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Yeah I'll go, sounds interesting.

Hello New York, I'm going to be in your city for the next 48 hours. Seeing as I basically know absolutely no one in this city I was wondering if there's any shit going on in the next two days that I could check out.

I went last week for ~$50 round trip and I paid more than I had to. As long as you book your tickets in advance, Greyhound is $29. Megabus is only $20 (it's closer to $25 after tax). For greyhound, select "7 day advance purchase" or whatever the wording is and NOT some of their other "discount" BS because if you try to get a discount for some reason the price shoots up. What's happening in Montreal? I would check myself but I'm incidentally on a Greyhound bus right now and my internet connection is shit.

Yeah, with ten people he's relying on each person spending $250 each and I don't think that's going to happen.

I didn't know that the CS cab was down. I guess that's not that surprising considering there's almost nobody playing it (the last time I was there I played through arcade =/). I'm a little surprised by that though, seeing as it would probably do a lot to bring some life back to Lovegety. Maybe I'm wrong, though.

Do you folks think that Gety will get CS2?

They planning on running a current version of the game this time?

Who are some notable CS2 Litchi players other than Fio? Because that's such a huge chunk of what I'm seeing; I want to watch someone else.

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I picked Litchi in CT because before the game came out I enjoyed watching her long combos. This seems like a poor choice in retrospect as I'd never played a real fighting game before and I didn't realize what I was getting myself into. Alas, I'm better now.

Yeah, I got it eventually. I actually do basically the opposite and input j.2B and j.Hatsu basically as fast as possible.

How's this work?

Having seen Vice-Taicho play a lot I can tell you that tournament nerves/general apathy have at least something to do with that performance. CH j.C[m] 3C[m]? Daisharin instead of tsubame gaeshi (or an AA) in the first round? Daisharin in general? He usually looks far more solid than that. This is the problem. I find that I am entirely unable to strike a balance between not thinking at all and overthinking. I can play against a lot of players (and even players at my skill level) without having to think about what I'm doing because I just know what I'm doing. However, this train of thought is obviously problematic when it comes to things that I can't just counter unconsciously, and when something like that comes up I'm overthinking and I've lost. I suppose part of it comes down to the fact that I simply don't know the efficacy of my other options as thoroughly as I do the ones that I use frequently so I'm not inclined to employ/fall back on them and then I get stuck thinking really hard about under what circumstances they might fail in the absence of consistent and focused practice against the players that beat me (which I can't get; the closest I've got is online which gives me a pool of a few hundred players to adapt to, which is great for establishing general strategy but entirely worthless for establishing character- or situation-specific routes of resolution).

In this thread you frequently segment players (differentiating between "good" and "great", etc.) into different skill categories; how does one move from one category to another? It's one thing to state a list of a criteria that makes a certain level of player that level, but what I'm looking for is how a player can tangibly improve their mode of reasoning when playing the game. It is one thing to memorize plays and situations, and it's another to actually think about when to do them and then actually implementing these tactics is a whole other level of difficulty. Once you learn what's possible, how do you learn when to do it? Or, better yet, once you learn how to think on multiple levels, how do you develop a scrutinizing process to determine what level to go with in the heat of a match? EDIT: I'm a Litchi player in case that wasn't obvious, so don't hesitate to provide Litchi-specific examples.

Hm. I thought it was all-around unusual that he thought it was possible to begin with seeing as everything I'd heard had been to the contrary.

What's the deal with this? How was he planning on getting it anyway?

Happy somewhat late new years everyone. Hopefully I'll be seeing you all soon but that's not looking likely.

I'm going to try to make thursday but I want to be home in time for, like, Christmas, and that might be hard.

People wouldn't bully you so much if you didn't put your damn lunch money in your pants.

Yeah, I'll give you that. I'm only talking about myself.

That all seems perfectly reasonable to me. I didn't really intend to turn this into an overblown argument; it's just inaccurate to assume that the community is the size that it is because people are too uncommitted to become a part of it. Sometimes you think you're being more welcoming than you actually are.

EDIT: I'm removing the majority of this post because I'm not accomplishing anything good and if anyone really wants to know what I think, they can talk to me and I'd be glad to tell them. I'm not going to fight with a bunch of people I've never met about how I've never met them because that's like the dumbest thing I've ever heard. For the record, I said I took a match on everyone that I played against except for Pui. I lost to Pui like fourty times, then I lost to a Bang player, and then I lost to a Hakumen player a few times. I had beaten both the Bang player and the Hakumen player before they beat me, so I don't see what's wrong with that statement.

$20 for 100 tokens? Man, I'm getting ripped off. It makes a huge difference having a car. It takes me nearly four hours to get to Lovegety and I don't live half as far. It also makes a huge difference being a regular as opposed to being that guy who shows up sometimes; it's a crapshoot even if I'm the loudest guy in the room. That the community is anchored entirley to Lovegety is very unfortunate for those of us who can't regularly make the trip because there's only so good you can get playing in isolation. I don't see a reasonable way of this trend breaking outside of publicizing the hell out of some tournaments because a huge chunk of the BlazBlue audience doesn't know that Dustloop exists and a huge chunk of them don't know this thread exists and then a huge chunk of THEM will quit very early on due to the general lack of learning resources compared to, say, Street Fighter. For the record, the problem is not a lack of commitment: On saturday, I left at 3:30 to get there at 7 after having gotten four hours of sleep. My friend and I left Lovegety at around 3 AM, loitered at Big Mouth Kee until like 6, loitered outside until around 7, and then caught the bus to the subway to the bus to the bus home.

I live in Mississauga (west end) and I don't have a car. I have to take a combination of Mississauga transit, GO transit, TTC and YRT to get to Lovegety, and to get back I either have to loiter around until the busses start running again, take a taxi from Lovegety to my house (~$60), or leave really, really early. I usually do the former, and staying up until 9 in the morning isn't usually practical. I didn't mean to imply that the people at Lovegety are hostile, because they're not; they all seem like very nice people and none of them have ever acted in a way that would give me any other impression. But the fact is, they all know each other and I don't know a single one of them, and because the currently existing community is so tightly-knit and so bent on reinforcing the players that are already a part of it, it is very hard to become a part. The result of this is that you get players like myself who practice every day (I'm practicing right now) and put a lot into the game but have absolutely no real matchup experience outside of the rare times that they get to go to Lovegety. Hell, you've played me, I'm online all the damn time, the only reason I have almost 3000 ranked matches played is because I don't have a single friend who plays/wants to play BlazBlue at my level. Outside of training mode, online is all I can do on a regular basis. For the record, over the last five times I've gone to Lovegety I've gone from losing literally every game to taking at least one match on everyone I've played except Pui, and I was doing as well against him as anyone else.

TL;DR If you guys treated the community like there were people worth playing against other than yourselves (even if that's not true at the moment), there would be more people worth playing against.