M*kk’s Masculine Archetype tweet reads as if Jordan Peterson’s IQ was 50 points lower, and instead of being a successful clinical psychologist and pundit, he was a guy who spent his life playing a game he’ll never achieve acclaim for again.
I don’t know if I’ll be able to repeat something like this again but I’m proud regardless. When I started I never thought I would be;
-The second highest debut on a Top 100
-Top 5 in Canada
-Top 3 Jigglypuff Player
Thank you to everyone who knew I had it in me.
It's unbelievably stupid and unironically racist to say this commentary is intrinsic to "black people." I've known black commentators across several games (Starcraft 2, Smash, League, CS:GO) who don't "rap" commentaries.
What a stupid, racist comment.
Folks need to check their anger after they lose. If people have to think "I don't know what's they're going to do if I win" you should seriously re-evaluate whether you should be competing or not.
@edwin_budding
Armada, Peach is an extremely safe character and won't die to random bullshit as often as Marth or Spacies. He also has a killer mentality.
@moky_dokie
Every discourse in melee is centered around space animal players and how they're affected by various meta development. Boxx complaining comes from Fox upair not working, fd discourse and starter stadium helped spacies too, openings per kill as a metric favours spacies as well.
Don’t normally results post but I got 1st at the pre-local beating Stiv, Max, Goosekhan, Kurv, Jah Ridin and Ginger twice! Excited for the rest of the weekend.
Reminder that just bc a certain % of the player base wants a rules change, doesn't mean it's the most fair decision overall. Over 50% of the player base play spacies, of course they're going to want a ban in bo5.
A great piece of advice I would give to newer/mid level players is to embrace your playstyle whole heartedly. I see so many cases of people throwing away their gameplan and playing uncomfortably bc they’re afraid of being perceived as lame and lose bc of it.
I think Zain made a lot of good points, but something I think does not get brought up enough in the digital controller/z-jump conversation is that an ergonomic advantage is a huge advantage in and of itself. Being able to play for way longer in practice and tournament is huge.
@DoeyJonuts
Counterargument: the RNG isn't necessarily what makes stadium bad (though it is a contributing factor). Its more that what stadium can transform into at random has a way more detrimental effect to gameplay than FoD.
Any change to rulesets are met with every possible nitpick. If players continue to be obstructionists about the nerfs to digital controllers I think the Jan 2025 update should be a condition for their legality. If the nerfs are not adopted, digital is banned on Jan 1st.
When Marth players win floaty players and spacie players put aside their differences and come together for a collective fuck this and I think thats really beautiful.
Broke: Tyler Swift is the 3rd Best Pikachu behind Axe and OkayP
Woke: Tyler Swift is the 2nd Best Pikachu behind Axe
Bespoke: Tyler Swift is the Best Pikachu
I’ve got a bigger write-up coming up soon but I wanted to give some particular shoutouts to people at TBH11.
First, Mono, moky and Zain for giving me a pep talk Saturday night. Hearing that they believed in me and that I shouldn’t Int to Cody made me believe in myself (1/?).
I know we were back offline for a bit but yall should know by now. Don't enter more than one netplay tournament at the same time. Making people wait for bracket is mega annoying.
I know this isn't the reason for all the anti-boxx propaganda I see on my feed, but I find it pretty funny that the conversation around boxx sdi is centered around people escaping one of Fox's moves with it.
Don't let people recenter the conversation about S2J on whether or not the phrase chodelicker is homophobic or not. The conversation is really about a habit of overtly rude or mean behavior toward people smaller than him in the community, and how to address that moving forward.
Ngl its really disheartening to see S2J talking about our 100 ping match when he entered an EC event without fiber and then say demeaning shit like beating him was my crowning achievement in life. We all hate puff just take an L and go
@Sparkmelee
@_phraser
I’ve heard dozens of players, commentators and twitter users say this exact things, talking about swinging at nothing, fighting demons, etc.
It's not on Justus to forgive nofluxes for the Riptide nonsense to get him unbanned, but if I were him I would have no sympathy for the person who, after being told they did something racist and hurtful immediately tried to get me banned by pulling an uno reverse card.
You guys probably thought we only let spacies and mid tiers on to Pulse, but as of today we would like to welcome our first floaty (and Canadian)
@FaustSSBM
to the team!
I really hate shit like this. You can dislike someone (and even think you have really good reasons for it) but tweeting extremely vitriolic shit when someone loses is pretty fucked up.
Highlights of GOML for me were:
Seeing Goosekhan finally get those good wins
mgmg Game 5 with Hbox
Top 8 Dubs w/ Pip
Seeing everyone, especially the Europeans who made the trip.
Clutching that Game 5 in Top 128
Straight
@bbatts523
has taught me that to be straight you have to wear sunglasses and change nothing else about your appearance, so can anyone tell me what Hungrybox is doing over there…
Bbatts is an enigma of a player to me. Crazy fast, awesome punish game, super good in the scramble but the second he gets nervous he WILL dsmash three times on the platform and forget that he can shield drop.
I'll never forget the legendary maneuver, where Secrets was hella underseeded for Riptide but decided not to complain because he knew he would have to play Axe in R1 Pools.
Nofluxes needs to cut this shit out right now. It's really damaging to their victims and victims of abusers in general to flippanty discredit, whether implicitly of explicitly, the stories of victims.
While I know Eggdog is going today, make sure to also check out
@kingsofhali
as well! Canada doesn't get that many regionals and its got many of the country's strongest players duking it out!
Just had a couple really good sessions with
@aMSaRedyoshi
on his stream. The adaptations that guy makes are actually crazy. Watch out for him tomorrow!
Looking to sponsor a player to attend an upcoming supermajor ⭐️
Breakfast and I have been wanting to give back to the Melee community, so DM and reach out if you’re a top 100+ player wanting to compete but can’t due to financial reasons.
We’ll cover flight, hotel, and