Phase 10 Computer Game

Senior happenings — July 31

La Casa Senior Center

1120 Cameo St., Clovis

Monday: 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Daily activities, quilting and sewing, 1:30 p.m., Ice cream day.

Tuesday: 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Daily activities, quilting and sewing; 10:30 a.m., indoor exercise; 1 p.m., Bingo and refreshments.

Wednesday: 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Daily activities, quilting and sewing; 9:30 a.m. Free blood pressure and sugar checks; 11:30 a.m., Installation of Officers & Luncheon; 1 p.m., Bingo and refreshments.

Thursday: 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Daily activities, quilting and sewing; 10:30 a.m., Indoor/outdoor exercise; 1 p.m., Loteria and refreshments.

Friday: 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Daily activities; 9:30 a.m., Garage sale store shopping and lunch.

Daily: Daily coffee and socializing, exercise equipment, 8-ball, 9-ball, computer and Internet, craft, ceramics, quilting, embroidery, puzzles, card games, board games and massage therapy chairs.

Friendship Senior Center

901 West 13th St., Clovis

Monday: 9-11 a.m., Coffee klatch, ceramics, cards; 1 p.m., Pinochle.

Tuesday: 9-11 a.m., Coffee klatch, ceramics, cards; 1-4 p.m., Crafts.

Wednesday: 9-11 a.m., Coffee klatch; 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Bridge club; 1 p.m., Phase 10 practice.

Thursday: 8 a.m.-3 p.m., Garage Sale; 9-11 a.m., Coffee klatch, ceramics, cards; 10 a.m.-noon, Jewelry class.

Friday: 9-11 a.m., Coffee Klatch, cards; 1-3 p.m., Bingo.

Daily: 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Pool.

CRSMA Senior Diners Club

901 West 13th St., Clovis

Monday: Buttered peas, chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, peach Danish, whole wheat roll with margarine.

Tuesday: Garden salad, honey Dijon chicken, asparagus with cheese sauce, lemon bar, whole wheat roll with margarine.

Wednesday: Green salad, beef tips, egg noodles, peas and carrots, pears, oatmeal cookie.

Thursday: Cranberry sauce, hot turkey sandwich with gravy, baked sweet potato, broccoli with cheese, gelatin.

Friday: Lettuce and tomato, frito pie, mixed vegetables, onions, lemon crisp cookie.

Top 10: Drinking Video Games | Most Addicting Games

Drinking Game: Focus Attacks, if you successfully do a counter strike your opponent has to drink!

Focus Attacks, known as “Saving Attack” in the Japanese version, is a new system introduced in Street Fighter IV. The focus attack is a move that allows the player to absorb an attack and launch a counter attack, and it is performed by pressing the medium punch and kick buttons simultaneously. There are two phases to the attack. In the first phase, the player will shift into a new stance, at which point he or she is able to absorb a single hit from the opponent. The second phase is the counter attack.

The longer the player holds down the medium punch and kick buttons, the more powerful the attack will be. If the buttons are held for long enough the attack will be unblockable and cause the opponent to crumple slowly to the ground, allowing the player to follow up with a free hit. Attacks that were absorbed during the first phase of a focus attack still cause damage to the player; however, life lost from the opponent’s attack will be quickly regenerated afterward.

In addition, during the first phase of the focus attack the player may perform a dash either forward or backward to cancel the focus attack. Finally, at the cost of half the super combo gauge, many special moves can be canceled into a focus attack. By executing a focus attack during the special move, the animation of the move will be cut short and go instantly into the focus attack animation. This allows players with precise timing to cancel special moves into focus attacks, and in turn cancel focus attacks into the forward dash, resulting in new combo possibilities.

If a special move is blocked by the opponent, the new system allows players to cancel the blocked move with a focus attack, and then cancel the focus attack by dashing backward safely away from the opponent.  

Ono has stated that this system was incorporated in order to shift the emphasis away from combos and toward a more realistic system he has compared to boxing, in which “the skill is in reading your opponent’s move before he or she starts moving … We haven’t forgotten about combos and linked moves, but focus makes it so that you have to read your opponent.” The system aims to make ground attacks as viable a way of approaching opponents as jumping was in previous games . The focus system is a core part of Street Fighter IV’s gameplay. -Wikipedia.

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