Sup Guys, l think l need to sleep a lil less.
There’s soooo much stuff piling on faster than l can accomplish lately and its kinda stressful. A lot of stuff is pure bullshit though and l really shouldnt be complaining. Like wanting to take M.Bison to Master rank lol. But the past 2 months been hectic which is why lm mad late to posting again.
First some more past wedding ceremony pics w Emily and Dennis.
7/11 Thurs all evening, just doing real estate work, nightlife stuff and kept youtube up on the side watching the homie Omni. Gonna plug the channel. https://www.youtube.com/@InfernoOmni
He’s just a really good chill channel when youre doing whatever and want something on besides music. Just to keep up w the nerd news. And he’s got that solid radio voice.
Things picked up well w work outta nowhere. Later on got on Elden Ring w Peter for a lil. Taking out his NG+ Bayle The Dread which we had to brainstorm a lot. Went out to find the best anti fire talisman and come back to it. I LOVE ELDEN RING SO MUCH!!! Because, you can always accomplish something. Its just a lot of learning. Trying out different methods. And just being good lol. Afterwards, took him out solo in my game as my game, l always wanna have take out every boss by myself. Ended up staying up all night watching youtube and the Suicide Squad Isekai.
Friday took a nap in the morning and then got up 11am and hit house showings w Joyce and her family at my old neighborhood and saw another potential home. Its pretty wild how much the prices have gone up in my old neighborhood. Afterwards, got home to watch more youtube on Elden Ring and then drove RyanW to the airport. Passed out at 5pm lol.
Sat woke up a bit past midnight. Was a bit too late to make it out. Just watched some youtube and played some Elden Ring into the morning. Got wawa and yoo.. Sausage burrito was not a good decision. Ate, smoked hookah and watched youtube. Finally napped at 10am and got up at 3pm to hit my event at XOX.
Got to XOX and met up w Elijah as he was going over the mix drinks w the Go Rae Soju. Thank you Go Rae as always and thank you Elijah. The mix drinks were ridiculously good and lm not gassing it up cause its my event lol. One drink w ginger beer was tied for my favorite along w the one that was pretty much lemonade. Our DJs made it out and they played the right music for a chill beer garden. Good catching up w Jacky Edwin and Jada. Met some of the other bartenders and settled in. Lit the hookah and Jeremiah and Mike came through. Had a good time chilling, smoking hookah and drinking the soju mix drinks and slowly a base crowd came through. Moved to a table that was shaded as it was getting hot out. Sam and Jon came through and glad lm seeing them a bit more often. Sam is feeling old and lm telling her to bring back 2014 Sam. Ok so thats a decade ago but whatever… l know she can still rally. Either way, lm glad they both came out. Mango and her squad made it out and then other small squads of the typical Philly Chinatown groups came out. From being lowkey a lot in June, it was good just running around partying and socializing w everyone. The DJs were doing such a god damn amazing job. Of course, music preference is opinionated but my opinion is right and they had amazing music selection. A lot of dirty hype music. People started buying bottles of Go Rae directly which l was happy about. Introducing friends to friends and acting dumb on the dance floor. Partied till closing though we stayed open a bit later than usual. There was after parties but l was too dead. Gave Mike a ride back and then hit back to eat. Jeremiah got Halal guys, thank you Jeremiah. Stuffed face and smoked hookah and watched videos on Elden Ring. Finally passed out at 6am lol.
Sunday slept in hardcore. Got up to do real estate work for a lil and lit the hookah to chill for a lil. Got ready for Foo and Uyen’s wedding. Me and Jeremiah hit Philly and back to eating and drinking lol. Ran in and took pics w Foo and Uyen first. Congrats you two!!!!111 I’ll see them here and there in Chinatown and either scream or honk at them. Foo is a major foody and always posting solid food on social media.
Knew l’d see a lot of gaming FGC friends and other party friends. It was funny how there was a solid amount of people who l also saw from the week before’s wedding for Emily and Dennis. Ran around catching up w friends and got to my table and yoooo THE FOOD was so solid. Your typical solid asian family style food. Honey walnut shrimp, fried lobster, peking duck… dude… l was loving life. Had a fun vulgar table lol. Glad we established it right away. DannyV was also at my table and glad to catch up w him. Talking card games and anime. Also good hanging and sitting w BrandonLeeBarber. I dunno why but his name just flows really well. Had fun running around socializing w so many friends. Its funny how many mutual friends me and Foo have but lm not surprised since he’s an outgoing chill guy. Uyen chucked the flowers for who gets married next into the lighting lol. Foo got a big stick to get it out. It was cute to see. Jumping into photos w people at the photo booth and yooo… l ate so much food. I love asian seafood. Hung late and we hit home to chill.
Congrats again Foo and Uyen. Wish you guys the best 🙂
Got home to watch videos on Street Fighter 6, smoke hookah and then organized and sent out photos from the weekend. Sending out photos to everyone, my DJs, club owners and managers, Foo and Uyen and other friends from the whole weekend. Ate more left overs from the wedding, smoked hookah and watched youtube videos on Elden Ring. The Lore IS SO GOD DAMN GOOD. Its another Game of Thrones. Like the deeping you dive into it, the better it gets. Its so damn wild. But awesome that you play through it. Imagine playing an amazing game and the storyline is your story in Game of Thrones. Its so good. And w House of the Dragon on. Im loving life.
7/15 Monday slept in hardcore. I needed it from lack of sleep the past few days w everything and house showings during the day time. Smoked hookah and watched youtube till l got Ryan from the airport. That guy is flying like crazy lately. Hit home to do work for a while. Real estate picked up big time. Thats why lm never worried. Back to bumming as l was mentally just drained. Eating more wedding left overs. Lobster and fried rice omg… so happy lol. Smoked hookah and watched youtube till 4am.
Tues got up at 11am and did work for a while and then played some Street FIghter 6 till house showings w Mikey and Steph. Glad we got to chill and catch up for a while. Saw an amazing home and then headed to The Lab where l went 2-2 and took 3rd of 5. I messed up multiple times against a Zangief player that l shouldve beat 3-1 but l was dropping combos or being hesitant. Still had fun w everyone and good to get some more tournament practice in before EVO.
Got home and me and Jeremiah watched The Boys and then worked on Tekken 8 first time in MONTHS. Didnt take toooo long to refresh everything. Getting my bnbs down along w a few set ups. We’ll see. King is still amazing right now. Played online for a while to warm up. Wasnt doing too well of course but atleast l remember how to play the game. Watched the last few episodes of Demon Slayer for this season and lm sooo hype for next season now. But this season was kinda one big set up.
Weds still up, testing stuff in Street Fighter 6 for Akuma and Luke. Still gonna keep my Luke around. After EVO, lm gonna try to get M.Bison to Master Rank and see if he’d be a secondary for me for Street Fighter 6. Then enjoy some Luke, Cammy, Zangief and Ed for fun. Finally slept at 10am and got up at 6pm and did work for a while for clients. Setting everyone up since l was going away for EVO.
Ryan and Zack come through to watch House of the Dragon and some youtube. Stayed up late, snacking, smoking hookah and did some Street Fighter 6 testing on the side. Zack later left and Ryan slept over. Tried to nap but couldn’t. Lit the hookah at 430am lol. Woke up Ryan and we smoked and watched YouTube till my flight.
Thurs at 530am me and Ryan hit the Philly airport. Thank you Ryan!!! By chance Boog was on my flight as l saw him waiting and glad l got a friend to fly and return flight w. The flight there was so stiff. We were talking bout how we should upgrade seats next time cause 5.5 hours is a long time to be uncomfy. Couldnt sleep.
Got to Vegas and we met up w Justin and then got to the line for badges. Also met Karen(fruitypoppin) by chance on my way. Always found her content funny. Skipped line and got a badge from VIP Media after saying hi to Jammerz and kinda just blended in to get my badge early.
We then hit an IHop close by the air bnb and met up w Aaron. Stuffed face and l got hype to see the air bnb. Checked out our amazing home for the following 5 days and yooo.. GOOD WORK AARON on this one. Our house was huge. Everyone had their own bed and we even had extra beds. Took a nap finally.
Got up in the evening. Felix, Deangelo, George and Purin came through to chill. Play some games and hang out. Just had some Street Fighter 6 practice. Reviewing Tekken 8 notes but l kinda figured that was pointless. Im only Orange Rank. Only touching the game for 4 hours earlier in the week since March lol. But reviewed enough to remember. Later on when they were leaving, l rode w them and hit the Westgate Casino and mehhh… tables were cursed. I only got lucky at the end and won my money back along w an additional $37. Just played craps.
Justin got me and we got food from Carl Jr and yoo… l like it! Thank you Justin for the ride. Got back to the air bnb to eat and chill late night w everyone.
Friday got up and our butler named Bote made us a huge breakfast. Thank you!! He was an awesome butler and cool dude in general. Headed out w Aaron and first hit Tekken 8 where Son Dula was in my pools. I knew he’d do well. Good to see and catch up w him and then l proceeded to go 0-2 in Tekken 8 lol. Ran around for a while w friends. Got to catch up w Smug and later on RobTV. Very happy how well things are going for them media wise since meeting them in the Street Fighter 4 days. We’re that old now. Also caught up w Faye Mata who l met at Evo years ago. It’s cool she voices Aki in Street Fighter 6 too. Me and Aaron ran around to play 2XKO and then Dragonball Sparking Zero. Both were a lot of fun. Played some more 2XKO and then hit Street Fighter 6 for my pools.
First sat down randomly at different stations to warm up and then went to warm up at my station. A dude sits down next to me to warm up and asks my name and then realizes we’re facing each other first so l didnt wanna warm up w him so we just chatted. He made it outta pools in Tekken 8 and in Street Fighter 3 3rd Strike…. On winners in each. I was like ohh shitt… He said he plays Ed so l had that advantage of knowing that character well. Not based from Street Fighter 5 as my main but that l really focused on him on Street Fighter 6 as well as a possible switch from Luke. My pool was cursed lol. Even other people were mentioning how there wasnt any like ‘bullshit’ ‘casual’ ‘happy to just be there’ players in my pool.
First played the dude who l met. He went by Omen. Had a really close game going to the final game, final round, both of us w our lv3s. Got a good hit into lv3 on him and just slow played it and swore, l’ll just eat a ton of throws but lm not gonna throw tech and get shimmied and lose all my life. Eventually snuck out the win. I was sure he’d be fine for his next match but then his next match was against some Japanese player who someone fell into losers early and beat Omen and won 6 matches in a row to make it outta pools in losers.
My next match l knew was tough as this guy has placed Top 8 in majors in Street Fighter 6. He was 2nd seed of my pool of 21 players. His Zangief beat my ass so bad. Anyway.. Onto losers. My next match DQ’d which l was kinda bummed about. I wanted to get as many tournament games in. Esp early Losers, l have higher chance of winning since its literally the bottom of the pit. My next match was a Ken player who played madddd fucking weird. But while l was so baffled by how he played, l noticed oh shit… he’s beating me. Chilled out, just played normal and beat him. 5th round was another Japanese player. The 1st seed of my pool. WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU HERE W ME IN LOSERS SO EARLY?!?!?! He had this lil squad w him too. Being all kunichiwa and HelloKitty in the back. He had a really solid Chun-Li but it wasnt AS good as l thought it’d be for being top seed. But he eventually did pull the win from me. But he didnt beat my ass unlike the Zangief early. Welp that was my run.
3-2… meh..
Was hoping for 5-2 minimum as l’ve gotten 6-2 in DNF Duel and 8-2 Samurai Shodown in the past. Ran around to play more 2XKO and was trying to maximize time by choreographing the fights so both games me and the other 3 players would play would get max time. So each game going to final round. But l’d knock out one player, then switch so the random dude l was teammed w could get some play time and he would just beat the other dude. Next game, they switched order and we just beat them again 2-0 each game. It went fast. Afterwards, went off solo to gamble. Craps was cursed… Just fucking cursed. Hung out w Andres for a lil and yea… it was a tough night lol. -$520 after 3 hours. WTFFF….
Got to the house and binged ate for a while. Pizza and icecream from Gopuff lol. I felt like a girl who just got dumped. I understand you. Hung out w everyone late again.
Sat got up and had a chill breakfast and then hit up Evo for shopping focused. I didnt check out any of the artist alley or dealers on Friday so l really wanted to shop but only if l really wanted something as l had very little room in my bag to bring home. Found a shop selling bullet tops and grabbed one and messaged the Dumpling Sessions guys and a bunch of them wanted one. Ended up grabbing another 6 lol. Also found the Victrix engraving station and just engraved Akuma’s Destroy on the bottom right of my Victrix. I absolutely love it. Was thinking of adding Zang somewhere, maybe next to it or sideways and then maybe the Akuma picture from Marvel vs Capcom 3 but decided to think bout first and if l wanted to, l could do it on Sunday.
Ran around seeing more old friends and had fun browsing the shops. SOOOO MUCH GOOD ART but from buying sooo much art in the past from cons… l know there’s no reason to buy stuff l cant hang up. But l wanted soo much. Just throughout allll the years of gaming. I have so many ties to so many characters. And seeing amazing art of a character l once had close ties to, l just want it so bad as a lil ‘hey remember those times?’ kinda thing on my wall.
Ran into Cujo Kate and got to catch up for a while and then hit Marvel vs Capcom 3 to watch Aaron and Gabe both do well in the tournament. After their matches, we hit the Arena to watch the end of Mortal Kombat 1 finals where Sonic Fox won it. Congrats as always Sonic Fox!
Me and AndresV ran around watching some matches. That dude better come chill more. I love that guy. Ran back to the Marvel Vs Capcom 3 station to support Gabe and Aaron in their matches. Also saw and got to catch up w KevinY. He won my Marvel tournament during my 2v2 bboy jam wayyy back in 2012. God damn, lm old.
Afterwards, we were heading out and by chance of walking paths, was going to intersect w Mizziemie and Trixie Dang. Boog is so mentally smooth. He always gots the smooth casual lines. Took up his advice on the ‘l really like your cosplay, can l get a pic’ to start talking w them and then traded IGs and told them to come through to drink and jacuzzi.
Got back to the house and got pizza, chilled w Mike’s hard lemonade in the jacuzzi, playing music and just relaxing. Figuring out the night, had some bad ideas but its vegas and opportunity is what you make of it. But the costs of bad ideas really wasnt worth it. Ended up hitting FrankeS from the PhillyFGC who moved here to Vegas as he has the hook ups. Got us set w a limo and we ended up hitting Treasures. Had fun drinking in the limo and yooo Treasures… WAS GOD DAMNN AMAZING!!
Walked in and yo, the dancer:customer ratio was ridiculous. I was wondering… how do allll these girls make money if there is more girls than guys at this Gentlemen’s club? Got drinks, enjoyed the show and got pretty drunk. I was that guy and l was having so much fun. We met a dancer ‘Elektra’ who was really cool. After we mentioned we were here for a gaming tournament, she mentioned how she’s a gamer and cosplayer. Ended up hanging w her all night and our squad really liked her. Traded numbers and IGs and then hit home late night. Ended the night just eating hanging w the guys late night.
Sunday got up and texted ‘Elektra’ from last night but got her real name being Jinx which… still sounded very suspicious to me. Jinx came through to join us and then also hit up FrankeS to come through along w some of the PhillyFGC. We just had a dope bbq where our butler grilled for us and yooo… our butler can really fucking cook. It was awesome. Jumping in the jacuzzi and having drinks for a lil. Back out and eating hot dogs and burgers. I was loving it.
Got ready and we headed back out to Evo. Aaron’s sister was w us so we had 2 cars to get there. Ran around shopping a bit more and yoo Jinx’s cosplay of Morrigan was mad popular. Didnt mind the stopping as l got to focus on the stuff around while people took pics. Def some stuff l wanted but the vast majority was art which I DO NOT NEED OR HAVE SPACE FOR. So much good damn art tho. I dont really need charms as my bags already got them as well. Stickers arent bad for marking your stuff but l got all my stuff marked lol. Did get a ton of bullet tops as more of the group wanted them from EVO.
I did win through a raffle of a frame pic of Evo Moment #37 that was signed by Justin Wong and Daigo Umehara. Def a cool piece of history. There’s apparently a shitload though after asking a Street Fighter facebook group so l dont think there’s much re-sell value. Had fun watching Street Fighter 6 finals w Jinx Gabe and later on George and Pirin as we tried to get into the arena but they werent letting people in, even w saved seats. The arena is pretty much… if you go in, hopefully you dont gotta use the bathroom cause you wont be coming back. I dont like that. Ever hear the stories of people wearing diapers in times square during new years?! IM NOT PEEING MY PANTS W A DIAPER FOR SHIT. Actually, pay me enough and l’ll do it but not to watch something. Had fun watching finals and congrats Punk on the win! Nice to see USA finally take the main Street Fighter tournament(meaning not past Street Fighter’s) at Evo.
Afterwards, hit back to have a super chill night w everyone. Just games, food, youtube all night. Nothing crazy, just felt like living back in college where you just do whatever and hang w your friends.
7/22 Monday got up as everyone was running around the house talking. Def felt like college lol. But college was a really good time. Got up and Jinx came through to chill. Just packing up, watching movies and snacking. Our butler let us stay till 5pm tho check out was 10am cause he was mad chill. Tipped him extra for that and alllll the amazing service for the whole weekend. All the cooking and cleaning. Dude did an amazing job.
Me and Boog headed out to meet up w Gabe and Holland at a buffet spot. Stuffed face and settled in. Gambled and was doing well on craps.. Going up $180 and then one of the staff said l cant throw my hand toooo long past ‘the line’ or whatever and threw off my luck. Right away… 7. Me and the rest of the table were like wtfff.. Also there was a dice roll where one die came off the table then back on and gave 7 and they counted it. Def some scummy moments. If it woulda came up as a number that made people money, they wouldnt have counted it. Really didnt like that scumbag shit. Played blackjack and was doing well till l went a lil crazy. Got lucky going crazy once but the 2nd and 3rd time didnt pay off lol. Holland was right, l shoulda just enjoyed my time chilling there going up and down. Fun though running around and gambling w Holland.
Hit the airport next just to bum. Me and Boog being on the same flight. Just chilling till our flight. Hopped on our stiff ass flight flying Frontier and yoo… next time, lm planning shit early so l dont gotta fly Frontier(and Spirit). I just decided too late and got my flight so last second.
Tues morning got back to Philly and RyanW picked me up. Thank you homie!! We always got each other. Got home, picked up chinese food and yooo there was a lot of things reminding me of Antman so l decided to rewatch all of them. Ate, smoked hookah and watched Antman 1. Slept on and off cause my life is in shambles and worked on an offer for friend’s. Thankfully my team helped cover for me while l was at Vegas so they didnt miss seeing a home they really wanted to see. I love my real estate team. Sleeping more on and off. Got up eventually and got that offer accepted :))))))))
Finished Antman 1 and started watching Antman2. Stayed up late night and just handled so much personal junk since l wasnt home for so many days. Catching up on my gaming news on Eventhubs. Uploading all the pics and sending them to EVERYONE in all the group chats. Organizing other notes getting everything clean into weds.
Weds still up, worked on real estate on the accepted offers l have and sending out listings to other clients. Got chipotle and then watched Antman3. Slept in the afternoon and got up at night to chill w Ryan. He came over and we watched the first Alien movie as we are going to see the new Alien movie soon and l wanted a refresher on the entire series. Just like l went through the entire Predator series a while ago. I enjoy hardcore binging movie series. Afterwards, watched some youtube and chilled into Thurs.
Thurs morning still up. Got panera bread cause l just wanted a well built sandwich. The thing bout cooking or making food at home. There’s def cost benefits but when lm doing it for myself, the main flaw is left overs. If l buy stuff to make sandwiches. Its not gonna be perfect on bread to meats to cheese ect. And then l gotta make several sandwiches. Then… l save myself money compared to buying it. Sometimes…. Just buy it if the cost is whatever ya know?
ANYWAY
Got the food and ate while watching Alien Prometheus. Im doing the OG Alien movies 1-4 w Ryan and figured ld do Prometheus, Covenant and the redo the Alien vs Predator movies myself.
Worked on multiple things for a while. Just my usual junk and then some stuff for nightlife and some stuff for real estate. Took a nap and then got up later for Deadpool Wolverine which was a really fun movie. Def some solid ass jokes, some cool moments, plenty of action which lm glad they knew we wanted and overall a good time. For the MCU on how this changes things… it didnt seem to have a massive impact actually but who knows. I get X-Men coming to the MCU and all that but… we all knew that was happening. Whatever we’ll see. Def a fun movie and good to see them both playing as Deadpool and Wolverine again as its been a lil while. Hit home to make soup dumplings, smoke hookah, watch youtube and tested questions in Street Fighter 6 and watching more youtube into friday morning.
Friday still up, finally slept at 10am. Got up at 1245pm and hit a home inspection and then ran errands. Got mad groceries and hit home to eat, hookah and watch youtube. Head was throbbing though from lack of sleep. Slept a lil and then woke up late night to watch and finish Alien Prometheus and then Alien Convenant.
Sat still up, working on stuff for real estate for a while and taking care of junk on my PC. Just having a bum day. Passed out at 130pm and got up at 515pm to go out to dinner w Ryan Gunnar and Jack. Checked out this spot suggested by the guys called Vernick Food and Drink. Apparently a big deal in Philly. Really good seeing Jack and its crazy how long we’ve been friends for since meeting through wrestling each other in 1999. We wrestled each other twice in Jr High and then in high school were in the same science class and became friends along w being on the same wrestling team in high school. Then l started taking him clubbing and we became close friends from there. Re-reading all that, l feel old.
Dinner was amazing. Pricey but its not like lm doing this all the time. Got some small dishes to share and also shared some of our main dishes to get more variety. Crazy that this chicken dish was the main dish as you think ‘chicken’ being so basic. But it was sauced so damn well. Just talking bout everything going on and stuffing face. Dinner was a while but lm glad as it was more chill time. Got some dessert before hitting back home. Ryan came over to watch Aliens(second Alien movie) as lm doing the entire entire series preparing for the newest Alien movie about to drop. We were mad tired though and got half way through. Had to go up and pass out.
Sunday slept till 4pm. Just such lack of sleep lately. Just had a really bum day. Did real estate and nightlife work all afternoon and then more organizing on my PC. I feel like pics, notes and files are just EVERYWHERE. I need to take a day to clean everything. Def think I over do it on organizing though, esp w my notes but when there is sooo much info, headlining is maddd important. I take things you shouldnt take serious, way too serious.
Hit downstairs to smoke hookah and watch The Boys and then played Elden Ring all night.
7/29 Monday still up, watching youtube and Dave Chappelle stand up. Around 11am, started work and l hope lm not overloading my plate. Just real estate and nightlife is going well but there can def be a TOO good. Like ‘Good problem to have’ level ya know? I just dont want to forget anything. Which is why nearly everything is written down. Working on planning for Otakon too. Eventually passed out early.
Tues got up at 4am and just bummed on my PC for a while. Cooked and then watched Alien vs Predator. Played some Elden Ring and then lunch time, got lunch w Asis An and their kid at JB Dawson’s. Thank you for the meal guys!! We went over a lot of stuff. Some business, some gaming lol. Good just spending time w them though as l havent seen them since we got the new beauty salon location. Asis is just an all around good dude that’s very hype about his interests which is why we really get along. Glad we got some time together.
Hit back home to do real estate and nightlife work for a while. My brain is broken. Finally beat Elden Ring DLC w my pure Str build. I beat Radahn just poking behind a shield and going all in on that build w spear talisman and stuff. Its gonna be much harder w my pure Dex build. Slept at 10pm like a human.
Weds got up early to work on a ton of small things for work and personal stuff. Had a chill morning onn my PC and then was craving wings so l got a ton at Buffalo Wild Wings. I just feel like the quality though has gone done a lot. Hit home to eat, smoke hookah and watch youtube for a while till Brown came over. We finally finished Gen V. He’s been mad busy but l do gotta harass him to chill more. Gen V ending was cool but now its gonna be a while till we get more content of The Boys since that season finished as well. More youtube and then played Elden Ring all night. Ended the night on some Netflix.
Thurs had a chill morning with work and hookah lol. Its a chill life. Hit Chinatown for meeting at XOX w Edwin and Jacky on upcoming events. Went over a few potential events to go over the details and its always nice working w friends. Sced it so my haircut was an hour later right across the street at Room209. I love Philly Chinatown seriously. It just feels like home ya know? I love to party there, get food there, haircut, Round1 and other stuff. Which l do need to hit Round1 soon to play DanceRush. Got some bubble tea afterwards and Honeygrow and hit home to eat and take it easy.
Later on, me Ryan and Jeremiah hit the movies to see Trap. I love M.Night Shyamalan movies. Even the ones that werent well received. Trap is a REALLY GOOD MOVIE. Signs, Split and The Visit are some of my favorites. I still need to watch The Watchers. Just go see it. Hit home to chill before passing out to prepare for Otakon.
Friday morning hit Otakon. Go Rae got my ticket as a thank you since they were hosting a booth there and events afterwards. Checked out the gaming room to chill for a lil and then went shopping for a bit. The area to buy stuff was absolutely massive. So much cool stuff. The thing is, my place is FILLED w nerd shit. There isnt anymore room for statues or posters. Small things like charms is nice but honestly… my main bags got Street Fighter charms already. Im not one to really switch out stuff.
Met up w Clarisse and Steven afterwards in the gaming room. Playing Street Fighter 6 against some other players and giving up my spot for people if 2 people who never played Street Fighter 6 wanted to try and playing on the other set up. Thank you for the food Clarisse!! Ginny happened to pass buy and told us how she was having people over to drink later on. Clarisse and Steven told me bout the FLOW concert who has done songs for several anime’s. We all remember the catching Fighter Dreamers from Naruto wayyy back. Luckily Clarisse had an extra ticket. Turns out Kalianne and her squad were all going there as well.
Hit the concert early to get good seats and saved a bunch for Kalianne’s squad. Good seeing that squad again since Magfest. The concert was pretty fun. Cool hearing the songs l did know. Enjoyed the show being w everyone.
Afterwards, hit my car in my lot to get changed and got drinks from my car and hit Ginny’s room for pregame. Eric and Kristine met up and joined and we hit the room to drink. Met there w Clarisse and Steven. Thanks for having me Ginny!! Ginny’s friends were outgoing and fun. Just did shots of soju and tequila and had a good time partying w them for a lil.
Next hit the after party at a bar. All dressed in cosplay. PJ sneaks in a big bottle of tequila somehow hahaha amazing PJ. Just partied and funny just taking swigs of tequila. PJ MVP. Had a good time there and running around w everyone. I really like seeing my friends meet and become friends w my other friends too. End of the night, ran back to the con w everyone for a lil before hitting my hotel.
Got mcdonalds on the way back, ate and lit the hookah and watched youtube till passing out.
Sat got up at 930am. Smoked hookah and slowly got up and then hit back to Otakon. Parked in the same lot as it was only $25 for all day/all night, 24/7 in and out. I need the flexibility. Hit the gaming room and got there RIGHT on time for Street Fighter 6. Taf was there and got to hang out a lot. Jeremiah Phatboi was also part of the people hosting the event. I signed up for that, Tekken 8(for fun) and Smash(also for fun w Christine). Also Seang came through too and good to catch up w him. Met some other people from playing games and met some people who are also around Philly that l just happened to never meet before.
Ended up going 4 wins, 2 losses in Street Fighter 6. Losing to a Ken, beating a Lily, Dhalsim, Cammy, Akuma and then losing to a M.Bison. Got smoked in Tekken 8 and Smash. ChristineK met up as she was entering Smash. It wasnt good when lm asking my opponent where Bowser is at lol. Got food inbetween not too far away and ended up hanging out late. Eric and Kristine came through too to say hey and just spent my day in the gaming room. There wasnt much else l really cared for to go run around besides shopping but l knew l was aiming to get anything.
Later on, headed out and gave my badge to Kat since she was ‘lobbyconning’ and l was coming back for anything rest of sat night or sunday. Drove home but slept at a rest stop for 2 hours as l was mad sleepy. Got wawa and hti home to eat, smoke and watch youtube.
Sun got up and hit Richie’s bbq pool party. Yooo thank you Richie for inviting me and cooking for us. He went all out and yoo the ribeye was SOOO FUCKING GOOD. Off the grill is just amazing. I need to pay attention more on how he did it so l can make it myself. Tons of friends came through and just had a REALLY good time chilling w everyone. The hot tub was actually a bit too warm for how hot it was. I usually like doing the hot tub and then pool and back and forth when l get too hot and too cold but l feel like that works better for night time swimming. Chilled in the pool and then back to eating. Lit the hookah, talked bout a ton of stuff and it was such a simple good sunday. It was a full sunday and hoping for another one soon. 7 hours fly by so fast.
Got home to chill. Ryan came over to watch youtube as we watched some Whyfiles videos and took it easy.
8/5 Monday got up to do work w youtube on the side. Real estate, nightlife, uploading all these pics and working on other small junk l have on the side. Made ramen and watched Alien vs Predator 2 and Prey and then hit BJs for mad food and supplies. Cleaned my home like crazy and then went back to finishing the movie Prey. Been on an Alien trip lately for the new movie but wanted to re-watch Prey. Ended the night playing mad Elden Ring and then eating pizza, smoking and watching youtube.
Tues got up late and got Nicah. We got bubble tea and food from Teado and gave her a ride to JFK airport. Good catching up big time. Hit home just as Matt and Amy were leaving my place. I told them to stay longer. Watched Wakanda Forever and just ate and smoked and then played Elden Ring all night again.
Weds still up, still on Elden Ring. Finishing up so much stuff. I wanna do the Int/Faith build and an Assassin build but may do it in a few months. So much junk going on and Elden Ring is such an addictive time sin. Did food hookah and youtube and slept at 2pm. Got up at 930pm and took it easy. Working on Elden Ring for 3 hours on Radahn Consort w the Dex build and yooo.. Its rough. Batman’ing the situation, using pierce, making my Estoc do half Holy damage, learning to defend against attack strings. I went from 2-3 hits in and dying to getting him to half health but after 3 hours, l was done. Watched more youtube and passed out.
Thurs got up at 9am to do work and my other junk all day. Later on, got the 2XKO alpha code to play. Got bonefish grill, hit home to eat and hookah and then it was 2XKO time. Yo lm loving the game. Darius was a def main for me. I knew since watching footage. Highly effective, easy to understand. He’s like Luke Street Fighter 6 Season 1. Just go have fun, be happy and win. Took some youtube breaks and then back to 2XKO. Mix between training and playing. As much as l wanna optimize, l gotta actually enjoy playing. So had fun playing, tested more shit, then back to playing alllll night.
Friday got up and hit Hmart but their power went out as l got there. Back home to play 2XKO for a while and then back to Hmart to buy mad food for Dumpling Sessions later. Ate a lil and then back to 2XKO again. Friends slowly came through for Dumpling Sessions and had a huge one. So many friends made it which makes me happy. People brought drinks and set ups. We had 6 set ups going. Teaching mad people 2xko, playing friends in that and in Street Fighter 6. Made several rounds of pork off the hot plate. Lit the hookah and just had a really good time w everyone. Hung out all night and ended up ending the night w Mike and ScottD watching Shang Chi.
Sat got up and Ryan came over. Mike still over as well. Jeremiah came down and we watched the bboy side of the Olympics. Def cool to see at the olympics and proud of Zack for all his hardwork involved in it. Sadly the Bgirl side had Raygun who blew up the internet and is the only thing people are talking bout breakin in the olympics and now… the only thing people took away from the olympics in general. Whatever the story is behind her, she’s dumb. This person teaches at University and has a phd… it takes away the credit of having that. Cause l just see a very dumb person. Congrats Phil Wizard on winning the gold on the bboy side.
Afterwards, we watched Aliens(2nd Alien movie) and took it easy for a while. Hit my Mom’s for dinner and had a chill dinner w my mom and grandmom. Also good spending time w Ari too. Got home to watch Kingdom of the Apes and meh… time to let it go. Watched Signs and that movie is still fun.
Sunday did an open house in Manayunk and immediately had a buyer lol. Full price, cash offer. More people came through the open house throughout the day and then at the end, the people that came in stating they wanted an offer came through again w a contractor and their agent for a lil. Later on got their offer and sent it to my team and did other real estate work for a lil.
Took it easy and then watched The Village as lm having an M. Night Shyamalan trip. Did some Street Fighter 6 training and then Ryan came through to finish Aliens and then watch Aliens 3. Preparing for the new Alien Romulus movie. Did more Street Fighter 6 training and ranked games for a lil and then 2xko training and ranked all night. Ended the night eating, smoking hookah and watching Mission Impossible 2. Slept at 6am.
8/12 Monday just work and my other stuff all day. My personal to do list is getting out of hand. Constantly trying to knock things out as new things pile on. Lit the hookah, watching some of my past 2xko matches to study and then hit my Mom’s for another dinner for her birthday. Happy Birthday mom. Simple chill dinner. Spending time w Ari and brought Ari some dog snacks. Joyce and her daughter stopped by too to bring my mom gifts.
Hit home to work on my Street Fighter 6 notes for a while and then played 2xko w Jeremiah for a while. Finally ended the night eating, smoking and watching youtube before passing out.
Tues got up and met up w the window people to get and lock in 4 more new windows in my home. So all my windows will be fresh, new and under a double life warranty. Chilled for a lil and then hit The Lab. Got 3rd place of 6 for Street Fighter 6 during the Round Robin and got 3rd place of 7 players in our double elimination bracket for 2xko. Really fun and solid night. Just eating pizza, smoking hookah and playing games. Def hype for when 2xko drops and how big the tournaments will be. Got home late and played 2xko allll night and finished up Mission Impossible 2, watched some youtube into weds.
Weds slept all day. Zack and Ryan came over at night to watch House of the Dragons as we waited for Zack while he was doing his thing at the Olympics. Def enjoyed watching but we were too beat to watch the final episode. Was up all night on my PC. Handling tons of crap. I think l need a new PC and gonna have insane amounts of memory. Made bang bang shrimp and yooo…. Im gonna make this more often. Watched movies late night into thurs. Watched The Happening and After Earth keeping up w my M.Night Shyamalan trip.
Thurs finally slept at 10am… woke up at 6pm. Got Panera Bread and yooo lm really becoming a fan. I always felt like it was Starbucks, overpriced for the sake of it. Solid product but overpriced but actually the prices for product is pretty solid. Hit home to eat, hookah and watch youtube and then later on Ryan and Zack came over to finish House of the Dragons along w some videos about it on youtube. Afterwards, stayed up all night playing 2xko and watching youtube.
Friday bummed and Ryan and Ron came by. We hit up Nebrasa and met up w Sean and Dan and had a really solid dinner. I love braz steakhouses. Just stuffing meats till l die and hate myself. Dinner was great and then we hit up Alien Romulus in 4DX and l was so hype. Not only for Alien Romulus but it was my first 4DX experience. Great movie to do this. The experience was simply just really stupid fun. I felt a lot of the audience was new to it too as we’d all laugh after things happening. Chairs shaking, mist water, extra strobe lights, wind, the seat having extra pushing things in it(hard to explain). Movie was really fun and 4DX just made it even better. Was so happy w the experience. Got home and people were saying come to XOX. Gotta stop by as l’ve been a lil MIA. Got home, got changed and headed out.
XOX was packed. ABG night is once a month and its a solid night. But yooo everyone was just sweaty lol. I just embraced it. Ran around dancing w friends, doing shots, smoking hookah, socializing table to table and every now and then bouncing out to cool off. Had mad fun w everyone and stayed till closing. Got to see a lot of old friends who dont come out as often as there was one friend’s friend’s birthday. Hit home to eat, hookah and youtube before passing out.
Sat got up late and DavidV came over. We hit BJs to get some stuff for my sister for her place and then hit NYC. Car ride was pretty smooth till the end as NYC mixed w the GPS is just messy. Got to Noodlecraft right next to my sister’s and hit Allison’s. She needed to sleep still since she was at a boat party earlier. Ate noodlecraft and smoked hookah. Woke up Allison and we hit up the triple birthday party. Happy Birthday Jenn Alex and Kevin!! Havent gotten to see either of them for a while. Esp since l’ve been MIA. Got to see sooo many friends. For the first hour, was just bouncing around circles catching up w friends. Seeing some people l havent seen since precovid. I liked they had drinks and shots just made and out for anyone to grab. Kept things really fast and simple. Just ran around talking all night. Met some friend’s of friends. Some people were going to Mirage, Den or Mission afterwards too but I was too beat for it. Partied till close till 2am before bouncing out. Dropped off Allison and hit back home. The drive was much better and quicker of course leaving late night. Got home to eat, smoked youtube till 6am.
Sunday bummed. Was achy. Body been jacked up for a while. Got Panera Bread cause lm fancy now. Youtube hookah and food for a while and then played mad 2xko for the night. Sad its gonna be a while till we can play again. Ryan came through to watch Lord of the Rings and also Matt and Amy swung by. They had a ton of left over food. Thank you guys for the penang and all the crabs. I LOVE crabs. Lots of work but its sooo fucking good. Ryan stuffed face on the penang which was also really banging. I wrote it in my personal notes to see when l can get more that l can pay for. Watched part of the first Lord of the Rings extended edition w them.
8/19 Monday got up to do work and post pics. Working on a lot of my junk. Went out and got a ton of stuff for making cocktails w Go Rae Soju. Stuff to make my fav 2 recipes. Bummed online for a while and then played some 2xko all evening. Ended the night watching Mission Impossible 3 and 4 cause lm trying to do the whole series. I obviously have a lot of free time.
Weds slept in so hard. So l couldnt sleep well so l turned the AC to 67 and turned on my room fan and woke up kinda sick. Im dumb. Was just out of it and couldnt function all day. Just bumming. Watching Mission Impossible 5 to finish up and some more youtube. Slept early from being sick.
Thurs got up and hit Steve and Olive’s soon to be new home for closing. Walk through was smooth and we hit closing which went ridiculously fast. Very nice meeting the listing agent in person. Congrats Steve and Olive!! Glad l got to catch up w Steve in person during the process since we only got to hang out years ago at Vince’s wedding. Tho we game together. In person w your friends is always better.
Afterwards, hit home and made mad pasta and watched some youtube. Played some Street Fighter 6 ranked matches for a lil and did training for both Akuma and Luke. Everyone’s telling me to stick w Akuma, that he’s so good. But lm maintaining my Luke incase. There are some things bout Luke that’s really solid.
Headed out to get a massage finally lve been saying l was gonna do for the past 3 weeks. My body has been so achy. Ended up doing a 90 massage near by and omgggg its insane how much l needed it because l felt like a whole new person afterwards. Got Five Guys for me Ryan and Zack on the way back and we stuffed face and finished the first Lord of the Rings. Im glad we’re doing it since LOTR is something you need to re-watch every few years. Ended the night w Street Fighter 6 training and ranked matches w both Akuma and Luke. Watched youtube into friday morning.
Friday eventually passed out in the morning and got up late. Ryan and Zack came back over and l made bulgogi and rice to stuff face on and then we did all of the 2nd Lord of the Rings extended edition. Dude for its age, still such an amazing movie. Just bummed all night playing Street Fighter 6 into Sat.
Sat still up playing Street Fighter 6 and then watched half of the first Guardians of the Galaxy cause lm gonna rewatch all 3 cause they’re amazing movies. Slept at 1pm and got up at 9pm.
Hit Zack and Marisa’s for both their birthdays. Happy Birthday guys!!!! Just had a chill night w everyone. Mad food and drinks everywhere, bouncing around socializing w the group. Fanny telling everyone she loves them, playing the finger game(we need to find out the name of this game cause ‘the finger game’ sounds so bad). Hiding in more blankets cause lm fragile. Talking bout banned words again and still saying them lol. Good times! Honestly…. The fact that more words are taboo…. Only gives them more entertainment power. Before a lot of these words were just said and its whatever. Now they’re much more funny. Dont cancel me. Partied w everyone till late and then hit home. Got more food on the way back to watch Vikings Valhalla.
Sunday got up and hit Richie’s pool party bbq again. Yooo THE RIBS - SOOO FUCKING GOOD!! Learned from Richie how to do it cause lm def gonna have to do this sometime. Stuffed face and had a good day bumming w everyone between the table and the pool. Lit the hookah as well. Its insane how fast time flies when we chill there. Another fast 7 hours when just hanging out. Thank you Richie again for hosting. Had such a good ass time. Met some new people. Saw some other new friends from last time. Just an overall really chill time.
Hit home and Ryan and Zack came over and we watched half the last Lord of the Rings extended edition. The ghosts are cheats lol. They went on a side quest to get cheats. Bummed all night, uploading pics, working on this blog and then hit downstairs to make snowcrab legs and watch youtube. Snowcrab legs are sooo good. Its boner city. Did more Street Fighter 6 training into Monday. Gonna change the way l play into a more ‘by the numbers’ style rather than a gut feeling even if the risk/reward isnt worth it. Its hard to mentally switch and lm also tanking the fuck outta my Master Rank # lol.
8/26 Monday l slept all day and got up to stay up all night. Just food, hookah, watching Suicide Squad Isekai and Vikings Vahalla. More Street Fighter 6 training up all night into Tues. Just a lot of number stuff to re-work. So when you choose between combos. Theres multiple factors. Not just damage. Slightly less damage in trade for oki and/or corner carry and/or side swap are factors and a lot is about… how much damage for a different situation is worth it or not. Now lm seeing some other things, specifically Akuma’s shimmy options that are just do it vs reactions and for slightly less damage for true great oki or decent oki. Akuma has SOOO MANY Choices and lm mental stacking myself cause there’s too many good options.
Tues still up, watching more Vikins Vahalla and more Street Fighter 6. Did some real estate work. Slept at 3pm and got up at 7pm. Did terrible going 1-4 auisdghaohgaoi it happens. I think l just over did it w Street Fighter 6 lately. Just lm on a labbing trip and l gotta keep it going. The information lm figuring out is great. Just implementing it all at once is a bit too much. Still good time w everyone on our last Tues Lab as the Street Fighter 6 night along w other things will be switching to Thursdays.
Got wawa on my way home. Ate and watched Suicide Squad Isekai w Jeremiah and played Street Fighter 6 into weds.
Weds still up playing Street Fighter 6 ranked. Watching youtube and bumming. Finally slept at 3pm and got up at 9pm. Ryan and Zack came through to finish the last Lord of the Rings movie and god damn… over 12 hours lol. Def a good run though. Bummed on my pc late night and then watched youtube and smoked hookah into thursday. Sleeping at 7am.
Thurs got up at 12pm and got Ryan and brought him to the airport. That guy is flying like crazy lately. Hit Chinatown to get my haircut and then picked up Shemmay. We hit Cira Green and got some snacks to bum. The fries w cheese and bacon was disturbingly good. Good thing it was her cheat day cause l had a ton of bullshit. Water ice, choc, M&Ms, sour stripes, more sour candy… but atleast l had water! Took it easy and then we finally hit Chinatown at a new bubble tea spot that has really solid reviews which was pretty good but l dunno if it was groundbreaking. Next we hit River Casino to play craps. She never played craps before so she watched and played a lil. Playing conservative. I was half and half. Sometimes being wild, sometimes playing the 6 and 8. After all that time, profited $15 whoaaaa!! Afterwards, got her mom on the way back from Rose Bar. Thank you for the food!!! Yo they hooked me up so good w shrimp and chicken wings. Dropped them off and saw Shemmay’s little sister for a min as she was coming back too. Def a fun full ass day.
Got home to stuff face w the food and watched and finished up Suicide Squad Isekai and some youtube.
Sat still up just doing maddd Street Fighter 6 training and ranked matches w Luke. I dunno… should l go back to Luke?! Akuma is better but its all bout who fits me better. Thing is w Akuma, lm always wanting to hit the party starter fun button - the hk. Its good and bad. Its all bout GETTING your opponent to wanna walk forward. Pretty much, throw fireballs, anti air and make them wanna approach on the ground. Eventually passed out at 330pm.
Sunday woke up at 3am lol. Played an insane amount of Street Fighter 6. Labbing over everything for my match up guide for both Luke and Akuma… I dunno man. So messing w Luke on ranked matches… I dunno if l should switch back. Its really hard to tell. And then Terry coming out late sept looks good. What if l end up switching again lol. Played some Zangief on ranked too and got him to Diamond today lol. I dont even know combos. Im just poking, counter poking and spd’ing. If l can get to Master w him than anything under Master is really just the preparation of learning the character. We’ll see.
Hit BJ’s to get mad food. Spent over $200 ughhh wtffff. I got like cheese, sodas, water, brisks, pizza, croissant breakfast sandwiches. Nothing really. Oh the olive oil cost like $40 alone.. Back to Street Fighter 6 all day. Was hoping SteveC would come through as we been planning on chilling but that ass never got back to me even after l harassed him all morning. He’s moving in late october tho so he’ll have nowhere to go. Plus, he can be lazy cause he’ll be home anyway.
More Street Fighter 6 w some side coaching by Jeremiah. Going over stuff l should try. Using Drive Reversal on block, not on wake up actually is something l def gotta use more. Im glad he pointed that out. We watched some Xmen 97 and finished that up and then l watched more youtube to end the night.
9/2 Monnday l actually slept the day away. 17 hours of sleep. It was amazing. This is how old l am. Celebrating memorial day like this. Got up at 930pm and was up all night chilling. Got Ryan from the airport a lil past midnight from his trip and then back home for a lot of Street Fighter 6 training and ranked matches w Akuma. There is sooo much versatility w this character. I am seriously mentally stacking myself. Trying to ‘dumb it down’ is really only hurting myself since there’s so many options to impose on an opponent, l should be really overwhelming them. He does have that… so many ways in, they cant be ready for it all. I can only be ready to stop an option that lm looking for along w anti airing w a normal. Cant anti air w a DP unless lm like STARING at the sky lol. Im old. Just focusing on safe pressure. I swear, these 1300 MR ranks… people JUST PRESS BUTTONS at all the wrong places so its all bout having good tight frametraps. Im talking… they’ll wake up w SWEEP… like are you a mad man?! I notice having a meaty or pseudo meaty (normal that hits 2-3 frames after their wake up so they still cant press a button) just works well at lower ranks. Played into Tues.
Tues still up, finished watching Guardians of the Galaxy 1 and then watched 2 and 3. SUCH GOOD MOVIES!! Just the whole series is so god damn amazing. Im sad its over. Or the main OG cast anyway. Gonna miss Drax the most as he was always the funniest to me. Took Jeremiah to the dentist and bummed till he was out and hit back to get Panera bread. Stuffed face watching youtube and lit the hookah before finally sleeping at 730pm.
Now your moment of Hack.
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