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  • Loose Screws – 3 Years Later, Street Fighter V Still Can’t Escape Its Own Shadow

    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…

  • Loose Screws – Is It So Hard to Stop Being a Douche Online?

    Loose Screws – Is It So Hard to Stop Being a Douche Online?

    A couple weeks ago, I was reading through my local FGC’s Facebook group in the aftermath of a big local event that was sponsored by the Talking Stick Resort and Casino in Scottsdale, AZ. Two non-Arizona players were in the grand finals of the Street Fighter V tournament, which sparked some discussion in the FB group…

  • Fuudo for Thought – How We Judge Skill in Fighting Games

    I’m not a huge fan of most professional sports – not for any particular reason, it’s just not something I’m truly captivated by. However, as one of my main hobbies, video games, begins to circle more and more toward partly being a professional sport with big money players pouring in a bunch of time and…

  • Money for Nothing – Capcom’s “Stars” Initiative Is Here, and It Sucks

    Money for Nothing – Capcom’s “Stars” Initiative Is Here, and It Sucks

    So this past week, Capcom announced all the details to their 2018 Pro Tour, the nearly 12 month long tournament series that culminates in a final, 32-man event in December. And considering we’re talking about Capcom here, it’s littered with poor choices and a system dedicated to making it nearly impossible to actually compete in…

  • Fuudo for Thought – The Power of Forums

    Fuudo for Thought – The Power of Forums

    I had a big post planned this week about the forums of Shoryuken.com, probably the single longest standing competitive fighting game forum,  shutting down for good at the end of January. I had a lot of great memories of those hollowed halls, just as full of shitposting and NSFW photos as it could be valuable,…

  • Loose Screws – Why Are We So Afraid of New Blood?

    So the other day, as usual when I’m thinking of ideas for this blog, I began cruising general FGC Twitter accounts in the hopes of stumbling upon something that would be enough to rocket me into a writing frenzy. I was not disappointed! David “UltraDavid” Graham, one of the rare non-active competitors who acts as…

  • When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong – “You’re Biting the Hand That Feeds”

    When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong – “You’re Biting the Hand That Feeds”

    As 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…

  • Loose Screws – Fetishizing the “Death” of a Game

    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…

  • Money For Nothing Pt. 1 – Devastation 2011

    I remember vividly the first tournament I ever went to where I took a mild gasp of air and went “Wow, this is a biiigg deal…” It’s October, 2011, in Glendale, Arizona, and I’m gearing up for Devastation 2011, which promises to be one of the biggest fighting game community events outside of the legendary Evolution…