Gemakai
[FGC] I know it's kind of a meme, but I always kind of tilt my head when someone says "<thing/Person> will save <Fighting Game/the FGC>!"

Cause like.... save it from what?
TᴏᴡɴIɴsɪᴅᴇMᴇ🐻
from whatever thing they personally dislike
Gemakai
Yea. Not to get political but... it comes off as very Fox News when I see stuff like that.

Cause even IF they're joking, a lot of people will latch onto it.
ʙɪᴛᴄʜɪᴍᴡɪʟᴅ
who or what is fucking up the Fighting Game scene and why do I have the feeling it's some gatekeeping shit?
TᴏᴡɴIɴsɪᴅᴇMᴇ🐻
ʙɪᴛᴄʜɪᴍᴡɪʟᴅ : take your pick. it constantly changes from person to person.
TᴏᴡɴIɴsɪᴅᴇMᴇ🐻
you could literally make something up and there's somebody out there with a platform that's mad about it, convincing other people to be mad about it
ʙɪᴛᴄʜɪᴍᴡɪʟᴅ
like this is how the community gets the rep of being eternally salty and ungrateful.
Gemakai
ʙɪᴛᴄʜɪᴍᴡɪʟᴅ : More recently some people say sonic Fox is killing Guilty Gear. Others say that melty blood will save the FGC

Though what from I couldn't tell you. I guess street fighter 5 And guilty gear strive?
Mr. Capgras
Has Melty Blood come close to "saving the FGC" in the at least decade or so it's been out?
ʙɪᴛᴄʜɪᴍᴡɪʟᴅ
you on twitter?
ʙɪᴛᴄʜɪᴍᴡɪʟᴅ
because it sounds like some twitter stuff.
TᴏᴡɴIɴsɪᴅᴇMᴇ🐻
i mean. twitter is primarily the largest and most active social network for almost anything related to fandom, so. yeah.
TᴏᴡɴIɴsɪᴅᴇMᴇ🐻
it's twitter stuff.
TᴏᴡɴIɴsɪᴅᴇMᴇ🐻
it could almost only be twitter stuff
ʙɪᴛᴄʜɪᴍᴡɪʟᴅ
twitter: everyone on there is needlessly aggro about... everything.
Gemakai
oh yea
Gemakai
totally Twitter
Gemakai
Mr. Capgras : they're talking about the new Melty Blood game coming out next month
TᴏᴡɴIɴsɪᴅᴇMᴇ🐻
i do find it amusing that sonic fox placed in gg evo despite saying they were feeling down on the game, but that's also like. a very human thing to do and people need to realize even famous people can have complex takes on shit
TᴏᴡɴIɴsɪᴅᴇMᴇ🐻
(but there's also a not insignificant portion of the fgc that hates everything sonicfox does. you know. the racist/homophobic portion)
ʙɪᴛᴄʜɪᴍᴡɪʟᴅ
Y E P
Mr. Capgras
It just seems like another "we'll get them this time" when that just hasn't really been true?
TemporalWolf
All I know is that Tekken remains the GOAT. /shrug
TᴏᴡɴIɴsɪᴅᴇMᴇ🐻
though EVO was genuinely a huge mess this year for a lot of reasons
ʙɪᴛᴄʜɪᴍᴡɪʟᴅ
it's kind why I'm always shifty eyed at Sonic Fox hate because there's the underpinning of... some shit.
TᴏᴡɴIɴsɪᴅᴇMᴇ🐻
Mexico being sorted into a latam bracket when they've traditionally been sorted with NA brackets was a thing.
TᴏᴡɴIɴsɪᴅᴇMᴇ🐻
oh and the guy who won but was disqualified because he was a minor
TᴏᴡɴIɴsɪᴅᴇMᴇ🐻
due to a new, and honestly really weird and arbitrary rule, that evo did not make a point to make easily available to entrants
TᴏᴡɴIɴsɪᴅᴇMᴇ🐻
tons of technical issues, etc etc
TemporalWolf
Yeah, every time I've seen people hating on Sonic Fox, it's always been a combination of scrubs jealous of his skill, and trotting out every bigoted thing they can.
TᴏᴡɴIɴsɪᴅᴇMᴇ🐻
the rather... uncomfortable amount of Sony presence through the whole event
Gemakai
I dont always agree with SonicFox but their skill in the games they play is genuine. everyone who tries to downplay them are delusional AT BEST
TemporalWolf
Yeah like, they're not perfect, but seem to be a nice enough person when not having to deal with assholes coming at him from every direction, and yeah... I struggle to think of anyone that could really compare to the sheer skill they have with the genre as a whole.
TᴏᴡɴIɴsɪᴅᴇMᴇ🐻
though the diversity of the strive top 8 showing that with enough skill and understanding of the offense of the game you can make almost any character a contender and we still have tons of mids complaining about sol
Gemakai
as for EVO, it was... different to be sure.

the technical issues and connection stuff were somewhat expected, but yea it was a bit of a mess with the ads and, not to judge harshly, the some of the commentators for some regions were the best or had the best set ups
Gemakai
gsai: the minor dq was pretty bullshit.

there were certainly a lot of unsaid until the last minute rules that really screwed over players
coffee gremlin☕
wait WHY are ppl saying sonicfox is killing guilty gear?? i personally love that he's playing it and hell even going to evo for it!!
TᴏᴡɴIɴsɪᴅᴇMᴇ🐻
i mean. imagine the usual reasons people target them
coffee gremlin☕
so in other words. not valid reasons to be making this claim
TᴏᴡɴIɴsɪᴅᴇMᴇ🐻
basically
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