Okay, I’ll be attempting to do work all day but I’m going for sure. I need a break bad.
Ugggh, all the unhooking I gotta do. Do you have the cables? I’ll just bring the DC itself if you do.
I should have the cables for it.
DC is done, cause Marvel is shit.
I went to bed at 11:30pm and now I’m awake with no one online to talk to so I’m writing this to pass the time. It was a lot of fun going to a tournament and not entering any of them.
HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY: Ponderosa
LOW POINT OF THE DAY: The picture of Rey’s steak with butter on it.
LINE OF THE DAY: “No one wants to enter the tournament. You guys should have sandbagged in casual.” “WE DID SANDBAG!” (Me/Jason/Gerjay/Rey/Vanny yelling at the tournament director and thus humiliating everyone we played in casual when all the SF games were cancelled)
So Friday night rolls around with Jason and Gerjay showing up around 9:00pm. We play a lot of CvS2 so Noodleman can remember how to play A Groove and so Gerjay can somehow not lose a step with Honda. I elect to play Nako/Chun/Kim pretty much all night despite everyone solving my Nako’s new gimmicks within 2 games. Vanny shows up and we’ve got DAT MARVEL. Gerjay scares everyone off the machine until I decide to play him and get murdered for like an hour. He leaves to play CvS2 and then I murder everyone else until Gerjay comes back. Circle of life? Jamie shows up but there’s no Super Turbo so he cries himself to sleep later that night.
We spend what had to have been two hours loafting on whether to get food or not. It’s amazing how many people can be really hungry and yet so completely unwilling to pull the trigger and order food for themselves when need be. We end up with Pizza Pizza at like 2:30am (such a horrible decision) and watch SBIII & Justin vs DP $1000 match. Pizza Pizza has pretty solid fried chicken. It’s comparable to A&W’s chicken and even better with Popeye’s Hot Sauce (which I obviously have in ready supply). Vanny and Jamie bounce while Gerjay and I play more CvS2. Between games we make fun of Noodleman who keeps trying to find ways to sleep in the worst possible positions. So we finally end casual at 4:30am and try to get some sleep.
I’m up at 8:00am. UGH!
I walk out into the living room. Now in case you don’t know, my couch reclines and could have comfortably fit the two Jasons without it being homo in any way. Instead we have Noodleman sprawled out on the couch and Gerjay is sleeping UNDERNEATH MY COFFEE TABLE! Why does Gerjay always have a half smile while he’s sleeping? I bet he dreams about Marvel. Gerjay doesn’t respond to being shaken awake so I upgrade the tactics and simply kick him until he wakes up. FOUR KICKS?! REALLY?! I send Gerjay to sleep in my super messy room while I play on Pokerstars. Jason’s up and practicing CvS2 again (it never ends, why didn’t we play 3S at all?). Rey destroys the impression I had of Flips who can’t show up on time by being EXACTLY on time for 9:00am. He then DESTROYS everyone in CvS2 with a 10 game win streak. How does this guy keep winning despite never playing?
“Are we there yet?” (I’m going to kill Noodleman)
I want to run time bets when we get to the border but no one has the balls to do it. We end up in a 1/2 hour conversation about why MSG is the greatest preservative ever. Gerjay eats cheetos and complains that they’re only as good as how cold they are. Randomness ensues as my peripheral vision catches a 10 year old jerking off a dildo (it wasn’t even close to what I thought I saw) and then I go on a super racial filled rant about black people. I don’t even remember what it was about now but I do know my window was open and everyone in the car started bitching about how people could hear me so it must have been pretty bad. The border patrol person was a 100 year old grandma who didn’t ask us any questions outside of where we were going. I attribute it to her senility thinking Gerjay is her great grandson and thus we couldn’t possibly be a threat.
Apparently crossing the border fucks up my GPS pretty badly.
Vanny tells the story about the end of Chicken Fried Chicken at Jack Astor’s and I nearly get us killed as I focus on the loss of one of my favourite foods and make a 30kph turn doing 100kph. I won’t lie, I was scared we were going to get into an accident. Never tell me about the loss of a chicken related item while I’m driving.
So we get to the University Of Buffalo but can’t find parking. I see a patrol guy and go into the parking lot for directions but HE FREAKS! Hammering on his horn, yelling at us, and shaking his head like we just committed a crime. I tell him we just need parking directions and then all of a sudden he’s the nicest man on Earth. I guess as long as we don’t park in his precious VIP parking lot it’s all good. We of course go to the wrong building but there are cute girls doing dance rehersals so that’s a plus. We wander around like idiots until I check the thread online (which probably cost me like $20 in roaming fees) and we find the tourney.
HEY LOOK IT’S THE GUYS WHO LEFT SRK!
“Hey Stephen, why don’t you ever answer your fucking phone.” Dirty DarkDragon look plotting to stab me in the voice box “I don’t know…”
IS THAT AN 8 WAY INTERSECTION?!
Justin: “Uh… is it my turn?”
Jason: “Uh… probably?”
(no car related conversation should go that way)
So we get lunch because they’re only playing Guilty Gear and there aren’t many people yet. We find FUDRUCKER’S! HOLY SHIT! The railings are made out of boxes. CLASSY! This place is awesome and could honestly win awards for their fries. I get a half pound INFERNO BURGER which I believe is a code name for EXPLOSIVE LAXATIVE! We get the delicious drinks only Americans are allowed to have due to sugar related illness and it’s all awesome. I get THE STOMACH KNIVES instantly (it usually takes hours for that to happen at KBBQ) and I know it’s going to be a rough day.
I elect to tape Guilty Gear while the other guys just sit up top away from everyone. I don’t understand what the fuck is going on but I see a lot of flashy combos for like 60% life so I’m amused by Guilty Gear. They finally put CvS2 on two TV’s.
DARKDRAGON PLAYS CvS2 FOR AN HOUR! HYPOCRITE!
Local players take us on and lose… a lot… like every game. I basically take over one station and make people combo dummies while the other guys elect for random groove random player teams and still rape people silly. They call for CvS2 sign ups and by now all the locals have shit their pants and thus the line of the day occurs. They take away a CvS2 TV in place of Marvel and then we meet Pittsburgh Jake. He’s supposed to play Gerjay for money. I want to play him first and lose the set 2 - 1 because Lord knows I can’t play Marvel without blowing a huge lead. Gerjay plays him and takes it 3 - 1 for $10. Jake is pretty fucking good because he NEVER MISSES A COMBO! If he had better spacing it would have been an ugly situation all day. He and Gerjay become best friends and play DAT MARVEL forever and ever.
Noodlenoob is all pissy because he can’t win money in CvS2 so he decides we’re going to play a Round Robin. sigh I HATE ROUND ROBINS!
CvS2 ROUND ROBIN
Vs Noodleman: Jason and I have a pretty standard formula for tournaments. I rape his Vega and Bison and then his Blanka either OCC’s me or I just barely beat him with a random gimmick. Today he OCC’d me.
Vs Gerjay: I’m not sure what happened here. I’ll be honest in saying that I think Gerjay let me win because all I did was bitch the entire match about fuck ups. If he didn’t let me win then he had a MAJOR meltdown with Blanka and I got really lucky because I had like a 25% Vega to his full Blanka and hit The Claw Super for the win (complete with Tito Ortiz finger thing I always do).
Vs Rey: I haven’t beaten Rey in CvS2 in like two years. I kick him a lot with Guile and win a terrible game that could have gone either way.
Vs Vanny: Standard fare for us. We play at least once a week for a couple hours a shot so we know each other pretty well. Vanny likes to roll with Sagat when I jump at him with Vega instead of just Tiger Uppercutting me into next week so I empty jump throw him all over the screen.
1st - Jason (3 - 1) (Beats Justin/Rey/Gerjay. Loses to Vanny)
2nd - Justin (3 - 1) (Beats Rey/Gerjay/Vanny. Loses to Jason)
3rd - Rey (2 - 2) (Beats Gerjay/Vanny. Loses to Jason/Justin)
4th - Gerjay (1 - 3) (Beats Vanny. Loses to Jason/Justin/Rey)
5th - Vanny (1 - 3) (Beats Jason. Loses to Justin/Rey/Gerjay)
We play more casuals for a few hours and then hit up Ponderosa. The GPS has five Ponderosas except they’re all highlighted in red. That is never a good sign. We look for the closest one but it’s nowhere to be found. Apparently out of the five Ponderosas only one of them is still active. So not good for business. Anyway, we eventuially find the last one and it’s exactly as I remember. I haven’t eaten Ponderosa in 20 years and it hasn’t changed a bit. Our waitress was a trained ninja and managed to replace drinks and take away dirty plates without anyone’s knowledge. Gerjay loses his mind as an ice cream machine talks to him. The legend of the macaroni taco is born. Butter covered steak is fucking disgusting. Apparently a “try” in my brain is “eat half a taco in one bite.” Vanny spends 20 minutes talking about a 16 year old girls boobs and we discuss how long it takes for a girls’s rack to go downhill (concensus was 19 IIRC). Jason and Vanny are honestly perverts. You think it’s a SRK gimmick until you see it in real life.
(Making fun of Sauga at Drive Ins):
Justin: "Yes I’d like to order the double feature of Cock In The Mouth?"
Gerjay: "That reminds me of…"
Justin: “WHOA! WHOA! HOW CAN YOU SEGUE THAT JOKE INTO AN ACTUAL STORY?”
We witness a guy try to kill himself by cutting off a huge truck not once but twice within a few seconds. I do about 5kph coming off the ramp anticipating a major wreckage but the car somehow has magic powers and doesn’t get completely destroyed. The Canadian border patrol is still a fucking joke. We talk about stupid shit and the idea of creating a MMORPG using the idea of collecting and battling Pokemon as the main idea. Gerjay tells me Poeta came up with this idea ages ago and will stab me (or at least be annoyed) if I don’t give him credit for it. Jason and Gerjay talk about Magic The Gathering, which of course segues into poker talk for 45 minutes. Everyone takes off and another trip is in the books.
So while it was a great day for laughs, the tournament itself was a complete bust. Driving an hour and 1/2 (with border) to sit around playing the same casual we were playing the night before (if anything it was worse because we played scrubs) is not my idea of a good time. The Guilty Gear play was really good so props to that group of players but otherwise I’m not going back to Buffalo for a tournament again.
good times. what’s a region?
I didn’t even touch that because I’m waiting on the results thread to freak in.
Should have went to Galleria instead.
Have more tournament road trips just for the sake of having retarded and funny conversations in the car.
you should just do road trips to getty instead. the drive is almost just as long, and you don’t have to worry about getting arped at the border.
i’ve also never heard of upping the entry fees in order “make it worth your while” in order to promote players to join a tournament.
thank god my DS was charged or else i would’ve been bored out of my mind. Grinding in Castlevania: OoE was more fun than that tournament.
after sitting on half my ass on the way to buffalo since Rey is huge i was so relieved to get out of the car that I yelled “OH MY ASS” a little too loud. Rey responds by saying “OH YEA THAT WAS GOOD” on the way out of the car.
lol at the random dude that went on a screaming rant about the other guy being a scrub after the ranting dude wins.
creepy dude that hugged my joystick like it was his is creepy.
vanny enjoys that value betting on the river.
stephen has forced me to retire in cvs2 after I lose twice to him. You can all thank stephen for destroying the cvs2 scene.
my asian tactics somehow always lets me get food before anyone else. Even if we ordered the same thing.
Justin’s jaw drops after seeing a replay of gerjay beating blanka is the weirdest setup ever.
You better believe the reverse jumping over a super into a reverse crossup j.mk is the greatest way to kill blanka ever. Rey was too genius to remember you can save replays in CvS2, probably the weirdest hit I’ve ever seen in that game.
The guy who ranted after winning was pretty bad. Gets so angry telling other people to take his money also because he’s pure trash and just leaves the room. Comes back in, gets his coat and his friend and leaves… comes back in, finds out he forgot his keys and leaves… and then is back for the rest of the tournament anyways. It made no sense.
But seriously, driving to the states for a tourney where apparently no local players play CvS2 and 3S despite hosting the tourney made me sad. WTF is with the locals when they get scared off by my Ken/Eagle/Sagat. They didn’t even see the 3S players without backing out of the tourney alltogether as well. At least one guy played marvel :S UGH!
I had a rant going about how angry I was that there was no tourney but like… its not worth it to finish or post. Just know going to the states for a day to play one american in marvel isn’t nearly worth the time.
Clearly the best part of the day was eating. Ponderosa was clearly beast. The ones girls tits made my meal taste better. It was almost like she lactated into my butter.
Aside from that, I can’t really think of any highlights that have been mentioned already.
Clearly, this has to be done again, just not for something this scrubby.
No man.
The best part of the day was when I beasted all over noodlenoob’s teams in cvs2 and took him down twice…TWICE.
Its ok to cry, MANLY TEARS OF PASSION.