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As far as character choice, just pick the one you have the most fun with. You can and will EVENTUALLY be able to do all the moves, and the combos, and all of that with anyone given you work at it. You can train skill, you can not train yourself to find someone fun and interesting if you dont find them fun and interesting (There are exceptions, but thats a general rule I tell everyone). I personally pick characters with certain moves that i like doing (like actually LIKE doing, like sol's sidewinder, platinums 5a, lambda 236c, anything with wall bounce, anything that makes the screen shake. all these are things I just enjoy, couldnt explain why.) or if I like the look or something silly like that. Not whether they *would* fit my playstyle the best.... not that its the easiest to pick up. You need to have investment, or you wont want to learn or play. Dont fall into the trap of playing an easy character..... play the guy you WANT to play... its better for you in the end. The blocking thing.... maybe its a mental thing that you need to get past. Not so much the know how, or anything, but the reason you would block. If it makes more sense.... you might value it as an action more often. Lets try that. If you are new, maybe you don't know what your opponent can do. If you run at them, smash buttons, take guesses..... you might do something... but you might get blown up. Blocking is safe. Only ways to get hit while you block is to not block.... get thrown (universal in some capacity) or eat an unblockable (rare, but easy to learn and avoid). In a game that the goal is win.... playing safe usually yields better results... especially against better players. If you can block everything, then it becomes less a guess of "Man, the fuck do i do that will be beat what he does" and it becomes "Okay, im blocking.... ill just wait until i see one of these x number of moves. I know how to beat THOSE moves. I'll just wait until then." Its simple, though it takes a lot of practice to block well enough where that strategy works. Same reason if you watch football, a quarterback in a shitty situation will throw it away, rather than risk a bad pass that might get intercepted. Risk vs reward. Other analogies would be in a first person shooter (You got a machine gun vs a sniper.... you can run right at him, and hope he doesnt kill you first... or you can be patient and see if he moves away from his advantage into yours.) or a strategy game (most strategies in RTS are 'I can deal with all these options, but i have trouble vs strategy x y z. I am fine if he does anything else.' Limited set of options you have trouble with vs larger set of things you can wont have an issue with. This kind of goal is easier to do on the defensive, since you have more time to set up, and more time to make your army bigger) or poker even (i have a shitty hand. fold and dont lose anything/very little... or stay in a hand, hope my shitty hand lucks out, but risk losing a lot more). TL:DR Play who you like, you can learn everyone given enough time. Blocking is the safe option, better risk/reward than doing random shit and crossing your fingers. If you wanna win, playing safe is better usually.

Thanks to everyone who came. a wwe stick with red seimitsus was left here, any idea who's it is?

Haha ill keep in mind, but i do main robo. (although thiking about derusting my test more and more. fuck slayer all around though) I'll hafta try the 100% pure disrespect style next time.

i wouldnt be surprised if slayer had more slayer exclusive bullshit though

everyone should play games or something.

reminder. its coming up also, since its my birthday, and i dont have any serious obligations the day after, i plan on drinking a little and enjoying my night. ^^ and if i thought i did dumb shit and had no fear when i was 100% sober..... if you wanna enjoy the evening a little too in a similiar , i might be cool with letting a few people crash. if you want to, pm me and we can talk about it. not to be mean about, but if i dont know you that well, dont be shocked if i say no. got space for a few people.

holy shit andy holy. shit.

no prob mike, feel better, return to life soon ^^

mike i *might* be able to make that. post times when you can and well see. i dont think i have anything to do on sunday so shouldnt be too much an issue

PUFFBALL IS FUCKING PLUS WHAT IN THE HELL side note http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw2AplAH2kw why are gear combo vids so good. -_- edit edit: watch clannad? wanna feel sad? http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WMG/CLANNAD feel sad. stay sad. rewatch after story. this is how i spend my time. reading fun things on the internet.

but gear gives you meter for running at your opponent no fear = yes meter = yes win. playing without fear = best way to play. finally articulated my playstyle! maybe i should switch to jam lol

step 1 pick a diff character nigga. for you? hmmmm how do you feel about testament or dizzy? ...b-baka! tsunderebro

take the roofie = you said yes in body language. dacids smart, he gets it. i mean he plays marvel. has to be quick like a fox at a minimum.

shoutouts to america, thinking that from wc to ec = halfway around the world. nah we're nice. rowdy at times but nice. andy will ask for consent first, dont worry.

but hes good at that sweet sweet forced lovin'

you dont get it, this guy was netplaying me so hard in a game i just decided to play -_- got to live the full sadlife experience over two hours and a massive lightheaded headache

mostly we are. mostly we are indeed. and fuck you chris, i barely remember anything about playing last night. when im not destroyed, i want rematch.

YES CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN! nah its cool, ill just hang around all night like usual. ^^

alan, should i try to room with sean and co, or can i chill with you guys? i usually hang out with all the anime the whole time anyway.... can do floor, i bring blanket+big ass non-love pillow just need to know soon so i can keep sean informed either way ^^ lemme know either way is fine, just swinging the preference towards you guys this time, but if its weird/awkward/difficult, just say so.

alan burst grabs me like twice every time we play. dont feel good about that lol j/k :D we arent allergic to fun, you never set it up btw i told you i would isuka turtleaba

feel better bro

IM FROM JERSEY WHAT IN THE FUCK >< Shoutouts to people playing gear, alzarath being alzarath, me being free in bb, but having fun casuals anyway, and quarter itg. see you all again at some point (in june prob prob)

he tells everyone that. no worries.

bring the jersey thread to their attention via pm's or in game message then they might just not know about it, while they also might be netplay onry. but if you dont ask them, well never know !

keeeennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn