Diary of a Middle Aged Tekken Scrub

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  Ive been doom scrolling instagram reels and youtube shorts so much lately. and I'm not even enjoying the content im consooming.

           To some of you, I'm the guy you know that plays Tekken. So I feel like as I have played the Tekken 8 CNT and CBT,I almost have to have an opinion posted here about it. All I have to say about it is, I like it. I think it's really fun. I don't really understand some of the changes, I don't really know if I agree with some of the changes. But Lili feels really good to control, to move and avoid with, to pressure people with, just to press her buttons feel so good. and over all, I already like it a lot more than I like Tekken 7. That's it.

      Collectors editions and limited editions don't exist for PC/Steam games, and that sucks. Also I paid $110 for the Ultimate Edition of Tekken 8 too, and that also sucks. Makes sense I guess, because digital versions of a products shouldn't have a limited drop, who has heard of a digital item being sold out? But what if i want scarcity for PC games so I can feel better than other people by owning them? What about people like me???

  This much is okay

           I just sat here in my living room, with a bowl of cereal, looking out the window in a morning. I watched a car, drive up onto my lawn to turn around and go back the way he came. I guess he needed to make a U-turn, but he didn't drive onto my drive way, or any one else's drive way, he drove up onto my lawn to turn around.... cool....

       Marriage isn’t “I promise to love you until I stop loving you.” It’s “I promise to make a conscious decision to continue to love you even when it’s hard because I’m aware no one is perfect, but you are worth it.”          This is about my hats, somehow. trust me, it makes sense, collecting hats is worth it. Right???

         Looking through my kitchen at my spices and condiments, I decided to throw out stuff I hadn't bought since before 2020. The pandemic wasn't exactly that long ago, but you can tell stuff isn't fresh because its a brand you weren't able to buy anymore. Or you managed to find a new condiment brand and like it more now because the old one you used to buy became scarce, or expensive. That said, I have no idea what I will be using these everything bagel seasonings for.

           In this weird, backwards progression of my taste buds. I've started really liking the flavors of pepperoni, ranch dressing and ketchup a lot more these days. I used to really dislike those flavors, and would would actually be disappointed if I had foods that included those as ingredients. I used to eat fries plain, dipped into nothing, just salted, used to think ketchup was too strong and just made me not taste the french fry, and now, I scoop more than dip and eat more ketchup than french fry per bite. I used to think putting ranch dressing on pizza, was a waste of good pizza, all it tasted like was ranch dressing on pizza, and it didn't really add. but damn if i get a pizza now that's mostly meat and no veggies, I'm smothering it in ranch. hmmmm maybe I'm having a deficiency in some nutrient and my body is craving these childish flavors....

     Do you Gief mains claim this man as one of yall?

 But she also cooks 2 weeks worth of food in a day and freezes it, and that's kinda cute...

 The one friend who likes to eat a lot, and the one friend who lays down a lot, are the best company to have. You know that one friend, that best friend you have, where when you see her name pop up on your phone you wanna throw your phone, you hear her voice and you wanna stab your eyes out, you hate the way she laughs, you hate the way she eats, you hate the way she puts on mascara, everything about her drives you crazy. She's good company to keep too.

                               I know no one will sit through 8 bad movies because it gets good at the 9th movie.                 So I finished CONVERGENCE: A League of Legends Story™ today. A good short, 7ish hour game. I think it was worth the money. Difficult where it needs to be, but not too punishing, and plenty forgiving of mistakes. Does a good job of giving you new powers and making you feel like you use it enough before end game, so the game feels complete when you finish it, rather than a bunch of tutorials teaching you how to play, and then the game just ending.                 So with Netflix's ARCANE and Ruined King: A League of Legends Story™and now this. That's 3 pieces of League extended lore that I've consoomed and I want more.              ...

                Not to make you go back and read all my blog posts again, but you never noticed that all my pictures have alt text when you hover over them. Anyways I'm bringing marshmallows, graham crackers, and chocolate to my next KBBQ visit, shits gonna be tight. I don't think anyone will say that's a bad play.               Also I still think baby food for long gaming sessions is the optimal play, you don't have to spend time to cook the food, you just eat it. Heck you don't even have to spend any time chewing, baby food is already chewed up for you.

               I feel like I turn off my wifi and use cellular data whenever I have connectivity problems so much these days. It used to be I switch on to wifi to get a more reliable connection, but now I can purely use data and wouldn't even notice a problem.               In fact I only ever notice a problem when I am on wifi, because when it has a problem it doesnt automatically switch me to data. I guess that does make sense, but still. Why is the internet connection so much less reliable than cellular data? Cellular data just floats through the air, it shouldn't be better               Anyways, why does rap/hiphop music sound better when you are speeding down the highway?

            Physicists always talk a big game, thinking they're so much more smart and more logical than you. but then why do we still not fully understand why ice skates work? The hypothesis we used to have was that the pressure of the thin blades turn the surface of the ice back to water, and we slip around on that water that's why there's no friction of the blade and solid ice. Yeah nah fuck that, no one is massive enough that the pressure from their weight would lower the melting point of ice with just the pressure. So you're gonna be like, "okay Chel, but what about the friction itself, can the friction from cutting into the ice cause enough heat to melt the ice and we skate on that?" No because that means the friction from my fat ass slipping on the icy driveway would melt the ice enough for me to not fall over. Ice is already slippery on its own, and that small amount of time moving over it isn't enough friction to melt anything. Take both of th...

       I don't believe for a second that SF6 single player content won't be garbage, but I know I'm going to try it out and play it. Just because it looks like they're trying something. but not enough for it to be fun like any actual single player game. The platforming looks..... barely there.... and since the combat is a fighting game, the world exploration will have no threats...      The fucked up part though, is that I know getting anything that has any thought and intention behind it at all aside from fight, cut scene, fight, cut scene, credits is already sadly revolutionary.   Oh well, send me booty pics

      It's pretty weird how many friendship ending arguments happen over the phone and while you're in bed. I don't think in person interactions get heated as easily, or get personal enough to cause a rift in friendships. But that time where when you just woke up, vision still out of focus, before getting up and out of bed, where you look at your phone and reply to people who messaged you while you were sleeping. That time is the critical time for friendship ending arguments. Alongside with the time where you are in bed at night, you're on your phone doom scrolling and you get into a conversation with a friend and aren't doing anything else anymore and for some reason it stops being friendly and you're just arguing with them... Is this even relatable? I know I hella argue less any other time of day. Or rather I never even argue with people, and then the in bed phone-use kicks in. Now I have no friends. Pineapple is delicious on pizza.

       The temperatures are already rising here in Florida. Summer starts in April here I guess. I wonder how "Heat Index" or "Real Feel" is calculated though. I mean how they gonna say its 80 degrees but then also tell you it feels like 113 degrees? Actually I don't think there's any math or calculations. It is probably just a simple flow chart. Step 1.      Measure the current Temperature.               Does it feel hot enough? if Yes go to step 2a. if not go to step 2b. Step 2a.      Done. Step 2b.      Add a few degrees.               Does it feel hot enough? if Yes go to step 2a. if not go to step 2b. I like the heat though, so I'm thriving, I'm in my element. But I guess I should be giving you the tech for staying cool in this weather.   Go BAREFOOT        As the sweat on your feet evaporates, it cools ...

            I finished Resident Evil 4 last night. Great game. Game came out on a Friday, and I finished it on a Saturday night. 14 hour game. None of those 14 hours was a bad time.          Now I do have stuff I want to say about this game. But I'm not gonna put spoilers out there. so I won't. I will say I like how much they kept, and I like the few things that they changed. It iss just as good as the original RE4 release from 2005. Both are high level games.

            There's probably a lot more gems stuck on the PS3 without a modern version or sequel that I'm forgetting about too, but damn Tokyo Jungle was a good ass game. No spoilers, I won't explain anything, just go play it. It was actually such a high level gaming experience to have been apart of.

  I don't even know if 7-11/ convenience store food counts as struggle food , but this whole month 7-11 has been doing 10 for $5 wings, and the wings are big too, and I went back like 8 or 9 times just for those wings. And they have been so good, like nothing gourmet or anything, but hot wings are always good. But then you go back to eating some real good food, and you suddenly remember how good life really is. It's win-win. The moral of the story is, sometimes you gotta eat bacon from a tube, to remind yourself how good it is to eat your sister's kimbap.

              My room has never looked as nice, or as clean as the rooms people apologize for . You go visit a friend, and they hit you with a "Sorry for the mess, it's a disaster in here." and the only thing close to being out of place is a glass of water on the table, because they were still drinking it. I actually am starting to feel like they are doing it on purpose, just to make me feel bad. Is that copium? I'm gonna start to respect people more who are actually willing to invite people to their mess. Is that copium??          You know what's even worse, I know how much of a clean home is a lie, if you grew up Asian you know full well, that if you hire people to come clean your home, like a maid service or something. You spent a good 2 hours cleaning up before they even arrive, so that the house doesn't look dirty to them. Even if you did hire them to clean, can't be having "guests" over to a dirty house ri...

          Real ones know that a 7 hour nap is a W even if it was accident. I took a 7 hour nap yesterday, who else is doing it like me? Whole Sunday gone, but sleep debt all caught up right in time before the workweek started back up, that's a W. That's a whole ass W.           I'm a roll up in 3 blankets at a time kind of napper too. Not going to let any cold secretly creep in, even if I'm in warm-all-around-the-year Florida.             I want to do a write up on how to get the perfect nap. Those naps where you wake up like you're not even sure if you were asleep, but you look at the clock and time definitely passed. Ready for the next part of your day. But I don't know how it happens, I'm just too naturally good at doing it. I get comfy and don't even remember laying down in the first place. My body just anticipates the tired, and I go in.  

           I don't quite yet have enough grey hairs to be considered distinguished , but I have too many for it to be overlooked. And its not quite Salt and Pepper either, its like a whole block of white hair together in the same spot. My genetics is trying to get my head and facial hair to naturally grow leopard spots or something. My future ex-wife will just someday be like "Yeah, I don't know, it was weird, the patches of gray hairs was just too much, and he always lost in fighting games to that Chinese kid." and I wouldn't even be able to blame her. I'd leave me for less.     Is there tech for this? I feel like If i pluck all the grey hairs, I'd just have an oddly empty patch in my hair that would looks like i was losing hair. Oh well, If a few more years I can look like Doctor Strange though.    

           Junkfood is charging $255 for their new snackbox micro , and that's crazy to me just for PS5 support. I love my snackbox micro, but the amount of these low profile kailh choc switches that I have broken just from normal use and playing fighting games on it is too high for for something priced like a premium item. Like I use my micro daily, Its my main way to play fighting games now, don't get me wrong, but If i want to upgrade to the newest version, it's $255 for a complete, and the PCB alone is $135, consider that the old PS4 PCB is only $50, I don't know how much the PCB has changed or been upgraded, but I'm not paying $85 more for one more console support. I also don't see any tournaments moving to PS5 soon, and I know I'm not gonna netplay at home on PS5. Junkfood is crazy     Anyways, I heard SF6 Tournaments are gonna be run on PS5. Whats the move?    

     It's midnight, and I finally decided to go on and try the snapdragon instant pho. This was originally supposed to just be an edit for my previous blog post, but boy do I got some stuff to say about this.        To make things more awkward, I don't have internet right now, so I'm currently writing up this blog post on my phone, over a browser. So imagine a guy, at midnight, right after eating instant noodles, just doing a write up on his touchscreen just to shit post about the late night snack he just devoured. That's the mood we we are setting for our stage this evening.       So inside the paper bowl after you peel back the lid are the rice noodles and 3 packets, one is a soup base, one is the dehydrated herbs, and one is the flavoring oil. Standard stuff for instant noodles. The instructions say to add the soup base and the herbs into the bowl and add boiling water, and right away it smelled delicious. You let it cook for 3-...

     Yeah that's right, I got instant pho in a graphics card box , no I haven't tried it yet. This is not a blog post about how it tastes or  how good it is,  just look at how cool that looks. I am excited to try it though, so I guess I can come back and edit this post later....       Pretending to be a food blog in  3 2 1     Actually let's go in on this idea , You already know what pho is, it definitely does not need an introduction. That deeply seasoned broth, fragrant enough to get your mouth watering is the stuff that makes you remember that you love noodles, because you know when you haven't had it in a while, you forgot you love it. And that's just the broth, those chewy noodles, tender beef slices cooked right in your bowl, and the freshness from the bright herbs, that's why pho is all I could ever ask for. (other than the girl I simp for, but that's a lost cause.)     I've had a lot of pho in my life, ev...

     So with Twitter slowly but surely dying out, and everyone is trying to find a place to jump ship to, like mastodon or hive. I have decided my route would be to come here to my own personal blog. It's February now, so a bit over a month into 2023, I feel a bit late starting this now rather than at the start of the year, but whatever...        Its a bit less microblogging, but should satisfy my need of an outlet to shitpost my random thoughts out to the ether.      If anyone from twitter ends up stumbling in here, this was me. I'm a Tekken player that doesn't play Tekken and is not at all excited for Tekken 8. I hope that conveys enough the direction I hope to take this blog.       I've spent years on a hobby trying every fighting game that came out, paying too much money on controllers and travel just to play more fighting games. I think I can come out and say this now, fighting games suck, and are too hard.