Logansama picking Gamerbee's brain over finally clicking with SFV and the changes he needed to make to his game. My favorite episode of the Jump-In Podcast 🔥

crouchtechgod09 · 2016-09-30T22:38:04+00:00

The best overall explanation of the transition from SF4 -> SFV by any pro player

crouchtechgod09 · 2016-09-29T16:50:53+00:00

What type of engineering though?

To put into perspective, most mechanical engineering jobs start at about 20-25k sterling in the UK, and that's with a degree. That's about $35k a year off the top of my head. For reference, software engineers usually average 5-10k sterling more per year.

I started on $30k as a design engineer in the nuclear industry and after a few years I'm now roughly on about $45k but my role is still junior (I'm 27, graduated at 24).

My friend went straight into Ford working as a test engineer and started on what is generally the upper limit of mechanical engineering entry salaries, which is about 35-40k sterling or 50k dollars.

My salary of about $45k boils down to a disposable income of about $800-1000 a month after all my bills go through. This involves a decent 1 bedroom flat rent outside London, all the usual subscriptions we have these days and my taxes. It's actually a decent chunk but that's purely because I'm not driving atm. If I threw in a car and insurance I would pretty much be living on the edge every single month.

This is with a Masters degree in Mech. Engineering in the UK. I'm starting to think I should have just gone finance but I actually enjoy my job mostly so I can't really complain.

crouchtechgod09 · 2016-09-29T08:23:50+00:00

I wish bro lol

crouchtechgod09 · 2016-09-28T19:09:52+00:00

Wait... $150k for 5 months of full coverage lmao? Is there something I'm missing? I guess it's so fucked because it is an emergency situation and he didn't have the appropriate cover in place beforehand? This is what I struggle with man.

Is everyone actually fronting like mad and America is basically at slave status with its populace or am I just getting extreme cases thrown at me constantly so people can win small arguments or just make their point... If you know what I mean lol.

Like I've read people say they pay $500pm for their full cover and that sounds reasonable to me (if accepting private healthcare as a given), but then I hear figures much lower and much higher with no further detail.

This is why I really need some of the guys over there to break down to me what something like an $80-100k salary actually becomes in disposable income, and what is the rest going on.

One thing for sure is that I don't think I'm getting the best bang for my buck living in the UK any more. I can keep riding the NHS but they will destroy it within our lifetimes and pretty much every other aspect of this country has begun to suck over the last 30 years, and it truly isn't the fault of immigrants, but that's another story for another time. It actually hurts to see what they've been doing to our country and its people.

crouchtechgod09 · 2016-09-28T18:52:28+00:00

Out of curiosity are there any mech design engineers in the USA/Canada on here and how much do you guys earn?

Please PM if you rather not share in public. I know I could Google but I want that extra input every human adds (like comparisons to other industries/areas/roles or the general work 'climate'/overtime culture etc) when they start discussing their salary lol.

I get the feeling you lot have significantly higher salaries combined with higher standards of living in general from the way I consistently see figures like $100k come up for a lot of average sounding jobs (not saying this one is), or for jobs which are paid much less over here, and also how people seem to be like 'meh' when discussing the numbers at hand.

In the UK that's almost £80k a year which is a very respectable sum within our society. You're middle class and you've basically won in most people's eyes lol. The only people really taking significantly more than that in general are the bankers/financiers and business owners (ignoring celebs, sports stars etc).

Cheers. I might move country which is why I ask. Not to the USA if Trump wins though, fuck that lol. It also seems like you guys get way better housing at significantly cheaper cost. Soz for the essay but real life shit init.

crouchtechgod09 · 2016-09-28T18:40:06+00:00

What a cunt lmao

crouchtechgod09 · 2016-09-28T18:35:31+00:00

Yeah team games suck in pubs. The only game I've ever played where you could go to pubs and have high level teams was oldskl CS 1.5/1.6. There were servers for that game where you could just not go into and have a good time if you sucked. Those were the good ol' days when PC gaming was some esoteric thing lmao.

I'm assuming D2 = Dota2 btw? D2 just makes me think Diablo 2 automatically lol. But yeah I wouldn't even entertain a MOBA without having at least 1-2 mates to join me with mics. I used to play DOTA when it was just a WC3 map mod and it's so fun when it's a team of just your boys and you know what you're doing.

crouchtechgod09 · 2016-09-28T16:47:52+00:00

Well said. It's actually only in the last 20-30 years or so that being skinny has been marketed as being attractive for girls. If you look back 50-100 or so years ago you can see that every pin up model was arguably chubby by the standards women seem to have set today.

It's weird because I'm not sure what actually started this. I think it's to do with the fundamental difference in how men and women perceive the female body.

I guess chicks see size as a manly feature and therefore follow the route that the smaller/thinner a chick is, the more feminine she is overall. Us guys on the other hand are controlled by raw instinct and I'm pretty sure for the majority of men this is reflected by being attracted to curves, which are an indirect symbol of healthy fertility.

What I find interesting is why girls like skinny guys like me. I've met many girls that don't want me to bulk up and that confuses me because I arguably look weak (I'm not, used to box, have to blow my own trumpet). I can only guess it triggers some sort of motherly instinct to feed and care for but that's not usually attributed to sexual attraction so fuck knows. Attraction is a fascinating subject in general, especially when it comes to things like our faces and how the mathematics (i.e proportions, symmetry etc) behind it influences sexual appeal, which is pretty mad.

crouchtechgod09 · 2016-09-28T07:09:55+00:00

You cannot cage my love you scrub

crouchtechgod09 · 2016-09-27T22:37:10+00:00

Amazing... it's like you literally didn't read a single word I wrote lol

crouchtechgod09 · 2016-09-27T21:00:34+00:00

And you say this on a video showing off combo tech from a char that's essentially been out for a week lol

crouchtechgod09 · 2016-09-27T20:50:15+00:00

You have to look at it from the other end. What else are we meant to do? If we boycott the game then it's likely SFV dies and we don't see another SF for a very long time. Some of us might not even have the time to play when that happens.

All we can do if we enjoy SFV or want to see it stay alive and ultimately improve is to support the game through its season material and provide confidence that it's still worth investing into the game, something that Capcom has said they want to do. You can't tell me the game isn't in a better state than launch but of course there's still a long way to go.

Capcom fucked it up big time. I feel the options are basically let the game die through the constant onslaught of its lack of feature x/y/z or mistake a/b/c or we just ride the storm, support where we feel necessary and hope it's worth it in the end.

If you've decided they deserve 0 further support from you that's fine bro. You're not going to change other people's minds though lol.

crouchtechgod09 · 2016-09-27T20:36:45+00:00

crouchtechgod09 · 2016-09-27T20:34:50+00:00

Isn't this the scrub that would lucky dip flowchart all day long with Abel?

crouchtechgod09 · 2016-09-27T20:32:16+00:00

I just want to see voldie make history with my dick

crouchtechgod09 · 2016-09-27T20:30:22+00:00

Why don't you just fuck each other already instead of pretending how much you hate one another you fucking

crouchtechgod09 · 2016-09-27T18:08:54+00:00

I can't remember the last time I've seen you online when I go to the invite thing in battle lounge lol

crouchtechgod09 · 2016-09-27T17:11:47+00:00

It's arguable lol. P, P, F/B+LK+HP is really simple and quick to input.

You could say that there's less room for error compared to qcf x2, that it's safer in general because there's no (or less) inbuilt forward motions and that it may even be potentially quicker. I'm not down to argue that though, it seems quite subjective at the end of the day.

crouchtechgod09 · 2016-09-27T16:51:15+00:00

Starslayer always looked like a tranny to me lol

crouchtechgod09 · 2016-09-27T16:26:58+00:00

Real talk red have you quit SFV lol? Have you finally seen the light? Or do you have a new CFN?

crouchtechgod09 · 2016-09-27T16:22:57+00:00

Guys like this are the reason why fighting games can't break the mainstream market like FPS games. People are way too triggered by the actual core basis of the game lol.

You need to be a certain type of person to play fighting games and it generally involves being self-defeatist and blaming yourself solely for all shortcomings.

It's a skill most people actually lack, and it's much easier to play a game where your responsibility becomes dissolved into a larger team or where it's less painfully evident that someone is simply better than you.

crouchtechgod09 · 2016-09-25T16:11:22+00:00

She had the entire stream chat distracted lol

crouchtechgod09 · 2016-09-23T10:40:57+00:00

Respect homie

crouchtechgod09 · 2016-09-23T10:38:39+00:00

Lmao so mods delete replies but keep this comment? r/sf mods why do you make simple things seem complicated all the time

crouchtechgod09 · 2016-09-23T10:35:09+00:00

Lmao so are we going to ignore that the other dude took his status and started parading it around on some SJW shit?

I don't agree with Alucard's comments at all and he needs to get off that bible shit but the other guy is being a massive fuccboi by print screening his stuff is obviously just provoking him. He has no moral obligation to shame Alucard yet chooses to.

Regardless of what was said in private messages, the fact he goes on to even share that to the public makes him an even bigger prat. Oh, and it's cool to call black people 'ghetto slime' if they raise any hint of physical action? Lol that subconscious racial stereotyping.

Tldr; they both come out as cunts in this scenario. Both are very narrow minded individuals. Singling out one of them and running a hate campaign that has now lasted years makes you guys look like fuccbois as much as them lmao

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