good! banana is my personal favorite
so about the YBH, I’m about to take pictures of every page, they’re high enough resolution that you should be able to see everything
I’ll only give the link out through PM, I don’t want no busters throwing a fit about copyrights
so PM me if you want it
edit: these results are unsatisfactory 
I might have to wait until I gain access to a scanner to share the joy 
I’ve got a scanner that I bought in 2000 for a college class project, and haven’t used since. While it is my property, I’ll ask whether anyone I live with has any designs on it. If not, you can borrow it. But I’m sure that scanning technology has come a long way in the last 7 years. If you’re rather just purchase something newer, let me know.
Dammit, I knew you guys would devise a method to suck me back in.
I can scan it, but it would probably take a HELLA long time to do so. My scanner is fairly new and does a decent job
Also, I just want to say that I am much better on console now. The better I get on my happ stick, the worse I get on jap sticks. This is very frustrating for me. My heart AND skill are not given a fair chance.
Thanks for having us Beasley.
ps
DOA is nasty.
^ but Vanessa was not
ROFLMAO!
When was this?
Get’em Deezy!
Julien, thanks for having us out again, I wanted to apologize for not throwing away the garbage I left there. I have better home training than that, trust me man. Looking forward to the next one.
We should set up a system like that, and then I will go in the other room. You could even walkie talkie your own DeeJay and tell him to “GO!”, think of the possibilities if we adapted the technologies present in high level DOA 4 play…
No, pulling a Mandel means announcing you’re done with the game, even temporarily, yet being back at the very next tournament. We all know how you are and love your exccentricities Mandel, so it’s not hate. But don’t make somone pull a search function cus you’ve announced on SRK more than once you’re done with Marvel and then place at the very next tourney…
Search function? No! Please God NO! Don’t run a search!
Well I had an elaborate response typed up in my defense, that countered all your “historic Mandel quitting and coming back” stories, when I realized it wasn’t actually worth it. Continue pulling a “Mandel” all you like. If it’s an explanation you want, I’ll entertain you. But whatever, it’s cool.
god, what will those DOAers think of next?
speaking of breakthrough technology, I just put a forum up on sobatcarnival
http://www.sobatcarnival.com/forum
I posted it in the ST forum too, but no one ever checks that place lol
I don’t really need an explanation because it’s obviously a touchy subject for you. But me and others were under the impression from your post-tournament posts before that you were either quitting or taking a break from marvel. Maybe I read you wrong.
But I think you’re over sensitive because I said “pull a mandel” ONCE, yet my fucking new NICKNAME is pretty derrogatory, so I think you should just let it go.
???
I thought I let it go when I said…
Over sensitive? Okay.
I just spammed your boards. Yeah!
Also, I saw no way of navigating to the boards from the main page or any of the branches.
Man, I just wasted over 40 minutes of my life writing up a strategy article on Alex’s forum. Who knew that I could get so engrossed in anything but Marvel. Alex, Julien, since you guys taught me that game, I want 40 minutes of my life back. It’s not even that good of an article. Hardly insightful, and terribly formatted.
Thanks to everyone for coming over! I had a great time, as usual. Deezo, thanks for the note but don’t worry about it!
I’ve been practicing the DJ MGU combos… getting ready for next time!
Feck, I so want in on this…
I live too damn far away. :sad:
I’m not gonna be making it this to Julien’s this week since I’m in major crunch time at work this week, but let’s get hype anyways:
I respect Mandel a lot as a player, but IMO at ST he is much more “solid” than me but this is his weakness as well as his strength. Has anyone beaten Nate in a tourney besides Beaseley and Myself? I don’t remember, but I’ll check the excel file at work tommorow.
Anyways IMO I have either beaten or come within a hair’s breadth away from beating everyone that plays ST in Seattle, I just need to stop making stupid mistakes and learn to be more patient at the end game and I will definitely be top 3 in the rankings next time, if not top 2.
I think in casuals and last tourney I am starting to have Nate’s number, which I strictly attribute to the motherfucker working too many yobs. I am more scared of random ass Kenny and people who play ugly Characters than the honorable XTG who I pretty much know what to expect. But anyways for next season:
I’m breaking my bullshit 3rd place only shit. I am winning or getting second in a tournament. The difference doesn’t need to come from skill, it just needs to come from me playing more disciplined. I also need to watch more ST videos, because you guys watch a fucking lot more ST than I do, and I noticed the one time I watched a good japanese ST video, I stole a lot of good shit from it.
So yeah. I just need to become more stable ala Mandel, and play “tighter” while keeping some of (but not all of) my randomness and I will do a lot better than 4th next season. Oh yeah, and I would love to rematch Sam whenever Portland can come back.
I am the least appreciated ST player in Seattle, I am 4th behind some really respectable players and getting shit talked on my play every fucking event for whatever reason. I am three lousy points away from being in top 3. I mark it up to blind hating, notice it mostly doesn’t come from the three above me in the rankings, hrmmmmm I wonder.
(This has been a 1am insomnia hype post after a 14 hour work day interpret this how you will. PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST INCREASE THE PEACE SILENCE THE VIOLENCE)
All I have to say in the matter is.
Whoa.
In addition to zass and Full Screen Super, Nate has lost matches to Phi, Jim, SamY, Anthony, and Josh. I’ve already filed the brackets away, so there might have been more. The “honorable XTG” could probably tell you more.
Since Full Screen is obviously drunk, or stoned, or hasen’t been laid in many moons, people should be more forgiving if any of his words come off as derisive. I should say that I find shit talking for the sake of being noticed or getting a rise out of someone to be the actions of juvenile and insecure individuals. This is partially why I take exception when certain people talk smack for no real reason.
Alternatively, laying smack can be used to express a certain level of familiarity. So you can tell that I’m tight with the second best player with the initials J.B., cuz I’ll call his punk ass Full Screen all day long. No hating. All love. Sorry to hear that he won’t be at the next gathering, if there is one soon.
He doesn’t even know hate. Let alone blind hate. Go watch my match tapes and listen to how everyone is cheering my opponent and giving advice on what to do against me. That’s hate.
And where is 8-bit Valley located?
I noticed that you signed up on umbrellastyle’s board. I initially thought that your name was a variation of the Roman general–of the second triumvirate fame. But under SRK’s font, I realize that it’s actually an “I” that starts off your name. So, are you a fan of astronomy, or Greek mythology, or something? Is that the reason for the name? Just curious.
I was asked to reply in this thread in regards to what Julian posted, by a couple different people so I can’t deny their requests. But anyway…
I think we can all agree that season two will be pretty interesting in terms of placement especially since everyone will be more comfortable with the game. There were a lot of inconsistent placings after first and second this past season. After all look at how far I am behind Nate and Julian, not even competitive really, despite how I might’ve done in the actual tourneys. I respect your confidence Julian but a lot of people are improving, I don’t think it’s gonna be that easy for you to get top three. Not even saying it’s gonna be me again either. It seemed like when you were referring to me as solid, it seemed like by solid you meant like safe or something, I dunno. But I don’t think that’s why I do good if that’s what you meant, after all I get kinda reckless from time to time. I understand exactly what I need to practice on though.
You’re the least appreciated Seattle ST player huh?? And here I was thinking I was the most underappreciated ST player in Seattle heh.
Everyone plays better with a chip on their shoulders. Believe what you want. Claim what you will.
Truth is, neither of you are the least appreciated ST player in Seattle. You guys are ranked. Everyone knows who you are because you post and complain all the time. Every community will have their mix of mid-level players, where Mandel and Julian currently reside with respect to ST–by my estimation. Two factors generally determine whether a competitive community thrives or remains stagnant are as follows:
The first are the high level players, do they actively promote the game and teach new things to those who want to learn? Or do they periodically show up just to take everyone’s money? Worse yet, do they alienate themselves from the community by conducting themselves with an air of superiority? I have seen many groups of players lose interest in games simply because the best player in the area was a dick.
The aforementioned was the cause of the DFW gaming scene’s demise. No one there gets along these days. Everyone talks shit behind everyone else’s back. Everyone hates on existing competitive games. The all jump on whatever new game comes out, but once the tiers are established [and the same players are at the top], they all call it a bullshit and worthless game. All because no one there likes the high level players. The high level players are generally cool with each other, but stick to their respective games. They rarely wish to encroach on each other’s properties.
The second, and most important factor, are the low level players. A gaming community is dependent on the low level players. In collectible gaming, these are the people that buy the majority of the product and make the game profitable for manufacturers. In all competitive gaming, these are the people that add variety to the tournament scene. These are the people who make the tournament pot bigger, though they know they probably have no chance of winning. These are the people who aspire to become better; who invest in our competitive culture. In short, these are the people who play the game because they actually love the game. In doing so, they remind us of all of the reasons that we started playing competitively in the first place.
A group of players can get bigger and better together without a definitive high level player. But a collective of players cannot advance or sustain without their low level players. These are the guys that you practice combos on during casuals. They are the first round opponents that get sent to the loser’s bracket early. They are the people that every so often show you something new that you never knew was possible. And when a low level player pushes himself to become a mid or high level player (or goes to another area and wrecks everybody), you feel proud that you were a part of that person’s tutelage.
So the least appreciated Seattle ST player at present can only be David Alvarez.
I should also add something more about Nate that I failed to do in my previous post. That man has crushed me in all 3 matches we’ve had. He has single handedly stopped my advancement in every single ST tournament (both of them) that I’ve attended. Call him XTBeast.
Shit, and I thought my days of the epic post were behind me.