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I remember the eager eyed John who developed a blog and posted about his thoughts, techniques, strengths, and shortcomings. You had passion. If you no longer have that passion, it’s time to pull back and find a new main focus in life. Myself, I went the father/student route. Know one thing: You’ll miss it. You’ll miss the people. You’ll miss the experience. However, just think of the time you’ll have for other things. Imagine being able to invest yourself into something from which you may reap reward. Doesn’t that feel good thinking about that? /truth

Now… stop being a bitch and take your losses. Man up ho! A loss means you ain’t grindin’ hard enough, bitch! /troll

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I remember my first loss in a tournament,muji…you beat me.

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Me too. I first showed up to the pizza place down in Tempe, got bodied, and was like…WOW, an Ibuki that knows what he’s doing!

Yo, real talk, where are games tonight?

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Jon, I rarely say anything about your posts, but I’ll bite this time and offer this one piece of advice. As soon as fighting games for you becomes about winning and not having fun…its time to quit. I will use myself as an example, and disregard the post from arnold that will most likely follow shortly, due to him loving me long time.

I dont touch MVC3 or any fighting games at home, I use that time for more constructive things. I literally dont practice, but at least once (lately twice or more due to dev) a week, I will go to a friends house, usually joshs or horacios, and we play for fun. We use chars we dont always play, we try new shit, we laugh and have FUN. Nobody really cares who wins or loses.How well you perform at the game should not dictate or equal how much fun you have, the company your keeping and the fact your enjoying a common interest with your friends should take priority, and winning and or getting better should just be a bonus/byproduct.

you will notice, when im able to make it to haz’s, I spend 75% of my time outside, or talking to somebody I havent seen in a while, not sitting in front of a screen.

If you truly enjoy fighitng games, it is ENTIRELY possible to have them in your life, yet still be productive with most of your time. If you truly let the game dictate and lead your life in a certain direction for the past few years, you are correct in wanting to take a step back and put things into perspective. I’m not the best player around, but im ok with that because the time i put in is truly very minimal compared to those who are pulling out the wins, which make the victories I get that much sweeter.

If you want to be the guy who wins all the time, be prepared to make sacrifices and lose out on certain aspects of life. If you want to be the guy who enjoys a few games with some friends from time to time, be prapared to get beat more often than you like, and watch people around you who put in more time get better than you (i used to have no problems beating you, now you own my face).

Just my 2 cents, but I’d suggest finding out what want out of fighting games, a career or a hobby, cause last i checked career consumes your time, while a hobbie occupies a small portion for entertainment A.K.A. “fun”.

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Leaving Socal for AZ in a few hours.

Myself, Noah (aka prodigy) along with his two brothers and father will be driving up there today.

I think our hotel room is full so if you have a room and would like to play casuals please send me a PM with your info, please include a cell # if possible.

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So who is playing Dark Souls? what class did you all pick? I started with Pyromancer and after getting faith to 11 im focusing on str/dex/int game is pretty good once you get around the odd controls and attack mechanics.

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I started with sorcerer, getting wtfpwned at the towers after reading the “you will get beaten to a pulp” message is NOT fun lol. Debating another class for the time being. only being able to cast 30 soul arrows without resting gets annoying. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Started off as a Wanderer, and rage quit in the Undead Berg last night.

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I’m switching back & forth between pyromancer and thief, but I don’t think the starting classes mean that much since you can learn miracles from the blonde guy at the starting zone and buy soul arrows from the blacksmith. My standard build for any Souls game is spear + shield because you can get your poke on while keeping your shield raised.

I just got the ability to do co-op (from an NPC after Undead Burg boss).

Munchi, SNK & myself are all playing on PS3. My psn id is gunrobot_phx

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Im on xbox so that wont work. I picked the pyro since it starts at level 1 (after adding everyones stats up his is higher since its lvl 1) so upgrading early is cheaper plus you get a good str start and a powerful spell to begin with too. I beat the second demon up top of the tower, need to beat the stupid knight at the bottom (I started with key to get down there), oh and it took me forever to figure out how to get past the stupid red drake lol.

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Oh those messages are left by other players so others may not see that, pretty neat ( I never played the first game on ps3 so I dont know if this is new) I actually got trolled two times from those messages too was pretty funny. You can buy the item from the undead merchant to leave messages and rate them as well. You can also invade other players worlds if they are human, if you kill them you get humanity! the game is crazy with how it works multiplayer.

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Ugh so much to do this week. Devastation, IPL, and DarkSouls!!! :frowning:

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You didn’t need an item to write messages in the first game, so I think that might be throwing people off. I’ve left a ton and still have 0 ratings. (+ rated messages give you bonuses).

That guy in the bottom of the locked tower is a bastard. I tried kiting him to a safe spot, but was certain he stopped following me. Like an idiot, I go back to check and of course he’s waiting for me behind a door.

EDIT: Here’s how PVP works. It’s confusing and different from the last game - http://support.namcobandaigames.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=248

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Salty Aftermath a.k.a The Sandy Suite “Thursday from 8pm till 3am, Friday 12am till 4am & Saturday from 12am till 4am” $10 Door entry fee (AE&MvC3) Pr Rog is in the house already and tonight expecting Justin Wong, Yipes, Marn and the rest of them gang. Will be streamed on www.twitch.tv/teamhazmat

Address: 8203 S 53rd ave, Laveen, 85339
Haz: 6025168871

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Haz, I’ll contact you after I get off work regarding getting my setup to you. I’m off at 7pm.

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Dang, wish i could make it out to haz’s tonight, but swamped with school. :frowning:

I’m fucking with dark souls on ps3! Just putting it out there, if you kill red drake’s tail by shooting it with arrows, you can get a pretty good sword that only requires 16 str. if no one knew yet that is.

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I guess it’s haz’s tonight and not GWs.

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So nervous for my AE pool tomorrow. This is my first ever major tourney, and only my second ever tourney, actually. Getting some practice in with friends tonight, but I’m so not prepared for this.

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Just do your best and enjoy being there. Nobody is going to beat you up if you lose. There will be plenty of other people who will be competing for the first time as well, and you’ll get to see many top players in the flesh. If you’re really confident in your game, set a goal to win a certain amount of matches (Or win the tournament). If you’re not, then see how far you can get and enjoy the ability to play so many players from around the world.

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Definitely the attitude I have going in. My ideal goal is to win a game in one of my matches, but I’ll be happy if I can win a round. I’m really excited to meet new people and see top players in a live setting. Participating is just a bonus.