super street fighter four has team battle in it.
Hahaha, yeah he punched, and I mean PUNCHED knuckle first, his HRAP right along all the buttons after losing to someone, I think it might’ve been Graham but I forget. He got INCREDIBLY pissed when I beat him in casuals too, but not THAT mad.
I’m not your friend anymore Frank!
lol Nah you make alot of sense. Our scene tends to be homies first and compete second. That’s why I like playing against Carlos. When he lands a huge combo or a demon he gets in my face and brags about it so instead of me thinking “good job friend” I’m thinking “I’m not letting that shit happen again” lol Like Pablo and Mickey have been saying “WE NEED TO QUIT THE CIRCLE JERKING”
The same thing happened with me @ TW’s this past Saturday. I was really pissed that Jared scraped Mandel like that. Not because Mandel is my homie, but because he was making it look like our name was T.D.Free and not T.D.P. I wasn’t about to let my name be alongside some shit like that. So as Mandel put it
“You had a murderous aura about you.”
I was out for blood, I wanted to put SA to shame. Sadly I only got to do it to 2 ppl and the Captain got the best of me with some Dhalsim anti block magic lol. But that feeling, that desire to just destroy someone felt bomb as fuck. I’m still pissed we fucking didn’t win that match, and I’m going to make sure that if we run into them again in the playoffs, I won’t lose.
This is what we are missing, and sadly yes people (myself included) get too butthurt when someone starts causing some static. When Mickey was at our apartment last week he was steadily talking all kinds of shit. Which really got under my skin…all I wanted to do was fuck his loud mouth ass up so he’d shut the fuck up, but in the end we were cool. I think that’s what people need to get at is that in SFIV or any other fighting game you decide to play, the only friend you have is your stick (no homo).
Come over. I shit talk to Jared and Frank nonstop before we even start playing. It’s healthy.
It’s a 50/50 as to whether that shit talking comes through nowadays, soon to be 60/40, then 70/30, and then over 9000/0.
I’m the bees knees, can you please, not touch my cheese, and just freeze. No young jeezy, and I ain’t no breezy, for sheezy, business about to get bizzy.
Step up, bitch!
I talk shit all the time!
Yeah fuck you bitch!!!
Jesse if you don’t win your pool then I will disown you.
The only thing great about Seattle is in Oklahoma now…
Today I thought I was hungry. Turns out I wasn’t.
Wow! Those were the times. I eventually played Joel(throwing to Mike avoided that) at ECC3.
My gaawwd! The arrogance is seething! lol. That was great! I think it’s even funnier that we knew how harsh we were being and we’re still like “if you’re crying, I’ll stop.” ROTFL
What’s even funnier is that we talked crap as well as we played. It was a separate competition itself! Wow! Remember how folks would follow flame threads for fun? Wow, we were competitive in every way back then.
I remember back then that some would say that SF is dead(much the reason why I would find the good in crappy games to keep the comp on life support) and Mike would say that no one would travel to play SF. I remember saying it couldn’t die unless we stopped playing and I wouldn’t allow that. I said we’ll be playing SF at 35 instead of poker… sigh Look at us now. I see A LOT of stuff nowadays that make me look back at all the naysaying and I say to myself, “I told you so” in the good and not the a**hole way:)
Here’s the problem with certain words I used. When I say warriors, I should say combatants. War stems from fear and one is usually out to destroy the opponent(for fear of retaliation) instead of merely beating them which leads to them learning and coming back stronger.
That’s the crux of the competition talk. It’s combative, not destructive.
Think of evil Ryu. You can gain power from your dominant side without being consumed by it and being a total d*ck. You can draw from that seemingly negative energy and focus it for the good.
I’m a really lovey dovey guy. In all seriousness, I love to love. Does that make me a p*ssy? Hell no. I’m not a fearful guy by any stretch of the imagination. Anyone that’s known me for awhile knows I have a VERY dominant side to myself that I generally keep in reserve. I’m a friendly, loving guy and I can still call that other side out when necessary. Call it maintenance of balance.
Being competitive is like tapping into evil intent without truly being evil. You can hate without really hating. You can crush your opponent in SF but only that opponent is capable of destroying himself. He can dig deep and fight to be better or he can allow the defeats to fester like a cancer and kill the competitor within him.
Ha! Come to think of it, it’s like Joel. After whooping him, he goes to retire. It was funny to me because of all the ish talk. I was in competitive a**hole mode. As a fellow player, that sucked. It was awesome to see him pop up a bit later. Putting myself in his shoes I thought, “I hope I never take any loss bad enough to allow it to crush my spirit.” That’s a personal decision to allow something to take you out of the game. That’s being a p*ssy. Not a knock on Joel, btw. He came back. My point is that when competition feels bad, it’s fight or flight. You can man up and fight to increase your level or you can stroke the pain and decide not to put yourself in that humiliating position again. That’s when you really lose.
When I look at my rivals in the past, we’ve all beaten one another. That’s because instead of allowing the crap to destroy one another, we turn it into fuel to feed the next confrontation. I’m talking Watson, Nelson, Danny L., Sirlin, Choi, Julien, Cole etc. Even when we lose we are never truly beaten. That’s what needs to develop. You can’t have this attitude that you try really hard and you have that competitive energy until some player makes a fool of you. As a friend, I’ll say you don’t want to carry that type of attitude ANYWHERE in life. As far as the scene goes, no matter what the outcome of things, whether you win or lose, you can consistently progress as long as you direct the energy forward. If you win, build on that. If you lose, build on that. It may feel different but that’s merely the emotions talking. The same energies that build, destroy. The individual makes the choice.
I hope my babble makes sense. I’m preparing a trip and things can be mighty hectic around the holidays:)
Apoc.
This thread is on crack. Not necessarily in a negative way, though. After reading through most of it, I gotta ask, where are all the gathering threads I saw two or so months ago when I last checked SRK? If people are still seeking competition, is TW the only thing going on anymore? It does seem like everyone’s pretty complacent right now. I know a lot of people don’t like me/respect me or my opinions. Whatever. This is a different scene altogether. It’s a totally casual scene from the outside. Carlos seems to be the only one I see who’s kept his competitive spirit up, and that’s probably because he’s a ridiculously competitive person by nature. Anyone else? That’s how it looks from a fresh perspective.
If I can get a carpool going, I’ll bring down a head or two from Bellingham, a couple from MV. Honestly, it’ll probably only be Paul and I that will be competitive, but if I don’t see at least 25-30 heads at Zach’s, that’s a pretty good sign the scene has declined. Seems a lot of people haven’t just lost the hunger, they’ve heard Mike/Frank/whoever say things about the scene and gone “Yeah, that’s kind of true, isn’t it?” when they should be saying “Says fucking WHO? I’m still hungry”.
I’ve had my time off. I hate the game that’s being played. But I like winning, I fucking hate losing, and SFIV is a really brutal competitive game. Fighting games bring out a pretty spiteful part of me, but I come back stronger every gathering. I don’t practice, I get mad at my loss and want redemption, so I come back wanting to shut down every tactic I lost to last round. Maybe that’s not the way to be a champion, but it’s how I beat most of you.
Who’s hungry? Who wants a piece? I’ll be playing at Zach’s on the 18th, but it’s not gonna be casual.
The head count at Zach’s declining is not a direct correlation with how hungry the scene is, it’s the fact that Zach’s is not Open invite to anyone due to the particular circumstances that happened prior. It is mainly for Zach’s closest/closer friends and it is a strong social gathering rather than a competitive one.
I am playing ST again quite serious, working on making my T. Hawk more legit…don’t know when I’ll make it to a tournament next though.
This part was my favorite.
Because instead of learning or practicing he just gets mad about it?
I ate too much ice cream, definitely not hungry anymore.
Possibly going to be sick.
The Cali scene seems to be pretty circle jerkish and they shit all over the Northwest, so yeah, not quite understanding how shit talking 24/7 helps people improve.
From what I hear of the Cali scene they have a lot of players, but all of the really good players are super clicky and don’t really try to help out anyone else. So they have a group of players that are super solid, but they don’t really seem to let anyone new in unless they stand out tremendously.
another good read, man im about to come crash “Zach’s House” >.> haha… one of these days