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If he did rig the brackets I can understand the ban, but I can't shake the feeling that that's just a convenient excuse. I think this has more to do with his ambiguous domestic abuse case.

I have nothing against the Bruce Lee archetypes in fighting games, I just wish it wouldn't always trigger the moronic "Could Bruce Lee beat *insert name of current UFC heavyweight champion*?" discussion.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all of you Fortnite players out there. I don't care for your crappy kiddie shooter whatsoever, but thanks to you guys, business suit Blanka is a shoo-in for SF6. Hopefully at the expense of bland-ass karate gi Makoto, or any other Makoto for that matter.

A weird, completely random gaming fact I have learned today: Brazilians love Top Gear. Not the TV show, the SNES racing game. Seriously, they go apeshit over it. Any locals here know why this game has such a mythical status over there?

The slurs are one thing, but he/she/whatever is guilty of far more heinous crimes, namely those committed against the English language. wy du ppl writ like dis?

'Shotos' is now a blanket term for fighting game characters? Good god, it really took a Smash player to write something that retarded.

Skullgirls at no. 5, Smash Bros at no. 1 and no Virtua Fighter or CvS2 on the entire list. You could have a chimpanzee draw lots and come up with a better list.

Does anyone know off the top of their head who the motion character with the fastest projectile is in KoFXV? I'm talking about the startup frames, not the trajectory speed. I can't find any frame data for this game.

So Aoki and his team are thinking about a new game which may or may not be in the works and which may or may not be a Virtua Fighter game. You've got to love how straightforward and to the point the Japanese are.

SFIV was in fact all that, a nonsense character does not negate that.

The only way I could stomach all of El Fuerte, Ingrid and Rashid in one game is if they were one character, grafted together as the result of some unholy, Nazi-esque experiment.

As much as I'd like to think that Smash was pulled because angry mothers complained that the finals are way past the players' bedtimes, I'm guessing the real reason is that Sony acquired EVO?

I just bought it as well (not the fancy edition) and I hope the PvP will be a bit more balanced this time around, as in, not just one or two viable builds.

Is that Akiyama or an aging Genki Sudo? I don't see any resemblance with Shunei whatsoever.

A guy looking like Shunei would never enter a fighting tournament anyway. He'd be too busy with his gender studies, writing essays on micro-aggressions and why manspreading is bad.

Poor KoF XV, its release is completely overshadowed by a meager SF6 trailer. Not that I really care, half of the lame-ass cast looks like it was plucked straight from some budget Dance Dance Revolution knock-off. Do people really prefer characters such as Kula and Shun'ei over Kim Kaphwan and Hon-Fu?

If a bland logo and Ryu's fat toes are SF6's biggest problems, I will be a happy camper.

I've got some insider info on SF6. Blanka will not be in the game... ...until the first DLC pack is released. Blanka will be mandatory DLC; if you don't purchase him, the game will lock you out of all online modes. That probably won't happen, but there's always a chance a Capcom representative is reading this and thinking "That's brilliant!" and the above will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. All of you are going to pay for Blanka, and you're going to like it.

How does the online feel? Somebody on Twitter said it feels sluggish, but it's Twitter so I'm not going to take his/her/xur's word for it.

I've been so busy, I completely missed KoFXV's launch. Did it in fact shatter all expectations?

The thing I hate most about a block button is that it makes staggering a thing. Especially in a game like MK11 without any true reversals it's always a coin toss when it's safe to let go of the block button. In a game like SF you can input a reversal and negative edge it while you're in blockstun and hold back. If he interrupts his string you reverse him, if he doesn't, no harm done, you're still blocking. In MK you have to fully commit and let go of block first if you're guessing that he's going to stagger, knowing that your fastest attack will still take at least 6-7 frames during which your opponent may or may not reset his string, and even if you guess correctly and he does, you may still not be quick enough or have the range to interrupt him.

A year long shelter from the millions of morons on the outside and 30 billion to boot? Sign me the fuck up!

Compared to all the crazy stuff in ST, Ken's DP is pretty tame. In fact, I once saw a match where Kurahashi air-threw a jab DP spamming Ken on reaction during the recovery frames.

MK Trilogy isn't a compilation of the first three games, though. It's basically UMK3 plus characters from 2, the bosses and original characters such as Rain and Ermac. A rebalanced version with modern graphics and rollback at the reduced price point would sell like hot cakes.

https://www.change.org/p/ben-bell-kickstart-campaign-for-mortal-kombat-trilogy-remake-with-ue5 Petition for a Mortal Kombat Trilogy remake. Don't feel pressured into signing it if you're not an MK player, but I might sneak into your house at night and stomp on your nuts if you don't.