天限

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The air is thick with hatred. It lingers like a festering odor in the air, scarring my skin like cheap incense smoke, running like black grime down the cold cement walls. Moving is a superhuman effort – the seething feeling congeals around my limbs when I push through the murk, binds them, brands them with its infernal venom. For this reason, I remain still and silent. It takes all my effort to keep a clear head in the brooding haze. To remain sane.

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David Sirlin, a game designer and professional Street Fighter player, is famous for his mindset of "play to win." As far as his line of thinking goes, you should go all out to win by any means necessary – even if the route of shortest resistance is something boring to take and to watch, like spamming a single move over and over.

One of Sirlin's most famous matches (yes, Street Fighter has famous games like chess and go) was in the finals of a Street Fighter Alpha 2 tournament. ...

Poison
also known as Red Snake, Queen of Hearts, Damned Spot or Renard
"You are your greatest enemy. Do not give in to temptation, passion or greed." –Continental Tarot


The air is thick with the fragrance of Corona tobacco. Illuminated by a rickety desk lamp is an ornate wooden desk, done up in red silk and piled high with compasses, eyeglasses and fading documents. Time has been unkind to the man who sits here with furrowed brow – he is only tw...

The ball's dropped. I can hear the fireworks. What does 2012, in all its glorious newness, hold for me?

I resolve to...

• Complete my resolutions.
• Pay attention to my resolutions.
• Get better at fighting games.
• Learn to play fighting games on a joystick.
• Own a joystick.
• Own people with my joystick.
• Get better at Magic: the Gathering.
• Find worthy opponents to play against instead of just trashing my friends all the time....

As you may or may not be aware of, I happen to keep a blog in my spare time (well, what spare time isn't taken up by studying and card games). This blog has no particular theme. Sometimes I blog about decks I've built, or things I'm doing, or cryptic tidbits of a steampunk-flavored card game which I haven't explained, or life philosophy. It's all cool.

But blogging is hard.