Best written Cops and Crims show ever. For the traditional reasons but also because it went to new territory. Like showing the real corruption at all levels on both sides of the battle, the lies/selfish interests that the news media peddles and the very serious problem with inner city education not to mention a majorly badass homosexual gangster that even the other gangsters were scrd of.
Edit: p.s. I’ll mirror match you any time you wanna switch Dander…
ha, I never thought of that before. that’s actually a pretty interesting parallel. I’m guessing Omar’s attitude can be found in all kinds of successful people across a lot of professions and interests.
Omar is pretty great. Omar Stringer and Bodie are top 3 if I’m ranking characters. I’m sure they probably all have FG parallels too. Stringer might be one of those SF4 era personalities, pushing for mainstream recognition and more money in the community. Bodie ate one too many wakeup uppercuts and decided he was done.
Stringer is awesome. I love Idris Elba, but that character specifically is dope. Even 3rd tier Wire characters are more compelling than a lot of other dramas main characters.
lol that’s true. I’ve been thinking of ways to unghetto Alaska’s 3s scene. I’ve got three solid players who have a decent idea of what they’re doing. then a few new guys. I got those guys interested by showing them footage, making them listen to the old 3s podcasts at work, and talking about how great it is pretty often. who knows if they’ll stick or not. I’ve also made contact with our local FG community and talked them them about running a 3s tournament. if they show any interest I’ll see how averse they are to me bringing some CRTs for the setups.
I’ve been saving up for a 3s cab. I want to get a versus city with all the usual good stuff - seimitsu stick, sanwa buttons. I don’t really play any other game anymore, it makes sense that we should play on a real cab if we can. and I think the novelty of that at least might get some of the local FG players to come play 3s here and there. everyone wants to play on an arcade cab. especially in Alaska where I don’t think there are any.
the goal of this is to rope in somewhere between 8-16 regulars for once a week sessions. I don’t know how successful it will be. it’s a long gap between “a few new guys I talk to and a few guys who wanna try an arcade cab” and “these guys are grinding 3s and showing up every week because they love the game.” but I will try at least. I can’t really afford to move to So Cal or Japan and I think constant competition is going to be the key to everyone’s mutual improvement, so gotta make the effort. and yeah I gotta keep endlessly positive. I think that’ll attract people and keep them around. just talk about what makes 3s sick and they can be part of it too. I think Gootecks and Max are pretty good at that, getting new players interested and enthusiastic even if some of the stronger players don’t dig it as much.
and who knows, I bet there are 3s players hiding in the woodwork. I can’t be the only person who started the game basically when OE came out. I bet there’s a few Alaska online warriors I don’t know about. I’ll post flyers.