Serpent

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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 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.

Did you just call Bafael, one of the biggest tech and tutorial makers, stupid?

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.

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.

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.

Serpent will not answer you since he doesn't argue. 

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'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 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 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.

This is what I mean by culture when we talk about wiz. It's not just him but the people around him who knew and didn't say anything. 

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.

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.