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( Interesting ep of Veronica Mars last night )

Dammit, forgot to do a couple of things this morning. Though I did remember to bring my ps2 controller for Tekken 5. We'll see how much better I do, if at all. I remembered my side step game should improve, so I have more options defensively instead of just turtling if they go on the offensive. I love Bryan's Headhunter and Cheap Trick moves. I guess he also has the punch counter, which I did get off a couple of times, but I've always been slow with counters and throw cancels. Lee has a punch counter now as well, and was able to pull that off yesterday. I've only played those two and Nina so far. But its good that they have so many characters selectable right off the back. I mean, there are some cool time release characters, but none of them are people I would consider in my set of characters I'm good at. Unless Heihachi really is a time release character (though I heard the last time release set was already revealed, and Hei never came out). I mean, with him and beink able to use a controller, I think I'd have a decent streak going. After all, other than Nina, he's the only other character I can pull off big juggles with, and I'm better juggling with him then her. Demon's Boar to 5 uppercuts or Demon Massacre, Demon godfist to jab and two uppercuts or Demon's Breath. And i can pull off all his crouch dash moves on the controller! Alas, he's not in it. Unless Jinpachi plays just like him. Though I'd hate to see when Devil Jin comes out, he's t3/ttt jin with devil lasers, though I haven't seen any really good Jin players at Tech. (Thank goodness!) It seems like everyone is a King or Hwoarang or Christie player. Boring! I'd like to see a good Jin or Kazuya, because I can respect getting beat up by that. Though I should prolly go beyond Lee/Bryan/Nina. Perhaps i'll try Kazuya one of these days? I have trouble playing t4/t5 Jin because he's similar enough to t3 Jin that I don't realize I can't play him that way.

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( Lost: Whoa! Wtf?! What the hell!?! )

( Alias was cool. )

Finally got to try out a ps2 controller on Tekken 5 at the student center. Works pretty good. Alas, the machine was dominated by one of those guys who's just too good. You know those types, they have that skill that no matter what character he plays, he totally rocks with them. And obviously, he was asian. I think I have some of that asian skill, though no where near the level of other asians. I mean, I can do some pretty good juggles and okezeme but nothing as crazy as they can. Though I think I was almost as good as any of the five or six other guys there trying to knock that guy off. His Steve was brutal so being able to take it to him with a way weaker character like Lee was pretty cool. I mean, shocking him with Lee's new parry enough that I was able to pull off the acid storm on him. Talk about real purty. But like I said before, tough opponents like this are a good learning experience. I mean, I've been doing Bryan's new Anaconda Riot combo a lot now that I've learned it, but lesson for today, while its a devastating combo, prolly not a smart thing to do with against someone with a counter as that last side kick comes out a little too slow. So against someone with Asian skills I end up eating King's leg reversal. But I adapt. So, I throw that a few more times to make myself look like I don't know what I'm doing, but then I start stopping the combo early and don't do the last kick, so he tries the counter and I punish him with another move. Alas, playing the arcades does get pricey though, but hopefully they'll get better at implementing online play by the time it comes out for the ps2, which should be significantly cheaper and I can still get some good competition.