Smokage of the Burning Leaf

Smokage of the Burning Leaf

@pattheflip.bsky.social

long-haired fgc sage. @koh.money's trophy husbando. love your life, be good to one another, and play guilty gear. he/him. 🇵🇭 RIP Bearcade. Personal: patrickmiller.ninja Events: pgg.events Xrd calendar: playguiltygear.com Support: patreon.com/pattheflip

5,941 Followers 753 Following 2,673 Posts Joined Oct 2024
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i don't think you gotta grind it feverously but a little bit of regular consistency goes a long way

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hell yeah

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Oakland Clubhouse Casuals back at it this Friday! Casuals for Xrd, 2XKO, and whatever old games you wanna play. @mpaulweeks.com is gonna bring some Scramble Heart City setups! Drop me a DM if you wanna come through.

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eat the path

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DJ Excelsia @ Benefit Rave 2 for Prairieland Defendants -- 03.06.2026 Live at DECAY Olympia YouTube video by Natasha Excelsia (N.Excelsia Audioworks)

my FUCK ICE Benefit Rave set from last Saturday is up on my channel! the livestream for this event got shot shortly after i went up, but i made sure to locally record as well 🧠

get your soul some high BPM juke and rage today!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E-o...

#dnb #drumandbass #juke #footwork

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CAMPAIGN UPDATE: 6 DAYS TO GO!!!!

💥 The Abughamentum is real!!

💥 We’re within the margin of error of first place and still growing!!

💥 AIPAC is dropping $1 million+ against us!!

💥 Door-knocking and phone-banking shifts every day!!

💥 Donate BEFORE Friday if you want to help us beat AIPAC!!

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1 day ago

the return of brokentier is incredibly hype!!! koogy is *the* og tasteful fgc merch goat. get in there

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Three panel comic. Panel 1: a giant squid wearing a yellow Bart t-shirt and some terrible hypebeast shorts is looking in the mirror. It says, “need groceries… but all my clothes are in the laundry.” Panel 2: the squid, now also wearing hot pink crocs, exits its apartment and says, “eh. I won’t see anyone.” Panel 3: two fisherman are pulling the squid to the surface of the water and pointing at it. An overlayed news caption reads: RARE SQUID SIGHTED - the fit was crazy
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2 days ago

I've always felt insane for not enjoying ranked in fighting games mostly in part because I am a sweaty player and I don't have "Ranked Anxiety" or any fear of getting my ass whooped. It just encourages way less fun play styles and never gives you enough knowledge to grow.

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Stage 2 begins in Hy-Dickety-Zone. We had to say Dickety cus the KAISER had stolen our word Drocity.

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COYOTE First Aid Kit: What to Do if You Find Feral Kittens It’s baby cat season in the Bay Area! Here’s our guide on what to do if you encounter a litter of purrfect miniature panthers in your yard.

Baby cat season is starting in the Bay Area! While it may be tempting to swoop up a litter of wild mini panthers, snuggle them like crazy, and take them to a shelter, there are a few super important things to consider first 👀 We've got the low down, in our latest from @nuala.bsky.social 🐱🐈😻🐾🐈‍⬛

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1 day ago

Was finally able to make it home to play Rev2sday and was able to win😊

Thank you so much to the PGG crew for hosting xrd for all of us and the hard work yall put in for everyone to enjoy. We greatly appreciate it 🙏

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Don’t have much reach here but I’ve relaunched Brokentier’s web store, and made a little video to show off a few of the designs.

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REV2SDAY 3/10/26 results are in!

1. @rtw96.bsky.social
2. @elvenshadow.bsky.social
3. @solsticefgc.bsky.social

Thanks for playing and we'll see you next week!

VOD: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ykI...

#rev2forev2

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pattheflip - Twitch REV2SDAY 3/10/26!!!!!!!!!!!!

REV2SDAY 3/10/26 STREAM IS LIVE!

On Tuesday we play Rev2! Ladder begins at 730PM Pacific, Top 8 starts at 830PM!

twitch.tv/pattheflip

#rev2forev2

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Someone at GDC recognized me as @koh.money's trophy husband and that's how I know I've made it.

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2 days ago

I'm trying to see if it's viable to do my writing/TOing/streaming fighting game stuff as a full time job, so every new Patreon supporter is a vote of confidence (and health insurance).

Thank you 🙏

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From Masher to Master 2: The Beginner's Guide to Becoming a Fighting Game Player by Patrick Miller A beginner's guide to becoming a fighting game player.

Full essay is here. If you'd like to support my work, please join the paid supporter tier or buy my book on learning to play fighting games (patrickmiller.itch.io/from-masher-...); if you want to keep up with my stuff, just join the Patreon for free.

www.patreon.com/posts/152427...

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Post image Individually, a person who plays fighting games may have a bunch of different complicated nuanced motivations and emotions that are served by different parts of the fighting game experience — not limited to the game itself on their console, but the broader journey of mastery and connectivity. The high-minded ideal FGC stuff I mentioned above is real and does exist! It just doesn’t exist enough to sell the millions of copies that go into funding the next Street Fighter or Tekken. At scale, building and selling games as a service looks a lot more like making a theme park or a casino, where you have customers entering at a given point, you give them choices on what kind of experience they can have in your game, and you give them clear signs and paths to choose from in order to make it easy for them.

In the above section, we established that people play video games because they want to feel something specific. It’s a brief moment of agency in a day where you were otherwise probably at the mercy of some stupid bullshit at your job, or at school, or in your family, or on the bus, or whatever. We spend most of our day pushing the boulder up, and the brief moment of rest we get is choosing the video game we play in between eating dinner and going to sleep, where we get to act like the person we imagine ourselves to be as the boulder rolls back down the hill.

"Why ranked sucks and we can't get rid of it"

Wrote about how fighting games rely on ranked matchmaking to retain players even though it often makes the experience worse. Read this to learn about friction, addiction, motivation, and how you can Ranked responsibly.

www.patreon.com/posts/152427...

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1 day ago

Fancy name for a piano

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donald trump post on truth social:

If the Protoss have put out any photon cannons in our base, and we have no reports of them doing so, we want them removed, IMMEDIATELY! If for any reason photon cannons were placed, and they are not removed forthwith, the Military consequences to the Protoss will be at a level never seen before. If, on the other hand, they remove what may have been placed, it will be a giant step in the right direction! Additionally, we are using the same Terran capabilities deployed against the Zerg to permanently eliminate any drones or probes attempting to place photon cannons in our base. They will be dealt with quickly and violently. BEWARE! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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#FREELUD UPDATE:

Ludovic’s bond hearing is on Friday!

This does not change the fact that he is still expected in court for a deportation hearing in May, even if he is released.

The fight is not over, but we are hopeful that he will be free of ICE custody soon. Keep fighting!

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Yup, it's included in the download

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1 day ago

It is, which is why most of my work is focused on encouraging people to go deeper, and I spend my time amplifying the games that go out of their way to love the players that love them.

The point of the essay is that we're stuck with Ranked for product reasons, but individuals can choose better.

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Yeah, you got the point of the essay just fine. I prefer to see fighting games that are made to deliver an excellent experience for the people who want to work for them than I would fighting games who make the experience worse in order to serve the players that do not.

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it's been a long time since the last new VF release and i'm sure they've got something good to try and win the people over, but if the worst thing that happens is that VF6 makes VF fans happy and becomes a niche Discord fighter, I think that'd be a pretty good outcome.

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you hype for VF6? i think it might have a shot.

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If all you want is dog food I'm not gonna stop you

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1 day ago

TODAY IS REV2SDAY PLAY GUILTY GEAR

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