Going over the Combo Breaker numbers and this year was explosive, almost every single game saw a giant jump in attendance. Quick breakdown SF6 - 1324 to 1452 T8 - 1108 to 1218 GGS - 619 to 882 UN2 - 380 to 488 3S - 199 to 259 MBAACC - 69 to 218 GGXrd - 178 to 214 VSAV - 91 to 158 MBTL - 96 to 157

Borrowing someone's stick from the same pool as you is insane work

Running a bracket where everyone shows up on time and there's no stream might be the greatest feeling as a bracket runner

"Q&A: Hagure on the craft of TOing, grassroots community cultivation, and getting into Vampire Savior in 2026" I caught up with @hagu.re to chat fighting game origins, learning to TO, FGC gentrification, and, of course, Vampire Savior. www.patreon.com/posts/q-hagu...

Very fun tournament last year. Looking forward to another great event!

"Fighting ICE and freeing the homies: The #FREELUD Q&A with Aeriqui" The most inspirational story in fighting games this year didn't happen on stage. I caught up with @aeriqui.bsky.social about the organizing work behind #FREELUD, and the work ahead for asylum. www.patreon.com/posts/fighti...

The Zuko trailer has done the impossible; I'm excited for a fighting game again. We got divekicks, divekicks high, divekicks low, evasive divekicks, divekicks cancelled into air movement, divekicks with no height restriction, corner combo that is 5x divekicks We got divekicks

My coworker unironically pulled a "I'm going to my roommate's girlfriend's dog's birthday" as a response to being asked to work on Saturday. He had an invitation

The future of Evo?

Man, how are you going to come to me for help debugging something and then make me coax any relevant information out of you like you are trying to keep a secret

Woke up expecting to see the results of mena/daigo but it hasn't even started yet lmao

SQXL: The Promised Day registration begins in 10 DAYS! Introducing new additions to the SQXL lineup with Marvel: Tokon, Avatar Legends, and Persona 4 Arena Ultimax! 🎟️ #SQXL2026 Passes & Hotel block go on sale 5/8 6 PM ET 📍 Venue: Durham Convention Center, NC

There’s no excuse for using that slur. I’ve seen a small handful of queer folk use it to be edgy and yeah nah. Fuck you. Fuck you for normalizing such a fucked up, hateful slur. You aren’t punk, you aren’t being rebellious. You are coming off as an insufferable asshole.

I love how Baltimore hasn't repainted it's pride month light rail cars in like 2 years. Cost cutting I can get behind

Receive. I have to write this word 10000 times per day and I get it right maybe 5% of the time

I still have the first $6 I ever won for getting 2nd at a local

You belong here @kylebrandtsky.bsky.social

Went to dim sum brunch and had a baijiu flight... Somehow I think it's worse than malort

Trying to set people up to look good at work with easy questions and they fuck it up, don't know and end up looking terrible...

"The way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace... I think what’s going on in our country — what we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants, is really unfortunate and it’s really sad." - Charles Barkley on CBS

Kimberly from Street Fighter 6

unfortunately txsd has been allowing a bunch of other players who've committed far worse than mike z at their event, whether knowingly or not. I know players like shinku (gbvs) and shinblade (tekken) have been in attendance in the past with no repercussions. highly implore texas fgc to pressure TOs.

Being in danger of capping my PTO and also having my longest break from fighting game related travel since 2021 are probably related conundrums

Going to pull up to the court in my C3 basketball jersey and my CB shorts. What tournament is going to make basketball socks?

Love this work "training" that was a 2 page paper on why lasers are dangerous and then a "did you understand" prompt

Update on Ludovic. Unfortunately but unsurprisingly he was moved to Louisiana without notice. If anyone can put the campaign in contact with elected officials, please do. Also keep an eye on the GoFundMe page for further updates. www.gofundme.com/f/support-lu...

www.gofundme.com/f/support-lu... hey yall this is a little serious but a big pillar of dmv fgc Ludovic has been detained by ice and needs some financial help to cover the legal defense, please spread the word and donate if you can

I saw crime 101. Holy shit I've never seen so many unresolved subplots in a single movie. It's so long and feels like it wanted to be longer when it should have been much much shorter Pretty looking movie though, and I think the 3 main characters were played well

The diamond winstreaks they added to sf6 made getting to master with alternate characters so much faster lol. went from never playing elena to master almost immediately lol

Really wish i could re-order discord channels independently of what moderators have chosen

A lot of people do play single player content in flighting games, so in paid games I think it makes sense to get those sales. I do not think a f2p game needs that, a f2p needs players to stick around to make money, so I don't think single player is very important

What even were the expectations for 2xko lol? I don't think reaching sf6 numbers was realistic, let alone anything bigger

I don't really care about how good Mewgenics reviews look, i will not be playing a game that is named a eugenics pun made by two dudes who still associate with notch and tyrone rodriguez lol

Outlook feature idea: required approvers in order to send emails to non-technical employees

My gas for heating/cooking being a flat rate included in my rent is amazing... Until you realize my neighbors have it too and I come back to an apartment at 75 and my thermostat set at 69

I made a blog, and my first post is about a new (ish) tournament format that I think the FGC should take a close at and I do intend to use in the future. kashkabald.neocities.org/posts/2026-0...

He apparently found the entire witch from Mercury series on youtube. I have set this kid down some paths I did not intend lol

Vsav having more sign-ups than Tekken at any point in the registration phase is amazing lol

I have made my first contribution to free and open source software (submitted a PR to update instructions on how to build the FF8 save editor on linux which might help exactly one person in the future)

Asked for tea pot for christmas, received tea pot. Now realizing making tea in a pot is so much less efficient for a single person than a cup tea infuser because instead of steeping one serving of leaves twice, i have to steep two servings of leaves once. Who wants to have a tea party?

Beer pong has too many house rules. I desire standardization. You should see what standardization was before auto correct

Whole crew got venue hotels, love to see it

I’ve never played her, but I’m obsessed with Kimberly

Played Gundam TCG with my nephew directly led him to discover Gundam kits, so I think my sister is going to send me to hell. It also led to him downloading yugioh master duel, so I'm going to double hell

Things that get me booed by my own family "how does anyone get by in life without dozens of neodimiyum magnets"

Paid off my private student loans today 🎉

Today is one of those days you play Last Resort on loop the entire commute home

"we USE ai, but our game wont CONTAIN it" is a clarification that no one has ever cared about & now CEOs are using it as a wedge to get their foot in the door as a part of a long term plan into normalizing AI, just like how 'it's just placeholder' was used with E33. dont cede even an inch of ground

Thanks PS5, very cool