January 26th 2017

Sup Guys, so much gaming lately.

I’m loving it but dude my brain is going on overload. So much information lately. Overall with Street Fighter 5 I’m actually going to stick w Necalli for my main for right now. I’m loving Akuma, I’m loving the big damage, all the options on offense, having a fireball again and being able to anti air so easily. But Necalli has big damage too and I feel really good about the footsie game w him where Akuma, it’s cr.mp and fireballs for footsies and one bad fireball getting hit by a jump in means a massive loss of life. We’ll see. I’m having mad fun.

1/12 Thurs - still up playing Street Fighter 5 all night. Headed out at 10am to get my oil changed and updated my car system at the Honda dealer and then got my haircut and got groceries. Very productive half day of errands. Made burgers finally and god, l love burgers. Makes me miss summer so much…

Slept in the evening and got up late to play Titanfall 2 w the Scumbags. Im just ok at that game if anything. Just l dont like run and gun shooters. Jetpacks and sliding and stuff. I like slow methodical shooters. Counter-Strike being a good example. Yea l like Overwatch but that game is more a MOBA than a shooter.

Ended the night catching up on mad gaming news and watching stuff bout the Nintendo Switch and playing Street Fighter 5.

Friday was still up from thurs and got a lot of work done to start the day. Hit Nicah’s and we got groceries and stuffed face and then passed out. All we do is eat and sleep lol. Its winter time tho. Bear like habits.

Got up and hit pregame at Allison/Andy’s. Just a simple pregame and had drinks and hookah and JennaZ came back out w us again. We hit up Rumor and just partied there all night and the music got much better towards the last hour. Legs were extra spent. Hit back to Nicah’s to sleep a lil.

Sat got up early as balls to drive my Dad to the JFK airport in NY. God so much driving. Said bye to my Dad as he went back to China for a few months and then drove back to Nicah’s to eat and sleep lol. Got up late and hit Allison/Andy’s again for a last minute pregame. Tons of friends came through and just had a good time drinking and smoking w everyone. Glad we can still get a good solid group together even if we announce pregame at 1030pm.

We headed out to Coda afterwards. Partied all night there and also caught up w Ted from my fraternity who l didnt get to meet up w at New Years Eve though he was at my event. Introduced him and his friends to my friends and had fun partying w them in their VIP area. Also caught up w AmyS who l havent seen since high school. I’ve known her since 3rd grade so it was nice seeing someone lve known so much of my life.

Partied till closing and afterwards, me Nicah and Sam hit McDonalds AND Wawa lol. The girls were hungry. Hit back to eat and watch shows and we were on youtube all night.

Sunday still up, hit home and hit Oxford Valley Mall for the Magic the Gathering - Aether Revolt pre-release. So built a decent red white aggro vehicles deck again but my first opponent was someone who was tied w me for 1st place before. Got so mana screwed game 1 2 and 3. So I had 8 mts, 8 plains, 8 red cards, 8 white cards, 8 artifacts. Game 1 only drew mts, game 2 only drew mts, game 3 only drew plains. SEIOGHSIOGHSOIGHOSIHGOSIGHIO wtfffff dudee…. The bad luck continued to my second opponent where even using Scry, l still only had mts again. Lost the next game just by a turn.

So l started 0-2….. Losing early is much worse than losing later as well because of breakers(who you beat and lost to matters). Of the 40+ players which was smaller than other pre-releases l top 8’d, l came in 9th, just missing Top 8. I hit semi finals multiple times in 65+ and 80+ pre-releases. But ahhh… If you’re wondering why Top8 is a big deal is that’s when the tournament changes format from Swiss to single elimination. Plus, most the time, people just agree at Top 8 to split prizes for pre-releases, so l got 2 packs instead of 10 packs split w everyone. Ughhhhh… oh well.

I MAY get back into Standard now that cards will last slightly longer in Standard again but we’ll see. Looking into other Modern decks but not sure if I should. I still love Affinity and it has changed much at all the past 2 yrs but become slightly more aggro lol, the way l like it. I love Magic but we’ll see. The scene and the bit of randomness can be a huge turn off. I just like the decision making and thinking scenarios I get put in. Also bluffing is always fun. Deception + logical decision making. All you need for any FUN and smart game.

Hit home to bum it and slept early since l was up for an insane amount of hours again.

1/16 Monday got up at 630pm…. Just slept 21 hours… wtfff lol but yooo l felt so fresh. It was nice. My head was clear, l was energized. Did some work and just played Street Fighter 5. Watched The Walking Dead while stuffing face w burgers and did a lot of reading on Magic the Gathering, catching up w everything into Tues.

Tues was doing a lot of reading about Modern. I still love that format and Standard. Also both Draft and Sealed are fun. Im trying out Commander. Its crazy how this one game has evolved. Did work during the morning and the appraiser came through to check out the home to make sure it still maintained value which it did. $250,000. Good to know. Ended up being in a massive Magic the Gathering war w the scumbags which resulted in a showdown happening w me vs SteveC lol. I’m looking forward to it. Hit Rita’s to smoke hookah and catch up and talked bout a bunch of stuff and then hit home to finally sleep.

Weds morning knocked out a ton of work and made a nice breakfast and started to plan out the rest of my week. Met up w Long at Ion Nightclub to check out the venue for using it for Chinese New Years.  Hit Nicah’s afterwards to nap and then got up to hit Allison and Andy’s.

We cooked lemon chicken and made vegs and yoooo the meal was so good. Check out that instagram pic oo0oooOoOoOoo AhHhhHHhHhhh Ooo0ooOoO <- amazed sound effects. Smoked hookah and just had a really good night. Just glad they live so close by now. Im really happy me and my sister still see each other all the time. Im gonna be sad when she leaves for grad school in Columbia. Afterwards, hit back to Nicah’s and bullshitted all night.

Thurs got up to get Nicah from class and we hit up Chinatown for bubble tea and David’s Mai Lai Wah. Got mad food and hit back to her place to stuff face and watch American Horror Story. Oddly… off the 6 seasons, me and her both watched 1, 2, 3 and 5 and missed 4 and 6 lol. PERFECT!! So we decided to watch Season 6 which is very different but as always, really good to watch. That show is just amazing. Did some work on her laptop for a while and knocked out.

Friday got up and was playing Dishonored 2 and Street Fighter 5 while Nicah was at work. Got her at 1pm and got viet food. Spring rolls are so fucking boss. Hit back and we napped till 7pm cause all we do is eat and sleep lol. Got up to eat and then got ready.

Pced out to Marissa’s for pregame and glad to have everyone together again there as they’ve been gone for 6 weeks. They got me special chocolates and chopsticks from Japan. Had a fun pregame and then we hit up Rumor to party. Laidback Luke was playing so holy shit, the whole world was there. Line was around the corner and had Teefish cut is past everyone. I’m not a fan of cutting line at where I’m promoting because I’m only cutting infront of some of my own friends(tho getting in some of my friends) but the line was ridiculous.

Club was mad fun but mostly danced in the hiphop room since the EDM room was beyond packed. Had fun partying back and forth room to room tho mostly in the hiphop room and finding so many friends in a single night. After the club, kept Nicah up till 9am cause its fun lol.

Sat we slept in like crazy. Got up in the evening and hit up Kyle’s event - Go for Broke. Though I’ve been playing mad Street Fighter V lately and been doing much better, gahh l went 0-2. First person l played of all people was the same person l lost to first at NEC a bit over a month ago. Just bad luck. Glad to hang out w everyone and afterwards, hit back to Nicah’s to get ready and then hit OJ’s pregame.

Destroying in beer pong and won a game w Nicah. Shut out one of Oj’s friends hitting all 6 cups right off the bat but not hitting the last cup twice(since l made an island earlier) and he got the shoot redemption lol.

Hit up Coda after where we just danced all night. Hung in VIP a lil as ChrisC and his friends got bottles and just had a good time being w everyone. My legs were burnt out and pced out at closing and made food. We ate food and finished American Horror Story season 6. Stayed up till 9am cause thats how we do lol.

Sunday we slept the entire day away and woke up 8pm. Yep. Made dumplings by frying, boiling and steaming to taste test each. In the end, steaming and boiling is like the exact same thing but it was all good. I think l like fried dumplings the most tho overall when l hit a restaurant. Watched Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and I liked it a lot but I see why people didnt like it expecting a Harry Potter movie. Yes its the same world and all that but the first thing is that the movie takes place in the normal world which felt weird. Even in the later Harry Potter movies where they are in the normal world, it just felt weird. You’re use to seeing magic everywhere. Then also a new cast is always a bit rough. I liked it though.

Played some Street Fighter 5, teaching Nicah some stuff and then playing against each other and playing online matches. Then we watched the new and last episode of this season’s Sherlock. Such a dope show. Sad its only 3 episodes every 2 yrs. But the way the show is done and all, they need to be long episodes like that.

1/23 Monday drove Nicah to work and hit home to do mad work all day. Slept in the evening and got up to play Overwatch w the Scumbags. Went we kept winning one then losing one all night. Towards the end of the night, w Won’s group, we started to win several games in a row boosting my score to the new highest l’ve gotten at 2705. 3000 for Diamond which is my goal. Ate food and watched Street Fighter 5 vids all night. 

Tues morning hit a meeting w my team to talk bout plans for 2017 and everything going on. Always good to just touch base and hang out w them as always. Afterwarsd, ran errands to get new bowls and silverware at Nicah’s along w other shit all day. Got groceries and hit home to stuff face w burgers and grapes(tryna be healthy). Did work all evening and later at night, Overwatch’s update for Chinese New Year w the Scumbag Squad.

We went fucking 16 wins in a row on Capture the Flag the new Arcade game that came out. So we werent sure what reset the capturing of the flag to steal it but found out later its from taking hits. That’s why l was able to steal the flag so easily so many times cause l kept putting up Reinhardt’s shield. Nearly ALL GAMES l captured 2 of the 3 captures we needed to win. We finally lost the 17th game. It was glorious. Played ranked games afterwards just going up and down and having my overall rank stagnate.

Weds got up and worked on the tenants garbage disposal. So l heard a clingy sound and l wasnt sure if the blades were loose but l put a flashlight in and there was a quarter. All this for just a loose quarter in the garbage disposal. Atleast its not gonna cost $150 to replace for a new one. Got a hoagie and vodka and hit home to eat and do work all evening.

Night time more Overwatch w the Scumbags and aeoirghaohgaoig score staying the same. Win Lose Win Lose Draw Draw Win Lose. The random players were get have to be the absolute worst. I’m talking on defense running up to the enemy past the chokepoint and getting picked. Winning game 1 and disconnecting on game 2 for the rest of the game. Driving me mad. People never disconnect on the other team but it is amazing how often it happens to the random players on my team. Esp at lower levels. So hopped on Street Fighter 5 when everyone got off. MORE DISCONNECTING from the opponent when l would win my match so l wouldnt gain points and they wouldnt lose any. I dont get why Capcom right off the bat did do a ‘you disconnect, you lose points, they gain points’ no matter what like other games. It’s the best rule. Yea if your internet cuts out, that sucks but it wasnt the other players fault the game ended prematurely. The fact that its a simple to abuse system of turning off your Playstation if you lose so the match doesnt count is ridiculous and its been like this for 10 months since the games release. Once again, it was much more frequent at lower levels. More Overwatch w Joon where we did ok and my score still stay stagnant and then more Street Fighter 5 lol. Lots of gaming.

We use to get food together. Then he met her.

I understand Hack.....

I understand.

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