u/Sneaky-iwni-

Just a little bit of foreword:

Tekken 8 has been my first entry into taking FGs seriously. Before that I only messed around on cabinets, spamming buttons against characters I didn't know. I decided to pick up Lidia because of how unique she felt: I'd played Lidia on a cabinet when I went to Japan and had fun, especially since I had a background in karate. So when I decided to finally pick up 8 during Season 2 it was obvious who to play.

I couldn't bring myself to really stop playing Lidia, mostly because I believed that I needed "a few hours" playing her before I moved onto a different character. It kinda devolved into only playing her non-stop.

Anyways, after the first few matches I decided to take it seriously: I joined Lidiacord, watched YouTubers like Sesujin, and kinda just obsessed about Lidia to the point that I did not learn any other character.

Turns out if you only learn one character you'll lose a lot (check that win rate out)! So eventually around Red I labbed a few characters I frequently saw—Mishimas, Steve, Law and the like. I looked at my replays to see what were the common moves, learned the counters, that was it. Granted I barely practiced, but eventually I got to Purple which is where I hung around for the majority of my hours, finally hitting Blue a few months ago.

I'd really like to blame lag for how bad my games were, which would be half-true. I could literally play against my neighbor and still have over 100 ping (I play on a laptop so I did test other places, all of them have the same results). It really frustrated me being unable to execute combos, fuzzy duck, or even just block after a jab. There was even one time that I raged so hard on a Fahkumram (which I fought for the first time) with McDonald's WiFi that I sprained my ankle.

I also despise how big the file size is. I had to make space for it and it really pushed my drive to its limits, even with mods to shrink it.

And the matchmaking, god. It takes me anywhere between 10 seconds to 10 minutes to find one game and some of them aren't even in the same continent. It's a cycle of no players, queue up laggy players, lose, repeat.

I'm not entirely sure but I'm pretty sure online matches are the reason I can't progress: I've gotten into a few local tournaments since and I've done well (or at least that's what the GoD+ players in my area say with fair criticism) so I'm quite convinced that if I had decent matchmaking I would actually improve rather than needing to QTE and predict hellsweeps.

Overall I really recommend casual players play Tekken 8, but getting seriously into it requires hours and years off your life. Anyways, Harada fix matchmaking please I've been queueing against the same five people 2,000 miles away

For context I've never played any Silent Hill game before and was very averse to horror in general but after a recent binge through a bunch of titles I really enjoyed the genre.

That was, until I opened this game.

What I used to consider scary did not do this game justice; from the start until the finish my heart rate was so high that I should've probably called my cardiologist.

While I did find Resident Evil 7 scary, it was a sort of "rational" fear, y'know with the people trying to kill you and all. But Silent Hill 2 just made me feel... off. I heard someone call it "exhausting" and that basically captures it—aside from the puzzles being nightmares the constant noise of the soundtrack, the visuals, the enemies, the fact that I don't play as a 49 year old with a one hit delete gun just made it so fucking... scary. Like, I didn't want to leave my room until it was light out again and couldn't sleep right after.

So uhm... yeah. That was just an eye-opener for me since most of what I consumed in terms of horror was watching playthroughs and Let's Plays, playing what some people (now including me) consider to be one of the scariest games of all time maybe wasn't the best idea as my first "real" horror game. The weird thing is I'm trying to find the next hit of horror-dopamine, so I guess this is me asking for recommendations?

Been a while since I posted a game video but after getting out of Ruler like a month and a half ago I took a break until Season 4 and got to Raijin two days ago. Second game as Raijin (first was against a Yoshi) and still a little rusty (you can see how many qcfs and inputs I botched) but hopefully you guys are entertained.