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Unfortunately I'm a working man now so I can't stay up later than I already am. Especially playing. :P But maybe this weekend!

lol, that should have been "threw" me for a loop. :P Well, my Haku isn't that good either so... :P We can have a RACE TO THE BOTTOM. Alright, hopefully we'll both be on sometime soon. I've been busy with work lately and learning stick on top of that but I can use my pad when I want to take the training weights off. Or maybe I should just use the stick to keep learning, but then I would guarantee my loss. >_O Do you use a stick?

Yeah, I have to remind myself to reset the stick each time so I don't accidentally do something. :0 I have to remind myself to push forward in time too, like if I want to 6B, since I'm normally used to just pushing forward the whole time on the pad. I'm surprised about that 623 buffer... the directional inputs in the game just show it as diagonal down, not forward and down at the same time. I definitely felt it before though.

You still play CT? For some reason I have an urge to see how your Arakune's grown since we last played. :P

Hey Garret, you ever play XBL often? I remember we played a few games a while back, didn't we? Your Tager style is way different than everyone else's and it totally through me for a loop. But I think it's something I should be able to fight against it. You up for some games sometime? :0 Assuming this is Unholy Garrett and not someone completely different. :3

Ah, I see. Well, keep in mind that they're much less tolerant of drama here than on GameFAQs. They pretty much say if you want to talk about anything that is not related to the game itself (combos, etc.) to take it to GameFAQs. :P Even though they don't stick to it that much lately. :P There's a lot of great info here and good people that know what they're doing, plenty of people to play with. Don't worry about that thread, it's just online. :P The best thing to do is just focus on getting better and everything else will follow from that.

Yeah, I never see anyone on ranked when I dip in randomly to see what's going on. I've mainly just been working, but when I do play I go in training mode and practice using my stick. Why not do player matches?

Haha, Tager's j.2C. Tell me about it. Gets me every time! Ah, that buffering thing... that would explain why sometimes I'd try to 2A then hop forward and 6A and it would turn into his dash. I thought my controller was just going down the tubes... I'd rather just do 623 though. It's weird, I didn't have my timing down for a lot of stuff (as you have known) but after using the stick, when I went back to pad a few times it made it so I played better. I will master it. >:o Everyone says it took them 6 months to a year to get the hang of it but my brother said he did it in two weeks, he hasn't even had a stick for 4 months. This made me rage. So I will just have to use my stick until I get good at it. :P Haku's j.2C... I always forget about that as an air-to-air. I used to use it a lot when I was just learning Haku and didn't really know any combos, but then I just stopped. Hmmm...

Hi Masane. :0 We played on ranked before a few times. We should play more, I like your Nu. You're very tricky. >_O I always laugh when you grab me right before I'm about to die, I barrier burst expecting a finisher combo but instead you just sit there watching me burst and then kill me. :P

What's up Arcade? Been playing any good matches lately?

We will play soon. :0 I was just practicing my stick the other day. I can't really airdash around or anything yet but I'm starting to be able to do my moves.

Hmmm, on what you said about using counters less... I tend to use them a lot because even though I know I might guess wrong half the time, I feel like the risk / reward is heavily in my favor. Take Ragna for example. If I get a counter on him, I get to take like 50% of his HP off. But if I whiff the counter, he'll probably only take 20-30% of mine. It seems like a good trade. The only problem is when I whiff like 10 in a row, but that usually means the other player has adapted to the way I'm trying to counter, so I just need to change when I counter. Plus there are certain blockstrings or situations where a counter is the ONLY way out. However, I was thinking maybe IB > punish could work just as well... do you know any moves Hakumen has that could be fast enough to punish after an IB? The thing is IBing is just as risky as countering since I'm likely to mess it up and eat the combo anyway. :P At least until I get used to it.

You found me out :3 I'm getting better at using the stick! I still can't airdash that much but I'm able to do combos and stuff and get the hang of doing moves. I still mess up Inferno Divider or other split second moves but it's OK. Since I can't move around that much I just stand there and let them come to me, then punish when they mess up. :P Wow, 40 matches with kilabeep. He had a pretty good Bang as I recall. How did you do with that? It seems like you're getting a lot of experience with Hakumen now.

Hey Pisces!

Are you better now on stick than you were on pad?

It was just taking too long and I got bored. Then I went to go eat :P

Me neither. ._. I've been so busy with work these last two weeks. Still trying to learn stick here and there. I played with DeathDealer a bit a few days ago, though I'm still not really back to where I was before my SUDDEN DISASTER struck. Probably never will be. :P We had some close matches. What about you?

I laughed.

Cinder was awesome. I don't remember... KI1 was good and so was KI Gold. The arcade versions looked way better too. Also, my stick... I can't do anything on it! *rages* I want to learn, but I can't find a grip I like either. I've ALWAYS been bad with arcade sticks, going back to when I'd try to play Mortal Kombat on the arcade machines when I'd be like 8. Everyone says it's faster, but for me it feels like moving the stick allllll the way to the left or right is way slower than just pushing down on the dpad twice real fast... I need some way to move faster...

Glacius was awesome, but I liked Sabrewulf best.

Gotta break through the D-D-D-Defense!

It's the nature of the beast, son. That and I wanted to win some rounds. :P