Tag: #Growth
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Loose Screws – The FGC Should Be Hostile To Shady Organizations
One of the more heartwarming things I saw come out of the FGC in the past year was the Michigan Masters event that took place back in April. It was a regional event in Farmington Hills that was expanding, after a few years, to a 3-day event. While it was not without the usual trials…
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Loose Screws – The NRS Community and Growing Pains
I think everyone who has ever been involved with the Fighting Game Community can remember their first time. No, get your head out of the gutter, I’m talking about something else! What I’m talking about is that first time that you feel, whether it’s during a late-night meal after a practice session or in a…
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Politically Incorrect – The FGC IS Becoming a Scapegoat for Daytona Beach to Ignore its Social Problems
I still remember when I first heard that my uncle was homeless. Well, he was “homeless” in the sense of what the hundreds of thousands of those we consider “homeless” actually are: he could scrap together some cash to put his family up in a Motel 6 here or there or stay with some friends…
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Loose Screws – Rotten Twitch Chats and the FGC’s Refusal to Fight It
Before I start, I do want to give a warning that there is some pretty heinous stream chat clips that have lots of transphobia. If that’s not something you can handle today, please be aware! 2019 has barely started but the Fighting Game Community never stops rolling. Both the Dragonball FighterZ World Tour and Genesis,…
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Loose Screws – 3 Years Later, Street Fighter V Still Can’t Escape Its Own Shadow
One of the joys of being in the Fighting Game Community is the long wait ’til December, when the Capcom Pro Tour for Street Fighter V finally concludes. The CPT is a nearly year-long odyssey for its players, who have traveled the globe and entered many tournaments in order to earn enough points to make it…
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Money for Nothing – Injustice Pro Series: Exactly What Not to Do
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Money For Nothing – FGC E-Sports Is in Desperate Need of Serious People
About three weeks ago, the FGC was hit by some big news regarding Echo Fox, one of if not the largest and most prolific E-Sports organization to host fighting game players: Official statement regarding organizational realignment pic.twitter.com/ovuG02PEox — Echo Fox (@echofoxgg) October 9, 2018 “Organizational realignment.” It sure sounds nice, doesn’t it? Clinical, professional, unbiased. But don’t…
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Politically Incorrect – Infiltration and Nightmare’s Cases Can (Maybe) Help the FGC Grow Up
zCW: Lots of talk about domestic violence and sexual interference See if this scenario sounds familiar: you’re surfing social media, and it’s late, probably past 11 PM. At this hour, the only thing you expected to see are big anime boobs, shitposting, and maybe the occasional retweet of some hilarious viral video. But instead, you…
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Politically Incorrect – Don’t Let the FGC Become a Victim of Security Theater
Anyone reading this blog has no doubt heard the story of the mass shooting that took place in downtown Jacksonville, Florida just a few weeks ago. The gunman (he will not be named, he does not deserve to have his name publicized any more than it has) was a participant in a Madden NFL 19 tournament at…
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Politically Incorrect – The Links Between E-Sports Culture and the Alt-Right Are Hard to Ignore
CW: Lots of racial slurs and language that is offensive to LGBT folks. As gaming has progressed further and further into E-Sports presentation, there are still a few aspects of it that, for better or worse, have stuck with it in the big leagues. Some of the better ones are a more relaxed presentation–you certainly…
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