You got 6 games. Trust me, not everyone gets that lucky.
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It amazes me how Event hubs finds a way to write something about SF5 almost every single day. 4 years later they still talk about it like its brand new
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Well, one thing I like about fighting Pertho is I think he does things on purpose to teach me. He’ll pressure me non-stop in the corner to see if I’m pressing buttons (which is good because it also allows me to see how I can fight my way out of it without mashing). He’ll also do things like jump just outside of my DP reach to see I feel I know my ranges, etc.
In total I think it was like 36-11, but I know it wouldn’t have looked like that if he was playing straight the whole time, but that’s fine. I did get slightly better at handling pressure in the corner, and I think improved my footsies a tad as well.
Definitely have to lab punishes and confirms though, as well as learn frame data for some characters (Yun especially). I also need to figure out why I can’t super jump consistently, and learn the rhythm for parrying the second hit of an attack (like a multi-hit fireball, etc).
Also, what the hell is the throw tech window in this game? Like 2-3 frames? Shit is hella tight.
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They need to keep the traffic.
And is easy when they report on anything like “check those cosplays”
“lastest fgc translation vid posted on youtube”
“crossover art between sf an mlp”
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Jesus. Dodging these spoilers. You guys are firing none stop blue shells and I’m in pole position. Leave me be.
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Oh come on, I’m even putting them in spoiler tags.
It’s a banana peel at worst.
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In a few months, this could be us.
https://twitter.com/gginoboyz/status/1256313495622021120?s=21
I’m betting Pertho will take it all.
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Shin EVO?
No…
Satsui no EVO!
That’s the point - it doesn’t. You never see media specifically mentioning or highlighting the fact that a protagonist or a member of the support cast or an NPC/sidecharacter is straight. It happens specifically with races that aren’t white, genders that aren’t male, or sexuality that isn’t straight.
Most notable example - remember when Blizzard revealed that Tracer was lesbian and Soldier 76 was gay, both via a comic? Nothing in the lore implied or suggested that they’re not straight, nor did anybody care about those characters’ sexuality. Blizz literally made that decision long after Overwatch’s release.
Or how about JK Rowling changing Dumbledore to be gay many many years after the Harry Potter books were finished? Her proclaiming Dumbledore’s sexuality carries no weight and does nothing for the character or his personal story, it’s just a cheap way of waving to the non-straight crowd and say “hey! look! buy my books y’all! I care about you guys!”
Or look at how Batwoman, the recent DC series, basically goes out of its way to make Kate, who’s also a lesbian, the perfect superhero, by essentially making everybody else retarded or doing an entire episode how the police and the public finds out Batwoman is non-straight and somehow that’s bad in Gotham
There is a reason behind this stuff being met negatively, including supposedly Abby, the person that kills both Joel and Ellie, being trans in The Last of Us II - and that is because often it’s like a character’s gender or sexual preference is their sole defining characteristic
I personally have no issue with a charater, protagonist or not, being non-straight or whatever, just don’t put a spotlight on that element, or if you want to let your fanbase (viewers, players, readers) know - approach it in a clever way
It’s like when in the games industry developers were making a big deal out of their main character(s) being a woman. So what? Look at Lara Croft in the classic Tomb Raider games, or Jen in Primal, or Jill/Ada/Claire in Resident Evil, Lady and Trish in Devil May Cry, etc etc - those games just made badass female characters without shouting about it at every corner
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I never watched that show but I’ve seen pictures of it. I have the following opinions:
a) That Batwoman costume has to be some of the gaudiest, ugliest shit I’ve ever seen, it would have fit Schumacher’s Batman & Robin movie well. In fact, Batwoman was in Schumacher’s Batman & Robin, and her costume still looked better than that.
b) The actress that plays Batwoman is very hot according to my personal tastes. Like, really hot.
Which only makes the costume issue even more aggravating, really.
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The costume itself is alright, it’s the fact that she wears a wig that makes it ugly. Like…why? What, the team couldn’t find an actual redhead to star in the series if that was the plan? Hollywood having redhead shortages or something?
I only hate the haircut because given the fact the character of Kate is a lesbian it makes her look like the most generic lesbian you could’ve come up up.
You know, short tomboyish hair, leather jacket, slightly raspy voice, all the sterotype checkmarks
Lol, that is mostly because how Ruby Rose likes to dress.
On the comics Kat Kane is a redhead with usually long hair.
I remember that there was an outcry for when they announced Ruby Rose as Kat because, i kid you not, she was the wrong lesbian for the role.
They said that othey needed to give another lesbian actresses oportunity and not cast the same actress for every lesbian role.
Edit
IIRC, for all the flack she received from the word salad mafia, she had to delete her social media accounts.
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Me, later this day…
"Dear diary,
Today I discovered that my image of the ideal woman is a very stereotyped lesbian.
I’m unsure whether this is a good or a bad thing for me, but I feel optimistic nonetheless."
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So who are some gay characters you do like?
What’s the right way to be a homo in the media?
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So what you’re saying is that I may not be in pole position after all? Interesting. Time for me to reevaluate life.
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I decided to play Thunder in KI for a bit, as I’ve literally never tried playing a grappler before. From what I’ve gathered thus, this character’s gameplan is literally to mix people up with either a halfscreen command grab or a halfscreen low special that gives a full combo, and maybe DP once in a while if people try to jump.
Am I missing something or is this literally what this character does?
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Can’t remember any off the top of my head, but a well-written character doesn’t come as forced af. They are LGBTQ+ reps, but that’s not the central point of the character.
Let’s work with a hypothetical example using Ellie. That means I’m not dropping spoilers.
(I haven’t finished watching the TLOU run I’m watching and 2 ain’t out yet. So I can’t say for sure whether or not she counts.)
If her core character is about surviving or whatever like in the first game, and she just happens to have a girlfriend, she’s well-written.
Why? Because that’s how most people behave. Only soap opera characters gravitate around their relationship and nothing else, and these are terrible in general.
If she’s a lesbian first and a character second, she’s badly-written.
Take for example the first scene we see her in the first TLOU2 trailer. She’s all grown up dancing and kissing her girlfriend in some kind of party.
The first game revolves around surviving in a post-apocalyptic world full of scumbag people. Wtf does that scene has to do with this? We already knew she was a lesbian from the first game, that scene adds absolutely nothing to anything besides letting us know she’s got a girlfriend now.
That looks like pandering.
It’s a complex discussion because it’s a nuanced thing and we know that it’s hard to even find a place to discuss it properly. Try to do that shit on Twitter. 
Calling characters flat will have their fans pissed at you, so imagine doing that to LGBTQ+ characters. You’ll have an angry mob in a matter of seconds trying to cancel you and sic Kotaku on your ass.