Addendum to Blind Pick: Why Just Smash?

With all the benefits of calling for double blind pick I outlined in my previous posts, it begs the question: Why wouldn't I do this for all the tournament games I play like SSF4? A fair question indeed.

Updates for today's and future posts

How do you like my ghetto design? Yes, it sucks, but it's about 1000 times better than the old one. I plan on making it a few more degrees of magnitude better in the future when I enlist some help, but this is good enough for now

For today's post, I know I promised one, JayFord, I would have an entry detailing my advice for improving in Street Fighter. Well, the article is turning into quite the monster and since I don't want split it into separate entries, because I want it to be a one-stop reference point for people, it will have to wait for another day.

In the meantime, I'd like to say I have plenty of ideas for this blog to keep it alive and I'll have two smaller entries posted today. Cheers.

Why Request Double Blind Pick? (Part 2)

This has two effects. First, it displays ability for multiple characters. This deters anyone who thinks calling for the rule is a big charade. Essentially, it gives meaning and force behind my action. The second effect stems largely from the first. It changes how my opponents think about playing me. They may feel more compelled to choose their main, or in the coup de gras of calling for a blind pick, it may make opponents second guess themselves so much about my character choice that they deviate from their main whilst I have all along decided to choose my main. Like I mentioned earlier, the mind games have begun well before the match even begins. Not only that, but by being the initiator, I have the psychological advantage even though I am literally in the same character choosing dilemma as my opponent.

Why Request Double Blind Pick? (Part 1)

Since I've made several announcements that I intend to utilize the double blind character select rule in all of my future tournament matches in Super Smash Brothers Brawl, I'd like to kick off my new blog by explaining my reasoning behind this. Even though I haven't been directly inquired as to why I intend to be "that guy" who calls tournament directors over to his station before each match, I fancy many have been wondering.

Do I NOT Deliver or What?! (Yet another blog change)

Whoops, so that whole jab about posting more really didn't come through, eh? Sorry, while a lot has been weighing on my mind, I haven't taken the time to write it down. If I can promise anything, I can certainly promise disappointment.

Anyway, onto the next chapter of possible- nay probable dashed expectations as I've decided to revamp the blog again into a video games centered blog featuring posts related to my involvement with the local fighting game scenes here in Iowa. This will include personal journal entries logging my development in different fighters, insight to newer players, and my general musings of experiences. I hope this helps out everybody out there (by "everybody," I of course mean "nobody").

You have to start somewhere, I am obviously aware I have lost what was my single digit readership over my *ahem* hiatus from blogging, but I intend to commit to this. Probably maybe.

As for my old posts, I'm saving the ones I like. That's it. Even though they might have zero to do with the current blog, I want to keep them around for posterity. Any others are going to be deleted. Ciao.

Earning That Piece o' Paper

This past Thursday, I graduated from college. A few weeks before finals started, my dad asked me what I learned in the classroom in all my four years at the University of Iowa. I honestly couldn't say I had genuinely "learned" anything. Sure, like all other students, I study material for finals on subject matter that I didn't know before the semester. But how much of that material is going to be retained? How much of it is useful? Will it help me get a job? How much of it is actual knowledge? Ultimately, I don't think I gained much or any knowledge from four years of secondary education.

That's nothing against the university. I think it's just the nature of what is taught and the system that a major university presents. I read books. I listened to PhDs. I may have gained a new perspective on information, but was it really anything new? Not really.

I had come to terms with these facts about halfway through my Junior year. I wasn't at college to learn anything. Not really. I was there to earn that piece o' paper-- the degree. People in the real world don't care what classes you took or how well you can spot the Orion constellation. All they care about is whether or not you graduated from college, and that piece o' paper is the proof. Well, I earned mine. Now what?

Major overhaul coming- with updates (really!)

Ok, so I'm back. Although I never truly left if you keep up with my Youtube channel and iSugoi. I will be updating this page with more miscellaneous stuff for.. uh.. do people read this? No? Uh.. for my own personal gratification. Yeah that's it. To practice writing and to get down some thoughts that always pop into my head but have no medium to find a sweet home in. That is all.