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Fighting Games Weekly | July 22-28 | Life's A Beech

'Claiming a win based on controller malfunction? Is that what would Ryu do? If his glove fell off and hit Ken bare fist, would Ken say ' Ha, I win'? No, they'd just fight cause they want to prove who the ultimate warrior is. If a fictional character can have these morals, why can't real players do this? '
IRL is a beech, we can't have fairy tales here, a storm is coming.
 
I'm not that far in, but he seems to be mostly complaining about the people he offered to drive down to EVO. Apparently they weren't living up to their end of the bargain and at one point accuse him of stealing $27. Also he just seems to think they treated him very poorly in general.

Edit: Man, I didn't notice this thing was 56 minutes long. Screw that.

He also thinks that the general advice for 'start locals, play games, meet people' was 'invite total strangers at your house specifically and expect no trouble ever'.
 
All smart tv software is atrocious. This is one if the reasons chromecast is appealing. It's why I bought one.

Although I like my Smart tv I bought it cause it had 1080p and 3 hdmi outlets. I went to the Hulu plus app and it was still in the old format as oppose to the new one it changed to.
 
The neat thing is that they don't have to, if the Chrome part works as I hope it will. If you can just send your Chrome tab to your TV, that should do it right there. I am excited to try it, pre-ordered one. Going to try beaming a tab with Jaxel's multistream viewer to my TV.
Well, I was thinking more along the lines of just bringing my phone or tablet along with chromecast to watch a stream at a friend's house. I don't think I can load up streams in either's browser (although I do have chrome on both).

I do most of my stream watching on my phone and tablet now that I think about it.
 
It's too bad TotalBiscuit isn't interested in fighters. Getting him to talk up Yatagarasu would definitely give the IGG a nice bump.
 
You missed Iron Man day in the OT.

Also now we are at Hulk, Wesker, Hawkeye and Arthur
Intentionally staying out of the Marvel patch stuff in the OT. Haven't played the game as much or as long as the regulars, and I really can't keep up with that thread as much as I'd like to. And I am too jaded about the possibility to even participate really, so I'm just trying to scheme OT4 thread titles here instead.

I HAVE FAITH IN MY MINION BRETHREN THOUGH.
 
Philip Banks' EVO trip was his first experience of going to a FG event after reading forums, watching assist me series and reading tweets, and it went bust.
And it could happen to you too.
Also, explains why we cannot be real esports

EDIT: A special quote:
'Claiming a win based on controller malfunction? Is that what would Ryu do? If his glove fell off and hit Ken bare fist, would Ken say ' Ha, I win'? No, they'd just fight cause they want to prove who the ultimate warrior is. If a fictional character can have these morals, why can't real players do this? '

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No cert and patch fees on X1 and self-publishing for indies. Fighting games will now prosper on X1.

@plushapo 1h
Has Microsoft announced a new indie friendly "we won't breach your contract policy"? No. kthxbai

Heh.

Sloth - yeah, I'd love to see it expand to more apps & also to the lower end Chromebooks. I have the cheap Samsung one & that's where I do the majority of my stream watching. Would love a Pixel but $$$$, geez.
 
OT4 thread title is "Nothing stops this patch"
I feel this (and other suggestions in the OT) don't live up to greats like:
9 Years Urley
New Age of Zeroes
To infinites.. and beyond!

thread titles are srs business

The last two also sorta reflected back at the metagame at the time.

Now they just need to do away with that Kinect requirement.
I thought they did? Or was that a rumour? Honestly I haven't followed this shit half as much since gaming turned into a Cerny circlejerk.
 
Every time I see James Chen talk about SFxT on Twitter, I always wonder if he actually knows what he's talking about.
 
Philip Banks' EVO trip was his first experience of going to a FG event after reading forums, watching assist me series and reading tweets, and it went bust.
And it could happen to you too.
Also, explains why we cannot be real esports

EDIT: A special quote:
'Claiming a win based on controller malfunction? Is that what would Ryu do? If his glove fell off and hit Ken bare fist, would Ken say ' Ha, I win'? No, they'd just fight cause they want to prove who the ultimate warrior is. If a fictional character can have these morals, why can't real players do this? '

I'm not that far in, but he seems to be mostly complaining about the people he offered to drive down to EVO. Apparently they weren't living up to their end of the bargain and at one point accuse him of stealing $27. Also he just seems to think they treated him very poorly in general.

Edit: Man, I didn't notice this thing was 56 minutes long. Screw that.

thanks guys
 
Oh u mad GAF turning PS centric?
GAF has always been Sony-centric. I like Cerny too, hell I'd still rather get a PS4 than an X1 any day of the week, but shit has been embarrassing this past few months. Number of GameFAQs-esque threads have skyrocketed. Console Wars in full effect.
 
GAF has always been Sony-centric. I like Cerny too, hell I'd still rather get a PS4 than an X1 any day of the week, but shit has been embarrassing this past few months. Number of GameFAQs-esque threads have skyrocketed. Console Wars in full effect.
Well, that's because for a while it wasn't a war, it was already over.
 
GAF has always been Sony-centric. I like Cerny too, hell I'd still rather get a PS4 than an X1 any day of the week, but shit has been embarrassing this past few months. Number of GameFAQs-esque threads have skyrocketed. Console Wars in full effect.

You weren't here for the last console shift were you? Regardless of which way things swing get ready for at least another year of this, because then everyone will be making the post launch success/failure threads for a while. Similar to what has been happening with Wii U threads for a while, but on a way bigger scale.
 
You weren't here for the last console shift were you? Regardless of which way things swing get ready for at least another year of this, because then everyone will be making the post launch success/failure threads for a while. Similar to what has been happening with Wii U threads for a while, but on a way bigger scale.
Nah, I was at GameSpot at those times (which is GameFAQs).. which is what makes it all reminiscent.

The Wii U analogy is a good one though. I hate the damn thing but can't post in those threads anymore because it's still the same song and dance.
 
Phillip Banks.... perfect. I made it through most of it and well..... sadly this is what happens sometimes when trusting complete strangers.
 
GAF has always been Sony-centric. I like Cerny too, hell I'd still rather get a PS4 than an X1 any day of the week, but shit has been embarrassing this past few months. Number of GameFAQs-esque threads have skyrocketed. Console Wars in full effect.
This implies there's a war to be fought.

In any case, Sony and Nintendo fans make up the majority of GAF and Microsoft comes in at 3rd... that's how it has been for a really long time. I think Sony fans might be more but Nintendo fans can get really rabid and outspoken. Right now Sony is on good shape so the fanboys are thumping their chest while they can.
 
GAF has always been Sony-centric. I like Cerny too, hell I'd still rather get a PS4 than an X1 any day of the week, but shit has been embarrassing this past few months. Number of GameFAQs-esque threads have skyrocketed. Console Wars in full effect.

I remember GAF shitting on Sony pre-PS3 launch, and pretty much all the way up until the Kinect release. Tides slowly shifted towards Sony. Upon the announcement of the PS4, GAF went HAM and 90% converted to the Sony way.

I love console wars because of how embarrassing they are. :(
 
Sony deserved to be shit on for the pre-PS3 era same as Microsoft deserved to be shit on for the pre-Xbox One era. Sometimes it's the long time fans that backlash the hardest.
 
I feel this (and other suggestions in the OT) don't live up to greats like:
9 Years Urley
New Age of Zeroes
To infinites.. and beyond!

thread titles are srs business

The last two also sorta reflected back at the metagame at the time.

Right now the whole scene seems to be-

Theory Fighter Wars over the obscure 'maybe' delivered by guys who just wanted to get out of Comicon Alive, MM or STFU, Nemo getting two A+'s on his homework and exposing who most would say would be the top 2 guys in the US....

To me, the twitter fights over the non-existent patch dynamics is great.

Like the actual playing of the game doesn't get people as competitive and spunky as battling over concepts via twitter



...maybe it's all the new facial hair floating around.
 
The drama over the patch has been quite hilarious although it's hard to see if the patch momentum would last an entire OT.

I think it will.
 
Sony deserved to be shit on for the pre-PS3 era same as Microsoft deserved to be shit on for the pre-Xbox One era. Sometimes it's the long time fans that backlash the hardest.

It's great Microsoft is making a change before the hardware is out. A lot of people still defend The Cell.
 
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