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MEMORY MONDAY

    So, last night the Royal Rumble was on. It was a good PPV overall, and the rumble was pretty good as well. It had a few surprise entrants as well, the few being Booker T and Diesel. Fucking DIESEL!!!! That's going WAY back. Which leads us to today's Memory Monday topic: Who was YOUR favorite wrestler from when you were growing up? Diesel was one of my favorites, but Macho Man Randy Savage was as well. Lots of good memories of wrestling when I was growing up, so who are your favorites?

Busy day today

SUPERBOWL STAR SUNDAY

     As most of you may know, the Pro Bowl is on today. However, I'm passing that up because there is another event that is on today that catches my attention even more. Of course, I'm talking about the Royal Rumble. For those of you who don't know, it's wrestling. Sure, there are going to be quite a few title matches in the lineup, but the main event of this Pay Per View is the rumble itself. And this year marks the first time that there will be 40 people participating instead of the original 30.
    Basically, 2 people start in the ring, and every 60-90 seconds another person enters. If you get thrown over the top rope and both feet hit the floor, you are eliminated. Last person in the ring is the winner and gets a title match at the biggest PPV that the company has, Wrestlemania.  I honestly couldn't tell you who I think is going to win, but as long as it isn't John Cena, I'm happy. Tonight's gonna be a great night, I can just feel it!

Good morning

SILLY SATURDAY

     Today, I direct you to a few sites which always give me a nice little bit of a laugh of pick-me-up when I need it. The first of which is Damn you, autocorrect! This site is basically a housing of screen shots of people who were using an iPhone and the auto-correct decided to kick in at the wrong time. This is why I pay special attention to what I type...and why I won't get an iPhone anytime soon.
     The other site I'd like to talk about is a classic, F my life. This site shows the daily mishaps of people who just have bad things happen to them. There are many different categories to look through, and it's updated very regularly, and there's even a book you can buy from them!

     So yeah, sorry about the shortness of the post. There's a lot of snow outside and I've got other stuff to do today, but take a look at those two sites and get some laughs in to start your weekend off right!

IT'S MAHVEL BAYBEE!!!!

With the release of Marvel vs Capcom 3 just a few shorts but OH so long weeks away, I decided that today I'm gonna take a look back. But not to the game that the title of this blog references.

FREEPLAY FRIDAY

     I'm not going to go over the second MvC game. Nope. I'm going to talk about the first Marvel vs Capcom, the one that we had in our arcade.

     This was before the whole 3 on 3 got popular in the series. This was basic one on one fighting, with a little help from assists of course. There weren't that many characters to actually fight as, but there were quite a few hidden characters. Most of them were basically different colors of the same characters, but there was one that kind of went outside that box. And that would be Roll.

     The first time I remember playing this, it was actually on my PSone. I liked fighters and I was like "Eh, I'll give it a shot." I'm glad I did. It's so addicting. The play style just felt so refreshing and there were so many play styles to try out and go against. When this game actually came to our local arcade, I was more than ready to whoop some ass, and I did too.
     I usually used Ryu, but not normal Ryu. Some people will know what I'm talking about, and the others will need an explanation. If you do a half circle back plus one of the punches, Ryu will change "modes", basically mimicking the other shoto characters with their unique normal moves and supers. If you press medium punch, you get Ken mode. Fierce punch gets Akuma mode with level 3 super intact (the mode I used most). Light punch gets you back to normal Ryu. Each transformation takes up 1 whole Hyper combo bar, so you have to be careful.
    But yes, this game was VERY fun. If you have a PSone or PS2 laying around, do yourself a favor and go find this game, whether it be in an old nearby video game store, or online. Doesn't matter, just go get this game.

Still alive and kickin

Went to a NBA game for the first time last night. Home team lost, but I saw it coming. So yeah, continuing on with the video game related Thursday posts, today is:

'TENDO THURSDAY

     I'll be blogging about a random game that I've played on any of the Nintendo systems. Today, I want to take a look back at a game that originally came out on the SNES that I (unfortunately) owned as a kid. In Nintendo Power's 100th issue, it was rated as the third worst game ever on a Nintendo system. Ladies and gentlemen, brace yourself, 'cause we're taking a trip back in time to visit:

    SHAQ FU! There are a few modes in this game. A story mode, versus, and a tournament mode. Sounds decent enough right? Well that's where the decency ends. The story mode is basically Shaq going into another dimension to rescue a kid that was kidnapped. You've got a few stereotypes in this game, the black person, the monster, the egyptian guy, and the...uh...catgirl.

     Well, the characters and the story are just the bread in this suck sandwich. The meat of it is in the gameplay. You see, it feels really slow, some characters are VERY overpowered if used properly (see above picture), and there are two types of guarding. TWO!!!!! There's normal guarding, which is done by holding away from your opponent, but there's a shield-guard that is done by holding down and I think the L button. And even worse, each guard doesn't guard against the opposite guard, so you're randomly breaking between offense and trying to figure out if your opponent is doing a special move or not. To further emphasize this horrible game, let me show you a gameplay video.

    Well, hopefully this shines some light on the past. Maybe next time the Nintendo Thursday rolls around, I'll reflect back on a good game. Until then, just reflect on this sucky game.

Making this quick

I'm actually doing a lot of stuff today, so I won't be able to check people's stuff or do a lengthy blog today, but there was one story, a LOCAL story, that caught my eye and made me go:

WTF WEDNESDAY

Bag at bottom of grave contained spoiling animal hearts and chicken feet in what looked like barbecue sauce.

This is just outright disturbing and absolutely confusing at the same time. What in the blue hell would make someone collect these things and then put BBQ sauce in there as well? A black vampire or something? WTF???

Tired as hell

People kept me up till like 4 am, not cool. So yeah, this might be a little more random than usual, but it might be better that way.

TRIVIAL TUESDAY

Superbowl XLV is Steelers vs. Packers. Lamarr Woodley went to the rival of the high school I went to. And I had to make a news report about him when he won that Superbowl a few years ago.

Pro Bowl is this Sunday, but it's also the Royal Rumble. First time it's gonna have 40 participants. Welp, screw the Pro Bowl!

Michigan really blows when it comes to trying to find a job. It REALLY does.

Wish this person on ebay would ship my damn order already. Can't wait to get my hands on Ehrgeiz again.

Pure pressed 100% apple juice/cider whoops major ass.

Going through Bayonetta on hard to get the achievements. Man, I can't remember the last game where a Hard setting in an action game was actually HARD.


Alright, I think that's all the trivial stuff I've got on my mind for this morning. Your random thoughts? Comments?