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Pierce7d

Pierce7d

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I read it. It's worth reading. I'll call you about this later tonight Ryko. After reading this, I feel as though I haven't been evenly distributing my assistance to the entire crew.

At first, I poured the most work into Munk, but now I feel he's pouring less work into himself, so I pulled back in my efforts. Lately, he practices with me almost never, and I don't even know how interested he is in the game, as I never even see him on smashboards, or talk to him outside of class and lunch. He has the farthest to go from what I've last seen. He needs to stop viewing me as an insurmountable obstacle, and focus on expanding his mind, and simply improving as a player.

RJ put in extreme amounts of effort to get better, and he has. I'd like to help him improve even more, but not only is he getting to a more advanced level of play where he needs a specialized trainer, but he also doesn't like to be coached, and I respect that . . . most of the time.

R00kie also likes doing things his own way. Recently, his mind has evolved in how to make things work in the game, and therefore, he Fox has also evolved into a character that can actually take matches off my Marth without me having some john, and I can just look him in the eye and say "Nice win, you outplayed me and won." If he continues this rate of growth, he will become an S-class player. Continue expanding your mind.

Umbra is my brother, and I've memorized his habits. As soon as he decides to say "You are right that I have a problem. I will try new things to fix my problems instead of hoping that this will work this time," he will once again be a force to be reckoned with, and not get scraped by better players.

BSC listens, and improves well, he just needs to practice with me more consistently, and get more chances to implement new things. He needs to expand his mind, and not limit himself more than the game does.

Bleachigo wants to improve, but lacks focus. When you are able to mature as a smasher, you will become great, as you have lots of natural talent.

As for myself? I'll just keep stepping it up to try and get to the next level. You all help me as well. Remain diligent in trying to improve. That's one of the things this crew is all about.
 
Taiki

Taiki

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First off inspriational story Ryko it doesen't really fit in the ike boards because it deserves to inspire all brawlers who don't main top tier and want to rep their character. It does feel awesome having you as part of the crew, and self-reflection is always key to improving. Your an excellent smasher and cool peoples, as is the entire crew.

Moving On
Pierce7d said:
I read it. It's worth reading. I'll call you about this later tonight Ryko. After reading this, I feel as though I haven't been evenly distributing my assistance to the entire crew.

At first, I poured the most work into Munk, but now I feel he's pouring less work into himself, so I pulled back in my efforts. Lately, he practices with me almost never, and I don't even know how interested he is in the game, as I never even see him on smashboards, or talk to him outside of class and lunch. He has the farthest to go from what I've last seen. He needs to stop viewing me as an insurmountable obstacle, and focus on expanding his mind, and simply improving as a player.
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In reference to this.
(Scroll down for main, but backstory related, point)
(self-reflection time)

It has always been a goal of mine to make money off gaming in one way or another, whether it be playing games at a professional level and winning cash, my most preferable method, or the more practical path of taking some part in the game creation process and attempt to share epic, legendary tales of sword fights, and mythical worlds steeped to the brim with its own unique culture. Seeing as you can't really take up a full time job in high school I started gunning for professional gaming. Having no clue where to start I simply took immediate notice that I could either play shooters or fights. Having crappy aim and a bad habit of failing with snipers, what, at that point in time, seemed to always and constantly be the best weaponry in every shooter, I chose fighters.
The, by far, easiest choice for a fighting game was smash. I grew up with nintendo and have always mentally marked their works as the stuff of legend. In short they knew what they were doing when it came to making good games. Smash 64 was fun and i knew little of the competitive scene. I often played melee for fun, don't remember if it was with or without items so i started there. It wasn't til the summer brawl had a "release date" (the first december "worldwide" launch one) that i really got interested in the competitive melee scene. I figured its the same fighting system being good at one has to count somewhat towards the others. So started my drive to improve.
Pierce you were always better then me, you played a better character, the marth to my bowser, you knew the metagame better, knew game mechanics better, and i was so stubborn in my intention to play the character i liked rather then a tourny viable one. That last point was as serious as it could be maining bowser was hard work. My current maining of Dedede isn't me tier whoring, I explicitly said that Dedede should and will be in this game and i will main him and shank Sakarai if he excludes his own creation in SEPTEMBER. I believe Dedede was officially announced in OCTOBER (thats right get at my foresight). Skipping forward through all the web2zone goodness the chilling with friends playing smash etc. we come to brawl's launch.
To me Brawls Launch was the great equalizer. No matter how good you were in melee you skill was dramatically reduced once brawl came out because you needed to learn all the finer mechanics of the game. I saw this as a chance to jump in and assume a position of power in brawl's metagame. From day 0, thats right 0, like 2 hours before midnight launch i was trouncing people in the gamestop release tourny. I beasted on everyone in 3 gamestop tournies until i lost to papa Dave the IC main because i up-tilted for the win and the star KO is bull**** and killed him .3 seconds too late. Point is I felt like i was actually going to do well in this game. I proceeded to place well at tournies until some point i just stagnated.

(Backstory Complete!; TL;DR johners can read this part)

Recently I just don't play right at all. Don't know what triggered it. I just make ****ty decisions at all points in a match (See: grabbing RJ's lucario, having all of FD to chaingrab him and just backthrow off the edge in an attempt to edgegaurd......at 30%). I'm FAR too aggressive, and as i remember Ninjalink putting it i'm too eager to hit people (Apparently the only thing that made me any kind of difficult to read was a random up-smash game which i dropped at some point). I just have difficultly slowing down, i'm unsure as to whether its the sugar i consume or what. It also has to be understood that playing this game at a competitive level ONLY for long periods of time burns out my drive to continue competing. Its a game, i supposedly play it to have fun. I remember back when 4fit did not have a 360 and me wind and umbra went to 4fits nearly every week to play his random custom stages with items on and get some serious practice on the side. Actually after that stopped I started slipping. I guess what it boils down to is, the non stop seriousness of the game makes me play poorly, when it comes to brawl i no longer feel as if i'm in my element, all i see is stressed out people in a car ride headed home after a big tourny talking about how they ****ed up and whats bull**** about other characters.

For example I went to COT4 primarily because most of the crew was going and i didn't want to miss out. I can honestly say playing OOS wasn't as big a deal for me as it seemingly was for everyone else. THE MOST fun i had at COT4 was like the hour of playing the Ganon Challenge in the back with melo, palpi, and their friend (sorry dude) because it was so stupid it was funny. It was relaxing and i could enjoy the game for once. I guess the point i'm trying to get across is the game is getting too stressful and never leaves me a chance to unwind. Its to the point where I'm thinking my mindless agression can be attributed to the stress i get from playing this game excessively.

I know i missed, what 2 practices this week, because i was off at 4fit's playing Halo and Tales of Vesperia, but i want to emphasize the point that after an entire weekend of serious brawling, I was having fun gaming, and its not something I get to do as often anymore.

But to let you know i'm still serious I will try to get in more practice in some way.
I need to work on my counterpicking
My decision making mid combat
Slowing everything the hell down to make the above easier
Finding a median between competitive brawl and fun gaming.
Probably need to watch matches of myself too


Aside about my smashboards precense: I'm always on smashboards I just lurk MAD hard. I'm partial anti-social, so the lack of posting should be kinda normal. I rarely have anything constructive to say, and it always feels like whenever i post on forums i get ignored, or make random *** long posts like this that somehow end up as the last post on a page and no one notices it the second someone else posts.

Quick shoutout to Malcom who brings the gift of laughter to a game we've all turned so serious.
 
Inui

Inui

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I enjoy Ike dittos and I consider myself good at them, but I'm sure Ryko wants practice against things like the Jersey Devil, God, and Gaydayday.
 
_Yes!_

_Yes!_

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something something captain falcon...too tired for this $hit...

anyone know of any good video editing software that's free and not windows movie maker?
 
BleachigoZX

BleachigoZX

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Anyone from ZB want to play me today. I will play Brawl, seriously. After what I was doing at the SWR smashfest (greatest confidence boost in my smash career) I clearly realized I have the skills to become a top player if I put some effort into it. But just call me.

(201)-655-1559

But first I gotta learn the DK match.......Cable is too good.
 
Max Ketchum

Max Ketchum

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Bleachigo, if your dad is willing to drive all the way up to West Milford, I'd so incredibly gladly play with you all day.

But y'know, not in that Inui sort of way.
 
718_ROOKI3

718_ROOKI3

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Taiki said:
First off inspriational story Ryko it doesen't really fit in the ike boards because it deserves to inspire all brawlers who don't main top tier and want to rep their character. It does feel awesome having you as part of the crew, and self-reflection is always key to improving. Your an excellent smasher and cool peoples, as is the entire crew.

Moving On


In reference to this.
(Scroll down for main, but backstory related, point)
(self-reflection time)

It has always been a goal of mine to make money off gaming in one way or another, whether it be playing games at a professional level and winning cash, my most preferable method, or the more practical path of taking some part in the game creation process and attempt to share epic, legendary tales of sword fights, and mythical worlds steeped to the brim with its own unique culture. Seeing as you can't really take up a full time job in high school I started gunning for professional gaming. Having no clue where to start I simply took immediate notice that I could either play shooters or fights. Having crappy aim and a bad habit of failing with snipers, what, at that point in time, seemed to always and constantly be the best weaponry in every shooter, I chose fighters.
The, by far, easiest choice for a fighting game was smash. I grew up with nintendo and have always mentally marked their works as the stuff of legend. In short they knew what they were doing when it came to making good games. Smash 64 was fun and i knew little of the competitive scene. I often played melee for fun, don't remember if it was with or without items so i started there. It wasn't til the summer brawl had a "release date" (the first december "worldwide" launch one) that i really got interested in the competitive melee scene. I figured its the same fighting system being good at one has to count somewhat towards the others. So started my drive to improve.
Pierce you were always better then me, you played a better character, the marth to my bowser, you knew the metagame better, knew game mechanics better, and i was so stubborn in my intention to play the character i liked rather then a tourny viable one. That last point was as serious as it could be maining bowser was hard work. My current maining of Dedede isn't me tier whoring, I explicitly said that Dedede should and will be in this game and i will main him and shank Sakarai if he excludes his own creation in SEPTEMBER. I believe Dedede was officially announced in OCTOBER (thats right get at my foresight). Skipping forward through all the web2zone goodness the chilling with friends playing smash etc. we come to brawl's launch.
To me Brawls Launch was the great equalizer. No matter how good you were in melee you skill was dramatically reduced once brawl came out because you needed to learn all the finer mechanics of the game. I saw this as a chance to jump in and assume a position of power in brawl's metagame. From day 0, thats right 0, like 2 hours before midnight launch i was trouncing people in the gamestop release tourny. I beasted on everyone in 3 gamestop tournies until i lost to papa Dave the IC main because i up-tilted for the win and the star KO is bull**** and killed him .3 seconds too late. Point is I felt like i was actually going to do well in this game. I proceeded to place well at tournies until some point i just stagnated.

(Backstory Complete!; TL;DR johners can read this part)

Recently I just don't play right at all. Don't know what triggered it. I just make ****ty decisions at all points in a match (See: grabbing RJ's lucario, having all of FD to chaingrab him and just backthrow off the edge in an attempt to edgegaurd......at 30%). I'm FAR too aggressive, and as i remember Ninjalink putting it i'm too eager to hit people (Apparently the only thing that made me any kind of difficult to read was a random up-smash game which i dropped at some point). I just have difficultly slowing down, i'm unsure as to whether its the sugar i consume or what. It also has to be understood that playing this game at a competitive level ONLY for long periods of time burns out my drive to continue competing. Its a game, i supposedly play it to have fun. I remember back when 4fit did not have a 360 and me wind and umbra went to 4fits nearly every week to play his random custom stages with items on and get some serious practice on the side. Actually after that stopped I started slipping. I guess what it boils down to is, the non stop seriousness of the game makes me play poorly, when it comes to brawl i no longer feel as if i'm in my element, all i see is stressed out people in a car ride headed home after a big tourny talking about how they ****ed up and whats bull**** about other characters.

For example I went to COT4 primarily because most of the crew was going and i didn't want to miss out. I can honestly say playing OOS wasn't as big a deal for me as it seemingly was for everyone else. THE MOST fun i had at COT4 was like the hour of playing the Ganon Challenge in the back with melo, palpi, and their friend (sorry dude) because it was so stupid it was funny. It was relaxing and i could enjoy the game for once. I guess the point i'm trying to get across is the game is getting too stressful and never leaves me a chance to unwind. Its to the point where I'm thinking my mindless agression can be attributed to the stress i get from playing this game excessively.

I know i missed, what 2 practices this week, because i was off at 4fit's playing Halo and Tales of Vesperia, but i want to emphasize the point that after an entire weekend of serious brawling, I was having fun gaming, and its not something I get to do as often anymore.

But to let you know i'm still serious I will try to get in more practice in some way.
I need to work on my counterpicking
My decision making mid combat
Slowing everything the hell down to make the above easier
Finding a median between competitive brawl and fun gaming.
Probably need to watch matches of myself too


Aside about my smashboards precense: I'm always on smashboards I just lurk MAD hard. I'm partial anti-social, so the lack of posting should be kinda normal. I rarely have anything constructive to say, and it always feels like whenever i post on forums i get ignored, or make random *** long posts like this that somehow end up as the last post on a page and no one notices it the second someone else posts.

Quick shoutout to Malcom who brings the gift of laughter to a game we've all turned so serious.
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Munk, on thursday there is practice. You should come play me when i go to dan's just me and you sit down for like 45 min. i think playing against someone extremely fast will help you... the idea of working on decision making is crucial and i think having the thought to think off your feet extremely fast is the number one step of decision making, fighting fox should give you that edge on decision making because you know ima lay down the pressure and put you in the worse situations possible... dont worry me and dan are going to put your brain to work... no homo... lmao
 
Pierce7d

Pierce7d

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I have no clue. For anyone that doesn't heard, Brian's van is on the fritz, so ZB won't be traveling anywhere for a while. We need to come up with a solution for this problem. Buying a crew vehicle isn't out of the question IMO.
 
_Yes!_

_Yes!_

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Pierce7d said:
I have no clue. For anyone that doesn't heard, Brian's van is on the fritz, so ZB won't be traveling anywhere for a while. We need to come up with a solution for this problem. Buying a crew vehicle isn't out of the question IMO.
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i saw this thing, called a train, and people ride it, and they go places with it...xD <3 maybe some people can fit in rhyme's car? and kai's car? and mr waltz's car?
 
Kaiber Kop

Kaiber Kop

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Cowtipper9487 said:
i saw this thing, called a train, and people ride it, and they go places with it...xD <3 maybe some people can fit in rhyme's car? and kai's car? and mr waltz's car?
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Good looking out for ZB Yes! but unfortunately doom is right. I don't live near them and I cant have passengers till july :(, well more than one XD
 
Pierce7d

Pierce7d

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Shippo, neither you nor 4fit can accommodate passengers. At one each, that's still not nearly enough to get the crew where it needs to be.

As for taking the train? Remember that I am able to attend tourneys by saving up the $15 I'm allotted for lunch each week. That's basically my singles entry and venue fee right there. I can only enter doubles after hustling a bit. Getting enough cake to travel is gonna be rough. Fortunately, I've been saving up, and I had a nice bit of leftovers after COT4 on top of that (since half the events were canceled, and I ate less than I thought I would) so I'm sitting on a bit of dough right now. I'll make it do what it do.

In other news: I picked up MK again yesterday. Not that I'll use anyone but Marth in tourney, but if you need MK practice now, and you don't feel like playing Umbra's style, there's another one in the house. I wanna learn how to play every character. I think I'll work on Snake next, and go down the tier list. I already have a good Falco and G&W, so I'll work on Snake and D3.

Also, as I promised to Spam, I'll be practicing Melee as well. I can't have company today (pa's the word), so hit me up tomorrow, and we'll see what happens. I can probably visit you if you're close today.
 
MalcolmM

MalcolmM

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yo jus take the train...lemme kno when u guys r going and we can BE TRAIN BUDDIES OMG HOW MUCH FUN!!!

/endgay

forreal tho...take the train.


edit: yo...train to SWR isnt alot of money...its inuis u have to worry about. trains to PJ cost sooooooo much. hence why i get wallet ***** every tourney.
 
ShippoFoxFire

ShippoFoxFire

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For SWR, my dad has no problem driving 3 of ZB, and then there is Bleachigo's father who has a van much like BSChung's
I think 4fit can max out his passengers, since he does it all the time.
 
Pierce7d

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ShippoFoxFire said:
For SWR, my dad has no problem driving 3 of ZB, and then there is Bleachigo's father who has a van much like BSChung's
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Did you already ASK your father that? I'm pretty sure I might even get my dad to take 4 of us down there, so between me, you, and Bleachigo, we can get to SWR, but I wasn't worried about that in the first place. Princeton is kinda far.

Also, I forgot to mention. I'm also training up my R.O.B.. He's really smart, but really clumsy, lmao.
 
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