to this profileWhen I first got on this site I had the realization that it was like LiveJournal days again with its longer posts, and imo if this site is going to have referene to swatch internet time then its HTML parser should turn <lj-cut></lj-cut> into a Read More link.
People talk about Twitter and Tumblr (and all social media sites really) becoming very performative. You make posts to elicit attention from the people that read them, whereas my teenaged LJ posts were about things actually going on in my life. Talking about going to the movies, or playing DDR with friends, or getting some weird flavor of ice cream at a parlor that opened nearby.
Early early Twitter was still like that to. Texts 40404 to say "Hell yeah I skipped calc today because it sucks and I watched Craig finish a playthrough of Super Metroid on his laptop in the tech center instead". <- Even that is more than 140 characters.
At some point, and partially due to the places I was hanging out in online I really stopped talking about my actual life as everything turned into potential information to identify me IRL or target me in general (your flavor of "cringe" before that term popped off).
I'm rambling, but that's kind of the point. Even here I find myself still on guard and still posting for others more than myself. There were times in the past when I actually went back and re-read my LiveJournal, and it has some important highs and lows and my life documented in ways that Twitter never did, and I kind of miss that. Posts about moving out for the first time, trips to big cities where I met online friends in person for the first time, fears about whether my college degree actually taught me anything (it didn't, but the reassurances from friends still helped. I still remember the person that told me "You knowing how to connect to and query a database is for most people like asking them to do magic.")
I want to just post freely more and let myself document myself. Even as somebody that did download their Twitter archive before abandoning the site, can you imagine reading an archive of that?
So here are some things that have been happening in my life recently enough that I feel like recording.
Geight picked up Street Fighter 6 not long after launch, almost a year ago now. I've never been into fighting games really beyond goofing around with friends in Brawl when that was the latest. Since he and a few local friends (one of whom is huge into SF as a series) were all just getting the game I figured I'd play for a week or two and then the gulf in skill between me and everyone else who was more experienced in general would lead to the game not really being fun for long.
But that didn't actually happen! Despite playing way less and not really having much patience for actually loading up training mode and practicing, we still play together regularly enough and because I can read that man like a book our sets remain fairly even. It has become a recurring joke at how often we manage to have a score of 9-11.
I play as Lily, who I picked at first just because her specials are very straightforward "this move launches you forward", "this move launches you upward", "this move launches you download", but eventually realize that she's a great character personality-wise that very much fits the vibe I want Sugar to have. Barely wins a match and just falls to the ground in victory with a "Sheesh! That was close!" or if she gets a perfect, stumbling to the ground and proclaiming how she meant to do that. Her big super where she demands her opponent shows her their strength, smashes them into the ground , and then politely adds a little "Please!" to the request. Or the way she fucks it all up at low health, dropping her opponent and falling from the sky directly onto them before sheepishly getting up and getting back into position to resume fighting (assuming her ass did not kill anyone). (This video has her level 3 and critical health variant.)
Geight had a hand-me-down PS3 era stick and I just used a regular controller. I would have preferred a stick but didn't want money spent on a game I didn't think I'd be a month later, let alone 10. This past week though he bought a leverless controller after trying out a friend's and immediately noticing the consistency of getting directional inputs down with one. He offered to buy me one too, and so now I've got a Haute Board that lets me keep my left hand in Team Fortress 2 position and doing inputs on it makes me think of my StepMania days. And I don't have the big spaced out buttons a stick would have, or needing to have my left hand pull double duty on a controller to hit parry/heavy punch.
I was kind of falling away from the game, not wanting to invest time in getting better, and not playing online enough to really retain how to fight any character that wasn't Geight's Dee Jay, but this thing is a bit of a shot in the arm. Before a 360 was like "yeah that's the input, thank god it came out instead of me standing there doing nothing" but now even pressing the keys as rapidly as I can is satisfying enough, even more when it's followed by "GOT YOU!!!!" as intended.
God I forgot how much time passes writing these things. I didn't want this post to be "I should write about things happening in my life and those things are: Street Fighter". I made a good dinner today too! Oh well, ideally I will write more later.
Current Mood: ๐ฅฑ Eepy
Current Music: Lofi Hip Hop Radio - Beats to Study/Relax To
