Online play has become full of people who only play the most popular characters (Ken, Sagat, etc) using the same crappy combos over and over again, mixed in with people who can't seem to afford a connection that's better than 56k make it not even worth playing anymore. I knew this would happen eventually but I never expected it to happen THIS fast. Oh well, I'm putting it up for sale this week. 

Absolutely loving SFIV so far, unlocked all the characters except Seth (who I absolutely hate) but there is one thing that bugs the crap out of me. Lag. When I search online the connection bar is invisible so I can't really tell what matches will be good and what won't, so I have to take chances with every single match I get into. I win most matches I get into, but when I get into a laggy game I know I'm in for a world of hurt. There was this Ken player who was pretty ok, nothing that should have given me any trouble but I still lost against him because of his connection. Then in the next match I meet a Zangief player, I normally think that if a person picks Zangief they are probably going to be good at the game. Well, he was very good but his connection made me want to bash my head against the wall! He picked up the first round fair and square, I won the second but in the third round was when the connection just decided to take a dump on me. I couldn't get any of my moves or specials off just because there was such a huge delay on every move, watching yourself get an ass-whoopin' and not being able to do anything is crap. 

Well, I was finally de-modded. Dun dun duuuun! This isn't really a big shock to me, I haven't been touching the wiki queue at all for quite a long time. It was quite nice being able to help the site out within the first couple of months but as things began to wind down I've had a lot of my free time taken up by college assignments, friends, family and quite a lot of other boring and uninteresting things. I've also had a big interest in music instead of games, this is mainly due to games obviously being a lot more expensive than music. It's actually quite a relief to have stepped down because now I don't have to tip-toe around everything I say and I can just start being... Me again! Every time I logged in I felt like an ass if I didn't look at the queue, but when I went on there I only did a couple and logged off again. The only thing I was disappointed by was the official tone of the message telling me I was de-modded. It reads out like one of my family members died! Plus it was all in italics, what's up with that? Maybe non-italics was just too unofficial looking, when you're de-modding someone you've gotta use italics.

I got back from Paris a couple of days ago, it was pretty fun! Went on a lot of rides, ate a lot of crappy food and even went to McDonalds to see what it tasted like in France! The chips or... Fries taste a lot healthier than they do here in lovely England, which is pretty odd. There are also these weird guys that hang around at night, they try to sell you random toy dogs and lasers. Of course they get your attention by shouting random stuff at you and pointing the laser in your eyes which was pretty damn irritating. Nonetheless it was a nice getaway.

Managed to bag myself a girlfriend whilst I was there too! I won't share all the boring details, but after a year of being single it's been a really welcome change. Shame games have taken a huge backseat in my life, money has been harder and harder to get recently and I keep spending it on music! There is one game I am definitely getting and that is Street Fighter IV. I am a huge fan of Street Fighter and it comes out pretty damn soon so I'm going to have to have a clear out of my old crap just so I can buy this baby!

College has been going well, just been trucking along the best I can. Been asked to write for the college magazine, my tutor seems pretty adamant on making me write for it so I think I'll have to do it! I have no idea what I'm going to write about so it should be a fun experience. Til next time!

Back in a couple days!