Drink your Ovaltine, welcome to the Maestro's Study. Games, weights, kicks, and Black excellence. Established in '96. He/Him.
Author/Host of Cultural Combos
Don't tie your worth to your performance or productivity. There is so much more to gain and offer to this community, to each other than our placements in tourney.
You'll find a path that works for you. And if you can't, don't be afraid to create one.
"Don't date in the FGC"
My nigga just communicate like a fuckin adult, learn how to listen and read the signs/body language. Weird MFs exist in and out of this community on the daily.
Take the throw, take the mixup, how bout taking some damn accountability for fucks sake
I remember my first time in Vegas I tried to mentally prepare myself, just in case I saw some wild shit.
Nothing could have prepared me for an escort getting told to leave the room unless she was tryna run the set or money match cause they all had 8AM pools.
"Y'all soft and woke now, I hate this new FGC"
We're all growing up. Lot of us aren't kids anymore, some have their own at that. Let's set a better example for em. Kindness, respect, decency...all of that shit's free.
Aight, the academic hat is coming off for a second.
Y'all niggas MUST be smoking that pack. MF you could have at least just gone with enigma or some shit. I'm tired of the bullshit.
the former Liquid Dota International champions have formed a new esports organization named 'Nigma Esports'
great team name guys stellar branding work here i foresee only wholesome memes from gamers and absolutely no issues going forward
@SirAfronomical
They told her to bounce, she walked past me and fixed her dress going "fucking nerds, I don't believe this shit" and got in the elevator
I fucking lost it bro
Her: So uh...is it...is it true what they say about Black guys?
Me: Yea. When something's funny we all run off in different directions.
Her: what
Me: what
Yes, EVO/Vegas is expensive.
Locals are important.
Majors are announced in advance and folks can plan/save up, which is why they're also good for first-timers.
No, you do not need an esports degree.
Stop being weird to women.
I think that covers it for the week, y'all be good.
In hindsight, Tekken 7 got the most ignorant ass story I've seen in a minute.
Akuma's literally canon because Kazumi fucking hired this nigga to wax Heihachi. How do you hire a nigga from a whole other game to wax your baby daddy?
Well played, Namco.
Call me "soft" or "new FGC" if you want, but I really DON'T see the merit in bagging on someone who's already frustrated with the game itself, because then they'll be frustrated with the community.
I think a lot of us forgot that we used to BE that frustrated newbie.
Please stop trying to sneak into locals without paying.
Telling my staff "I've never paid venue here" is only accurate because you leave after being asked to pay.
That's mad disrespectful.
"Players are too friendly with each other, there's no more hunger in the scene"
Because nobody wants to spend their time and money in a hostile ass environment fighting over scraps in an arcade. I've seen more drive from players to improve, and make new folks feel welcomed.
She can call me fat, but when I ask her if her forehead takes HDMI or DisplayPort, I'M the one that's blocked???
We used to be a country. A proper country.
I don't give a single fuck if your IRL/Online personas are different. We not putting up with racist, sexist, LGBTQ-phobic bullshit in the community anymore. I'm fucking tired of it. And if your first reaction is to think this is "being soft", you're part of the problem.
At the risk of being cancelled by the greater esports community;
Energy drinks are not a refreshment.
Just let me bring in my bottled water, I'll even compromise and keep it unopened.
I've dated women with large tiddies and no ass, large ass and no tiddies, and women with both.
At the end of the day, they're gonna eat your fucking cereal so you might as well buy two boxes from the jump
If you don't understand that new players:
- won't have a whole lot of knowledge
- may ask a bunch of questions
- might not know what questions to ask
- make mistakes
You shouldn't be playing new players, esp if you don't know how to address these things tactfully.
Yakuza 0 got some of the most outta pocket sidequests.
I just wanted to buy some instant noodles and save this dude's marriage, but ended up beating the shit outta 30 niggas with a traffic cone. It's 5AM.
One last thing, we not disrespecting fit and muscular women in this dojo
"Manly"
My nigga, if you can't handle ya yams with 30g of protein just say that then
Aye, let's all make a pact to tell our homies when they're doing too much. Part of community is holding each other accountable, nobody should be scared to hit a quick "yo, you wilding rn".
Comfort levels and aptitude at room reading may vary of course, but it's a start.
Growing up ugly and then having people find you attractive is like when that one character everyone said was ass ends up being secret top-tier and wins a major.
If you so worried about thirst and all that other shit, have that discussion with your partner in a healthy, constructive manner. But also, if you gotta be that worried, double check who you keep company with.
"I see you liking SG tweets but not entering the online tournaments 👀👀"
I see you liking cheeks and not entering any of those, fuck out my internet wit ya RX-78 hairline looking ass.
"Lmao dead game"
Boy, your hairline dead. Ya phone dead. Screenshot memes at 1% and don't even crop ya shit. Got a tactical foregrip for a chin looking ass. Them sneaks dead, them wack ass Twitter clips dead. Gotta troll ranked cause you ain't got homies to run the set headass.
The "video games are a waste of time" narrative is played out. I just won an award for my undergrad thesis, an ethnography of the FGC.
Proud to say I did it as part of
@arcadia1853
's anthropology program.
Like this shit isn't that difficult. There's already common ground, if y'all vibe then y'all vibe. If y'all don't or they say no, respect that and keep it pushing
She got her wings, y'all.
Annette made the transition from elder to ancestor over the early hours with family by her side.
Again, thank you all so much for the wishes and kind words. She had a life well lived and a rest well deserved.
You can do both. You can be competitive without being overly aggressive and flat-out rude. You can support your favorite player and still want to beat them. You can support your homies and still want to win against them at locals.
Y'all grown bro. Deodorant like 3.49 at the Walgreens.
Go grab you a lil travel size jawn and just keep it in your bag. We all reading the same forecast my nigga, like what are we talking about???
Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Edition just dropped and people are excited. Please do us all a favor and save your "these new kids are just going to go back to SF5/suck anyway" posts.
A little encouragement can make all the difference in a game seeing a revival.
Folk really hated on Guy Fieri, all my mans wanted to do was hype up local establishments and put people on. Can you imagine serving that man some food and he hits you with "dynamite, brother that's money"?? I'd be on cloud mf 9. Let my mans and the loud bowling shirts rock
"How you gonna write off or cancel people you don't know"
The moment you demonstrate willful ignorance, use/spread harmful rhetoric against people I care about, you got a strike against you. You can certainly make amends and grow, but you won't get access to me or through me.
[Announcement]
COMBO BREAKER 2024 has been certified as a qualifier for the SNK World Championship! The winner of the
#KOFXV
tournament will be invited to the finals of Championship on 2025.
*Details of SWC 2025 will be announced at a later date.
#SWC2025
Ain't no fuckin yams in this photo bruh.
This is an egregious violation and an affront to the discipline of yamthropology. Stay outta AAVE if you ain't got the AA.
Yeah Combo Breaker sucks
How dare you bring us all together to play games and have fun in a great venue, knowing damn well we gotta go back to real life afterwards
The nerve of this man to have us out here making memories and shit. The audacity knows no bounds.
I wanna walk through this because this is a narrative that's been long associated with the FGC at-large for the better part of 20 years now? Furthermore, this is why language matters when discussing those intersections of socioeconomic status and ethnicity.
See normally you got a 50% chance of going up whenever you hit down and up, but you look at a hitbox and realize that's not normal, so you really got a 33 ⅓ chance of going up. But me, I got a 66 ⅔ chance of going up cause the TO knows he can't ban me and he's not gonna try