BornWinner

With the Father’s Day post the Street Fighter Twitter made, I am once again reminded that we are a minority. A lot of the comments and quote retweets to it are surprised to learn that both Guile and Dhalsim are fathers with grown ass kids. I’m surprised because this doesn’t feel like obscure knowledge.

Slightly related, I always found the presentation in Second Impact (& New Generation) to be better than Third Strike. The stages were more unique with some having transitions. I found the music to be better in most cases. And the win/loss portraits were amazing. I’d say the one thing I prefer in 3rd Strike over Second Impact are the voice performances. If the game didn’t introduce Makoto and Q, I’m pretty sure I would prefer Second Impact over it wholesale.

Holy shit

RASHIDO’s birthday ”Hm, all I’ve been doing is fighting, capturing footage and folding with new doohickies. I guess now that I think about it, I haven’t done a whole lot this year! But hey, taking it easy and enjoying life is totally fine if you ask me!”

You know when I saw Kenny was turning into SF characters, I thought one of them would be Cody because he also did the trailer for him back in SF5. Silly me expecting a popular SF character from Metro City to be in a game it majorly takes place. Saltiness aside, I do think this lineup is interesting. I don’t particularly care for any of them, but I know a lot of people wanted Sagat. C.Viper is nice to have since we haven’t had any other SF4 newcomers return except for Juri plus the story potential. Alex is nice as well. Should’ve been in the base roster, but whatever. Ingrid is weird, but I’ll withhold judgement until we see her. This is a chance to seriously reinvent the character.

Honestly surprised that the large leak ArcSys had didn’t reveal any of this. This easily stole the show for me. Hoping for Adam Warlock to make it in.

Don’t let the upcoming Elena and costume update make you forget we have a birthday to celebrate! This time it’s Lily’s. ”I started this year by going on a journey. But this isn’t a journey that has a real destination. It’s just like life, you’re always traveling from somewhere to someplace else.”

Zangief’s birthday message, the first of three this month. ”Hah! I spent this year the same I spend any other year! And that’s training my muscle to become even stronger than before! If you want to be the best of the best, you cannot take even a millisecond off to rest! You know what they say, you can rest when you die!”

6 characters had a run while 8 characters had a dash in the original game.

I’m surprised to see that birthday messages don’t repeat according to what I saw in the fanwiki. Kimberly got a new one this year. ”I lost my uncle to a terrible accident… This year was the year I decided to take matters into my own hands and search the truth by myself. All this training to become a Bushinryu ninja was all leading up to this!” The 17th is Bison’s birthday so I’ll be paying attention to that unless Daemos wants to post it instead.

Like Ronaldo, this DJ dude is signed with a label owned by the Saudi Investment Fund which is owned by the Prince. It’s advertising plain and simple but even more egregious since people actually know Ronaldo. This dude even has a concert in Saudi Arabia planned the same day Fatal Fury gets released.

For April Fools, Marvel Rivals will be giving you Venom Twerking. You have to claim all the rewards in a side mode and you’ll be given this for free.

Ronaldo plays for the Al-Nassr team which is owned by the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia. Both that and SNK are owned by the ruler of Saudi Arabia. It’s possible his inclusion is mostly due to the prince wanting him in the game than anything else. Even so, Ronaldo was one of the most followed men at one point and is looked as an icon for the world’s most popular sport. He is likely to bring in more people than any of those you mentioned in theory. I can see that even if I don’t personally like his addition for several reasons. Nah, it was a good call. They probably realized early on that Ronaldo couldn’t voice act and went with a professional. As pointed by Darc, having someone with no experience usually ends terribly. No need to get a Dimitri Vegas, Ronda Rousey, or Megan Fox when we can actually get someone good.

Til we're 90

@DoctaMarioYeah, tonight’s not gonna happen for me. My brother’s on my PS5 squadding up for CoD. Maybe next week.