LegendaryRath

Ya, I know about those people.

Yup. I'm in favor of whichever day we can start sooner, given that I'm gone by 11:00-11:30. And Kevin might be interested in coming too, not sure how you would feel about that. He's serious about getting decent at p4a, even if he barely wins right now.

GGs to everyone who showed up. I'm really glad that we had so many entrants, even without John, Ruben, and Ray. David, Glad you could show up. Your Yukiko's pretty good now. Show up to Ruben's one of these times and I'm sure Ray'll help you out a little bit. I'm 99% sure that I wont be at the next hAZbat due to easter. I'm sorry but 30 potential dollars isn't going to keep me from my grandmother's cooking.

^ I'll try to stick around as long as I can. Casuals is my favorite part anyways. Who's planning on bringing setups? Ruben usually brings like half of them and he wont be there. I want to TRY to bring one but my parents think it a bad idea, because every monitor ever broke every time it was moved from one place to another. Right? Anyway, I'll see what I can do but I hope a few people are able to bring one too.

Nam makes me want to play iron fist.

I'm curious if that works midscreen. It could allow more practical uses for lower weakpoints.

Something to do with your number of posts, time as a member, ect. I'm not entirely sure how it works but it'll go up over time. Keep in mind that you should be able to use a custom avatar and title if you wish.

Thanks for contributing helix! I noticed that your links aren't timestamped. If you would like to link a specific part of a video, just right click on the youtube player and select "copy video URL at current time". It makes a big difference and is very easy to do!

I'm feeling like there wont be a tournament this week and if there is, it'll be me and Eric in GFinals.

If you all want to play it some, I wouldn't mind trying too. Looks like it could be fun.

Ruben's going out of town, so he wont host for a little while. When he does again, it'll probably be on friday nights. I still play with Kanji a lot so if you want some help, I wouldn't mind. I usually play online a lot but I've just been too busy lately. In a week or two I'll be back into it and I can just show you stuff there. Are you still playing Kanji? Now that I hear Ray isn't going, I'm actually a bit worried. Who's planning on making it Sunday? Me and Kevin will go. I'm assuming Gabe, Lorenzo, Eric maybe, the other Eric maybe, John maybe, Ken Maybe, a few other's I'm not sure of. Hopefully we can get 8 to go.

I wonder what the start up is for Phalanx cannon. Seems really fast to me, even been used after cross-through forward dashes. EDIT: It makes me quite happy to see that we can get such devastating damage meterless off an air CH http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=QnzDqVpbvfM#t=62s

Seems to be the case. I've seen some other weird things happen with Phalanx cannon. The character overview thread mentions "...Seems to have start-up invincibility or that is just part of the anti-projectile part of it." Maybe once we get some frame data we'll find that it has a few invincibility frames, sort of like Mitsuru's 2B having 3 for no reason.

We should hang out sometime.

To be fair, I did start my "argument" with that. This is the last I'll post of this because if we go any further it could turn into several pages of hurt feelings. It wasn't an argument anyway. Can someone express an opinion without people thinking they're trying to offend somebody? I spent a long time trying to think of a good way to show that I was understanding of all the people I had anything to say about and you still think I was trying to argue. How would you have made my earlier point? I really am going to ignore all further mentions of this. I'm sure Zeth or any other mod would put their foot down on discussions like this. EDIT: ^ Yes, agreed.

Here are my very short and simple thoughts on this situation. Helix should have looked at the information presented to him BEFORE asking about it. I understand and agree with Zeth's reasoning for replying with a link. I feel that it can be discouraging to see un-thoughtful responses, even if they're accurate and productive. I'm not attempting to attack or alienate anyone. Trying to show understanding of everyone's point of view, that's all. I digress. Let's not make this thread about anything other than Azrael.

OD > Scud > stuff would be pretty sick. Helix, Zeth's a nice guy. If he seems intimidating, it's simply because of his professionalism. And Zeth, I understand where you're coming from. I spent several years doing the whole videogame-youtube thing (Dumb games like COD. I'm not proud of it.) and I constantly saw comments that just screamed "I'm too lazy to watch the video, so reply to my clueless comment". It's incredibly frustrating to put a lot of time and effort into something just to see that people clearly aren't even watching/reading/paying-attention to it. That said, I'll still try to answer questions when someone is legitimately in need of an answer. We've all been new to this once and we should all know how confusing and intimidating a forum can be if you aren't familiar with it. Try to give a well thought out answer that they can understand, while also mentioning/reinforcing where they can get further help. Replying with (see below) only discourages people from participating within the forum. ^ Think about how tone and emotion aren't always taken how they're intended in text mediums like e-mail. This certainly doesn't seem might not come across as friendly or welcoming. EDIT: I hope it doesn't seem like I'm attacking either party here. I'm just trying to help each side understand where the other is coming from.

I can't imagine that they're too bad if you're accustomed to links (Good for Hakumen players). Once again, we can only assume things at this point. You said it yourself "... i know none of you have played the game or anything..." With some practice, I'm sure we'll all do fine.

I wholeheartedly agree with everything Zeth posted. Unfortunately, we don't have much footage for some of the characters and I'm not too eager to say that many matchups are completely one sided yet (So I appreciate the use of "maybe" and "slightly"). Only having 'watched' matches thus far and not actually being able to play for ourselves, we're just making educated guesses.

I'm not really that interested in darkstalkers. Maybe after it comes out if I see some of you guys playing it. We doing anything this week? And who's planning on going Sunday? I'll bring Kevin with. Maybe this time he'll actually talk to someone. Progress?

99.9% certain you're talking to Tae but if you don't mind I'd be down to play sometime. Unfortunately, I'm actually quite busy for a while and wont even log on to PSN for several days. But if you guys don't mind, please send me a friend request and I'll be glad to take part in some spectacular Kanji mirrors sometime.

When I mentioned that it would be ideal to find Fatals without using rapids, I wasn't suggesting that Tahichi should have (or even recognized) that he could have done something else. I was just expressing that I was excited to see such a nice combo in an actual match and was wondering about other possible combos. Whenever thinking/talking about Fatal counters, I almost always expect it to be punishing something (Inferno Divider, ect.). I think it was impressive that he took this (seemingly accidental) fatal counter and confirmed it spectacularly. Once again, we're only theory fighting until we get our hands on this game for ourselves. I can't wait to go crazy in training mode!

I loved the 214C > 236236A > OMC Ex Batman Dive xD http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=QJ9vX_RaZyY#t=434s If you play PSN a lot, then I'd love to play you sometime. At least we could try out the connection.

Because of the Rapid Cancel he just didn't have the meter. And I totally agree that we (with some time) could do better. Finding a way to make use of fatals without using Rapids would be ideal, and I bet we can squeeze a lot more damage out of one. It's a common and easy ender, usually to end highly prorated combos. Off better starters he probably could have done some airdashes (or something) and picked it up further. I love those stomps though :P

I think we've found our reason to use fatal counters with Azrael http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=CUtApW40Svo#t=259s Just imagine what we can do once people get creative