The New England Thread: Bears Warbling Outside My Igloo: A Polarizing Dilemma

[LordPangTong]

Will!!! I can't believe that happened to you, man. I'm really sorry about your bike and I hope you're okay yourself. 7 hours in a hospital sounds incredibly shitty, and I hope the guy that put you there is caught. Again, very sorry for what you've been through to come to casuals =(

Casuals at Cheese's was awesome!

Nuke- Thanks so much for hosting and putting up with my ridiculous amount of invitations. Once I learned P4A was going to be there, I had to turn that shit uppp. Also GGs in MB

Crown- Ughhhh I yield the title of day -3 Persona Champ to you. That low is so stupid! I better see you on Wednesday

Zoob- I think you've found your calling with Teddy

Tim- Thank you thank you thank you for bringing P4A! Next time lets play BB

It was great talking to and seeing everyone! =D ggs all

[L1F3]

casuals was pretty powerful lol

holy crap will!?!?!? at least youre ok D:

Shoutouts to Nuclear Steve for hosting and having the TSS tourney, that game was pretty fun

Shoutouts to Dr. Pepper for getting bodied by everyone :3

Shoutouts to punching lightning in the face so hard it caused a blackout

Shoutouts to Kona for talking briefly about idol anime

Shoutouts to meeting Tim for the second time, after i whiffed at Anime Boston

Shoutouts to Zoob for driving Matt and I lol the lecture on over powered characters and plot writing on the way back was too good

Shoutouts to Crown for exploding people in negative-day-three P4A

Shoutouts to the Springfield crew for being ghetto as fuck on the ride up (mp3 player mini boombox + tape deck adapter + shitty car speakers)

Shoutouts to Jeremy for the Aigis notes that i couldnt do lol aside from orgy mode dash cancel/empty jump > throw/DP nonsense

Shoutouts to the Beast in Heat and his unbearable win streak

Shoutouts to Matt for joining us

Shoutouts to Glitch for being the only Hazama that consistently destroys my lambderp for some reason

Shoutouts to Danny! show up to more casuals XD

Shoutouts to Paul playing cake in melty

Shoutouts to Will for defeating me in my losers bracket killing spree in TSS

Shoutouts to everyone else that i didnt play that showed up lol it was nice seeing everyone again

lol

Edited August 5, 2012 by L1F3
Like a Boss

[Nuclear Cheese]

Shoutouts to that asshole who ran me and my bike over on Rt. 24S, rear-ending me at 100+ MPH while I rode in the rightmost lane at 65 MPH at 1:30 this morning, totalling my bike, wrecking my gear, and putting me in the hospital for the past 7 hours. Oh, and also for doing a hit and run, not even seeing if I lived or died. I hope the police find you, so you can reimburse me on all the trouble you've just caused.

Goddamn dude that sucks. Terribly sorry that happened to you. I hope you're doing okay at least.

Uh, anyways, just my thoughts about last night: really enjoyed it myself, cool properly meeting Capsule, the Twinklestar tourney was fun, good seeing everyone and it was cool to play P4A three days early. Only gripe was the drive, really, 7 hours of driving for 8 hours of gaming was worth it this time, but probably not next time, unless we were to be allowed to stay the night (seemed like enough room in the foyer area to have people sardine for a night), but that's up to cheese and bro. Either way, thanks to Cheese and bro for allowing everyone to stay and game and shit, was really cool, good times, and shoutouts to Ruth Anne.

Yeah, I understand the drive can be quite a bit much. Unfortunately, like I was saying earlier, I don't think I'd be able to offer space for a bunch of people to stay. Even if you wanted to "sardine" on the floor in the living room, something tells me the apartment complex management wouldn't be too pleased with me doing that. If it were just a couple people it'd probably be fine, but a whole car-load or more would probably get on someone's nerves around here.

At least I don't plan on hosting frequently, so if you decide to not come to any future casuals I hold you won't be missing a lot. (That said, perhaps us NH people should start holding casuals for the more local people on a semi-regular basis?)

Also, given how everyone seemed to be into that mini-tourney for a non-fighting game, I'm considering doing something similar at my place if people are up to, say, a Columns mini-tourney (Tetris-esque puzzle game of connecting three colors in a row). I think some people might be into that, what do you say?

Dammit Why don't steal my gimmick!

... actually I'd be perfectly OK with that. Main reason I decided to do that was just to add a little extra fun to the day, and it'd be interesting to see what other games come up in such a thing.

LPT should be P4A's navigator.

LPT should be the announcer in every fighting game ever.

... except Marvel. Fuck Marvel.

[INeedGlitch2Win]

Will man I am sorry to hear that , Hope all goes well and that cheese brings justice upon who did this!.

SHOUT-OUTS

Nuclear Cheese: for having us there and having McDonalds conversations

Cheese's Jaccuzi

Bag of dicks Kona: for letting us know if we were there yet.

Capsule: Finally meeting you and playing KoF / BB matches and for bringing P4A

Zoob: HYPE TEDDY

Crown: For not having my money Being Day -3 King of Persona4

Jeremy: GG's in KoF and things

Juan: For having his revolution stopped by my Out of practice for 5 months Hazama as usual.

Danny: Showing up is a shout-out of it's own. And for bringing back "Merc'd"

Paul: For doing his diabetes thing, and P4 announcing.

Will: Hope things get better =(

Katz: Someone has to be dissapoint in everything.

Edited August 5, 2012 by INeedGlitch2Win

[OutlawVinegar]

Thanks guys. Sorry, an announcement like that is kind of a hype-killer, so I wasn't sure if I should even bring it up at first. Besides the obvious inconvenience of being without a ride (AGAIN), I'm not going to let some inconsiderate stranger ruin all my plans if I can help it. Still going to pick up P4U and KoFXIII this week, still going to start practicing for future casuals, and I'm still going to look into buying a new bike or getting my current one repaired.

Very basic rundown; 1:30 AM, right lane puttering along (I was getting tired so I wanted to take it slow and safe, hah :D), and I didn't see the guy/girl/whomever. I had just enough time to see that there were headlights way too close behind me and then the bike lurched. I lowsided the bike, slid alongside it for ~~~ feet on my butt (ruined my pants, ate through my boxers, completely untouched my skin ), then tucked and rolled off the breakdown lane into the ditch. I got up as soon as I stopped rolling and started walking, assuming that the person stopped up ahead, but instead they were some good samaritans that wanted to make sure I was alive. Some other people came up to report they (hopefully) got the license plate # (), then the rest was typical accident song-and-dance. Called a friend for a ride, called my mother, got just about forcibly taken off the road + to the local hospital, refused treatment so I could go to the hospital closest to home, did that, and got back a few hours ago.

For those of you worried, I'm okay for the most part. Seriously. For a high-speed collision like that, I got off really easy; no broken bones, just a bruised shoulder, road rash on my arm and leg, and a gouge in my knee you could slip a dime into, + some asphalt/gravel or something maybe 1/2 an inch in. Oh, and of course my bike is probably scrap, but I won't know until I can get up to the Tow place later. I have my riding gear to thank for keeping most of my skin on my body, never going to ride without a jacket and tough pants in the future, that's for certain.

I don't want to derail an otherwise positive thread further, so I'm going to act as normal. I'm pissed that the guy inconvenienced me, but mainly I'm just really mad that he didn't stop. What if he'd killed me? Even now, how does he know that he didn't? How could someone live their life not ever knowing for sure if they just ended a stranger's life through their own negligence? It's pretty baffling.

Ah, okay, it was 'Merc'ed. It was bugging me the last couple of hours, couldn't remember.

[agp24]

Sorry to hear about that Wil. That fuckin sucks.

Bleh, I wish I could've gone to Cheese casuals.

[CrownEmpress]

Accurate representation of yesterday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0XWOYTcBik. Too bad Arcsys didn't make him as awesome as he should be. Wasted potential

Shoutouts go to:

Cheese for hosting and the TSS tourney. Sorry for being loud, I've been in New York too loud.

Tim for providing P4A. GGs in Marvel/KOF

Will, nice meeting you and hope you're doing alright.

Jeremy for the ride and being in able to staying high spirits despite Aigis constantly self destructing

Paul for being IRL Rise

Danny for actually showing up and being able to overcome my swag

Furok for sharing a love of cats and TSS

Kona, nice seeing you again. GGs in Mahvel and P4A

Seth for her amazing drawing of moi and waifus

Everyone else for getting into the Persona hype

EDIT: Day -3 footage on my channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/TheCrownEmpress/videos

If you don't want your video up, let me know and I'll take it down. Personally I think it's kinda fun to go back and watch your awkward beginnings once you get good.

Edited August 5, 2012 by CrownEmpress

[The Katz]

D: My condolences, man. Good thing you had good gear. Get well soon.

[Mindgam3]

Accurate representation of yesterday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0XWOYTcBik

Having all the women swoon over Yu would be a good character intro. Too bad he's just that generic.

Shoutouts:

Cheese for hosting casuals and treating Jon to his favorite beverage.

Tim for providing P4U, playing KoF, and...damn, you really love Gundam.

Will, it was great to see you again, and I can't help but be concerned about your accident. I'm glad you remembered that rolling is A+C, because I sure couldn't

Crown for showing me how P4U will be played on day 1 on day -3. I now have 2 days to learn how to deal with it!

Paul for reminding me I still don't know jack about BB and need to whip my anime back into shape.

Danny for reminding me in a more comforting manner that I still don't know jack about BB.

Jon for TSS and TSS casuals. I already sent the memo to Jimmy.

Glitch for playing me in KoF with team TOD.

Seth for knocking me out of TSS. Also for...appreciating my critiques? Just please don't ask me to theory-fight

Katz for laying witness to a gold burst astral. Now I can sue.

Why...what's that Noob Saibot, he's a cool kid you say? He should host a Magical Drop tournament? That's nonsense.

Kona for playing Marvel in Cheese's house and reminding me about akihabarashop.

Zoob, with Teddy you were GOING FOR A GOING FOR A GOING FOR A GRAND SLAM!

Juan, Aigis isn't day -3 derplol, but she'll be good once we know combos outside of autocombo roflol.

Matt, good to see you again and we need to play BB!

And guys, what doesn't have fans, plays Fuujin, and loves root beer?

That's right, a pirate ship. I'll see all you cool cats on the flipside

Edited August 5, 2012 by Mindgam3

[Zoob]

Take it easy, Will. I am thankful that no significant harm came to you. Please, take care and let me know if there is anything I can do to help. Friendship is precious, and family even more so.

On a less serious note, he said, casually, thank you all for a wonderful time in the strange mythological land of New Hampshire. It would be my first time remembering a trip there (Another Anime Con doesn't count, for reason stated prior) and it was a swell time. The random shmup tournament was quite lulz as well, it was also nice to actually get some hands-on time with the Persona fighter as well (seriously, why is western MA/CT so free to street dates?). To be honest, was a bit on the fence with the game, but sitting down and playing it was an enjoyable experience. As of Tuesday, I shall be grabbing a copy and taking part in the festivities. Hooray that people are buying it for the PS3 so I can actually attempt netplay with people I know.

[CrownEmpress]

Mike, if there's another casuals that ends up having a larger turnout, wanna do a Mystery Game Tournament like the do at UFGT? Winners side bracket plays legit but obscure games/mainstream games under odd conditions, Losers side has to end up playing weird crap to stay in tournament. I could help you plan it and bring in stuff for it too.

[capsuletoyco]

a mitsuru won sbo...shit.......

[INeedGlitch2Win]

a mitsuru won sbo...shit.......

Didn't you hear? it was me

[Troll Badguy]

As of Tuesday, I shall be grabbing a copy and taking part in the festivities. Hooray that people are buying it for the PS3 so I can actually attempt netplay with people I know.

Play Potemkin Kanji for great justice!

a mitsuru won sbo...shit.......

Well your preference is cool dudes with swords, so how do you feel about cool girls with swords??

Also hi New England. I will be at Summer Jam and NEC, make sure you guys can come!

[CrownEmpress]

I just realized that with this new Overdrive system in BBCP, I lost my signature Gold Burst Astrals D:

FUCK I HATE THIS GAME

I do like the fact I can stock my Burst and start off the second round with a BK combo. Delicious.

Edited August 6, 2012 by CrownEmpress

[capsuletoyco]

i'm ok with it, but our conversation last night went a little something like whatever character wins sbo only won a ticket for being nerfed to shit in the next version, and i dont want my lady friend to be nerfed

[Troll Badguy]

Oh I see. That's unfortunate right there, Ms. Kirijo. I was watching old TSB videos in preparation for Summer Jam. I guess I'm gonna try some of this stuff. You up to TRY KoF13 (lol) netplay at this hour Tim?

[capsuletoyco]

holy shit...haha i will make an attempt but if it sucks i'm out

[The Katz]

I just realized that with this new Overdrive system in BBCP, I lost my signature Gold Burst Astrals D:

FUCK I HATE THIS GAME

I do like the fact I can stock my Burst and start off the second round with a BK combo. Delicious.

I'm more happy about Yami combos if the scaling isn't terribad/if it doesn't end Blood Kain/if it still needs BK.

Also, there's a Ragna that uses BK? MADNESS.

[capsuletoyco]

let the burgers consume you!

[Danny Schme]

Since when do shoutouts happen for casuals? I'm behind the times, no surprise.

Shoutouts:

Nuclear Steve - for inviting all of us to your castle dwelling, complete with a moat! Also TSS was surprisingly a lot of fun! Thanks again!

Tim - Awesome to (finally) meeting you in person after all this time! I know you don't really play BB too much anymore but it was good to get in some offline games.

Will - For the fact you managed to walk away from an accident like that without any major damage to yourself. Its beyond fucked up that a hit-and-run like that could happen but I'm really glad it didn't end worse. Hope they catch the driver that caused this.

Vergil - Your day 1 Narukami was king. Next time we fight maybe I'll know more than how to mash DP! .... Maybe. Also nice to play you in BB for the first time since CS1!

Paul - Yet again, we didn't play BB. That was the third time in a row now =[ But there was P4Hype so its fine! Sorry for not being sorry about mashing DP

against you. This is why I've never played a character with a DP. I'd do that all the time.

Jeremy - For me stealing your list of names to write shoutouts to! Poor day 1 Aegis with this game's wonky button layout =/ And, yes, I'm always here to let you know you really don't understand BB. Play it moreeeee!

Glitch - For winning SBO, apparently.

Kona - You went into training mode with BB and didn't even get a chance to play it! Although, I know you're not upset about that. You (and Jon) need more spinning rims!

Jon - SPINNING RIMS! MORE OF THEM! THEM BITCHES KEEP SPINNING!

Zoob - Teddy. That is all. *nods* I approve of your character choice. If you're going to Summer Jam, I'm going to yell the Teddy "WooWoo!" behind every match you and Biscuits play.

Juan - For playing another female robot with a vertical reversal super so I can yet again yell "JUAAAAAANNNN" when you randomly use it.

Katz, Why, Seth and Matt-the-Stick-Noel - Good to see all of you! Hopefully I'll see you all again soon.

[kona]

Kona - You went into training mode with BB and didn't even get a chance to play it! Although, I know you're not upset about that. You (and Jon) need more spinning rims!

Jon - SPINNING RIMS! MORE OF THEM! THEM BITCHES KEEP SPINNING!

http://youtu.be/zZYryyA28go?t=31s

[Danny Schme]

http://youtu.be/zZYryyA28go?t=31s

Precisely

[Fraga]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DSUaFdbxvo

[WhyTheHellnaut]

Mike, if there's another casuals that ends up having a larger turnout, wanna do a Mystery Game Tournament like the do at UFGT? Winners side bracket plays legit but obscure games/mainstream games under odd conditions, Losers side has to end up playing weird crap to stay in tournament. I could help you plan it and bring in stuff for it too.

Lol, if you're talking about random fighting games no one plays, I've got a few (Eternal Champions 2, Bloody Roar 2/3, X-men Mutant Academy, Weaponlord, Killer Instinct, GG Isuka, Samurai Shodown 1, MK Armageddon, War of the Monsters, or we could dl something on MAME), yeah, that sounds like fun, heheh.