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Alright, it's time for me to officially go back to playing fighting games. I will definitely be online giving people work with New Face Team.

Alright, it's time for me to officially go back to playing fighting games. I will definitely be online giving people work with New Face Team.

Alright, it's time for me to officially go back to playing fighting games. I will definitely be online giving people work with New Face Team.

Alright, it's time for me to officially go back to playing fighting games. I will definitely be online giving people work with New Face Team.

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.

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.

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.

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.

lmfao im the only person here whos ever seen what an evo contract looks like lmfao. the prices they wanted for vending were outrageous. legally i cant give specifics because i signed a nda.

Fgc definitely was grime city. It’s cleaned up a lot though. But yeah, 2001-2011 probably was super grime. But as more eyes got onto us the more people left and/or stopped posting as much. 
 
the fun flame wars died down, the fun competitions (battle poll!) died down. Things like that. 
 
Evo got more and more commercial too. When I went in 2018 I finally realized how much evo had grown but also no longer represented the fgc as a whole. 
 
walking around evo felt like a convention that happened to have fighting games instead of a gathering of people for fighting game tournaments 

Pre-09 fgc was Def grimy. Srk front page directory was for combo vids and shit talking via. Dudes used to fight alot at tournaments. Dudes tellin you to go kill yourself in the forums was regular. You had to have a tough skin to not take shit personally and try to run the fade on someone. 

This is going to be hard to talk about without using loaded terms, but I'll try.
 
If there's a couple dozen chill dudes and one guy trying to show and/or see dicks, that's all it takes.  Some people will blow it off and try to avoid him, more will figure "FGC really is a bunch of wackjobs" and walk away forever, and if he keeps at it maybe he finds that special, vulnerable someone he can mentally scar for life.
People like to think "we know bad behavior when we see it" and get up in arms about pages of carefully-worded and inflexible rules.  But without structured rules people say "oh, ol' Joey's trying to look at dicks again, that scamp" and don't do anything about it, and people don't want to bring it up because they know nothing will be done about it.
If the whole group gets painted with a broad brush, they may not be guilty, but they might have some soul-searching to do about how it happened.

But what ever shall Evo be without Kineda's wife?

Never forget.
 
 

Depends on the things you've heard/were around for. On both the coasts there were a lot of grimey shit that went on behind the scenes and interpersonally. I'm talking about stuff that wasn't necessarily coming out in twitter threads/reddit/discord etc. The FGC have been transitioning away from that type of culture for a while now and with EVO going corporate this will be the big pivot into competitive gaming as a business for the broader FGC.  Simply put, too much potential money is going to be on the line and the structures will be in place for players to make money off it. Twitch ad revenue/subscribers, youtube ad revenue and sponsorships can help Fighting game players take home 6 figures a year depending on how they preform at big tournies etc. 

Simply put, there is no place for grime when big money is on the line compared to  say 10 years ago.

Depends on the things you've heard/were around for. On both the coasts there were a lot of grimey shit that went on behind the scenes and interpersonally. I'm talking about stuff that wasn't necessarily coming out in twitter threads/reddit/discord etc. The FGC have been transitioning away from that type of culture for a while now and with EVO going corporate this will be the big pivot into competitive gaming as a business for the broader FGC.  Simply put, too much potential money is going to be on the line and the structures will be in place for players to make money off it. Twitch ad revenue/subscribers, youtube ad revenue and sponsorships can help Fighting game players take home 6 figures a year depending on how they preform at big tournies etc. 

Simply put, there is no place for grime when big money is on the line compared to  say 10 years ago.

Depends on the things you've heard/were around for. On both the coasts there were a lot of grimey shit that went on behind the scenes and interpersonally. I'm talking about stuff that wasn't necessarily coming out in twitter threads/reddit/discord etc. The FGC have been transitioning away from that type of culture for a while now and with EVO going corporate this will be the big pivot into competitive gaming as a business for the broader FGC.  Simply put, too much potential money is going to be on the line and the structures will be in place for players to make money off it. Twitch ad revenue/subscribers, youtube ad revenue and sponsorships can help Fighting game players take home 6 figures a year depending on how they preform at big tournies etc. 

Simply put, there is no place for grime when big money is on the line compared to  say 10 years ago.

Depends on the things you've heard/were around for. On both the coasts there were a lot of grimey shit that went on behind the scenes and interpersonally. I'm talking about stuff that wasn't necessarily coming out in twitter threads/reddit/discord etc. The FGC have been transitioning away from that type of culture for a while now and with EVO going corporate this will be the big pivot into competitive gaming as a business for the broader FGC.  Simply put, too much potential money is going to be on the line and the structures will be in place for players to make money off it. Twitch ad revenue/subscribers, youtube ad revenue and sponsorships can help Fighting game players take home 6 figures a year depending on how they preform at big tournies etc. 

Simply put, there is no place for grime when big money is on the line compared to  say 10 years ago.

Lol, a movie about a white guy who has a really stressful day and decided to kill a bunch of people.
 
Pure fiction, of course.

going to be a while before Sony cleans out all the gross McRib stains from all of it. Personally just rebrand the whole thing. Evo was then, make a new name and begin the fresh start there! 

....So what you're saying is SRK is D E A D.  Good on the Canons though for cashing out. They'll probably be consultants or on the Sony Payroll which is pretty cool.

Goodbye grimey FGC.

My lil sister sent a text asking if I'm working. History shows when ppl ask if you're off, it's NOT to invite you for a fun time. They've already planned your day to revolve around doing shit for them instead of you enjoying your off time
 
So in summary: NOT answering that shit and going blissfully about my day 😂

After almost 2 years of searching, I finally managed to get a photo of this license plate.  I feel like Ahab if he had caught Moby Dick.
 
 

I hereby christen thee Quadruple T.

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