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I'm not sure if it's just me, but whenever I pick mail, they won't ship to my address. Maybe it's because I need to pick some kind of courier service specifically? I figured they'd give me the options available to my shipping address rather than just telling me that they won't ship there, period. Soooo jelly T__T

That's a pretty good explanation, I hope it's similar lol. I'm Canadian, so I can't order from Amazon.com lol. When I checked amazon.ca this weekend, they didn't have the LE available, but now they do. Trouble is that I don't have a credit card anymore so I'll need to go in person to get it. I just want to know in advance how good the artbook is. For example, if the illustrations that I get are basically the ones in the gallery, that devalues the artbook for me :\ Maybe I'll look for a video preview of it first lol

Honestly, I'm not sure what the top players play. I just assumed they'd want to up their PSR to show it off. No offence taken lol (why would I take offence to that?). Also, I THINK I may have played SKD and TempestDahlia but it was probably one day that I ran into a random player room. I usually play with my friends. Does SKD play Noel? If so, that might've been him (SuperKawaiiDesu, right??). Also, I think 1000 ranked is a lot. I haven't even played 1000 player matches on my main account...

I dunno what it is, but it seems the more I see about Relius, the less excited I am to play him. Honestly, I blame it on the lack of high/low from Ignis. I guess I expected too much >__> Also, can someone who has Extend confirm something? I was told you buy palettes and other goods in-game now with points. Question is: Where do you get those points from (standard gameplay, Abyss, Arcade, etc.) and what can you buy with those other than palettes? I'm guessing that the only thing you can buy on the PSN store is announcer DLC and palettes/UNL characters if you don't want to spend the time to unlock them in-game? EDIT: Anyone have the artbook from the preorder bonus? I want to know if it's worth it (how big it is, how many pages, what kind of illustrations are in it, etc) since I might preorder the LE tomorrow or Wednesday. I don't care about the soundtrack.

Nope. I haven't played any of those guys. Granted, I haven't played ranked ever on this account (forgot about that, need to get my trophies later) and I stick to the player rooms of people I know.

^I'm gonna go with that. My friend who I play almost every day will always 6A when I do it, but it's because he's seen my playstyle so often that he knows when I'm gonna go for it. Anyways, I'll drop this, I don't wanna start anything. Just my $0.02

GGs to you to Psykotik! I really need to practice resets and setups, you have it so down and I'm so jelly because I kinda just do...stuff lol. Yeah, I was talking to Koopa on Gchat while we were playing and he was really worried that you might get mad at the lag so he told me to apologize to you. He's a pretty good Rachel, I actually wanted him to teach me how to play her before I decided I'd try and sub Tao. He and I have a decent connection with each other, but we still get DC'd sometimes. It's funny that you're switching since I literally JUST switched to an Ethernet connection after our matches. Hopefully the next time it'll be better for us! :P Also the next time we play, I'll probably invite Koopa again (only if you don't mind though lol), I play him pretty regularly.

Pretty sure Soujiro said he'd have a reset/setup thread up today, so you can look out for them there

Wow, I wasn't aware of this fact... enthusiasm for subbing Relius down.. Honestly, I think you said it too Roldy, but I only want to sub him because he's Carl's dad lol.

Thanks Soujiro! It'll come in handy for when I get CSX next month lol. Maybe it'll help me now actually. I can't do anything when people barrier my mixup since I never plan for them being outside of my range =\

People I added: Roldy Psykotik njamamm I'm on right now and will be for about 3 hours, if you want some games, let me know (on PSN), I'm hosting (CS2 only though, sorry importers!!).

It's cool, I'm 1bar with my friend in California, who I play all the time, and it's actually really good. Oddly, my friend KoopaDoopa is 2bar with me and I sometimes get laggy games with him. lol, we'll cross that bridge when we get there :P

Yeah man, go for it! I have to let you guys know in advance though, I typically play with a guy who hates when I invite friends, but if I host, he won't have a say >:3

Awesome! I'll add you and we can play this weekend if we're both free. Just an FYI, my Carl is scrubby (ask Akira lol). Might play Tao a lot since I'm trying her out. I don't usually like mirrors, but I like to do them if I feel like I can learn something :P Oh man, if you somehow find that out before I do, let me know. Everyone tells me to check out GameJam and whatnot, but it happens AT my university. I'd know if they were playing BB there lol and sadly, I don't play SF4 or MvC so meh. I wonder if there's a thread for it on DL somewhere? Or maybe it's part of the Toronto thread? They're pretty close after all. Might ask around in there later. Oh btw, you mind if I add you as well as njmamm? If you're in Toronto, I'm hoping that means we'll have an awesome connection :P

Is NJ in the EST? I can add you, but I'm online pretty much only on the weekends or Tuesday nights if I don't go out lol. Nah, I'm in Ottawa. I guess it's close but I don't have the money to bus (all my money goes to school and food) and I don't own a car u__u I think Sindelic(sp?) contributes a lot? As for the most recognized...I'm not sure, I'm pretty new but Akira stands out to me. I don't know who the smartest player is though, it seems like most of the people here who claim to be really good don't play Carl regularly anymore (might change in CSX?).

I kan haz your gameplay vids? :P

Tbh I was really hoping Zong would come back. I just wanted to see some Carl from my side of the world and there are very few of us.

I agree, but they were all like "OMFG BAHLINCYN AHREHDY?? >:U" So they all stopped playing lol. I'm sure if BB3 is announced at the end of this year, everyone will be screaming "TOO SOON" regardless if CSX is good or not.

Full disclosure: I pretty much only play with 3 other people and none of them are good at dealing with Carl. I've never had to learn the loop. I play pretty much just like you njmamm lol. I also really like to confirm into air combo at every opportunity for some reason. Most of the people I knew who played BB (IRL and offline) stopped playing when CS2 was announced because they thought it was too soon and whatnot. I can't even get my IRL friends to try it because they all hate [losing to] Carl (they're Hakumen/Tager mains).

I'm the only Carl player I know in my entire city, but then again, I'm in Canada and I only know 4 IRL people who play BB. Also, they stopped playing when they heard about CS2 :V

Read 78 pages of text to answer 3 short questions that you could've answered right there instead of being snobby? :\ I kinda stopped paying attention to Relius to focus on my Carl, but I'll try my best to answer your questions (anyone else can step in and correct me). His midscreen damage isn't amazing, but it seems ok (maybe 3k avg?). He can launch his opponents with Id Lauger, but it's not on par with someone like Litchi or Rachel at all. His pressure is different from Carl's, you're not trying to sandwich your opponent, I don't think you can with Ignis (as far as I know). It's more like he has strong pressure with Ignis and he's trying to mixup while using Ignis as cover or some unblockable setups for oki. I don't really know how great his mixup is but it doesn't seem amazing, not as complex as Carl's is basically all I can say since I don't know many characters. At this point, it doesn't look like there's many gimmicks to him bu t he seems to have good corner pressure and he fairs well against zoners and rushdown characters alike.

looool, this. I get you xD Pretty sure my skill is being lucky.

What kind of group did you make the name for? Was it for an online game? Hmm, I know where you're coming from when you say "I don't mind". That's probably something that I should say too. "I don't mind" seems like it has a more positive connotation to it than "I don't care". Yeah, I heard that Spanish, German and Mandarin are really good international languages to learn. I'd probably learn Spanish first, since it'll be the easiest for me to pick up I think. Hmmm, I wouldn't say that it's hard to pronounce since I grew up with it, but it's hard to have a natural sounding accent unless you speak it all the time. I've spoken it since I was a kid, but I hadn't had to speak to French people until I was an adult. It's very easy to understand (except when people have REALLY heavy accents), but speaking it convincingly to another French person is just something I can't do lol. Even if I did have a great French accent, it would be Franco-Ontarian, which apparently sounds horrible to people from Quebec and maybe worse to people from France xD That's really cool that he learned from video games though o.o I've picked up Japanese phrases and stuff from watching anime, but I haven't learned anything to form a coherent sentence lol. Speaking of which, I heard the summer Japanese course at my school is so hard that it's worth double the normal amount of credits :D Also, you've gotten me curious, what is your first language, if you don't mind me asking?

I agree about Dio, he just looks cool when he plays.

That's true :\ I wanted something in Latin for my PSN and all the good names were taken >:C I ended up settling for Atramentarium just because it holds a personal significance, but to everyone else, it just means "inkpot" lol. Also, I'm taking Japanese in the summer for my elective :P I might take Linguistics for my other, but Spanish is a potential choice since it's my friend's first language and if I learn it, I can talk to him a bit more. I think having to speak and write English makes him kind of nervous. I'm bilingual in English and French, but I don't like to speak French because I have an accent when I speak it and people from Quebec hate people who can't speak it perfectly :X I want CSX, just not enough to import :\ I don't think many people on PSN imported, I can find games pretty easily.