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If they have any brains they'll wipe everything, have "community managers" as mods, and start over, with new registration and everything. Nothing was going to fix SRK, especially GD, and make it corporately presentable. Most of us OGs would be toast if we got super famous and someone dug up and threw our old posts out publicly, especially out of context. I actually don't even think Seth's "Domination 101" articles would fly in today's world and he's probably lucky people don't care enough to cite the things today.

I used to do that way back, it's fun until you realize it's rigged against you. I knew a lot of people that did it 10+ years ago that got driven out by algos and front running, massive Wall St. and Fed manipulation etc. It's really only viable with disposable money at a lax job that you can trade at while getting a regular income. I had that sweet setup for a bit but even then, you could tell when everyone was getting squeezed and margin calls were happening as people would get phone calls and sort of panic. I don't do any of that today and have little to no interest in it, thankfully I have enough money from other sources. I honestly think the best bet is if you're lucky enough to really hit some big trades and then can switch into real estate, that's a lot more stable but requires way more capital to get into. I didn't quite get that transition and don't know if I will, but it's probably what I should be looking at. But honestly, I don't care as much anymore. I'm old enough that just having a nice place to live, decent food and good entertainment options makes me feel really blessed, even though I have some unfortunately poor health issues. If I actually had my health too, I'd just probably chill, work out, and maybe light up some weed since that's legal in NY now.

A lot of feminism, especially Boomer feminism, was just white supremacy. That's also what the white dudes supporting it were usually in for. They hated it when it came to their own gender roles, but they were extremely quick to enforce feminism when it came to prioritizing white women over minorities. Eventually a lot of POC feminist women caught on and started to get really pissed. It's not new though, even Margaret Sanger, the feminist Planned Parenthood icon was extremely racist and mostly wanted to abort black babies. I don't pay any attention to this type of stuff these days and it tends not to affect me, so I don't know how it is today tbh. But it sounds like you're tuned in and everything you've written is correct in terms of what I did know as well. Question is though, how much does it even matter? I'm not sure it does at all. It's not like there's anything to be done about it or will be done in my lifetime. Unless minority women especially organize and do something, but most of white women feminism is from white men and the corporate world, which is still white male controlled and directed. Can't see those white men ever doing anything for minorities, they're usually more interested in shouting down minorities.

Is this friend supporting you financially? If yes, you back him. Otherwise, you watch out for yourself. Anyone that tells you otherwise is just pushing their own agenda. People claim it's easy to make false accusations but it really isn't, it pretty much always comes out pretty quickly if it's a false accusation. They do happen, but they're crazy rare and really only happen with celebrities. But that's irrelevant, because there's a system in place and everyone has to handle what life throws at them. You don't stick your neck out, just recommend a good lawyer and that's all you can do. You shouldn't be doing more than that.

From what I've read, and I don't really pay too much attention to this so maybe it's wrong, but something like 50%+ of babies born are to mothers on medicaid now. The middle class can't afford kids and won't have them. Rich still have them and the poor who don't care or know better or whatever the reasoning was. I don't know if this has changed in the past year or two when I read the news article.

You're going to have to change it to a mega downvote button, nobody is going to remember that casually. And most people don't want to really report someone unless its something bad. Just hide the names for the downvote button and make that do this.

One of my interests when I was younger was mythology, I'd read up all the mythology I could find. A lot of the stories and concepts keep getting repeated, especially the Noah and Moses stories, very, very common. Right down to the details like a prophesy of the king getting killed by someone, so all the young boys are murdered, but one that gets raised by the king himself etc. I've tried asking various departments when in college but never got a satisfying answer to why or what connection there could have been, outside of them just basically saying it's copied or they are basic human ideas that everyone would come up with on their own (which I don't particularly buy but I guess whatever). I'd always wondered why this isn't mentioned more, just tying in various cultures and religions and the like and showing how similar human beings are.

I think there may be a difference in viewpoints based on age. A dude in their teens and twenties thinks of and acts differently towards and around women then men in their thirties and forties and older. A lot of things inexperienced dudes think is true really is not, but, internet or otherwise, most young men are around other young men and are far more vocal than most experienced prime/older men. There's another corollary to this, in that stupid people/fools will tend to talk and are quick to provide false info and attack others that tell the truth. I'm not a religious man, but I think Proverbs is a quick and accurate read that actually lists a lot of this stuff right out if you pay attention. The OT especially is kind of interesting on this simp stuff, especially if you read about Samson. A lot of it is a trip. You don't have to be religious to enjoy it, in fact you might enjoy some of these storylines more if you're not trying to find good in it or anything. Like even the Witcher Law of Surprise is just ripped right off the Bible. People know about the Witcher version but have no idea that it's literally in the Bible. Except in the Bible version, it's a human sacrifice of a young virgin girl instead of a boy becoming a witcher.

I bet the person that made this is one of those types that claims "the only real victims of oppression are white men" and insists racism does not exist today. Probably gets triggered if he sees black athletes kneeling. The problem with these types of things is the only people motivated to make something like this have a very clear, nefarious agenda, and are anonymous. Find me the guy that made this, let's see what else he wrote, what his credentials are, what groups he's a part of, and let's peer review his claims, and then I'll start taking it seriously. Otherwise, I'm not going to join in on the whole idea of somehow all of a sudden there's no white privilege and it's not like winning the lottery to be a middle class white chick in America. The reason Karens exist and there is a pussy pass is precisely because white women are in fact told they are the best and the brightest at every turn.

Turns out way in the future human beings don't have spleens. But a disease comes about that you need a spleen to cure. So they come back to our time to harvest our spleens.

Yeah I was clearly wrong about that. I learned something new today and will just add that to my understanding for the future. For me personally, I dunno I don't think I enjoy fighting games so much as a genre as other people do. So for me, and the people I interact with, watching videos is a purely academic thing, watching to improve or learn things. I don't particularly enjoy that at all. I'm not 100% sure if others that I know do or don't, maybe they do enjoy just watching, but I always got the feeling they watched to learn only. What I do enjoy is applying stuff and actually playing the games, and the social aspect involved in that too. You'd honestly probably have to pay me to actually sit down and watch videos as a spectator though, I'd much rather be watching NBA games or a TV show I enjoy etc. But different people find entertainment in different things, I was completely unaware that there were people that enjoyed just watching fighting games just for entertainment, not as competitors etc.

I didn't develop that ability until nearly two decades of getting trolled on the internet. The really mature people never get baited at all, it took into my early-30s to figure that out, when the really smart dudes figure it out by their mid-20s and women seemingly figure it out by their teen years.

I didn't name any names and I absolutely won't, but I can tell you 100% I was not thinking of you at all. I will not respond to anyone else that self identifies either, you are a special one time case out of pity.

Nah parry is what gives that game complexity and depth, the entire meta revolves around the parry and various option selects as well as timing mixups around it. Viscant was just trolling. But I also am not even sure when the US players even learned SGGK, Japan had a lot of stuff figured out that the US just didn't know or even think of. Japan is still crazy ahead and 3s is one of the, if not the, largest old game scenes around today. It's definitely way bigger than ST honestly, which is often cited. I probably asked Jay about this 15+ years ago, I don't think he believed in what he wrote then and certainly wouldn't now. He probably regrets it now, people change in 15 years, they tend to gain maturity. He probably feels bad that he dissuaded people from playing that game. He did play it himself, although he certainly was no Kuroda. If someone wants to argue with a 3s player on mechanics, Kuroda is the guy to argue with, and I don't see anyone winning those arguments against him. Daigo and others also understand the game but might not play it, but the most they'll ever say is the game has "BS in it" but all games do. Also Doc I think I saw you post on r/fighters, my guilty little pleasure that I laugh at sometimes. Not sure if I saw you on fc2 but I feel like I saw a similar looking name a few times on replays against some people I know. Here's a video that covers this entire thing and should be watched:

I tested out the ignore feature. You need to add the user to the list but then also set it up after to actually ignore their posts and stuff. And then it's the lame style of "you chose to ignore this user" instead of reddit and twitter style erase them from existence. You'll never be able to prevent stupid people on any decent sized online social forum/tool, but what you can do is give users an option to erase the particularly stupid people or use an upvote/downvote system to auto-hide posts. This is something reddit and social media excel in, but traditional forums and discord either don't believe in or can't do (better discord can do it though). It's imo, and here's that unpopular opinion again, the major reason reddit and social media replaced traditional forums: when people got a better way to limit their exposure to stupid people, they preferred to do that. I don't have a link but I remember reading a study that the most vocal people on the internet are a small number of dysfunctional people that are ostracized in real life, so they spend the most time online and are, again, vocal and visible. The study also indicated that unintelligent people often get triggered and frustrated, and lash out at people for that. The majority of people tend to not even participate at all. For discord I'm in a lot of bigger servers where if there are one or two stupid people like that, and they're not moderated out, the servers kind of just die right out. Thousands of users and nobody talks. Meanwhile a better moderated smaller server of say a hundred people can be extremely active. Moderation is rather difficult though. Actually I shouldn't say just stupid people, but also, and there's usually overlap with this but not necessarily, socially inept people. Socially inept people are obviously people that are unpopular in real life, but online, again, if there are no controls in place for them, they can shit things up and tend to kill interaction, because it's so hard to get rid of them or ignore them unless the tools are there, and they're user driven tools. Reddit isn't perfect, but usually I have to scroll down and actively choose to see the really stupid/insult posts. Most people just downvote and move on on reddit when it's something like that. I purposely am not naming names, because honestly, I don't get involved in this stuff and it's easy for me to ignore for the most part, even if I sometimes just roll my eyes at some of it. But because I'm seeing some flames going back and forth on this thread and the saloon one, I figure some people might be better off reading this and stop taking the bait and getting into it with the socially inept morons. If said morons want to self identify, just take that as an opportunity to laugh at them some more, but do not engage. Especially if you're like over 30.

Well that and especially in an unpopular opinions thread. It takes a special kind of person to get worked up over something in this topic. Although btier I have to say, for someone that should know better, you keep getting into arguments in that Lounge thread.

Watching videos is niche to begin with, only people that are actively interested in improving will do so. The majority of great videos do not have English commentary, if any commentary at all they're in Japanese. And those niche people are precisely the ones that don't need the commentary in the first place. So that means the commentary has to be more entertaining, along with technically informative. This is extremely difficult. There are very, very few television sports commentators, and we're talking people that literally make 7 and 8 figure salaries yearly doing it, that can do that. There are a bit more when you add in radio commentary, which is also very niche and only hardcore fans of a sport tend to listen to. And these commentators have the benefit of replays, slow motion, an entire crew to pull up stats and help with analysis, as well as talking to players and coaches before, during and after games they ask them questions and know what to look for in the future. Often on top of that they were elite level players or coaches themselves. How many people in the FGC can fit that description and what entity can provide that team and resources? Maybe with Sony buying Evo we'll see a move towards that, but who knows, it probably won't be most of the current commentators.

MP games aren't really MP anymore in the sense of you vs. an opponent, figuring this out. Instead, it's just whoever studies and practices more aping off of the players that actually develop stuff. So these games just lose the fun of figuring stuff out and developing your own playstyle and gaining more exp from different sources actively. Single player games also now have this issue. Rather than playing the games and enjoying them, most people seemingly watch videos first, especially if it's a more difficult game. Devs also think they have to make the games difficult because people that watch these videos first claim the games are too easy and not challenging. When people actually play a single player game now as they were played back in the day, they make a big deal about "going in blind" and ask for tips on how to play. I don't want to make broad sweeping generalizations but it's definitely something only from the younger gens, it's crazy to me how something that's supposed to just be enjoyable like video games somehow becomes something people are prepping for and studying. I bet these people spend more time watching videos and reading how to play a game than they spend preparing in school, or on a project at work. Then they want this weird mix of attention and validation, especially from people that aren't investing so much time on video games and so won't have optimal perfect play. A specific example is Nightmare Grimm in Hollow Knight. HK is a pretty tough game in general, but if someone asks for tips or says how ridiculous some of this stuff is, some schmuck always claims it's super easy and that person needs to "git gud". What they don't admit until 5 pages of arguing later when they accidentally let it slip is they watched videos of the fight first then it took them an hour of dying, even after having seen how to win the fight, before they actually won. This, they claim, is "easy". This is also how back in the day people would see "Battletoads is so ez" but then make excuses to not actually play the game and show you, even if you offered to pay them. What is the point of this sheer idiocy? Why do people think it's impressive to just deny things or fake how good they are at something? I'll add this also gets taken into mysteries. There's no way you'll figure out the bullshit tricks used, you can only guess at which trick is used if you've seen it before and guess at what info is being hidden. But people swear up and down how they figured it out at the start. No man, you didn't, stop circle jerking each other pretending you did.

I'm pretty sure everything is on youtube, or probably that restaurant site if you can read Japanese.

I no longer think fighting game commentary is a good idea. Before it became prevalent I was always interested in it, but either we need better commentators or it just does not work for the genre. The vast majority of the time the commentary is cringe, repetitive, and not informative. I was asked to suggest someone for commentary once, so I suggested the best player and student of a game I knew. He told me he tried but he just couldn't explain things quickly enough so he didn't want to do it. This was for pre-recorded videos and commentary, it just might not even be technically feasible at all in real time. I am still a fan of tutorial videos and breakdown videos, where someone may take a match or techniques, slow them down, explain them, and go through everything. Those are fantastic and a great resource. But that takes a tremendous amount of work and few people love a game enough to do that, especially when they'll make pennies for it at most, and most viewers won't even appreciate it.

I think you misunderstood what I was saying. I'm calling out the oldheads for it, not praising them for it. FGC was shady and had some serious problems that we put up with, that in retrospect should have probably been warning flags to avoid it, and I'm sure many people did. I'm actually a fan of this new direction where assholes and crazy people are checked or disapproved of. I'm just not willing to give the same people that are now taking a morally superior stance a pass. It is like putting the fox in charge of the henhouse. These people should just be driven out of the scene entirely, like Mr. Wizard. I just have no personal problem with Wiz. The Sony sale hopefully brings in better people. If you really want the FGC to become something better, then increased professionalism and a better community/environment are good things, not bad things.

I'd always heard stuff about Wiz, but honestly, I never had a problem with him. Was a good dude in any interaction I had with him. I lean towards crackpr0n being a deviant, and most of the FGC dudes around him being hypocrites with zero actual integrity or loyalty. Anyone around the FGC for a long time knows the community itself always jokes about stuff and did whatever. Now they act like they didn't know, when they were in on all those jokes and did the same stuff themselves. I lost a lot of what little respect I had for many of them. A lot of the FGC elite are outright losers.

I thought there was a no politics rule. This thread has become really shitty. Clearly some of you are not mature or informed enough to discuss this topic in an intelligent, reasonable manner.

Yeah that's the thing. These people are generally low education and low income, and definitely not science experts. Yet, it's amazing how they can spin stuff. All scientists and governments are in on some scheme and some random nutty youtuber or rightwing website tells the truth. Just crazy. In the past we'd laugh at these people as tin-foil hats, but there are so many of them now and they have too many platforms to spread their misinformation. There was this false claim that the truth speaks louder than lies, but that's utter BS. Lies and misinformation have always spread easier. While it's true the government and elites often engage in propaganda and misinformation campaigns, the things these people choose to oppose are seldom challangable on the grounds they claim. The only thing you can really do is buffer yourself as best as you can and engage in healthy habits. Quite honestly that generally requires at least a certain income level and amount of space and personal freedom. If you're stuck in an area of high misinformation there's not too much chance you have. Such is how the world works. Maybe this belongs in Unpopular Opinions.

SRK has been replaced by eventhubs and youtube, as well as twitter I guess. I don't know who BrianF is, but I've seen him linked twice recently (once by AYO, and then on reddit). I think that's the type of person that kind of represents the FGC and is the gateway to the community now. SRK was fun back in the day but it's been a looooong time. It's been so long the '09ers now think they're OGs and moved on themselves. Does SRK really need to exist in a world where the new FGC players are furries and mostly just want to play Smash?