Get ready, because this will be a long post. But you wish to push fallacies and make things out to be what they are not, so obviously you must be willing to read what I type.
Pull a “branh” for what?
I was in room #157, with you (although I wasn’t aware you were there, I didn’t actually learn who you were until I went back up to the room where everyone else was to sleep), but I didn’t “choose to not play you”; that’s a lie. I accepted a challenge whenever I got a chance to pick up the sticks, which can be counted on one hand. I wanted to fight everytime I got the chance, remember? Must have slipped your mind in trying to make out my post to be something it was not.
Let me refresh your memory.
I asked multiple times, whenever Coos or someone else inquired about, “who wants to take the sticks” and most of the time, the players acted if they did not hear me. So we finally established a order in which to go around the room, and because so many people were squeezed in there (I was suffocating between Coos and Tactical Panda; I think 300 Eugene was to my left, can’t recall), it still took a long time. I mainly got beaten soundly by Chris Johnson and his Rouge, Tron, Cable team; only really put up a fight against B.J. But it hardly matters, since I did not come in that room boasting about my skills, did I? I came there for the exact opposite reason - I wanted to get better. Without all the money match nonsense going on earlier that day, i figured I could get in a lot of practice and learn some new things. But I was hampered by 1) the fact I was about to fall asleep, so I basically just fought in “Survival mode” without much strategy (dumb) and 2) there being so many people in the room. And I think it leaked over to the next morning as well because I did even worse than the previous afternoon, where I actually put up a fight against people like Bananas (I should have just gone to sleep but I wanted more youtube footage).
What would be the point now? I have gotten better and I want to see how I fare against my fellow GA marvel players. It would be odd if I continued to practice the game but did not want to compete with the rest of the community, would it not? Do you think you are so god-like a scrub like me can’t touch you? I don’t know if I can beat you now or not, but if you want to make this mean-spirited (instead of the friendly challenge I intended) then I will practice and practice until I can defeat you. I am a dedicated player and I learn. I can do anything I set my mind to.
I chuckle at how you think I’m being arrogant or “calling you out” because I want to (gasp) play a fighting game with you. Though concerning that night, I hated how since I was too tired to really think about a gameplan and just acted on instinct (check out my match against BJ how I had a ton of meter but never really used it), I didn’t really learn anything which is far more devastating than any loss. I kinda feel like I wasted my time because I didn’t really get to play either. But according to your crystal clear memory, I apparently had my pad in the DC almost the whole time and outright denied you the right to play me.
What are you talking about?
I don’t think I’m good at any fighting game, except for VF and CvS2, the latter something I haven’t played competitively in like 6 years, and the former I am a full revision behind.
As for your comment about me and SF4, EX3: I don’t need to bring up a discussion about those two anymore because I already see that EX3 is the superior game (well perhaps not for casual/scrub play but I don’t care about that) and as for SF4 I actually did play that game or at the very least observe it. Mike brings his PS3 up to the college for our sessions everyday and he owns it. And even if he did not, a Ryu player (who is intent on getting revenge on my Akuma even though I do not really play it nor like it) brings it for Xbox360 as well. So I have access to it all the time, unlike say Branh, who claims that game is the godsend yet doesn’t own it (SF4 is about “footsies” he says). 
Like VF, I realize some games require you to play them, get to a moderate level before you can claim to not like them or argue against them. So even though I got a lukewarm reception from playing it at ICIII, I decided to stick with it for awhile and see if delving into it would change my mind. I’ve also been checking up on the SF4 section (its a mess up there).
I am sorry to say, to me, SF4 does not that have that beauty, it doesn’t really have much of anything compared to other things I could be playing. If this came out eight years ago, maybe it would be impressive; the only people it should really be wowing is the casual/new-to-fighters people, who is exactly who this game is meant for.
Finally, you always bring up this straw-man argument to people you have a beef with; not being “proven in the community” or “showing up for stuff”, and I agreed with this when I spoke with you over IM weeks ago and said I shouldn’t really speak my mind on those affairs (actually I still haven’t) because I was a newcomer and I didn’t think I was particularly skilled. You seem to think because I am new to your community that I don’t have sufficient experience in fighters, which is obviously false and you know you should not make a comparison like that.
But you told me it did not matter. Your words: “Your voice should be heard.” And I will continue to do that, as long as I don’t personally offend people (Sorry Branh for any slight).
Sorry for the long post, back to your regularly scheduled programming.
I saw a post he’d made in the Waba tourneys thread saying that they shouldn’t hold the tournaments at all, but rather just write him a check and save everyone their wasted effort. I negged him and told him he was a joke. If he chose to take it personally(which he apparently did), that’s his fault. I like to crack wise from time to time, and that was one of those times.
