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The 949 Smash Thread: RIP PacWest

-Rei-

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my grados finally came in

****ing sales guy forgot to put them on order so some else had to like 10 days later

time to break them in
 

Signia

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Developers of DotA:
Eul made Defense of the Ancients on WC3:RoC
Guinsoo took the most popular heroes from versions of DotA and made DotA Allstars
Icefrog later took over and continued updating the game, he's the one responsible for clockwerk, kunka, geomancer, all those weird *** heroes

It's my understanding that Icefrog helped develop HoN, then Guinsoo helped develop DotA2. LoL is just another game

So HoN didn't completely steal/copy DotA, since one of the DotA devs helped
 

Kira-

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Going through your favorites list from the very beginning is so amazing.
yesss

i do this for music playlists at least


Guinsoo took the most popular heroes from versions of DotA and made DotA Allstars
It's my understanding that Icefrog helped develop HoN, then Guinsoo helped develop DotA2. LoL is just another game
Guinsoo is on Riot's staff
 

Kira-

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I honestly don't know, I thought HoN and LoL were both started from former DotA members
 

stabbedbyanipple

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Fly, do you need a ride, or are you going to be in claremont already?

It's $5 off for a setup, and $5 off if you're a new player. So for people like tuan/shoumei/ryan, you could probably pass as new players because you don't go to tournaments enough for people to recognize your faces LOL

Anyway, my finals are gonna be over and I really wanna go, so I really want to get a carpool going.
 

Signia

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Next weekend is cram weekend for me, finals are in a week. I have 4 finals in two days -_-

after that, SoCal Regionals at UCI December 17, featuring the SCV Demo play with the never before played characters! :D
 

DJMirror

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I'm going to be at SCR


Might be on the Socal Team D (=___=) vs Norcal Team A


Salty Suite
 

-Rei-

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i'm gonna leave on saturday morning to go watch el classico don't feel like coming back after that
 

shadrach kabango

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if i send u a friend request plz accept cuz im lonely

im also the 3rd best sheik in socal

dave u ever gonna play this game again? makes me sad to see u mess around with mainstream filth when SC and melee ***** their respective genres
 

Kira-

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I play melee still but not in tournaments, not worth the effort imo, auto-win vs scrubs until you play either the 2 people u go even with or the 3 people you always lose to. tie for 5th out of 19. not that fun

i have fun with melee for about 1 hour periods of time then i gotta take a break

SC is not any less mainstream than LoL, both are so awesome to watch and to play. i know nothing about current SC metagame but watching wcg yesterday was so cool. I'm predicting that Asia will start to dominate LoL like they did in DotA... somehow they are just too gooodddd and even tho i know nothing about current SC2 meta it's still awesome to watch. Tastosis as entertaining as ever

people hating on league like they know about it, guaranteed if u gave it a fair shot you would get addicted

even jun would like it =P and he hates on everythign LOL

i'm down to play melee when i get done with finals tho, I am not supposed to do anything but play League 99.9% of the time but i will make exceptions bc socal is the best community =P
 

shadrach kabango

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I play melee still but not in tournaments, not worth the effort imo, auto-win vs scrubs until you play either the 2 people u go even with or the 3 people you always lose to. tie for 5th out of 19. not that fun
it's a labor of love. learning how to love is difficult. doing as much as you can when you can is enough imo

i have fun with melee for about 1 hour periods of time then i gotta take a break
this was the main reason i quit, but i've been having second thoughts. the revolutionary bill cooper once quipped (loosely paraphrased) that in the search for truth you have to kiss a few toads, read a lot of garbage and cross-reference a lot of sources.

that's the reality of the material world. you'll know it in your heart which endeavors are worth that struggle. love is like a boomerang: you let it go and you see if it comes back. melee keeps coming back to me so even if i get bored of playing floaties, practicing, playing sheik, and dealing with flaky smashers i do love the satisfaction of the competition.

i'm talking about brood war; sc2 is terrible. current games in general are terrible. brood war is the only game that is > than melee.

@jr:

1. sherigami
2. kira
 

Kira-

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Ah yea, i see what you mean but league is that love for me. Got sooo much passion for it, i literally spent a month doing nothing but sleeping and playing LoL. So hopefully it ends up well for me bc i have invested a lot of time into it ><

i can never truly get bored of playing melee, like you said every time I come back I realize how amazing of a game it is.

brood war was also awesome to watch but sadly there are less bw matches that are easily accessible. Although I still feel like Melee is the best game of all time I have to accept that it is not going to be a megagiant like starcraft or LoL or whatever. Quake is in a similar boat, Q3 arena was the most amazing thing ever but then quake 4 came out and even though it sucked we had to move on.

AND DA LOVE. da love is what makes things roll, doesnt matter if ur playing mario party the love will be the most important thing ever. so in between learning how to space and time moves i am always trying to learn that

also this is the best DnB song ive gotten so far
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4b9DVRe2HY




And thanx for putting me at #2, after being demolished by dajuan 20 times i do not feel like my sheik is very good anymore. but wow dajuan got extremely good since like a year ago lol
 

shadrach kabango

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easy accessibility is overrated. i was reading a psychology today article that mentioned how the web contribtes to self-aggrandizement: "we're used to having our tastes perfectly matched, which leads to entitlement. if we don't explore novel things or sit through experiences we don't enjoy, we'll become a nation of spoiled brats."

i think this explains why no one really listens to the links other people post wrt music. it's like, yeah, whatever, i don't listen to classic rock, **** off, you're old and your taste sucks.
 

shadrach kabango

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Got sooo much passion for it, i literally spent a month doing nothing but sleeping and playing LoL. So hopefully it ends up well for me bc i have invested a lot of time into it ><
this brings up another point: addiction

video games are too reinforcing. recent research proves that online gaming has adverse affects on the game and leads to addiction. noticing the addiction prevalent in the melee community was a key factor in removing myself from it. you have to be very careful, at least if you value health over pleasure. imo porn, video games, the internet and cell phones are as or more addicting than cocaine, meth, nicotine, and marijuana; the only difference is the lack of stigma.

i know you made it a point in the past to get off drugs, but you should be careful to consider these new-age stimulations a drug, too. it's a tougher beast than drugs by a long shot

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog...orn-users-internet-addiction-atrophies-brains

/steps off high horse
 

DJMirror

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Ah yea, i see what you mean but league is that love for me. Got sooo much passion for it, i literally spent a month doing nothing but sleeping and playing LoL. So hopefully it ends up well for me bc i have invested a lot of time into it ><

i can never truly get bored of playing melee, like you said every time I come back I realize how amazing of a game it is.

brood war was also awesome to watch but sadly there are less bw matches that are easily accessible. Although I still feel like Melee is the best game of all time I have to accept that it is not going to be a megagiant like starcraft or LoL or whatever. Quake is in a similar boat, Q3 arena was the most amazing thing ever but then quake 4 came out and even though it sucked we had to move on.

AND DA LOVE. da love is what makes things roll, doesnt matter if ur playing mario party the love will be the most important thing ever. so in between learning how to space and time moves i am always trying to learn that

Exactly how I feel about KOF when you were talking about LoL to me. ****in ****.
We need to hangout when you get back which I hope it's sometimes soon =[


a friend of mine from Norcal, Kyle and Pnoy are coming down next week Saturday & Sunday =D
 

SUNG475

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KoF combos are so hard, tried practicing at Atlus' house, really takes a lot of time to get consistent for me anyway
 

Kira-

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kira arent you in masters league in sc2?

I have a guy on my friends list in sc2 and his name is dave kim

i always thought that was you
nope not me that's the real dj mirror i gave him my acct when i quit

this brings up another point: addiction

video games are too reinforcing. recent research proves that online gaming has adverse affects on the game and leads to addiction. noticing the addiction prevalent in the melee community was a key factor in removing myself from it. you have to be very careful, at least if you value health over pleasure. imo porn, video games, the internet and cell phones are as or more addicting than cocaine, meth, nicotine, and marijuana; the only difference is the lack of stigma.

i know you made it a point in the past to get off drugs, but you should be careful to consider these new-age stimulations a drug, too. it's a tougher beast than drugs by a long shot

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog...orn-users-internet-addiction-atrophies-brains

/steps off high horse
you're entirely correct, i know im addicted but i figure as long as im doing well in school i can do w/e i want in my spare time

Exactly how I feel about KOF when you were talking about LoL to me. ****in ****.
We need to hangout when you get back which I hope it's sometimes soon =[


a friend of mine from Norcal, Kyle and Pnoy are coming down next week Saturday & Sunday =D
yess i miss you jason, we will hang out i will be at cams a lot
 

DJMirror

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KoF combos are so hard, tried practicing at Atlus' house, really takes a lot of time to get consistent for me anyway
yeah it's not easy, it's stupid hard but the best way to do it is just practice. practice. practice.

even players like Jwong drop alot of his BnB combos in tournaments because he think he can get it easy. Just watch NEC XII Winners Finals/Losers Finals. he got 3-0'd twice

right now I'm at the point i can do half my HD Combos

like there's no shortcut motions in the game like it's stupid.

for DP motion there's another way to do it and that's HCB+F HP or LP but doing it in a combo is stupid. there's alot of stuff like this like you can run and "charge" a motion down at the same time but that's really hard to do. I can show you this at Champ's Tournament if there's one.



/kof rant


Signia teach me Ezio and is there a video of the game system? I heard there some changes so I'm kinda behind since I only played SC2/SC3


Dave, we gotta hang out soon when do you get back to Irvine? call me fool <3
 
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