Umm…we played A LOT this weekend. I started to almost hate CvS2.
So for at least today, I quit.
Yea Cheng emailed like instantly…
amazing trade. I don’t even know what to say…Ottawa is going to BEAST this year.
Definetly, and we get to watch them tomorrow. This trade cannot fail unless unpredictable circumstances happen. The hockey world is congradulating the shit out of Brian Murray for this one…fantastic job.
ah i see… sounds… fun? lol. when’re you guys doing that next? i’d like to join you… get my mind off crap! lol
Clearly I am praising myself. There’s nothing wrong with learning from live action… that’s just how I do. However, at least I don’t need to read a book to learn how to play video games :rolleyes:
sweet, I’m unretired now.
I am being serious when I say that I like playing SF3 better against the computer than against humans.
because computers dont talk shit?
it’s actually because i can set the difficulty to level 1 and sometimes beat the first guy
hooray for being up early!
GGs yesterday Rodrick. GGpo is too funny.
What the hell does reading a book have to do with this converstation? Maybe you were trying to implicate something that doesn’t make sense. If you were implicating that I read books or online shit to learn how to play - you’re an idiot and have no idea what you are talking about.
If you’re implicating that reading books, that have nothing to do with video games, will help you learn how to play - I could argue against that but it seems like a random point that came out of knowhere.
No matter what this makes no sense unless you were referencing someone else.
Have you ever heard of intuition and understanding? That is what it takes to learn how to play fighting games well. There’s nothing wrong with copying another players tactic but if you can’t expand that tactic it’s pretty temporary.
If you simply copycat, you’re confining yourself to a moment of time. Sure, certain areas will excel when you focus in on them and ignore other factors, but that doesn’t mean you’re doing it better. Better is using the tactic, but also knowing how to expand it, not use it and mesh it in with others.
I’m not saying your bad or good Traian (since I know that’s how your going to take it).
The point is you need to also develop things on your own to grasp a bigger picture of the game…if you really want to be better…
Dee and I spent like 40min discussing that yesterday. Good stuff.
He absolutely does it. His wording is misleading as it came across with some arbitrary pointlessness within reference to what we’re talking about.
When playing him, it is very notable that he’s trying to put otherwise random actions into context and figure situations out as various elements are progressing during a match. To further push the point that he’s consciously trying to connect the dots, he can explain why he responded in such a way to specific actions during any context in a way which makes you go “oh yea, I totally see where your coming from”.
This was notoriously clear in our Chun vs Ken marathon yesterday. I was pointing out specifications for the match up and I could see him trying to understand, act, improvise, revise, try it again w/ a modified approach, evaluate it, and then repeating the process.
What are you doing tonight? Cb’s out of town again?
I know how good he is but he depends on others to kick start his intuitiveness. So I would say his understanding is limited to a supplied spark.
It’s not that he’s not capable, he’s just lazy at times and asks people questions that someone of his capabilities should easily be able to understand.
He’s become dependent in a certain area and doesn’t know how to provide it for himself in crucial moments.
When he went to T8, I figured he would realize how important it is to understand as much as he could on his own, especially in the moment. Instead after he comes to me and asks what he did wrong. I don’t even know how to answer it because it’s always such a long explanation that requires me to remember well. More so, I know he’s capable of seeing it himself. He has more experience than I do in fighting games so there’s no reason for it imo other than laziness.
It also makes me wonder if he fears knowing too much so it makes his losses more on him?
I have no problem answering questions, it’s just many of them he shouldn’t be asking or his asking about it wrong.
Second, if he got the idea that I understand the game based on ‘reading’ is the funniest thing I’ve ever read. You can’t grasp these things by reading OR by someone telling you. That’s the point, I learnt on my own…this board was used to find out certain technical details to be exactly sure of situations I was already aware of or to correct the idiocy of the majority of the posts.
If he attributed my reading to my understanding (and therefore equated his questions being answered to reading) he’s completely missed the real learning curve.
I think Traian might be able to kick all our asses in these games, but his mind is a bit lost. Then again, straightening that out would also take away from the areas he focused so strongly in so I don’t know…
Tonight? I’m definetly watching the hockey game. I would be down for games before that (5-7pm).
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Hm. Yeah truly being a copycat player doesn't really involve getting good at the game in a competitive sense tournament wise. This is primarily because of the main reasons that I used to play video games and how they have changed over time. Basically in the beginning when of course I was a noob, to me games weren't really about being good at. It was mainly about picking a target/goal and beating it (for example a certain player or even the computer bosses and such). People didn't really take video games seriously as a competitive thing. It was mainly recreational to them (from my point of view). So basically my tactic over the years was to pretty much learn a player's tactic (such as patterns and psychological moments in which they felt fear) and abusing that against them. Back in the day, due to lack of founds i couldn't really afford to really play the game and understanding it... however I still liked it and desired to play it a lot. By watching people play and understanding their style I basically copied them, made their style better and basically beast on them and annoy them in such a way that they would play me over and over again urging for their revenge/grudge. Satisfaction came from just breasting my opponents not being very concerned for my methods of play/game understanding and such. However as you guys came along with your serious competitive play I didn't really think about changing my style much since in the beginning it was still OK for winning and other areas. Plus along with you guys came the weed season for me in which for some reason I simply really enjoyed winning through bullshit and random supers. However when people didn't play arcade as much and rather practiced and improved by going to outside tournaments or practicing at home where it is more convenient... I was kind of separated from the actual competition and kinda began how Tak was saying to "scrub out". Momentarily it's true... I can't really work on getting better at the games because of time constraints and stuff so I'm basically using that old copycat tactic and just try to keep OK at it because I still enjoy being competitive. Probably after I graduate and I work I can get back in da game properly and more seriously. Till then I'll just have to do with what I have :wgrin:Question: How do you breast an opponent? I want the satisfaction of breasting opponents too.
I understand. When I first started playing I was only concerned with combos and just winning. I knew I fun playing but I didn’t know why. If you think about those things you want to achieve, becoming a better player (which is above winning) helps fulfill all of them.
I’m not demanding it out of you, but you clearly ask questions that suggest you want to develop in certain areas. My point is that in order to truly do that, you have to start thinking from outside looking in as opposed to being caught in a moment within. Once you do that, those moments will be much more clear to you.
I only said all this shit because I know you well enough to know you can handle this honesty. I know you’re cocky sometimes but you don’t always hold on to that as an absolution and look down at others in the end…so I know you can grasp it.
The second point, is that I know you’re good but it would be detrimental for you to actually believe that reading or watching a game will give you all you need. It’s helpful in it’s own way but the majority of the learning has to take place with you experiencing situations.
Your right though, you should focus on other things before this shit.
is all that worth reading? (just asking)
Mythicexile can teach 3s at the tourney.