I’m in the Hot Lava beta and the intro movie is great
Today on Street Fighter
Some eighth-rate Ryu couldn’t read or block to save his life. He yelled at me over the mic the entire match saying, “Dude, you just lost all respect from me. Quit playing like an asshole.”
Here’s a list of things he had never heard of:
- Throw techs
- Frame traps
- Safe jumps
- Guy, a character who’s existed in fighting games for 23 years
After he ragequit he sent me a Steam invite, which I accepted because I was mad and I wanted to tell him how much of a baby he was. He then left a comment on my wall saying, “dude has no respect. -rep”, and blocked me immediately afterwards. Hey, at least he can say he knows how to block!
I’m really upset about it. I’m not upset because he ragequit, and not because he spent all of his energy in the match by verbally abusing me instead of focusing on playing. What upset me was his resolution to refer to me as a dude. Seriously, what the fuck? My profile name was “marina”. How do you construe that to be a male name? Do people really think that my username is a reference to boats? Gamer boys are idiots and should learn manners before touching controllers.
Like, I understand what I’m getting into. This is ranked Street Fighter IV on PC. Most of the game’s players are veterans who just absolutely tank my rank, and I switch between characters almost on a daily basis, so I can imagine that it comes as a surprise to people that my low score is not actually indicative of my skill and experience in fighting games. However, if you’re seriously coming up to me with a garbage Ryu and E. Ryu, and expecting me to have no idea what either of those characters do, then you’re a buffoon. I’m so fucking mad! Just tech my throws and stop jumping you fucking idiot! Every time he jumped he would grunt into the mic as if he wasn’t expecting to eat the fourth standing roundhouse in a row! God damn it!
Maybe I shouldn’t be so fragile. Someone misgendering me shouldn’t make my blood boil. It does, though. I’m playing this stupid decade-old game because I hate myself and because nothing gets my brain pumping dopamine better than fighting games. I’m going through a lot of emotional issues right now, namely depression and anxiety. Okay, so that’s basically “always”, but fighting games are supposed to help me unwind. Zoning out with some buttons is a genuinely cathartic experience until I realize that a real persons exists on the other end of the connection.
Men in fighting games will be terrible for a very, very long time. They’re the kind of people who let me log onto fightcade to immediately see this:
I will never be able to use my mic in online games. I will usually get called one or both of two particular slurs. Men who play fighting games love to mock people like me. Some of the best Guilty Gear players in the US are trans women. That gives me so much inspiration. It’s incredibly uplifting. But there can never just be a good thing in a community without a large portion of it getting fucked over.
My greatest hope is that someday, processing power and development resources can host game AI indistinguishable from humans, so that I never have to delve into the grimy shit caverns again.
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almost forgot how fuckin awful the fightcade lobbies are
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I think people just assume that all fighting game players are male, no matter what the profile name. Women are just totally under represented there. Even though there are several female pros competing at tournaments. I guess they’re just seen as flukes.
plus:
Hey, is there a fightcade type thing for Virtua Fighter 4? Can I find people to play online somehow?
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Retroarch still isn’t building on arm64 
the Game Boy Picross games are an absolute treasure
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The second one not being on 3DS virtual console makes me very >:|
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This reminds me that I still haven’t completed Picross S. It’s easily the best Picross installment yet.
Mega Picross is a great way to let you approach finished levels with a different perspective. Co-op is genuinely fantastic for allowing the backseat player to just have their own cursor so they don’t have to just breathe down the other person’s neck pointing out tips.
is there a Hot Lava mode in TF2?
I think not
(I actually don’t know but my impression of the map design is “probably not”)
Chris Kohler wrote a pretty good book on Final Fantasy V so I started replaying that, and I’m enjoying it more than ever
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I thought Mega Picross was terrible… but there’s a co-op mode??? Hmmm might need to come back to it
I just played Paratopic. Much of what it has to offer is atmosphere. It’s less than an hour long, and slow-moving in places. I found myself ending up at dead ends at times and having to (very slowly) walk back to the correct path, which made the game drag a little. Sound is well done, and I don’t mind the way the sparse story jumps around but never becomes entirely coherent.
For some reason, driving (or riding in a car) at dusk is something that I think about often, even though I don’t always find it especially noteworthy while doing it. A fair amount of this game is dedicated to just that.
How good do I think this game is? I can’t decide.
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I’m pretty keen on Mega Picross modes, they at least require a bit of brain power.
I don’t remember if any of the NP games have co-op, but their multiplayer modes surprising work pretty well. I suspect there’s co-op in one of them at least?
It sounds fun! How do you split it up @ferrets ? Like one person does rows and the other does columns?
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more like, I do 90% of the puzzle and the other person stakes their claim while they can
but now that you mention it, that’s a much better way of going about it
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I have a bad habit of making every game I play competitive, because without someone to compare to I lose a lot of drive to do my best
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taking a break from Castlevania Symphony of the Night: I’ve been playing a TON of Resident Evil 6 lately. Earlier last year I got hard into it and did Leon’s whole campaign in about a day and a half. I stopped abruptly afterwards because I couldn’t figure out how to make Chris work for me and got wrecked hard in Sherry’s campaign. Look, you give me the opportunity to play as a cute gal, and I’ll take that every chance I get.
Anyway, I returned to it as Chris. what a great game.
Somebody made a map randomizer for Metroid 1 last month, so I figured I’d give it a spin.
I’ve mapped the Brinstar it gave me, and it does not give me confidence in the generation algorithm:
Lots of dead ends (marked with X on the map) but no loops of any sort (boring). Also, that pit/trap in the original where you have to scale a wall to get out can now be anywhere (marked with squiggly lines).
More on the situation as it develops.
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Not so much a game I played today, as reviews I am seeing everywhere, but it’s hilarious how we are supposed to care about Kratos and his son, considering the whole BIG REVEAL of the first God of War was that Kratos murdered his own wife and kid.
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Fucked up that it’s an axe game so @shrug is gonna have to play it and tell me all about it.
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