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Tournaments and Events / Re: Palomino Urban Nights #18 - Las Vegas, NV - 10/22/11

« on: October 13, 2011, 07:08:50 PM »

Cool beans.  Gonna mash that Kouma some, but unfortunately have to practice solo/against Joenell.  Not gonna be able to go to the get together tomorrow.

Edit: It would have been nice to play some more Jewpuncher, even if our matches end up being GRAPPLE BATTLES.  It's funny, not very often do I get to play someone who has the same taste in fighting game charas as I do.

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Regional Community / Re: Melty Vegas and Evo Thread

« on: August 01, 2010, 03:03:39 PM »

August 14th, eh?  My older bro's birthday is the day before that, so he'll probably do something on Sat.  If not, then I'd be down for some Melty if someone is willing to run it.  I have no idea how brackets work, else I'd run it myself (also I'd need a ride coughcoughimahobocough...)

I really want to try Arcana some more before I really decide if I like it enough, even though I did find the character I'd like to main already.  That flying/homing mechanic is really weird.  Cool, but weird.

I'm already super hype for KOFXIII, so whenever that shit comes out, I'll be on that for sure.

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Regional Community / Re: AZ - Welcome to DESERT COAST.

« on: May 12, 2010, 02:09:51 AM »

AZ was hype, thanks for being so hospitable you guys.  It was a little hard opening up as usual, but it was fun and I learned A LOT from playing you guys.  I'll put it to good use and hope you do the same.  Hopefully next time, super armor won't be the only thing that'll make you frustrated with F-Kouma.

(Bell knows what I'm talking about  )

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Regional Community / Re: Melty Vegas and Evo Thread

« on: May 12, 2010, 02:01:26 AM »

Hey guys.  I don't know what the word is on the meet-up this week, but I've a feeling I won't be able to make it this time.  After getting home from AZ, that morning when I went to work I did my usual - bought some breakfast at JitB since there wasn't time for much else (and there's never food in my house these days), and lo and behold none of it stayed in me.

I've been sick for 3 days, the only one I actually was at work for some time was Sun - which I stayed until 1pm (when my shift ends at 8).  I also neglected to take advantage of the shift bid that hit the floor recently so my schedule's not changing anytime soon.  I've been meaning to post/call but tonight is the first time I've been awake and not in the bathroom long enough to do so.  Being heavily medicated sucks balls - I miss the days when you could stay home sick and play videogames all day.

Anyway, so I'm taking this weekend off.  Gonna rest some more and hopefully I'll earn enough vacation time to take Evo AND Devastation off, if not then I'll just set it up for Evo and you guys will have to rep Vegas @ Devastation without me.

Weekend of June 20 for Devastation, right?  I'm gonna put in my vacation requests pretty soon.

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Regional Community / Re: Melty Vegas and Evo Thread

« on: April 15, 2010, 07:56:52 PM »

Adonis, unless you're looking to start driving and buy a car soon, I won't be able to drive you anywhere cept on sat-sun, as per my work schedule.

How often do you get to bid for shifts?

While getting a car and becoming my own vehicle of destruction IS in my plans of The Adonis Reformation Act (yeah, I've been doing A LOT of thinking lately) I don't forsee that happening any time soon.  I will need to rely on you for transportation, if that's okay.  I intend on helping out via food/gas as much as possible, since that possibility grew from .009 percent to a holycowyoucanbuythingsagain percent.

Shift bids haven't hit us yet, and actually, this weekend is dead to me as I'll be working all the way through Sat.  My temp schedule (for the next week, that's how temporary it is) is Tue-Fri, with this coming Sun-Mon off.  Aside from this shift bid, I've been informed that ANOTHER ONE will show up a month after we've started, since that's when the training class after us has hit the floor.

So Sat-Sun it is, if they're offering it.  Having Sat off takes priority from Sun I can assume?

EDIT: That reminds me, my temp shift (which starts Sat) for me is at night!  Loli, if you want to come by anytime soon (starting this Friday) I won't need to sleep right away so we can hang and stuff after work.  (Sun I need to visit my mom, though, she's in the hospital)

EDIT EDIT:

Level 0, (a.k.a. Adonis, a.k.a. Mid-Boss)

I'm seriously considering changing my name again.

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Kouma Kishima / Re: MBAA: F-Kouma Thread

« on: April 14, 2010, 06:08:13 PM »

Made changes to j.214 and j.22.  All about Kouma's air options.   

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Regional Community / Re: Melty Vegas and Evo Thread

« on: April 14, 2010, 05:34:27 PM »

Yo, sorry if anyone has been trying to get a hold of me or is wondering where the fuck I disappeared to (again, sorry Loli).  As has been mentioned elsewhere, I've been working at my new, totally awesome job.  I've been hard at work learning new shit to be sure my job will be secure, which involved learning a lot of shit on my own time.  In fact, I should be filling out my W4 right now, but I've been lurking here everyday and it's about time I spoke up.

Of course this has cut into my practice time, but I have been diligently watching kaimaato vids and visualizing my setups when I can.  If I can't practice my hands, I'll practice my mind.  I know that I have a bad habit of picking up new games (hey PKMN HeartGold) and getting distracted (Muramasa can I has your babies) but I'll do my best to keep my focus so I practice often.  I really want to win, you guys.  I'm hungry.

That said, shift bids will be coming up soon.  Priority will be given to the top scorers of our tests, and so I've already laid my BigSexy^TM love juice all over that.  I'm pretty much guaranteed any shift they offer me.  What days do I need to keep open?  It seems like Fri-Sat are the best bet, but idk if I should grab a Sat-Sun off day schedule instead.  Or maybe some four-tens if they're there?  What do you guys think?

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Kouma Kishima / Re: MBAA: F-Kouma Thread

« on: April 06, 2010, 03:51:20 AM »

F-Kouma's most difficult matchups, for me, is anyone whose game relies on distancing.  Having 22 reflectors and 421 dashing really alleviates this, but F-Kouma gets all his damage from being in your face.  If at any moment you lose pressure against someone like Aoko or Roa, things will go really bad for you really fast.

I apologize for the lack of info on this thread - I wanted to test out some other stuff first, and then recently started a new job which is taking its toll on me. (I haven't had work for several years now, it's going to take some time to get used to it)  As I mentioned in the first post, feel free to add what you can to this thread!  I can see there's a lot of stuff in the first post I need to fix now - like the true usefulness of j.214 - because I'm still really getting a feel for F-Kouma.  From what I understand, he's popularly known because he has manliness grabs, but as far as players who actually use him as a main - they are few and far between.

Don't forget there's also the wiki, which is http://mbaa.mizuumi.net/index.php/Kouma_Kishima.

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Akiha's Tea Room / Re: Well, it's that time again

« on: April 04, 2010, 06:42:43 PM »

Any of you Working Designs fans play Popful Mail on Sega CD?

Oh man, what a great game.  It's like WonderBoy in Monster World but hilarious.  I never finished it, though - something unspeakable happened to my save and I haven't gone back to start it again.  The dialogue in that game is kinda strange, though - I showed the opening to my younger brother once and he was like   

Somehow this reminded me of Discworld also.  That game was hilarious, but I could never stick with point-and-click adventure games long enough - I always run into a rut when the "non-logical" puzzle appears and I just lose interest.  When I think about it, the only p'nc adventure game I ever finished was Police Quest.

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Melty Blood Auditorium / Re: best character for a beginner?

« on: April 04, 2010, 06:18:54 PM »

If you have terrible execution you could play KOUMA, or someone that uses a simple launcher j.bc j.bc air-throw combo.

As long as you're not talking about F-Kouma, yeah.  Maybe it's just me, since I don't "know" any other characters and am still really learning F-Kouma, but his simplest bnb - 2A 2B 2C 6C j.[C] j.[C] (land) 623A/B - is pretty tough if you're just learning the game.  The j.[C] has to be at the exact moment you jump, not before or even a moment after, otherwise you risk it not connecting or worse - not getting it to show at all.  And since F-Kouma can't jump cancel anything except j.[C], you don't have much choice but to learn how to do it right.  Very frustrating.

I used to play Wara in MBAC and C-Wara is pretty much the same - the reason being is that one of his best combos are brain-dead easy. (stuff into 2C 6C j.C j.C 421C or Airthrow)  He's got a great anti-air, his tornadoes kick ass, and once you get his basics down he has summons to make things even harder for his opponent.  As Irysa said, IAD's are a must at high level play; however, my opinion is that the point of beginner-friendly characters is to have a good basis that is easy to learn, and then have a deeper game that one must strive to master.  I think C-Wara is a pretty good place to start, especially if you prefer villain personalities.

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Regional Community / Re: Melty Vegas and Evo Thread

« on: April 04, 2010, 05:47:26 PM »

That was fun.  I gotta stop fighting with my face and start playing in a smarter manner, plus practice.  I can't believe how much I lost from not practicing for about two weeks. =_=

Macc, it was fun playing against your Roa.  Made me really work those 421 dashes just to get in, and was really effective in nullifying my newfound obsession with air movement.

Lolisauce - I hope that random 5[C] that failed was caught on video.  That was so hilarious and weird, I'd love to see it again just to confirm that it was my A-Armor that screwed it up.  Why does weird shit happen every time we lock horns?

I gotta keep practicing.  Got a long way to go before I can become a real boy Kouma.

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Akiha's Tea Room / Re: Well, it's that time again

« on: March 18, 2010, 07:43:14 PM »

Fuck shit god damn. I played Dokapon tonight.. 1v1 against the CPU is a bad idea. As soon as she got 2 towns I was fucked. I eventually just reset when she had 12 towns and I had 1.

This is the reason that I didn't play this game for nearly a month after I got it.  I tried playing it by myself with 3 cpu's on the easiest setting to get a feel for the game.

Instead the game got a feel for the inside of my ass.  Died 4 times in 3 weeks, 2 of those deaths were the CPU killing me to stop me from getting a town, and by the end of the 4th week, they had control of the entire first continent.  I almost had one, but the CPU got an AMAZINGLY lucky roll (it's that one town in the top-right corner that's hard to get to) and killed me before I could finish the boss.

Once I got to play it with someone else, though, that game stole my heart.  And pretty much everyone else who's ever played it with me.

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Regional Community / Re: Melty Vegas and Evo Thread

« on: March 18, 2010, 07:17:56 PM »

Definitely going to that 4/3 tournament, god willing.  I gotta practice them rekkas more, and start using 5A to whiff into 214 like a real man does.  I really should pick up a secondary, but Kouma is just...  too manly.  I can't resist him.     And maybe not show people my pokeymans so much.

Good to see you, eromonsta.  Your nick reminded me about a doujin I was supposed to look up but had forgotten about.

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Akiha's Tea Room / Re: Well, it's that time again

« on: March 07, 2010, 02:13:01 PM »

I hate grinding, yet I've played more MMOs than I'd like to admit to.

I think it's safe to say that sometimes, even grinding can be fun.  For me, it depends on things like whether there's significant proof that it works, or if the grinding itself is done in an enjoyable way.  For example, grinding for experience can be fun if you enjoy the battle system.  Or grinding out combos are fun if the increase in execution proves to increase success in competitive play.

EARTHBOUND

OMG EARTHBOUND 

Also NMH is awesome as hell, even though yeah, a few things are kinda buggy.  Suda51 is a goddamn genius.

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Akiha's Tea Room / Re: Well, it's that time again

« on: March 05, 2010, 10:53:48 PM »

Terrafirma (Some game for the SNES.)
The Legend of Zelda: OoC

I could give you some more games but not sure what genres your into.

1) Do you mean Terranigma?  Enix's totally awesome action/adventure/way better than Zelda game?  Because YES.
2) OoC?  Maybe OoT?
3) Doesn't matter what genre we're into, you should say what game and if we haven't heard it, I'm sure someone will be like "wtf is THIS shit?" and then you can explain.  Besides, I bet you could mention something random like Circus Charlie and at least half the people here would recognize it.

Quest 64

Quest 64? Broke as hell.

I concur.

Quest 64 had a battle system I had never seen before, so I loved that game.  And since it was easy, my simple mind could play it and still win.  But, yeah, it's pretty broke.  Kinda want to play it again, though.

MS4 is the one with the escape ending that I always fail.

You fucker!  Yeah, I remember that.  Goddamn, why can't you just jump instead of trying to blow those blocks up.  You grew up on platformers, jumping should be natural for you!  I still haven't seen good ending on that one because of that shit.

I have...    I'll be sure to put my Mega-skills to work next time, if we ever try that one again.  (Also, blowing shit up is WAY manlier)

MS4 was released during SNK's Jesus Saga.

That explains a lot.  Considering this, I'm happy MS4 turned out as well as it did.

I like MS4 because of the fat model chick with pink hair who replaced Eri.

~gasp~ BLASPHEMY.

j/k.  I thought the characters they added were kinda neat, but I would have like them more if they hadn't, you know, REPLACED TARMA AND ERI WITH THEM.  (Even though Tarma and Fio are my favorites)

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Akiha's Tea Room / Re: Well, it's that time again

« on: March 04, 2010, 11:02:48 AM »

MS4 is the one where you turn into monkeys, and Tarma and Eri were replaced by some other guys that aren't even relevant in the MS series anymore.  This should help you remember it better, though, Lolisauce -

MS4 is the one with the escape ending that I always fail.

Maybe I should play that one more so I can not be so lame when that pops up, but I didn't find 4 as fun as the other ones.  It did have that motorcycle scene though, which was pretty cool.  The combo system was neat, but it was executed kinda poorly.  MSXX has a similar one that works worlds better, and that's after ignoring the combos for idk how many years.

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Akiha's Tea Room / Re: The DFO Thread (aka Poverty Fighter Online)

« on: March 03, 2010, 01:03:01 PM »

I haven't played in some time since my little brother never wants to play anymore.  I don't know if I'll go back to it, but I had a lot of fun playing it.

Lv.18 or something Grappler : PadWarrior

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Akiha's Tea Room / Re: Well, it's that time again

« on: March 03, 2010, 12:51:46 PM »

Yeah, the train is in 2.  That stage is so fun, bikers below and jets above.  MS3 is awesome, too, but I've always loved 2 more because even though it's hard, it's not impossible to one coin.  All of the other ones has at least one boss that has a pattern that seems impossible to avoid.

MS3 is definitely a close second, though.  It just takes everything awesome about 2 and blows it the hell up.  Plus that last boss is so amazing.

Damn, I'm bringing my Wii next time we hang out.  I wanna play those now.

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Akiha's Tea Room / Re: Well, it's that time again

« on: March 03, 2010, 01:00:40 AM »

Man, these games are all pretty badass.  Castlevania 3 I never really got into, even though I revisit the very original every couple of years.  I love the Metroidvanias, and have played pretty much every Castlevania ever - just not to completion.  It's my greatest failing, one Lolisauce picks at whenever I tell him I'm playing the games below.

Crystalis.  The game was just made really well, and really forces the player to approach the game like a puzzle.  Just don't play the raped/beaten/abused/molested/deflowered/left-dead-in-a-ditch Game Boy Color version.  The only real complaint anyone can have is that some monsters can't even be hurt unless you hit the required experience level, to which I say - wtf slow down, this game is meant to be enjoyed, not swallowed.  Seriously, I hit the level cap two dungeons before the end and I skipped an entire required dungeon by accident.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1xmB79Sn4M (This guy gets handled a lot for someone doing a walkthrough)

Kid Icarus.  It's shameful that I keep playing this game over and over, but I love it so much.  It's got action, it's got platforming, it's got dungeons to get lost in, and it has the two most annoying enemies in history - that screaming witch and the Eggplant Wizard.

Megaman 2.  Pure rose-colored glasses.  This game isn't really that amazing, I just know it by heart since it's the first MM I ever played and it's design is only (r)aped in every version after it, instead of improved upon like the Metroidvanias.

Vectorman gets an honorable mention, even though I don't replay it yearly.  Megaman + the ability to shoot up?  

I've been wanting to revisit Viewtiful Joe, also, but it's hard when I want to play Godhand even more.  If you told me two years ago that another action game would dethrone VJ for me, I would have slapped you.

Edit: ALMOST FORGOT.

METAL SLUG! 2!

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Regional Community / Re: Melty Vegas and Evo Thread

« on: March 02, 2010, 11:29:08 PM »

Also the one guy's name is actually MANLINESS.

Fixed.   

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Regional Community / Re: Melty Vegas and Evo Thread

« on: February 23, 2010, 09:01:20 PM »

Burnt Toast sounds tasty, I'll have to see if I can afford it.  They'll probably be like "you better win some fucking money" and I'll be like "..."

Is this the same deal as before?  $30 for gas?  (I saw entry will be $12 - 7 to get in and 5 per game, BUT THE ONLY GAME I CARE ABOUT IS MELTY  )
I know if I can't make it, the same will go for Oni, so here's hoping.

This weekend is probably a no-go for me, my older brother is supposed to be moving, so I'll be helping him.  If that changes, you'll know because I'll be 421-ing my way over.  (Kouma DASH)

Combining groups sounds good to me, if my vote counts I say DO IT.

This could potentially mean that our community would have alot of Melty beasts running around and we would have lots of variety so no one can catch us off guard.

THIS.


And Paine, good to see you on here.  You shouldn't have to be on here all the time - that's what watching topics is for.

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Regional Community / Re: Melty Vegas and Evo Thread

« on: February 14, 2010, 08:31:25 PM »

BB:CS?  You don't mean BB:CT?  Damn, I would have liked to see CS in person, but I'm sure I'll see it eventually.

Also, Sammy was doing surprisingly well for just his second day playing.  He was still hitting his Reis bnbs that he learned last week pretty reliably. 

Good to hear.  I wonder if he'll show up on here soon.  Also Vagabond, are you getting a better feel for the game?

I gotta say, this is pretty exciting.  Melty scene go!

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Regional Community / Re: Melty Vegas and Evo Thread

« on: February 14, 2010, 04:21:35 AM »

I'm sorry I couldn't make it this time around, I was still working on my wife's Valentines day gift.  The things you do to let your loved ones know that they matter.

Anyway, how'd the whole thing go?  I heard the event was going to be moved or something to that effect, right?  What happened?

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Regional Community / Re: Melty Vegas and Evo Thread

« on: February 12, 2010, 05:04:52 PM »

Whoa, holy crap - Prinny with the seriousness.

...But yeah, you've got a point.

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Regional Community / Re: Melty Vegas and Evo Thread

« on: February 12, 2010, 05:08:37 AM »

He's also more antisocial than I am, which means we'll probably never see him on Melty Bread.

Bait worked.

Also, Jeebus that pic is old.  I must of taken that screencap like 6 years ago.  I'm surprised you have it.

Also get better fighting against range or you shall fail forever.

  You're a thousand years too soon to be giving me advice!