Yeet Kune Do

tbh the one to its immediate right is the real celebrity

the fact that the first four in the franchise all dropped within six years, and the third one dropped a decade later

I didn’t know SC2 was like that for you

now *that’s* a game I come ALIVE when playing

CBS obtained video of the DHS killing of an unarmed man in Texas that DHS concealed for nearly a year, which clearly contradicts claims that he violently rammed anyone. He is shot with his brake lights on, car not moving or barely moving. Another DHS crime.

I can absolutely understand that POV, then. It sucks when people put competitive performance at a higher priority than the collective experience, because it causes people like yourself to walk away from those experiences with a sour taste that lingers, and for some, that can endure for decades.

I can’t do the “nine games” thing. I can’t narrow it down to nine.

> DX
> SamSho 2019
> Katamari
> Punch-Out Wii

I applaud your taste.

some folks would rather *feel right* than BE correct. that shit has always wilded me out

tl;dr version: idk why some mfs wanna stay dumb

It ain’t even disagreement, it’s just light-grade perspective correction via arming someone else with better quality information. I have a lot of difficulty understanding why some people feel so safe and comfortable in their ignorance that they’d attack someone trying to gift them intelligence.

Blocked by @papito208.blacksky.app. Didn’t strike me as a man that liked learning anything that wasn’t what he already held as true. Definitely more allergic to reading words than his own ignorance.

In the words of my friend Brian (RIP): “imma pray for him, but it ain’t gonna stop him.”

It’s not even that long. I don’t find an issue with it, because I’m not here even arguing with them, only trying to talk about shit I talk about often, because that’s my literal wheelhouse lol

Because *that person* actually brought something that’ll feed you for years. I don’t shy away when people show up in my life to be that way. I’ll engage. I’ll listen. I might even argue the point.

But I’ll never tell someone doing that to stop speaking, because that would say far more about *me.*

And we see the effect of ^that shit^ play out EVERY GOD DAMNED DAY, and especially now. You want to have a better world? Don’t be anti-intellectual, don’t project your own shame at not knowing something on the messenger that pulled up just to bring knowledge to the conversational cookout.

Because you could just get QT’d like “look at this dumbass that doesn’t understand how shit works,” or worse, have other people show up, agree with you and then spread that misunderstanding further because they’re not aware of their own ignorance on the subject, either.

But the way I see it, if you got the time to spend bitching about shit you don’t seem to grasp the full scope of, you definitely got the time to spend getting a speedrun read of what you failed to consider. That’s someone trying to be additive to your life. That’s kindness.

If you’re gonna use your voice to tell people that took the time to bring you better quality information to stop talking, that’s fucked up. Especially when their time and effort speaking to you was a gift of their finite, nonrenewable time on Earth, to you.

Maybe that’s just maturity talking.

That goes for anyone. You don’t like to have people show up in your conversations? Don’t have conversations in public spaces. You don’t want to get educated on something by some random passerby? Don’t say ignorant ass shit in earshot of those with a better understanding of the world you inhabit.

You want to tell me to stop typing, fine. That just tells me that you don’t like to read, and if that’s the case, you are straight telling on yourself and you ain’t even able to see how. Especially when posts here are all 300 characters or less, including spaces.

Because what that tells me (and a bunch of other folks, too) is that you don’t have any interest in actually understanding anything, you just want to complain about shit and have people agree with you. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the internet got more than enough of that bullshit.

I subscribe to multiple fighting game feeds on bsky. If you start publicly venting about something and are displaying a fundamental lack of understanding, awareness or knowledge on that subject, I tend to jump in to try to help clarify things.

If you start talking to me like this? That’s on you.

Okay. I’m sorry I bothered you with facts.

I’m not here to be mean or nasty or anything of the sort. I’m here to clarify. I’m here to *help,* and I’m best at helping people understand the underlying mechanisms of complex shit (hence why fighting games have always been my vibe). That’s all, man.

I’m being 100% real with you right now, I am not getting nasty in the slightest, it’s how you’re reading what I’m saying. I’m the kind of dude that ran an afterschool program for COVID era kids to teach them self-development and social skills using learning fighting games together with a peer group.

That’s how you wind up with a fighting game where your characters get a ton of costumes that cost $150, or get sold as a bundle where the whole cast gets swimsuits for $60, as if that’s worth the purchase price.

That last bit? That’s DOA’s modus operandi.

It sucks, yeah. But I’d argue that shit being f2p where unlocking characters requires either you treating the game like a full time job or unlocking them with high-level credit card tech is a far worse substitute. Especially when gacha mechanics are involved and shit like costumes can have rarity.

But shit like Naruto? One Piece? MHA? DBZ? Those games require the rights holders to get their cut, too. Therefore, those games’ DLC is often either a.) more expensive, or b.) goes on sale less often, and often at smaller discount rates. Sometimes both.

Tekken, SoulCalibur, that has more price range set freedom involved because that’s their IP. They ain’t paying out for anything except a licensed guest character, which is why those characters are the first things to get delisted over time.

Bamco is a bit of a different story, though. They drop a shitload of licensed games, so they not only have to make their money back from commissioning the developers to make the shit, but they also have to pay the rights holder for the IP for the game being made.

All tallied up at launch prices, you’d spend $130 for a complete game. But now? When that game goes on sale on Steam, you can get the “Kiwami” bundle with the game and all the DLC for SEVENTEEN BUCKS. Even Arc and Bamco do this, just less often.