Fighting Games Weekly | July 8-14 | All roads lead here
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Game is awesome.
Lambda Pie
Banned
watching these old EVO fights, i loved how the theme got uptempo when folks where near dead in the older SF games.
slightconfuse
Banned
What happened with dieminon? Jebaily seems salty on twitter
call_kotaku
Member
He refunded the donation money because Triforce got that last minute beech bailout. No happy ending I guess, just a footnote in the saga of EMP "management"
Not only that, Kotaku contacted him about this donation thing (possibly writing a 'positive' article about the FGC for once) but Jebailey was a bit upset that EMP is returning the donation money as he felt his efforts were for nothing. I think he posted a tweet that called out EMP and Triforce went ham because of this.
sixteen-bit
Member
Why is high-res fottage so rare? Are nesica cabs usually incompatible with capture cards? HDCP thing perhaps?
Lost Fragment
Obsessed with 4chan
Yeah I'm having trouble understanding why EMP coming through with the Evo money is a bad thing.
Most people know the game is dumb, it's that we don't care.
That's more of a forgotten/never used thing than a new thing.
Nope, just "because Japan".
They somehow fancy those 360p videos (probably has to do with how they enjoy browsing the web on their mobile phones).
sixteen-bit
Member
Some people think it's scummy relying on fans as a safety net or something
It's scummy because Triforce never would have come through had Dieminion not forced his hand.
That makes the complaints about Morrigan all the more sillier, though.
I don't see nearly as many complaints about the character these days, it's just that when she's winning, she's anti-hype. Plenty of people kill her nowadays, but then Chris makes a comeback with Vergil or Doom.
Anyone calling her broken or cheap or whatever are just not up-to-date or salty.
The fuck? Doom is hype? Is this bizarro world? I'd watch 8 Morrigans in top 8 rather than the 8 Dooms we're going to see.
Lost Fragment
Obsessed with 4chan
Read again.
sixteen-bit
Member
SloaneRisette
Member
He used to be hype back when Marlinpie was busting out new stuff with him on a weekly basis.
Now everyone plays him and there's no new stuff.
MikeBreezy92
Member
I'm like you I don't see what the big deal is.
RayRay's Doom is very unusual, and pretty godlike
Parallax Scroll
Banned
Evo doesn't truly start until someone comes into the thread and complains that Phoenix is broken.
SloaneRisette
Member
If you missed Cosmo's sort of spur of the moment Melee education hour, you can find the archive here and it starts around 2 hours and 15 minutes into the video. He goes over a ton of things, it's like... 3 hours or so of him explaining certain mechanics, the basics, and even the Master Hand glitch.
Definitely recommend even if it doesn't cover everything.
Definitely recommend even if it doesn't cover everything.
It comes off as a last minute opportunity for Triforce to save face. EMP players were panhandling the community for donations, and some were even straight up dismissing the prospect of going to EVO.
It's not surprising why Jebailey is upset. He put a lot of effort to help Dieminion, even when Dieminion was not being forthright about why he needed to ask for assistance.
Same problem as with XBONE- it should not take massive public outcry and external pressure for you to do the right thing. It reflects incredibly poorly on his management.
Lost Fragment
Obsessed with 4chan
I'll try...
I don't get it
Triforce got the money to send his players to Evo and the donations from the Dieminion thing are being refunded.
"Triforce is a PoS! He wasted money that should've been used to send his players to Evo!"
"Triforce got the money to send his players to Evo! He's a PoS!"
Obviously it would've been better if players didn't need to go as far as to do donation drives in the first place, but shit is dumb.
I really hope he wasn't trying to thread that needle.
Biggest thing standing between Daigo and another EVO win seems to be a counterpick to Akuma. I am still wondering if he's keeping the wraps on a counter, but we'll see.
KingItachi
Member
LoL and how do you know this do tell.
Not even sure why James would try to make a statement like that w/o backing it up when there is mounting evidence to the contrary.
BaroqueSampson
Member
EM(a)Pologist
These players were severely close to not attending EVO. I think that Triforce was hamstringing them and had they not put pressure on him by seeking donations, he wouldn't have sent them at all.
Man, it is really weird how people easily forget how bad of a manager Triforce is. It really wasn't long ago when he "suspended" his FG team which led to EMP players to seek new sponsors.
I don't know about Saint Marteen specifically, but each time I fly to Japan I have to provide my passport number to the airplane company.
Tom Cannon seemed pretty clear that EVO could not run Injustice without publisher assistance. Like James, I didn't sense anything nefarious when EVO announced Injustice.
racketpunch
Member
I doubt he has any evidence. Also, he shouldn't be the one giving this type of information out anyway.
Because they had to ask for donations in the first place, which means that the players had zero expectation of Triforce coming through.
At the time, it was just more of a funny "lolmoneyhat" thing- the game clearly deserves to be there. But having the lowest-turnout game get a stream all to itself on day 2? That's ridiculous.
Lost Fragment
Obsessed with 4chan
So I guess he shouldn't have tried to get that money at all so it wouldn't be obvious that he was pressured into doing so? That would've been the right thing to do?
And yeah I guess just because I'm not on board this particular Triforce pile-on it must mean I don't still think Triforce is a shitty manager.
That may be a special case for Japan. I've never had to provide a passport number for any flight to the Caribbean. Maybe St Maarten is different, or maybe they just wanted to check if he had a passport before spending the money on a ticket.
Is NRS even an entity or just a group of employees & assets within a WB division?
KingItachi
Member
I get why being in another hall makes it difficult to put different games on the stream there. It'd be impossible to send players from one hall to the other to play a match on stream. It's hard enough sending matches to stream when it's in the same hall. Switching the stream address doesn't work because each stream is attached to a stage with a projector showing the matches to people in attendance.
That having been said, I don't know why Tekken or Persona couldn't be in the 2nd hall with MK & Injustice, especially since there are only 4 MK pool stations.
It's a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
That having been said, I don't know why Tekken or Persona couldn't be in the 2nd hall with MK & Injustice, especially since there are only 4 MK pool stations.
It's a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
I don't know why you want to defend Triforce, but you don't have to look far to see how good teams, like Brokentier or EG, support their players. When's the last time they needed to set up their own WePay donation pages to go to tournaments?
I'm mostly sure you don't need to provide a passport number to flights to St. Maarten. I can double check, but we've never needed it for people my relatives have booked in their travel agency to anywhere in the Caribbean.
Granted, if he doesn't have a passport more than three weeks prior to the event, he's probably screwed anyways.
I personally don't care, but that's a dumb thing to say. Yes, it's his fault. Buck stops with the boss. Even when it's not really, it is his fault.
Lost Fragment
Obsessed with 4chan
Y'all need to learn how to read. I'm not fucking defending that holy shit.
APZonerunner
Member
This actually still happens in SF4, but only with the stage themes - if you turn on character themes in the options, you lose this.
Nah, you can always get rush service in the three week window, and if you really screw up and live close enough, drive down to the State Department and renew in person.
After 9/11 it was a nightmare trying to renew passports, with applications taking forever, but that's largely a thing of the past.