Mattatsu

I grinded that new tournaments they added to World Tour Mode. I had forgotten what it was like to have a challenge for my avatar. The blew through the majority of it, but the last  few tournaments were actually challenging. There are 12  total and you get a key (4 bronze, 4 silver, and 4 gold) after completing each the unlocks a room with rewards. A few of the rooms have fake versions of Boxer, Claw, and Sagat in them as optional fights. Buff Alo was the Boxer one IIRC. Claw was named Claudio. Sagat was named Lane Sagat.

A bot would have put a period at the end of the sentence. Unlike people they have some decency.

Finally hit Diamond. Gonna take a break for a few days to properly lab some matchups.

My seething contempt for NRS is unyielding. Tanya looks so fucking jacked in the face and I just know it was because some Californian commie think this is what the blacks look like. Fuck me. 
 
Lily needs buffs and Rashid comes out in a few days Hadokeeeen

Back to (imaginary) Ultimate Grandmaster with Cammy.
 
What a fun grind. 
 
I wanted to at least hit 100k before the inevitable reset, but I see the developers said there won't be one.
 
No complaints from me.
 
 
 
 

Wow, didn't know I shared a birthday with Ryu lol.  

I'll buy a Steam Deck today. Must do that for my birthday. I'm kinda tired of the PC thing with games, with the exception of FightCade. Though, I wish that FightCade could be on there too. LOL.

Lily to be irrelevant in t-minus 6 days
 
 

On one hand, now each and every scrub in the game will be able to always buffer Drive Rush correctly and never drop it. This is bad and not a good thing.
 
On the other hand, now I will always be able to buffer Drive Rush correctly and I will never miss one again. This is a good thing.
 
Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

Just got trashed by Marisa SF6 fucking sucks 

I like how they specifically show h.mixer anti-airing a cross-up while Gief’s Lariat can’t do that lol. Just shameless favoritism 

Bro no fucking way is Rashid this fucking cracked are fucking kidding?!! Lily is in the same game as a dude can that literally create a full screen wall that he can push forward?! Are fucking serious? Bro Lily better get an ultra invul DP a launcher and new combo routes for season 2 because this is fucking oil sheik privilege. Did the Saudis bank roll SF6?!

I'd like to take a moment to express how ecstatic I am about SF6's release. Not that I like the game that much, but now SFV is fucking dead and buried and that brings tears of joy to my eyes.

Dude I’ve lost probably 4 rounds this weekend getting raw SA2 just trying to move back and forth before a slide or overhead. It’s so frustrating losing most of your super meter and eating a full combo punish just because the shortcuts are hyper loose. Stuff like this is the exact reason why I don’t like playing characters with lots of input overlap it’s annoying to deal with when shortcuts are too lenient.
 
Funny enough tho I actually won a round because I got accidental SA2 right as the other guy jumped in on me. He was maybe 10% into his jump and I “reacted” with super art wouldn’t be surprised if bro reported me lol.

There's no reason to one and done in this game with how good the netcode is.  SFV I could understand it, but if you're doing this in SF6 you're just a bitch lol.   

Don’t mind me. Just remembering how honest SF was before 6.
 
 

I made it to losers semis in my pool before being eliminated. Not bad for my first SF6 tournament

Finally playing more SF6 and of course the ONLY person to 1 and done is Wi-Fi Ken lol 
 
Also if you don’t make faces before the match I don’t like you

I'm competing in Defend the North. This is my bracket
 
https://www.start.gg/tournament/defend-the-north-2023-powered-by-msi/event/street-fighter-6-pc-5000-guaranteed-prize-pool/brackets/1312417/2138466

god is real 😲
 
 

I saw our lord and savior @Bigtochiro in Battlehub while I was trying out Dee Jay in ranked. @VoltHe's looking for you fam.

Every time I have those “old game was better” thoughts I boot up that game and like clockwork within 5 minutes I’m reminded why I no longer play that game lol. In SF4 it’s nonsense like DP>FADC Ultra and in SFV it’s fighting any character with an ape tier VT.
 
SF6 has problems for sure but the problems themselves are more subtle and, more importantly, I feel like they can actually be fixed because the game isn’t built on a flawed concept.
 
I hate Drive Rush but 2 month old SF6 is still better than SFV after 7 years of revisions because the foundation is better.

The tides are turning. Soon well go back to the best game in the franchise 🙂