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I’ve been fat for as long as I can remember. I think I was skinny until about 5 or so, and then I just…ballooned. The funny thing is, I’m not sure why that happened. My father was super strict about sugar and junk food (because he hated fat people and was secretly disgusted by my mother and I), and I don’t think the food my mom made was really unhealthy. I didn’t like going outside to play even as a kid, so maybe that had something to do with it, but I don’t know exactly why I was as fat as I was growing up.

So, I tried the Blog a Day thing last year, and like so many of us, I petered out before the end of the month. Not sure why, besides time being a factor. I’m back this year, and my goal is to see this through to the end. I have more time on my hands now, and I have a lot of things to write about. I also think that the key to BaD is writing smaller, easily digestible pieces instead of every blog turning into a thousand-word essay.

So, I will admit that I’m really excited for Deadpool, even though I’m not a fan of him in the comics. In truth, my main exposure to him was in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 for the 360 (which was a highlight for sure). I’m super interested to see how they pull this off, and I say this as someone who was a huge X-Men fan that has been less than pleased with the way their universe has been transferred to film.

If you have a family, people who will miss you when you’re gone, I have a little bit of advice.

So, there’s a new little bonus episode of Nerds Without Pants that I just uploaded. I take the producing and editing of the show very seriously, and I’ve been fighting with the show’s audio quality for about a year now, with varying results. Recording over Skype has tons of problems inherently, and for a time I thought I had found a great workaround that unfortunately only worked once. That would be our third E3 special from 2015, which sounds light years better than the rest of our episodes.

Apparently, yesterday was the 25^th anniversary of Street Fighter 2’s release. That would have been a much more interesting topic than the random thoughts I posted, but there you go. While I do wonder about how accurate this date is (we’re talking about a time when console game releases were done willy-nilly, to say nothing of the arcades), I do have some things to say about Street Fighter 2, and the franchise as a whole.

So, this blog a day thing is proving to be interesting. I have things I am planning to write, of course. Some writing exercises, some stabs at narrative, and of course some thoughts about video games and the industry/hobby as a whole. But on a day like this, right before bed? I don't have the foggiest about what to write. So I think I'm going to resurrect something I used to do on my live journal back in the day: random thoughts. Yep, I literally just thought about that as I was typing this intro.

It's a movie weekend for me. My girlfriend really wanted to see Hail, Caesar!, so we did that this evening. I'm not what I would call a Coen brothers fan. I have enjoyed every movie of theirs that I have seen, but I have not seen them all by any means, and the only one I've seen more than once is The Man Who Wasn't There.