Might as well take a page out of the Get to Know a Negro Better thread from the Northwest section of SRK and introduce myself here
Real names Ian, if you ever go out to Southtown Arcade and see a black dude with a fro and glasses playing Chaos Code or MvC2 that's me. Got my start in the FGC WAAAAAAAYYY back in the day in Seattle with Marvel Super Heroes, VSAV,and KoF 97, my community Center in Raineir Beach had a ton of cabs and people were on those like white on rice. I played alot of SF2: CE on the Genesis with my brother but that was just scrub shit, MSH was when I was really trying to beat people and learn all I could at the young age of 10. Fast forward a few years and I'm grinding ST hard at Wizards *Was a doper place than Gameworks if you ask me* when I leave and head back home before stopping at Southcenter Mall where I see a bunch of niggas huddled around the Marvel 2 and 3S cabs, I always found 3S dope as a kid but never got into it till much later but MvC2 was something I never cared for. Saw it as a really inferior MSH and EXTREMELY 1-Dimensional with no zoning, spacing, or ways to really trap people *Also doesn't help I was salty they based Blackheart off of the shitty MSHvsSF version*, against my judgment at the time I check out whats going on and see a dude playing MSP and the other guy playing BH/Cable/Commando and the sheer amount of space that guy was controlling was insane to me mixing in SJ Demons and calls between Cable and CapCom AAAs and his safe chip setups and just sniping assist with inferno to HoD. I was pretty amazed especially when I saw the BH infinite for the first time but what really got me was seeing him do the infinite, raw tag in Cable and blow the dude away with AHVB, something I had never seen until then.
Needless to say from then I was hooked on MvC2 at the Mall, bugging my parents to give me money so I could go out pretty much just to get blown up. Also really started to get into 3S, CvS2, KoF98, Breakers Revenge, and Alpha 2 and into the FGC. I never became a big name or anything, oinly game I could really run the cabs with was VSAV which as time went on it got harder and harder to find people to play it in Tukwila. And to make things worse I ended up moving to Spanaway where my access to competition dropped to 0. That is until I met a fwew guys who introduced me to GG and I was hooked to it for awhile, though I never got to into it, I knew about SRK and had an account but had no knowledge of Dustloop. Played the game in a mad scrubby way but we had fun and we eventually got into Arcana pretty big till we slowly parted ways. For a fw more years I wasn't really playing FGs with anyone but training room till I finally got on Dustloop and met the Wonderful Seattle scene and got into BB a fair bit. The Seattle Capcom scene was cool but the Anime scene was just much more inviting and chill to hang out with, best moment had to be going out to Mt. Raineir with everyone. Looking forward to meeting as many people here in Nor and SoCal and hopefully being able to call more people friend.
And take their money of course :bad:
If you see a black guy with a fro and glasses at Southtown that's me, don't be afraid to say hi.