Zel-kun’s Words

Happy New Year’s to all.

I’ve always found New Year’s to be an interesting time. To this day, the fascination with a number turning on the calender engrosses millions of people. Some see it as a time to start over, to begin anew with a clean slate. Some people even wait to this day to improve themselves, forging ‘resolutions.’ It is a shame so few actually hold to their resolutions. If we just had one resolution to better ourselves, once a year, and we kept it, think of how much better we, as human beings, could be. “I resolve to quite smoking, I resolve to read more, I resolve to pursue my dream of accomplishing something.” My advice is, make a resolution right now, as you read this, on the 3rd of January. Make it, and keep it. In fact, feel free to post your resolution in the comments.

My Resolution:

I resolve to finish ‘The One Who Waits,’ (book I’m working on) and pick up another old project I dropped.

Also, don’t wait until New Years to pursue a new resolution. If you accomplish one, set a new goal for yourself. My biggest complaint about people is they become stagnant, that after a certain point in their lives (usually as a teenager), they stop learning, they stop trying to better themselves.

Okay, enough with the lecture, I’m getting off my soapbox now.

Its funny that I am truly beginning this year with different eyes than I greeted last year with, for the simplest reason imaginable, I finally got a new pair of eyeglasses a couple days ago. After 4 years of the same prescription, I can see clearly again.

I am still playing Soul Calibur III, and I am still getting my butt thoroughly kicked by the AI. Its fun, in a maddening sort of way. The AI is good, I mean, really good. It doesn’t just throw everything it has at you and block everything else, I’m used to that. No, it reacts to your moves. It watches you and pulls the best counter for whatever move you do. It waits for the opening to strike, and being as it knows every single move and doesn’t need to know complex button-presses, there’s a LOT of openings. One day I will beat the game… but I doubt that day is today, I still have yet to even play half the characters available. But I will say again, for any hardcore fighting gamer, pick it up, you won’t be disappointed. For casual players (like me), prepare for pure misery. And yet, I keep playing… I guess I like pain.

Zel-kun out.