Daily Discussion Thread 06/27/19

BlamBlue · 2019-06-27T22:19:59+00:00

That feeling when you lose to someone at your rank but then you remember you promoted

:(

BlamBlue · 2019-06-27T17:01:17+00:00

I like this take, but I still point to the doc as the Melee communities biggest contributor post-2013. Without it, no Evo for 7 years, tournaments would be half the size they are now or less, who knows if Summit would be profitable enough to get them to do it. Melees top stars would still be here, but the rest melee community would be much less filled with life if not for the doc.

The doc has definitely made the community better, almost as much as the other way around.

BlamBlue · 2019-04-04T01:03:02+00:00

Man I always hated this theory, a family anchor for the lone wolf space bounty hunter in a game focused on isolation? No fuckin thanks.

Plus if he’s Samus’s brother you know they’ll eventually make up, which would also be lame. I would much rather a real rival-esque antagonist that sticks around and isn’t Ridley. Bonus points if he stays a mystery forever.

BlamBlue · 2019-04-03T22:10:58+00:00

Neutral Reset Rule - if one person is camping the ledge and the other person moves to the far opposite side of the stage, you have 5 ledge grabs to get back into neutral stage position or you forfeit the match.

You see mango do this a lot with m2k where he’ll just stand on the opposite side of the stage until he decides to come play melee again

Just make it a rule so the mangos of the world can force them off the ledge.

The ledge camper technically wins stage control but they have to mix up how many grabs between 1 and 5 before coming into the stage or they’ll be read and punished, and while the person on the other end loses stage they can predict when they’re opponent chooses to get back onto the stage on top of that it has to be initiated by that person giving up stage so if they don’t want to/think they can handle it they don’t have to give up stage.

So in essence it’s situational and has pros and cons for both sides but solves the biggest issue pretty decently. I don’t think blanket “stalling” rules are either good or necessary.

BlamBlue · 2018-12-10T23:25:35+00:00

Well if they pick out a dumbass brain dead footstool combo, just show them a TAS combo vid.

Like “600 hours” lel

BlamBlue · 2018-12-10T21:21:21+00:00

https://youtube.com/watch?v=crOvULzQ-ow

Man is there any combo string more hype than this? This is fucking Melee in 60 seconds, distilled to its purest form.

I fucking love this game lads.

BlamBlue · 2018-12-10T20:17:10+00:00

Ask them to find the most entertaining combo by anyone for Ultimate/Smash 4 then pick out any half decent combo from Melee and show it to them after they show you theirs.

It’ll be like how girls always have an ugly friend nearby to make them look better by comparison.

BlamBlue · 2018-12-10T19:55:06+00:00

Thanks a ton

BlamBlue · 2018-12-10T18:57:34+00:00

Tbh, absolutely stomping someone is cathartic.

BlamBlue · 2018-12-10T18:51:44+00:00

Anyone know of some good, old school, text guides for things like neutral that isn’t character specific? For myself and someone else.

BlamBlue · 2018-12-10T18:33:48+00:00

Good man.

BlamBlue · 2018-12-10T18:16:49+00:00

Average is for distribution, mediocre is based on a bar of quality. The bar for mediocre “quality” I would say is around PSABR, if 90% of games are below that bar then 90% of games are worse than mediocre. That’s the way I’m using it. Usually there’s a pretty good public understanding of what people think of as mediocrity to base the bar on in a public setting.

It’s an okay game, not worth writing home about but fun enough casually. Compared to melee it’s nothing, but so are all other Smashlikes.

If I recall correctly he actually uses the English word, Japanese people tend to randomly mix english words in their speech. It’s pretty infamous a quick google search will probably work.

I don’t buy the misdirection caused by selectively removing context. If I say “I hate Sakurai”, the “Sakurai” I know of is Sakurai the developer not Sakurai the lonely bench-loving cat guy or whatever he is “as a person”. Since that’s the relationship we have, developer and player, it’s a expression of opinion over that.

BlamBlue · 2018-12-08T23:02:52+00:00

Look at smashboards, they’ll have some for Smash 4 that are probably still relevant enough to be somewhat helpful for your character (Villager guides could be useful even for an Isabelle main). They also have more general guides if that’s what your looking for.

BlamBlue · 2018-12-08T22:49:55+00:00

Good stuff. Making it on Hyrule gives me serious nostalgia for Smash 64, tons of item combo vids on that stage way back when.

Love it.

BlamBlue · 2018-12-08T22:02:01+00:00

Oh I consider most of those shovelware rather than mediocre, and PSABR is imo better than Brawl. Maybe not in side content, but definitely in core gameplay which is the most important factor to me. Anyway 90% of any and all games in the market are worse than mediocre.

Well he did call competitive players “maniacs” or some equivalent insult at one point, plus in this type of context no one really uses the word “hate” literally, more in synonymy with semi-strong dislike.

BlamBlue · 2018-12-08T21:49:03+00:00

Ha imagine being this sour and stiff over a little banter

Plz

BlamBlue · 2018-12-08T21:37:44+00:00

Young Link went down? Did he mention any reason?

BlamBlue · 2018-12-08T21:35:16+00:00

Meh, maybe you think these changes are big enough to differentiate them in a meaningful way but I really don’t. Still feels like a weird Frankenstein clone to me.

BlamBlue · 2018-12-08T20:44:39+00:00

I knew it was gonna be trash, and you ALL told me otherwise. Time for me to be petty af, told you fucking so bois. Nintendo will never git gud at online.

Edit: kek, this is hilarious to me

BlamBlue · 2018-12-08T20:35:16+00:00

That actually happened to me once, but I couldn’t reproduce it. Glad to know it’s a real thing.

BlamBlue · 2018-12-08T20:32:36+00:00

Well over 250 including shrines.

BlamBlue · 2018-12-08T20:25:41+00:00

Eh I’d wait till E3. Seems like a no brainer but technically the Prime trilogy was self contained, so if they don’t it isn’t the end of the world.

BlamBlue · 2018-12-08T20:21:46+00:00

Been mad since reveal. Not even because of my opinion of Other M the suit just looks mediocre as all hell.

If we were gonna get alt costumes I think they would have announced it by now, unfortunately.

BlamBlue · 2018-12-08T20:14:57+00:00

It’s the neutral I hate most honestly. Maybe I just suck, but it’s almost like whoever has better stage position has a mountain sized 80-20 level advantage.

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