reformed hater

@hitchariide @zNickYingling this has a lot of views

@slime_machine @zNickYingling

today on Around The Bar we have the legend @zNickYingling on talking about - super smash brothers melee - working for Ludwig - which Call of Duty was best - surviving bullying from Slime - much more it was a great episode and a really fun time. hope you can watch! 🥂

@RohanGod_ this isn’t max rank

Street Fighter 6 // Progress Log: FINAL We hit Master! Reaching Master on SF6 was my tutorial to the FGC. With the tutorial being complete, this means my Street Fighter journey comes to an end, for now. Overall, I really enjoyed the experience of learning a fighting game - even at an introductory level. As someone who gets VERY obsessive over improvement, the sheer skill diff was a real breath of fresh air lol. I genuinely enjoyed the cyclical experience of getting my ass beaten, figuring out why and how my ass was beaten, and then beating some ass in return. It’s also just so cool to me how that cycle just perpetually repeats forever! To me, that’s what the core of a fighting game is. However, I can’t say the whole experience was sunshine and rainbows. I’d say that my raw enjoyment of SF6 definitely tapered down in mid-Diamond, and it took me a while to figure out the what, why, and how, for why I began to enjoy the game less. I think I just didn’t really enjoy the drive mechanic, specifically DRC and DI. At lower ranks, people obviously don’t utilize all of the tools and mechanics the game gives you. Duh. I sort of knew how powerful and game-warping DRC was, but I couldn’t really comprehend it until I experienced it. Once I started playing in high Diamond, DR and DRC basically took over a majority of fights - honestly the entire game lmao. I really just didn’t enjoy the mechanics tbh. I didn’t really enjoy using DRC, and it felt really frustrating to deal with. Even after learning the options to deal with DR and DRC, between holding block, checking raw DR, or using EX DP to punish mindless DRC, it just felt… boring? But at the same time, it felt overwhelming? It took me a pretty long time to like, mentally articulate, why exactly I didn’t like Drive. It’s weird, but in a way it made fights feel boring/samey and volatile at the same time. Whoops, got hit by CrMk -> DRC -> Level 3 CA. Just died from 60%! Combining the volatility and huge swings that come from DRC, a lot of the times it felt like DI boiled down to a “Feeling Lucky?” button, where it’s just really bad to press it most of the time but someone’s you randomly catch them off guard and then BOOM! Level 3 combo -> dead from 60%. Like yeah, you can overload their mental stack to increase the odds of catching them off-guard, but still lol. And don’t get me wrong, please don’t interpret my complaints as a lack of awareness of skill issue. I’m well aware that most of my frustrations revolving Drive instantly are solved by improving my fundamentals and learning my matchups. I just personally didn’t enjoy using DRC, simply wasn’t satisfying for me. And it would feel exhausting playing 5+ fights in a row of “Check their DR/Punish their DRC!” simulator. Also, I think my favorite part of fighting games BY FAR is neutral. Since you can basically use Drive to skip neutral, that also is a reason why I didn’t really enjoy it. Overall though, I still REALLY enjoyed SF6. I got way my addicted than I thought I would lol. Assuming the Tifa leaks are real (grew up on Kingdom Hearts + FF7,) I can definitely see myself returning to the game, relearning on Classic, and pushing for 1800. Until then, my true challenge in the FGC begins. The end of one journey marks the beginning of another.

we’ re costco guys. We kill because it feels good

I wish I tweeted everything on my mind. But I'll admit it... I'm a chicken. I'm just not sure y'all can handle the truth.

@pato_gracia nope know a ton of people who aren’t great at socializing who didn’t rape anyone to my knowledge

@slime_machine This reads like an example of hindsight is 20/20, specially because socially stunted feels like it goes hand in hand with playing a lot of videogames. Which only leaves the clout chasing part?

mellowed out eventually (afaik) but when this guy started out he was that textbook desperate socially stunted clout chaser, feel like it’s worth noting how it’s the same template of person that eventually overplays their hand, sometimes in mild/hilarious ways, sometimes like this

@Speedkicks just nasty work that they could hit big and get the buyout for their shitty app that combines food delivery and dogwalking

@slime_machine They don’t even need motion to strive in startup culture. The people they are appealing to are just like them. So instead of giving a poor attempt at hiding the desperation, they just use it as a social signal 😵‍💫

@airplanestar_ when the bot account gives props to a rapist:

@slime_machine glad to see someone own the arc from cringe to chill—growth deserves props

@gnarfox I can just tell bro

@slime_machine not tryin to feed into the apollo's gift of prophecy thing like with the sykkuno situation but damn x.com/slime_machine/…

@ankleknuckle i think the difference is whenever i would talk to walt irl he would be very intelligent and up front and even called me out on being an asshole, something guys like L4st would never ever do never felt utterly Repulsed and Wet when talking to him like the etosseds of the world

@slime_machine is there a good ending? walt seemed like one of these guys but hes sorta settled in by now. is his downfall still inevitable or is he just not the kind of guy ur describing?

but the arc of the clout chaser always bends toward ruin

not just in smash or whatever but i’ve been around enough to see a lot these guys rise and fall and they all end up in the same flaming wreckage one way or another i do think this type thrives in startup culture, streaming etc if they get some motion. money paves over everything

it’s crazy how everyone just moved on from the drake and kendrick beef after drake fucking won

hey man at least i got to be alive during the internet’s brief Only Good Era

@Fireyams it’s such an incredible filter for the entire game lol

Playing the PC port of Twilight Princess and it's my first time replaying the game in many years. Thankfully I was so impressed by the ease of setup and visual enhancements that the horrible pace of the introduction didn't stop me in my tracks like every other replay attempt.

@rowanfornow clique lmao

free appetizers at chilis W jynxi

@myluckymop whoa nelly congrats man

became a father today. she's perfect. they even let me help deliver her. can't describe how surreal it is to pull your child out of your wife yourself. i'm on maybe 2~ hours of sleep these last 48 hours, but i wouldn't change anything about how today went. hope you're all well!

i think he thought he replied to someone or was maybe just daydreaming