I recently discovered that playing Street Fighter Alpha 2 on GGPO is pretty much the best thing. I also discovered that my Internet is pretty much the worst thing. I’m not happy about this.

Turns out learning how to play fighting games is really hard. It’s like learning to play the damn piano or something, except you have to play the piano against other dudes, and they’ve all been playing for fifteen years, and they whip out Rick Wakeman shit on you while you “Three Blind Mice” as furiously as possible hoping it does something (it doesn’t.) I can’t do combos or special moves for shit so my strategy is to pick Chun and attempt to c.MK my opponent into submission. It rarely works, but I can take rounds off of guys from time to time so maybe that’ll turn into actual victories at some point. Right now my biggest obstacle is my shitty Internet: Nobody wants to fight a guy who lags all the time, so my playing time is limited to the very few times of day that my connection behaves itself, and as a result I can’t get many matches in. Unfortunately it’s the only provider in this area, so I’ll just have to stick it out and hope it gets better eventually.