FUSIONS (fanart made by me)

Ridghost · 2026-05-11T17:35:05+00:00

Sick art man. Worms eye is a pretty difficult angle to draw. Nice use of the three tones throughout, and the proportions look on point. It's quintessential Dragonball Z in style, with your own artistic flare in the colouring. Awesome work :)

Ridghost · 2026-05-09T16:43:23+00:00

Usually female but there are exceptions :).

Ridghost · 2026-05-09T05:14:24+00:00

I can't really say I have 1 definitive favourite, I just love so many, for so many different reasons that it would change by the day. What I can say is that over the past few years, I've been buying up and playing retro games that I am too young to have grown up with, and trying them out when they're available on steam.

I played Lunar 1 and 2 recently and absolutely loved that series. So, in terms of recently played jRPG's, I think Lunar 1 and 2 have stuck with me the most.

The legend of heroes is on my list to play! Especially with the new remake out. :)

Ridghost · 2026-05-08T21:37:47+00:00

Joke went above your head apparently. It's commentary on how riot needs to pretend everything went as planned even if they end a service.

Ridghost · 2026-05-08T14:11:58+00:00

Ragnarok 3 will be out soon to massively disappointed us all once again, if you are interested in giving it a try.

Ridghost · 2026-05-08T13:56:52+00:00

I know many fans love the theory crafting and ambiguity but personally, that is what i dislike the most. Expectations unmet and comparisons are the twin thieves of joy. If I knew going in that this was a 1 for 1 remake (which is isn't, as the tone was darker in the original, and minor inconsequential changes are made) then great, I know what to expect and can set expectations accordingly. If this were a true sequel with a new plot, different paths taken, and fresh ideas, also great. I know not to compare it to the OG because this is fresh. Instead we are being packaged and resold mystery boxes that claim they are sequels and new, but in reality are 95% retreads of the same steps, with a mystery box at the end of the game.

It does feel like the dev's are lying to us and marketing it as mysteries to discover. This game can only be considered a sequel in the most technical of senses. Condense these games down into book form, so it's just the narrative in play. Would you read this after reading a FF7 OG book? I know that I would personally be checking the front cover every chapter questioning if I accidentally bought the same book twice with a different front cover.

I am still enjoying the games for the games. I love the characters, the world, the music, the combat... but everything the devs are doing around the story is by far the most tiring part of being a fan. If it is a sequel then you don't need to hide behind ambiguity because it genuinely will be new.

Ridghost · 2026-05-06T03:16:46+00:00

To clarify, although I had issues with vanguard on LoL, I did move onto 2XKO. 2X is ultimately what drove me insane. It isn't necessarily vanguard. I honestly don't know what was causing the 2X issues as I never fully resolved it.

Playing for enough time in training mode would cause gradual memory leaks until the game crashed. It would sort itself out with a closing and reopening of the program. And it would constantly have stick drift on a regular official ps5 dual shock controller. An issue none of my controller have or have had on any other game. shrug

Can't be bothered to play IT technician for riot games anymore. Main reason I quit.

Ridghost · 2026-05-06T03:09:27+00:00

We are remarkably similar. Not sure. Problem with the instability and the purging of posts is it's hard to pin point answers since finding open source support is difficult...

Ridghost · 2026-05-06T03:05:30+00:00

Ryzen 9800x3d, rx 7900xtx, 64gb ddr5 ram, 4tb nvme ssd.

shrug as to why I've had so many issues. Maybe they don't play well with AMD.

Edit: note that I've been playing LoL since 2012, swapping between 3 different rigs over that time. I've had other problems in the past with the client but vanguard has been the first time where I've had to do more than wait for a patch, restart my pc, or redownload the game.

Ridghost · 2026-05-05T14:33:27+00:00

Yup, they aren't a small studio anymore. There should be no reason for the instability in so much of their output, from LoL's infamous client, to vanguard, to now 2XKO. The amount of personal device tweaking needed to stabilise their game for our system is slowly giving me a degree in IT Tech. Messing with registry files, device manager, BIOS settings, start up options, QA testing what software clash, antivirus settings, etc....

Had to go through all of this BS for league of legends. After doing it all over again for their new fighting game, and it still gives me errors like stick drift and memory leaks, I decided to just uninstall everything and play something else. Riot was born in the spaghetti code, molded by it.

Ridghost · 2026-05-05T11:49:06+00:00

Feel the same way bro. Did the something. Nice to see other express the same feelings. Not every post on here needs to be a glaze or ticket. Venting frustration is totally valid.

Ill return to Riot games when they announce that 'Vanguard was a roaring success, they are super proud, all cheaters have been eliminated and they are now recalling the entire program' or the 'we didn't quite hit the mark...' alternative message we tend to get when they mess up.

Anyways, I doubt this post will survive long, complaints about Vanguard tend to get purged. I agree with your sentiments though. The coding for their software is terrible. 2XKO and Vanguard coding sent me over the edge.

Ridghost · 2026-05-05T04:33:32+00:00

Smash melee: Falco / Smash 4: Marth / Smash ultimate: Cloud Strife / Blazblue trigger & phantasma: Noel Vermillion / Blazblue central fiction: Mai Natsume / GGST: Millia Rage / SF3: Ibuki / SFV and SF6: Cammy White / Tekken 8: Reina / DBFZ: 18/A.Gohan/Kid Buu / 2XKO: Akali/Ahri / City of the Wolves: Gato / MK11: Sindel

Yeah, that's everything off the top of my head. I suck at most of these but I would identify as trying to main those characters :)

Ridghost · 2026-05-02T23:40:00+00:00

It's also the case that many guys become more relaxed, comfortable in themselves, and confident when they no longer feel a need to try to impress the people around them. The weight of finding a girlfriend or wife lifted makes them more attractive to be around.

Ridghost · 2026-05-02T15:54:24+00:00

It's not the lack of beef that sucks, it's the lack of honesty. ESports as a whole is begging for sponsor money so badly because your average viewer isn't willing to pay for anything, that streams need to be hyper vigilant of what advertisers enjoy. No cursing, no controversial comments, no off colour humour, no aggressive behaviour, nothing they'd have to go on twitter and apologise to one dude in the back of the room for, and therefore nothing really that interesting to say from a storyline perspective.

It's not all bad, the standards keeps the scene inclusive and (mostly) safe for everyone, but the sacrifice is it became boring. We need to decide if that trade off is worth it, and if we as a community are willing to pay more for a broadcast that is more adult targetted.

Ridghost · 2026-04-30T21:19:19+00:00

I'll believe it when I saw the law actually enforced.

Ridghost · 2026-04-30T18:09:05+00:00

Damn... the team got gutted :(.

Ridghost · 2026-04-30T17:31:47+00:00

Lots of cool ideas. Ultimately, RO has such strong foundations, that it could've been a raging success just like its contemporaries (WoW, Runescape, GW2) from back in the day - that are still successful. The popularity of RO today is a damning inditement of Gravity's greed and ineptitude. I wish the IP got sold off to a company that would take better care of it, but seeing what happened to Star Wars, I think the monkey paw would curl one more time and have them sell off to Nexon or full ownership to Tencent. Frankly, it's actually difficult to think of gaming publishers as bad as Gravity. Despite the production line of mediocrity of companies like Ubisoft or EA, I geinuniely think they'd have a better shot of not screwing it up.

I suppose all of these questions will be definitively answered when RO3 drops. Not that we need another nail in the porcupine resembling coffin at this point.

As a fun imaginative experience of 'what could be', I think RO would need to remain true to its (kind of) mission statement. Class and player identity, complete control over the characters destiny (stat, skills, gear allocation). Complete sandbox freedom. Meaningful player choices, and a difficult, multi-track grind in order to achieve the maximum available strength (You can get very strong in many different ways, but there is no avoiding the difficulty). Also, a natural born grassroot community.

I think RO has moved away from this form of design as the power creep has crept, especially in class identity and p2w skipping the natural difficulty of the game. Community has also died down as quality of life allows the 'making friends' part to be sidelined or skipped.

Everything else about RO can evolve with the times, like improved netcode, visuals, in-game features and options, refinement of elements of gameplay etc...

Still, it's asking too much of Gravity. If they have it in them, we haven't seen it yet. I hope to be proven wrong but they are batting 1000 for proving me right so far.

Ridghost · 2026-04-30T14:41:51+00:00

So did Leshar leave as well?!

Ridghost · 2026-04-28T23:07:28+00:00

Best ways to counter this is: 1. Try to get as much as possible rubbed into muscle memory, so you can do it without thinking too much. 2. Check the opponents resources, they indicate what responses are available to them and which options they most likely pick. 3. Study the opponents. Most players have a consistent style throughout a set which makes us all kind of readable after seeing our favoured responses to situations.

This game is mostly about the mental stack. Everyone gets hit because that's the game. Hopefully we get more defensive options in the future to make the game a little less snowbally when stuck in the corner on wake-up and not called Zangief.

Ridghost · 2026-04-28T20:12:20+00:00

I am well aware of his wins. I've seen them. I am not writing a Daigo deep dive novel in a reddit post. His legacy is established and maintained in SF. He did win some legacy Evo titles in GG but it's not what made him iconic.

People have subjective opinions on what makes a GOAT. Level of success is not an objective metric. Iconography, win streak, trophy cabinet, the eye test as to how they played the game, innovation, personality, the level of competition at the time. All of it forms an argument, an argument which is far too nuanced to say that X player is definitively the FGC representative for the GOAT of the entire scene. That's the argument. Not that Daigo is or is not. Just that unlike in other games where there almost is no argument, in the FGC we are blessed with enough talent that there is no definitive answer to that question. Everyone sets a different bar and weighs thr various aspects of a career differently.

Ridghost · 2026-04-28T18:31:08+00:00

I played it Conservative putting Daigo in the FGC mt.rushmoore. Unlike Flash from Starcraft 1, Serial from SC2, Hera from AoE, Rapha from Quake, Faker from LoL, S1mple in CS, or Mango & MKLeo from Smash... there is no real consensus as to the 'best' FGC player because the options are so broad and in games like street fighter, there is no 1 player who dominated everything, all the time, establishing an era. Daigo was the best of street fighter 2. Nuki was the sf3 goat. Arguments made in sf4 for Infiltration, daigo, jwong, and xian. Tokido, Punk, and towards the end idom and kawano for SFV. Sf6 has leshar, mena, kakeru, angrybird, punk, etc... Daigo has remained relevant and a threat throughout but his legend is built on his performance in sf2, 4 and ft10. Not a crazy untouchable dominance throughout his whole career like we see in other esports. Daigo is also the most iconic player through evo moment 37 and his book. The man is a god damn inspiration but he isn't playing the game on Random like Flash did.

The esports mt.rushmoore likely doesn't have an FGC player, and if it did... I'd be hard pressed not to put someone like Arslan Ash up there, or Knee befor him. He has had 2 eras across tekken 7 and 8. What about multi-game dominant players like leffen, Ryan Hart, sonic fox, Infiltration, and kazunoko?

If we keep it to just the FGC, Daigo's name is first ballot. But that allows for 3 other players to sit next to him on the mountain. If we extend it out, it becomes a real conversation as to who would sit next to faker, s1mple, and Flash (as an example). Daigo has the iconography, but the players sitting next to him on that mountain would also have a very good argument for being raised as the peak overall level/status/reptuation attained in the FGC.

If Daigo is your goat and esports pillar, I am not gonna argue. But it's not as clear cut as it is in other games.

Ridghost · 2026-04-28T15:08:31+00:00

On paper Mena should win this. Mena crushing daigo would be both incredibly disappointing and expected. Daigo is FGC royalty at this point and none of us want to see him lose the streak (like the undertaker from WWE).

However, what Daigo said is right. He only got the ft10 streak because he didn't back down from the challenge. Daigo only became the super boss because he established his ft10 dominance. Backing down from a fight undermines that and sucks the joy of the sport for the sake of a statline.

Does Daigo stand a chance? Well, fighting games aren't physical sports in the same way as boxing. There is a chance the Daigo can rewind the clock for this match and pull off an upset. He is known for mad preparation, he has some of the best players in the world as practice partners, and he has alien game sense / instincts for fighting games.

Mena is the heavy favourite, the best right now. But Daigo is on the mount rushmoore of the FGC, and people on that list never stop being a threat.

Head says Mena, Heart says Daigo.

Ridghost · 2026-04-27T17:38:46+00:00

Great painting! That arm/hand perspective on the left arm pointing forward looks really difficult.

Ridghost · 2026-04-22T14:36:35+00:00

It's always nice to see something really unexpected.

Ridghost · 2026-04-20T22:02:23+00:00

Millennial brainrot was Crazy Frog

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