In an alternate world where fighting games use compass direction notation instead of numpad notation
British player: "You block in this game by holding midwest"
American player: nods, jumps forwards
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in reply to @AmmieGa500's post:
The horror of an alternate world where fighting games have sixteen (or thirty two!?) distinct directional inputs and expect you to use each and every one of them.
... Why is West changing directions? Wouldn't blocking just be West? I'm confused about this in Australian and don't understand what's going on.
American here. The part of our country we call “the Midwest” is north and east, although not as north and east as the part we call “the Northeast.” I don’t know why this is exactly although I suspect we hadn’t colonized as far west as we have now when the name was initially coined
Wait so the mid west is not like .. Off the west coast?
Oh man that's not confusing at all.
"The Midwest" only goes as west as Kansas, barely to the halfway mark of the US. It's boggling, yes
it's like midway-to-the-west, so no, it's nowhere near the west lol
what's extra fun is that anyone from like Nebraska to western Pennsylvania will have a different definition of "the Midwest" which oddly extends just about to where they live rofl. Except for Chicago, which wants very little to do with all those cornfields hahaha, despite being smack in the middle of the region.
somehow my brain shortened "compass direction notation" to "compassion" and for a brief moment this was a very different kind of post