Sangokushi Tai-arrrrrrrggghhhh

I want to beat my head into a wall until it's bloody goo. Or maybe I just want to burn all my cards and forever declare my hatred of CCGs. AAARRRRGGGHHHHHH. Today I was reminded of exactly why I quit collectible card games like Magic: the Gathering, and I wonder why I didn't remember this when I started playing Sangokushi Taisen. Curse me, and my shitty memory. MY LIFE HATES ME.

Or at least my ancestors do. If they haven't disowned me for my rabid slashy habits, they sure as hell have disowned me for my abysmal Sangokushi online record. I think I'm somewhere around 2-12 or 2-13. Yes, it's pitiful, I know. *weep* My record against the computer is completely respectable, but that's only until you realize the computer has the intelligence of a drooling monkey. A very very small monkey. Christ, I've seen seven year olds able to kick my ass (some of them probably have already), and that's just fucking shameful.

If I were my ancestors, I'd disown me too. Hell, I'm about to disown myself right now. (Though I don't know where that would land me. ¬_¬ What happens if you disown yourself?) I'm pretty sure Guan Yu has disowned me for lusting after him at random times, and if Guan Yu has decided to boot me from the hallowed halls of Cool Chinese People, so has Zhang Fei and Liu Bei. I'm sure everybody from Wu hates me because I'm not playing them at all, and Cao Cao and his massive family has booted me into the gutter because I play Wei with the finesse of a bag of bricks. (Obviously, I need a larger bag of bricks.)

My ancestors back 100 generations have disowned me. ¬_¬ Any more shittiness from my end and I may just start getting excommunicated from the human race, like Richard Simmons and Rod Stewart. BOY WOULD THAT SUCK.

Pretty much everybody I've played online today (except for the ONE person whose ass I handed to them) has a deck full of rare or superare cards. Decks usually range from 4-6 cards, though I have occasionally seen decks of 7 cards. I played somebody's 4-card deck of two rares and two superares. I also played somebody with three rares, one super rare, and one uncommon. GASP. There was this ten year old kid playing a deck with two superrares, three rares, and one uncommon. I SHIT YOU NOT.

Oh yes, I remember now. This is why I quit Magic: the Gathering. Because the goodness of you and your deck is directly proportional to the amount of money you have. I remember playing Magic against some kids who've probably spent over $1000 of their parents' money on their cards. And boy were they pwning everybody left, right, and center. Eventually I gave up and quit Magic sometime early senior year of high school, because I realized that I only had enough funds to support one crack habit--anime. Note that this was before the advent of Torrent, so I was still buying fansubs on VHS. Ha, if only torrent had been around earlier.

I've got a lot more respect for Magic: the Gathering players these days who don't play in pre-constructed deck tournaments. Starter pack + 3 booster packs is definitely the way to go. Makes sure us unfortunate, poor kids at the bottom of the income ladder get a decent shot for our brains. Sangokushi is becoming what Magic was to me: expensive and rather embarassing, but I can't stop playing because I think I'm addicted to the adrenaline rush of "I'm in ur base, killing ur d00ds" and "crapxx0rs!! We got pwned!" (I've been seeing way more of the latter lately than the former.) I might as well just hang around on dark street corners looking for drugs, cause that might be cheaper way less frustrating.

*sigh* Maybe if I'm a really good girl the Almighty Fathers of Asian Whoopass will grant me some good rares. 0:) I'm currently looking to build a decent Shu deck, cause they have more high-powered commons and uncommon cards than the other kingdoms, though some more Wei rares can't hurt. (Too bad the Shu rares have better powers in general. Makes up for their complete lack of cavalry, I suppose.)

Time to buy Dynasty Warriors 5 or chill around at home with the tenth installment of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Maybe then I can redeem myself and erase the shame of my name. m(._.)m Oh wait, I lack my PS2, 'til I go back to the States. There goes that idea.

Anyways, I was going to go to Himeji today, but I ended going to bed last night at 5am because I writing and reading fanfiction. I also had a rather long nap in the afternoon which left me rather groggy for most of the early evening, which definitely resulted in me not sleeping until 5am. *sigh* Himeji tomorrow, I suppose. No more Sangokushi for the rest of the week. I'm feeling a little tight on funds, especially after I bought two Legolas/Gimli doujinshi at Mandarake today. I couldn't help myself, when I was bending over double to keep from laughing out loud at "Load of the Rings." If you saw that, you'd buy it too. (It was only 420yen, I think what really put me behind was the 1000yen I spent on kaiten zushi.)

I've noticed recently that the cicadas are starting to die, as I've seen some insecty corpses littering the parking lots 'round here. That means that it's the season for Skuld to become a walking target for those kamikaze cicadas who are hellbent on taking me out with them. I wish those Buddhist and Shinto temples would sell protective charms against those things. I need those more than protective charms for exams. ( ¬_¬)p What'd I really like is a nice Cicada Shield surrounding me at all times I'm outside in a vaguely tree-ish area, so any bug that comes within a two foot radius of me is instantly smote.

Yeah, like those Sangokushi rares, I'll keep on wishing. One of you guys should start a betting pool on what my next rare card will be. I'm putting my money on that Xiahou Dun card I just bought last week, cause it's just like me to get a rare card I already have. If it's a third Ma Su card, don't be surprised if you read about me in the papers after they spent all night scraping my remains off the train tracks.

EDIT: ARGH! They pushed back the date for the "Fighting for One Piece" game. It was supposed to come out late July, and now they've pushed it back to September 8th, so I can't get my hands on it except through the interweb. This is definite proof my life hates me. T___T *weep* I'll have to content myself with Grand Battle 3 until then, I suppose.