Fryborg
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there are always other games to play anyway so i always ask if its alright if i join in on a game. ppl rarely say no in my experience anyway
i hate it when there are kids playing fighting games i just want to beat them up
I was at a small arcade in Florida not too long ago and some dude completely stomped me in Hyper Fighting using cheap tick throws! I called bullshit and he started talking shit like “play to win. It’s not cheap!” Not telling me ways to avoid getting thrown or giving me any real advice other than that.
So I took his advice and played to win. No honor, no standards, not even a friendly match. So I started singing Happy Happy Joy Joy really loudly… causing him to get pissed and lose. I played to win by getting inside my opponents head. Is this improper arcade etiquette to be a complete asshole to someone who quotes that shit and is a complete asshole?
Play to win but don’t be an ass hole about it.
Sometimes people like it when you ask before challenging, some don’t. I do it if I am at new arcade and I don’t know the “workings” of their cliques or cab rotations or whatever. Plus it’s just common courtesy since you are new. Unless there is a line then it’s whatever.
Simply introducing yourself goes a long way in arcades too. Yeah people will know of “that one dude with a good said character/team” but people will remember and acknowledge you if you introduce yourself. So it’d be “Oh yeah, that’s Stuart. He came here a week or so ago. He has a really good said team or character. You should talk to him. He’s a pretty nice guy.”
Shake hands before and after matches. Say good game regardless of winning or losing.
This is just shit I always do though.
Oh, and like a lot of other people mentioned. FUCKING BATHE! PLEASE!
Man when you were young and a regular at Trax this shit didn’t apply at all. Ohh lawdy the antics, the singing of the Ice Tower stage song, the screaming and yelling. Those were good times.
PPG Baby! He comes back every now and again when I play Marvel.
But that’s when I was young as you said and thought I was hot shit. So it’s whatever now. I’m a lot more respectful and realize I suck at most fighters.
You can’t really stop someone from putting money into the machine.
My real problem is with people who go to arcades and don’t wear deodorant. :shake:
Throw all day. It’s in the game isn’t it?
I’m tempted to carry a can of Febreze or Axe with me, just so I can spray down the guys that don’t wear deodorant/never shower.
I think all the valid points got discussed here. Wait your turn, know who’s in front of you, if there’s an open seat at the cab, expect competition, etc. Oh, and taunting post-match is kinda stupid.
^ taunting, some take it serious and some dont. just dont taunt unless you really know the person 
I was just about to say something along these lines.
Busta and Stuart: Agreed, yeah. I do it against close buddies. Like, if it’s a match for shits and giggles, I’ll taunt post-match because we’re just dicking around. But I remember, specifically, there was this one guy a couple of nights ago at FFA… I tried to give him some helpful advice for his Akuma (like only sticking to SA1 and not picking SA2 or SA3); he replied to me like I was out of my mind and I didn’t know what I was thinking about. And then he tried to get all cocky, taunt post-match, doing stupid stuff.
It’s just what Mike Z told me before: I don’t need to taunt post-match against someone; I can always be the better man regardless.
Taunting can work to throw someone off their game though.
xero15
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he was being sarcastic.
now what if you still lost? then you would have been looking like a real idiot :lol:
i dont mind kids playing on the machines so long as they remind me of myself when i was little. it didnt take me too many times to get my ass whooped before i got the concept of adapting but it was fun nonetheless standing on the stools or step ladders to reach the machine trying to get past fireballs aww i miss my youth.
The combined smell of bad BO and axe is one of the worse smells of all time
yeah man, don’t tell me how to play my character
pherai
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Haha, if the guy was picking sa2 or 3, I imagine Duralath could have fucked him up with akuma
if you took a dump, wash your hands.
if you took a piss, wash your hands.
if you have the flu and coughed germs on your hands, wash your hands.
if you picked your nose, wash your hands.
if you have sweaty hands, wear latex gloves.
etc…
shut the fuck up howie mandel
