Ignorance was never bliss, it isn't bliss and it never will be.
Posted on: Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Posted at: 1:55 AM
Posted at: 1:55 AM
Complete confusion at it's best -
*Playing SF IV at P.S. today* I insert a coin and hit the start button. I choose E. Honda and expect to see that I'll be challenging someone. I wait. No such message.
I see someone else hit the start button on another machine but I see that he instead challenges someone else. I suddenly feel a little confused and worried. I think to myself, "Is this machine bugged? Did I somehow access the 'beginner's mode' even though such an option has long been phased out?"
Believing that the latter holds truth, I just go ahead and start playing against my first CPU controlled opponent - a Ryu.
Since I'm up against the com, I throw the first round away without so much as touching a single attack button and instead watch the guy beside me fight. After all, how hard can it be? I'd just stage a 'come back' using just my light punch later on.
On the next round, I find it hard to move the joystick as my ring is on my left hand. So I decided that I shall instead wear it on my right hand. No, I do not do this in one swift motion nor do I do it with the slightest hint of haste. I take my own sweet time to do this. So now I tell myself, "alright, I've lost the first round so I better beat the com up lest I lose to the com... on the first stage." A perfect victory to yours truly.
The final round begins. I continue taking it easy. I start to come up short-handed and before long, realise that I'm at a health disadvantage and on the verge of becoming the laughing stock for the entire SF IV community. I randomly throw out a super, it connects. "Whew." I breathe a sigh of relieve. Nope it's not over, our life is on roughly on par now. "Alright then, since it's just the first stage, the CPU's not gonna block" I assure myself. With that thought in mind, I randomly throw out an ultra. Viola! I win.
And with that, Yilin pops over my shoulder and tells me that I just pissed my opponent of very, very badly and made him a sulky fellow.
It's only now that I realise that I've actually been playing against someone else all this while after all. Maybe just this once, ignorance was bliss.
*Playing SF IV at P.S. today* I insert a coin and hit the start button. I choose E. Honda and expect to see that I'll be challenging someone. I wait. No such message.
I see someone else hit the start button on another machine but I see that he instead challenges someone else. I suddenly feel a little confused and worried. I think to myself, "Is this machine bugged? Did I somehow access the 'beginner's mode' even though such an option has long been phased out?"
Believing that the latter holds truth, I just go ahead and start playing against my first CPU controlled opponent - a Ryu.
Since I'm up against the com, I throw the first round away without so much as touching a single attack button and instead watch the guy beside me fight. After all, how hard can it be? I'd just stage a 'come back' using just my light punch later on.
On the next round, I find it hard to move the joystick as my ring is on my left hand. So I decided that I shall instead wear it on my right hand. No, I do not do this in one swift motion nor do I do it with the slightest hint of haste. I take my own sweet time to do this. So now I tell myself, "alright, I've lost the first round so I better beat the com up lest I lose to the com... on the first stage." A perfect victory to yours truly.
The final round begins. I continue taking it easy. I start to come up short-handed and before long, realise that I'm at a health disadvantage and on the verge of becoming the laughing stock for the entire SF IV community. I randomly throw out a super, it connects. "Whew." I breathe a sigh of relieve. Nope it's not over, our life is on roughly on par now. "Alright then, since it's just the first stage, the CPU's not gonna block" I assure myself. With that thought in mind, I randomly throw out an ultra. Viola! I win.
And with that, Yilin pops over my shoulder and tells me that I just pissed my opponent of very, very badly and made him a sulky fellow.
It's only now that I realise that I've actually been playing against someone else all this while after all. Maybe just this once, ignorance was bliss.