Some Garou Love On The Way..

Eye been a while hasn't it?!? Welp, consider the drought of new posts on this blog to be cut drastically short as it was all just a clever ploy for me to sucker you saps into the form of desperation so I could spring forth this deliberate act for the sake of gain in power,...you know, sorta like what FDR did when he allowed Pearl Harbor to get attacked so the US had a valid reason to actually enter WWII. ZING!! Well, needless to say this isn't the time or space to talk about possible governmental and WW conspiricies, but having read a bunch of it just last night, a lot of things have sunken in to my head and I wouldn't totally discount those theories being true. Then again, many other conspiricy theories involve a race or reptiles decked in hoodies controlling every political figurehead on the Earth. THAT sounds pretty far-fetched, but given my crazy way of interpreting things I wouldn't put it past being the truth either (in fact it could be sound- I know; I'm nuts as a fuck). But like I said earlier this isn't the time to deal into that shit (some other time), but I can't let Japan out of this entirely. I just casually mentioned them w/ the Pearl Harbor bit earlier, and if we can just the time to hold hands and skip past those two little bomby thingamajiggas, then we can get to the root as to why I'm still on Japan in a sense: that of course, being (as the title of this post implies) Garou: Mark of the Wolves.

I don't know exactly what compelled me to give it a brief run today, other than the fact I was about to cook my dinner and work out, and needed something to do involving the reflexes. Couldn't paint-still need a fresh tube of Cerulean Blue and Raw Umber (I might try another blue and down the line switch out of Cadmiums for a bit, and try some Phatlos just to see the differences, as I've heard they're there and I'd also like to see if nearly as much work w/ Titanium Whites and Raw Umbers would be needed on those)-so I just wandered by on Gametap and well..before I get into that, I just have to say it sucks they've taken down so many of their Free Games. It's been months since I've hit up Gametap, but certainly I did hear just about two weeks ago that they were doing a major restructuring, likely for underlying business reasons. But to just go to the site, and notice the catalog (on the Free front) that cut back...it sorta hurt xD. Well anyways, I knew for a fact that Garou was in the catalog, and w/ the "Free Play" tag sitting right there, I also knew it wouldn't hurt to try out this seminal classic. Lucky thing I did that too; they're moving it to the Members Only section on THURSDAY (and if you've gotten the impression I'm a cheap bastard by now,...well, you'd be spot on in a sense hehe. When the job situation clears up that'll definitely be a non-issue, but that bright spot just can't seem to come soon enough ):( So that said, it suddenly implored in my head to say "Hey if you're gonna play this anytime soon today or tomorrow might be the only open days for you", and holy shit did that ring true.

That said, with such knowledge disposed in my little pink dome, I've decided that-just for the hell of it and really getting a bit in touch w/ one of the fighting game genre's more underappreciated classics (which, unlike 3S, hasn't experienced any sort of post-realease "boom"; likely b/c there hasn't been a tourney player who's done some fucking "Damn that was epic at the time but now everyone's sorta doing it and weakening the impact" skill like Diago did parrying Chunny's SAII at EVO, which I MUST get to, hopefully this year ;) -a run up on my thoughts of the game wouldn't be too bad a way to get going in that aspect. Keep in mind though that I'm stuck using my (very archiac) KEYBOARD to get the job done, and yes-that's already pure sacrilege insofar as fighting games are concerned. Thankfully my little test-run w/ the game today produced fairly confident results; even though I kept getting my ass kicked (though strangely enough Rock was a pushover, the first opponent no less and even though I was playing as the comical little ninja dude (name's Hamato I think ) it still jarred me just a bit to see ROCK as the first opponent; please guys, Rock deserves higher status than just being the 1st lamb to get slaughtered :) with Match 2 and onward (stopping at Butt who completely deva--... Butt.....), it was a fun sort of ass kicking I didn't mind recieving (wonder if that means there's a gimpish-dominated sort of thing quelled deep in me...better call Dr. Whatthefuckisupwithyou to cross-ref. on this and get concrete facts. The quest BEGINS!!!). Still, that keypad'll lead to atleast a few unfair losses I'm sure, but we'll see how that goes. So...yeah,...tune back in here tomorrow everyone and I'll let you know my opinions (you could call them tenative b/c until I get a decent controller or (God PLEASE show mercy w/ this blessing) arcade stick I won't probably be able to get concrete into character moveset chatter. Had enough of a hard time pulling off Supers as was!!). So until then, much love, keep the fingers pressing, the mind forming, and the spirit hungry for more filling food. See 'ya later and g'nite.