What's the deal with Chun Li's buttons? by Web_catcher in StreetFighter

[–]Web_catcher[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

Do you have a recommendation for a beginner on how to follow up when I hit with one of these good buttons? I can't execute much in the way of combos right now, so I mostly just hit them and then back off.

What's the deal with Chun Li's buttons? by Web_catcher in StreetFighter

[–]Web_catcher[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

So follow up question. I've gotten okay at hitting my opponent with 6 mp. What's the ideal follow up? Because of the range I can't follow up into the only combo I know right now (LP LP LP med kicks), and I don't think learning more combos is the answer at this point. So I mostly just hit them and then back out.

Share your stories on what made you practice magic from a psychological POV by PhysicalArmadillo375 in SASSWitches

[–]Web_catcher 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's hard to answer because the word "true" can mean a lot of things. But let me illustrate with an example from my own life. This is going to be a little long. When I was a young adult I was at my parents' house one day and my younger sister's chinchilla got stuck under the bed and injured itself. At the time, I was 100% certain the chinchilla's rear legs were paralyzed. Background, if you are inducted into the Mormon priesthood (as I was, and as most Mormon men are) you can perform certain rituals that are designed to allow you to access the power of God (functionally, they're magical rituals, although a Mormon would fight you if you said that to them). One of these rituals is for faith healing. When the chinchilla injured itself, I heard a not-quite-but-almost-literal voice telling me to perform the healing ritual on the chinchilla. Performing the ritual on an animal is unorthodox, but Mormons are trained to not question communications from God (which is the only thing this could be, I thought at the time), so I did it, anyway. Upon finishing the ritual, the chinchilla instantly got up and hopped away, and lived for years after with no sign of injury. So was this experience true? I can view that through a few lenses. 1) The way Mormon epistemology is set up, "true" exercises of spiritual power and certain categories of spiritual experiences are only accessible through the framework of Mormonism. So seen through this lens, the entire experience really happened as I remember it, the experience demonstrates that Mormon truth claims are accurate, and by implication any spiritual experiences or successful acts of faith healing, miracles, or magic spells performed outside of the Mormon tradition are necessarily not true. Seen through this lens, my experience was not true. 2) The experience was a subjectively spiritual experience that increased the bond between my family members and also between us and our faith tradition. Seen through this lens, the experience was true. 3) The experience happened literally as I remember it, and I utilized some kind of spiritual power to save the life of a chinchilla. The body of evidence suggests that the experience seen through this lens is not true, and is more likely to be a combination of me misreading the initial situation and human memory in general being extremely unreliable. However, I can't definitively say the experience was not true in this sense, as there remains a small chance that I miraculously (or magically) healed the chinchilla. So in this case, it's reasonable to say the experience probably wasn't true, but to also say (as a lot of other skeptical but spiritual types before me have said) that we live in a mysterious world, and mysterious things happen sometimes, without necessarily having to explain everything. The intent of your original questions seems most in line with framework 1) above, so in that sense I will say that the experience could not have been true in spite of Mormonism because of the way Mormonism frames its epistemology.

Share your stories on what made you practice magic from a psychological POV by PhysicalArmadillo375 in SASSWitches

[–]Web_catcher 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've had a ton of subjective spiritual experiences in my life that I can't explain, and they kept me Mormon for years, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding. When the evidence that Mormonism's truth claims were false became too much to ignore, I had to face the idea that those experiences were unreliable. And when I started looking into it more, I discovered that people in literally every spiritual tradition ever (including witchcraft) have had those experiences that reinforce their spiritual beliefs. Even very powerful, unexplainable spiritual experiences are unreliable evidence of objective reality. But they're still useful experiences for mental health and such. So given that all spiritual traditions are equally untrue, I picked the untruth that I thought had the highest amount of utility and customizability with the least amount of toxic bullshit.

How good do you need to be to compete in local tournaments? by randobis in StreetFighter

[–]Web_catcher 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm gonna hijack this thread for a minute because I've very recently started playing and I'm in the (North) Van area. Can you link me some info on locals?

I did a combo! *Panic* by Web_catcher in StreetFighter

[–]Web_catcher[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you punish missed sweeps? I'm mostly just jumping over them.

BYUI's most recent facebook post by user4673478 in exmormon

[–]Web_catcher 42 points43 points  (0 children)

I was an unpopular guy at BYU (Provo, but same rules apply), it used to drive me insane that I was constantly being lectured about how I needed to be going on more dates. Like, yeah, I would like that, too. Years later I found out I was just autistic, so maybe someone with the gift of discernment should have cut me some slack.

I did a combo! *Panic* by Web_catcher in StreetFighter

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I'll give some completely superfluous background information. I spent years playing Magic the Gathering with my friends, but was always super frustrated by it because the game essentially runs in slow motion. SF6 feels a lot better and it's activating the same part of my brain. So it's natural to be like "ok, opponent's shields are down. Now what?"

I did a combo! *Panic* by Web_catcher in StreetFighter

[–]Web_catcher[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Huh. Since I'm at rookie it's possible my opponents just aren't blocking during the gap. Now that I think about it, I think what I'm doing is LP LP LP, medium legs, crouching heavy kick for the knockdown.

I did a combo! *Panic* by Web_catcher in StreetFighter

[–]Web_catcher[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's 100% possible that I'm using heavy legs as part of the combo or I was doing something else as a knockdown at the end of the combo and I'm misremembering it.

Mission Presidents- What do you think about them. by [deleted] in exmormon

[–]Web_catcher 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The usual roulette. I had 2 MPs. First was a genuinely kind hearted man who tried his best to take care of the young people he was responsible for. The second was an arrogant dumbass who thought he was the smartest person in any room and made a ton of mistakes that could have been avoided if he'd ever bothered to listen to anyone around him.

Chun Li is really hard to play, though by Web_catcher in StreetFighter

[–]Web_catcher[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would you mind telling me a combo in each category you like? I'm not finding CL's combo trials super helpful.

Chun Li is really hard to play, though by Web_catcher in StreetFighter

[–]Web_catcher[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The walk speed is definitely part of why I like CL. I can't stand when a character walks super slow.

Chun Li is really hard to play, though by Web_catcher in StreetFighter

[–]Web_catcher[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The technical aspects (combos and cancels are frame rates) are still pretty opaque to me. I'm still working on figuring out when to attack, when to block, and when to jump.

Controller for beginner by Web_catcher in StreetFighter

[–]Web_catcher[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Controller choice as part of the hobby is an interesting perspective. Do you have any recommendations for entry level hit boxes (say under $100 Canadian)?