The way I do SF4 now is that I pick my opponents. I just go on various forums and AIM and ask my friends if they got the game and live. Hell, I even had a party game of MvC2 where no Cable or Iron Man crap occured in an entire 4 hour session on Saturday afternoon.

I find that your average person only really want to show off how "cool" and "badass" they are. Where in reality they're just annoyances to 90% of people who just wanna have some fun. I found this out playing Football Manager Live, where people used engine breaking 4-6-0(no attackers) formations that because of the midfield flood, you couldn't get the ball past the halfway line and it was no fun at all. It put me off online games for ages, but as I say, after finding some cool dudes and playing with them in one of the cheapest games ever(MvC2) with no use of crappy tactics that online play is only good if you find the right people first.

Upon arrival at the Mall I checked Barnes & Noble for comics and found nothing, but got a "ZOMG! Chick in a manga section!" from a creepy dude and managed to slink away.

Ya know, that puzzles me because the majority of people I know who read manga are female. Fair enough, they're probably like me and get their stuff off of Amazon because of annoyances like that.

Also reminds me of a bizzare time when I was 18. There was this girl who would follow me everywhere and just generally really creep me out. She would even be sat on the edge of the bed when I woke up, my mam would just let her in. It's kinda silly looking at it now, as at the time I just felt kinda lose-lose about the entire thing because I didn't wanna tell her to go away because I didn't wanna seem threatening being a big 6'2" 15 stone(aboot 200lb) bloke, her being a skinny little 16 year old girl. The other loss point was could you imagine said rugby player looking dude trying to tell someone about this whole thing?

I didn't feel threatened or anything, but you can kinda imagine how waking up and finding someone sitting on the edge of your bed would be awkward, and then to be followed for the rest of the day. It was more tiring than anything, plus half the guys wouldn't even talk properly when she was around(ya know the type of guy who thinks it's just "gentlemanly") although it was always her attempting to start these conversations.

I'd say how it ended, but I'm not quite sure, she just stopped showing up.

(Man, I don't half go on sometimes)

Bought Yakuza 1 and 2 for the PS2... Turned out to be some of the best games ever.

I really can't agree with you anymore on that. It's like Streets of Rage meets Shenmue meets Japanese gangster flick. It's like badassery of the highest order.

Shame that Yakuza 3 is a Japan-only release, I couldn't imagine enjoying it without knowing what was properly going on.

Also; I finished Star Ocean 4 in QUICK time. It was fun but stupidly easy.

Street Fighter 4 is like... Oh man, it is awesome, but I guess anyone who wasn't an arcade rat back in the early '90s wouldn't really understand. It's like nostaligia and a great fighting game at the same time. If you were an arcade rat in the early '90s and are kinda on the fence with this because of the crap like Tekken etc. that have been dominating the fighter market as of late, don't be afriad, it really is Street Fighter through and through.

The online has some annoying/cheap Sagat and Ken players in the ranking matches, but an okay Ryu(or anyone else, my friend who uses Zangief can destroy them) can deal with them once you learn their patterns. Once they realise you've got their patterns down, they just panic and don't know what to do and you can deal with them pretty swiftly.

That's another strange thing in games. With the guys, there's never a guy who's approx like myself. I don't mean a guy who looks like me or anything, but they never have a guy who's just kinda fat. They're always either pretty boys, average Joe looking, ridiculously muscular or a 30 stone beast man. You never get a 16 stone "he's fat, but not obese" sorta guy. Again, this isn't really about me, it just really strikes me strange that they don't mix up their character designs more.

Makes you wonder if they just use templates or something for churning out characters.

Well Sighs is an entire book to itself, so it should be 4-5 episodes long. Although it could be "crushed" for the sake of all them goddamn Endless Eights.

I definitely ain't buying the DVDs, but I'm gonna keep watching. Or should I say, now that Endless Eight has finished, I'm gonna resume watching.

I think there's gonna be good to it, just that err... that's really unforgivable to the point there's no way I'm paying for it.

It's... it's... finally over? I was right that'd go for 8 episodes? Man, I don't think I've ever been right before. :p

But seriously, thank god for that, I'd stopped watching the last few weeks(thank god for new Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, unless I'd've had nowt to watch) through sheer frustration, hopefully we can get some GOOD episodes now.

Wild out-of-left-field theory time.

Endless 8, 8 is the month of August, obviously, next month is August. There's 2 weeks(well, one now, as it's already been on Japanese TV) left of Haruhi until we reach August, and that will take us up to 8 episodes where it will FINALLY end.

So yeah, what I'm saying is, tomorrow's is gonna be another waste of time, next week's is gonna be the end of the punishment.

Or they could make me out to be an idiot. Won't be the first time, but I figure I'd give it a shot.