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I support being able to play BB on PS3 if both players agree with it (I'm not alone on this one.) Shoutouts to Min for streaming, much appreciated. Shoutouts to all the NAHs that showed up and stayed, it was godlike. Shoutouts to Chaz for showing up from Japan. Shoutouts to the MB players for actually having people (and Duke for winning 3 dollars after paying 5 to enter). Shoutouts to that hype as fuck GG tourney. I'm actually really happy with my performance for once. First time making 3rd in a tourney and actually getting paid. EDIT: Shoutouts to Sodelic, 3 times in a row I've run into you in BB brackets. Such bad luck. Good sport though. EDIT EDIT: How did I forget this one? Good games to everyone I played in all games.

He's right, you're just going to have to grind it out. I've heard people saying you can use the first tiny flames that come out as a sort of visual cue though.

So I have PS3 Extend now. I'll now proceed not to play it because I have no life thanks to college.

So hype for this. Saturday needs to hurry up and get here now.

Still no copy. Or time to hit up training mode. If you REALLY wanna play that badly then let me know and I'll borrow Amber's copy.

If you can get her in the corner, this matchup becomes a hell of a lot easier though you can say that about most matchups... General:Platinum is a character that uses different items as her Drive and has some versatility because of it. She can use bomb and missile items to zone a bit. Bait the bat item(not safe on block) as it has DP like qualities and is her only meterless option as far as reversals go, her other option is Cure-Dot Typhoon for 50 meter/Counter Assault. Pay attention to her NEXT item as well, Miracle Jeanne (other distortion drive, 50 meter etc) causes the next item to come into play and become powered up. Platinum's powered up hammer causes an unblockable ground shockwave to come out if used. Platinum's regular hammer can be used to break primers as well. Don't roll during Plat bubble oki either. Tiger Knee Swallow Moon is used by Plat in mixups to keep her in the air and do falling air normals. Poking/Footsies/Normals:Plat 5B and jC(especially with jC having no landing recovery) are good pokes that Platinum has and therefore you should watch out for. I'm not sure about 3C/2B being used as pokes either but they're both lows with decent reach. As Ragna you can poke with your usual footsie normals, namely 5B, 5C, 2D. Plats that I've fought like to jump so make good use of 6A antiair or jA to beat her out because jC(air to air) and falling jB(her air to ground) are good. Platinum does have really good (2C(FC)/6A sometimes even 6C(FC) if they're crazy enough) (read: painful/fatal) antiairs as well so use an air approach sparingly because your grounded normals are better than her grounded normals anyway. Try not to be predictable with use of Dead Spike in this matchup in corner pressure, because while it is good, you're obviously in a much better position of controlling the match with Plat in the corner without the bat. Platinum's 5A is -1 and is her main pressure tool as it hits crouching. Her 6B is an overhead that is +1 and can be linked into a combo. Tactics:At the start of the match, I'd like to say Platinum's gameplan is to press Drive to get her item game going so it's an option. How they do this exactly is up to the player, I've seen some people super jump/airdash away/toward and use drive. I've also seen other Platinums not do it until they're a safe distance away. Platinum can't really do anything to hit you at the start of the match if you decide to back up a bit and block/jump back and block, so that works too. Alternatively they can just choose to try to knock you down and then get an item. My advice would be to gain the momentum and keep it going. She's not too far from being somewhat helpless if you do this. Defense:You can C Inferno Divider/5A/maybe even 6A Swallow Moon mixups. Other that I got nothing. I can't remember really actually blocking stuff against Plat since beating it out is an option too. Most recent Platinum I've played was Xie at NEC in CS2. EDIT: Watch out for random Mami Circular... 1000 damage, corner carry, rage/salt for getting hit with it anyway... goes over 5B if I remember correctly. 5k combo in the corner.

This Saturday I will be going to the Team Stickbug event in New York so I will not be there (not that anyone shows up to the Brain Box on Saturdays when I go anyways )

I'll be there Saturday as usual. I'll have my PS2 setup and copy of Guilty Gear. Let's get down to business.

We can get relevant discussion going then.

Gonna be playing this on Saturday. Guaranteed.

This thread should see some life since the coming of the really good news? What does everyone else think?

I'm so fucking happy right now you couldn't possibly comprehend.

http://www.siliconera.com/2012/02/16/guilty-gear-xx-accent-core-plus-coming-to-psn-and-xbla-with-online-play/ Gentlemen (and lady). Win. That is all.

I bought Meishu a copy of EX before I bought myself one, and by that I mean I didn't buy myself a copy. So we're good for the tourney and what not, but don't expect me to get better yet. It's all good though I appreciate the offer. Right now it's College vs Life and I'm losing this 8-2 matchup

Money match you for your (hopefully) PS3 copy of extend Tim. Jokes. I might be too cheap/poverty to buy Extend though.

I want to give Relius an honest try (unlike carl)

I don't feel like showing up to Gamestop today so they can tell me they don't have it again. Then there's this feeling like they might just have it

Get hype. Then that means I'll need to start bringing my setup. We can have up to 2 matches going on at all times as far as I know. Then Max could borrow your stick too.

Bring your netplay Ragna, you can't forget that one. Max and I recorded some GG tonight but I feel sad because his stick died tonight so I want to scrap the video footage. I wonder what he's going to do now for a stick.

I'm actually buying this game. Get hype (?)

I might be there Saturday. I avoid Fridays because I can't bring Meishu. So you'll only see me there on Saturdays or Wednesdays. @Crown when you're here, I'm not here, just so you know. However I am going to the Stickbug event in later in Feb. Right then, remember to post up your info if you haven't already. Also shoutouts to Gamestop employees for being good employees. Was worth a shot to try it today.

Updated the first post, only relevant thing would be the last few lines, everything else is minor. @Tek, I caught on to Mu backdash at some point where I was baiting it but yeah, that helps to know. Everything else, yeah could probably do with more of it. If you have a problem, name it. That's the last time I'm going to say it. From here on out I'll probably ask if something is wrong maybe two or three times, if not speak up or shut up. May sound harsh but clearly no one else was having any problems even slightly. From here on out we can focus on make casuals days and what not.

Netplay | OmniSScythe come on now man, you gotta show them the combined powers of monitor lag+netplay/input lag

Alright. Just felt I should clear that up. I'll announce the next tourney date (it'll include BB and GG, sometime in March) when it comes by. That doesn't mean however we can't show up for casuals. I however may or may not be there on February 25th. I may be going back home to New York and attending the Stickbug event there and visiting family. I'd like to say we should post and socialize here and do some matchmaking for various games. We do wanna keep our thread up there in Match Finder of course. If you want to play me specifically, add me on PSN and/or pm me on DL. Chances are too if you have my number you can just text me too, Tim's reached me quite a few times that way.

DP | OmniSScythe or P(article)F(lare) | OmniSScythe imo