Ced

Contenders for the SWF's BRAWL FOR (NFL Footb)ALL 2005 TAKE 2! 1. Ced Ordonez 2. Alex Zenon 3. Austin Sly 4. "Grand Slam" Mark Stevens 5. Jake Helmsley 6. Frost 7. John Duran 8. "Hollywood" Spike Jenkins If for some reason you decide to bow out, let everyone know ASAP so we can toss another body into the fray.

I'm screwed in both my leagues if my teams continue to perform as they did in week one. Come on QBs, goddammit!

What's this? He's...he's gonna PUUUUKE! Damn, can't convey it properly without Vince McMahon's voice. I puke a little bit all the time. Something about eating food then immediately brushing my teeth in the morning.

I forget which PPV commercial it was, but it was the one with Pete Rose and the little kids coming up to his doorstep to ask for candy. There was the kid as Hogan, then the kid as Booker T, then...Kane. The funniest part was the casual "Hey Pete..." Kane gives to Rose before grabbing him for the throat for a presumed chokeslam. Then there'sScott Hall's drunken dance trying to sell The Giant "ripping apart" the ring. Unfortunately for Hall, the ring refuses to give way and he's stuck there selling like only he can. Then of course when the ring finally gives way, the feed is already starting to fade out as Heenan gives a quick "He did it!" in vain.

I fail to recognize cell phone games as bonafide games. Blame the N-Gage for that. P.S. The sheer amount of otakudom contained within my post and Flik's post is causing my head to spin.

Tommy Vercetti.

I don't know what compels people to do it, but I'm getting fucking sick of it. Practically every weekend for the past few weeks, I've had the pleasure of having to hear somebody about town in their fucking souped-up/riced-up car speed about town. I probably wouldn't bitch about it as much if it weren't for the fact that you know they're driving about thanks to their loud as fuck exhaust tips. And if that weren't bad enough, some of the bastards are doing fucking high-speed drift turns in the wee hours of the night, which is about as pleasant as nails against a chalkboard. And to top it all off, one of the bastards nearly t-boned my ass racing one of his fellow bastards through a red light just about an hour or two ago. I see a green light so I start driving forward like normal, to my right I see two cars coming up to the light. I don't think anything out of the ordinary...until they both hit the gas. Suddenly, it's damn apparent they're not stopping, so I slam on the brakes and stop in the intersection as they blow the red light. I'm sitting in the empty intersection, simply dumbfounded at what the hell just happened a few feet in front of me. A piece of me wanted to chase them down and cause some property damage, but no way I'm catching up to them in a car with a four-cylinder engine with a driver who suddenly developed a leadfoot on the brake. After a few seconds, I finally regain enough sense to get out of the intersection and park on the side of the road to let it all sink in. All the while I can hear the same two guys rev their engines then turn with a loud screech of their tires. I let out the words "Fucking Assholes" under my breath and proceed to drive home. Those twenty minutes are the slowest I've ever driven on a city road. Honestly, what the fuck is wrong with these people that use city streets as their personal racetrack? If you want to go race, race on an actual fucking racetrack or take up racing as a profession or hobby or whatever the fuck you want. Just stay the fuck away from me and the rest of the population that doesn't give a fuck about the fact that you can wake up half the neighborhood while going 70 MPH in a 40 MPH zone. Fuck your blatant disregard of traffic laws, fuck your loud as fuck engine, and go fucking find a nice lightpost to slam your car into. At least it isn't me you're hitting. This has been an angry rant.

Andy Bogard (Fatal Fury, KOF) Cyber Ninja (Metal Gear Solid) Donatello (TMNT) Galford (Samurai Shodown) Guy (Final Fight, Street Fighter) Hanzo (Samurai Shodown) Han Zo Mon (WCW/nWo Revenge) Ibuki (SF3) Joe Musashi (The CLASSIC Shinobi) Joe Osugi (Ninja Cop/Ninja Five O) Leonardo (TMNT) Michaelangelo (TMNT) Psylocke (X-Men) Raphael (TMNT) Ryu Hayabusa (Ninja Gaiden) Sub-Zero (MK series) Strider Hiryu Tessai (Shinobi Legions) Venom (Guilty Gear) Yagyu Ranzou (Double Dragon III)

I'm a perennial bandwagon jumper. I have no shame.

Hey now...Civics aren't shitty cars. They get 25-30 miles to the gallon, dammit. Power to the economy class vehicle! But I do have to confess my sins and say that my Civic has 16" rims. But the tires don't wear down as badly as my stock tires did, so I feel mildly justified in that investment.

I think it's boils down to the fact that you can't throw the ball that turns me off a bit, but I attribute that to my years of exposure to American Football. I assure you that I'd appreciate Aussie Rules alot more if I could only get more TV coverage of it here in the United States. By the way, Nanks, is increasing it to 15 meters for a mark meant to lower the number of free kicks? I'm way too hazy on Aussie Rules to know better.

Replaced "dead" with "slightly injured and without a car" in that statement and you have my sentiments about one of my friends who decided to try to drift his Eclipse through a right turn, grossly overshot it and slammed into the concrete center divide. Damaged almost the right side of his car and came away with some nasty cuts . With my incident in the very same night, there was lots of sarcastic clapping to show my love for my friend, the dumbass. Which brings up the question why the fuck would you let a 19-year-old drive a Mitsubishi Eclipse?

I watched a game during an overseas trip a few years ago. It's an entertaining watch, but there's something about Aussie Rules that I don't particularly like, but I can't put my finger on it. Maybe it's the 10 yard rules.

Cricket doesn't even register a blip on the American sports radar, even with a team of ours in the running. I'm not even sure that most Americans even know what cricket is let alone know the specific rules (I fall under the latter category myself). I think it's because we have baseball, which is to cricket as American football is to football.

I think I was about 4 when my grandpa dawned the Santa suit to give me my presents. The thing is, a week or two earlier, my mom brought me to the mall to visit the Santa there to ask for all the stuff I wanted. At that point I had to conclude that either Santa was capable of changing his looks, voice and ethnicity or the whole Santa thing was a fraud.

Americans?! Of course, they could put it on X-Box... *slaps head* Oh right...Forgot the whole "SquareEnix is a Japanese company" deal for a second. Well, they at least have the foot in the door of the domestic game developers if the right people take notice.

While an unpopular decision, SquareEnix is protecting one of their copyrights as a good company should. However, they definitely should consider bringing the Chrono Resurrection braintrust aboard for a project or two since they've at least shown a tremendous passion about their project. I question whether or not that quality of 3D graphics would be able to be sustained for a PS2 RPG. I'm thinking not until we get into the next-gen series of game systems.

I'm certain that this is a rumor. I'm almost certain that it was started by GamePro, who, if I remember correctly ran an altered picture of E. Honda jumping into the hot tub in addition to a fake Sheng Long pic in the heyday of that rumor.

I go to CSU Sacramento part-time and juggle that with a part-time job as a warehouse shipping clerk. Fortunately for me, the company I work for is a subsidary of a large corporation that offers a tuition reimbursement program. In essence, they're picking up most of my educational fees, granted I remain in good standing at both work and Sac State. Of course, if the program doesn't work like they promised, I'm bolting the first chance I get. As for the original question, I don't really find too much trouble balancing things out. It takes a little bit of sacrifice through the week (ie my PS2 gathering dust from lack of playtime) in order to get some reading and homework time in, but I have weekends free for the most part so I'm not complaining too bad.

Am I risking bodily harm by actually wanting an El Matador variant of Tito Santana?

I'm not too sure I'll pick up the SF Anniversary Collection. I hate playing fighting games on a PS2 controller, but I'm too stingy to plunk the money down for an arcade-style controller. Though I did I scoop up one the leftover figurine bust sets of Ryu and Chun Li through one of my friends at GameCrazy. People got them for preordering the Anniversary Collection. They're like a bust except action figure sized. A nice little addition to the clutter in my bedroom.

And here I thought that they've been dead for months now. Goodbye, Acclaim, have a few sacks of shit for grave filler. You've earned it. *hums the NES Wrestlemania theme*

I'm all about bringing a crappy team into dominance. In Madden 2004, the first thing I did was take over the Arizona Cardinals and deal Emmitt Smith to whoever was dumb enough to give me a draft pick for him. Then I went into the free agency market, grabbed the best talent I could sign without signing bonuses, then proceeded to deal them all for draft picks and/or younger talent. I eventually wound up with 2 first round picks and 3 second round picks along with Deion Branch from the Pats in my first franchise year, easily sowing the seeds for the rebuilding process. In NCAA 2005, I spend most of my first recruiting year trying to snatch up the best D-Line and LB players I can get to commit to my school along with a running back and maybe some O-Liners if I have the time to do so. A solid run-stopping, pass-rushing defense to force alot of 3 & Outs, and a rush-offense to tire out the opponent's D-Line and set up the pass. Basic football strategy, but it works really well.

Ah, recognition. Blunt, painfully truthful recognition. *disappears back into obscurity, aided by a horrendously mistimed smokescreen*

C'mon, Kid Icarus... C'mon, Punch Out!... C'mon, Duck Hunt...oh yeah...Duck Hunt...