{"id":26230,"date":"2010-03-23T10:26:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T14:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=26230"},"modified":"2020-06-18T10:29:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T14:29:03","slug":"one-of-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=26230","title":{"rendered":"One of these days . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-26225 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/freefood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/freefood.jpg 481w, http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/freefood-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lora;\">WOULD YOU EAT THIS FOR FULL HEALTH?\u00a0 Because nothing says rejuvenation like a steaming plate of chicken found underneath a waste receptacle, not to mention, defying the laws of physics to not be flat as a pancake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lora;\">This will go on the growing list of &#8220;to-do&#8221; projects, such as finishing up my 2009 Nanowrimo story, among other things, but one of these days, I&#8217;d love to take a stab at sprite-editing, and hacking up a ROM of<span class=\"apple-style-span\"><i>\u00a0Final Fight.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lora;\">My friend and I were discussing this one day, and it seemed like a fun and interesting idea to do.\u00a0 In short, I would take my friend&#8217;s head, and put him on the body of Mayor Mike Haggar, who would suplex, spinning pile driver, and lariat all who stands in his path.\u00a0 And since he&#8217;s my best friend, I would have to be Guy, since he&#8217;s Asian, and Cody is kind of a putz anyway.\u00a0 Granted, I would be propagating all sorts of stereotypes being on the body of Guy, kicking, and &#8220;wa-taa&#8221;-ing my way through the game, but this is a two-man mission here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lora;\">Since we&#8217;re both raging bigot anti-Semitic racists, all bad guys would be sprites of various colors, but mostly probably black, but not ignoring those with dark skin tones, and Latino, Indian and Middle Eastern names.\u00a0 Any bad guys that appeared to be white would have obvious names like Goldstein or Silverman, and I&#8217;d guess I&#8217;d try to edit their sprites to exaggerate their noses.\u00a0 Oh, and defeating them would\u00a0<span class=\"apple-style-span\"><i>always\u00a0<\/i><\/span>result in bonus drops of money or jewels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lora;\">Found inside the various crates and barrels scattered throughout Metro City, which I&#8217;d probably rename &#8220;Washington D.C.&#8221; or &#8220;East Atlanta,&#8221; wouldn&#8217;t be lame items like salads, gum, or other rabbit food that grants back a little bit of health, but instead burritos, steaks, and other manly foods that revitalize ALL health, every time.\u00a0 It would be kind of a moot point, because I&#8217;d certainly set the damage to the players to be minimal, since we can&#8217;t have ourselves actually lose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lora;\">But the best part in my opinion would be the re-writing of the entire plot, to some horrific, bastardized version of the original Final Fight story that would likely only amuse the two of us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lora;\">And this is the kind of drivel that I&#8217;m inspired to write while usurping off of a wi-fi hotspot at a Chic-Fil-A, on a weekday morning while I&#8217;m waiting for my car to be repaired.\u00a0 But at least it&#8217;s one less reason to cause more of the alarming amount of white hairs sprouting on my head.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WOULD YOU EAT THIS FOR FULL HEALTH?\u00a0 Because nothing says rejuvenation like a steaming plate of chicken found underneath a waste receptacle, not to mention, defying the laws of physics to not be flat as a pancake. This will go on the growing list of &#8220;to-do&#8221; projects, such as finishing up my 2009 Nanowrimo story, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=26230\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One of these days . . .<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[53,15,19,49],"class_list":["post-26230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-final-fight","tag-og","tag-video-games","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26230"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26234,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26230\/revisions\/26234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}