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25 minutes ago, Anacybele said:
And the second half is terrible now too. It's well into the third and it's 20-3. 😕
Also, the Steelers beat them just fine last time. They looked WAY better last time. No excuse not to play similarly today.
I'm not a bandwagon fan, actually. I don't just jump around fanbases. I've only ever rooted for the Steelers and Panthers. I never cared about other teams. I either rooted for one or both or didn't root for anyone at all. I don't root for bad teams. Obviously, a team doesn't have to win every time, because that's impossible. But why should I make myself root for a team that plays badly? It's not worth my time, the stress, or disappointment. Others might act differently, but this is just how I feel.
Also, isn't pride one of the seven deadly sins...?So things can't change in a year that could cause the score to be different? "No excuse" is a stretch outside of just a regular need to keep winning.
Listen, it's okay to call yourself a fan and not bother watching a team should things go downhill (even if you're doing it way prematurely). It hurts to see your team lose. But if your mentality is "ah well, I guess I'll have to wait and see if they're better next year, guess I'll do something else", that's alright. The Pirates aren't exactly doing dandy in the MLB right now, but like always, I'm gonna look forward to next season and so on because they're my home team. I've given up on the season, but as long as I still have hope for the future where anything can happen in a year and like the well-meaning players on the team, I still consider myself a Pirates fan. Same applies to the Steelers if they wind up doing bad this year, and will also apply to the Pens if needed.
You can still be a Steelers fan, at least in regards to the history. But ditching them and saying you're no longer a fan shows a lack of faith and love for the team and that you only love them because they win and that's it.
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54 minutes ago, Anacybele said:
EDIT: I'm no longer a Steelers fan. I don't root for shit teams. I guess I'm just sticking to the Panthers or something.
One terrible half against the often-dominant SB champs and you dump the team? That's a pretty prideless and bandwagony mindset. Sure, losing sucks, but if you renounce your fandom not because of reputation but because of performance, were you really a fan of that team the second before they started looking like "a shit team"? Or did you just want to root for a winner you didn't hate beforehand to make you feel good like other bandwagon fans?
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13 hours ago, Jedi said:
ProtonJon did a history of SNK stream he's planning on a 2nd but this one is 4 hours long just warning.Â
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Don't forget to warn them about the eggs, Wesker, and the art block among the other stupid memes we have in that community. Especially the art block, full of the most hilarious ridiculousness you can find. 😛
Might need to give that a watch; I missed 3 hours of it when it went live, and I can't seem to find a complete/good King of Fighters retrospective on YT.
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Heard some people say that there might have been a conspiracy to get AB on the Pats since the Steelers were unwilling to trade him to NE, and that people are calling for an investigation on the Pats for possibly tampering with the Raiders.
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Now Brown is on the PATRIOTS. He can't play tomorrow vs the Steelers, but still, the stupidity train continues.
Pats have a lot of talent now, but can Belichick tame AB and keep him in line? Everyone's hyping the Pats up, but I think it's not that simple as it looks...
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3 hours ago, Hylian Air Force said:
I mean, if you're leavin', you might as well go out with a bang. And drama is about the most explosive you can get.
Well, "leavin'" is right. Brown today got angry that $29M of his guaranteed money was voided, and now he won't play, asking for a release.
He wasn't acting like this until after Burfict's hit on him, was he? Because I legit wonder if he got a blow to his brain that messed him up mentally.
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I sorta want Nils and Shinon to represent the guys if only to see the potential interactions in a Forging Bonds event between the guy who is racist against laguz and the boy who's pretty much dragon laguz-adjacent by being a manakete. 😛
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More AB stupidity.
Apparently he got into an altercation with GM Mike Mayock after being upset with being fined for missing practice to the point of threatening to hit him and punting a ball at him (and then being held back by Burfict of all people).
Then he got suspended by the Raiders for the first game.
Then he apologized and got his suspension lifted.
Then he got fined for the altercation and is mad about again.
Then Gruden called him to stop the drama and Brown recorded it to post on YouTube.
And now I just heard as I type this that Gruden was "amused" by the video. What the hell is happening in Oakland for their last season in the area?
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Unless they had plans to release more than 5 DLC characters from the start and kept this info hidden from the public, I think the last character has to be someone extremely spectacular with the intention to end things on a high note.
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43 minutes ago, Anacybele said:
No, I do. I've played a few. Soul Calibur, Mortal Kombat, just to name some. But I don't think they're similar to Street Fighter. This game Terry's from though, the characters shown right away in the trailer reminded me of Ryu and Ken.
I mean, gi outfits similar to Ryu and Ken's often show up in fighting games for characters since they are...well, outfits fitting for Japanese-style fighting. Not enough to warrant blindly calling a game a ripoff, especially since Fatal Fury 1 was released the same year as Street Fighter 2. And Terry, the face of the series, doesn't even dress like someone who would remind you of Ryu or Ken, so that'd be weird for a "ripoff".
8 minutes ago, NegativeExponents- said:Probably really high. We've gotten a new FE character every installment and Sakurai is apparently an FE fan so Byleth seems likely. Though I'm hoping we'll get one of the other three lords instead at least to avoid the "too many swords" hate.
I'm not sure going with one of three lords would go over well. I feel like they're a trio that should show up as a trio, and I don't think they'll get into Smash because of that. Byleth, as much as they're another swordfighter, makes the most sense.
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3 hours ago, Anacybele said:
Never heard of this Terry character or his game. His game looks like a Street Fighter ripoff, actually.
...you don't know much about traditional fighting games, do you? Because calling it a "Street Fighter ripoff" is equivalent to calling a lot of fighting games "ripoffs" and is a good way to tick off general fighting-game fans. Many fighting games are 1 v 1 side-scrollers with button combinations and stick-tilting maneuvers, as is typical of the genre.
That said, SNK and Capcom did have a series of crossover fight games, and Terry was in them and could fight Ryu.
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It's here!
Reinhardt, Ishtar, Berkut, and...Nephenee?!
Also, Rinea's the free unit.
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11 hours ago, NinjaMonkey said:
Reggie said at the Game Awards that all the DLC characters would be ones from franchises not already represented in the base game.
Nope.
He said that they would be new to the Smash series and are characters you would not expect to be in. Nothing about his words said they HAD to be new franchises, even if that's been the case so far.
Man, everyone seems to mix his words up.
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Just now, Sunwoo said:
I'm pretty sure this banner is supposed to be a special heroes one.
Also, Rinea?
Whoops! Gonna edit that. Dunno how I thought it was regular heroes.
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Spoiler
Huh, adding silhouettes for regular Hero banners? That's new for IS.And unless I'm mistaken, doesn't look like Three Houses.Ignore my absentmindedness! Nothing to see here, move along! 😛
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1 hour ago, Anacybele said:
Well, I'm sorry if people take what I say the wrong way sometimes, but I can't do anything about that. I don't make them take it the wrong way.
You CAN do something about that, though. As Diovani said, watch your words. How you phrase things is an important part of how people react, so contrary to what you day, you DO have influence on how people take what you say.
"Man, sad to see that Ike lost" helps people take what you said the right way compared to "Ike should've won", which got you the reaction you did not desire of people thinking you believe characters deserve wins more than others in the past and earlier this thread.
Words and their implications are important, especially in writing.
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33 minutes ago, Anacybele said:
I don't mean to drag this out or anything, and forgive me for being blunt, but...that is honestly a really really close-minded and childish view of me. And I just want to explain why as politely as I can. My favorite characters don't always have to win. I even said that if RD Ike just won one gauntlet, I'd be satisfied and won't care to have him in another. And I've joined character teams whom I'm not a fan of (like Eliwood in this gauntlet).
The only thing that really matters to me in a gauntlet is being able to join a team I wouldn't mind being on, whether it's a favorite character or not. And if it's a character I'm neutral on or whatever, I just care about the rewards, not winning or losing. I don't go around saying it's unfair if we lost all the time (...well, except for maybe the case of Takumi vs Shanna, because I still have no idea how that one's result happened).
Sure, I'm gonna root for my favorites and support them, and if they lost, I'll be disappointed. I'm disappointed Ike lost to a character I think is bad. Summer Frederick's narrow loss to Summer Gaius way back stung harder. But I'm not going to say it's unfair and that it's only fair if my favorites win. That's selfish. I've never said anything about it only being fair if my favorites win, so I have no idea where you got the idea that I think this way. Ike lost, that's that, even if it's disappointing. He could get another chance another day.
The thing is that you said this...
On 8/31/2019 at 12:48 AM, Anacybele said:Should've known better than to get my hopes up, I guess. Still feel Ike should've won, but nothing can change it. Don't know who did win other than Micaiah, so I don't know who to join now. I may not join anyone.
When you say "Ike should've won", you imply that he wasn't supposed to lose, at least with your words. What says Ike "should've" won? Your admiration for him? Your belief that he deserves more notoriety than Micaiah? If Ike had less points in the end, then he should've lost. Simple as that.
Bringing up Takumi vs. Shanna like it still is unfair is also not really doing you favors, especially when you once claimed IS rigged it for Shanna to win despite no evidence supporting such an idea.
I know you like RD Ike a lot, but to mostly everyone else, he's another Ike alt and it'd be less refreshing to see him win over Micaiah, and we can't sympathize. You wouldn't be happy with another Camilla winning, would you? Despite it essentially being the same logic over why you want Ike's buffer self to win to compliment his younger self's win? Like, whoever wins in the end should have won and will have won, but still.
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8 hours ago, Anacybele said:
I know why Rex isn't getting in, I was just using him as an example.
Are you sure? I'd never heard of Joker at all before he was announced, I was literally going "who is this?" As for Banjo, a beloved N64 classic? I'd never heard of him until maybe a few years ago.
Maybe you just don't pay much attention to other new franchises outside your bubble, because I have no idea how you escaped knowledge of Banjo all this time until "a few years ago".
Persona 5 was a huge hit recently, and 4 was also fairly notable. And yes, Banjo is unquestionably a beloved N64 classic. Ask anyone who loves video games what they think about Banjo, and they'll likely call it a great platformer, maybe talk about whether they prefer the sequel or not, and likely praise Grant Kirkhope's music for the game that made his name well-known among videogame music composers. I'd say it's more notable than DK64, too, and BK's devs made that game as well.
6 hours ago, Flere210 said:You not knowing a character does not mean that the character is obscure. I can't name any character from Call of Duty, but i doubt that the franchise has no iconic characters. Or i only found out that the minecraft guy is named Steve in the smash-related discussions.
 If you ask random gamers they are far, far more likely to know who Joker or who Banjo and Kazooie are, or what Dragon quest is, than to know who Rex is. And the same is true for any prominent SNK fighter, because if you ever played coin-ops, you played them.
I think that even KOS-MOS is more well known than Rex actually. Not that i want her.
I'm not sure about KOS-MOS necessarily. I'd like her a lot, but I'd at least say Xenoblade's popularity has exceeded Xenosaga's, though KOS-MOS is also more popular outside her series for being used in crossovers a fair bit for Namco.
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45 minutes ago, Anacybele said:
And once again, a DLC character is going to be someone I'd never heard of. I'd never heard of Joker or any of the Dragon Quest characters (I'd only heard of their game series). I had heard of Banjo Kazooie, but vaguely. What is with Sakurai and picking these obscure characters when there are actual bigger Nintendo characters who should be getting in first? (like Dixie Kong, Rex and Pyra/Mythra, basically any new Zelda rep, etc.)
Well, I guess it's nice for people who do know and like the characters though.
Sakurai mentioned that Xenoblade 2 was too late, and days after one of the trailers, they finalized the DLC fighters in a Tweet. As much as I want Rex, I have doubts.
Also, Nintendo chose the DLC characters, not Sakurai. Maybe he can give a recommendation, but otherwise it seems he doesn't have control.
And Banjo and Joker ain't obscure by a LONG shot. Especially not Banjo for being from a well-beloved N64 classic. 😛
Anyways, yeah, I had only heard of SNK on occasion thanks to the times they had crossovers with Capcom. My best guesses are either female Terry or one of the Metal Slug characters, but I otherwise have nothing.
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Oh, boy.
From what I understand, they're blooper outtakes from 2003, back when people weren't as wise as to what was insensitive and wrong and said outtakes weren't supposed to reach the public?
In any case, that Twitter account you linked to is the account of a very scummy YouTube grifter by the name of Nick Rekieta (otherwise nicknamed Screech by those of us against Vic). He got Vic a lawyer (who is an incompetent doofus) and has a very questionable past, having done blackface and not apologizing for it and being a lawyer himself with apparently very poor results (and a lack of lawyer cases recently). I dunno how he got those clips (though he has ties to a doxxing site), but he's really just releasing them to distract from Vic's case where he's trying to sue Funi, Monica Rial (who played Mila in Shadows of Valentia), her fiancee, and Jamie Marchi for defamation, aka being part of the many women giving their stories about how Vic's a pedophiliac sex creep.
In case you're wondering how the case is going, the expectation among actually competent lawyers is that Vic's going to lose soon due to something called a "TPCA" (I'm not court savvy) which would dismiss the case before summary judgement, if not then, so around October. In fact, more of Vic's dirty laundry came out during the case in the form of affidavits and even Vic's own deposition.
Sadly, Vic's fanbase (and those who don't care for Vic and are just Screech's audience) has been harassing the defendants since January, and are still doing so in disturbing ways. Screech has kept them going by showing questionable affidavits that either don't mean anything or were of dubious origin and basically spinning lies typical of one who has no idea how it is being a victim of sexual harassment.
This leak of clips is just his latest attempt to get his grifter money, especially since he likely knows the case is lost and is just putting up an act.
Sure, it's bad that these existed in the first place, but all the way back to 2003? I think people often change in one and a half decades, especially when we go from having no idea what being LGBT+ is to embracing it. Regardless, they have nothing to do with the case or Vic.
In short, the clips were from a long time ago when society was insensitive, Vic's a pedophile today, and don't ever listen to Nick or grifters and/or give them clicks.
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I noticed there were ads on his video, so apparently it's monetized...? Also, he seems to have socialized with Keemstar on Twitter, which is a big red flag considering that person's bad reputation. Also, his fans are apparently searching his name on Twitter to strike back at anyone who dares question him with "did you watch the video", giving me some very unfortunately familiar vibes to fans of a certain questionable VA who had his own troubles earlier this year.
Better counter than I expected, but he's not purely innocent.
Honestly, at this point I feel like all three of them (including Holly and Heidi) are guilty of something questionable.
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As a Steelers fan, I actually wouldn't mind the Browns winning the SB after being in irrelevancy all this time, regardless of media expectations.
By the way, how about Antonio Brown and his ridiculous saga, huh? Getting his feet messed up, essentially bullying former teammate Juju who did nothing wrong to him, getting angry over helmets and threatening to quit football before deciding to return...and still filing grievances to allow him to wear his old helmet to no avail?
On 8/26/2019 at 10:40 AM, Anacybele said:Well, I don't bet to begin with, I'd rather not potentially throw away money.
Look, regardless of Vegas's track record, how is it logical to think the Browns will win the SB after just one offseason? Doesn't it take a few years or so to build a good team? It's taken the Steelers a good few to finally build a good defense again!
Different sport, but the Vegas Golden Knights made it to the Stanley Cup in their first year of existing after drafting players from various teams. It's not that illogical to consider, and the Browns had signs of improvement last season after firing Hue Jackson. The Chiefs also had a strong 9-game winning streak to start 2013 after their 2-14 season in 2012.
Preparation doesn't necessarily have to happen over multiple years, even if it's normally the case to build a good team.
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1 hour ago, Anacybele said:
I didn't say a character is screwed just because someone didn't vote for them. Marth got screwed the first time around because of the vote split. If his votes had been combined, he'd have been the second place male winner, I think. Or close to it, anyway. Second time was worse, he actually would've won for sure if the vote split wasn't there, as he was right below Ephraim and Hector. Third time was the worst for him, as he was holding second place until Eliwood bumped him out. That's three times he's basically had victory snatched from him. I really feel sorry for Marth fans.
You have a point on the first two, but the third time wasn't bad at all. Eliwood got more votes than Marth, that's it. No vote split or anything to "snatch victory from him".
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Count me in as team Micaiah. Micaiah-mania, baby!
NFL Season '19/20 (Dan Snyder is the worst owner in professional sports: Change My Mind)
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AB accused of sexual assault.
Haven't checked out any specifics, so the best take I got is that this is looking real awkward for the Pats if this winds up true.