Good point about Vega. Well it goes to show that even though a lot of players think they’re a bunch of tough guys, it goes to show how accommodating the game really is.
But now with Vega and Zangief we’re going with issues of personified masculinity lol. Vega is a bull fighter and in Spain, Matadors are seen as male sex symbols to women. So Vega in Spain is very masculine. I’ve heard that the image of Zangief can be seen as gay in Japan while the image of Remy is straight. It’s the opposite in the US. But I digress.
Lol well, you are also correct about that. But they made Vega really “beautiful”. His character is obsessed with the way he looks; the stereotype of a woman.
Zangief wears nothing but a speedo and boots so maybe he is gay, but there is nothing feminine about wrestling polar bears in the freezing cold. He is an animal, but at least he respects other people by not showing his dick :lol:
On the Kevin Smith podcast I was listening to he talks about that in the gay community big husky guys are known as “bears” lol. FYI hee hee.
Vega should not be automatically labeled “feminine” because he’s obsessed with his looks. He’s just vain. A lot of straight men are vain. Vanity is actually a common quality in the hetero male. Working out in the gym and getting muscles is a way of being vain. And also if you go back to the colonial days, men like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington use to wear wigs and powder their faces. My point is that Spanish Bull Fighters can be very vain. In Spain they are very sexualized and treated like Rock Stars who are also vain. Spainish Matadors can be very conceited and egotistical because they have groupies and women throwing themselves at them all the time. They’re flamboyant brutal artist. Cutting up a bull is there canvas. Matadors are very romanticized figures.
Tonight we shall have a gathering. Anyone and everyone is invited. All are welcomed. The more the merrier. I’ll be going around to collect the E fee so please have it read when I ask for it. Anyone new who wishes to join us please text me at 310 344 9367.
Hope to see y’all tonight:)
Come on over and let’s enjoy our last weeks here. And bring a jacket it’s freezing.
Epic 3v3, 60 man 3rd strike team tourney, poised to be the last great tournament and showstopper in SoCal – cancelled for such and such reasons I forget because of how loud it was at FFA. We had the best team name ever too! We called ourselves “Team Name” – clever, right? No, GRANT! Ibuki, Makoto, Ryu would have made up our hand. I was meant to be anchor and carry Team Name to victory when Grant chokes on those 100% stun kill combos, but NOOOO! This was supposed to be my time to shine and begin my legacy. However, that did not happen, and instead, I was simply given a $5 refund which I later used to buy an Italian BMT at Subway at 4am.
And Lenin has unresolved hatred towards me. How will THAT ever get resolved without a hype salty runback with egos on the line? Cliffhangers aren’t cool, bro. D=
That was my reason for wanting to go, now I am glad that I had a dinner to go to Saturday night. Would have sucked to show up and then nothing happen
Fuck it, we should make our own Third Strike tourney. Before Don moves, the “final hurrah” at his garage. All under the beautiful Christmas lights of the season. Makes it easier to drive around actually since it is so fucking dark over there :lol:
I was considering going again, but damn the Christmas season over there in that damn neighborhood. I’m more comfortable with the dark than I am with how bright that area is this time of year.
That neighborhood reminds me of slasher flicks. I don’t want to be murdered by a knife. I am more comfortable with the car alarms and sirens around my neighborhood actually.
Hell no. Just remember, if you end up in a situation like that, just crash into the house with Don’s drinking friends. Worst case scenario is you’re completely shit faced when the psycho comes at you and you have drunk man strength to fight him.
Pretty fucked up what happened at FFA, but I’m glad to have been a part of it. ST crew got shafted too since our casual setups got taken away for a free Vampire Savior tournament. I know the VS guys rarely have an opportunity to have tournaments, but I was pretty annoyed that they took the cabs away from us. We had a lot of regulars come AFTER the ST tournament just to play casuals, and they drove 1 hour+ to get there, and there were no casuals to be played.
That and the cops have nothing better to do than shut down a charity event because they want to power trip and because nothing ever fucking happens in Granada Hills at 2am on a Saturday night apparently. It was pretty awesome hearing Ralph cuss that pig out though.
Hopefully they can run it back at FFA or Super Arcade and continue the charity event.
P.S. I’m going to miss Ralph’s dog the most. Luigi is the most badass golden retriever I ever met.
RIP to our short lived team “Team Name”. I wasn’t trying to be clever. I was put on the spot and none of you guys had any ideas so I just said whatever that came to my mind. TT~TT Feel really bad for WTFAKUMAHAX though. He made the trip all the way down from San Fran and didn’t even get any games in. Which reminds me, I gotta get used to using our handles instead of our real names when signing up for tournaments.
Also, I now understand what Don was talking about when he was talking about the old FFA days. The crowd was really huge and full of energy. Seeing the 60+ 3s players all gathered at one arcade made me cry a little inside and wish I was born 3~4 years earlier.
Yes for the past ten years or so FFA was the Alexandria for 3S. It was a rare time in history when playing 3S was really good for business. The money 3S made for FFA gave the arcade it’s last big run. And FFA probably gave a lot of it back when it had to buy SF4 arcade boards lol.
Unfortunately the culture of 3S today is a bankrupt business. But I’m an optimist. Whenever there is a arcade famine players will be hungry for it again.
Lets see what happens when the arcade famine strikes.
I’ve been asking this question a lot lately, “What happens when all the arcades die?” So far, nobody has given any concrete answer. Most of the time, they just sorta look down at the ground and say, “I don’t know.”
I understand that the arcade business model is a dying business. It is literally impossible to make money as an arcade operator in this day and age, which is a combination of a) lack of support from game devs who charge WAY too much money to purchase and install games along with network systems, and b) a disturbing trend where gamers prefer to stay at home and play games. You have to do what Round1 does and have an arcade as a value-added service, alongside bowling, billiards, ping pong, food, alcohol, and redemption. The arcade is there as a side attraction to their entertainment hub, and most definitely not their primary source of revenue.
Even on FFA’s final hurrah before it closes, police gotta be a dick and it down. I hate cops in bored, sleepy towns. So now we’re down to just Super Arcade and Alex’s Arcade as our last final arcades, and it’s more important than ever to support these two places, despite how far away they are for most people.
We should have been called “Stun Factor”, obviously. You should have known that while under peer pressure. You know, I didn’t know that guy was WTFAKUMAHAX. He might have said it, but I couldn’t hear a thing in there. Also, your name is Karafail – yes – and mine is Mr. 12. 'K. Just making sure that you remember our handles, 'cause I had to correct you as you were signing in my name. Nearly ruined my legacy, and we can’t have that! >:(
I live in Sleepy Hollow, you didn’t know I was the headless horseman. I mean I drive a black Ford Mustang. Muhwawawa.
Why do you think it’s always quiet and the police run away from me when they go there? No one in that neighborhood is alive.
I’ve finally accepted the fact that arcades are now Ancient History. But like the Ancients people will always be fascinated by their world. So there’s still hope.
He doesn’t talk or act anything like how he is online, I swear. I didn’t get to see him play either, so I have no clue how good his Ryu is. Then again, you guys wanted the Ibuki player to play anchor, so I’m just going to assume that I’m the better of the 3. That said, we definitely had no chance out of pools – I’ll admit that. Too many killers, and far too many of them I already know how good they are compared to me. Who were you paired up with, Sanchez?
