just to give you an idea of how messed up arcadia's rankings are:
Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection
A Class:
Kazuya
Law
Heihachi
Jack-5
B Class:
Asuka
Christie
Marduk
Nina
Julia
Yoshimitsu
Feng
Xiaoyu
Devil Jin
Paul
C Class:
Ganryu
Bryan
Steve
King
Raven
Anna
Wang
Lee
Lei
D Class:
Jin
Kuma/Panda
Baek
Hwoarang
Bruce
Roger
new characters aren't included in the list
aaand...
Virtua Fighter 4: Final Tuned
Top-High:
Kage
Jacky
Top-low:
Pai
Aoi
Mid-High:
Lau
Sara
Mid-Low:
Akira
Wolf
Lion
Low-High:
Vanessa
Brad
Shun
Low-Low:
Jeffry
Gou
Leifei
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you can compare them to the korean tk5:dr rankings by looking in my march's diary posts...
i'm just including the vf4:ft rankings not b/c they're wack, but b/c i'm a big vf fan. fairly good, but vanessa should be a lot higher, ditto w/lei. shun should be slightly up. fairly good otherwise, IMO.
Friday, March 31, 2006
Thursday, March 30, 2006
i know pistons are PARTIALLY to blame, but sixers seriously did not look like they showed up wanting to play.
i consider myself a new skool jazz fan; i love the combination of okur, ak and boozer. and i am just STUNNED how ak can get so many blocks and steals in a game... IMO he is the best defensive player in the nba. i really enjoyed watching them fight the nuggets and win that game... they would probably face an early exit if they got into the playoffs at all, but i would love for them to make it.
is this a coincidence? that almost all the great defensive-minded coaches in the nba are the ones which are the hardest on their players? i mean, i can list exceptions(MAYBE chicago and detroit), but i think you understand. coaches aren't hired to teach effort. they're hired to teach technique and execution. but if you get up in them and drive them so they want to perform harder at least to shut you up, you can help reach into that effort capability. i say this b/c mo cheeks is very lax; we all know how lax the sixer's d is. doc rivers is very laid back; celtics aren't exactly the best defensive team either. rick charlisle does NOT take crap from his players; indiana constantly ranks amongst the best defensive teams in the league. ditto w/gregg poppavich. avery johnson doesn't have THE best defensive players, but he gets up in their grill, and it has shown with the increase in wins and defense(pushing aside the bogus losses, like the manhandle against the cavs yesterday). etc.
of course, we could cite the knicks. but that's different as well.
i consider myself a new skool jazz fan; i love the combination of okur, ak and boozer. and i am just STUNNED how ak can get so many blocks and steals in a game... IMO he is the best defensive player in the nba. i really enjoyed watching them fight the nuggets and win that game... they would probably face an early exit if they got into the playoffs at all, but i would love for them to make it.
is this a coincidence? that almost all the great defensive-minded coaches in the nba are the ones which are the hardest on their players? i mean, i can list exceptions(MAYBE chicago and detroit), but i think you understand. coaches aren't hired to teach effort. they're hired to teach technique and execution. but if you get up in them and drive them so they want to perform harder at least to shut you up, you can help reach into that effort capability. i say this b/c mo cheeks is very lax; we all know how lax the sixer's d is. doc rivers is very laid back; celtics aren't exactly the best defensive team either. rick charlisle does NOT take crap from his players; indiana constantly ranks amongst the best defensive teams in the league. ditto w/gregg poppavich. avery johnson doesn't have THE best defensive players, but he gets up in their grill, and it has shown with the increase in wins and defense(pushing aside the bogus losses, like the manhandle against the cavs yesterday). etc.
of course, we could cite the knicks. but that's different as well.
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
today is the beginning of what will probably be an end to my college days...
let's hope i actually do things right this time around.
schedule doesn't look TOO bad; i'm just hoping i get an internship...
that, good grades, and getting a 1-2 yr science job would be great...
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ucdavis bookstore actually sells a "ucdavis cowtipping team" baseball cap... got a few chuckles outta me... maybe i'll buy it someday later, heh heh.
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i remembered once stopping @ a red light in ucdavis, and one of the cars opposite me was making a left turn. the passenger riding shotgun stuck his head out the window and opened a centerfold showing a woman's breasts showing it to the people outside of the car in sight and yelling something with a smile which i couldn't hear since my windows were rolled up... that got me dying with laughter. i look around and i'm seeing a woman pedestrian waiting at the crosswalk laughing too, and a female driver in the car next to me cracking her head off too, so i'm assuming this wasn't sexist. i dunno where i'm going with this, i just re-remembered this, and it was pretty funny.
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remembered once seeing a top 10 on sportscenter, and it was women's ncaa basketball; one woman's attempting to take a wide-open 3, and a woman on the opposite team runs out to help and just SWATS the ball into the crowd... that was crazy... like a man-block.
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i'm actually going to be trying watching ucla vs lsu this saturday for final four; ucla has actually concentrated upon defense a LOT this year with their head coach; they beat memphis, a high-scoring team by grinding it out. farmer chose to go to ucla b/c the coach was the ONLY one who approached him telling him if he went to ucla, they would teach him defense, and they would win a championship(as opposed to the 1000s of other coaches who told him he would be a star and lead the league in scoring). they surprised everybody by beating gonzaga with their defense. they have a decently deep team, and they concentrate upon the right stuff.
lsu is not as balanced, but again, i love them because of their great frontcourt; a rarity in college basketball these days. thomas and davis are like yin and yang; one's great b/c of his bulk, the other's great b/c of his athleticism. both are great defensively, but do things offensively as well. due to the fact that i started really loving the big guy positions(3-5) over the guards when i got into basketball for real, and you can understand why i like these guys so much. it's further augmented when you see that larry brown would REALLY like tyrus thomas to be on the knicks(not getting him though; i would like to see tyrus end up on the atlanta hawks, if not the warriors)
george mason and florida is also a great matchup, but sometimes i'm wondering if gm's getting too much attention now, and whether it might throw them off. so i'm not going to actually watch that game, but concentrate on lsu and ucla.
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wizards whup on the kings, WITHOUT arenas... caron butler was on fire, daniels was rolling, etc... win by 13... sweeeeet... etan thomas sent a lotta shots back at the kings.
nets have been looking a LOT better as of late. they beat the pistons on their home court, and then handed suns their asses.
i'm still getting the feeling that detroit's not trying their hardest... not like in the beginning of the season. they haven't run away with home court advantage yet and secured it throughout, so i'm wondering why they're resting their starters more, as flip claims to be doing. though, if you want to rest your starters, it might be better to do it now, and then enter the playoffs with full steam, than to burn out the starters now, and then rest for a long period; you'd be shaky near the beginning of the playoffs, and it might cost you.
that said, you can't just say you want to WIN games and that they'll happen. i think that's something some people have to realize. it's something I have to realize at times. it is a matter of what your opponent is capable of during the game video reviews, what you're doing to counteract that capability, what your opponent does instead thinking what YOU'RE going to do to counteract THAT, and whether or not you or your opponent just has the shots falling. also effort. etc. to assume it's always up is wrong. that said, the better teams will have the odds fall their way more times than not. although we still cringe everytime we see an upset, but those should be more rare; in more cases, the better team will win, period.
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the fact that we need to work hard in order to achieve things doesn't necessarily dispute the existance of a god predetermining everything in this world. the analogy seen to this in the Bible is one of a farmer who is trying to grow a crop. like a farmer, we can only provide the proper conditions for the seed to grow. we can plant it in good fertilized soil, provide it with adequate protection from predators, water it with the right amounts to give it moisture. but God still needs to provide adequate sunlight in order for you to produce a crop. else nothing will happen. (this idea was ALSO conveyed in Foster's Celebration of Discipline)
granted, this set of verses below which i got this idea were used to explain why God does everything, and why we shouldn't be under a certain church leader, like Paul or Apollos. but it still gives the same idea.
1st Corinthians:
{3:3} For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
{3:4} For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I [am] of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
{3:5} Who then is Paul, and who [is] Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
{3:6} I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
{3:7} So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
the thing that i'm still wrestling over with though, is couldn't God just give us the proper conditions for the seed and soil as well if he wanted us to do these things and we didn't, ie we didn't plant the seed? surely God does not wait upon us if we don't insist on planting and then we die and God goes "whoops."
but perhaps i'm diving too deep into this; the truth is that there's a multitude of factors that i'm probably not considering in this scenario. one of them could be that God needs to give us the desire to plant the seed. that is why we struggle in sin many times, because the desire and fortitude to conquer it did not come from God himself.
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it's sorta like the arguments i've seen for why predestination exists; many Christians use Revelations 3:20 to support a free-will policy of Jesus' redemption:
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
So we see a cause and effect;
cause: we hear God's voice, effect: we open the door
cause: we open the door, effect: Jesus comes into our heart
But there are problems with that argument; the 1st is notice the original intent of this letter in Revelations; it wasn't to unbelievers; it was to the 7 churches. now if this letter was meant to support free will, why are you wasting valuable time and ink writing these words to churchgoers?
The 2nd is this; we haven't tackled the CAUSE of what leads to the EFFECT of us hearing God's voice, you see? Most Christians see this verse, and stop, thinking great! All I have to do is hear God's voice. The problem though is that the Bible has clearly stated that none can hear God's voice. God must make those he decides to save hear his voice.
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So the point of that deviation was to show that in like vein, it probably isn't as simple as 1) we want to do God's will 2) we plant the seed and nurture it 3) God does the rest. but maybe more like 0) God plants the heart to want to do God's will.
let's hope i actually do things right this time around.
schedule doesn't look TOO bad; i'm just hoping i get an internship...
that, good grades, and getting a 1-2 yr science job would be great...
---
ucdavis bookstore actually sells a "ucdavis cowtipping team" baseball cap... got a few chuckles outta me... maybe i'll buy it someday later, heh heh.
---
i remembered once stopping @ a red light in ucdavis, and one of the cars opposite me was making a left turn. the passenger riding shotgun stuck his head out the window and opened a centerfold showing a woman's breasts showing it to the people outside of the car in sight and yelling something with a smile which i couldn't hear since my windows were rolled up... that got me dying with laughter. i look around and i'm seeing a woman pedestrian waiting at the crosswalk laughing too, and a female driver in the car next to me cracking her head off too, so i'm assuming this wasn't sexist. i dunno where i'm going with this, i just re-remembered this, and it was pretty funny.
---
remembered once seeing a top 10 on sportscenter, and it was women's ncaa basketball; one woman's attempting to take a wide-open 3, and a woman on the opposite team runs out to help and just SWATS the ball into the crowd... that was crazy... like a man-block.
---
i'm actually going to be trying watching ucla vs lsu this saturday for final four; ucla has actually concentrated upon defense a LOT this year with their head coach; they beat memphis, a high-scoring team by grinding it out. farmer chose to go to ucla b/c the coach was the ONLY one who approached him telling him if he went to ucla, they would teach him defense, and they would win a championship(as opposed to the 1000s of other coaches who told him he would be a star and lead the league in scoring). they surprised everybody by beating gonzaga with their defense. they have a decently deep team, and they concentrate upon the right stuff.
lsu is not as balanced, but again, i love them because of their great frontcourt; a rarity in college basketball these days. thomas and davis are like yin and yang; one's great b/c of his bulk, the other's great b/c of his athleticism. both are great defensively, but do things offensively as well. due to the fact that i started really loving the big guy positions(3-5) over the guards when i got into basketball for real, and you can understand why i like these guys so much. it's further augmented when you see that larry brown would REALLY like tyrus thomas to be on the knicks(not getting him though; i would like to see tyrus end up on the atlanta hawks, if not the warriors)
george mason and florida is also a great matchup, but sometimes i'm wondering if gm's getting too much attention now, and whether it might throw them off. so i'm not going to actually watch that game, but concentrate on lsu and ucla.
---
wizards whup on the kings, WITHOUT arenas... caron butler was on fire, daniels was rolling, etc... win by 13... sweeeeet... etan thomas sent a lotta shots back at the kings.
nets have been looking a LOT better as of late. they beat the pistons on their home court, and then handed suns their asses.
i'm still getting the feeling that detroit's not trying their hardest... not like in the beginning of the season. they haven't run away with home court advantage yet and secured it throughout, so i'm wondering why they're resting their starters more, as flip claims to be doing. though, if you want to rest your starters, it might be better to do it now, and then enter the playoffs with full steam, than to burn out the starters now, and then rest for a long period; you'd be shaky near the beginning of the playoffs, and it might cost you.
that said, you can't just say you want to WIN games and that they'll happen. i think that's something some people have to realize. it's something I have to realize at times. it is a matter of what your opponent is capable of during the game video reviews, what you're doing to counteract that capability, what your opponent does instead thinking what YOU'RE going to do to counteract THAT, and whether or not you or your opponent just has the shots falling. also effort. etc. to assume it's always up is wrong. that said, the better teams will have the odds fall their way more times than not. although we still cringe everytime we see an upset, but those should be more rare; in more cases, the better team will win, period.
---
the fact that we need to work hard in order to achieve things doesn't necessarily dispute the existance of a god predetermining everything in this world. the analogy seen to this in the Bible is one of a farmer who is trying to grow a crop. like a farmer, we can only provide the proper conditions for the seed to grow. we can plant it in good fertilized soil, provide it with adequate protection from predators, water it with the right amounts to give it moisture. but God still needs to provide adequate sunlight in order for you to produce a crop. else nothing will happen. (this idea was ALSO conveyed in Foster's Celebration of Discipline)
granted, this set of verses below which i got this idea were used to explain why God does everything, and why we shouldn't be under a certain church leader, like Paul or Apollos. but it still gives the same idea.
1st Corinthians:
{3:3} For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
{3:4} For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I [am] of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
{3:5} Who then is Paul, and who [is] Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
{3:6} I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
{3:7} So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
the thing that i'm still wrestling over with though, is couldn't God just give us the proper conditions for the seed and soil as well if he wanted us to do these things and we didn't, ie we didn't plant the seed? surely God does not wait upon us if we don't insist on planting and then we die and God goes "whoops."
but perhaps i'm diving too deep into this; the truth is that there's a multitude of factors that i'm probably not considering in this scenario. one of them could be that God needs to give us the desire to plant the seed. that is why we struggle in sin many times, because the desire and fortitude to conquer it did not come from God himself.
---
|
it's sorta like the arguments i've seen for why predestination exists; many Christians use Revelations 3:20 to support a free-will policy of Jesus' redemption:
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
So we see a cause and effect;
cause: we hear God's voice, effect: we open the door
cause: we open the door, effect: Jesus comes into our heart
But there are problems with that argument; the 1st is notice the original intent of this letter in Revelations; it wasn't to unbelievers; it was to the 7 churches. now if this letter was meant to support free will, why are you wasting valuable time and ink writing these words to churchgoers?
The 2nd is this; we haven't tackled the CAUSE of what leads to the EFFECT of us hearing God's voice, you see? Most Christians see this verse, and stop, thinking great! All I have to do is hear God's voice. The problem though is that the Bible has clearly stated that none can hear God's voice. God must make those he decides to save hear his voice.
|
---
So the point of that deviation was to show that in like vein, it probably isn't as simple as 1) we want to do God's will 2) we plant the seed and nurture it 3) God does the rest. but maybe more like 0) God plants the heart to want to do God's will.
Sunday, March 26, 2006
holla at cha boi...
defense really does win championships...
george mason is going to the final four.
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pelican universal arcade stick is garbage compared to a real hori stick...
i got so used for the 1st on jon's ps2 playing ttt that i couldn't wavedash at all using the 2nd at tk5:dr at svgl.
could still do EWGF almost at will without any sidesteps, so that wasn't a problem.
devil jin looks good in tk5:dr; lost the ability to do a safe mid-level combo starter, but he can now low crush, which should take care of low punchers while he's wavedashing.
defense really does win championships...
george mason is going to the final four.
---
pelican universal arcade stick is garbage compared to a real hori stick...
i got so used for the 1st on jon's ps2 playing ttt that i couldn't wavedash at all using the 2nd at tk5:dr at svgl.
could still do EWGF almost at will without any sidesteps, so that wasn't a problem.
devil jin looks good in tk5:dr; lost the ability to do a safe mid-level combo starter, but he can now low crush, which should take care of low punchers while he's wavedashing.
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