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[JoshuaFH]

It's my last two initials. So it's pronounced Joshua F. H., you see.

[ToonyMan]

In that case I'm Toony Ma. N., which is like, woah.

Must.  Stop.  Music.  In.  Head.  Take.  Off.  HEADPHONES.

Wait, they are off.

[CobaltKobold]

It's my last two initials. So it's pronounced Joshua F. H., you see.

But now we won't have incentive to call you Sir osh!

[ToonyMan]

It's my last two initials. So it's pronounced Joshua F. H., you see.

But now we won't have incentive to call you Sir osh!

Yes, Sir Josh, Sir Josh, SIR JOSH!

[JoshuaFH]

I'm sad for my roommate, also named Josh, who got word that he won't be allowed to advance to his fourth term for failing so badly on an important test of somesort.

I wish I were better at consoling people, but all I could do was try to comfort him while I played blitzball.

He owns the FFX disc too, so I won't be able to play it anymore! I'll need to copy the data from his memory card to mine. I'm not sure if it'd be rude to do it in front of him though.

[Leafsnail]

I'm sad for my roommate, also named Josh, who got word that he won't be allowed to advance to his fourth term for failing so badly on an important test of somesort.

I wish I were better at consoling people, but all I could do was try to comfort him while I played blitzball.

He owns the FFX disc too, so I won't be able to play it anymore! I'll need to copy the data from his memory card to mine. I'm not sure if it'd be rude to do it in front of him though.

You know, reading that, for a second I thought you were playing Blitzball for real.

[JoshuaFH]

The relatively frustrating minigame is oddly addicting, even when I can see the computer cheating right in front of me.

Firstly, occasionally the opposing teams will drop one of their experienced old fogies in exchange for a new lvl 1 player that you'd find in one of the towns. This seems ridiculous at first, since they have pathetic stats and can't play for crap in comparison to the hardboiled players that populate the circuit. However, after you play them in their debut game, they'll suddenly jump from lvl 1 to lvl 35, the average player level right now. Of course, this simply isn't possible the other way around, where you'd have to some SERIOUS grinding in order to even get a 10 level jump.

The computer never learns or earns abilities, players on their team are simply given abilities at random. This doesn't seem like that big of a deal, since hey, the computer doesn't have a chance to grind for them like I do. It's a bit egregious though when almost every single opposing player I run into has abilities that are you simply CAN'T get any other way other than winning them in tournaments, which they don't because I'm winning them all. This is culminated in a running personal inside-joke where the blitzball players are giving the judges 'personal time' in order to get new techniques from them.

Also, probably just paranoid, but it damn, does the RNG hate my guts during the randomized calculations in-game.

Though, I'm still undefeated, even though I'm still only using the original Besaid Auroch members (Tidus, Datto, Letty, Jessu, Botta, and Keepa), so I guess the computer's got to do all it can.

While I like Blitzball, I think that they wasted a whole lot of potential, and could have made the game SO MUCH better than they made it.

[ToonyMan]

Oh, Final Fantasy blitzball.

This reminds of something...oh yes.  Ape Escape 2 has a soccer mini-game that was pretty fun, especially when you have all the monkeys and can actually get to the end.

It was almost funnier than the main game.  Probably was.

[JoshuaFH]

How did I veer off into blitzball? I was going to write about something else, but then I thought "oh hey, blitzball", and I forgot all about what I wanted to say.

What I meant to say in that post was that I was especially sad that my roommate told me all about his dreams and plans for the future, and that he'd have to go to a new college. I feel really sad, since he really is a really nice guy.

[zchris13]

You must present a suitably ironic gift that is a subtle commentary on his predicament.

[Footkerchief]

You must present a suitably ironic gift that is a subtle commentary on his predicament.

Like a diploma frame.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

You must present a suitably ironic gift that is a subtle commentary on his predicament.

Like a diploma frame.

I'll keep that one in mind.

[ToonyMan]

You must present a suitably ironic gift that is a subtle commentary on his predicament.

Like a diploma frame.

I'll keep that one in mind.

No one can ever know about this.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

I laughed so hard it hurt.

[JoshuaFH]

Yeah! Haha! Alright! Today, in Ping Pong, I beat Melvin! Melvin is a staff member who's way better than Ben, and routinely beats all the students.

The list of good student players goes something like this

Derrick
Ben
Danny
Wonder Boy (Can't remember his name, but he's flippin' awesome)
Jon
Alex
Myself

And the staff members that play go something like:

Tony
Melvin
Mike
Fire and Safety Mike
Ted

All that's in no particular order.

I'm getting better. I've beaten one of the staff members, now I need to beat the rest, plus wonder boy who is the best of the group.