Why you so stupid, stupid!?

Trying to expand my skills and draw human beings instead of just grotesques.
Mixed results...
...and possibly mixed genders.

On a completely different subject I bought Street Fighter 4 today.
Not a good idea.
I used to play Street Fighter 2 back in the days of 20p arcades and Megadrives. I used to play it a whole lot. Street Fighter 4 plays like a incredibly polished and balanced version of 2.
But since the whole next gen console era I moved to the Tekken series as my brawler of choice. I like the feeling of weight that characters in Tekken have and the emphasis on close quarter combat rather than flinging projectiles. In Street Fighter the character float around like they're made of pollen and due to the likelihood of fireballs being flung your way the most expedient method of moving is a series of impossibly exhausting leaps.
The combatants in Tekken have dozens of moves to learn and use, Street Fighter has a handful. The main way of activating moves in Tekken is by tapping or double tapping a direction followed by an attack button as opposed to Street Fighter's thumb grinding quarter circle movements of the d-pad.

So really my biggest problem with Street Fighter 4 is it's not Tekken. So I'm an idiot for buying into the hype.

It's in no way a bad game. In fact it's pretty fantastic and gorgeous and has a few features that should be implemented in the next Tekken if they have any sense (such as the option to leave yourself open to online challenges while playing the rest of the game). It just isn't for me.
The most embarrassing thing about trying to play Street Fighter is how freakin' bad I am at it. At least by their standards. I'm no slouch when it comes to fighting games but when I'm struggling to beat arcade mode set at 'very easy' level I feel like maybe I need to rethink my status as a self proclaimed beat 'em up god. 'Very easy' should mean the opponent should fall for over 50% of my obvious ploys and amble about aimlessly until I decide to slap him silly in the manner of my choice. This is not the case in Street Fighter 4. Even on the easiest setting the enemy AI seems to be modeled on the mindset of a rapid shark/sexual predator. I can't seem to get my shit together to charge up a spinning bird kick when my opponent won't stop for two seconds and consider his options. Short of being an all powerful kung fu machine I flit about the screen petrified of letting the enemy anywhere near me lest he stomps me into the dirt with some unblockable, unavoidable whoop-ass technique. I'm not really in control of my destiny at any time.
So I'm taking it back to the shop and sticking to my previous statement that there's really only enough room for one beat 'em up game in a person's brain and for me it's Tekken.

Whoops I just spilled a video game review all over my nonsense blog.
I give the review a B+. 8/10. 84%.
It lost points for being too long.

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Shootin' lizards

I been eating a lot of oranges recently...
...and a lot of granite.
So now I can only see in orange and gray-scale.

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Tasmania, giant insects, scarecrows and public announcements.

There's all this snow about and it looks all pretty and nice out the window but by the time I get and up and get changed and get out there it seems to have been reduced to a pathetic pile of snow scrag.

It's that cruddy mucky dark crap that falls off the bottom of a Landrover.

The thing is I wouldn't risk making a snowman in my back yard. There's a good chance that if I put my hand in the snow I'd pull out a handful of cat dookie.

Stoopid damn cats.

Every morning at about 3.30am they decide to come out and play and in doing so turn on every security light in the road and freak me out.

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