Thinking and Determination are key to SUCCESS (sort of revised)

I specifically remember a moment where my friend and I realized what we could do to fix a problem. To explain what happened, I need to describe exactly what was going on. As I had said before I play a card game called WWE Raw Deal. There are things about it that make it similar to other games, but this game is more strategic than say Magic the Gathering and those games. This game takes lots of planning to make things work. You need to really read cards and find out ways to use them to your advantage. Sometime these ways of taking advantage are very obvious, while other times it takes lots of thinking and studying.

While for waiting for a new card set to come out last year, my friend Javier and I realized a new problem. The problem came about when a "new" wrestler was introduced into the game (I say new because he had never had any cards for him in the game before). The wrestler that was introduced was Andre the Giant. If you are familiar with wrestling, even the slightest bit, you've probably heard of him and knew he was huge (over 7 feet tall and over 500 pounds). We knew that the game developers wanted to show that just in how he was made. His "ability" alone could end the opponent's turn and make you discard cards and both of those things are not good at all.

On the day of the tournament that I mentioned before, Javier and I felt very weird. We had dominated the tournament scene in the area, but today we felt as though we would not do so well. We had sat down and pondered the many possibilities that could go wrong, and could not come to one single conclusion that we could not avoid. The one thing we forgot to even consider was, you guessed it, Andre.

One of the better players in the area just HAPPENED to play an Andre deck in the tournament. In the back of my mind i was thinking that if Javier played him first then he could tell me what to watch out for. However, as luck would have it I was the first person to play him. It wasn’t looking to well for me. Of course I lost the match due to the whole "end my turn and discard cards" ability. Javier as well lost and we both became frustrated.

On the way home we were talking and trying to find a solution to get rid of this ability. As we talked about all the possibilities we could not come to one single conclusion on a way to stop the ability. At that point we wanted to give up. Javier was saying, "We can't beat this guy anymore. He found our weakness and took advantage of it. I think it's time to give...." and at the point it dawned on me. There is a card in the game that allows you to switch abilities with your opponent. Once we used this card, anyone playing an Andre design could not get the ability back due to a discarding effect that they would not be able to fulfill. At that point we knew just how to take advantage of a situation that was bad for us and make it go in our favor. If we use that card, we take advantage of the opponent, and that's just what you need to do in the game of Raw Deal. Once you see mistakes by an opponent or find the weaknesses to them you can target that weakness and use it to win the game.

This was not to obvious to us at first, but with a little bit of thinking and determination to find a way to avoid the problem, we found the solution. We thought of all possibilities we could use. We thought about every card that we could come up with and how they could help us. We had overlooked one card, but once we saw it and realized it worked then everything was good-to-go for us. This may all seem easy to some people, but for card players it truly is a challenge to overcome.

Drugs in Pro Wrestling

As I had stated before, I am a huge pro wrestling fan. I thought I would address the recent drug problems and deaths that have been occuring throughout the pro wrestling world. A few years back, Eddie Guerrero was found, by his nephew, dead in his hotel room. His unfortunate passing was later traced back to drug usage earlier in his career. His death affected the entire industry. Many wellness policies were set up throughout different organizations and drug testing was also made to be mandatory. There were more deaths between his and the most recent that occured, but nothing that was remotely related to drug usage. The most controversial drug realted death was that of Chris Benoit a few months ago. I use the term "controversial" only due to the fact that this is still under investigation in one or more ways. However, Benoit was a victim of roid-rage. I do not accept his actions. If he alone would have died, that would be different. The fact that her murdered his own wife and son is just disgusting. Due to these actions by Chris Benoit, Congress has decided to investigate organizations such as World Wrestling Entertainement (WWE). WWE has recently looked into an online pharmacy (Signature Pharmacy) that was perscribing steroids and other illegal substanves to its performers. Because of this, WWE has suspended, as of right now, a total of 11 superstars for getting drugs from this pharmacy. a list of the superstars that were found to be getting drugs from the site can be found at www.rajah.com under the "SI ListsTen Current WWE Wrestlers ThatRecieved Drugs After February 2006". This site updated frequently with other things such as show results and other pro wreslting tid bits. In my heart, I believe that if the correct actions are taken, these problems can be solved quite easily. I hope that these latest devlopments do not lead to the end of WWE. I do not back up what the preformers have done, but I respect what they do in the ring. They my make mistakes, but they are only human. I will most likely be updating this post with new information as I recieve it.

About Me

Hey. So I'm not sure what all to exactly say. I was born on August 16th, 1988. I'm adopted and was adopted 3 days after I was born. I'm just a normal guy. I'm one of the biggest pro wrestling fans you will ever meet. My favorite wrestlers and Ken Kennedy, Triple H, Randy Orton, Shawn Michaels, and my all time favorite is The Undertaker. I just recently got tickets to go see a live show next month so I'm exctited about that. It will be my 3rd live show. Anyway...I like to hang out with my friends, play video games and cards, watch movies, and just have a good time. My favorite video games are probably WWE Smackdown v.s. Raw (the series) and Gears of War. Smackdown gives me a way to "be" my favorite wrestlers. I can't wait for the new one to come out in November! Gears of War is just one of my favorite shooting games. I love to play Texas Hold Em' and I also play a collectible card game called WWE Raw Deal. I'm down to earth and caring. I love movies like Batman (all of them, i prefer Batman Begins and the '89 Batman with Jack Nicholson and Michael Keaton), Star Wars (i prefer episode 3 and 6), lots of comedies (Blue Collar Comedy Tour series is my favorite), and action movies (Mission Impossilbe, James Bond movies, etc.). I like to read and right now my favorite books are the Harry Potter series and the Maximum Ride series. I have and AMAZING girlfriend named Alyssa. It's just too bad she's from Pennsylvania...but I do get to see her every so often. I've been with her for 8 months now. She came here to go to my senior prom with me. Then i went to her house for 5 days in July. It was the best time I've ever had in my entire life! As I said, I'm not too sure what i should say about myself. I like to make people laugh and have fun, but at the same time I like to just relax and have a nice time with people.

Hey

Yeah...this is me....and that's about it!