Saru Kada

hahahaha fuck the freedom I did fix it up though, just need to glue that little part of the headpiece back on it's gonna need a new spot.

holy shit an intern data analyst needs to be a phd student? jesus that's harsh. gg team mike's apartment - I picked up dance masters and motion sports, and clarence has the sonic. RAYYU FORCE ASSEMBLE?

peter: too bad your hat isn't too visible there oh fuck boxer vs nada. and sure ray, I'll go with you

I'm guessing software engineer/game developer is a step up from whatever your previous role was? will you have more creative influence over the design and direction of the game, or will it be more grunt work? also, would you be based in vancouver, or elsewhere?

lol dace. where did you go? I didn't even know valve hired icefrog. that's pretty cool, dota 2 definitely has the potential to be a huge crowdpleaser.

for a modded ps2, couple places in richmond if you'll be close to there; crystal mall near metrotown in burnaby would be your best bet otherwise I'm under the impression that halloween night is going to be a fairly quiet affair since it's a sunday and everybody will be all partied out from friday/saturday?

I lol'd what's everybody doing for halloween?

nigel: sure, I can help with the guitar, and sure, you can borrow HnK musou. ray: acoustic or electric bass?

haha PARTY yeeeeeah new sangoku musou. hopefully it play as fast as the old ones on the hnk engine as opposed to hnk itself. and wow, autocorrect has a voice?

I don't, but I needed the date for reference if people were thinking of coming by type in clarence in what, the browser?

yeah after a couple of games with gerod the viability of regular jutsu quickly made itself known as it's the option of choice after substitution, punishing bad techs, really far chakra dashes, etc it's really only serious business for us because we (or at least I) enjoy dissecting things in great detail. we'll forget all about naruto in two weeks anyway when kinect comes out wooo lol at saint seiya 'balanced'. aren't aquarius and orpheus top tier?

well I mean, he's got a great ground string that can be hard to assist/punish properly. his dash seems to be fully invincible like minato's teleport because he turns into crows. as far as range is concerned fireball is only decent, but he's got some sort of chakra shuriken combo (may be a support drive). and "TURN DOWN THE SUCK, TURN UP THE SKILLS" is, as far as I'm concerned, not a valid counterpoint to susano'o. it only does four hits so even turbo substitute is not going to do much for you, and even ray didn't figure out any way to deal with it. as far as mechanics go we pretty much have everything down - the game's not exactly guilty gear in terms of technical skill, and none of what exists helps against susano'o. he's immune to ninjutsu, ignores hitstun, his B melee chain counts as ranged so you can't substitute behind him, and running away doesn't work because he still retains his chakra dash. knj cancelling, arguably the highest level technique in the game, is useless thanks to aforementioned immunity. I'd like to see this supposed superiority ranged characters have when susano'o is raping them in the face - I mean, I can see how, in general gameplay, ranged/turtle characters have an advantage, thanks to mashing on substitute marginalising the role of ground strings. but unless the best ranged characters are so much better than itachi that they can maintain a significant (>50%) health buffer prior to itachi going apeshit on them with susano'o, it really just seems like people talking air on forums, whereas we collectively spent several hours getting fucked in the face with a giant flaming sword. sometimes cheap characters are just trashy noob-killers (mashing with raphael in socal comes to mind), but other times cheap characters are actually, well, rather cheap - especially in a game like this where I'm pretty sure balance was not an overwhelming priority for the designers. tl;dr: I'm still fairly convinced that itachi is top tier; I think the gameplan with the greatest chance of success is: 1. drop itachi's hp to just above awakening 2. sandbag until you have awakening 3. awaken 4. beat down itachi so hard he doesn't have a chance to awaken. watch out for BROTHERLY LOVE ruining your shit. if he does, you'll at least be on equal footing (kind of). ostensibly this would also work well against other characters that have really strong awakenings. the question is, will matches between similarly high tier characters end with both of them turtling at low health, waiting for the other to knock them into awakening?

mmm free salt which tier list are you referencing pete? with this game and its intended player base being what it is, I'd take such things with a grain of... salt (yeeeeeeeeeeeeah) one tier list on the gamefaqs boards puts sage naruto and itachi on top. now that I think about it, naruto's awakening is pretty beastly too - the kyuubi fireballs (replaces shuriken) deal a good 20-25% of total life, i.e. more than most full ground strings, by themselves, and they are pretty hard to substitute. naruto's dad's awakening feels pretty strong too - he can cancel ground strings into teleport, so with enough experience assists and even substitutes can be freely baited and countered. not to mention that since each teleport resets his ground string, he has an effective infinite so long as he stays awakened and doesn't get interrupted. I'd say he's pretty up there as well

they'll pick itachi, and then it's all over too much brotherly love

lol wtf random black guy when was akicon?

NARUTOOOOOOO gabe: I'm sure you've read the latest chapter of kongou banchou. SHARK BANCHOU "wait, why a shark?" "how did they even get the white uniform on a shark?" "aren't you a little too calm? why is a shark speaking english??"

at this point 5:30-6:30 seems likely

lol deadly premonition soundtrack I might buy the new tv this weekend/tonight; need someone to help me carry it

can't say I didn't warn you. GET SICK if I didn't have a job I'd ostensibly be more compelled to actually play through some rpgs. tenacity for sonic is quoted for truth, though - how long did we spend on sonic 2006? I know END OF THE WORLD was definitely more than one session.

yeeeeeeeeeeeeah go huk also holy shit boxer vs fruit dealer exhibition match? I just creamed my pants lol taiwan gets an entire two people of their own in the invitational tournament? we're better at sc2 than I thought

mike: no don't sell it I need to borrow it for when ore imo comes out next january wow, networking event at bodyworlds? that's pretty pimp yeah that was great, when he hit him with the crouch fierce. I remember we were like hoooooly shit too

lol wtf DOUBLE RAINBOW SHEEEEEEEEEEEIT haha "happiness is now sadness". boxer still so good. truly the terran emperor. and yeah this is the real one, since they also list his real name up there yeah fuck ups/fedex/etc lots of terrible times with them

wtf not-boxer accept no substitutes

well the unhygienic part was a given, didn't know he was unpleasant to be around in more ways than one. but yes, we clearly need more stand-up citizens like GAMERBEE oh fuck, HUK? you're gonna have to earn that $1000 son

lol "more people like gamerbee, less people like marn plz" is marn an asshole or something? also great picture of arturo facepalming