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I feel like once somebody has learned a few fighting games to a respectable level, when you pick up a new game, you don't experience the early fun mashing phase and skip straight to angry face at the bottom of the curve (though with the benefit that your that much closer to best part at the end)

I guess the point I might be trying to make is that I don't think you have to sacrifice chasing mastery for online play to be a more positive experience. Making quick play the default mode is one way to accomplish this. Alternatively, I think a lot could be done to make ranked less awful

Though I guess your argument in your recent piece is that non-fighting games fill that "wind down at the end of the day" role better than fighting games can, and the unique long-term appeal of the FGs is getting to the end of that mastery curve

I know it's not a perfect comparison due to the team-based vs. 1v1 thing, but for a good while, the original Overwatch was my "have a beer after dinner and solo queue into quick play for an hour or two" game (maybe I'm a weirdo though?)

I'm legit curious to know; especially for non-FGs like the ones I mentioned, since they seems to make quick match (rather than ranked play) the 'default' experience. Anecdotally, when I played them years ago, almost everybody I knew never really played ranked

Are there publicly available stats out there for casual vs. ranked player counts for LoL, Overwatch, etc.? (genuinely asking)

I think you can keep the upside and dump the downside. Think quick match in the original Overwatch. You play a match -> win or lose, a bar goes up -> when it gets full, you get some cosmetics or sprays or whatever nonsense. You don't have to shove a rank in people's faces

please read this one if you've ever had any kind of opinion about fighting games, and especially if that "fgs are bad products" essay made you feel a way. it's probably the best thing pat's written up until now, and that's saying a lot. really goddamn good.

It's time to hunt the monsters in our realm.

"we are living through unprecedented times". bro these times have so much precedent. these are some of the most precedented times of all time.

In the style of an industrial warning sign — WARNING Cognitohazard: Do not think about it

I kept needing this, so I finally made it.

A reminder: if you want to support my work, buying my book is a great way to do that.

If you want to read a book about how to get into fighting games, buying my book is also a great way to do that, but if you don't have the $ you can just DL it for free.

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"Why rollback and netplay events are good for locals, actually"

Last night I hosted a sweet locals session out of my garage and then after cleaning up I read one of the worst fighting game takes in recent memory, so here's my attempt to upcycle it.

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happy 14th anniversary to all who observe

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

Letting go of Evo I don’t know if there’s a whole lot to say about Evo that hasn’t already been said, but I figured I should write something about Evo’s…

"Letting go of Evo"

I wrote about why I'm breaking my Evo attendance streak (every year since 2011; first Evo was 2003). It's sad, but I think this a good opportunity to celebrate the Evo moments that got me here before moving on.

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The sad Oompah Loompah.

Happy Willy Wonka Experience Anniversary to all who are celebrating.

”My bone chair is made from over 200 human bones, but it you think about it, a human is also made from over 200 human bones…”

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Frequently wrong about themselves Sure, there are complex psychological issues at play, but surely people can at least be trusted to tell you about themselves, right? Unfortunately not. A particular AAA developer I know of once sent surveys to 1000 players asking them which game they had played the most, then compared it with the data of what they had actually played. Not a single one answered correctly. Zero out of one thousand players could remember their own habits enough to tell which game they’d played the most. Player answers were so consistently wildly wrong that the team involved thought that their data must have been corrupted. Upon validating that it was in fact accurate, they went back to the players and told them what their actual most played games were, and every single one said something along the lines of “OH! Right. Well, that makes sense”. When people tell you things they’re really telling you the stories they tell themselves about themselves, and those stories may not have anything at all to do with reality.

there u go, bless

In Minnesota or the surrounding Midwest and wanna play some VSAV? Running lobby nights every other Sunday to grind and help people improve/just get games in. If youre interested let me know and I can send you in the right direction!

The plan is, at some point, to run an online/offline exhibition full of gimmicks.

This is not a random arcade match. It's part of a ECvs WC 5v5 at EVO 2003

The part about SooMighty being insanely high is true, and also the reason why he went for repeated snapbacks while comboing Sentinel. Dude was too blazed to remember he had already fucked on the other two characters

Fighting games are something so great