Juan

Physics, Falcon, Flash and Folk

[Leffen @TSM_Leffen]

OKAY FINE AVATAR LEGENDS IS FIRE ELITE #ETHICALHOOPS YOU GOT ME

[Brotherhood | Aklo @NotAklo]

Saw a lot of Melee vs Ultimate beef (lol) on my feed recently. I think i'm one of the most "qualified" players to speak on the topic, having won large tournaments in Melee, Project M/+, and Ultimate. Gonna try to give genuine insight, so hear me out before getting defensive.

Ultimate is a pretty fun game casually. But it's one of the least competitive games i've seen be played competitively. That's not to say you can't get good at the game — it's just that getting good at Ultimate often rewards some sort of degen jank or not interacting, whereas getting good at Melee often rewards difficult execution.

From the perspective of someone who has been around the Smash scene for a long time and has been very good at many smash titles, it begins to look silly:

In Smash Ultimate, the devs removed every advanced technique they could possibly THINK of (bar b-reversing and RAR?). It's a laundry list. There are even mechanics that were newly removed in Ultimate that had been in the series since Smash64 (shield dropping, pivoting, running through opponents).

Not only does the game lack competitive mechanics, it actually has anti-competitive mechanics. The input lag is abysmal. There is noticeably more input lag than in Sm4sh, and the game has double the input lag of Melee AT BEST. Using a gamecube controller is the most common way of playing Ult, yet not even the least laggy! I can understand enjoying buffer systems in fighting games, but Ultimate's buffer system is so bad that it's comical. Most people practice Melee on rollback netcode, whereas Ultimate online — yeah...

I realize that a lot of Ultimate players are actually new to Smash/FGC. If you became decent at a different game and came back, you would realize how silly Ult is competitively. EVEN MELEE IS A MICKEY MOUSE GAME HALF THE TIME.

Brawl players: "It's the new game, i'm done with Melee."
Sm4sh players: "This is the best game in the series by far."
Ultimate players: "How were we EVER playing tr4sh?? Can't wait for the new Smash btw."

Can you see how exhausting it might seem to hear Ultimate enthusiasts talk about it being the best competitive game?🐏🐑

People will make fun of Melee for lacking character diversity (which is less true now than ever), but it's way less common for people to have legit examples of bad gameplay in Melee. The next up and coming Ult player will be another 13-year-old "prodigy" who mains Minecraft Steve anyway.

Melee is one of the most technical fighting games with a dedicated fanbase and a captivating history. Competitive platform fighting games at the scale in which know them today would not exist without SSBM.

If Melee is fun to you, play it. If Ultimate is fun to you, play it. But let's not lie to ourselves lol.

[Rami @luigimaster3001]

HE IS THE GOAT

[Lucky 7s @Lucky7sMelee]

Fuck it.

100 RTs and we will invite RapMonster, the Zain Slayer, to Full House: Siege. All expenses paid.

Nobody beats the #1 player three Thug Finals in a row.

[Logan Forsythe @Loganforsythe94]

Ogre battle 64

[Juan @Sooji_SSBM]

@OgreBattleUnit @JoypadLadShop The first time I realized casters could combine spells I lost my mind.

[ludwig @LudwigAhgren]

I TEAMED UP WITH SUPERNOVA TO MAKE MELEE FREE

IT COSTS $0 TO ENTER BRACKET BUT WE WILL STILL ADD $10 TO THE PRIZE POOL FOR EVERY ENTRY

LETS MAKE THIS THE BIGGEST MELEE TOURNAMENT EVER ‼️

(ill also fly you out if ur really good but cant afford to go hmu)

[Juan @Sooji_SSBM]

@LeanneHef Excellent youtube content. For real.

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: Why isn’t this moving? Republicans support it. Democrats support it. So what happened?

On December 15th at 415am, Elon Musk began firing off a barrage of social media posts opposing pharmacy benefit manager reform. All of a sudden, something that had almost unanimous support fell apart. We had nearly 435 members on board with it—he tweets, and it kills drug pricing reform that would save people money on their insulin, asthma inhalers, and everything they need.

And to top it off, five days after he kills pharmacy benefit manager reform, we get this tweet from Elon Musk: What is a pharmacy benefit manager?

The problem here isn’t a substance issue or a process issue—it’s an oligarchy issue, a power issue. And this room is where the power of the people resides. Everyone here was elected to be accountable to the people—not to be governed by tweets, but to be governed by their duly elected representatives.

So we can get this done; there are more of us than there are of him.

[meganhertz 🕹️ @meganhertz]

i feel certain this message got suppressed in the algorithm because of the site we're using :3 if you happen to see this though, please let me know if you want to apply!

[Juan @Sooji_SSBM]

Giving bluesky a try looks good

https://t.co/T76pNfvjwQ

[Juan @Sooji_SSBM]

@thisislijoe I watch that video at least once a month and dream about it. They're on tour now but getting that energy from the crowd is a once in a lifetime event. Still, pumped to see them.

[Leanne (I'm happy on bluesky) @LeanneHef]

Megan is the best if anyone wants some entertainment today 💜

[Juan @Sooji_SSBM]

@NCAforCACs @KiwiSong_ Have a good time! NCA is a great cause, glad you guys could be there.

[Ron Iver @ronnui_]

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, the one I took sucks so bad. Oh my god I'm such a fucking idiot for picking this dumb ass road, the other one is probably so good. I hate this road.

[Juan @Sooji_SSBM]

@LeanneHef New PB, new PB

[Zain @ZainNaghmi]

Can someone tell @iBDWSSBM to change his bio

[Juan @Sooji_SSBM]

@Shaeman111 @SuperSmashCon Historically it's been early Friday morning

[Sen. Danica Roem @pwcdanica]

Metalheads for Kamala, but we only discuss politics for 2 minutes and then spend 43 minutes arguing about which album to listen to while talking about what shows we’ve been to / are going to, which we finally get to in the last 15 minutes.

[Juan @Sooji_SSBM]

@omgwhatidonteve @meganhertz @official_throne I think there's something charming about experiencing the original graphics. Sometimes it's more about the history of the game than getting the most polished version for me.