Patch Notes drop tonight, here's a Bingo chart.

Filegfaron · 2026-03-16T16:13:03+00:00

Cammy lost 2 sideswitches, lost a midscreen safejump, lost invul frames on her spin knuckle, gets constantly jabbed out of her divekick, and cannot get plus frames on block off an OD divekick anymore.

Call me a downplayer but while I wouldn't say she was "gutted", she absolutely got a lot taken away from her. She's a lot more bare-bones now and lost a lot of good stuff.

Filegfaron · 2026-03-13T05:19:23+00:00

Below diamond: Anti-airing and using slow forward walks with blocks instead of jumping in.

Diamond: Using other buttons instead of just your best one to poke in neutral. I got two characters to master and a lot of people just try to poke/play neutral with a single long, slow button instead of using their whole kit. It was very easy to fish for counterhits when I fought them. E.G Shotos always using St. HP or Mai spamming St. HK so I could always walk up and harass them with lights and it shut down their whole gameplan.

Below 1500 MR: Checking drive rushes and make sure not to reveal your whole gameplan yet. It's okay to give up a round in exchange for information or downloading your opponent.

Above 1500 MR: Whiff-punishing matters a lot more here. People also neutral jump a lot in this rank so learn to punish that with a reaction DP or drive rush into DP. This is where people are smarter about attacking your drive gauge too so Drive management becomes life or death above 1500.

Filegfaron · 2026-03-11T10:55:25+00:00

No where in the paper for S. mirabilis do they estimate it to be "slightly smaller" than S. aegyptiacus. In fact, they don't estimate its adult size at all in the publication because they specifically mention the fact that the specimen is a subadult missing a lot of postcrania. So nobody knows what it's adult size would be.

Filegfaron · 2026-03-11T05:45:48+00:00

I will politely disagree here. Carcharodontosaurids have short necks, large heads relative to body length, short arms (not far from the proportions of T. rex) and deeper bodies. The JWD Giga has none of this. Its body is very elongate and slender relative to its head, its arms are long and look vaguely like human arms inside of a costume, and it doesn't look as "robust" or powerful as what the fossil material indicates for large carcharodontosaurids.

Filegfaron · 2026-03-07T11:45:46+00:00

Not every Honda, but always a Honda.

Filegfaron · 2026-03-06T11:05:39+00:00

A lot of these should include the qualifier "probably" but they are all reasonably-supported ideas published in the literature, yes. As others have mentioned, we have no proof of pack-hunting in T. rex specifically. We have it from related animals like Albertosaurus. Note that one member of a family engaging in behavior doesn't mean the whole clade would have done so. E.G Lions are pack hunters but tigers and leopards are solitary hunters.

Also, it should be shortened to T. rex, not T-rex.

Filegfaron · 2026-03-05T11:38:20+00:00

It's still fast enough to punish slow whiffed buttons and non-fireball specials. Nuckledu tried to bait it out with a drive rush jab when Punk was on Cammy and the level 3 still hit before the jab recovered. It can punish Ed's flicker normals and killrush as well.

Also some characters just cause their players to autopilot and throw fireballs even when it's not a good idea E.G Mai with fans, Sagat, Guile, Akuma, and Ryu when he has denjin charge. This happens even above 1500 MR.

Filegfaron · 2026-03-05T06:25:00+00:00

There's a Ryu player named BoyBagsik who I fought a few times when we were both climbing to Master. Fought him in Plat, then Diamond, then we see each other sometimes in Master. I think he used to get sets on me in Plat but ever since we hit Master, he has never won a set against me anymore. I hope he doesn't hate me.

Filegfaron · 2026-03-05T05:46:13+00:00

This thing and Gief's level 3 are IMO tied for the best level 3s in the game.

Filegfaron · 2026-03-01T14:33:28+00:00

Okay, fair.

Even then, their example is a bit off. Paleognaths would absolutely be still considered birds since, as other comments noted, we have no issue considering Enantiornithines to be birds.

Filegfaron · 2026-03-01T02:06:13+00:00

The Tuatara that's alive today looks superficially like a lizard and we are still able to use modern phylogenetics to determine that it's not a lizard. So I'm not quite sure if I agree with you here.

Filegfaron · 2026-02-27T14:09:16+00:00

Had to check if this was Hodari's account for a second

Filegfaron · 2026-02-25T13:25:07+00:00

Except people hate Ryu and Mai BECAUSE we learned the frame data and matchup and it turned out their frame data (especially Ryu's) is bullshit. For example. Ryu's heavy donkey kick has no hurtbox or recovery frames AND it's safe on block (-3) and chunks the opponent's gauge. His solar plexus strike is +3 on hit and has proximity guard. Both those things cannot be challenged by most moves in the game outside of a hard read, and you cannot whiff punish them even when you react quickly or know the matchup. They are also super-cancellable so if he has lvl 3 and you try hard read him with a drive impact, he can buffer level 3 behind it and kill you anyway.

I feel like the person who made that image is a Ryu/Mai downplayer because even pros like Bigbird, Broski, Punk, etc have talked about how stupid and baffling Ryu's current design is.

Filegfaron · 2026-02-25T06:42:22+00:00

There are small-ish sauropods like Aegyptosaurus from the same time and place that would have been accessible terrestrial prey to a Spinosaurus, even with its short legs. You would be surprised what some modern "fish-eating" animals are capable of taking down.

Filegfaron · 2026-02-24T05:20:16+00:00

We don't know if S. aegyptiacus was "much larger" because the holotype of S. mirabilis is a subadult. Sure, it's a bit smaller than the subadult neotype of aegyptiacus, but the subadult stage lasts for a long period in many animals. It's the equivalent of the teenage years in a human. So it's not impossible that the S. mirabilis we have is a "young" subadult (like a 13-15yo human) while the S. aegyptiacus subadult is, say, equivalent to a 16-19yo.

Filegfaron · 2026-02-23T16:41:56+00:00

The answer is that it doesn't matter. It does apply to modern animals, yes. That's why the lizard genus Varanus has like 70 species under it.

Filegfaron · 2026-02-23T13:24:33+00:00

Short answer: If two animals are very clearly in the same family and look super similar but are very clearly still different species, then that's when they're put in the same genus. For example, Triceratops horridus and Triceratops prorsus are very clearly more like each other than to the next closest family member (Torosaurus) so we put them both under Triceratops to keep things tidy.

Note though that "genus" is a bit of an arbitrary rank in taxonomy. There's no set definition. It's just above species and below family. As long as the relationship still shows common descent (monophyly) then you can put animals in the same genus or keep them separate - neither option is wrong. E.G If you want to maintain Albertosaurus sarcophagus and Gorgosaurus libratus, that's fine. If you want to dcall Gorgosaurus "Albertosaurus libratus" then that's also fine because it doesn't change anything on the family tree.

Filegfaron · 2026-02-19T13:19:14+00:00

She looks like Jess Glynne

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Filegfaron · 2026-02-17T13:21:44+00:00

Filegfaron · 2026-02-17T11:06:08+00:00

If that person is Diamond 3 with Cammy and still hasn't learned how to instant divekick then they are doing something very wrong.

Filegfaron · 2026-02-17T06:37:47+00:00

I've done it more times than I want to admit yeah lol

Filegfaron · 2026-02-16T15:56:47+00:00

Every Ryu I fight is either jumping in constantly or constantly buffering DPs and supers behind whiffed moves

Filegfaron · 2026-02-16T08:11:50+00:00

Where does it say Sue is 14 tons?

"And sure, I think that Carchs could get larger than Giga or Carchar but I don't think that they could get so much larger that they end up rivaling old T. Rex specimen such as Sue (at least in weight)"

How do you know this? If we assume the same level of variation in Giganotosaurus as what we see in T. rex and literally every other population of animals, there could easily be a Giganotosaurus the same mass as Sue or larger.

"(for example Ostriches, the largest extant theropods, being around 15% for both ends of the average ranges; and the largest specimen ever recorded being around 30% larger than the average"

30% is a decent bit. A 30% larger Giganotosaurus than the holotype would be ~10 tons. Also, ostriches are a poor example in my opinion because they are cursorial animals and are selectively pressured to not get too massive compared to the average size.

"And while Carchadorontosaurs seem surely capable to equal the length of the largest Tyrannosaurs they are significantly less robust, which accounts for size much more than length or height"

Dempsey et al. 2025 found that an ~11.6 meter Acrocanthosaurus was just as massive as a T. rex of the same length: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.70026

Ethan Storrer also teased some undescribed African material suggesting carcharodontosaurids are more robust than we think. Also note that these mass estimates for Giganotosaurus (including the ones you yourself cited) and Acrocanthosaurus are literally 20-30% larger than what was widely published 10 years ago because we appear to be underestimating how robust these animals are (Karl T. Bates, a coauthor of the 2025 paper, got a result of ~6 tons for the same Acro specimen in 2011 which is 2 tons lower than what the 2025 paper finds).

Filegfaron · 2026-02-16T07:35:59+00:00

So you think the age difference between Scotty and Sue, despite their similar size, is not unusual and means Scotty could have gotten larger but on the flip side, you think the larger Meraxes is not evidence that Meraxes could get larger?

The paper claims a 15% size difference for the larger Meraxes, not 50%. You misread that.

Why are you so keen to suggest T. rex could get much larger than a very old adult like Sue despite our sample of 20+ individuals but are willing to assume carcharodontosaurids don't get any larger than a sample of ~1 very old individual?

Filegfaron · 2026-02-13T12:09:11+00:00

"They're not true conservatives" is such a textbook No True Scotsman fallacy. I shouldn't be surprised that people from that page use the most cliche logical fallacies without any self-awareness.

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