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I've been following that event kinda closely, and I doubt that they would have shot down helicopters, broke down roads, prepared military checkpoints in Moscow, threw a bunch of bombs on fuel depots and give the impression that a mercenary army can seemingly run across half the country unopposed like this is an African failed state all on purpose. My personal impression is that the Wagner guys were on the bad end of the regime for a while, they were about to be incorporated in the army, they rebelled, they initially met no opposition because all of the army is stuck in Ukraine and no one in Russia looked like they wanted to risk their life to save Putin's life in case Wagner came on top, but the Wagner guys also lacked any serious support and it looked like they would have actually had to fight to seize Moscow, and even if they seized it it looked like the government was already on the way to flee elsewhere. The Wagner guys realized their position was only going to get worse going on, Putin's government was scrambling to find a solution to the mess, so this "compromise" that's been talked about was realized. That's my interpretation.

What's more cringe? The Western market being so bitch-made that Japanese developers have to make special offices just for the purpose of making sure that direct translation doesn't hit one of the fifteen thousands moral taboos that make up the West's entertaining culture wars, or this one retarded Westerner in particular who decided to start cosplaying as a Japanese nationalist because he felt like they were censoring his video games? Frankly, I just wish chronic, intense testicular pain upon all of them.

So that was a fucking lie. 😠

I don't know man. When he was talking about how the lack of fur helped by not hiding the nipples that really felt like good ol' Tucker at work.

Idom at CEO is not sugarcoating it. Source:

So, have you guys heard about how some good folks in Russia have dropped all pretenses of being serious people and just started acting out Call of Duty plotlines in real life? Apparently the Wagner mercenaries are in revolt and possibly staging some kind of coup/fighting with the official Russian military.

So, my early impressions on some of the matchups in this game so far. I feel like Manon is probably winning the Zangief matchup, possibly even rather decisively, at least as far as my experience with the Giefs I've played go. The way I play that matchup is that I can basically zone Zangief out with my normals, Manon got the god anti-air to shut down any jump-in, if he ever whiffs a big button I can punish with stHK and then combo in QCBxMK, sending him way back and undoing whatever progress he made in trying to walk me into the corner, and then on top of that I also get to mix Zangief whenever I land a vacuum target combo or he gets too comfortable with me getting in range of light command grab. The things to check out is that Zangief can still kill you very fast with a few guesses, if he actually manages to walk you to the corner it can get scary, and most importantly one needs to check how much each Zangief likes to throw out Drive Impact, because Manon's heavy buttons are the best to keep Zangief away and potentially mix him with stHPxxHP, but they're also very vulnerable to Drive Impact. In the Cammy matchup I'm pretty satisfied by how EX Wheel Kick manages to handle divekicks. It has enough air invincibility to bust even a low divekick that almost hit, it hits far away enough to punish divekicks that would have whiffed in front of you, and it hits high enough to hit Cammy out of the air even if she doesn't go for divekick by tries to mix it with regular jump-in or late divekick. French long legs saved the day again. I've grown to enjoy the JP matchup a lot, and I also like fighting Guile, probably because I'm a freak who likes to fight zoners. Especially with JP it feels like the more I play against him the more he feels pretty approachable and counterable. Strong, sure, but nothing impossible. In contrast I haven't met many Guiles, and the few I met I usually beat. There are very few Jamie online apparently, so the few that I meet end up steamrolling me because I have no idea when to check his pressure, handle his gimmicks, and Jamie looks like a character who specializes in punishing people who press at the wrong moment and converting off single jabs. I've grown a little more accustomed to him now, but I need way more practice. Ken is a fucking bitch, I'm happy his life is in ruins. 😠 It's very funny when you meet a Honda players who doesn't rematch because you manage to land semi-consistent perfect parry and get free medals off it in a single round, although the more solid ones are harder to deal with. Manon's worst matchup so far seems definitely to be the Manon one. I rate it roughly 7-3 or even 8-2 in Manon's disadvantage. Aside from the fact that the whole thing looks like two flamingos in a mating ritual, it's really infuriating when I'm there trying to play honest footsies and perform my clever mixups with my exquisitely looking French supermodel while that other Sideshow Bob-looking motherfucker is out there just throwing out random long-ass buttons and forcing unfair braindead guesses. Really infuriating. Fuck Manon, it's Manon's worst matchup. Capcom pls, nerf Manon and buff Manon instead. 😔

Honestly? Unless he conditions you and knows very well how to sneak them in at close range, they're just scrub-killers. I get got a lot of times by those, but once you've learned the sound clue and that the startup is slower compared to his normal fireballs, it becomes pretty easy to react with a jump-in. If JP just does it raw he's either betting that the other guy will mistake the very initial startup as a fireball and go into parry stance, and then he's screwed, or he's getting potentially killed. Even at full screen he might avoid a punish but his opponent will be able to get very close to him thanks to the whiff.

I can imagine Marisa doing her Level 3 on Akuma carrying the baby on his back. Akuma gets slammed against the wall, and the baby gets turned into a pizza. Now that would be a certified Mamma Mia moment.

Mike Ross & The Will to keep Mashing. A tragic story with a surprising finale. https://clips.twitch.tv/AmericanDullHamWholeWheat-aU1_qwHG35NkXple

I'm finally getting around doing World Tour mode. I don't know if someone already talked about it, but I recall that some people were wondering if Haggar was dead because of the memorial thing, but by the way many characters refer to him it seems clear to me that he's still very much alive. Also, Cody is still mayor. I only found one NPC who talked about it, but it was clear that the current mayor is one of the guys that cleaned the city in the original Final Fight game, which obviously refers to Cody.

Obligatory "Manon is 5'9'' and only 4 inches taller than Cammy".

I don't about matchups because I haven't seen enough high level gameplay yet and, while I think that Manon may struggle a little against fireballs and zoners, I also haven't found the Guile and JP matchups to be that uphill. In fact, I think that the few Guiles I met I beat most of them, while with JP is more about getting used to the matchup and the weird stuff he can do than anything else. I still feel like Manon's main weakness is lack of cancelable buttons which leave her particularly vulnerable to Drive Impact, and also weak-ish Drive Rush that is good enough in the important oki situation but doesn't let her easily in the opponent's face with plus frames like a lot of other characters can. Now, she probably should never be able to get in her opponent's face and being plus for free like characters with good Drive Rushes can, because she's a very strong grappler with good buttons and reach, but in the meta of SFVI this is still a considerable weakness in my opinion. I just wish I could stop getting punish countered because I threw a crouching light kick in neutral and apparently that has enough recovery that I can't recover in time to block the Drive Impact. So, my suggestion against Manon is that, if she's being belligerent with stHK and stHP, especially the second one which is the good hit confirm, just spam DI and you'll do way more damage to her than she will ever do even if she manages to not get clipped.

https://clips.twitch.tv/DiligentAverageOstrichRiPepperonis-tTIan1KqCIGbmQ97

For real. Anyone who hasn't realized that hasn't been hit with a 50% combo starting off a randomly buffered crMK that accidentally clipped their feet.

https://twitter.com/daiwithnani/status/1669664596825903104

Lots of useful tips in this one.

There are Honda players that don't play like that?

I'm currently using Lynx as username. You can find me in the Megashock club thingy.

By the way, I made it to Diamond. I think just about the same time as Mike Ross did. Time to get 4th place at EVO I guess.