just play online for fun. its easy to drive yourself nuts if you take it too seriously. cheers.
also just find people on here to play if you want consistency instead of just playing randoms.
I just see online as recreation. Offlineās where itās at.
Itās not even the scrubs though, or being overmatched, thatāll happen anytime you decide to pick up a stick, online or off, but when you canāt be sure if your moves will come out when you want them, its hard to take the match seriously.
Yep, thatās really itā¦ especially when you consistently rely on 1f links. I like playing with random chars online though, it helps me enjoy it more.
Jawang
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If you really want to get better, you have to take matches seriously. Just donāt let losses affect you (easier said than done).
Also, I really disagree with the ājust play for funā advice. Thatās a great motto in theory, but in reality itās not fun to lose. You can have plenty of fun even if you play dead serious every game. But you have to have the right attitude. Donāt make excuses for your losses saying crap like you werenāt trying, or that youāre just practicing, or some other BS about not being serious. I made that mistake for a long time and it holds you back a lot. When you lose, just take a breath and tell yourself you were outplayed. Then move on and keep getting better.
Why does this discussion have to get so aggressive? Letās take the heat down a notch 
BTW Jawang, Iām still waiting on a few of your matches. You make a lot of good points but slow people (like me) need to see to learn.
Thanks.
ITās not bullshit about not being serious, despite popular belief some people only really do play for fun. That is their sole purpose. I like to get better but Iām not even going to touch the amount of time needed to really get into it and to me thats ok. I can still go out and have a good time IRL with friends playing games not not worry about it. Not everyone is trying to a get a sponsor or blow up, which also blows my mind, but thatās a whole nother can of worms. Cheersā
i honestly take it as it isā¦a pale comparison to the real deal. thereās a thread on the boards asking about if online skill equates to offline skill, and i say it doesnāt. there will always be factors that you cannot account for, like lag spikes and your roommate downloading porno, and those are things you can never 100% control. theyāre not the same as the variables during a real match, like audience noise or an obnoxious opponent who is 1 inch from your face.
with that being said, itās hard to take a match seriously when i probably win matches due to lag as much as i lose to it. it doesnāt happen all the time, but in itās inconsistency, thereās still the consistency of it inevitably happening. because i know this, i can admit that there were wins i didnāt deserve, and losses i didnāt deserve. for that matter, online canāt be taken too seriously as an accurate barometer of skill.
true, it can give you an intermediate lesson on how to play a match-up, but even then, your perspective will be skewed, because people play differently online than they do offline. i donāt think any respectable ken player would follow up a whiffed jab dp with an ex oneā¦but you know what, online, it actually gets folksā¦A LOT. by the same token, i rarely go for the tricky/technical stuff online because i know itās hit or miss. despite my execution being better than average, there will still be moments where inopportune lag plays a role and i miss a link. i know, i know, if youāre good, youāll hit the link more often than not, but even the best players canāt hit links underwater.
Right the Sakura AE video matchup thread is up and running.
There isnāt too many Sakura AE videos from what I can see, theyāre probably hidden in those like 50 minute long videos from Acho or SMAOI. I added in some for tonight and will add some more tomorrow.
You could probably find a few more digging through the other video thread if you havenāt already.
So I told myself right after getting Bison to A+, I would aim for A+ Sakura. Got her to A in like, six days. 
Finally got her up there yesterday morning. Just in time for it to not matter at all!
Wanton
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Friends. I have acquired a 360 to play on now. Add my GT = BASED Wanton. Want to play some of the 360 sakura users.
D:
Very nice, what do you mean it doesnāt matter at all? Iām sure you will be up on the leaderboard pretty high for that so its still a nice achievement.
Who cares about the leaderboard or rank, the only thing that matters is how much you learned from playing those matches.
It doesnāt matter because Iāll be back at zero for AE lol.
after playing a bit the last 2 days i can say online really is trash and as bad as i remember itā¦ donno why they even bother to rank people on it because itās nothing like real SF. (not that sf4 is like real sf) cheers!
Today was actually a good day for me. I was hitting my links online more often than not. I also love when someone tries to throw a meaty fireball when I have meter.
However, Iām having problems against T. Hawk. His Condor Dive shenanigans really messed with me. It has a height restriction, doesnāt it? Is the bar just set really low?
edit: AE question for anyone who played it: does the cr. HP tech throw option select work against Yun and Yangās dive kicks?
I got 4th place at a tournament today, and man am I rusty. At least I lost to the guy who took 1st place.
So a small part of me wants to get back into SF4, whenever I think about Sakura my heart skips a beat, and it makes me miss my scrub combo of j.HK > c.HP > EX Tatsu > Shinku Tengyo Hadoken.
AOS
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With the hype of Marvel dying down, I find myself playing SF a lot more now because of the BS range Dante has in Marvelā¦
My style of play has changed quite a bit, as Iām thinking a lot more and actually reading my opponentā¦ but Iām still a reaction/defensive for tte most part because I still get rushed down.
