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I was SO excited to hear Christian's topic on Speedrunning today!
I am like him, not good at speedrunning (adhd sorry) but I LOVE watching it. I love watching Games Done Quick who has raised over $60 million for charity.

The guy he talked about Pannenkoek2012 is someone I INTERVIEWED back in 2015 before he became bigger. He figured out a way to clone things in Mario and he was just a kid then (Either high school or early college) and I talked to him about Mario 64 and how he did a lot of the stuff he did. I was trying to do a video game blog then and thought he would be fun to talk to and he was, although I mean he is very myopic about Mario 64, that's like ALL he wanted to talk about. I tried to get him to work on other games and he was good on that.

Also Speedrunning is very scientific. Especially when they find cheaters that make fake speedruns, they have to do like a full digital forensic analysis of the video. I don't know if you guys remember the Dream scandle when the VERY popular Youtube Dream ended up faking a world record. The video was analyzed by multiple mathematicians and statisticians and it ended up being SO improbable that the video was legit that it was basically impossible.

I think speedrunners have a fascinating task, but I do find the glitch hunters to have an odd an incredible skill set. These guys can break games after playing them for only a little bit. These are the type of people that game companies hire to test their games so their is a legit career path in it.

Anyways yeah I was so happy to hear Christian talk about this and I wouldn't mind hearing more about video games in the future if the topic as appropriate.

The truth is that I'm ADHD and have never been able to obsessively play as one character in one game against people. I feel like the fun of fighting games in the end is absolutely playing other humans no doubt, but simply LEARNING the mechanics of different characters and trying to figure out things on my own before looking them up is VERY rewarding!

I just love going into a game and picking a character I haven't played yet and seeing what they do. Trying to master the timing on a jump in into combo, then an IAD jump in, and then seeing if this wall bounces or what you can do at this certain point is SO fun to me. It's like a puzzle that you are piecing together.

For example right now I wanted to play City of The Wolves online (my current fave) but then I started thinking about Arcana Hearts and how I still haven't tried out a few of the Arcanas - so boom I'm in training mode and before I know it a few hours have gone by as I've been trying out all sorts of different fun stuff.

Anyways. I'm sure I'm not alone, but sometimes it's fun just to beat up a training dummy in so many different ways :)

I'm always the type who wants to play characters that are less popular to be unique. Because of this Takuma always appealed to me since he's not the young brash one (Ryo) or the sexy ladies man (Robert), nor is he a very old wise master type (Tung Fu). He's an older guy and he looks like a movie star.

Anyways how do YOU think of him? I don't know the full story but to me I feel like he's the most hands on in your face of the Kyokugen Karateka. He doesn't need the long range because when he gets in he's going to counter you and beat you up close range and end it by punching you VERY hard.

Like I feel like he must be physically the strongest of the lot. He also seems very conservative and traditional and simple with his classic hair cut and his simple white Gi.

I love that he's not as flashy because he can still beat your ass and doesn't need to throw flames or use psychic energy or dive kicks or spinning pile drivers. He's simple yet an effective killer.

What do YOU think when you hear Takuma?

I just got through Strange Journey, and now I'm going to play 3 and 4, I figured it would be many years until I played 5, but I saw the game was super cheap on Steam and I picked it up! Definitely it's the cheapest I've seen it so far.

I'm not too hard core with the pricing history so if this is a normal sale or someone has already posted this, well, sorry.

Now let's hope that the people that made Dragon Quest Builders and Pokemon Pokopia next make a game where you play as Jack Frost and have to round up Demons too help rebuild.

I finally got off 7Oh and kratom and thinks are getting smoother day by day but I feel like I've dug such a deep hole. All together I owe about $2500 that I pretty much BLEW in the past 4 months. The kratom was one thing in itself and I found good prices (Will not mention any stores do not ask), but the 7OH was so bad. My dumbass buying 50 dollar blister packs 7 days a week sometimes twice a day.

It's frustrating. I owe about $450 to the pawn shop to get some of my prize electronics like my PS4, my Tablet and my music synths. All things I commonly used to use. Then I maxed out a $1500 credit card I accepted knowing full well where it would go. I only make like $2600 a month and for me, I do love comfortably in an apartment I love. But it's all frustrating. Had anyone else gone through this? Any advice? At least I know I won't be spending my paychecks anymore on that stuff. Fuck.

Thanks

Title says it all. I was looking through my like...50 fighting games and I saw that I had sadly put only like 50 minutes into the final version of KOF98 since I bought it many years ago.

Just to be stupid I was like "Of course no one is playing this online" and I went in and.... No there were constantly people (It looked liked Chinese mostly) playing. I work until 2:30AM Mountain time so I have to play games like FF14 and fighters in the middle of the night/morning when no one is on but a lot of my Chinese brothers actually played with me and the rollback net code made the games actually playable! No it wasn't optimal but it wasn't really laggy or suffering from major rollback at all.

Anyways since I rarely ever play this particular KOF I wasn't nervous one bit because I knew I would get smoked. I got smoked.

First guy - I finally beat his Benny with my third character but any time he got in he would knock me in the air and super me out of the air. Damn

Last guy - he had the most brutal Orochi Chris that made me question if the character is even legal (joking) - Like he would cross me up, then I said "I'll block that next" then he would ROLL cross me up and when I adjusted to that he just threw me. I think I was dead within two combos . He's got some brutal combos where he punches you over and over with the purple flames that just got me feeling hella oppressed.

Anyway if you in America and wanna teach someone how not to die with Eiji and Leona and IDK Lucky Glauber or some shit let me know and we'll play!

Yesterday on Wrestling Observer Live the inaugural NJPW Strong Champion Filthy Tom Lawlor quickly mentioned that Tiger Mask is actually - you guessed it - a prick! Then he doubled down on it and said he had heard it from multiple people. I know it's just pointless wrestling scuttlebutt, however I do think it's a bit funny.

Of course certain wrestlers get this title like Austin Aries, EC3, Cima or Lo Ki but I had never heard Tiger Mask. I just think of him as a nice senior citizen wrestler (even though he's same age as Jericho) who has kind of been a low card guy since I started watching NIJPW in 2014. I mean he was above Captain New Japan but below Bushi I would say.

Anyways do you guys have ANYTHING? Any stories or other confirmation or do we just have to go on ole' Filthy's word?

TLDR; I'm playing online to combat my online anxiety like you guys recommended, but it hasn't gone without difficulties like feeling I'm wasting other players time or having bad adrenaline dumps. Also thank you this community is super chill compared to other fighting game communities.

A while back I mentioned that I used to play fighting games online a lot and I got really used to it. But I'm the years past I developed online anxiety. It helped when I would drink but I'm not doing that anymore.

So I've been playing online. My only two issues are that I feel ashamed for summer reason when I get beat by some one really nice. Like I wasted their time. Like this really nice person played me in the lobby and I apologized after some close losses.

Also I had a REALLY intense adrenaline dump playing ranked (I didn't actually care about my rank)... Like I was playing this sweaty Versusia and I just knew I was a more knowledgeable and less predictable player. But I couldn't tie it together and I lost 2 and won one. But in our last match it was SO close that my adrenaline peaked and I started shaking. I think it made me worse in the moment as I couldn't think straight. The shitty part is that when you dump that much adrenaline the feeling doesn't just automatically go away. I went and played Survival and I just couldn't I was still shaking a bit for about half an hour. Anyways I'll keep trying.

I'm also playing Eustace and he definitely has a pretty different feel from many other characters. He's just.... Different. Like you have to learn a specific way of playing (I know this is true for all characters but more so for Eustace and other characters that have a kind of gimmick).. With him I can't just jump in rush down and I have often found my self trying to fight close range a lot instead is giving myself space.

Anyways this is rambling and I want to say thank you to everyone for the support this community is really nice and friendly compared to other fighting game communities.

I was born in 86 and for a long time have been a retro enthusiast. Something I never hear Americans talk about it the ZX Spectrum. I always hear it with the UK Z pronunciation and sometimes called the Speccy. I just want to hear someone knowledgeable talk about it because I've never known a single person IRL that owned one.

How popular was this system in the UK and if anyone can help what are some of your favorite memories of the system? What were your favorite games and did you have expansions like a disk or tape drive that you plugged in? What was it in competition with? Was it more for gaming or more for other computer software?

From my outsider American perspective the console it self is one of the best looking I've ever seen. The font is awesome one it and the little rainbow is iconic to me even if I didn't know the system. While the color pallet was limited in games the graphics seemed pretty good for the time and much better than the black and green of other systems at the time.

Thanks in advance!

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TL;DR I love GBFV and have owned it since the original version released in 2020. I think it's one of the best fighting games ever, but I really struggle with online anxiety. Have you overcome this and if so, how? How do you feel when you lose and does it ever get to you?

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With Grand Blue I play all the single player stuff. I sit in practice mode for hours and read the strategy wikis and learn combos and beat the arcade mode with everyone, but I get really anxious when I play online. Not like panic attack or anything just like fearful. Of course I'm older and there were certain games I played a lot online like SFiii over GGPO, but that was 13 years ago and I was drinking a lot too. In fact the times in the past year I played online I would have to drink a lot of alcohol. And I don't do that anymore at all.

Anyways this weekend I told myself that I want to learn Eustace - I've thought he was awesome since he was released as DLC in like 2020 and I was having so much fun. I went to go play online and all I could see in my head was getting completely destroyed and the other playing tea bagging me. I could see me getting into a game and seeing the opponents player plate saying "Wins: 2,479 Losses: 4"

Like I even recognize that losing is learning in fighting games, but I've seriously just been a pussy when it comes to doing what I should do: Play online a LOT. I even think the game would become much more fun for me eventually but I keep being a total loser.

Has anyone dealt with this anxiety and overcome it? I think I'm going to force myself to try this weekend - and I KNOW I'll lose at some point because we all do - but how do you keep going when you lose (especially badly). Does it just not affect you? Do you get angry? Help me please because this is something I HAVE to get over. I'm really robbing myself of a great experience because of my stupid brain. It might sound really immature and stupid but just hearing other fans tell me that I can do it is a huge help.

( this might sound crazy but I've been playing fighting game since the 90s and I own like every major fighting game and tons of small time ones. You would think I would be WAY past this by now)

I have used 7O for 5 days in a row now. I've spent a RIDICULOUS amount of money and I'm ashamed and sad.
I've had substance abuse disorder for many years and I've had ups and down (At a few points I was able to remain 100% sober for years at a time). Recently I completely got off alcohol and things were really looking up but I stupidly tried the 7O which I found to be incredibly stimulating and euphoric.

Since Tuesday I have bought some ever day. Today I got up and told myself NO and I felt great with no withdrawal symptoms at all. And then at night I just gave into an imipulse and with no thought got up and rode my bike and bought some more.

I even told my support system what I was going through and that I don't want to do this anymore and I still did it. I woke up today feeling amazing. No withdrawals - energized and happy and I STILL went and got some

This is one of the more addicting drugs I've ever used and I know if I continue doing it I'm going to end up completely broke and rip through all the money I've saved for a vehicle and new glasses and getting my bike fixed.

I'm telling all of you right now that I DONT WANT to use this stuff ever again. My rational side knows that disaster is the only direction. My addictive side tries to block out these thoughts and just use it without any thought.

Tomorrow I go back to work, which is huge because I don't use things at work. But the stupid vape shop is just a 5 minute bike ride from my apartment and is open 24 hours - so after work I'm going to be in a very vulnerable position"

Please give me some things that I can read right when I get off of work to help me. Please let me know what you went through to stop using it. Advice, support, love and kindness or just relating to me are ALL things I need right now.

Thank you so much guys

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I quit drinking after it became a major physical stress a month ago but I've continued using kratom and started taking 7oh a few times a week. I recognize that there is a much better way to live my life and I'm ready to start the road to recovery. 7oh is out of the picture for good and I'm going to attempt to ween off the kratom. Thank you guys so much and even though it's hard doing this alone - we all have each other for support.

I was in the ER 5 weeks ago because I was feeling extremely confused and delirious. I missed a week of work from it and it didn't go away. The reason is obvious in hindsight: I was drinking 4 Mike's Harder 8% tall boys a night and eventually my liver was affected and I started accumulating ammonia in my body which affected my brain. Not drinking has been pretty easy because it was clearly affecting me negatively constantly

I was using kratom the entire span of my drinking (about 4 years - I was a "functional alcoholic" but over time I drank more and more each night). Anyways looking back I'm pretty sure that kratom was really just helping me feel less shitty each day. When I didn't have it I had really bad anxiety and my muscles ached and I was sad - when I got home from work those days I had no motivation to do anything fun. When I did have it I became talkative and friendly and work went by faster.

Since I got off the drinking I've continued to use kratom but a few things have led me back to knowing it's time to stop. One thing is that last weekend I wasn't able to get kratom and I was having negative thoughts the whole weekend. Nothing terrible just telling myself that I was bored and that nothing is that fun. I hate that my mind and body had been tricked into thinking that fun and laughter and energy and focus don't exist without this fucking powder. Secondly and maybe worse is that I impulsively tried 7OH and justified it as "well I'm not drinking so it's fine to try something else for fun."... Since then I've been doing it like twice a week and that stuff is WAY more intense than kratom and I'm sure the withdrawal and dependence are much more intense also.

Anyways the point is that I just know deep down I don't have to fucking live this way. It can only get worse from here and I don't want to be a person who can't afford something important because I blew it on manufactured happiness and energy. I don't want to have a bad weekend because I didn't get my 'fix'. 6 years ago I was on no drugs at all - nothing, and I was happy like all the time.

So yeah I'm back here and I really am thankful to all of this community for the support and love. My immediate goal starting tonight is 1) No more 7oh at all. Thankfully I didn't to it enough to have serious withdrawals but I don't want to fucking get there and spend all my fucking money for these stupid chewables. I don't want to be the weird dude in the headshop every day where the employees are asking me if I want 'the regular'. 2) starting this evening at work I'm going to cut my kratom intake in half. Instead of taking it before work and each of my three breaks in just going to take before work and at lunch. On Monday I'm going to use a smaller spoon. I'm going to try and get to the point where I'm taking such a laughably small amount that it's clearly not having any appreciative affect on me. And then I want to stop

I'll continue to post here when I feel down or like it's difficult. Deep down I am a strong person and I can fucking do this. Thank you all so much and I will do my best to support all of you as well.

-migrations

TL;DR Heroes of Might and Magic Olden Era for Gamepass on PC is fun and not so deep that seems impenetrable. Never played the old games but I wanna watch this one until it hits version 1.0. Check it out!

I've never played the old Heroes of Might and Magic, but I've always loved turn based tactical RPGs and I've always wanted to get into 4X games but they really intimidated me. While Olden Era is not really a tactical RPG or a 4X game per se, it definitely has enough of those genres in it's DNA for comparison.

Anyways I'm really enjoying the game so far. It's not nearly as complex and dense as a game like Total War Warhammer or Endless Legend 2 but that's a good thing. The game takes an afternoon to learn the systems and mechanics and after that you kind of pick up new stuff through the challenge tutorials and playing.

It's a very unique game and not hard to pick up and I find the combat system fun too, especially with the spells you can cast on the battlefield. Every hero you play as has unique traits and there are LOTS of stuff to build and upgrade. There are 6 factions to try out and they all have unique stuff going on.

If you have a PC and you like strategy games I really recommend it, especially because it's still in early access so hopefully it will get better as time goes by.

Any old school Heroes fans here that have tried it out? Is it like the old games or is it a pretty decent break from the formula? Anyone playing online? I'm afraid I'm going to get destroyed. Have a good day yall!