misterBee

Did MK get crossplay yet? My PS4 has been loaned to a friend. I can only play on PC.

On PC digital games ARE cheaper. There is no store that is going to be selling stuff for the prices you see during Steam sales. It's only CONSOLE digital storefronts that suck...

No, he might die. Best let him sleep. Poor guy will have an aneurysm.

It's time to start playing again.

You should play it! 🙂

I've been looking to turn my Linux rig into a media server and ditch all the external HDDs I've been using as backup. Found this site -- they've got good prices on enterprise-grade HDD/SDDs, both new and recertified: https://serverpartdeals.com/ Just snagged a 16TB Seagate Exos for about 200 bucks, and they have free 2-day shipping. If it works out I'll definitely be buying more from here.

Fuck Dhalsim. Where is Necro!?

Sha continues his tradition of playing degenerate characters.

Games exist as long as people want to play it. Be like me and play/buy everything. 🙂 As a fellow former Grappler main I feel your pain. Unless you're talking about Launcher...just become a Ranger player instead. You can join me in not having a single overhead attack. Poor guy's JUMPING MOVES can be blocked low.

That's unfortunate. I find it to be one of the more exciting fighting games in years, due to how busted the characters are. Dealing with some of the bullshit is frustrating though. 🙃

None of my sticks have the R3 button either. You can map that button to whatever you want. In the controls section just remap whatever function is tied to the R3 button. You will be able to move through the tutorials using the new button you've chosen. I navigate through the tutorials using L1. I hope you didn't refund just because of that. 😭

I saw some people saying they didn't mind the stuff he posted. 🤷‍♂️ Take it up with them?

People slowing down with old age. 🧓

I try to keep this place chill. That's why I don't mod so aggressively. The price you pay for that is being able to police yourselves/get along with each other on your own. @zatalcon3, if ppl don't appreciate the shit you say, just don't say it anymore. Whether you mean well or are just trolling, just quit it. Some people appreciate it, but it seems like most people don't. Just...get along with people and tone that shit down, especially if they're repeatedly asking you to stop. The first time you say something is whatever, but there's no excuse to keep saying the same shit people don't like. Not everybody wants your life advice or whatever it is you're giving.

Well you guys don't always tell me. 🙂 More snitching required.

@zatalcon3 Your obsession with other peoples' girlfriends has got to stop. This is the second time I've seen you bring it up. Next offense I'm IP banning you.

Actually you know what, the crazy right-wing stuff can stay. Some of that shit is too fucked up. These people are crazy. I'm ok with calling these people out.

I looked away for ONE day. ONE DAY! This is your monthly(?) reminder to keep politics and religion away from here because I don't have time to police this thread full time. Abortion, despite its importance and whatever your thoughts on it are, is a combination of BOTH. Please. Please also steer clear from quotes/tweets from crazy right-wing politicians. I really don't need the bickering that inevitably ensues when it's discovered somebody here agrees with them. If you think something is really important or if you're not sure what's ok to post just ask me or something.

People who get upset about vortex vastly outnumber the amount of people who actually do it. SF4 has some dumb shit and characters but the vast majority of that game is hardly as bad as people like to claim it is.

Not working on my phone atm. I am not home. I'll check later.

You can whiff punish in SF4. I was doing it just yesterday. 😎

The south is one big blob to me.

Your love for Dictator is...really something. I say this as a Dictator main in multiple games. And yes, whatever beefs happened in the past are ancient history now. No more fighting please. If there are future fights/personal insults/attacks, they should be reported just like everything else. No. Add them to more games.

👍 No, not yet. I was waiting to get a PS5 and play it then, but at this rate it's been so long I might as well just wait for the inevitable PC port. 😎

@YagamiFireYou raise some good points so I will try to explain this as best as I can. From the beginning this has been about how I, as an Asian person, felt about the Asian stuff in Spider-man. 1) I thought it felt fake 2) It bothered me how they mention concrete realistic things and then portray them in a way that really ruins immersion/comes off as clueless 3) It seemed TO ME to be geared heavily toward beating you over the head with stuff that is supposed to make you think OH IT'S SO ASIAN Am I an expert in Asian studies? Of course not. But firstly, this is about how I feel, and secondly, actually being from that culture DOES inform my opinion in a way that someone who ISN'T just might not get. I'm not saying I'm the authority or I'm right. I'm saying I feel a certain way about it because I have a certain background. It's clear you were A-OK with how that shit was portrayed. Good for you. I never said you shouldn't, or couldn't, or that the devs were out to get Chinese people. It just SEEMED TO ME, that the way they portrayed Chinese shit wasn't good, and came off as lazy. Neither you nor I will know EXACTLY what research they did or didn't do, or what constraints they had, or what their intentions were. Playing the game, it felt like they were trying to impress non-Asian people with shit that felt fake and silly. So far this is all my OPINION, ok? How the game felt TO ME. What gets to me is suddenly you're like "You don't get it. CLEARLY this is fine because of this, or the masks are TOTALLY GOOD because of this." Look, I'm saying it feels really inauthentic, and you're jumping in telling me how authentic you think it is. Which is a fine opinion to have, but one I OBVIOUSLY do not agree with. I never said the people who worked on the game weren't Asian. Neither of us have any way of knowing what staff members had what input and what their intentions were. I just said the final result felt fake, which is a totally valid criticism to have. I'm sure the people working on the game meant all the best but that's how it came across to me. As a Chinese person. I'm not out here saying they're out there purposely trying to misrepresent things. But from my point of view the Chinese stuff came across poorly. I am an artist too. I also have been paid for art. How people perceive your art is just as important as your intentions when making it. That goes for writing, games, movies, books, drawings, whatever. Someone may look at something I make and feel really offended. You know what? That's their right. I may not agree with it, it might not have been my intention, but I will try to understand why that is the case. What I'm NOT going to expect them to do is be 'objective' about my work. What does that even mean anyway? All art is SUPER subjective, and interpreted by people differently. You played Spider-man and thought "wow this is great." I played Spider-man and thought "wow this is great, except that whole Mr. Negative arc which was cringey and lame" My opinion is not more important than yours, and vice versa. But when I tried to explain MY view of the game, MY issues with it, you're on me trying to explain why how I feel is wrong, is incorrect, etc. Listen bro, my background is different from yours. I see things differently. The game comes off as tone-deaf and super white-washed in terms of the Asian stuff to me. I'm not out here saying the devs are racist or something. I'm here saying that the execution, TO ME, to some of the stuff in the game was quite bad. It GIVES THE IMPRESSION that the game was written by clueless white people. Were they really clueless? Maybe not. Were they white? Maybe not. That was THE IMPRESSION that I got. I respect you for trying to defend the artists involved, but my intention isn't to say they're bad people or anything. I'm just saying the work they made, in the end, came off looking a certain way, and I feel that's a legit criticism. An example of this is Uncle Tom's Cabin. That work was a viral ANTISLAVERY book, but some black people hate it because of the stereotypes it reinforced about them. Harriet Beacher Stowe clearly meant well, and maybe she was a great person. But it's perfectly understandable why people might want to trash her work, even if they are the same people she was trying to help. Intention isn't everything. Just having a certain background does not make you an authority. It is true. But it will make you feel and see things differently than someone who DOES NOT share that background. People with different backgrounds will experience things differently. That's obvious, isn't it? So if a woman says "this women's issue bothers me", what right do I have to go "nah I'm gonna ignore what you say -- I don't agree with you and being a woman doesn't make you an expert." Does it mean she is definitely right? No, of course not. But it is undeniable her opinion is built on things that I myself have not experienced. I'm just saying you gotta show some empathy. Being Chinese does not make me an authority on Chinese things. I don't magically have the ability to tell what is authentic without doing research. I DO, however, have the ability to determine what FEELS AUTHENTIC TO ME. And what feels authentic to me isn't going to be just explained away or nullified because some person on the internet is telling me I shouldn't feel that way. I'm not saying you gotta listen to people just because of their race. I'm saying you gotta be less dismissive, because they have a perspective that you may fail to grasp, or cannot ever truly understand. The points you make to counter me might seem super important to you, but they might mean nothing to me. This is ultimately what baffles me more than anything. What does being 'right' about the art even mean in this case? All I'm saying is certain things feel super fake, and bad to me. Some parts of it felt lazy. Some parts of it felt weird. I think I've been eager to criticize the game, and that's perfectly an acceptable thing to do. I'm NOT trying to personally insult the people who made it. Anyways I've tried to make this as clear as possible. Long story short, I'm not calling the devs personally ignorant. I'm saying their work certainly comes across that way, and that opinion is most certainly subjective.