s focus is shite. Mustn’t grumble though. I have an iPhone at least.

Today was pretty good. I figured out how to use Leaderboard, lol. Watched some replays, found some replays of me that other people uploaded and cringed and cringed and cringed. Heavy tiger knee right in front of a crouching opponent makes me sad.

Unlocked the 100-wins achievement. Quite a pleasant surprise. I decided to try out more search parameters in the ranked mode, “same skill” and “more skilled”. (Previously I’d been using “any”.)

Played against a B Cammy, B T.Hawk,
B Adon, C Ryu and a 0PP D Sakura, using Ken for all matches except for the Adon, where I used Sagat.

I lost to the Cammy, but only by a little. Went three rounds, won the second. It was a really fun match. Baited the Cammy into 4 EX uppercuts and a few EX tatsus, the guy got pissed and mashed the whole of the 3rd round, lol. But it was good, I learned more about the Cammy matchup, like air throw situations and the spin knuckle setups.

The C Ryu and D Sakura were unremarkable. C Ryu beat me pretty bad during the first round, but I figured him out so I beat him for the next 2 round. Rather simple fireball-uppercut scenarios, just mixed it up a little with air tatsus and empty jump-ins followed by throw. Sakura had 1k+ PP but 0BP, I think the guy was just fooling around. Beat him by jumping around randomly and mashing like a dog. Only thing I learnt was charged fireball stops jump-ins. First time I saw that.

The Hawk match was the most interesting. I barely kept him at bay with varied speed fireballs and mp. shoryukens, but he managed to pull off a ton of normal throws and special throws during the first round. I stupidly jumped into his ultra 1, which ended the first round. After that he turtled like mad, alternating between dash and dive setups.

Had a salty runback using Sagat, intending to play his Hawk, but ended up playing against his Adon instead. Fucking disaster. I lost like a sick dog. I have no idea how to deal with Adon, no matter what character I use. Was kinda pissed after that so I stopped playing.

Got some pretty good stuff today. I’m really bushed so I’ll post up the reviews tomorrow. Chogokins are the best toys ever.

Did some saikang today as well, probably leaving that as a twitter rant for when I’m on the shitter.

Sagat of Geylang Lorong 14-to-16.

“unibeam until you die!”

mrbrown made this video in reply to Aaron “priest law” Tan. Mad props to mrbrown for managing to stuff in references to at least 4 current events.

Didn’t manage to play any AE2012 today, so I’ll be doing a small retrospective of yesterday.

Played against a Ryu, Guy and Akuma using Ken, lost to the first two and beat the Akuma in 2 rounds.

The Ryu was kind of an ass. Turtled like hell so I got frustrated and made a lot of jump in mistakes. Dropped a lot of basic cr.mk combos. Sigh.

The Guy was ok. I learnt a bit more about the Guy matchup. Though I need to learn more about his wall jump options and application of gozantou. This Guy didn’t use any of the axe kicks or whirlwind kicks, I wonder why.

The Akuma was average, probably a beginner like me. I read his playstyle like a book because I played Akuma for months. He didn’t try anything fancy or cheap or whatever. I enjoyed this match a lot. He almost caught me with an ultra demon as I was coming down from an air tatsu but somehow he missed.

In other news, watched this during SGNewWave today. It was quite good actually. I liked the lighting, that persistent piano piece and the storyline. I thought James McAvoy was excellent here. I really didn’t like the teenaged Briony’s actress though.

Saw that person again during screening. Felt very empty after that for some reason, now I’m in a dickpunching mood.

More or less, doing daily posts again feels good. Ranting to no-one in particular helps to cut down the IRL usage of invective.

Shoryuken do it, or AE 2012 Day 2.

Originally wanted to start a log when AE came out. You can(‘t) see how that turned out.

At this point in time, I have to point out my “milestones” in AE:

BP <300
PP <250 (highest score)
Rank C (highest score again)
Seriously playing: Sagat, Ken.
Considering playing seriously: Akuma, Ryu, Gouken, Dictator, Dan.

Honestly, the only thing I'd like out of Street Fighter right now is to consistently win 70% of my matches at the arcades and online. When I reach that goal, I'll see where I'll go from there. Right now, I'm playing three-round matches consistently so I'd say that's a start.

I reeeeeally need to get interested in understanding/implementing frame data as well as find a proper training group/buddy. We'll see how it goes.

Received a parcel today. LED Switches and Smoke. I am hoping my Kuuga will arrive by Friday, but yeah. I’m not holding my breath.

After Kuuga I don’t see myself getting any other Complete Selection belts or changers. Ryuki was already a bit much. Ichigo and Kuuga are complete retoolings of the original, so those were more than worth it. Faiz and Orga I got because they’re huge and diecast-y, but I’m selling them off. Hibiki, well… Hibiki’s just horrible. (The Figure-Oh polls were rigged, I tell you. A Complete Selection Kabuto with working Clock Up pads would have been right there in place with the rest.)

What I will be limiting my collection to are SICs (including Makai-Kadou) and the DX toys. Right now, I really want

Jyaaku
Madougu Set 1
Kiva Emperor
IXA
Kabuto
Kiva
Diend
Ryuki
Hibiki

and

Decade Kuuga.

As for DXes, completing the Fourze line is a must. I’m also on the lookout for

Zero-Liner
Kintaros’ train
Ryuutaros’ train
King-Liner
Legend Mobirates.

Play-Arts Kai Cammy is a ? for me. The top half looks great but her legs just look weird. There’s this Egyptian Revoltech from Queen’s Blade that I want, only because it’d be a fantastic display piece.

Will be back with more AE2012 escapades I think.

Good-fye.

SSFIVAE 2012 and me and CrossCounter Asia.

I am your President. TIGER~!

AE 2012 came out today.

I hadn’t really sat down and played AE since Skyrim came out, which is a story for another day.

Came home today, downloaded the patch and immediately jumped online for a few rounds. Boy, did I get my arse handed to me. Only barely won 3 matches out of 7. Ironically, the 3 wins were against Fei-Longs. Lost to a Juri, Sagat and Blanka.

Funny story. Joined an endless someone on my friend’s list was on (otoko1991), turns out they were streaming on CrossCounter Asia ( http://www.twitch.tv/crosscounterasia ). Of course, my 0BP Ken got Tiger Uppercutted to death, and I got booted after one round, lol. But can’t blame the character. I did a lot of stupid things like unsafe jump-ins, dropping combos like spilling water and falling into a pattern, particularly the classic fireball-uppercut.

It’s been a looooong journey. Started in SFIV with Sagat, stuck with him all the way until AE, playing Fei, Gouken, Akuma, Dan, Rufus and, of course, Ken on the side. Ken is really a breath of fresh air for me in AE 2012. His target combo can be pulled off effortlessly, and I feel that his other B&Bs are more… lenient? Think I’ll be sticking with Ken and Sagat for the time being.

Been thinking about doing more more more toy reviews, but I don’t get toys that quickly. Will probably focus on rarer stuff I guess. SIC Ryuga Survive and CS Kuuga should be coming up here.

Toodle-oo.

Skill killer attack

Been a while since anything was posted here.

Came here again by virtue of the spiffy new iOS app. It’s like typing on the web version!

Anyway, light hearted stuff today.

Bought a fuckton of toys over the months past. My room is now unable to contain all my toys. Decided to excise a huge portion of my collection, so a lot of the clutter is half-packed boxes. Focussing (on Garo, SICs, DXes and CS belts) on smaller aspects of collecting usually helps the collector save money and space, but CS belts aren’t exactly small and cheap. The SICs are okay, but still they’re at a much higher price point than most other figures. The Makai-Kadou line is an exaggerated version of this, I guess. Up to date with every astro switch released, I am only missing Hibiki in my CS collection (gaia memories and medals don’t fucking count), but it’s k. Hibiki’s CS is pathetic.

School wise, it’s all (kinda) good. I am still looking for that one thing though. Improvement over last semester, but I doubt by much.

Oh well.

Typing on the shitter ftw.