Jeffery Palmer

Hey! I'm excited to announce I'm officially doing lessons! As some may know I spend a lot of time helping people with melee and this is a great opportunity to help more people. Lessons start at $30 for 1 then get more discounted with 2 and 4 a month! patreon.com/billybopeep

December 20th We are back Have you been naughty or have you been nice? Which list did you end up on? Video by @cleeshlow

Pat's House 5 is cancelled for this year and will be postponed to next year. A statement:

You may have seen these used by Melee's best at recent events. This has been my baby for the past 3 years, and today it's finally public. Injection molded ABS shells, of OEM quality level. Modeled directly after @Kadano's firefox notches, for only $35. This is the Sparkplate.

last night we let the track do the talking

@spotdodge_shine you got z jump man let that purple button work

Fox players what y’all do here

@spotdodge_shine yellow teletubbie is a stupid piece of shit FUCK him

You couldn’t pay me to get involved in anymore smash discourse Honestly I wished the game looked sillier. Like instead Fox and Falco we just had alternate Teletubbie skins. Maybe people wouldn’t take themselves as seriously as they do

engagement bait 📈📈📈

SUPER LONG POST ABOUT CONTROLLERS INCOMING I HAVE NO LIFE IM SORRY I've never really given my thoughts on controller discourse, but I feel very strongly about seeing changes within the ruleset. These are my thoughts as of right now, but with more data and comprehensive research my opinion could be swayed. I want to emphasize that I am not calling anyone a cheater here for abiding by our current ruleset. I think there is a good amount of nuance to the situation. Almost every top player that I've talked to, including boxx users themselves, acknowledge that the boxx is super broken. However, the reality of the current landscape of melee is that boxxes are not pervasive at TOP level melee. There are only three boxx users in the current top 50. There are various reasons why a top level melee player would not want to switch to boxx: the stigma of using it as well as an asterisk on results, a strong likelihood of it getting banned with a major victory, as well as the time investment required to learn it. We all are aware of the fact that it's a superior controller, but the lack of stellar results has kept it in a weird limbo. I firmly believe that if someone like Leffen were to switch to a boxx controller and win a tournament, the discourse that would stem from that victory would lead to more drastic changes. The existence of the boxx has created this weird gray area for the legality of GCC specific mods, including notches and z-jump. At top level melee, things like notches and z-jump have WAY more influence over the current meta than boxxes do (that's not to say that boxxes are not way more broken than these specific mods). Notches have greatly amplified recovery as well as general movement for a few years now. It's hard to praise someone's recovery or wavedashes when they exist. Almost every top level spacie acknowledges that they should be banned, but because the boxx exists it is a necessity. I don't love this argument for a couple of reasons- the relevance that the boxx has in top level melee, which is scarce, in my opinion does not outweigh competitive integrity. Moreover, notches were around well before the release of the boxx. So many top level melee players want notches banned, but to be honest, if most top 100 level melee players agreed to stop using them (which I think is very doable), the issue would be resolved. Z-Jump is another mod that spawned from what the boxx is capable of as well as preserving general hand health. Inevitably, discussion of this mod revolves mostly around Cody, who I have talked to recently. My main issue with Z-Jump is that Cody, who seeks to gain the most by keeping it legal, is the most vocal authority on the subject. His defense stems from people from every level of the community claiming that he's blatantly cheating. I want to make it clear that I believe that he is the best melee player in the world for a reason. We both tried our hardest to get #1 and I genuinely believe his hard work and passion for the game is incredible. I'd never want to retroactively diminish his results. However, I think it is a problem when he argues for the legality of Z-Jump by publicly saying that people overvalue how much he uses it, and that 90% of the time that he can claw over Z-Jump, he claws. I'm a nerd so I checked his inputs from our slippi games, and every instant aerial, laser, JC upsmash included Z-Jump. I don’t think that this omission was malicious on his end, but it does say something about how reliant he is on Z-Jump with his current controller layout. Cody himself told me he probably subconsciously switched over time. The problem is that the defense and research of this mod being legal should not be a solo endeavor, especially one made by a top player using said mod. There is not enough data gathered within tournament environments to prove that Z-jump is a preference and can replace perma clawing. Switching grips for things like instant aerials, or sliding your finger from Y-A (which has its own limitations) for instant nairs can provide the same CONSISTENCY, but not the same FREQUENCY of certain techniques which Z-Jump allows. Like I said before, my opinions are subject to change with more research and data. But I do genuinely think that Z-Jump offers a distinct advantage at top level melee play. That's pretty much everything I've had on my mind about controllers. If you read all of this you're pretty crazy. I've never really complained that much about anything in melee before, but I do find this important enough to talk about. I would like to make a video about all of this in the future, and would be more than happy to collaborate with people who also feel strongly on the subject.

Hey! I'm excited to announce I'm officially doing lessons! As some may know I spend a lot of time helping people with melee and this is a great opportunity to help more people. Lessons start at $30 for 1 then get more discounted with 2 and 4 a month! patreon.com/billybopeep

@Zeodyne holy shit he’s the goat

Compendium...complete...

Hello everyone I recently made a zine for the first time with some of my photos from Japan! I put a lot of work into this and would appreciate it if you checked it out! It's FREE! You don't have to pay unless you wanna! Please let me know what you think! Link Below

@taybornn still driving?

5 hour drive to genesis ama

No one: Monkey D. Freaky:

@JoshKano_stuff no personalized messages? Do you even mean it????

It's that time of the year

Love it when my friends know their annual february civic duty

@KurvTurtle @FictionIRL you just gotta either grab ledge early and have good refreshes (to cover double jumps to ledge sometimes), grab ledge as late as possible (for low up bs and side bs below ledge), or jump off and shine marth. those are the things that will make you solid and you’ll build off them

@FictionIRL I fully agree w you and I’ve put in a concentrated effort to learn how to do it and I’m still completely lost

every single time I play a marth player I become more and more confused as to how anybody could possibly give any credence to them

Just got on NASB this game is NUTS

@spotdodge_shine zain DO NOT got it like that

Who bought zain university 1s I know it couldn’t be him

Here are all of the lessons I've done thus far :3 youtube.com/channel/UC0RD7…

Hey! Just doing a quick reminder that I STILL do lessons! My rates are exactly the same and I have even more lessons uploaded to youtube you can watch for free (link in comments) If you want some melee help we can work together to get you to your goals! patreon.com/billybopeep