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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If you've been playing fighting games for any length of time, it would be to your benefit to follow & read any and all takes Pat has. Either reinforcing what you already know or giving you an entirely new perspective will help you grow as a player and a person.
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iconic xbox live avatar featuring guy wearing grey beanie and red shirt blowing a bubble reimagined as axl low from guilty gear strive
master study
feel free to use as pfp
12.01.2026 02:51 —
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ChrisBardow - Twitch
ChrisBardow.
#NEDani is live in 5:
📺: twitch.tv/ChrisBardow
18.12.2025 23:57 —
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North East Coast Under Night Danisen Season 4
Gonna throw up a Northeast Danisen Lobby Stream tonight at 7pm est, pull up if you can!
🎮: #UNI2 Northeast Danisen lobby stream #NEDani
⏲️: 7pm EST
📺: twitch.tv/chrisbardow
NEDani Info + Discord Link: shorturl.at/gHPE4
18.12.2025 16:02 —
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they had one of those race-to-100-man kumites at mikado the other night with ikebukuro sarah in virtua fighter 1 - the first one - and that man is still beasting & having fun in his favorite fighting game long after ppl just moved on, and he is in his 60s. i got at least 20 more years in me
07.12.2025 01:26 —
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Northeast Danisen Lobby Stream tonight at 7pm ya'll 👍 🗣️ 🎤 ❤️
🎮: #UNI2 Northeast Danisen lobby stream #NEDani
⏲️: 7pm EST
📺: twitch.tv/chrisbardow
NEDani Info + Discord Link: shorturl.at/gHPE4
20.11.2025 16:04 —
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Twitch
Twitch is the world's leading video platform and community for gamers.
Northeast Danisen Lobby Stream tonight at 7pm ya'll 👍 🗣️ 🎤 ❤️
🎮: #UNI2 Northeast Danisen lobby stream #NEDani
⏲️: 7pm EST
📺: twitch.tv/chrisbardow
NEDani Info + Discord Link: shorturl.at/gHPE4
02.10.2025 15:02 —
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ChrisBardow - Twitch
ChrisBardow.
#NEDani is live in 5
📺: twitch.tv/ChrisBardow
11.09.2025 22:55 —
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Twitch
Twitch is the world's leading video platform and community for gamers.
Northeast Danisen Lobby Stream tonight at 7pm ya'll 👍 🗣️ 🎤 ❤️
🎮: #UNI2 Northeast Danisen lobby stream #NEDani
⏲️: 7pm EST
📺: twitch.tv/chrisbardow
NEDani Info + Discord Link: shorturl.at/gHPE4
11.09.2025 15:02 —
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ChrisBardow - Twitch
ChrisBardow.
#NEDani is live in 5
📺: twitch.tv/ChrisBardow
26.06.2025 22:55 —
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🎮: #UNI2 Northeast Danisen lobby stream #NEDani
⏲️: 7pm EST
📺: twitch.tv/chrisbardow
🗣️ 🎤 ❤️
NEDani Info + Discord Link: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
26.06.2025 16:01 —
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ChrisBardow - Twitch
ChrisBardow.
#NEDani is live in 5
📺: twitch.tv/ChrisBardow
12.06.2025 22:55 —
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ChrisBardow - Twitch
ChrisBardow.
Throwing up another #NEDani lobby tonight at 7pm EST over on twitch.tv/chrisbardow
🤮 🎙️ 👍
NEDani Info + Discord Link: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
12.06.2025 16:00 —
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ChrisBardow - Twitch
ChrisBardow.
#NEDani is live in 5
📺: twitch.tv/ChrisBardow
07.06.2025 01:55 —
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ChrisBardow - Twitch
ChrisBardow.
Throwing up another #NEDani lobby tonight at 7pm EST over on twitch.tv/chrisbardow
🤮 🎙️ 👍
NEDani Info + Discord Link: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
05.06.2025 16:02 —
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ChrisBardow - Twitch
ChrisBardow.
#NEDani is live in 5
📺: twitch.tv/ChrisBardow
29.05.2025 22:55 —
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North East Coast Under Night Danisen Season 3
First #NEDani stream back from Combo Breaker (ignoring LuFL) tonight at 7pm EST over on twitch.tv/chrisbardow
🎙️ 🔥 😀
NEDani Info + Discord Link: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
29.05.2025 16:02 —
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ChrisBardow - Twitch
ChrisBardow.
Last #NEDani stream before Combo Breaker (ignoring Fox) tonight at 7pm EST over on twitch.tv/chrisbardow 🎙️ 🦜 😘
Northeast Danisen Discord: discord.gg/dGmeCnMn
15.05.2025 16:16 —
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ChrisBardow - Twitch
ChrisBardow.
#NEDani stream live in 5
📺: twitch.tv/ChrisBardow
08.05.2025 22:55 —
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#NEDani stream tonight at 7pm EST over on twitch.tv/chrisbardow
🎤 🆗 ✔️
Also LuFL is moving his Danisen stream scheule time to Tuesdays at 7pm Est so catch him at twitch.tv/lufl_fgc 🙏
NEDani Info + Discord Link: buff.ly/4hY6pqW
08.05.2025 16:02 —
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ChrisBardow - Twitch
ChrisBardow.
#NEDani stream live in 5
📺: twitch.tv/ChrisBardow
01.05.2025 22:55 —
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#NEDani stream going up tonight at 7pm EST over on twitch.tv/chrisbardow
🎙️ 🆗
NEDani Info + Discord Link: buff.ly/4hY6pqW
01.05.2025 16:06 —
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📣 First come First serve, must be in voice chat📣
💰 venmo, cash app, or PayPal only 💰
#NEDani Info + Discord Link:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
24.04.2025 16:54 —
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We all want to see him fail.
Impromptu GaryButternubs kumite happening tonight at 7pm EST over on twitch.tv/chrisbardow
⚠️ Special Rules⚠️
Win a set against Gary = $1
Whoever ranks Gary down the most = $20
Gary survives the night without ranking down somehow = $20
More Info below 🔽🔽🔽
24.04.2025 15:04 —
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We all want to see him fail.
Impromptu GaryButternubs kumite happening tonight at 7pm EST over on twitch.tv/chrisbardow
⚠️ Special Rules⚠️
Win a set against Gary = $1
Whoever ranks Gary down the most = $20
Gary survives the night without ranking down somehow = $20
More Info below 🔽🔽🔽
24.04.2025 15:03 —
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ChrisBardow - Twitch
ChrisBardow.
#NEDani stream live in 5
📺: twitch.tv/ChrisBardow
17.04.2025 22:55 —
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