Hello everyone!

A long-ass hiatus was due because I realized that I could not keep up with this fast pace of having new material (I'm certaintly not a professional writer). On the reflection of the existing posts, I realized that many of my "advices" are more of a philosophical attempt to influence people. I see it so because I am currently taking a philosophy course at UCB. The course is called the philosophy of science, and while it's interesting, I think most of the content of the philosophers we study is a bunch of dumb pointless shit. Regardless, I do understand their way of thought, and I respect it enough to learn the mentioned field.

As influenced by the course, I will revamp the style of this silly blog. It will now assume the form of a random question that which pops up in my mind. It should be loads of fun.
I guess I also have to change the title.

So today marks the offical goodbye to "Some Wisdom Everday for You" and the birth of "Wu the Modern-Day Philosopher."

Stay tuned for the first entry folks!

P.S. Don't forget to check out my newest Marvel fanfic: The Ties of Two Tyrants
at http://fanfics.blogspot.com/

Today's Proverb on Proverb and Counter-Proverb is "Failure Teaches Success"

This proverb is semi-famous. It really applies to the "if you fail, try again" proverb. However, failure can't be the reason for success. At least not personally. Someone's success is usually many people's failures. So success causes failure. If you fail at something, you learn what results causes you to fail at a certain thing (that is if you learn for your mistakes, which is a key point). Just because you know what is the criteria for failure does not equate to your knowing the criteria for success.
Let's take an example: We all know that one plus one equals two. However, let's say a small child is taught that one plus one equals eleven. When he goes to school, he then learns the right answer and knows that one plus one does not equal eleven. He now learns that the answer is two, because the teacher told him so. But what's to stop the child from staying on his current knowledge of adding numbers together to form a double digit number of the same digits, that is to say, the child will still apply his current knowledge and predict that two plus two is twenty-two. Now you're thinking, no one is that stupid. It's just common sense and basic math that one plus one is two and two plus two is four. But the child was not educated about basic math. He was told what was wrong but not how to get what is right. He knows what fails but doesn't know what succeeds.
A more applicable ideal to students is studying. Most people know that not studying for a test is criteria for failure. So we avoid not studying. But, studying may not prove effective as a means to pass the test. We can study, hoping to succeed. We can also ignore studying and find some alternate way to prepare by ourselves in a new, or different way to succeed. We can just avoid it all and just fail. Nowhere in those three situations does the knowledge of how to fail teach us how to succeed.

Counter-Proverb: Failure teaches only about failure, but success is taught elsewhere.

Vince Notes: We know failure is bad and success is good. But we can't just avoid the bad and hope to stay on the good because that's not how it works. Success is just something one must find through immitation or creation. Enjoy your day.

(Y)
( , ,){The Bunnie says, "I never fail!"}
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There will be no feeling of impending doom entry this Monday for Famous Last Words on account of the Thanksgiving holiday break. It's a time to enjoy ourselves. So let's not think about anything morbid.

Today's Combo on Combo of the Week is "12's s.mk > super"

Today's game is about Street Fighter III: Third Strike. The character being discussed is the arguably the worst in the game, but a personal favorite of mine.

Normally, Twelve's standing medium kick (s.mk) is not cancelable to special moves or supers. However it is super jump (sj) cancelable. You activate the sj cancel but pressing down-up after the mk hits (whether it hits or is blocked doesn't matter because you can still sj cancel, but if you're parried, you're gonna be in big shit). How you can "abuse" the lenient system of Third Strike (3S) is that you can perform a 360 motion on the joystick starting from the down position. So make a full circle from down to right to up to left to down. This will activate sj cancel because you still press down-up, so it registers as a sj. If you notice, in the circle you move from down to right. All of Twelve's supers need the motion quarter-circle forward (QCF) twice for the super. Thus the 360 motion registers as both a sj cancel and also one QCF's of the two QCF's need for a super. So to complete the s.mk cancel to a super, all you have to do is add an extra QCF after your circle ends at the down position. So you should end on the right position and simultaneously press punch or kick (depending on the chosen super) and voila, s.mk cancel to super. While Twelve's supers 1 and 3 are cancelable by other means, super 2 is not since it is air-activation only. Thus the sj cancel allows Twelve to jump in the air and cancel into the super while the opponent is in hit-stun (assuming the mk connects) and making it a true combo.

In theory it's quite a simple concept. In writing, it seems quite complicated. In reality, it is damn near impossible depending on the situation.

Vince Notes: Good luck getting this combo in. You'll have a better chance with the first Super. The second super is quite difficult. The third super is relatively useless so it doesn't matter whether you combo into it or not.

(Y)
( , ,){The Bunnie says, "Eeeeeeeaaaaaarrrrr!"}
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I was going to skip Saturday's entry on the count of the Cal Football Team losing to USC's. Then I realized that Saturday's entries are about being pisses so Saturday's entry will still be on, just a day late.

Yesterday's Topic on Fuck This Shit is "Cal Football"

This won't really be advice. This entry will just be more of a vent. First off, congratulations to USC. They executed perfectly. It was so obvious that everytime that Booty, the USC quarterback, had the ball and threw it it was good or at least safe. Juxtaposed with Cal's own Longshore, every pass was a scare because most of the time it happens to be near a Trojan.
Second problem was the usage of Lynch, Cal's running back and star player. The team used him so much in the first half that he probably burned out his two sprained ankles in the second half. What that means is then, with Longshore choking like a bitch in the second half he can't go to the running game with Lynch. No offense to Jackson, Cal's wide receiver, and Forsett, Cal's back-up running back or mini-Lynch, but nothing can replace the real Lynch's abilities. Longshore just stuck with the passing game which he was failing horribly in the second half. So that was a bad call on either Longshore or the coaching staff. I mean, I don't think I'm better at coaching footbal than anyone, but I just think that was a general flaw in the program's approach to the USC game. The third problem was the defense. It was decent in the first half, but in the second half, it just broke down. Cal's leading interceptor, Hughes was nowhere to be seen. I don't think I can complain about the defensive leader, Bishop because he seemed to do what he was supposed to do, but it's not a one-man team. We saw this earlier with the lack of using Lynch and relying on Jackson. Cal's team is good. It's even safe to say it's great. Yet, the team is lacking championship appeal and facing the Bush-less and Linear-less USC Trojan's team proves it.

By the way, USC is still the most unfair team to play against, because they recruit so badly it's not even fair. It's actually sad that they don't always win a national title annually with what they do each year with using money for players. Sad. Real sad. So ya, that's my shot at USC. Fuckers.

I shall return to a regular advice post later today for Sunday. It's another combo entry. I plan to make it a simple combo so it won't be so long like last time.

Vince Notes: Cal lacks spirit of champions, while USC is technically a failing team if they don't win a national championship. No real advice.

( Y )
(T_T){The Bunnie says, "Poor Cal football..."}
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Internet problems last week again....continuing where I left off day-wise...

Today's Topic on Randomania is "Y versus IE"

There is two parts I would like to address, the second part being the main focus. Taking a look at using "Y" compared to using "IE," the idea behind the difference is the gender. Y's are more masculine and IE's are feminine. Taking the name Sam for example, Sam stands for Samantha or Samuel. They we have the name Sammy or Sammie. We can see which one is which because of the ending.
Now I want to take a look at another name. Let's look at my name Vincent. I am sure many have heard the nickname Vinny or Vinnie. Yet, why is there is the two uses when both are male. There is no female expansion of Vinnie (the male expansion of Vinny obviously being Vincent). I don't even see how Vinnie came to be. Some gender confused idiot must have confused some Vincent to be a girl and started to use Vinnie instead of the correct Vinny (if you know me...this sentence will seem very very very hypocritcal ^_^). Then comes the issue of where to put the Y/IE sound. Taking a look at the female name Vincy/Vincie. I guess that would be the female version of Vincent. But couldn't Vincent be shortened to Vincy/Vincie because it the rules (whatever rules they may be) still applies to adding the Y/IE. So the question now is when do we insert the Y/IE? Why is Jonathan shortened to Johnny and not Jonathy? Well to answer my own question, Jonathy sounds like a female name, but then that goes back to the first question of Vinny versus Vinnie and Vincy/Vincie. Confused yet? To make an easier example, why is the name Jennifer shortened to Jenny/Jennie (more gender confusion...) and not say, the wonderful name Jennifie?
Totally random...

Vince Notes: The whole concept of using Y/IE is very tricky if taking an analytical approach. There are two way I'd conclude it. One, take the rules as an English idiom that has no explanation. Two, the twentieth-first century's freedom of sexuality is so open compared to other eras that gender switching is fine at any level.

(Y)
( , ,){The Bunnie says, "Betcha didn't know I'm female!"}
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Today's Reminiscent on When I Was Your Age... is "Poker meant five-card draw."

I believe that the crazy of Texas Hold 'Em began when I was in high school as a sophomore. So, that's about half a decade ago or so. It's relatively a new interest. I remember when people talked about poker, it was always five-card draw. No stud, no razz, no omaha, and no hold-em. I guess times change and everything with it. Don't get me wrong, I love playing Hold 'Em since it's the only poker I gamble with. I'm not even really that analytical about it, I'm sort of decent, but that's for anyone to decide. I do know that luck is my most powerful weapon, but that's a different story. Still, I never knew why the change happened and honestly, I don't care too much to find out. Hold 'Em is here and it's here to stay, so we can all play!

Vince Notes: Hold 'Em replaced Five Card Draw as the "default" poker game, but with good reason. It's fun and while I am by no means promoting gambling, I'm promoting the game itself and all the skills and techniques and excitement (or frustration) it offers. If you haven't tried it before (do you live in a cave or something?), please do yourself a favor and do so, like right fuckin' now!

(Y)
( , ,){The Bunnie says, "Thirteen Card Poker anyone?"}
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Hello. I had internet issues last week on Wednesday and thus no updates for the rest of that week. I have a midterm today at 1pm so I've been working. So I decided to continue this "week" on Wednesday, since that's where I left off. It works out!

Today's Fortune on MMMM....I Can See... is "You will see something blue."

Ah, yes. Something of the bluish hue will catch your eye today. Be it a shirt, a building, or even the infinite sky, it will be there. It's nice to enjoy the colors of the world. Take some time off someday and just enjoy that pallette of everyday life. It can't hurt right?

Vince Notes: Enjoy a scenery once in a while. It'll do us all some good.

(Y)
(^.^){The Bunnie says, "V1.3 has a fat head don't I?"}
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