Showdown Wrap Up

Spooky/Zar got second, Spooky didn't lose to Mint this time around but Ruu was still too high a cat to jump over.
Incidentally, Ruu/Mint won GGAC, AHF (Arturo/Marn got second), and MBAC.
Too freaking good.

Japanese also took Tekken DR, crazy 17 year old Heihachi user doing EWGF EWGF WTF.
Thing is, USA doesn't allow stage select, Japan does.
So after Bronson killed off the Heihachi genius, Japan counterpicked a stage with no walls.

Tokido OCVed the finals in 3s, except that Japan had actually been put in the losers by the undefeated USA team.
Then they decided to make the finals SINGLE ELIMINATION, so Japan didn't have to win twice to win.
In the words of Mopreme on SRK:

Hi. When are the grand finals for 3rd Strike going to be held?

Thanks.

You can feel the bitterness.

Finally, AHF and MBAC weren't on the large screen, so no FINALS RECORDED FOR THEIR GAY DVDS EVEN IF THEY SAID NOT TO BRING CAMERAS TO THE LAST DAY.
That and the crowd consisted of a thousand otakus in love with Japan.
"Let's hear it for USA!" (clap clap)
"Let's hear it for Japan!" (sound of 1000 otakus screaming)
Arturo: "What fucking country am I in again?"

It seems the general opinion of a lot of people is fuck you Texas.

Further edit:
Seems like the prize money wasn't paid to ONLY USA PEOPLE at the event.

what happened to this? Everything was cool until I couldn't get my money, but I see how it works.

Maybe next time I'll enter the tourney and tell them I'll mail them my entry fee later or maybe I'll tell Time Warner I don't have thier money but I'll send it to them when I feel like it. The way I see it, if I gave you my money on the spot why couldn't get my prizes on the spot like you guys said.

Product Zero strikes again!

HYPE

Spooky and Zar are in the grand finals against Ruu/Mint.
They took down Bas/Tokido and will play Ruu/Mint on Sunday.
Lol just for the record, BAS does not play Melty Blood, he didn't even have the bnb dow.
Tokido however, seems to play a beastly Warc, although Spooky said he doesn't know how to deal with VSion's summon shenanigan gimmicks and was getting destroyed in casuals when Spooky used them.
Fubarduck lost to Tokido.

Mint actually peaced Spooky out to the first time in the tournament with a 5C to the face after activate.
Saiyid then picked up the slack but lost in last round to Ruu, sending them to the losers.
But hell I knew they weren't going to get randomed out.
HYPEEEEEEEEEE

Texas Showdown

LIVE UPDATES LOL:
Arturo missed his initial flight.
Missed CvS2, Arcana, Tekken 5 DR, everything he was signed for.
I feel really bad for him, especially on Arcana, because he was singlehandedly trying to build a scene and he really was the best guy we had statewise in that game.
Whoever goes to Japan won't stand a ghost of a chance.

In the Melty Blood: Act Cadenza department:
Mint uses Warc, he got destroyed in casuals.
Ruu, as expected, is fucking godly.
Spooky got like one round and that was it.
He was counting Aoko's jumps and doing 236a ex ice trap after Saiyid ran out of them.
Tournament has yet to start, there's about 10? teams.
Saiyid better think up some anticat strats quick.
Thing is Ruu/Mint is Japanese so they can't qualify for SBO in Japan at an American tournament.
And it's double elim.
Spooky/Zar should easily steamroll the rest of the players, they are our nation's best in MBAC after all.
GET HYPE!

Footnotes:
LOL DPC IS BANNED FROM ALL EVO TOURNAMENTS AHAHAHAHA.
Wait Pyrolee is banned too?
And Arly made the decision?
STUPID FIGHTING GAME DRAMA.
GET HYPE!

Apartment Troubles #1

Someone stole my pot.
Not drugs, but my cooking pot.
You can use it if you want but WHY WOULD YOU TAKE IT OUT OF THE KITCHEN.
Same with my chopsticks, and my RAZOR (from the bathroom.)
And you know what?
I bet it was the Chinese guy who came back from two weeks wherever.
It sounds mean but shit was NOT disappearing until he came back.
And WHO THE FUCK ELSE USES CHOPSTICKS!
DAMN CHINESE, ALWAYS TRYING TO STEAL FROM TAIWAN! (I kid I kid.)

I've requested a custom stick off of SRK, xarcades are shit and HRAPs die in a year (according to spooky.)
I guess I want to get serious about MBAC at least, I waited till after I actually foudn a job and moved because there's no way my parents would tolerate competitive gaming in their house.
They think I waste enough of my life on it already, if I randomly disappeared at moments to go across the country they'd be very hard to deal with.

Today the full weight of "wow you haven't talked to people in real life in forever outside of family after graduation" hit, it was sort of sad.
Went to a random EB to pick up lots of used games for ps2, basically what I did at the end of the ps1 lifecycle (Har har Suikoden 1 and 2 still in original case for 9 dollars. I should ebay that shit.)
Girl there happens to be Taiwanese. :V
Says the sims were too girly for her (Anna you and your damn sims!) :V
Says she doesn't buy new games because she is too cheap for them and her JAPANESE IS BETTER THAN HER NONEXISTENT TAIWANESE. :V
That and she's like the first person to ever get my idiotic screenname pronounciation right on the first try. :V
It was a nice feeling.

Armored Core Team battle

Just wow.
I like his color scheme lol.
Once he drops his missile launchers he gets crazy fast.

Resume padding

MIT dean resigns over misrepresented credentials.
Irony-tastic here.
Telling parents not to pressure kids into getting the best colleges because...she herself lied about her degrees on her resume.
For some reason I feel this sort of deep anger that someone like that managed to work at MIT for 29 freaking years.
Maybe it's because that even with a degree I had such a hard time finding a job.
The world doesn't care about your personality when they read your resume, it only really matters after you land the position.

MBAC ver. B CE

Well, they fixed Sion's 2C, and looks like...they made some other changes.



Fear the Neco Arc COWS.
White Len is looking pretty nonshitty as of now actually.

I LIVE!

I now have internets at my place.
Yay.
To celebrate, I will teach you a secret recipe:

FUCKING LEGENDARY!

Haha a word on internet celebrity.
I occasionally get recognized online now by strangers because of my youtube videos.
It's a small thing, and rather niche-oriented, but when random joe is like, "OMG YOU," it's a nice feeling.

Anyway, I hang out in #MBAC a lot now, where there is someone named Sabin, aka Arturo Sanchez, and someone named HNana, aka XCTU.

Arturo's a real legend in the fighting game community, guy has tournament wins up the wazoo and is a proven EC player.
The fact he showed up at Sp00ky's house during my stay there sort of impressed me; the fact he's going out in the community to promote freaking ARCANA HEARTS impresses me also (Though the final version removed Lilica loop. WTF. GG Lilica T_T)
XCTU was one of the best Soul Calibur II players (Talim user) in existence.
In fact he's sort of one of the reasons I picked up Talim, the other was Kayane, random 12 year old French girl (at the time.)
Thing is I didn't know HNana was XCTU, I knew he was in Japan and was a dork like the rest of us, but it surprised me when I found out.

Anyway he's learning IaMP :V :V :V
Let's hear it for more competitive players joining the fold.

TYPEMANIA

Be sure to have sound, you'll recognize a lot of the songs.
Someone already AA'ed the 13 step one.
HAXOR!

Blitzkrieged

I start new job tomorrow.
Have to move in very fast short time.
Not much time for belongings or say a tower with a non slim ps2 with recording equipment :V
I'm debating what to bring, I could attempt to be crazy and do the computer in suitcase trick I pulled repeatedly in college.
But more like I'll just bring a laptop.

Ar Tonelico 2

via zepy
Two singers at once!? (WOW SO NEW...:V)
Then again she has a sword (the one dressed in smoking white.)

Code Geass 1-23

I marathoned it.
It hasn't ended, episode 24-25 are due to air in the summer.
Anyway, my god.
My god my god my god.
Too twisted, the worst/best possible option.
I'm really speechless how it turned out.

Anyway, LL x K is completely out.
However heartbreaking and accidental, he sealed his last way out.
"Unfortunately I've contracted with the devil."

Orochi Musou

Got it, played it to near death.
Still missing everyone's personal items, which honestly don't seem to do that much.
Zuo Ci is stupidly stupid stupid.
No wonder 2chan ranks him with Orochi.

Anyway two small vids up on youtube for it, but I've already gone back to DSS (probably because I won't be able to play anything for a while soon.)

Sue everyone!

Those of you who pay attention will know I have a youtube account, and it's where I waste a lot of my time (encoding and uploading game videos.)
Any way, I try to respond to intelligent comments, and I respond to almost all private messages, no matter how unintelligable.

Some of the comments though, are silly to the point that I feel they require correction.
For instance, on the Megamari video, I see comments like "Capcom should sue their asses."

I felt it necessary to respond with this article, which really presents a good point of view on why Capcom would not sue their asses, nor is it good for other companies to sue people's asses when it comes to game design.

Lucky ☆ Star

Lucky Star is out!!!
I didn't think they'd animate this, glad they did.
Kyoani is doing it.
Slightly pervier slice of life (it was a 4koma like Azumanga Daioh) type show (because the main character is a lazy underage high school girl who plays eroge)
Of course the entire budget went into the opening XD
SERA FUKU!

Fucking Gamefaqs.

I know it's Gamefaqs, but when someone so utterly devoid of intelligence feels compelled to spray their particular brand of idiocy at people new to the game I get angry.

First of all, you are confined to play this game on a keyboard. I don't know about you, but fighting games are not meant for keyboards. At all. What made TF decide upon this is beyond me, and no matter what you do you can't configure the game to use a gamepad instead, which, in the end, hurts IaMP's fun level. Being forced to use your keyboard in the very heat of the battle is a very annoying and bothersome task that only makes things more complicated than simple, especially when pulling off super attacks, producing difficulties up the wazoo. Funny that, I was told it would automatically configure itself to a gamepad... well, this game pretty much proved that wrong and makes playing it uncomfortable, difficult, and awkward. Never try playing this game on its hardest difficulty setting with this in mind: it becomes extremely aggravating, almost impossible even. If you love punishing mistakes, and you're a sadist, then by all means, go right on ahead.

Translations: First of all, I will tell a blatant lie. I in fact do not own this game, as I would have seen a GIGANTIC CONFIG.EXE IN THE SAME FUCKING FOLDER. OR MAYBE I AM LEGALLY BLIND. MAYBE I HONESTLY BELIEVE IN MAGICAL PAD CONFIGURATION FAIRIES, AND I WILL NEVER HAVE TO HIT CONFIG.EXE TO CONFIGURE MY PAD.

Second, a lot of attacks and moves are barely comboable, and considering that it's part of what you must rely on in this game, it just won't do, leaving the game engine rather inflexible and stiff rather than varied and deep. There is barely even anything to work for other than unlocking four hidden characters by beating them in the Story Mode, and considering the game's playability and all, this is actually pretty much a good thing, as forcing yourself to play the game in any other means would probably result in a lot of broken fingers and broken dreams.

Translation: WHERE IS MY 2ABC SPECIAL COMBOS FROM EFZ? WHERE? I'M SORRY YOU SAY THE COMBOS ARE DIFFERENT AND FOLLOW A MORE KOF STYLE OF NORMAL TO COMMAND MOVE TO PROJECTILE TO SPECIAL? I'M SORRY I'M SO HARDCORE I DON'T UNDERSTAND.

Another flaw in the game is that later on in fights after you've worn your opponent down a good amount, they will start to rely on doing nothing but shooting projectiles all around you in a sort of pattern, which is reminiscent of other entries in the Touhou series, though this isn't always a good thing. To note, this may not seem bad at first, especially when you can use the V key to dash around and “graze” along the projectiles, which is actually a very good saving throw. But later on it starts to become boring, predictable, confusing and annoying after a while or after the next several times. It also tends to get in the way of the actual fighting, making it very difficult later on to progress the fight when you are forced more to dodge your opponent's shots. It hampers the overall flow of the experience and drags the fight on for an even longer time, making the fights more of a chore than actually being fun, and kicking the very novelty out the door. Really, the most fun you can get out of this game is by playing it with a friend (if you want to share the same annoying keyboarding experience with).

Translation: SINGLE PLAYER IS TOO HARD, MAN THE ONLY WAY I CAN ENJOY THIS GAME IS WITH ANOTHER PERSON! IMAGINE A FIGHTER REQUIRING ANOTHER PERSON! AND HE HAS TO BE ON THE KEYBOARD TOO BECAUSE I CAN'T SEE CONFIG.EXE

There's more but I'm not going to spoil the entire gem; read it and gouge your eyes out for yourself.
Fucking idiot.

Pyromaniacs plus KoF plus Cosplay equals ???