Strider 🦆

FGC OG, I used to talk a lot of shit but now I’m nicer. Lover of Ducks | SF6 Honda, Laugh and Be Passionate. ♥️ @soupybaos

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@Colonel_Suave @TongNeverSleeps That first picture was from the PNT that Tong used to own!

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Got a Facebook memory of @TongNeverSleeps's OG TNS events. We'd start tournaments at 10pm, games and afterparty til sunrise. Everyone sleeping wherever there was space. Some of the best memories I've had in the FGC.

Thanks Tong.

(2012-13, yeah thats a fightstick as a pillow)

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@Mitchman998 Never could figure him out!

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@Jox_in_a_Box HBox has been adverting the local for quite some time. Sf6 was added this past week so it was mostly smash based up until recently.

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Got 7th at the Hungrybox locaI in sf6, entered my first local in like 8 months and ended up losing to Punk and CjTruth 😂 so much for easing back into locals again

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@JCaesarII It was, I think it was hungrybox’s stream

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@GumByte789 It’s was fun. I went mostly to see and catchup with the homies and stayed for the good games

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@GumByte789 I think it’s called Arcade Time Knockout? Something like that 😂

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@mike_phizzy @MarkMan23 I lost mine in a green-herb related incident. I have been searching for months

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7k Honda Combo

[Katsuhiro Harada @Harada_TEKKEN]

LOL hahaha. Of course.

Here’s the reality: video game nerds like us spent our weekend nights inside games.
When we were young, after school or work, we weren’t just “playing” ..we were living in arcades, battling for high scores, dissecting strategies. Every year brought new massive cabinets and motion-based machines, and that raw excitement was irreplaceable.

Unlike the normies, gamers like us were grinding gold and coins long before crypto and digital wallets became trendy buzzwords.

Back in the early internet days of the 1990s, farming items, gold, and platinum in Diablo, Ultima Online, and EverQuest was busier than our actual day jobs.

And the first moment the world truly connected through online games? That was unreal.
On Ultima Online’s official launch day, players were introducing themselves by country, saying things like:
“My grandfather and yours fought in WWII — and now we’re playing together. How insane is that?”

That was the first time the world genuinely felt connected. The virtual world outshined real nightlife districts by a mile.

This was the narrowband era. Servers were fragile, and just putting an image on your homepage could get you treated like a criminal. Early Ultima Online? One step could take minutes. No exaggeration.

We weren’t using undersea fiber from Japan to North America. Japanese players literally signed contracts with American AT&T providers and dialed by phone line all the way to Lake Superior servers. The lag was borderline unbelievable but no problem at all because fun.

Going out to real-world parties? Not even remotely an option.

When EverQuest hit its peak, anyone who invited you out on a Friday or Saturday night was friendship-ending. If you had time for nightlife, you clearly weren’t camping rare named spawns.

Why go drinking when you could go dragon hunting?
And yes.... the excitement was bladder-bursting level. We literally couldn’t leave to use the bathroom.

Then PC performance went insane. Overclocking, benchmarking, higher resolutions.. nonstop.
Then came story-driven shooter campaigns like Medal of Honor and Call of Duty, plus multiplayer games that simply never ended once you started.

At some point, our lives even turned into nightly virtual bank robberies.

Gamers were absurdly busy. There was zero time for old men’s social gatherings, elite banquets, or brain-dead club parties.
The truth? Video games completely surpassed real-world entertainment.

When my wife first came to my place, she was horrified and asked:
“Why is there an arcade table cabinet in your living room? Does it cost 100 yen per play?”
“Why is the next room filled with towers of empty boxes, CDs, and DVDs?”
“Why are there so many screens and PCs ,,,, are you trading stocks?”
“Why are hoses filled with green liquid running from all these PCs to giant metal towers on the balcony?”
“Why are arcade controllers everywhere?”
“Why are PC parts literally covering the walls?”

Because at night I was being a blacksmith, a cute elf, a soldier, a bank robber, and a world saver —
then going to work to make games, talking games, “researching” games by playing them, rushing home, and staying busy landing headshots.

How long do you think it took before that finally made sense to her?

I’ve lived a life that was insanely busy! and incredibly fulfilling.

I’m proud. I’ve experienced every kind of place, moment, and community in the game world... and traveled the real world too, talking about games with people everywhere.
It’s been an overwhelmingly fun life.

There was no time wasted in decay. Every second was converted into XP, coins, or skills.

And yes,,, even within the same game industry, there are plenty of people who have never written a line of code, drawn a single pixel, composed a bar of music, or written a line of specs.... yet somehow stay busy burning entertainment budgets with outsourcing vendors and license holders.

They still love saying “when we made this game,” dropping the word "made", while bragging about nightlife war stories like that’s an achievement.

For the record, those fake “industry guys or producers” (and there are a lot of them) live in a completely different world from us.

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@OhThats_Good @GeorgeResch @financedystop It doesn’t, but it supports the reason why they don’t just carry unlimited cash in the branch, which was also a topic in the conversation

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@OhThats_Good @GeorgeResch @financedystop Would agree if all the money they deposit into the account is cash. Most people are credited money via ACH / direct deposit if they employed by a company — ie not physical cash

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@erzathefoxo @ThaTexans @BadKidWZ There is no game economy because there’s no player based market.

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15 years ago and we were betting dollar bills at majors for fun and had prop bets on if rounds would end on odd and even timers.

Lol imagine the possibilities now - 4 leg parlays on your favorite player to win it all ☠️😂

[Ultima @UltimaShadowX]

BREAKING: Riot Games has announced an official partnership with Kalshi. As part of the deal, players will be able to bet real life money on the outcome of esports events in games such as “Valorant” and “2XKO”. It will be tested in 2XKO first as part of their tournament series.

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@ArcRaiderAlerts The original Reddit posts comments why bringing a vita-shot is worth it (the guy running away healed fast), I have no idea why the poster is mentioning the “stupidity” of the pusher

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@TheRooster Hey, that’s me!

No dev console btw this is post patch 😂

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Any FGC people on ARC raiders?

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@OhChuns makes sense you had to change your twitch name to hide the fact you play like this, makes sense why you only avg 3 viewers LOL