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Fighting Games Weekly | Dec 30 - Jan 5 | Rest in peace, Nelson "Remix" Reyes

Someone ought to tell the person running the Southtown Arcade eBay account that an asking price of $275 is a bit on the high side for an XRGB2+ when it's not hard to find XRGB3s at that range.

(Salty that my offer got rejected with the quickness... I really want a quality upscaler for sub-$200...)
 
remember that skisonic hate originated from the rumor that he snitched on gootecks during CEO 2011(?) during the excellent adventure days, a rumor that turned out to be a stream monster lie that caught on because it was spammed in chat over and over

also, triforce is scum incarnate holy shit
 
remember that skisonic hate originated from the rumor that he snitched on gootecks during CEO 2011(?) during the excellent adventure days, a rumor that turned out to be a stream monster lie that caught on because it was spammed in chat over and over

also, triforce is scum incarnate holy shit
i saw him getting a lot of hate before that. never understood the hate for skisonic.
 
There's a whole bunch just wrong with everything that went down.

Eventhubs made a mistake in a news headline which lead to this whole mess, they should apologize for that and clear the air completely in the news statement. Just reading that headline did make Watson & Super Arcade look shady since Super Arcade's issues were aired recently.

Yipes & Triforce taking to social media instead of talking to Watson, they should not have done this, emotions are obviously high because of Nelson's death, I can understand why Yipes would see red and go off on facebook like that. I think it's sad part of me can just imagine Triforce in Yipes's ear whispering bullshit to him, but the fact of the matter is Yipes is a grown ass man, he made the post, he was accountable for what he accused Watson of, and that was really a vile accusation to make publicly. They should have reached out first, especially in this tight nit ass community, everyone knows somebody, and if you can post on facebook/twitter you can private message/tweet somebody to get the 411. He took it down after when I guess he realized what he insinuated but then....

Watson further escalating things on stream and here we pretty much have the point of no return, instead of Watson reaching out, again, privately, it's public, it's harsh and it's not the kind of thing Yipes & crew will forget or that Watson is going to let go anytime soon.

Overall I think it's sad that these guys, who have a responsibility to themselves and this community to let things degrade like this in such a manner. A lot of people look up to Yipes and Watson for what they do, nobody likes seeing this happen, especially when in the end both were just trying to do something positive for another fallen community member. :(
 
Every MTG charity tournament I've seen done has a cut going to the hosts to recoup costs. Triforce is a moron here as usual.
 
The Eventhubs page is only where I noticed the 50/50 thing first. Who knows, maybe the real source of the misinformation is elsewhere, and Eventhubs got to it after-the-fact.

It's not like Eventhubs carries any integrity either, something gets posted on GAF and then 10 minutes later there is an article on Eventhubs with an anonymous source. For all we know the source is a troll in a chat.
 
The Eventhubs page is only where I noticed the 50/50 thing first. Who knows, maybe the real source of the misinformation is elsewhere, and Eventhubs got to it after-the-fact.

It's not like Eventhubs carries any integrity either, something gets posted on GAF and then 10 minutes later there is an article on Eventhubs with an anonymous source. For all we know the source is a troll in a chat.

stream chat > eh > gaf?
 
The issue is that the funeral has been done already and paid for (I think). Does Nelson's grandmother still get the other half? That has to be clarified.
 
Why wouldn't she?

If you have to ask that question, it has be clarified. Too much vagueness in this stupid drama.

gutabo said:
What other half? she's supposed to get almost everything.

I didn't catch the stream, but I'm just going off what the facebook event says.

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Edit: https://www.facebook.com/events/406400006160105
 
This entire thing reminds me of that one Simpsons episode where the two boxers get into a fight over dedicating their performances to the manager of one of them.

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"Yeah, I wanna dedicate this fight to my manager Vinnie, who got me here, then…*sob*…passed away just two weeks ago.”

"Yeah, I would also like to dedicate this fight to the memory of his deceased manager."
 
This entire thing reminds me of that one Simpsons episode where the two boxers get into a fight over dedicating their performances to the manager of one of them.

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"Yeah, I wanna dedicate this fight to my manager Vinnie, who got me here, then…*sob*…passed away just two weeks ago.”

"Yeah, I would also like to dedicate this fight to the memory of his deceased manager."

Can they also not read? Because that would also fit.
 
Watson's intentions are good, I'm 100% sure about it, but putting the arcade's financial situation in the event's description wasn't the smartest idea.
I don't think they're putting the situation out there really. It's just a creative way of being up front about where fees/donations are going, which is an absolute must (also why I always try to include a link in these threads to the charities themselves when people do charity events because people want/need to know where there money is going).

I haven't seen Triforce or Yipes' initial FB messages but maybe they took issue to Super Arcade taking a split instead of it being all proceeds going to his grandma. Either way, none of this is a good look. And though I don't think it will (because people can donate direct), I hope this doesn't stop people who might have otherwise donated.

Also insomnia sucks. I haven't been able to sleep before 5AM since New Years :/ And I can't be productive when I'm tired all day and night.
 
I don't think they're putting the situation out there really. It's just a creative way of being up front about where fees/donations are going, which is an absolute must (also why I always try to include a link in these threads to the charities themselves when people do charity events because people want/need to know where there money is going).

I haven't seen Triforce or Yipes' initial FB messages but maybe they took issue to Super Arcade taking a split instead of it being all proceeds going to his grandma. Either way, none of this is a good look. And though I don't think it will (because people can donate direct), I hope this doesn't stop people who might have otherwise donated.

It's just that, the less room to misinterpretation you can leave, the better.


Also insomnia sucks. I haven't been able to sleep before 5AM since New Years :/ And I can't be productive when I'm tired all day and night.

I feel ya man, With the hollydays, I've been sleeping a lot during the day, and now I'm not being able to sleep before 2am, having to wake up at 7
 
Watson said on the stream that the tournament wasn't even his idea, so accusing him of taking advantage of Nelson's death was most definitely premature and in poor taste. I think Watson also mentioned all the proceeds going to the Remix fund and just collecting the venue fee.

That said, this wasn't handled well on either side. Even though emotions are running high and Watson's anger is understandable, this should have been squashed in private. It was already clear that Watson has an intense dislike of Triforce and this just sent him over the edge. However, based on what he said in the stream chat during TRB, he seems to have given Yipes the benefit of the doubt, so it looks like he's cooled down a bit.
 
Just woke up and caught all of the drama. Good job to everyone involved to making the FGC look like a shitshow run by children yet again. For fuck's sake.
 
Dude, I'm not going to lie: I thought KI would be a piece of shit when it was announced, but man, the game looks freaking awesome! Too bad the XBONE costs about $1000 here, so I'll not get my hands on it anytime soon, but I'll stream monster the hell out of it
 
Eventhubs and Triforce both love instigating shit. Eventhubs doesn't care for accuracy, just clicks. Triforce enjoys causing disruption and conflict.
 
Eventhubs and Triforce both love instigating shit. Eventhubs doesn't care for accuracy, just clicks. Triforce enjoys causing disruption and conflict.

We need a D&D alignment chart for the FGC

Lawful Good - Jared (Kappa)
Lawful Neutral - Ultradavid
Lawful Evil - ChrisG
Neutral Good - ?
True Neutral - Justin Wong
Neutral Evil - Eventhubs
Chaotic Good - Mike Ross
Chaotic Neutral - Aris
Chaotic Evil - Triforce
 
We need a D&D alignment chart for the FGC

Lawful Good - Jared (Kappa)
Lawful Neutral - Ultradavid
Lawful Evil - ChrisG
Neutral Good - ?
True Neutral - Justin Wong
Neutral Evil - Eventhubs
Chaotic Good - Mike Ross
Chaotic Neutral - Aris
Chaotic Evil - Triforce

There are a couple out there already

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I apologize for calling you the Joe Buck of FGC commentary.

I didn't know who that was, so I googled it. He won several Sports Emmy Awards, so thanks for the compliments that you are now apologizing for?

See the Controversy section on Wikipedia, or the 3rd-4th search results on Google?

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I'll admit to have gotten extremely heated over his announcing Yankee games on Fox. I'm a huge Yankees fan
(a decade of season tickets, watching games forever)
, so I'm somewhat biased, but I feel he has a strong bias against the team that is reflected in his commentary.

His father (Jack Buck) is an sportcaster legend.

But I digress. Just trying to put StriKeVillain's comment into context.


This is the NEW game we play?

I know, and again I appreciate you saying that.

At the end of the day, I may be doing it one more time for you guys, and ultimately need to quit for myself.

We're due for a conversation, get at me when you have a chance.

keits will injustice finals still be at 10 am? and if so how will you deal with the ensuing riot?

Man, get it right, Injustice at 9 am.

Aren't Dota statistics readily available because there exist tools to parse through replays? That's what I gathered from the segment about the factoid guy during TI3, at least.

FGW | Still know drama all too well

Cut that down to:

FGW | We still know drama

Works better, IMO, closer to the TNT slogan and packs more umph.

How old are you? Gas used to be cheap. I remember getting a gallon of gas for $1.20 -_-

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I remember < $1 gas (and $0.35 bus rides). I'm old man old. See my avatar.

Can the FGC ban eventhubs? :P

Oh, this came about because of Eventhubs being fuck ups? Catalyst needs to pack it the fuck up too. Jesus Christ.

It's not like Eventhubs carries any integrity either, something gets posted on GAF and then 10 minutes later there is an article on Eventhubs with an anonymous source. For all we know the source is a troll in a chat.

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Looks like they finally took it private to clear up the garbage.

Watts is still revealing a ton there. By saying:

Only request I have left is his approval...

He's implying that they're blocking him from contributing.

He's also implying humility on his part by saying he has to get approval from Yipes, that he's in a position of being the little guy.

Not saying it's intentionally worded that way, but it's definitely backhanded in it's wording.

He could have just:

  • Said "we squashed it"
  • Give the money directly to the wepay link (is that link closed now) or PayPal it/transfer it online/cut a check like the rest of us. If you really want to get the money to someone, you don't need tens of tweets to do it.
 
There's drama(the stupid kind) going on right now? Uhhh...I'm just going to pay it no heed.


I currently can't access this information at work, so if I may ask, do any of you fine folks know if the Cronus Max works with Hitbox arcade controllers? I'm pondering buying a Cronus Max so that I can finally drop this accursed X-Box One controller. It did fine for a while, but I can't stand another dropped fireball.

Speaking of the X-Box One, we have Divekick and Yatagarasu currently coming for this console in terms of fighting games. Is that all the ones we know of so far? I'd love some more fighters for this thing.
 
So I have a few sticks and am in the process of transitioning to nextgen (dual-modding, or at least keeping one just for PS3 support). Should I look at working in a Cronus Max, or bite the bullet and throw down for the KI stick (or secretly hope that MarkMan can send a review sample my way for my website *wink wink*).

Here's what I have now:
PS3 Fightstick Pro, primary stick though the silencers are still taking some getting used to
PS3 PDP Injustice Stick. Cool concept with the glowing buttons, but it's more for show than daily use.
PS3/XB360 Qanba Q4 Bought this thinking I'd play more on the 360.. Ended up selling the 360 after the only thing I played on it was Marvel
PS3 Brawl Stick. Keeping this one so the girlfriend has something to play with, looking to swap out the artwork from WWE.

If I end up getting a Cronus Max after all, I'd probably swap it into the Fightstick Pro just because of the amount of space in there and portability, but I figured I'd get some opinions first. Whichever ones I don't end up keeping will probably go up on the Sell thread if I don't find a local Midwest buyer.
 
So I have a few sticks and am in the process of transitioning to nextgen (dual-modding, or at least keeping one just for PS3 support). Should I look at working in a Cronus Max, or bite the bullet and throw down for the KI stick (or secretly hope that MarkMan can send a review sample my way for my website *wink wink*).

Here's what I have now:
PS3 Fightstick Pro, primary stick though the silencers are still taking some getting used to
PS3 PDP Injustice Stick. Cool concept with the glowing buttons, but it's more for show than daily use.
PS3/XB360 Qanba Q4 Bought this thinking I'd play more on the 360.. Ended up selling the 360 after the only thing I played on it was Marvel
PS3 Brawl Stick. Keeping this one so the girlfriend has something to play with, looking to swap out the artwork from WWE.

If I end up getting a Cronus Max after all, I'd probably swap it into the Fightstick Pro just because of the amount of space in there and portability, but I figured I'd get some opinions first. Whichever ones I don't end up keeping will probably go up on the Sell thread if I don't find a local Midwest buyer.

Personally I think the best option right now is to dual mod. Pick a stick you really enjoy using now and mod it. It's not overly complicated and the result will save you having to purchase an over priced arcade stick. Cronus Max may be a great a solution but I need to see more results from testing.
 
I just really didn't like "fake high school basketball radio announcer wanna be ESPN hype" Skisonic. When not in that mode, he was cool.

As a close friend of his I can 100% assure you that there is nothing fake about it. He really just has a ton of energy and enthusiasm for this stuff.
 
Dude, I'm not going to lie: I thought KI would be a piece of shit when it was announced, but man, the game looks freaking awesome! Too bad the XBONE costs about $1000 here, so I'll not get my hands on it anytime soon, but I'll stream monster the hell out of it
Speaking of Killer Instinct, do we have any notion of when it will make it's first big tournament appearance? I haven't heard anything about the game competitively since the faux reward fiasco at launch.
 
Speaking of Killer Instinct, do we have any notion of when it will make it's first big tournament appearance? I haven't heard anything about the game competitively since the faux reward fiasco at launch.

NEC had a KI tourney, JWong won against CD Jr in grand finals. Defend the North will have one as well this month, I don't know about APEX tho
 
Personally I think the best option right now is to dual mod. Pick a stick you really enjoy using now and mod it. It's not overly complicated and the result will save you having to purchase an over priced arcade stick. Cronus Max may be a great a solution but I need to see more results from testing.

Yeah, I figured I should probably wait until more stuff comes out about the Cronus. I remember hearing that it was dropping opponents inputs, but for all I know that could just be the usual whining that pops up from time to time.

Edit: CronusMax is on sale from an online retailer for $60. If it's worth it, I might pick order one tonight.
 
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