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Grand Finals of LOL Dreamhack game 1: all 10 players meet in middle and dance, though just outside of spell range from each other all battles should have such paegantry

In case you didn't see it, the Norcal Regionals 9 intro was so great... in no small part due to Charles Barkley and Quad City DJs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC6HmGHhYfM

NCR9 commentary is hilarious Jwong vs. Detrimantix INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT LET'S GO

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12883772 The title of this journal totally makes me want to read it.

In the big huge dreamhack tournament, it is entirely possible that no USA team will make it to grand finals for league of legends. One is guaranteed to make it to loser's finals, but they're going to face a european team there. USA: can't even win in the games from their own country.

There is a PF Chang's here in Fairfax. I will try it at some point out of curiousity. http://www.dailymarkets.com/stock/2011/04/08/p-f-changs-expands-to-canada/ Meanwhile, PF Chang's expands to all provinces except the one with good Chinese food and people who can identify good Chinese food.

A strange thing about KOF13 that I never at the arcades is that the walking animation is really... odd. Like, just playing the animation it looks fine, but when the sprite translates across the screen, they look like they are sliding across the screen rather than walking across it. This is probably because everybody is always running/rolling/jumping/DROPKICKing. Raiden's super fast jump is still weird as hell and I have no idea why they thought that would be a good idea.

Results are the critical difference between Ali and Lebron. Ali was the greatest one-man hype machine ever, and for all his "I'm soooooooo much better than that guy", he delivered time after time. Of course, it also helps that boxing is a solo sport, not a team one. All the hype that comes out of Lebron's mouth also always winds up getting a super-negative spin. Whether or not he wants to be a heel, he's totally wound up casting himself as one. Shaq is a clown, but he's such a clown that he doesn't get considered a heel, even during the Kobe/Shaq feud. Kobe has all kinds of smug things to say, but then again he's the guy with 5 rings, so he's got a bit more credibility. I personally think that getting together with other players to make a deal to play together shouldn't be such a big deal. When a player takes a "hometown discount", he's seen as noble. When Lebron, Wade, and Bosh all take less than they're worth, it's time to call in the anti-trust. It's a double standard, but one that's certainly exacerbated by the whole Decision thing. I do kind of wonder if Lebron winning this championship would've made him look even worse, though, because rightly or wrongly it'll totally look like Miami bought the championship with the help of a superstar conspiracy. At least by losing the first time out, it shows the world that they aren't instantly invincible. Maybe it's actually a super-long term damage control play, losing this championship. Lebron's disappearing act was totally planned, and his tears were an Oscar-worthy act. ILLUMINATI

Leaving a team is one thing, but The Decision was straight-up heel turn. And then he talks about how "everybody wants him to fail"... no, really? And with quotes like spoiling people with his great performances, it's pretty easy to cast him as an arrogant, let-them-eat-cake egomaniac. He's a pretty amazing athlete and player who somehow sputters in the 4th quarter of big games. Ali said "it's not bragging if you can back it up", so it's no surprise that when the man that act likes he's the best player on earth underperforms, people delight in it.

From the people that brought you Contra 4 (GRIEF RACER 4) and A Boy and His Blob, comes: BLOODRAYNE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G_-AsaxujI Remember that series of 3D action/adventures that got a few too many Uwe Boll movies? No? I don't blame you.

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/si/2011/images/06/13/lebron-small-tx2.jpg not emasculating at all

Does anything happen in Fairfax, VA? Quick look at the last few pages, seems that most of you are in Maryland.

tokido is too strong taking mvc3 and sf4? too much mike ross made us all believe for quite awhile, though

ouch drink responsibly, guys Wow jwong putting so much work into taking down Phoenix so many times, but still can't win it. Yipes needing to walk off the salt lol

"This might be the last game of the tournament, so shoutout to Bible Black, best game ever."

wow BB tournament at revelations is combo drop festival the best part was when the carl had makoto in a combo that was sure to kill, and then the makoto mashed out a super and won it's like i was watching vanilla SF4

It was probably the noise from shuffling MJ tiles. That's loud as hell. So last night there was some community festival here and at night they launched fireworks. Tonight, there is pouring rain, together with lightning that I can only somewhat see (the flash of light is there, but it's impossible to tell where it's coming from or its shape due to the extreme overcast-ness) and the most impressive thunder I have ever heard in my life. If the lightning were more visible, I'd have to wonder how people here could ever be impressed with fireworks.

damn mike's apartment on saturday nights is sleazy

Red Faction Armageddon is pretty great, even though some of the weapons are strangely weak. It's interesting to me that RF Guerilla had a pretty bland open world that wasn't really fun to traverse, and yet because you can blow up every building in sight, it manages to be one of the more fun open-world games I've played. Armageddon has neither great plot nor great set pieces, but the fun of destroying stuff and the wonder of rebuilding stuff is such that it's much more fun than most other FPS/TPS's I've played lately. If the XCOM reboot used this engine for destructible terrain, I think I would be much more okay with it. Back to strangely weak weapons: Assault Rifle sucks Heavy Pistol sucks Laser Pistol... is mediocre at best Regular Pistol is surprisingly okay Rocket Launcher is surprisingly weak Shotgun is decent Plasma flamethrower is pretty good, except that you can't see what you're shooting at Lightning Gun inexplicably stops shooting from time to time, has sometimes unreliable jumping, takes awhile to kill things, but stuns everything it hits Sticky Bomb is not bad Nano bomb gun owns everything in sight; it hard counters the cloaking enemy even, since it sticks to the spot it hits and the purple cloud shows you where it is. In fact, because the cloaking enemy is tough enough to survive more than 1 of it and jumps around a lot, it destroys all kinds of stuff around causing things to collapse on other enemies. Hilarious. Nano Rifle is pretty strong Magnet Gun is rape The snap-to aiming (think Killzone 3) is probably a total necessity when playing this on console since the enemies jump around violently and cling to walls/ceilings/etc. I find that manual aiming with the mouse and the ensuing destruction is still fun enough to not use it very often, except when I want to go on cruise control with the Nano Rifle.

Genki Sudo's best music video and song is still MIND SHIFT, in spite of the BOY MEETS GIRL cover having an inventive scenario. Youtube has a video collecting of all of Genki Sudo's best MMA fight intros. There are more than a few where he robot dances in. "What's the secret to landing a spinning backfist?" "You gotta act like you're doing something else."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzVg6UdMkvM A new Vanillaware brawler, complete with muscle bomber women, gigantic floppy boobs, curiously small heads, and 4 player action.

We need Chuck and his hyperbole on the Nintendo announcements. Speaking of Chuck, I haven't heard from him in forever since he stopped posting on here. If his burning hate could be construed as salt, then truly he should be the master of it, since he's a chemical engineer. He could take on a supervillain name (sadly, plain old "Salt" is already taken by an Angelina Jolie movie) related to it. THE MAN KNOWN AS CHUCK IS NO MORE THERE IS ONLY CHRYSTALLINE or some such

A line I heard on the radio regarding Memorial Day: "2 armies went in, 1 nation came out." THUNDERDOME CIVIL WAR Kevorkian has died. EVEN DEATH MAY DIE I wonder if it was assisted. Kevorkian is the career assists leader among doctors *rimshot*

So the place I'm working at is like the ethnicity twilight zone. During our daily stand-up meeting, I am the only Asian person. In fact, there are more women in the meeting than there are Asian people (and no, none of the women in the meeting are Asian). I don't know if there's a single Indian guy on the team.

The funniest Stephen Chow movie I have ever seen is God of Cookery.