EinAston

I'm no Psychic, but I am a Psycho!!

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19 🇬🇭 | Autistic little shit who plays fighting games(Primarily KOF but also One Piece Fighting Adventure...play One Piece Fighting Adventure!) Branches out to other fighting games depending on the time of year and what my current hyperfixation is at the moment. Other hobbies at times include certain FPS games like Splatoon and Paladins,reading Webtoons and watching peak fiction like Owl House and One Piece. I would include football but fuck British football fans lmfao
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Snakeman
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I don't remember the last time I really took time out to watch fighting games, but I did catch a lot of Evo this year, including Uni 2, Tekken 8, and Street Fighter 6's finals. I've missed the comradery and the feeling of community that the FGC exudes. Its easy to pick out some of the top "old guard" figureheads for doing shithead things and the "stream monster" chat with their toxicity, but at the end of the day fighting games are about passionate people coming together in their own unique way and competing to see how they stack up. Even if you go 0-2 at an event, you're taking back with you a wonderful feeling that you are a part of something wonderful. Whether its a 12 man local or the glitz and glamor of a major, you're surrounding yourself with others who share in the same passion and I think that's beautiful.

So glad to see how it has grown and so glad to see a next generation continue that passion. No matter how corporate or "esports" these events become, it will always be about the people that put them together and the people that show up to throw down. With netcode for these titles getting better and better, you don't even need to travel or risk covid infection in order to belong. All you have to do is play the game and have fun. I'm kinda loopy and I keep writing but I have no idea what the point of this post was supposed to be anymore but I'm just glad this kind of thing helps distract me from the nightmare that my life can be sometimes. Whenever I'm feeling down I can reach out and fight someone and that is one thing I really cherish and missed a few years back. I guess I'd like to return to participating in CEO & CEOtaku, maybe even some Tampa Never Sleeps. Anyway, get out there and enjoy some good ass fighting games.


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