Columbia, MO 2008: We Post More Than We Play

Salamande are you the Astaroth player? Or do we now have like literally four Wills in the Columbia 3D scene…

What’s up guys, Internet access is not easy to come by here in Iida… supposedly there’s a chance they have wi-fi at the hotel we’re moving to in two days, but I’m not holding my breath. I haven’t played any fighting games since I left Tokyo a month ago, there’s no comp here in the boonies and I don’t have the money to travel. I’ve been all about karaoke instead, and studying like five hours a day.

Karaoke is actually sick Japanese reading practice, I can read like two or three times as fast as I could before I got here… except katakana is so rare in songs that I still stumble through that really slowly and get “shi” and “tsu” mixed up and that sort of thing.

I forget when SFIV comes out, but there is an arcade in town and my guess is if they get it people will come out of the woodwork so I’ll be playing that when it comes out no matter where I am.

Yosh didn’t I tell you I was going to be studying abroad here?

sup guys , this is julian, im officially on srk. it took me a while, but everytime i read these forums as a “guest” i feel kinda left out lol.
and yes i am down for some dr.
i just got back from the homeland and it was a nice trip. a town more industrialized than columbia. the phillipines is also home of the top 3 malls in the worlds. good malls = good arcades = tekken 6 action. i did ok but i got my ass kicked royally by zafina and the bound system. stuff is kinda marked up though, a dual shock 3 controller is 70 bucks. i also saw a white ps3, i wanna trade in my 60 gig so bad.
ttyl.
btw. i got some new shoes, and i got a pair of bapes, they are black and white. i could’ve got another pair must but the other colors were really funky.


psns: sixfootasian86 (cod4 and gt5: prologue)
sukiyaki_jo (dr, gta4, soulcaLIBUR4 ?)

I am indeed the Astaroth player. There does seem to be an inordinate amount of Will’s, it’s weird.

Hope you’re enjoying yourself. Try to get down to Kyoto if you can; it’s an amazing place.

I’m going to be in town this weekend if anyone’s up for Guilty Gear or Soul Calibur. I had no idea people still played SC2.

Okay, so I’m down for some fights on Sunday, if anyone is interested. As stated, I’ve got a Calibur II cabinet, but I’ve also got SCIII, T5DR, VF5, GGX2#R, even Battle Fantasia if anyone wants to give that a try. I was joking about the beer payment earlier, but I would not be averse to donations.

PM me here or through YM for directions. I’m very easy to find.

Just so u know, GGXX Accent Core is the “latest greatest” and is actually available for US ps2.

paul - playasia is actually cheaper than ZTNETstore.com for the EMS USB2 adapter. That seems to be the popular model these days?

Hope you’re having a good time over there, man. Sounds like you’re certainly learning a lot. :woot:

Sounds good. If I decide to pick one up it’ll be from there.

battle fantasia is already out? is it import.
if converters is what u need i have an extra one.
what time on sunday will?

It’s the import; luckily all games on the PS3 are region free. And I should have enough sticks to go 'round.

Anytime after 12:00 noon is fine with me.

I’ll see if I can go over on the weekend, but the problem is that my parents probably won’t let me go anyway.

im still not sure yet if i could go. i just got done playing dr really late.

are they authentic? where the hell did you find bapes?

I may be able to make it, we’ll have to see. pm me directions whenever you have the chance.

mine are authentic because the gap between the star and tail should be small. the box is authentic and it came with the red foot soldier shoe bag. my shoes are the old ones and i bought it at a small store at the philippines, more or less 100 bucks. in new ones gaps are smallers to better rat out the fakes (fapes).

Actually as it so happens, starting in September I’m going to be spending eight months in Hikone in Shiga prefecture, which is what… forty minutes or something by train from Kyoto? I was already planning on spending a lot of time there and in Osaka. When did you live in Kyoto?

edit: Ohhhh shit it’s Julian

I was down there for a year around 2001. I worked for an English language place called GEOS. Good times, good times.

Kyoto and Osaka are great cities, for different reasons. Kyoto because it’s so historical (you can look down some streets and it’s like you’re looking through a portal back in time, like at Pontocho), and Osaka because it’s it’s so vibrant and fun, yet laid back. People don’t rush around quite as much as they do in Tokyo. It’s also got Den Den Town, which is like another Akihabara.

I need to play some 3s in real life, I think I’m getting worse by playing online.

If you tried to play 3s in real life, you’d probably get a broken bottle to the face. Just sayin’.

If your playing it on xbox live throw me a gamertag. Mine is rextacy

That was damn fun SilverDrgn85, we’ll definitely have to do that again sometime. I’ll have to pick up my own copy of Accent Core and practice my Order-Sol and Zappa - hope I wasn’t too scrubby! I’m also looking forward to trying Arcana Heart; I’ve heard good things about that one.

I’m shocked at how quickly you picked up Battle Fantasia and VF5. You’re already a terror with Pai!