1st entry, September 2nd, 2004.

It finally came. Street Fighter Anniversary Collection for the PS2. I've needed a good 2D fighting game for a while, and since I don't have a DC, I've been looking foward to this mostly for Street Fighter III: Third Strike. Regardless, the first thing I did was go to Hyper Street Fighter II, play as a SSF2T Ryu (I never got to play Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, either) and try to beat the game. Somewhere around Balrog, I noticed that my thumb was starting to hurt a bit....

In 17 years of videogames, I've gotten callouses, but never have I gotten a blister. A blister. On my thumb. From playing Street Fighter. Go me :|

So what did I do? I kept playing :). It broke somewhere around Sagat, but of course I kept playing until I beat M. Bison and went on to beat SFIII with Ryu, blister and all. Now there's a nice Band-Aid on it along with some Neosporin. Hopefully it will heal soon, but until then I'll be playing with my thumb knuckle instead of my fingertip. Isn't that just great?

In other news, the first parts of my do-it-yourself computer came in today: The case and 430 W power supply! Motherboard's in the mail right now, but the Athlon 64 and RAM will have to wait until I get some more cash...