SF4 Game Mechanics: Fireball Avoidance Patterns

In Street Fighter an important caveat is the difference between fireballs and body projectiles. Fireballs are an extension of the character without a hurt box and can cause damage full screen, while body projectiles follow the character and can be countered since the hurt box follows as well. Just as much as its important to have a seemingly random fireball pattern that zones you opponent both in mindset (impatience/annoyance) and where they are in the environment, its important to have a pattern of fireball avoidance, that moves you forward and puts you at an advantage.

Ranbat Season 1: CASUALties – Tourney #1 a.k.a. 38 Cent Invitational

This was a local Houston impromptu tourney organized by Antonio Alexander (3nigmat1c) subtitled 38 cent invitation because of the hobo who asked to “hold” 38 cent while Mycah Leonhart and party went to grab some change for pizza and some squares. The idea of the tourney was to play each other, get better, and try to rekindle the comradery that the scene down here should (or doesn’t seem to) reflect. Also players got to have their matches on youtube to make it easier to get feedback if they were so inclined.

Rant #3

I had this brainstorm the other night, while talking to my girlfriend about parenting.  It was: Parenting by Reflex; let’s say ” that few parents ‘plan’ how they are going to raise a child.They’re children and just make decisions as they go.  Some parents may raise a child a certain way because of how they were raised or because the detest the way something is done.  I just want to have an outline, a colletion of ideas about parenting so when we decide, or we’re thrust in such a situation we’ll spend more time raising and less time figuring it out.  And yes I understand you can’t know everything prior to, but having an idea of what you would do is just as valueble.

Rant #1

–January 1–

A Friend and I talked of raising kids, not necessarily together although she’d make a great mother, but in theory.  to raise a kid you have to be one.  When generalizing having both parents bring balance.  For example, mother’s don’t know when to say when.  For example this can be characterized by mowing the yard from 7:00 to 11:00 instead of doing it Saturday morning (as opposed to Friday night).  Fathers, ideally, bring some level of moderation when it comes to doin work.

Roles Confused

I’m big on structure, on things being set up in a predictable manner for the greatest efficiency. Sure it’s a bad analogy, but i’ve more where this one will come from; you know how you set up your cubicle, how you put your pictures angeled to the right or left of your computer screen, never above or below it as a sort of escape, because that’s its functions, how you place a pencil, or a collection of writing tools in a cup as opposed to flat on the desk so they won’t roll. We develop or families in sort of the same way, albeit a much more complex configuration of roles and considerations. When this structure, these “meticulous” configurations are put in chaos; I don’t know about you, but i’d be pissed if I had to pick my pen up of the ground because it rolled off the desk because someone didn’t put it back in it’s cup :p…but that’s just me.

Family as a Contradiction

I know, I know, they, meaning people, educated foke, say that contradictions are impossible, but contradictions do exist, true contradictions exist.  But maybe you could say that it’s not even permissible as a contradiction because it doesn’t occur simultaneously (i.e. being hot and cold at the same time).  But onto the meat of this rant, and away from the delicious fat.

Let’s give a hypothetical situation, This is a family (meaning mother and father) with a single child, and they get a divorce.  Now the child is, confused, and following suit, wonders if the divorce is his fault.  But the biggest thing is that The father didn’t divorce his mother, he divorced his wife.  The child’s mother: his wife, are two totally different people. 

The biggest difference between the two personalities, is the origin of love.  The wife loves the husband because of who he is, while the mother loves the child because of what he is.  Simply because the what came first with the child, and the who came first with the husband pointe blank.  This is the type of distinction that confuses parents (why would they listen to their friends?).

But continuing on with explaining my titie, family is a contradiction, this double duality between the parents is what’s a contradiction.  Keep in mind that when people refer to “Starting a family” they are already together, meaning that two people don’t make a family in the scope of this rant since the dual personalities don’t exist without children.  This “contradiction” occurs when decisions have to be made because you consider both personalities. 

Such is the difficulty of parenting, but look at it this way, you don’t have to love his mother, but you’ve gotta deal with her.  But your wife?..all the lovin’ in the world.

Dishwasher Safe?

yes, as in money.

This dishwasher bullshit is getting on my fuckin nerves. Mom’ss got her kitchen re-done, and in pops a beautiful…dishwasher. But here’s the catch, it doesn’t really wash dishes; to actually put dishes in the dishwasher and get clean ones after the cycle you have to “pre-wash” the dishes. I’ll compare it to the average fetch time in CPUs (keep in mind the cache is much faster than conventional reading)

cache access time:15ns access (conventional) time:100ns

hit/miss ratio: 95%/5%

avg read time: (.95 * 15ns)+(.5 * (100ns+15ns) : 20ns

if the ratio is really high having a cache is really useful, but if not…on to the comparison.

Dishwasher:[(2(Gas + Water) + Electricity) + (time for prewash) +(time of wash cycle)+ (2*Soap)]*# of dishes

Manual:[ (Gas + Water) + (time for wash)+soap] *#dishes

Thus having a dishwasher is only efficient and cheaper, if you have a lot of dishes or your time is rather expensive. So onto the real question: “Why the hell am I paying my mom rent when we waste money to wash dishes twice?…because she said so.“