Lightning Flik

For those of you who don't know: The first DVD of "The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi" will be on sale apparently this January 27th. That's right, in two days you'll be able to own the first DVD of Haruhism. And even better, they've got the whole ED dance routine in it (as well as intructions on how to do it). If you want to see what its like early: Click Here! ...yes, it just leads you to 4chan, I lied. I do that on occasion. Seriously though, I'm so learning how to do this for when I head down for AX.

Rando ... you will die. Of course not by me, but I'm quite sure God will let you die entertainingly enough for me.

Ogre Battle was a pain in the arse to get the best ending. Why? Because you couldn't have "max good" karma. You had to hover around 75% to activate the particular storyline to get the best ending, then crank it up to 100%. I hated that part extremely. Also another game I found amazingly frustrating is Hoshigami. The whole point of that game I believe is to make it so that you NEVER could beat it. You always were at a disadvantage, the only way to gain levels was to boost up in god forsaken tower that you had to at LEAST beat 10 levels of to get out, and even if you hacked the game to become uber, you just end up making your opponents uber too. I got so fed up that I gave up. First time I ever did that. What's worse, is the fact I heard so many great things about this game and it turned out to be one entire "you are outnumbered, outpositioned, and outclassed. Survive if Hoshigami let's you, bitch".

Tales of Symphonia is perhaps the most cliched written storyline that actually fucking utilitizes all of them very well and not making them seem cliche. I think it deserves a nod. I'd also add that I agree with the sentiments on Grandia II perhaps almost getting away with having the nearly storyline. ...well, till as mentioned, the preachy crap hits. And is it me? Or do we need more characters sharing bodies? I think we do.

Okay, the Florida Panthers of NHL There. Much better. Somewhere along the way you lost the parallel Well, I was just correcting it, that's all. ...ok, so I was being an ass about it. I admit it. Anyways, on topic. Hopefully I'll get to watch a full playoff game this weekend. Should be good matchups, regardless if I didn't want to see Pats vs. Colts.

Okay, the Florida Panthers of NHL There. Much better. As for the games this weekend, I'll be interested in the Saints vs. Bears games the most. I'm kinda tired of seeing Colts vs. Pats, especially considering the Colts will find someway, somehow to lose it.

THE MAIN EVENT – SWF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP "The Beast" Gabriel Drake vs. Insane Luchador ~ I don't know why, but I've got IL pinned for an upset. Maybe its just because he won the last one. CRUISERWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH Alan Clark of the Caribbean ©© vs. Wildchild ~ Toss up here. WC is always great, yet because of the storyline Rando's in at the moment, he's doing really well. I'll say Alan, but I wouldn't doubt WC takes the match. TAG TEAM CONTEST The Cadillac Boys (Zack Malibu and Calvin Szic.... Calvin Czec.... Calvin. Zack and Calvin.) vs. The Predators (Jay Hawke and Nighthawk) ~ I'll say Cadillac Boyz. No idea really. HARD 10 TRIPLE THREAT Mr. Cold Front Classic JJ Johnson vs. Akira Kaibatsu vs. Mr. Swiss Victor Herzog ~ CFCJJ. CRUISERWEIGHT EXHIBITION Landon "La Cucaracha" Maddix vs. Michael Cross ~ I'm going with Maddix. CRUISERWEIGHT TRIPLE THREAT Zyon vs. Ricky Barbosa vs. MANSON ~ Considering this match is my weakness, I'll say Zyon likely. Hopefully though, my efforts give me a shot to win. JERKIN THE GHERKIN CURTAIN Matt Myers vs. Wayne Blank ~ Blanky for the win.

Question then. Why did Fukufuji get drafted then?

I'll toss myself in as a contestant, but if I do have a match on the undercard, I'll likely skip actually writing the Clusterfuck so I can consentrate on the match. However, I'll do my best to get something in concerning the actual Clusterfuck itself.

That's definitely a pick up for me. Seems quite interesting and pretty cool in terms of fighting style. I like the timer that's also there as it'll probably mean you've got a set limit to beat the game too. And I wish I could get the single of the music near the end. Its pretty cool. Dammit, I wanna find some place that is selling Final Fantasy III, but you think any place has it? Fuck no. No one's gotten shipments of ANYTHING since Christmas around here. Except a few minor things. So frustrating.

Well, yes, but still... I kinda screwed up there.

No, that's quite alright. Its my weakness and I really should get better at them; seeing as I've NEVER won one with someone competing, only by no-shows. Frankly speaking, considering my no-show and how Rando suffered because of it. Perfect punishment. I so do not have ADD, I have mental preparation disorder (MPD). I get so nervous while preparing things that I totally clam up.

Apologizes on the no show from Rando and I, as that is my fault. Short story: I just had a lot of bad luck this past week. However, I'll be start writing tomorrow as my chest virus (part of said bad luck) has calmed down to where I don't feel like I'm hacking up the lungs. *takes good look at match* And 3 way? Never was good with those. Ugh...

I've started collecting the anime/manga/gaming styled ones. Although, at the moment all I've got is Saber of FSN:HA. But I do also have a cool Gandalf one in which the clothes are all legit material and even his blade and staff are metal and real wood (although, I think whatever they do to wood so it doesn't rot). Not too sure about the staff, because I haven't taken it out. But I am looking to collect a few more. Not sure why, just am.

Considering Tales of Legendia, I'm guessing the Sword of Legendia will likely be a spin-off of the same world?

Considering I'm buying Full Metal Alchemist, this is great news CV, thanks. And the only thing I'm interested in for the new season is the stuff that's still playing and Shuffle. All the others don't really seem to be grabbing my attention.

The new TEW is pretty simplified in what it does to be honest. Still a lot to digest, but running a show is easier now.

Thankfully, I'm grateful to Clark for doing this for me. Great way to introduce my character, and frankly he gave me an idea that I'm happy to run with.

Edited on February 17th, 2007 Made some minor edits. Rife Assault and Wayward Rising are now signature moves and added Ricky's real home town. Shall explain why the Lightning Shock Buster is now his sole finisher, with a promo. Edited on February 15th, 2007 Introduce Ricky's bio, shall also include modifications to the moveset as well after work. Smarks Board Name: Lightning Flik Wrestlers Name: Ricky Barbosa Nicknames: The Wayward Son Height: 5’11 Weight: 180lbs Hometown: Edmonton, Alberta, The City of Champions Age: 18 Face/Heel: Face Stable: None Ring Escort: None Weapon(s): None Looks: Long red hair (shoulder blade in length) tied into a ponytail, blue eyes, and quite skinny but athletically toned. Has a scar running down his right forearm. If you've heard of the term bishonen, this pretty much describes how you should go about describing his features otherwise. If you don't, it means he's a "pretty boy" (borderlining on girlish looks). In terms of gear, for ring wear he copies pretty much Alan Clark's old Wayward look as he is a fan. Cowboy hat, long suede trench coat, jeans, rustic brown t-shirt and a pair of dusty brown sneakers. Otherwise, he'll wear anything a normal kid his age would. Ring Entrance: The lights dim and the speakers let out: CARRY ON MY WAYWARD SON… There’ll be peace when you are done Lay your weary head to rest Don’t you cry no more… The opening guitar riffs of “Carry On My Wayward Son” by Kansas resound within the arena. Two large blue flares make their way to the sky from both sides of the entrance way, as The Wayward Son makes his appearance from behind the curtains and into the now shining spotlight. He pauses with his head facing downwards and waits for Funyon to announce him to the ring. “At five feet, eleven inches and weighing in at one hundred and eighty-two pounds… He hails from the City of Champions, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada! Please welcome to the ring, ‘The Wayward Son’ Ricky Barbosa!” The lyrics fade away as Ricky makes his leisurely walk to the ring. Passing by the fans, he slaps the hands of a few of them before arriving at the ring steps. It dawns on Ricky that he has arrived at the point of no return, but doesn’t walk up them. Instead Ricky takes a long deep breath and as if to release the jitter bugs, breathes it all out into one huge sigh. Creaking his neck to his left and then right, Ricky finally walks up to the ring. The steps he takes are slow and deliberate, almost as if he wants to find some way, some how to run from the sold out crowd. His eyes are like that of a scared and cornered animal, yet at the same time there’s a fire deep within those eyes of unbridled anticipation and exhilaration. Realizing that on the other side of the ropes is his final destination; Ricky pauses on the ring apron and ushers over a staff member. Taking off his hat and leather trench coat, he hands it over to his new ‘butler’ and tells him to take care of them for him. With that over with and before the nerves get to him again, he hops into the ring as the crowd begins to roar. Stats: ¯¯¯¯¯ Strength: 2 Speed: 8 Vitality: 6 Charisma: 4 Style: Cruiserweight. Common moves: 01) Flying Lariat 02) Dropkicks (all sorts of variations) 03) Knife-edge Chops 04) Running Knee To The Head 05) Russian Legsweep 06) Bulldog 07) DDT 08) Running Neckbreaker 09) Arm Drag 10) Enziguiri 11) Elbow Drop 12) Flying Bodypress 13) Moonsault Press 14) Spinning Heel Kick (Owen Hart used to do it) 15) Various Clotheslines 16) Slingshot Suplex 17) Snap Suplex 18) Various ‘Ranas 19) Armdrags Signature moves: 01) Wayward Fate - Twist Of Fate Neckbreaker 02) Northern Sunset Pin - Northern Lights Suplex Pin 03) Running Shooting Star Press 04) Space Flying Tiger Drop (Cartwheel-to-moonsault-plancha) 05) Wayward Time - John Cena’s Throwback 06) Rolling Thunder 07) Superkick 08) Rife Assault - Rock Bottom ~ This can end a match, but not consistently. 09) Wayward Rising – Phoenix Splash ~ This can end a match, but not consistently. Finisher: Lightning Shock Buster – Somersault Seated Reverse Neckbreaker ~ This is the move that Ricky was taught to him via his mentor, Marcus Chavayada. Version I is the standing move, Version II is the off the ropes one. Rare Finisher: Wayward Finale – Shooting Star Senton ~ Doubt this move will ever really be used, but if it is, its over. Plain and simple Notes: Very smart and down to earth guy except in the presence of his hero Alan Clark. Because he's a fan who's happy to be doing what's he dreamed about, you could hit him with a chair shot and he'll get back up smile and beg for more. Finally, instead of getting to the point, he'll usually beat around the bush until its come to the point where he just has to say what he means. Also, he's a spot monkey at the moment simply because that's all I'm good at the moment. Bio: Ricky Barbosa is a single child whose family had all died in a horrific car crash when he was 6 years old. This traumatized him deeply as he lost everything he ever knew and there was no way he could ever get it back. He thusly became a cold hearted jerk and disrespected everything around himself. After the car crash, it was decided that he would be raised by his aunt and uncle (Linda and Tom Silverthrone). His folks hadn’t set up a will specifying which of the family members would raise him, but considering that Tom owned his very own law firm and had the money to deal with one more kid, that it would be best to live with them. At first, Ricky didn’t like living with their three children and continually avoided having anything to do with any of them. However, it wasn’t until he was 9 before the four children were all getting buddy-buddy with each other. It did take knocking out Tom Jr., putting Michael in hospital, and then being slapped by Alicia in disgust, to make Ricky realize that it was pathetic of him to be like that. To make amends he became the “happiest kid ever”: which was to say he became respectful of others, worked hard to do everything he could to make people happy, and just enjoyed life while he could. Around this time Ricky watched a match in now defunct league of Complete World Dominance. It was a wrestler named Dee Jay vs. Shawn “Steel” Hawkins for the World Championship. The build up to the match wasn’t that great, since Dee Jay was a new rookie that was being given a God push, but the match itself was poetry in motion. The two made the fight seem like an epic struggle of good (Dee Jay) and evil (Steel) that was just beginning to its heightened climax of Dee Jay winning the World Championship. From there Ricky tried getting every single piece of wrestling he could nab his thirsty and greedy little hands on. The more he watched, the more he felt like he really wanted to do this. Years passed, but he never did go through with it. It wasn’t till the Smartmark Wrestling Federation that Ricky finally became a fan to one character in particular in January 2004 at the Cluster****. It was there that Ricky found about his favorite wrestler, Alan Clark. He liked Alan’s attitude of always giving it his best, always putting the amount of effort into it that the match for the fans, and above all, just flat out having fun with it. The fandom within Ricky continued to grow before it finally became insane fandom at the SWF’s From The Fire when Alan Clark took on Thugg. It was this match that made Ricky realized how much he wanted to be a wrestler, and drove him into a mission to do so. However, he was still a child during this time and because he lived in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, there was no way for him to get a legitimate trainer. Therefore he did a lot of self studying and using his siblings (sans Alicia) as guinea pigs; to which the author must add, is amazing he didn’t severely hurt any of them. Luck would come along as a new wrestling school was opened in Edmonton, called “Lightning Rising”. It was created by Marcus Chavayada, who apparently was at one point a wrestler but because of a knee injury had to retire before he had a chance at the big times. It took much pleading by Ricky to his parents and also to the owner, but he was eventually allowed to join the school. He trained with Marcus for many months and as the months grew longer, Marcus realized that Ricky really did have a talent for being a wrestler. Taking him under his wing, Marcus taught him everything he knew and set it up so that he would eventually take on Marcus’ original wrestling title. Ricky declined to do so, as he promised he would set up his own destiny. Marcus decided to put his student to the test, and therefore let the SWF know about his protégé. Ricky received a call concerning joining and took them up on it, even if the contract had a lot of knocks that would detract a person considering this a job. For the young man it was the opportunity of a life time. Donning himself in what he believed was Alan’s “best” moments; he took up the mantel of Wayward Son, to be an example to others just like Clark was to him. While others have set him on his path, only he himself can create his own destiny from here.

My apologizes but I'm having some difficulties with my PC which my stats are on, so I'll get those up tomorrow. Nice card, btw.

THE MAIN EVENT – CLUSTERTEASE BATTLE ROYAL Michael Stephens © vs. Nighthawk vs. Zyon vs. Akira Kaibatsu vs. Michael Cross If Stephens doesn't win this, I'll be shocked. NON-TITLE MATCH "The Beast" Gabriel Drake © vs. the Insane Luchador I'm rooting for Insane Luchador, but I think Drake's got the edge after winning the title. Though, I would like to see the chaos that would ensue if Drake won the title. SINGLES MATCH Mr. Cold Front Classic JJ Johnson vs. “The Dean of Professional Wrestling” Jay Hawke I think I'll take Jay for this one. Why? Not sure, just got a hunch. CRUISERWEIGHT EXHIBITION Wildchild vs. Landon “La Cucaracha” Maddix © Should be a hell of a contest this one. Considering its Cruiserweight style, I'll give the nod to WC here. TAG TEAM CONTEST Calvin Szechstein and a Mystery Partner vs. The Happiest Man On Earth Alan Clark ©© and Ricky Barbosa I'll abstain here. After all, I've got bias since I am a Clark mark. Bah, go Clark and Barbozi~! Oh, and I forgot. I'm Ricky Barbosa, pleasure meeting you all. OPENING MATCH – BOILER ROOM BRAWL “Mister Swiss” Victor Herzog vs. MANSON Considering who's vs. who in this type of match, I'm going MANSON.

You exagerate on the 15 hours Leena. Besides, MMORPGers know that MMORPGs aren't game of the years. Hell, most of us bitch often and long about the game not fully realizing its potential or going "OMG! TEY'D NEF'D MY BEST SKILLZ! Y?!" and so on.

Considering I'm on, I might as well say I voted Guitar Hero II. Its the only game I play constantly (minus Madden). And fuck, if I can get people who absolutely HATE video games to enjoy it, I think it should win. Sadly, some of these said people are in my family, but regardless, people have a blast with it.

;; Well, I moved up to All-Pro (I suck, I know) and frankly I really, really as of right now do NOT wanna screw my running game up for the following reasons: 1) I've been struggling with the passing game since moving up. Not early on, but right now I can't get a rhythm going and have accomplished an amazing 180-240 for the last 5 games. One game I had less than 100 yards, I think. 2) I've thrown nearly as many TDs as I have INTs. I'm a lifetime 2:1 ratio in that regards, otherwise. 3) My team's total efficiency has me ranked around the mid 20s in nearly all statistics. 4) My team leads the league in most points scored (mostly via the run) and currently 3rd in most points allowed (and that's only because I gave up only an amazing 3 to Chicago, otherwise I lead the league). Now think about that when I add to this fact my defense is the number one ranked for stopping the running game and not over 1000 yards yet for the run in 12 games. 5) My seven game winning streak was snapped by the 4-8 Cardinals (35-31 loss), dropping my record to 8-3. A team lead by Kurt Warner, and Edge nearly had 100 yards rushing. 6) Ricky Jacobs just needs a breeze to hit him and he's down like a rock. 7) Ricky also has the most attempts with 300+ in 12 games. Sure, 1500 yards, but its like a 4.7 average (which is scaled up thanks to Chicago providing me with huge holes). Usually starts off with a good 2.1 average at the start of the game before I keep hammering the defense. 8) I run on most absurd times as well: 1st and 15, 2nd and 23, 3rd and 7 and for the most part get all the yards (thanks to Ricky's 99s in speed, agility, and acceleration) 9) Ricky's receiving yards dropped like a rock after he hit the leader board for NFL lead. Sure, he's about 700 or so, but he doesn't get wide open anymore like in the beginning. 10) I wanna make the playoffs and at least have the hope that I'll win a playoff game or two. Of course I'll drop the very first game, because the above can only last for so long before it breaks for good.

Personally, I go with matching possessions just because sudden death doesn't work for the NFL. As soon as I see the other team has the ball and makes even a reasonable strike that's good enough to put them into position, I ditch the game. Its not exciting, its not worth watching, and frankly there's no "can they really do it" type of deal. However for matching possessions, I would rather do it serpentine instead of first, second, first, second, etc. That way if the other team keeps the hope alive, they've get the chance to put it away. Although, I'd max it out at 3 attempts to score and if it ends up as a tie, oh well. Its a tie.