@noddyisnutty thanks for the notes!! will definitely hit up the discord more, i was doing unrefined oki during cb casuals because i barely play and had people asking why i had bowl setups🫣
the fighting game struggle is that there are many use cases to play something on the go😔
and if you're into games with higher specs (tekken 8, sf6) then yeah.........
under 2 hr sleep club
catching up with so many ppl last night was an experience; the amount of dots connected between all the different spaces /interests i've been in was unreal
the dominos somehow branch into multiple paths and end up intersecting years later lmao??
I finally got my Uni2 Top 8 I wanted for so long in a US Major. I am glad I convinced myself to go to CB last minute and I glad I didn't Quit after EVOJ like I said. French Bread games are fun! Play MBTL & Play Uni2. Thank you @kamone1006
i remember cb last year hearing that there was a mika asking how to fight vat in the mika channel so this year i'm lurking the channels for my matchups to see if anything shows up again
I don't mind paying because people need to pay the bills but like man if I've been hanging out long before locals were a thing it's kinda weird to start getting charged when I'm not even competing. I'm long over it though and it's not like that local is active anymore so it's w/e
The moment I got charged for hanging out at a friend's place like I've always done before they had locals was when I decided to exit that other scene quietly and join the fgc. I heard they suffered poor commentary and stopped locals; grass did end up greener on the other side.
TO Story time with Jebailey:
Right around the start of CEO in 2010, I would host casuals at my house weekly for free in Orlando. Local community would bring over setups and I only asked that they would keep my house clean and bring their own food/drinks.
Everything was great, I saw no reason to charge my friends as we built up the Florida community together and would have 20-30 people at my place just pushing buttons. My reward is what CEO has become today but anyone that wants to charge for an event in their house or a venue has the right to do so as the players have the right to not attend.
If the money goes towards improving the event, power, more equipment then that is how you grow.
But then one day I had to cancel it because of theft in my house until somebody fessed up.
At the time, my post workout drink was Great Value Chocolate Milk (hard times back then).
When I went for my usual drink in my fridge after a game night, I was distraught, angry and felt betrayed. I went to our Facebook group to let everyone know game nights were on hiatus because someone drank my chocolate milk. We never found out who the culprit was.
Two weeks later I decided to give everyone another chance (really I needed everyone to come over and play SSF4 for me and unlock characters on all the setups) and suggested they bring chocolate milk of their own.
I duck taped my fridge shut that night to avoid anymore protein theft. However as a joke almost everyone brought me chocolate milk by the gallons and gallons. Had to open my fridge to store it all lol..
Back then that whole situation had like 300+ Facebook comments which was extremely high as everyone was still using forums. It was one of the craziest and funniest stories in Florida FGC history.
Thanks for reading. Support your locals.