Agni

My friend only comes over once a week, though. I hope he can get Extend soon. Anyway, when I fight him, my main problem is that I really don't know my characters well enough to fight him correctly. Hell, I can even combo him pretty well but he still manages to beat me with straight-up mashing :/

That's cause they're the Japanese man, they make impossible shit possible and shitty moves amazing

I'd rather not clutter the forum with another thread this time, so I'm just going to ask this here: Recent posts of mine in the PSN GG's thread have made me realize that no one likes a whiny bitch who never tries to get better at the game. So I'm trying to get better, obviously. The problem is, I have no idea where to start. I'm starting literally at square one with this shit. I'm not good enough to learn on netplay, my friend (only BB'er I know IRL) is a mashy scrub and I lose to him anyway (which probably attests to my horrendous lack of skill), and...yeah, that's about it. I have no clue how I'm even supposed to start, not to mention the realization that it's going to take me years to get good at this genre (and some of you have already seen my incredible defeatism) is just depressing. So what should I focus on first?

Everyone's just sick of Star and glad he's gone, so they go beserk the instant they see ANYTHING that even slightly reminds them of him.

Huh, weird. I'm used to IaMP, where bursts (technically bombs) increase the juggle bar (in other words, decrease the damage in a combo).

The definition of irony.

Any reason why you bursted twice at the beginning?

...That's just pointless.

...How do you ragewin? Isn't that just straight-up "winning"?

Jesus people, I'm not as bad as Star. He bitched nearly every day. I bitch like once a week.

Cut off one of the heads, two more'll grow in its place.

You're late to the party, I was being compared to star a LONG time ago.

Man, I guess I'll go make a public embarrassment of myself on Ranked tonight after I rank up on Ridge Racer Maybe I'll make a room so you guys can come kick my ass and teach me something, I dunno.

Probably not, those sandbags are used so people don't get hurt in crashes (oh god this is off-topic)

Do you even PLAY billiards?

The word "sandbag" apparently comes from billiards (don't ask me how), but it means the same thing there.

I'm trying to figure out a way to say "I shall gladly take his place" in a comedic/non-serious way but nothing's coming up.

I'm surprised you AREN'T mod. I swear, I think I thought you were one because you post in the Platinum board so much I thought you were a mod there.

Ah, sorry, I thought you were a mod for some strange reason. NVG got taken down?

So I'm just going to assume this is also a warning to me, right?

Hey man, it's just...I see you guys and how good you are, and then I see myself and I just wonder WTF I'm doing that's wrong. It's incredibly frustrating with how I'm not seeing any improvement even if I try to make one. And then I see other players who are really good at this game and I just get incredibly pissed at myself for being a mashy scrub. I'm like "Why are you doing this, man!? There's so much more this game/genre has to offer and you're just pissing it all away on mashy casuals with your best friend!"

Pssssh, Star would kick my ass.

Picked it back up once my friend came over today since he's the only other BB'er I know IRL.

0-8...I can't even beat mashy scrubs orz The other guy actually got bored of kicking my ass and just stopped playing me...

Wait, seriously? Damn, the only combo I know is mashing about 2A>5A>5B>2B>5C>236C. Damn, no wonder my friend can punish that one easily.