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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plasmasword
@plasmasword

mostly recontextualizing rants on discord into, something

i was um, listening to james chen's evo 2023 preview show, and he said something that for better or worse, kinda lit a fire under my ass

as he was apparently in conversation w rick and evo for a bit about doing throwback tournaments, and he specifically namedrops not only street fighter the movie arcade, but he specifically says "dont you think that if SFTM got confirmed the community that got mad at [redacted] for calling it a bad game would wanna come out and showcase why it's good" - granted its funny, i try to put the drama around that game behind me and be done with it, but evidently it's not done with me, lol
i feel a ways about this, mostly because for one, james is basically only getting the trickle down version of that narrative because we know like thats not really what happened and he doesnt know the specific criticisms we were levying that got twisted and mutated into "oh they're just mad he talked shit about the game" - the fact ppl still think this was the end of that conversation still doesnt sit right with me ( fuck the very specific editor behind that influencer, the influencer in question for acting hands off about their following attacking friends of mine, and the fanboys behind those dogpiles, yet and still, first and foremost )
granted, i do not wish to inadvertently relitigate any of the bullshit ( with influencer's fanboys ) by even giving oxygen to that conversation, the game and the scene around it can and will continue to grow in a healthy way with or without me around - ya don't need me to show you why the game's good, it just is when you play it for more than 20 minutes, lol. ( joepreal streams casual lobbies of all skill levels for it every single friday evening, try swinging by and playing if you dont believe me, and hey if you bounce off it you bounce off it, but if you cant appreciate it for what it is maybe you're a prude )

now granted, given how primal rage was mainstage at combo breaker, i truly think there's a chance SFTM could make the CB lineup next year
so i guess my challenge is, while being mindful of whats going on with my physical limitations and hand issues, still try and find a way there to like at bare minimum make a side tourney happen, and at least from now till then try and make the info more accessible to help key in on how it's really played optimally ( a bud of mine recently let on they had never seen vega's command grab - projectile trade freeze glitch - there werent very many claw players for a bit, in either the FK circles or abroad, he kinda dropped off entirely for awhile, probably why - and so much of the documentation about the game is locked in google docs and dormant tweets - and the cord thats kinda ded )
i think im not really hyper competitive about it at this point, in the sense that i think JoeP, marqo and diecobros are far and away the top 3 / the mount rushmore to beat, so to speak ( kdok maybe an echelon above, but they're a legend in a ton of niche games, not just SFTM ), and i dont see myself catching up to them as i'm too inconsistent
but at least from now till then i can try and maybe do more for the wiki, some informative streams, etc
it'd almost be disrespectful for me to have gone through all that time, energy, and heartbreak of the past however many years to just not be there for what'd probably be the only time that game gets to mainstage somewhere, right

( the homie got me a heating pad and some meds that're helping the hand situation a little for now, but i wanna hit a point where im sure im not like damaging myself further before i like jump headlong back into streaming for those big 12 hour blocks a day again or somethin )

what im particularly bummed by from the perspective of being a spectator who isnt in it just for the big 8 titles, is finding out that the indie showcase is only 20 fucking minutes
and then they're just filling time after that watching old marvel 3 matches, like. you could have filled that space with anything
and the roundtable indie panel discussion seems like it's way less thorough than last year, and i dont know why people arent more vocal about that.
twenty fucking minutes. im baffled, because that feels egregious with how many cool and interesting titles have just flew under the radar
i did a whole ass stream last year where i went through hours just watching trailers on indiefighting.games ( great resource btw )

and here the FK usual suspects, me included, went through like 16 hours of shit

and they could only muster fucking twenty minutes??? fucking wack

( the corpo owned show was, to be clear. never truly going to be about supporting people from the ground floor. maybe that 20 minutes of limelight exposure becomes this expensive sort of airtime real estate, some 'your face here' shit. but that's a shitty, unevenly distributed way to do things. you gonna make hundreds of devs clamor for a 20 minute timeslot every year? fuck that noise )

unrelated to all of that, but specific to sf6, and i didnt wanna tweet about this, but
the thing where a TO got caught out there during a bracket that aired a chun nude mod on stream
like i am, obviously, far from being a prude
but also. like. how. howwwwww would you forget to turn that off. why is that even on in your stream setup. how would this not occur to you, nay, set off the loudest fire alarm klaxons before you even went live
maybe i should be surprised it took this long for any kinda nude mod to make it onto somebody's stream but like imagine that happened at a local?
why would anyone femme wanna be around that space, because then it turns into a question of like, why are you out here airing out the objectification and why cant you keep it tucked the fuck in during timeframes where you are supposed to be playing games with people who arent coming to it for that
like yeah equal opportunity you can make gief's wingus hang out too, but not the fucking point

i just dont know how if you slip up publically like that you arent like, donezo
or just reduced to running brackets specifically for coomers or something

anyhow, if you're going out there to vegas for that thing, give em hell

oh yeah the other day i streamed like almost 8 hours of x-men next dimension you can watch that back if you want

tip jar as usual is paypal.me/plasmasword if you wanna help the groceries bin from getting dry, i also gotta buy some soap so it'd be helpful, thanks to everyone who chipped in on the last post and had nice things to say during the stream, i appreciate you
be seeing you~



DieselBrain
@DieselBrain
  • reduce Chost Parry cooldown from 30 frames to 20 frames
  • expand Rapid CHancel window for posting by 3 frames, making Post into Rechost a true blockstring
  • Add Stun Gauge UI below every post letting chosters know when the OP is close to stun
  • Delete @Bigg from the roster
  • give Eggbug a command grab


TrashBoatDaGod
@TrashBoatDaGod

sounds like it's time for someone to grab the DLC. I wasnt just plus, i was Cohost plus there.