Lord Vega

Apparently Samuel L Jackson was radical as hell in college. 
 
 

Arcades vs tournaments are two different beasts. Unfortunately back then arcades you may get the occasional stabbin or beat down for winning. But luckily those were pretty far in between. I got punched for constantly winning with jin in tekken 4.
 
But tournaments fights broke out alot at tournaments. Especially on the east coast where Philly and NY had a huge rivalry going. 
 
Dudes were making diss tracks, I wish I could find the video that someone made that was outside of an arcade. It used to be download able on srk for years in the early days when they had a downloadable directory. 
 
You know racial slurs were flying left n right. Lmfao 
 
That whole pop off era is pretty much an 09 and after. Or at least it blew the fuck up during that time. I don't remember much in terms of pop offs and in people's faces pre-09 because alot of these skinny dudes who do it woulda gotten their asses beat in the back. 
 
Then srk itself was a bit of a hell hole. Dudes would tell you to go kill yourself daily. Dudes would just shit on you. Look at Seth's fighting game articles he wrote and read the tone and you can kinda see the mentality was a bit different...he could never write those articles in that way now. So many people would be crying. 

It is.. But it's not hard to get entry into imo. 

Perhaps we can add each other, on PS5 at the very least, when I buy one down the line. I'm indiscriminate of skill/experience level. You sound like someone that I could enjoy the company with in fighting games and that's all that matters.

Valle is fine, I'm sure. 
 
The dude is about to get that Sony money when they pay him play all of his EVO matches while wearing a VR headset. 

Good.
 
We will someday. I want to make an effort to get involved with this community again.
 
I wonder how Emerald Lord, Tongari Dan, and Nerd Josh is doing, after all these years after having good memories of them versus me in SF4? I should build more memories like that. I haven't played Calipower since Street Fighter 3 and Capcom vs Snk 2, so I wonder how he's doing as well? Very competitive and versatile person he was. 

Great, I'm terrible, we should play. 
 

I was just thinking that there are probably a ton of great and informational threads from srk that will now probably be lost in the ether with the Sony takeover. 

Wow. Impressive. I can only play two characters and I don't think I am that good with them. When I play ranked match I am often matched against C to A+ and I tend to beat them. I have to no idea how ranking works. I don't really know what the points mean.  I remember there was this Grand Master who used Ken who was from South Korea that kept on challenging me. I'm not sure if we were the same level or not, but he kept on beating me. I challenged anybody and anybody challenged me. 
 
 

I think people were boosting me to much at the time, where it become overwhelming for me. A little modesty can go a long way, because being self-absorbed can make you lose sight of what's important. 
 
Fei Long was my main character at one point, but I've gotten around having my feel with all of the characters. So, I've dropped Fei Long at the time and used random select.
 
Not that it matters, but my win ratio was around 92 percent in Vanilla and 95 percent in Super. You can imagine how bored I was at first from winning, but that's the point. You should always find people who are better than you.

Super Street Fighter 4 was great.
 
It marked the return of T. Hawk, who turned out to be the least SF4-ish SF4 character by a country mile.
 
I dropped Cammy, pocketed a Guile, and went ahead and mained yolo mind game reads for days.

There could be a chance in rank or I've had you on my friends list at one point. I've had roughly around 50 players on my list at the time from this game. I do thank them for their time. 
 
I remember in Super Street Fighter 4, some of them eventually caught up with me during it's release. I was proud of them. I've never liked winning too much, because that neglects the progress in my opinion.

Hm. I remember during the original Street Fighter 4 era, people were concluding that Fei Long was low tier on Capcom Unity and SRK, something to the extent. It's ironic when I have used him and grew in the process, I've gained a following back then on Capcom Unity. Lux on SRK, was referencing new people to me in order to learn the character and various characters that I've learned. Lux was an exceptional player to my recollection, as we grown accustomed to the engine where we comfortable enough to use random select through the session, which the session outcome was almost equal. Though, reflecting on my time with him, I've felt he was a little bit better than me. There is only one person here I potentially remember on Capcom Unity. 
 
Anyway, on tiers. While I believe there will always be more reliable characters than others, I believe that people are too fixated on winning rather than having fun. In a competitive setting, I believe no one ever had the answer. 

🤔
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_(performer)
 
I think he's on to something here 

Good one. I wish that Cell would be resurrected in some way, but there is Dragon Ball Heroes anime for that. They tend to show episodes every month. Cell was definitely my favorite villain.

DangerousJ tries too hard to be cool just to be accepted as cool. 

You want to destroy what you are attracted to because you hate how they make you feel and you hate being gay. 

On the first part about opportunists, fighting games are really inaccessible compared to other competitive video games. Even someone like Max who has over 1 million subs has been part of the scene for over a decade. I liken it to the music scene in that it takes years to be an overnight success.

As for grimy/not know things about the scene it'd take some time for me to unpack it, but I could tell some people forgot or don't know about shit that used to happen. @JHDKcomment about Kineda's wife and the lack of reactions/quotes is revealing to me. There was an old idiom about "Don't bring your girl to tournaments" because of grimy shit that happened in the scene in different geographical locations. There was also other grimy tournament situations where there was bracket fixing, people who should have gotten DQ'd not getting dq'd, pot splitting and other shit that would happen.  If you didn't live in Norcal, Socal, New York, Florida or Texas you could still find out/hear about shit on old efnet and mIRC since a lot of players would use it to talk about all sorts of shit happening in the scene.

With the reconnection of my father and sessions of my therapist, you can thank them for that. I wasn't very analytical in their absence, but it's needed to resolve underlining issues that I have and be open to the possibility of being incorrect on various subjects. And yes, I'm very intuitive, but it doesn't mean I'm not open to hear people out and see where the chips fall. 

Some people will just never like you, man. That's just how it is when you are being authentic. People who want to be liked just want to conform to be considered cool. 

if that's the case, then have a turbo boost for the mind on me.
 
 
Use as necessary.
 

The music you listen to will raise or lower your Consciousness and Power. 

Yall some NERDS 🗣️

Some people will just never like you, man. That's just how it is when you are being authentic. People who want to be liked just want to conform to be considered cool.