u/Jimlad116

I assumed games on my SD card would take a little longer to start up, but there are times where I just get stuck on the spinning Steam logo forever. Restarting the steam deck usually works, but I have to do it again if I play another SD card game.

It's entirely possible I'm using a cheap SD card brand or format or something; I didn't know there were so many different types of SD card. Is there a particular SD card I should be looking for, or is this just normal performance?

I've always kind of orbited the SF community from afar. Grew up on SFII, played a bunch of SFIV with friends in college, and I bought SF6 when it came out because it seemed really fun and my boy Blanka looked really strong. I never went to tournaments but I was always comfortable with my low tier online play. When my daughter was born I hung the game up, deciding to play single-player games with the little free time I had left.

Lately I've been feeling the itch to start playing again, so I reinstalled and immediately started getting absolutely destroyed. I expected that, but even as a Bronze player this felt like I had lost something crucial. Ken players that loop fireballs and jump-ins were out-damaging me. I was ready to just uninstall again and walk away but I happened to see the Daigo and MenaRD matchup on YouTube.

Obviously, there's no way I would ever reach the level of skill displayed here, but MenaRD being a Blanka player lit a fire in me I didn't think was there anymore. He was using punish tactics that I was already doing. He wasn't looping long combos, but carefully outsmarting and punishing his opponent with one or two hits at a time. It was the exact Blanka strategy that I wanted to play.

I dunno, maybe this is just a too-long ramble from a 36 year old wishing he was as good as he was in college. I won't be, but I don't think my Street Fighter days are over yet.