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Smooth Criminal

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「セガ」 | GHNeko said:
I will say this, this game is still very very different from PSO1. There are tons of throwbacks, but its still a very different game. The game that is most like PSO2 is PSZ/PS0 (Phantasy Star Zero for the NDS).
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Can you kill Boomas? Can you "save" Rappis on behalf of the Save the Rappi foundation? Is Durali still a thing?

If the answer to any of these questions is yes, welcome to Phantasy Star as it always has been.

Smooth Criminal
 
Lizalfos

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I need to disable my keyboard when watching streams. I'm actual cancer.

I can make Lunchables' critique stream about Peach X Sonic for a full 40 seconds. That is 40 seconds too long.

Edit: This dub is better than the original, fight me over it dorks.
 
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Plum

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Yamcha was awesome back in Dragon Ball.
Too bad that didn't carry over into DBZ. He went out like a *****.
(maybe not entirely fair to say because he's still remarkably powerful for a human)
 
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Comeback Kid

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Yeah but Krillin still found ways to stay useful throughout the series, even as a distraction.

Yamcha got one shotted by the Androids and his career was over.
 
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Tien was always able to do at least something meager to the main villain.
...Good for him. Didn't do much, but he gets that gold sticker for trying.
 
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OSCA MIKE

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dragonball z is the visual adaptation of the term powercreep

EDIT: and god, the pacing can be slow sometimes

i still like the show though
 
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Soft Serve

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Very very happy more Tloc vids are up, I missed the stream, enjoying more Luck videos

but...

WHERE IS THE COMBO THAT TOOK LUNCHABLE'S PURITY
 
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Saito

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Can you tech footstools?

standardtoaster said:
yes you can tech footstools
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I assume they just throw people off guard significantly then.

Please tell me that wasn't the fabled combo that had everyone wet though.
Like, it was a solid combo sure, infact, It was pretty hype, but not hype enough for me to give a insane reaction
 
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Let me take a moment to say that I could not R.O.B at all till i watched DrinkingFood play for the first time.

Props to him for that.
 
Soft Serve

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Lizalfos said:
ROB is so cool. He can dash dance in the air, then waveland onto a platform. Such a glorious character.

Why would you play Diddy in 3.5? Is banana shine that good?
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Diddy is coolest character this build, with so much optimization on coolness left to do.

Proof:

When was the last time you saw a squirtle put on the shades? Every stock a squirtle takes the shades go on.

When was the last time you saw a Diddy player put on his shades? Never, because bannanas are being pulled. Look at all this metagame growth to be developed
 
.alizarin

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what do you do when you hit a skill plateau? i feel like i've been playing about the same for the last few months (i've been playing for a year), and it's really frustrating not getting any better. nobody lives near here for me to play with, and it's just rough sometimes having to live off netplay to get matches with good players.

i've been practicing pretty heavily, i think. i practice tech skill/movement a lot, i play people who are generally significantly better than me all the time, i read up on matchups, mindset, strategies, i get advice from better players and i study videos of successful players, but i just feel like i'm not getting anywhere, and it's killing my motivation somewhat. i've been to weeklies and grinding out sets with the best players there, but they're acting more like reality checks than moments to improve.

can someone help me out here? i think i need a mindset switch or something. or maybe i'm just misplacing my effort and it's better suited for other aspects of the game? i dunno.
 
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.alizarin said:
what do you do when you hit a skill plateau? i feel like i've been playing about the same for the last few months (i've been playing for a year), and it's really frustrating not getting any better. nobody lives near here for me to play with, and it's just rough sometimes having to live off netplay to get matches with good players.

i've been practicing pretty heavily, i think. i practice tech skill/movement a lot, i play people who are generally significantly better than me all the time, i read up on matchups, mindset, strategies, i get advice from better players and i study videos of successful players, but i just feel like i'm not getting anywhere, and it's killing my motivation somewhat. i've been to weeklies and grinding out sets with the best players there, but they're acting more like reality checks than moments to improve.

can someone help me out here? i think i need a mindset switch or something. or maybe i'm just misplacing my effort and it's better suited for other aspects of the game? i dunno.
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Play more?
 
DrinkingFood

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.alizarin said:
what do you do when you hit a skill plateau? i feel like i've been playing about the same for the last few months (i've been playing for a year), and it's really frustrating not getting any better. nobody lives near here for me to play with, and it's just rough sometimes having to live off netplay to get matches with good players.

i've been practicing pretty heavily, i think. i practice tech skill/movement a lot, i play people who are generally significantly better than me all the time, i read up on matchups, mindset, strategies, i get advice from better players and i study videos of successful players, but i just feel like i'm not getting anywhere, and it's killing my motivation somewhat. i've been to weeklies and grinding out sets with the best players there, but they're acting more like reality checks than moments to improve.

can someone help me out here? i think i need a mindset switch or something. or maybe i'm just misplacing my effort and it's better suited for other aspects of the game? i dunno.
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I usually tell people the best way to improve is to nail down your punish game. Find out the most common ways you breach neutral and how to get the most out of it. Do you main sheik? That'll make it really easy- characters with good throw games and ways to set them up are some of the easiest to flowchart your punishments with by far.
First you either want to identify a problem character for you, probably the characters of players who have knocked you out of tourney recently. Assume you land a grab, and then figure out which throe leads to the best possible situation. There are a lot of factors to account for- DI, stage location/location of platforms, their percent. Since you will start out working with one or a few characters, weight and fall speed are given that you are accounting for as well. Generally you want to get out of your punishments as much damage and stage positioning as possible while giving the fewest chances of escape. You have debug/frame advance, so explore options that don't seem to work in normal speed, and if you find something good that works that's not asking you to be godly levels of consistent, practice it until you can do it reliably. A lot of times, being able to close out a stock slightly earlier prevents your opponent from forcing a return to neutral and prevents them from building your damage in return that they can use to come back or extend a lead. It also forces them to play around really tricky and dangerous situations that could lead to your devastating punishes, meaning they might not be able to use all their character's tools safely against you.
 
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MechWarriorNY said:
Do we/PMS have a Skype group?
That's been bugging me for a while.
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Yes we do

Lunchables left it because he didn't know the magic that is turning off notifications on every group you're in. RIP

Meiling leaves it every other day, but we don't let him.
 
SpiderMad

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.alizarin said:
can someone help me out here? i think i need a mindset switch or something.
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I think you're just another one of those people like the toaster twins who just need a vitriol passion of extreme and condensed but controlled aggression and drive to own your opponent. The one you'd get if you were me. Staying up in sleep overs with your cousin trying to get better Pokemon than him. Inviting and travelling over the whole neighborhood to prove my friends and other kid casuals that I'm better than them since 64 like the inner child I was and still have inside me. And then finding out your neighbor's older brother plays and having him come over once and somewhat whoop my Kirby with Fox on Sector Z then leave to never be seen again like the mysterious person he was: not knowing to this day if he did Z-cancelling or not. Then to repeat the whole process with Melee, and Brawl until all my friends pretty much stopped playing Smash. All in a casual manner of course, though I'd still win: like 1v1 on Mushroom kingdom or something. I think I played mostly Kirby and Falco, and dabbled in whoever: I lost almost all memory of my casual days.

Then to meet up with an old friend in Highschool after you haven't talked to him since like before even Middle school (close to back when Melee came out or something crazy like that). And find out after talking to him and his bro about Melee casually as a kid (were his older bro would tell us to get Sonic by doing the Insane Melee or whatever with killing hard to kill Wireframes with 16 or something kills) that he later discovered competitive Smash somewhat recently like I did and do Falco dittos at his house on an HDTV that was little laggy (and of/c he never noticed, not at least until he went to my house with CRT: though he never was that surprised at the difference).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJiL5M38Ku0#t=1088
I'm the red Falco, also you can hear his mom (he's Asian).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJiL5M38Ku0#t=1139
good times

man even all my play in these videos is all a blur; I somewhere along the line completely stopped rolling like I do now. I couldn't Waveshine good either I remember I'd usually just jump.

He studied Melee Falco more than I did apparently, while I kind of was more divulged into PM Demo v1 Wifi; I either went to 0 or 1 tournies [Melee] before meeting him I think [I think 0]: so generally he would beat me with better tech while I would beat him with kind of smarts and exploiting his ability to deal with jank (and he only played Falco seriously, so I could beat him in other char dittos) and weak mentality (he'd get angry at the jank lol).

But then having him play less as he did other stuff and eventually move to southern IL for college, only to return here recently for a visit (years later) and face him and beat him in a sad kind of way as he perplexes at himself in dismay for not being able to give much of a fight. Which is kind of where you reach a little sad apex in your smash career.

Here you are years ago training with him as he kind of whoops you until you discover what it really means to be competitively good and consistent; only to find years later you've surpassed him which was your goal but he's lost interest a bit as he moves onto other things though he still isn't totally out of it or anything (he has a scene at his southern IL college, which he loses to the best player there too; also he was naive and let the smash set-up they leave there use his best controller and lost it).

So it's a little sad. The person who you loved to play with and made you want to play more in the first place doesn't play much anymore. Again, it's all a game of people.

And now... years later from all this AGAIN. Wanting to finally beat some of the lesser known Chicago/IL players and others in Melee like I know I can. Soon as I get time. And different Smash friends that come and go (not completely, but kind of falling out for different reasons as it always seems: moving, losing interest in Smash)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVeMluR8feQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ5iZiOYpaE

I still to this day believe playing Smash since being a 5 year old or something kid until finally becoming competitive has given me years of a small arcane advantage in super basic fundamentals and knowledge of all parts of the game than people who haven't. That said, there's been quite a few new Smashers that got good crazy fast. Oh and HDTVs and Wifi over the years probably gave me some kind of weird learning, being focused on reads more or something.

So yeah you might need to realize it's more about people, and beating them. Become friends with those people at weeklies (how far do you travel to get there if no one is close to you?), and get a true drive to beat'em. Then beyond that just having a passion for the game because it's amazing.

Enjoying things like the mechanics
http://smashboards.com/threads/project-m-social-thread-v3-5.339825/page-1394#post-18269077
Or Mango's passion and view points
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWypaDoPLuw&list=PLqrrzMJdf4-cIGHhIaUcqAeIV1nTfIzMk
 
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Pwnz0rz Man

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With Club Nintendo officially closing down and the February list of games downloadable with coins now released, I've been logging into the site, staring at the list and then closing the tab. I don't have a WiiU and the Wii I do have doesn't have working Wiimotes anymore, so I'm stuck to buying the 3DS games. Problem is, I don't know which of them is most worth it to get.

It seems like they only put the really good things on WiiU and basically ignore the 3DS on Club Nintendo, and this isn't the first time. When does 3DS get Mario 3? Why does 3DS only get handheld ports and NES games and then they blatantly neglect to put the most popular NES game on the handheld? Anyways, enough rambling. The question here is simple. What's the best choice for the 265 coins that I have?

Was leaning towards Link's Awakening DX (Own the original for GB though) , but haven't heard of some of the 3DSware that they've got, nor has me looking it up really changed my uncertain perspective on it.
 
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