Option Select

So for all the street fighter geeks out there, there is a concept called "Option Select" (OS). See the below link for a vid outlining it. The concept is this, by putting in one input there are two possible outcomes and these will trigger based upon your opponent's actions. Ryu is the one exercising the "Option Select" function and you'll see why it's such a cool thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL2zpySSymE

I've been thinking about this concept all week and God has shown me why i'm not using my Spiritual option select. Looking at the situation there are two things to know, 1) what situations is OS is useful and 2) What combinations create and OS situation.

1) If people don't have inviciblity wake ups that can be caught by the ex dragon punch (dp) there is no point using this.

2) Knowing which inputs are needed for the OS to work well. The nice thing about this is the jumping roundhouse punch is a decent jump in to begin with and ex dp is a great counter. Imagine a low priority jump in paired with a low damage/low priority counter. It would make the OS inferior to guessing.

As i think about this i wonder what my OS is against satan and how well I'm using this. At first i was thinking about how blocking pretty much has me covered but then i realized, the most important part about this particular OS is the offense, generating safe offense that puts constant pressure on satan. I don't really have answers today. The funny thing is this, i was in the church washroom and there is a picture/frame and it is says, "Ask, Seek, Knock" and in my haste of reading it read more like, "Ask- EE - Knock" or "Ask, Enoch!" lol~ anyway, so this is the thing i'm good to be exploring. How to generate solid offense against an opponent i have faced many times. I know there is pressure but there is one thing i learned from watching SF4. "punish the missed links" When people mess up the combo to it's an important time to mess them up, usually DP FADC into Ultra :D for the geeks that know what that means i'm sure satan has missed a link right here and I'll see you all tomrrow and satan will be sad :D

thoughts on last night's game of bang!

winners. losers. these are by-products of the game. "Bang!" is my favourite game right now and the analysis is fresh and exciting everytime. why? because people are different. scenarios are different. critical action paths are different. last night i played a game and to be hoenst, i was disappointed but it gave me a view into human nature. it is something that always haunts me in this game and it's something i must learn to control as well. I'm talking about 'interest'.

At first i was going to write about how people lose interest in the game when the game drags. When people lose sight of what they are doing it because less appealing and people don't follow through. when the going gets tough most people give up and do something else. why not? it's just a game. the problem for me is that i's a fundimental difference in my character. I don't like to force people to play anything and if they are playing i don't like to play with people that don't want to be there (which is why i don't want to force them in the first place). In our faith walk we see this. waking for church is too hard. wrestling through scripture is too hard. i'm not learning enough. all things that cause our interest to escape us. how weak!

I realized that as i started to write that God wanted me to do one better than seeing and that's the thing i do when i play, i control the scenario. the hardest part about games like this is control. not dying is about positioning yourself in a place where you won't die and can't die. I realize there are more things the jeoparadize the win and that's disinterest in the game. people that do irrational things frustrate me but i realize more and more now that my distaste for such a person doesn't help me win, managing those irrational people to do my bidding would though.

I realize that frustrations are opportunities for a more all encompassing use of abilities. The reason they frustrate me is because they don't think (like me) but that can be useful too. The realization that if i can't engage them in the game i can't win and are unable to lead and control the situation opens a whole new element of the game. how do i engage a person in the big picture if all they want to do is shoot every turn? how do i engage someone in a game where they have no idea who is an ally and who is not? these are all things that i think about now.

alex won last night. that isn't a problem for me. it's a problem that he won because people got bored and gave up. Everyone at that table knows that Dan shouldn't have kill Hiram when and how he did. Even when i was letting him off by suggesting it was a lapse in judgement he said, "naw, i just wanted it to end". That is poor management by Hiram. To let your only ally (be it temporary) kill you? When words like, "i just want this to be over" or "just win already" come out of his mouth it really is over at that moment. I feel bad that i didn't see this earlier.

I think the next gift i want is leadership. I see more the things that need to be done to carry God's sheep to the next level and if nothing else i can see why this gift is useful for the kingdom. there is a crazy number of things a leader has to manage and i see what a man ought to be in this.

some weekend scribles

It’s weird. I’m really emotional right now. I think it’s because I’m tired. I’ve gotta settle down and coming off this weekend I know there was tons going on and even now it continues. I’m dealing with some timing issues and there are things I want now but God has called for holding patterns. I was looking for a car and though I want one now just so it can be over and one with it doesn’t seem like the case right now. I just came for an employee giving campaign kick-off talking about all the stuff that United Way and Canadian Tire Jump Start have been up to and I smile at the anticipation that the next step will likely be to one of those two places and Shirley will be doing her teaching thing and I know the timing is not now but I’m eager. I just got barred from helping a friend/brother in the ministry that God is calling me to and this too is merely a timing issue. It will happen and man cannot thwart the will of God. It’s funny, it’s not even the bad things in life that get me down, it’s the delay of great things that God has in store. I am a dog that sits when my owner says so even if there are treats in front of me. Obedience is more important than blessings if for no other reason, obedience wills lead to blessings while blessings do not lead to obedience. That’s how my mind rationalizes the reality of this, I desire the relationship with God above the blessings he pours out. I know his voice and his plan is all that will be, far-be-it for me to oppose God.

i wrote a full blog about what it means to set aside our pride. Then God told me that the entire thing was worthless save what he wrote. You will not see the rest but know that my pride was not in my gift of teaching, my pride is to be a vessle for God and he has said this:

"The price of greatness is pride. When you are willing to give all the pride you have away you will find that God takes your pride away and gives you the humility that makes your great in the eyes of the Lord. The last will become first."

"Come with me..."

Jehu is beast in 2 Kings. Honestly, a very interesting character.

Back in 1 Kings Elijah prophesied that Hazael of Aram and Jehu of Israel would destroy the enemies of God and v16-17 stun and inspire me (for some reason possible to be stunned and motivated :D)

"Jehu said, 'Come with me and see my zeal for the LORD.' Then he had [Jehonadab] ride along in his chariot. When Jehu came to Samaria, he killed all who were left there of Ahab's family; he destroyed them, according to the word of the LORD spoken to Elijah".

"Come with me and see my zeal for the LORD". how beautiful! It's my form of evanglism for sure. Come and see my relationship with the LORD and understand that I'm not crazy. What better way to help people "get it" than to share the context of it all.

Slaughter is ugly. That's only true if it's not for the LORD. Once the righteousness of the LORD is brought into play there is no question of it all. It's why we feel freedom in Christ when everyone else sees bondage.