@coolboymew I just looked up Tikkie culture and Jesus Christ :autismapproved: I never want to see any Dutchman mock tipping ever again, and I don't even like the idea of tipping
@Moon@MischievousTomato Yeah, when I see アメリカ on TWKN I run it through DeepL to see what they're saying, and one of them said that some Americans believe birds are drones I said it's a satirical joke and posted some of the merch as examples and they had a bit of a laugh about it
@coolboymew@Oaghaji They're not that different from Smash in that they're about spatial control. You're just playing in a shoebox rather than a living room and you don't have nearly the mobility, so your moves have to be a little more calculated. There's no shame in learning how to use button inputs before you even attempt special moves in combos, in fact, learning based off of what button press works when gives you a leg up on someone trying to showboat with their combos and inputs. Why risk a Shoryuken when a simple crouching HP or standing HK would do?
Trying to learn Third Strike and starting with parrying is like sending your 6-year-old to his freshman year at high school. It's fucking tough and even high-end players struggle with doing it consistently once the moves hit rapidly enough. The Daigo vs. JWong clip is fun and all, but it doesn't really represent what the game is like. It's two top-end talents showboating. You're better off just blocking and grasping what moves to do when, how to punish blocked or whiffed moves, and when to jump before you even approach it. When you get to where you can pull off a few characters' bread and butter combos consistently and get the basics down, then I'd start with parrying.
@PhenomX6@clacke@SuperDicq@Moon I did. I avoided that nonsense because I didn't IRC and I wasn't into the furry niche. I remember Bui DDoSing the site and Firetires treating his autistic screeching like he was just doing pentesting or helping debug or something.
Between the furry drama, the Masterchan chomos, /int/, and watching their /pol/ descend into madness, it's a small miracle it stayed around as long as it did.
@SuperDicq@Moon@clacke >Yeah it really does. Places like /pol/ and 8ch have really ruined the public image of imageboards towards the general public and also made it so people who go on imageboards for non-political discourse have become a dying breed. And it's too bad, because outside of the 4chan legacy boards and edgy shit like /baph/, 8chan had some really cool boards. Lots of little communities and passion projects were there, it was just stuck behind Gamergate, NEETsocs, and teenbro /int/feriors that spent 16 hours a day trashing the site.
>I don't think anyone who wasn't already there pre 2010 or so is going to understand imageboards by getting into them now. You're simply too late and the party is over I think. It's not hard to figure them out now. "This is where Redditors go to either vent in ways that would get them banned, other Redditors go to dunk on right-wingers, and they both only post soyjaks at one another." Modern imageboards are cancer, and not even that deeply right-wing anymore. So, so many Discord trans there. Even /pol/ has gone from Nazi central to an edgier version of the Breitbart comment section. It's where normal people go to pretend to not be normal.
>Yet somehow everyone is still familiar with things that early image culture gave birth to such as the act of rickrolling, epic fails, the game (you just lost), over 9000, the concept or trolling and many many other things originating from there. All of that died with Chanology. Moot may have been a little out of touch, but he was right, raids are AIDS. Even then, if you made a place where people would post Mongler and Yaranaika, it'd still be happening in 2023 instead of 2006. Do you know how many people went into WoW Classic thinking that if the game was going to be from the mid-2000s, the community would too, and ended up uninstalling when they got a reality check?
@coolboymew@ignaloidas@blaaablaaaa@Moon Tesla and Mercedes are both looking at implementing killswitches for if you miss a car payment, so it's much closer than you think
@coolboymew@SPCmovienight@LoliHat A lot of it's that it took 25 years to make and was mediocre IIRC the main complaint I saw against it was that it was so far behind the times when it came out
@Moon@turncoattradition@PhenomX6@TheEternalBungholio@theorytoe Your average 21st century communist would also call Stalin a fascist, to be fair, and anyone that defends him a tankie. They're not exactly known for having a cohesive ideology either, though they sure love talking about studying it.