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Stream going live in about 10 minutes. We'll be watching Omito (Johnny) vs Zadi (Raven).

This is a YouTube Post™, by the way, not a video link.

Really miss calling things Journals back in the 00s...

Post from Dragonfly's Swamp Lounge - YouTube A commenter asked for my opinions on Strive vs Xrd and the current state of SF6. I figured I'd share my thoughts here for anyone who wanted a cliff's notes v...

A commenter asked for my opinions on Strive vs Xrd and the current state of SF6. I figured I'd share my thoughts here.

- Strive tried to be SFV, and fail/succeeded.
- SF6 reminds me of GG in a good way but it has problems.

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Xrd stream going live in about 10 minutes. Gonna be watching the Mikado Tenkaichi Budokai league from 2017-18, starting with Tomo (Leo) vs Fumo (Elphelt).

Xrd stream going live in about 20 minutes. We'll be watching Ogawa Zato vs Machabo Ky at Daigo's Kemonomichi event from years back. This'll be a good one.

Xrd stream done for today. Good times.

Schedule for the next few streams:
- Ogawa vs Machabo's set played by Daigo at Kemonomichi
- Mikado Tenkaichi Budokai arcade league from 2017-2018

The usual time at 1:00 PM Eastern on Saturdays. Make sure to account for Daylight Savings Time if you need to.

Gonna do a makeup stream tonight at 6:00 PM Eastern. Might go a bit longer than usual.

No stream today. Life stuff got in the way. I may have a makeup stream later but I can't say for sure.

It's not a matter of degrees. Someone like you or me can have the discipline not to buy shiny new things with real money, but these systems always affect people with low impulse control. Whales are a feature, not a bug.

RoA2 is "better" than Candy Crush, but we should hold games to a higher bar.

Xrd stream going live in about 40 min.

YouTube video by LibertyPen Milton Friedman - Understanding Inflation

Milton Friedman covers this principle of inflation and economics succinctly here. His anecdote about tobacco leaves vs dollars is very relevant for modern life:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ4T...

You get Coins™ for playing Ranked™, so there's a direct line between the value of Coins™ and your time. No such link exists for Bucks™, which can only be gotten through battle passes (I think?).

I should've used a word other than "gambling", but IMO all live services are the same kind of poison.

I could have explained it better. The gist is:
- Bucks™ are scarcer than Coins™
- More desirable items are usually Bucks™ only
- Getting the chance to spend Coins™ on something is effectively making it cheaper even if the sticker price is the same

It's not a slot machine, but it is manipulative.

The premiere for my Rivals 2 video is finished now. Thanks to everyone who watched and chatted. I might use that feature more in the future depending on the size of the video.

I am cautiously ready to say the Rivals of Aether 2 video is finished. The total file is just over an hour long.

I'll be premiering it this Saturday in place of the normal stream, at 1:15 PM EASTERN TIME. That's fifteen minutes AFTER the normal start time so people have the chance to filter in.

Stream going live in about 40 minutes. Just Xrd viewing today.

www.youtube.com/@DragonflySw...

I have finished 13/15 sections in the RoA2 video. Home stretch now, and once editing is done I can see about using YouTube's Premiere function to ensure people actually know the video exists.

Actually it was 11 of 15 total. More like 90% done.

Finished sections 12 and 13, which are the final ones before the conclusion, which is two sections. I still need to do the intro, which is 4, so that puts me at about 9 done of 15 total, but probably more like 85% done with the editing.

Let's watch Bedman vs Venom (arcade FT5 match) YouTube video by Dragonfly's Swamp Lounge

I just finished a livestream where I watch a Bedman vs Venom match and then ranted about redditors for a bit. Check it out:

www.youtube.com/live/9qUz8Ls...

Quick video about bugs in Rivals of Aether 2's training mode.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=L47E...

Finished section 11. My eternal thanks to that guy from Bungie for peeling back his skin and saying the quiet part about live services out loud.

Got another section done (10) and got section 11 about half done. These ones are significantly simpler than the earlier sections so I have more freedom to have fun with editing.

Whoops, forgot to announce my livestream. Well, you can watch it here. I covered a first-to-10 Raven vs May match from the Japanese arcade Honkan Sega Sports Land.

www.youtube.com/live/gkdN-xW...

I finished the 4th section in the RoA2 video, which actually combined two sections.

Done:
sections 2-9

To do:
section 1
sections 10-14
plus some misc new narration to credit some artists

I had thought I was only about 40% of the way through, but it's more like 55-60%.

RoA2 video has three sections finished, working on a fourth. Total video is about 14 sections.

I've broken the video down into about 13 sections, and I'm trying to edit and render each one individually to make my life easier and preserve progress. Half of the video won't require much fancy editing so it should go pretty smoothly.

Update on Rivals 2 video. Editing started. I'd forgotten how fun it is.

First section finished today in a few hours. At least half of that was remembering how the hell to do simple things in my old version of Sony Vegas.

The only reason I have an account here is that Twitter requires a phone number, my soul, and my firstborn child - and they STILL treat me like a bot.

I don't like Bsky, but it's at least a functional broadcast and messaging client. That's all I want.

Dragonfly's Swamp Lounge Game reviews and analysis with a focus on fighting games. Guilty Gear Xrd is my favorite fighting game of all time, but Street Fighter 6 and GGXXAC+R are really cool too. I main Raven in Xrd, Guile in...

Made a YouTube post sharing my thoughts about the recent City of the Wolves beta: www.youtube.com/channel/UCBi...

In short:
- Neat system mechanics
- Visuals are a mixed bag
- The online experience feels worse than a decade out of date

My prediction? The fate of all recent SNK games.