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hey does anyone have a working link to download the slayer combo movie "Sakura"? i know it's on youtube, but i'm looking for a good quality one. i found one link earlier in the ac video thread but it doesn't seem to work anymore. thanks. also looking for a link to download "Nameless" (i couldn't for the life of me figure out how to download it from the link rtl42 originally posted)

thanks for the tips zinac. a couple of other questions... what should i generally be trying to pressure him with? because he seems to simply beat a lot of my moves with his. his 2hs as you've already mentioned is a problem due to its invincibility, but his other long range pokes are giving me trouble as well. also what range should i be trying to stay at with him? like close range, just inside 5s range... or what?

what's the general game plan or strategy when playing against testement? this match up is really tough for me, especially the exe (front and rear) pressure.

please don't change characters justus... that zappa is way too fun to watch. (although "not getting hit" sucks ass when you're playing against it)

i figured as much... anytime pulsr ends a sentence about guilty gear with a question mark is suspicious to me.

assuming this is a real question and not an inside joke that i'm not in on.. 6k has a fairly slow startup so it's hard (at least for me) to find safe ways to throw it out. also because of the startup... after 2hs, if they stick out anything faster than 8 frames (iirc?) it will beat the next 6k. the only ways i ever use this is for oki if i think they are going for wakeup throw. 6k, then if they block... go into 2hs to some ground string starting with 2k or 5p, or 5p for a tick throw. and sometimes after a blocked ground string ending in tatami frc. are there anyone other good uses for this?

maybe... but he gets bonus points for winning almost all of his matches with razorcrane. vs pulsr in semi's he won both rounds by razorcrane i beleive.

lol david, you're the bastard that told me just to do the version with 3 jump slashes because it was easier. oh is this true? that would really explain why i have such a hard time hitting it sometimes. you may have just relieved a huge headache for me sh! edit: on a completely separate note... when doing the dust combo, which character's do you have to replace the the first j.S-D with j.K-D because the dust won't hit or they can tech? i know in the corner you have to do it for millia. anyone else?

if you're talking about: 5D jc>j.HS>j.S>j.SD *wait*>j.SD>ad j.SD>j.D it's honestly much easier imo to do: 5D jc>j.S>j.HS>j.SD *wait*>j.SD>ad j.SD>j.D (thanks to hellmonkey for showing me this one) just do the j.S as soon as possible after she leaves the ground and then cancel to j.HS as soon as possible as well. (remember to hold up while doing this) how fast you do the first j.S is the most important part. to give you an example of how fast... i try to press the button the exact frame she leave the ground. the other thing you might want to remember is that it is much much easier to just do: 5D jc>j.HS>j.SD *wait*>j.SD>ad j.SD>j.D or 5D jc>j.S>j.S>j.SD *wait*>j.SD>ad j.SD>j.D instead and it really only does slightly less damage.

mike did she use the 1p or 2p side? the 1p side seemed ok... (i think)

stormlocke, i think you should play that eyeball game more to improve your reflexes... atleast that's my plan for getting better for guilty gear.

i never said competitive environments didn't have shit talk. i played almost every sport in high school and you are right, every single one of them had a lot of shit talk. but i wasn't sitting around in practice thinking "oh man i better run a few more laps because i don't want the guys on the other team to make fun of me." lol that would be a pretty silly way to go through life. you practice simply because you want to be better. you want to be better than the safety that's covering you, and you want to be better than the other wide receivers on your own team (who aren't talking shit to you). you practice because you want to win because you are a competitive person in the first place. but what if you're a competitive person who just can't find people to compete with? it's hard as hell to find decent gg players to practice with and try to progress. so you try to get new people to play and increase the player base. now normally my friends and i love to talk shit when we play third strike. it's funny as hell and i love it... but when i try to teach them how to play guilty gear and they are still trying to get past the basics, talking shit to them just makes them want to go back to playing 3s or cvs2. the bottom line is if you aren't already a competitive person who wants to win, talking shit is not going to motivate you into becoming a competitive person. i do agree with you however that it can help some already competitive people get a little more motivated, but only some. the bigger problem is that in the US most people don't even have anyone to compete with on a regular basis. it doesn't matter how bad you want it, if you can't find the competition to play with consistently, you're just not going to get better. and talking shit while trying to recruit new people is pretty counter productive. the japanese players aren't talking shit to us, yet people here want to beat them don't they? why is that? because they crush us. they show us that there's a much higher level and that we aren't there yet. they motivate us just by being better, not by talking about how bad someone's video game skills are on a forum. talking shit is fun, but it's not that important for upping your game. i am curious though... how much shit talk is there in japan?

shit talk only works on some people as a motivator. for a lot of other people (especially newer players), it just turns them off to that community in general. or in other words, only certain personality types benefit from it. the mvc2 community does have a lot of highly competitive people and arguably the most hype every year at evo... but it also has the most ridiculous drama. "oh what you think you can beat me at a video game? ima stab you!"