I recently started making use of the Nintendo DS’s Wifi capabilities by challenging random players to a “Chocobo Tales” pop-up duel. What’s a “pop-up duel,” you ask? Let the master teach you.
Throughout the game, Chocobo collects these duel cards by playing mini-games or completing quests. The cards all have four circles: red, yellow, blue, and green, with the cards’ defensive/offensive capabilities labelled within the circles. As you can see in the little picture up there, the Cactuar card has defense against yellow, green, and blue attacks; the Bomb card has an offensive red skill and a defense against green attacks. The basic idea is to choose a card that can both attack your opponent’s weak color (no shield or sword) and defend against their attack. So in the above example, the person with the Cactuar card is going to get a beating because it does not have a defense against a red attack.
Man, I am super cool for being able to explain that!
Anyway, I’ve been connecting to other “Duelers” around the world and battling them, and let me tell you something: I am f*cking good when it comes to card-induced ass beatings. I mean, my opponents are probably little kids (the game is pretty lame if you’re not a child or into Final Fantasy) but who cares? An ass beating is an ass beating is an ass beating. Period.
However, I haven’t been able to capitalize on my winnings because those losers TURN OFF THEIR SYSTEMS before the score is recorded! They don’t want a loss on their own records so they act like little b*tches and turn off their DS. Do you know how infuriating it is to watch your triple-star rarity Shiva card decimate some stupid kid’s Troll card and then watch the screen go black because of a “Connection Error”? It is enough to make you want to catch a plane to Japan and hunt down the kid who shafted you of your win.
(You best careful Puuru-san…I’m coming for you.)
And it’s even more unfair because I take my loss like every good sportsman should. I’ve only had two, but still—if you’re good enough to beat me then you deserve a notch on your belt…even if I lost only because I was too busy getting my cats out of the turtle tank to pay attention to the game, and therefore did not lose because of lack of skill…but who’s keeping track, right?
If these kids insist on being super cheap about losing, then I’m going to have no choice but to challenge them, lose on purpose, and then shut off my own DS before they get anything out of it. My plan is that this will cause the kids to throw a temper tantrum, which will lead to them throwing their DS into a wall and breaking it, and then getting a traumatic scolding from their parents.
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