seems like a few very special people are going through this thread to downvote everyone who mentions "mike z" and deny/downplay the shit he did in the comments www.reddit.com/r/Fighters/c...

Pathologic 2

> Willingness to say "I don't know" collapsed from 44% to 3% when AI was available. Monetary incentives barely helped "I don't know" is CRITICAL for improving - without it someone can't see need for improvement - and to doing anything competently, it's our clue to slow down or find someone who does

Bothers me that this game and other indie fighters have struggled on kickstarter when many big publishers continue to do bad shit and get rewarded for it. I pledged $100, you should consider pledging too.

VEGETA: Let’s see what that fool Kakarot thinks when he sees that I, the prince of Saiyans, have unlocked the heretofore unknown power of the Yassified Saiyan form entirely through the will due to royalty! GOKU: (oblivious) Hey Bulma! You look different!

The Kickstarter for RUSH (Rival Ultimate Steel Hand), my indie 3D fighter, is LIVE! The plan: develop RUSH for a year, for a proper release. Details on Kickstarter, link below 🧵. Lots of info, including art and music. Check it out, and please consider supporting #GoodAssRUSH 🙏

My parents are nuts man. My dad is afraid to get on a plane so he's driving 16 hours (first time they have done so in 6 years), staying 1 day in my town (they originally said 2), and then turning around and driving 16 hours back

willpower is a muscle you have to exercise if you want to live a life according to your values. posting the right things on social media isn't gonna bring you peace if you can't live it. if anything it'll make you feel worse. if you want to feel good, you gotta build that muscle.

there are already more FGs out there than you'll ever have time to play in your whole life that do not give money to assholes. play E's Laf, play MBAACC, play anything on Fightcade, whatever, you don't need to wait for your favorite mass-market YouTuber to take a stand. it's never gonna happen.

that check could have paid for our health insurance for a whole year in just like a month of work. i'll never get a chance to say Fuck You as loudly as irene did and if you can't even echo a tiny fraction of that energy then nothing I could ever do or say will overcome your miserable lack of agency.

"but what about the good devs on the team" MF WHAT ABOUT THE GOOD DEVS WHO DIDN'T JOIN THE TEAM BC THEY DIDN'T WANT TO WORK WITH HARASSERS? if anyone on the team gives a shit, vocally not supporting the game gives them leverage to fix things.

But instead I see endless mfs out there like "Evo 🙁 SNK 🙁 Capcom 🙁 if only the FGC had a backbone and standards 😤but i'm still gonna play it though" MF THE MISSING BACKBONE IS YOU ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE RTING THE GOOD STUFF IN PUBLIC AND KEEPING THE POSTS ABOUT HOW YOU'RE GONNA PLAY IT FOR DISCORD

And during that whole time I never had any issue with anyone saying they weren't gonna spend money on 2XKO bc that kind of reaction is what empowers people inside the company to push for reform!!! I SAW HOW RAISING HELL OUTSIDE MAKES IT EASIER TO CHANGE THINGS INSIDE THAT'S WHY I WRITE THIS SHIT.

"But pat you worked at Riot" Riot paid out $100m in a lawsuit and did years of work to reform the culture! I encouraged the lawsuit and gladly did everything i could to help the company improve! Mike Z sued the employees that he harassed!!! That's years of doing the exact opposite of apologizing!!!

"I'm not gonna play the Avatar game but I won't judge you if you do" nah fuck that. Irene walked away from a five figure payday to say fuck this shit, I judge mfs for just having bad taste in FGs you think I'm gonna sit this one out?? not buying a game is the easiest thing in the world.

Killer Queen Black is back on Steam and available as free store.steampowered.com/app/663670/K... for some reason still has disclaimer that it's no longer on Steam

once columbo is out of cooldown you are all fucked

So I turned down a job working on the Avatar fighting game a few years ago because of two people. You can guess who.

all it really takes is knowing how to look stuff up when you don't know how to do something.

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Putting out a public call: I'm running a fundraiser for Trans Lifeline on August 10-16th We're planning a bunch of tournaments and I'm really hoping to find TOs for the following: Guilty Gear XX AC+R Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 Vampire Savior 1/2

remember, be careful what you post on a day like this. If you do it right, you can get illegally fired for being disrespectful to Lindsay Graham and then win a massive lawsuit about 10 months from now and retire with 2 million in your pocket

he actually did the meme

In Re: the Freakonomics podcast Episode titled "Why Vanderbilt Keeps Winning." Since the freakonomics subreddit mods are AGGRESSIVELY deleting comments, I'm going to post my agreement with the 6/28 post on the Freakonomics subreddit "Vanderbilt President is Petrified of Trump" in their praise and

NPR has an annoying habit of having on douchebags like Daniel Diermier who legitimize right wing attacks on education and the interviewer will quietly sit there as he prattles on, and then be like "oh great answer dude. You're so smart"

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Actually, The Odyssey is the name of the doctor. The monster's name is Homer.

In light of Mike Z's continued involvement with Avatar Legends, we will not be running it at the Clubhouse, Caliburst, or any of our other events.

LRT: Avatar game looks great but I probably won't get it unfortunately

Hey y'all, I wanted give people a heads-up that Mike Z is still working on the Avatar Legends dev team, for anyone who wanted to know before deciding whether to buy/support the game. (If you don't know who that is or need a refresher, here's the Kotaku article: kotaku.com/workers-leav...)

well that was quick

Might and Magic 6 sampled Pink Floyd's "Money" for the loot/money sounds youtu.be/FtABfXF9i40?...

it was not difficult to discern if you are paying attention to anything other than empty-headed business "thought leaders"... here's 30+ pages worth of resources for anyone trying to talk sense into org leaders, family members, etc: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

never give up

Was having some trouble with this combo route yesterday (kept missing the microdashes..) but then something clicked and then I started hitting it in matches sorta consistently

GRD is probably my favorite system mechanic in any fighter. you build it up mostly by playing well, and if you're ahead whenever the timer circle ticks down, you do extra damage and get to "chain shift" once, which is basically a really strong roman cancel that also gives you meter.

It did seem really fishy when TV streaming prices ballooned in price over a few years. I signed up for DirecTV for $35/mo in 2017 and it was around $70/mo when I cancelled in 2022. I think it's around $90/mo now.

The indie FGC came together to bring you a Community Combo Video! From traditional, to platform, and unique spins on the genre, you can see what we're cooking up! Which is your favorite? (Credit: DeguzmanDayniel made this and posted it on the other site, just sharing it here.) #fgc #indiegames 💪🕹️

I have an extra copy of both Guilty Gear Xrd and Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R from the humble sale. If you're interested let me know.

FIGHTING GAME JAM MYSTERY UP NEXT

uni 2 tutorial is not so different from uni 1 but it's still one of the best tutorials in any fighting game ever

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

Damn, Columns Guy. I was not familiar with your game.

Listening to @pattheflip.bsky.social essay readings on a long drive home makes one feel like a movie/tv character listening to motivational tapes

if you've been unaware of the tensions in the fighting game space over this, @iantothemax.bsky.social lays it out quite well in this piece and you should take some time to read it. kotaku.com/the-fighting...

ngl i think the lack of Evo hype on the TL here is more indicative of the difference in bsky and Twitter/etc than it is of recent damage to the Evo brand, but it gives me hope that the FGC networks we're building here are forming around the capitalist center of gravity instead of depending on it.

Its time for indies at Evo 2026. Come through, check out some dope games and see what the indie dev gallery is all about www.twitch.tv/mistermkl www.youtube.com/@MrMKL

Torment Hexus will be on the exhibition floor at the TooManyGames convention, this Friday through Sunday! We're in Hall C in the indie games showcase, come say hi!

Chris Hu: "What's goose glitch? That means you can do a value into another value with a goose. But that value, is not landing any value. But with when he goose, that's still a value. You understand?" Aquasilk: "Hell no!"