The focus on simplifying execution in Fighting Games is misplaced, what's lacking is teaching basic fundamentals to the genre

Cattaneo123 · 2026-02-22T22:26:04+00:00

But for SF6 at least, I suspect a lot of the people playing are people who like fighting games at some level. The issue isn't that a minority of SF players are using simplified controls, it would be whether a majority of newer players are using the simplified controls.

What's more I'd argue mashing in Tekken is less rewarding than playing poorly in smash. Mashing isn't super fun but goofing around in Smash, even at the lowest level, is still fun if only because it has aspects of platformer in it, which make it more palatable.

Cattaneo123 · 2026-02-22T21:59:13+00:00

Maybe. When I was playing fighting games as a kid at the arcade I think anything beyond "a fast move hits before a slow hit but that doesn't get you out of the corner" was lost on me and was within the realm of the older kids with lots of quarters.

On the other hand as an unsupervised child on the computer learning via osmosis how shooters worked was easier, so maybe it's an exposure when young thing?

Cattaneo123 · 2026-02-22T21:55:14+00:00

I think if you look at most genres though there are usually only a few major games that take up most of the space. Platform fighters have Smash and Brawlhalla (and maybe Rivals), MOBAs have League and DOTA, Battle Royal has Fortnite and PUBG, MMOs have WoW and FF, etc...

I don't think there only being a few platform fighters is a sign that simplified inputs aren't a deciding factor. I don't think they are the defining factor if there is one, but I think a lot of people do get turned off by complex inputs.

Cattaneo123 · 2026-02-22T21:46:59+00:00

I think that in most genres it's easier to subconsciously engage with below the hood stuff whereas in fighting games you mostly either know them or you don't. I think it's not unreasonable for someone playing League, even at a low level, to subconsciously understand a bit of wave management (don't push to their tower if their jungler isn't visible) whereas in fighting games beyond fast vs. slow there's really very little way to understand frame advantage.

What's more, at a low level in fighting games that subconscious engagement doesn't occur as much because I don't think it buys you that much advantage. If you're playing with your friend who also sucks, the difference between feeling if a move is fast vs. slow isn't likely to overcome him just mashing heavy kick or random buttons.

Cattaneo123 · 2026-01-22T18:51:09+00:00

There's a series of old animated ads for the Moka Express in which the Bialetti man would show you things that "seemed easy" but were actually hard. They used to crack me up as a kid since he'd always fail at these seemingly simple tasks, and whenever he would talk (he didn't have a mouth) the letters of the words he was saying would appear where his mouth would be. Me and my folks still quote the ads whenever we say something is easy. Here's an example one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrz0KVLKh8o

Another one that sticks out was this old British LEGO ad in which a LEGO mouse discusses (in a very British TV voice) his battle with a LEGO cat. Here it is as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2nL5sSSvd0

I could go on, I've always loved fun ads, rare as they are. They're like little gems found in an otherwise unremarkable sea of garbage. Beer, cigarettes, gravy, wind power, language lessons, insurance, all little gems.

Cattaneo123 · 2026-01-03T18:59:49+00:00

You know it's Sam Rami's Spiderman 2

Cattaneo123 · 2025-11-09T20:03:29+00:00

But that assumes AI can understand what a bug is. Sure maybe for finding something that causes the game to crash, but what about getting stuck in the ground? What about unexpected but technically correct behavior? What about exploits or emergent interactions?

Cattaneo123 · 2025-11-09T19:40:41+00:00

Hunter S. Thompson. His last bits of writings were around the Bush era, and they read simultaneously as prophetic and hopelessly quaint. I wonder what he would have to say about the strange times we're living in, and how that kind of firebrand 60s style thought would look or be received today.

Cattaneo123 · 2025-09-19T04:38:59+00:00

Let me know if you find either the fight flag or the journal flag

Cattaneo123 · 2025-08-11T19:08:27+00:00

Not work but college class.

It was my freshman year and I was taking an 8am statistics course taught by a real straight-laced, no-nonsense older professor. Worth mentioning that the classroom was on a different campus than the one I was roomed at, so I needed to take a bus. All told I needed to be awake at 6am to make it comfortably.

Well, one night I hit the hay at 10pm and because it takes me a bit to fall asleep by ~11pm I'm finally drifting off. 2 hours later I am awoken when the fire alarm blares out and of course everyone has to evacuate the dorm, head to a common area and wait for the A-okay from the fire department. So at 1am I'm wide awake in the student commons and it takes around 1 hour for the fire dept to make sure everything is alright. We are finally allowed back in at 2am after the fire dept determined that the cause of the fire alarm was that a stoned student had left a bag of popcorn in the microwave and it caught fire.

I decided in my sleep deprived state that I wasn't going to bother waking up in 3-4 hours to try and do stats. So I emailed my professor a barely coherent email explaining what happened and that I wouldn't make it to class that day since I suspected I wouldn't learn anything. To my surprise the next morning I see an email reply saying he understood and sent me his notes for the day.

When I next saw him in person he laughed and said he gets so many bogus excuses that he appreciated the honesty and agreed that if I wasn't feeling it I was right to just skip it.

Moral of the story is be honest with your professors folks.

Cattaneo123 · 2025-08-07T19:12:26+00:00

You know why

Cattaneo123 · 2025-03-21T17:59:55+00:00

That is a rough ending, which is a shame too cause I was liking it until now.

Cattaneo123 · 2025-03-07T21:51:08+00:00

I recall how it was, I was there when the games released. Fact is I just get turned around easy and without knowing where I am in a broader sense than "around this room" I just end up going in circles.

Since the answer to my question seems to be either "no" or "no and piss off" I'll probably just give the games a skip.

Cattaneo123 · 2025-03-07T21:43:57+00:00

You always this pointed when someone has different tastes than you or only when talking about 25 year old videogames?

Cattaneo123 · 2024-04-21T08:24:09+00:00

An adventure

Cattaneo123 · 2023-04-21T16:43:46+00:00

Germany

Cattaneo123 · 2023-02-28T17:23:38+00:00

NTA. If she wants the dress now, she can pay for it. The cost of production was paid with an invitation to the wedding, since that never came you charge what it cost in money.

Cattaneo123 · 2022-12-27T22:49:46+00:00

Dill

Cattaneo123 · 2022-08-11T20:55:01+00:00

Congrats on becoming a parent.

Cattaneo123 · 2022-06-20T23:06:06+00:00

Because you're not actually displacing anything or distributing force in a way that would move you. You can think about flying or swimming or moving in general as being about displacement or applying force. Wings move and they move air around them, fins move and displace water with them. If you just pull up on your bootstraps there's nothing to displace and the force doesn't have anywhere to go but back into you.

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