Either blame Cipher or the threat of SRK closing down before
Nah
He said his self-esteem is “so low,” implying he has a smidge left
Mine literally doesn’t exist 
Played this ranked match against a Scorpion. It was pretty standard, I ended up taking the game without losing a round. When I did the fatality against him, he had this to say on mic.
“I hope you die in a house fire.”
That’s a true victory to me.
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I’m not mad elitist to anybody. We got Maravilla asking random questions and he gets paragraphs worth of explanation from me.
I also didn’t get ostracized from my community. I left it because they let some bitch shit slide. The hilarious thing is that it hasn’t really recovered from it still. But hey, make up some more fan fiction.
The shit with Bea I didn’t know. But it probably came from the same stance I had then that’s still true: You aren’t really part of a community until you participate in it. I’ve played overwatch once, saw some of the OWL out of curiosity, I don’t play it, discuss it, keep watching or in any way engage with people who play actively to discuss the game. Am I part of the OW community? Nope.
I know and had helped a lot of the local smash players with equipment for their tournaments. Hell I was part of their FB group at one point and I’m on great terms with a chunk of them. Am I a part of the local smash scene? Nope.
Unless Bea was actively participating in a local FG group, that’s not really FGC. Hell most of the FGC, for a good amount, was centered around the US and a few spots world wide. Japan had a different thing altogether that behaved entirely different than the US Scene or other places. Saying that the US and Japan were the same FGC would’ve been insanely misinformed.
So @Bea_Iank My bad. It wasn’t my intention to make you feel bad or unwelcomed here, I probably got all uppity over some dumb ass shit James Chen said and didn’t phrase properly.
But considering that I grew my city’s scene from a tiny group to a solid one, fuck all has to do with me being unwelcoming or elitist.
On the other hand ,you’re still a snitch.
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Played SF2 on the SNES from 1992 to the late 90s, had lots of friends coming over for small tournaments at my place, played local tournaments held by Capcom during the Super SF2 era, played KOF pretty much on the arcades daily from 1997 to 2001, cross dressed to go to different arcades to play KOF unbothered with my friends. 
If all that didn’t count as participating, I dunno what does then.
Sure, I took at 14 years break from 2003 to 2017, but the past still counts.
I was pretty annoyed then, but I consider that water under the bridge.
I have too much to worry and be angry about to spend energy dealing with petty things from the past.
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I mean you also just shit on a guy for letting his stream know he isn’t gonna be streaming FGs and made up some retarded narrative that he “used us” even though he gets less viewership now.
Good you apologised but you actively not seeing you’re a cunt about this is something you gonna need to adjust. Would still love to see me actively being a cunt to random people BTW, that’s a solid narrative you’re trying to run on me.
Bea is a woman and can crush steel beams like they were cotton don’t be an asswipe
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I don’t know about this line. If someone doesn’t have a local scene and can only play online, but actively posts here to try and improve themselves and support the part they can, is that still not FGC?
I don’t have a local scene and didn’t travel at all during 2018. Was I not FGC during that period?
I get the idea of randoms going on Twitch streams not being really FGC but not the rest of it.
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No. Posting on a forum that hasn’t been relevant in years doesn’t make you FGC. By your definition I’m FGC because I posted some EVO threads on reddit.
Hard disagree. Some people simply don’t have a local to go to. You’re also essentially nuking entire anime communities with this kind of thinking.
Honestly, sounds like some dumb elitist shit.
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Fixed for accuracy, she even called us short. 
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You are all short. Anything below 6’2’’ is short.
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She’s not wrong. Eat your vegetables.
pfft, it’s not the size but how you use it!!!
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It is.
There lots of people that way pre-SF4. But at that point you’re actively participating in a community.
I spent 03 to 05 playing MvC2 with the samw group of guys at community college. I found SRK (didnt make an account), learned about Evo, but just stuck with these 5-6 guys who knew about bigger tournaments but never went. We never reached out to other people. Sure we were playing FGs but we werent part of the FGC. That FGC thing refers to an actual group of people that you can choose to participate with or not.
Right now I’m still part of the FGC, just not part of my local community. I’m still cool with a lot of the guys, but just not doing that type of stuff.
Hell I used to be a big part of the MTG scene in my city for years, stopped playing a few years ago. I know all the store owners, friends with some personally, know some of the players, dont actively play, buy cards or attend tournaments. Still have a DCI #. Since I dont participate in anything, I’m not really part of a community.
Its nowhere near the big deal everybody makes it out to be. There’ loada of stuff I enjoy without being part of the communities for them. I love the game Go but never had a chance to meet up local city players. Follow their FB page but I am not part of my city’s Go community.
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I’ll bite. What is your definition of the FGC?
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Some arbitrary gatekeeping shit that takes a video game hobby way too deep
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Bruh I stop growing before I even hit high school. 
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What bite? I have a degree in Anthropology. All of my undergrad was me taking stuff in my classes and using the greater communities to figure out how it worked. Probably could’ve done a Master’s thesis on it.
Before reddit/twitter, the best ways to define membership as meeting any or all three of these qualifications:
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Actively participated in one of the main online sites for the games.
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regularly participated in a local group that was connected to the national group in some way (SRK or attending regionals/majors)
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constantly attended tournaments with people in one of the first two.
That more or less described a lot of people who were walking in and out. Problem is that when people said FGC when the term became prominent (the SF4 years), it was mostly used to denote the American scene, which then made it feel capcom centric. They also sort of whitewashed all the games into onw giant group and assumed all of the players were the same (which wasnt the case and lead to stuff like MLG doing tournaments for KoF and Soul Calibur that were nowhere near capacity).
Now its sort of a clusterquack because yiu have a lot of weird groups that would get named FGC. Many of those people enjoy FGs but dont necessarily want to be part of any community.
Kind of how NRS sells millions of games but tournament participation is low. Just buying the games and playing online by yourself isnt really getting you to be a community member. So there’s very much a massive difference in behavior between FGC and people who just buy fighting games.
Edited for clarity.
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Stop the press.
SamSho will save the FGC:
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