I started snort laughing

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Enjoying this so far! "Once you become even remotely competent in fighting games, you will feel like you could learn to do anything in the world that you’re willing to put in the work for."

I think about this a lot. I keep bouncing off new releases, but I loved picking up vsav for the first time in 2022.

Hi, I’m Alex goldman. I used to host a podcast called Reply All that some people liked. For the past year I have been making a show called @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social. We now have 25 episodes (50 if you count premium episodes). You might enjoy it! Listen if you liked reply all

According to Wikipedia, today is the 20th anniversary of The 1UP Show. I choose to believe this is true. I miss this work. More, I miss my old coworkers. Still the best and most fun job I ever had. I’ll let Jane and Eric’s killer tune race through my mind today.

Barbarian Weapons Midsommar Get Out (heavy recency bias T_T)

One of the top tier opening scenes hands down

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

after the talk a week or so ago about 2xko's button layout vs a couple other games, i thought about how it feels like many fgs atm have too many buttons (this may or may not be a real hitbox)

Great talk about fighting game design fundamentals!

I found the worst Animorph

This is why everything sucks. It's not trans people. It's not immigrants. You are being robbed blind before your eyes and those same people also own all the tech and media networks to tell you that the cause is not them

Interested how well this post from a year ago will hold up www.pressbuttonwin.com/p/2xkod-skep...

This convo I had highlights the difference in what "respect your time" means in games. A lot of players want to trade time for in-game progress. It's purely transactional: 1 hour = 1 progress But I want to feel like my actions matter i.e. what I do with time creates progress, not time itself.

Ya ever think about how fuckin beautiful literally every CPS3 game is and how short lived the system was? Man. We shall never see its like again So please allow me to gush about it! Go over some lesser known details, and what makes it so special imo

A Life Well Wasted episode 9: Game Over is up now. Grab a timed-edition poster by Olly Moss anytime in the next 7 days to support the show. Thanks for sticking with me! alifewellwasted.com

I started going to fighting game tournaments because I watched EVO TvC top 8 and Marn, the eventual champ, didn't know how to break out of PTX's throw. Like at that moment I kind of internalized the idea of "you don't have to be a god; you just have to be better than the other scrub next to you."

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te ST Ryu of 3S is Ken and the ST Ken of 3S is Ryu. Akuma is the ST Ryu of SF6. the Ken of Ryus is SF4 Evil Ryu and the Ryu of Kens is ST O.Ken. the 3S Ryu of SF6 actually is Ryu but the 3S Ken of SF6 is Terry and the 3S Akuma of SF6 doesn't exist

they’ll just move him to a different parish and he’ll do it again

This article just reminded me of this old tweet

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

of course there are a few notable exceptions but the answer to “what order should i read/watch/play this series in?” is almost always “order of release.” they didn’t release them in that order by accident

We're going live at 8PM EST with Moment Slice Monthly #20, on Fightcade! No YT stream tonight as we're testing out Twitch's 2k streaming beta! Yetighettoslang and @vmpactionhank.bsky.social will be on comms tonight! Link in next post!

New blog post breaking down what we know about Tokon's mechanics so far: open.substack.com/pub/pressbut...

Tōkon Translations Assemble = Assist Skill = Special Super Skill = Super Ultimate Skill = Level 3 Super Skill Gauge = Super Meter Assemble Smash = Universal Overhead (with some armor; shades of Drive Impact) Assemble Counter = V-Shift (1/2)

There is no discussion less interesting than fighting game roster speculation.

Man, while the end product was a bit rough, I'm still happy with this.

i heard you only get to play as donkey kong for the opening hour or two on the tanker. the rest of the story is told from the perspective of diddy kong as he infiltrates the “big peel” bananaspill containment facility on a hostage rescue mission, manipulated by unseen players in a larger game (1/14)

@skisonic.bsky.social Wondering if there's any way to find old archived eps of the the Wakeup Shoryuken podcast these days?

Sasquatch dash MP is such a good button. Even Superman uses it! He gets fed up with playing footsies with Lex, he unleashes a barrage of dash MPs, turns Lex into a paste and levels Metropolis. "Kal-El! No!" Play Vampire Savior.

Was originally going to go in a different direction for the title card for youtu.be/uMJpXX72lWQ

Also did a semi-related blog post about would-be successors to Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (focusing on Dragon Ball FighterZ) and how none ever quite hit the mark for me personally open.substack.com/pub/pressbut...

Curious how this one will go over, but thought it'd be a good time to drop with all the new versus games on the horizon

one insidious thing about evil is that it makes thinking about anything else difficult, not only crowding other things out but also making them seem meaningless; it drains all but a sliver of the world of colour and saps the will to live outside that sliver — unless you ignore it, which is giving in

This is quite possibly the most distilled essence of my entire political identity.

Images alone don't do this justice. It's absolutely breath taking how good this looks.

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

@resolvereviews.bsky.social have you posted the mods you used on the FT1 somewhere already? Curious about which pads you went with