“Da Beech.” In two words, I have summed up the extent of the talking points about why I or any other average tournament goer should attend the Video X Games tournament on the island of St. Maarten in the Caribbean. Well, that’s being a little disingenuous, but that phrase became an iconic part of the FGC for […]
Read More Money For Nothing Pt. 2 – Video X Games 2013As a youngster, I was all over TestYourMight.com. The FGC is full of characters, and forums were the ultimate haven for loud personalities to shine, thanks to the anonymity of the internet. But this kind of digital autobahn isn’t for everyone, and tempers can flare even under the most innocuous of circumstances. Some of the […]
Read More When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong – “You’re Biting the Hand That Feeds”Let me start off this post by defining a feeling that many people in the fighting game community are experiencing now but may not quite know how to articulate. From Webster’s Online Dictionary: Schadenfreude n. – Enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others. Schadenfreude has infected the FGC very quickly in the past couple years, and […]
Read More Loose Screws – Fetishizing the “Death” of a Game
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