Damian Perez

Local fighting game nerd and TO
Play +R
#BlackLivesMatter

[Damian Perez @PezIsTooShort]

@JustVulture_ @MrPomegranX @22XPHANTOM_FGC Reading 10 - 0 FGC still holds true while I’m on forced vacation. Glad to see it never changes

[James Walker @jwalkermobile]

Boarding this morning’s flight with my emotional support trout…

[Damian Perez @PezIsTooShort]

@nativelimpact We should play sometime, im trying to work on my Rachel so I can stop playing that bum Susanoo.

[Damian Perez @PezIsTooShort]

@xPerrty best bet is digging through @BoomtownFGC footage for me and rom we play that mu all the time.

[Limy @ Combo Breaker '26 @LimyPorcupine]

Chicago, im inside you

[Red @kitsuneredFES]

Dustloop is a beautiful website

[Boomtown FGC @BoomtownFGC]

Season 6 has concluded! Congratulations to the players who ended the season as DABES.

HotCoco in SF6
@IR0MULUSI in Tekken 8
Crackshot in SSBU
@PezIsTooShort in GGACR
@TheDrinkingFood in P+
@SetxJ in ST

Thanks to everyone who played or supported in any way, see you in season 7!

[Chuckfug @Chuckfug]

New rage bait method:

Whenever someone posts a tier list/mu chart tell them it looks pretty fitting for their skill level

[Iheartjustice @IHeartjustice_]

Don't really know this guy & while I realize it's very easy to dive into someone's character off this or go "hahah bro lost 13-0 and is trying to talk about spectating"

A better conversation is tackling why someone might feel this way, why it's wrong, & why all are welcome -

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The FGC started very small from a humble beginning. Arcade culture is something that very much laid the foundation for what "hype" in the FGC would become today.

Back then you had to pay to play, and what made it accessible wasn't the game itself or it's mechanics, but instead the low cost of an arcade play and your proximity to an arcade.

A single coin (if you were good) had you there all day, if you weren't as gifted, you'd wait in line with a quarter down and your eyes peeled watching the action in front. Every match counted and the hype came from seeing the person holding down the setup finally losing.

This type of environment lent itself well to trash talk, storylines, and eventual tourneys because it was so intimate, different than the way we see so many online tournaments now. This created the space for community to grow close, create rivalries, create bonds, you'd have it all if you were blessed with an arcade scene

There's that keyword though ; blessed.

Not everyone could be blessed with :

- The money to pay constantly
- The proximity to an arcade
- The skills to be good which, in turn, made you memorable.

These very tangible things did not allow you to foster the intangible parts of the FGC we all really want > Community & Acceptance.

I think if you genuinely feel the fighting game community has too many cheerleaders, you probably never had anyone really cheer for you in the way that I've always tried to do for those I know.

I've cheered for Evo grand finalists
I've cheered for Top 8 placers
I've cheered for my students
I've cheered for people that went 0-2
I've cheered for my fiance at a party for a smash bros match

like dude, it's not cringe to gas up people in our community. OR, to playfully trash talk our homies, it's actually REALLY fun.

I pity anyone who denies that aspect of this great community, fighting games are so intimate, I often quote how cool it is we have a LEGAL way to beat the shit out of each other and can be friends after.

Competitive Fighting games need bracket cheerleaders, it needs out-of-bracket cheerleaders, it needs community thought leaders that cheer for someone doing their first combo or playing their first time on stream, even when they lose, maybe even harder when they lose. <3

Keep cheering ya'll =)

[Damian Perez @PezIsTooShort]

@MrPomegranX checkmate

[Damian Perez @PezIsTooShort]

@xPerrty Thats not Testament thats the Hat man. Please dont let them soil
my sweet child’s name.

[TNS| MFCR @ImMFCR]

@LucienSFL SO???? BOO FUCKING HOO MAN ITS MY TIME TO HAVE FUN WITH THE XBOX

[Damian Perez @PezIsTooShort]

@linkdude Its funnier to me to believe that its a salt post than for me to accept its a joke. Let me have my moment

[Damian Perez @PezIsTooShort]

Called the salt post after Texas Showdown Champion @linkdude took it

[MrPomegranX @MrPomegranX]

Sol Badguy is an honest midlow tier

You can never win with him. He needs meter just to get the worst oki in the game

Sidewinders make this character too inconsistent enough to beat anyone except Johnny

[Weck @WECKmaster329]

Texas Showdown was cool, but there were a few things I didn't really vibe with. For one, I don't like how everything got held up because of issues with the stream setups. VF top 8 went well past 1-2am because of MK1 having so many issues.

[Damian Perez @PezIsTooShort]

prior events with attendees like Shinku and Infiltration. I hope that TXSD improves with handling these situations that no TO ever signed up to deal with but unfortunately must.
GGs all, loved the games.
Hope to see a medal around my neck and trophy in hand next year!

[Damian Perez @PezIsTooShort]

Alright, #TXS26 is over and I had a great time. There's a few things I want to address though to make next year better. I think Showdown staff put in a good attempt to make do the room we have and addressing the venue may be worthwhile but I will leave that to other folks. 1/11

[Damian Perez @PezIsTooShort]

chat of some kind or at bare minimum have this information be public more than 2 weeks before the event. Things like this do make attendees uncomfortable and upset to where they do not feel safe to attend which is the last thing we want in the FGC. This has been an issue with 10/