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Going to try to be more active on Bluesky & Pillowfort now that cohost is gone. bsky.app/profile/mightf… pillowfort.social/Mightfo Also, if you want updates on 2 projects im working on(a heartfelt story focused game project & a strategy game) follow here: mightfo.itch.io

@I__HATE_SOCCER a single glance at airdashes in the game makes it clear like air movement is not like strive

"moves like Strive" folks were telling me fast paced anime fighters were back...

@sdaht0 @jchensor i mean he has a whole paragraph saying "The game would be miserable. Every chain would become some weird delayed Frame Trap mixup that could lead into nothing and let players get away with so many unsafe normals" and talks independent of CH. thats how uni/bb are and its fine lol

@Mightfo @jchensor i don't think he's saying that the long normal cancel windows itself is the issue, it's that heavy counters are like fatal counter on steroids (and normal counters almost feel fatal counter esque) and that being the case would warp offense and defense in a boring way for strive

I have a theory of why Strive’s Gatlings are so limited. But it’s a long journey so sit back for another classic jchensor novel: They really wanted to go with the big COUNTER message on Counter Hits and such to produce meaningful impact and more casual-spectator-friendly presentation. So many of the decisions made in Strive you can tell were really trying to make the game more viewer friendly, a decision I totally understand. The problem is that any system that has any sort of impactful COUNTER hits creates a game FULL of super easy Option Selects. Delayed chaining and canceling becomes super easy to do if you get a Counter Hit and nothing happens if you don’t. So they had to make sure that wasn’t the case. Their solution to that was an interesting choice: implement a Marvel Vs.-esque system in which moves that connect on the opponent can be canceled at ANY TIME during their recovery. *This did not exist in previous Guilty Gear games.* You could only Chain or Cancel on the frames that hit, much like a Street Fighter game. Implementing this later cancelability meant you couldn’t Option Select it anymore because a delayed press would still get you the cancel or chain if there was no Counter Hit. Now. With this in mind, imagine a Guilty Gear game with the full freedom of Gatlings that allows you to chain moves at any time during recovery. The game would be miserable. Every chain would become some weird delayed Frame Trap mixup that could lead into nothing and let players get away with so many unsafe normals. Characters that could chain, say, 5 moves in a Block String would just do P… S… 2S… H… 2D… Special… The game would play so badly because every time you make someone block, people would be watching someone slowly chain moves in hopes of getting a Frame Trap. So they chose to limit the Gatlings to prevent this. So now, players knew if they blocked a 2K, they could just expect a 2D into a Special and that’s it. It would prevent the game from having a horrible tempo from people delaying Chains and Cancels all day. Now… whether that was the right call to do as opposed to just removing the COUNTER hit impact delays… that’s obviously going to depend on the person you ask. Now I did mention it’s very Marvel-esque. So why doesn’t this happen in Marvel? The answer: Push Block. You make the opponent block one thing and BOOP you’re half a screen away. It removes that pressure and any temptation to use that kind of pressure. But I don’t think many people would think that Push Block being in a Guilty Gear game would improve it. In fact, I think we’d all know that the game would be significantly worse. And even if Faultless Defense worked more like before and increased pushback to mitigate it enough, a Faultless Defense that pushes people back that far would wreak havoc across the game, IMO, moreso than limited Gatlings. I really do think that’s why we ended up with how Strive’s Gatlings work. I’m not saying they made the right decision, I’m intentionally leaving any personal opinions out of this post, but I do think that’s the logical path that lead to the limited Gatlings. Because let’s be honest: it certainly wasn’t implemented to make the game more beginner friendly. No one would think limited Gatlings that you have to memorize would be more beginner friendly than a more open and freeform system of P -> K -> S -> H -> D. Anyhow, just spewing out random late night thoughts. Hope this was interesting to anyone who actually read it. LOL!

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Starry Flowers, a gay femboy x femboy romance visual novel is out on steam for free!! store.steampowered.com/app/4710390/St… There's lots of varied queerness amongst the game's charas too :D And Nomnomnami makes lots of other queer games too! Happy femboy friday~~ #femboy #femboysfw

It's not even a joke, but one of the things that's most exciting about twomina is that it means we'll get another Fpan opening, and in a world where "we made this for the preroll on an empty cab" FG OPs are getting kinda rare it's nice when they come around.

If you want me to draw something, just dm me for more details!

@ChronoSanaki HELL YEAH YOURE AWESOME love that it gives you so much space to show off stickers too...

My 6 mini pcs are all set up, tested, and ready! I am a one man army of poverty brackets!

new phrase of power: "gynophilic nonbinary yaoi" to describe nonbinary femboy x nonbinary femboy romance

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@silenthooper what makes slashback and combobreaker generally better? planning on going to my first majors/non-pnw events next year

got kinda bored and made a tier list of all the events i been to since i started attending this stuff full on disclaimer: there is a lot of personal anecdotes to these picks and there are a lot of external factors that happened during those weekends that influenced the picks

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@yapyapperz like, the consensus among trans people is *not* your position. when the term surged to popularity in 2020, if you looked at who claimed it was a slur, it was almost entirely people under 20 who were misinformed by tiktok.. yelling at 30+ YO queers to "know their history" lol

@Kamarants @sillyandsunny @SweetLilHB people didn’t “decide” it was offensive, its a derogatory term and always was Also your logic is victim blaming lol

this chart pmo because ralsei is Not even confirmed canonically trans. they're a gender-ambiguous neutral-presenting (we have seen ralsei in both masc and fem costumes) character but people wanna push the "trans girl" narrative as canon and i don't know why.

@yapyapperz you're greatly overestimating how much trans people agree with you. if you go to to any major trans community(ie a discord server with hundreds of active users, or a large reddit), when the discussion comes up the percent of trans people who think its a slur is less than 20%

Happy Venezuelan Independence Day, please consider donating to earthquake relief. If you donate $10+ and send me proof, I will even draw you a little chibi :)

@yapyapperz @sillyandsunny @SweetLilHB What proof do you have it was used as a porn term in 2013? Frankly, if it was significantly used as one i probably wouldve seen it used in porn back then but i didnt at all, the term’s use was niche in that period.

@Mightfo @sillyandsunny @SweetLilHB this does not predate its usage in porn though

@bedofbriars avatar has this thing mbtl doesnt: actual backwards movement. my god also are we really gonna gloss over blockstun cancelling and just say "no shield" come on now

I do need to inform yall that Avatar is just MBTL with less movement and no shield.

Follow up c()mm with an item label gyaruo! they hate eachother!

Girls when they ooze for @.MarascaBomber