Anne

Hey guys, I'm gonna be out of it this weekend and week because of medical issues. I might have to get surgery that'll put me down for the count on Final Round though :/ it's nothing super serious (Thyroid and junk) but it's still pretty bleh and the timing is horrible.

@Astaroth: Popped a chubby.

You too :3

I'll see you guys at GG tonight, but I'm pretty awful at Gear >.<

No, I have a Hori VX-SA with new Sanwa buttons and the Doom balltop that works on the 360. If I had an American stick I'd be hanging onto it >.<

If I can sell a stick and/or get some money real quick Final Round can happen >.< One doctor visit ended up costing me waaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy too much money. My physical health is better-ish but I feel pretty wrecked. Nothing too worrisome ^^;

To all of this: PFFFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

Hey guys, I'm not sure if my health will let me go to Final Round. It's draining my moneys.

I don't care much for Vanpri (it's pretty at least) but I just think that article is pretty, yeah....

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2013/02/27/eigomangas-fighting-game-vanguard-princess-could-be-this-years-skullgirls/ Yup.

I don't even lift ;_; But for real don't take things too seriously. I'm working on getting back to focusing on fun more in FGs and playing some other games to get my head on straight before being super competitive again. Go play some other stuff or get outside and run around for a bit and have fun. Play for fun and talk about it like it's a fun thing, not like it's SUPER SERIOUS BUSINESS GAIZ. On another note I'll be hanging around Game Galaxy as usual tonight if any of you guys find your way there.

Fighting Games? I thought this was a men's health and fitness board, you might wanna try SRK.

I have to a small extent. I'm pretty interested because it is still fast and seems like fun, but the gaps in the top tier are getting slightly wider from what I've seen >.< Honestly, I'm super interested in fiddling with SG, but I'm put off by forever long combos that kill you. So many games have that now though that I might just suck it up and play. The style and neutral are too much for me. I was enjoying SFxT until SF4 style unblocks and 50/50s came around. With roll it's not as bad, but in the corner Lili has a set up that denies roll and is unblockable. The only way out is to alpha counter the first hit of the set up. There are set ups off long catching TCs too (Yoshi's windmill, Hugos EX Lariat, Laws kicks) that are tough to counter, but are harder to do and might be able to be escaped by like EX reversals and junk. It's not a huge deal yet, but it opens the door to possibilities I don't wanna explore.

Or borrow it from me lol

You have no idea what some dudes would do for that pillow >_>

Anybody coming to KT in Murfreesboro tonight? I want to bring Melty if it's more than me and Milln.

I've seen Chandler's Youtube, I know all about his Spelunky escapades.

Yo, Spelunky has a deathmatch arena mode now. This could be very fun.

PCs don't get fighting games cause Japan.

The streaming client is UStream, it's dead on arrival. I'm interested in streaming to my friends and stuff directly through our own PS4s. I'd be more into basically Halo 3's file share just across all games and just amongst my friends, that'd be pretty rad. I think people are getting too excited/misinterpreting this particular feature and a whole bunch of other ones. The impression going around is it's more social networky and involved in a manner that can be way more small scale. I don't think we're gonna see the landscape of stream world or online change overnight on a large scale, just sharing stuff with friends can be easier. FIGHTING GAMES.

Most everybody in the journos circle agrees that Sony/Microsoft both want to implement these things, but nobody wants to be the one to pull the trigger. Basically, none of them are dumb enough to do it yet. A big prediction is they might let this console cycle play out similarly to the previous one and just push digital distribution more and more until that becomes a standard. Then, next gen (or late this gen) make it THE standard. Sony's PS store updates and pushes in Steam-like sales are evidence to this, and they're pretty good on top of that. If Microsoft pulls the trigger on this and Sony doesn't (they won't at this rate) they're setting themselves back in the hardware space. Again, a bigger push on XBL and download services is probably more what MS has cooked up. Unfortunately, at this rate with MS I'm expecting a bigger push on apps and "all in one entertainment" type stuff which would make me a bit sad. A lot of the early promise of the last cycle turned into a billion useless apps, the cancellation of XNA and other indie support, and "Better With Kinect" by 2010. They're gonna play it safe, say "Innovation and Connectivity" a lot, and push digital without being intrusive. I don't want to go "blah blah casuals blah blah' but I figure that's the first word I'll hear when MS does their reveal. The PS4 reveal was super hit and miss, I like a lot about their new infrastructure and new ideas so far. Everything looked promising, but it still seems a bit unsure. The games were mostly meh, a lot of safe calls. Media Molecule and having Jon Blow (this man should never open his big, dumbass mouth but he makes incredible games) shows more of what we got with the PS3 and it's impressive digital space. Hopefully in the next couple months it shapes up, but it's like Sony did the opposite of the PS3 launch which can really only be a good thing. Just my thoughts on it, I didn't mean to go on so long but there's a lot of REALLY bad coverage/opinions of this stuff from less than respectable places people seem to cling to. As competitive players, we probably won't have much to worry about. The PS4 looks fine for what we do, and if MS goes absolutely insane, we still got the PS4. Edit: another thing about the Sony conference is it's being talked about that it wasn't exactly aimed at consumers as much as it was to journos and other industry folk. It certainly came off that way.

Do what we did going to CEO and just loop Guile's Theme in the car indefinitely.

And that is why I don't play Skullgirls -_-

GG isn't perfect but it it pretty damn solid. The overall meta functions pretty well from my experience and what I've observed. I think the argument on counters is more how Hakumen has to take moderate-high risk for moderate-high reward where as Yosuke takes a minimal risk for a moderate reward (resetting the neutral in you favor is good reward even if your mix ups aren't the best.) Edit: Also, I personally believe Yosuke's mix ups aren't bad by any means, it might just be bad compared to Chie/Yu/Aigis. Edit Edit: That's also not to say there isn't risk with Yosuke's DP, but you won't reliably be punishing it for big damage because of it's small recovery. Plus it's wonky hitbox let's get away with murder sometimes. For a counter it's reward can be slightly in favor of it's risk but compared to other things with busted Risk/Reward (Chie/Yu/Aigis oki and pressure, any button Mitsuru has, Teddie DP and other shenanigans) it's not too bad. Edit Edit Edit: I don't want to call anybody wrong this is just how I see things practically. I love you all <3 xoxo

I'm not saying anybody is particularly dogging anybody about a game ore anything, I just think it's a silly mindset. The more you love a game/genre the more critical you should be about the games you play to help better how you play it. I do wish the airdasher community didn't cannibalize and rag on itself all the time (I think this is part of the problem of our growth along with the split in games), because that almost encourages people to take up arms defending things that are clearly problems.