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[Celebrate Nite]

Remember when everyone's favorite black guy was emasculated by a troon?

>SFV
Not defending LTG, but anyone can be a "pro" at that garbage game.

 

[The Token Ethnic]

Remember when everyone's favorite black guy was emasculated by a troon?

That troon was banned from the FGC after accusations came out about him creeping on girls while pretending to be one. He went into protected mode on twitter and rarely streams now. He was playing SFV on twitch this last week, but that's about it. His latest video is called "washed up garbage" and that title suits him just fine.

 

[ForTheHoard]

Remember when everyone's favorite black guy was emasculated by a troon?

I think this was the worst case of it in the MK community. After this, sonic had a mandate from the MK masses to lead the community in any direction he wanted.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

Capcom had a lot of internal restructuring that lead to them being super risk-averse when it came to making games. Around SF4's release, Capcom set a new standard that every game franchise had to break 1 million sales otherwise it would be considered a failure. This is why Mega Man and everything that wasn't Monster Hunter or Street Fighter died in the early 2010s.

The reason why we got five billion Street Fighter 4 rereleases and nothing but Monster Hunter games and spinoffs during the 2010s was because MH and SF were the only two games Capcom felt confident enough in being able to meet that standard. Capcom's humanity fully died when 2010 hit.

It's only in the localization, but troons will run with the "they/them" shit regardless. None of the troons celebrating play Strive anyway. At most someone like Sonicfox is going to try to pick up the character, get his shit pushed in, and then quit.

I never really got the grammatical logic for a singular "they", he and she use "is", they uses "are", which is plural.

I'll never get why the Japanese way of drawing an "androgynous" character is to draw a girl, remove the tits, and call it a guy.

Anecdotally, the troons almost without fail play the anime shit or some flavor of retro shit. I’ve seen very few that play SF, and none that play Tekken, at locals or any of the tournaments I’ve been to; but a couple always show up when a revision of GG or Blazblue come out and disappear over the coming weeks.

 

[Megaroad 2012]

I hope Bridget comes back buff and masculine as hell (but with yoyos and his teddy bear) just to fuck with the weirdos who ignored his backstory and believes he really is trans... instead of you know, a boy raised as a girl, trying to prove his manliness.

 

[Neo-Holstien]

Anecdotally, the troons almost without fail play the anime shit or some flavor of retro shit. I’ve seen very few that play SF, and none that play Tekken, at locals or any of the tournaments I’ve been to; but a couple always show up when a revision of GG or Blazblue come out and disappear over the coming weeks.

I know one that plays Tekken, but it is because it has Akuma, he prefers guilty gear and the one with big band. I think the bigger the tits/pro black pandering (double if both) the more fags are gonna play it.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

I know one that plays Tekken, but it is because it has Akuma, he prefers guilty gear and the one with big band. I think the bigger the tits/pro black pandering (double if both) the more fags are gonna play it.

1. Big Band is in SkullGirls. Speaking of...

2. Fags only play anything with big titties in them after they get finished infiltrating it first. SkullGirls was originally "fanservice the fighter" before the creator went full retard and catered to the woke crowd by not only censoring the panty shots, but adding shit like SonicFox as a cameo. Otherwise fags HATE big-titty anything ( see: the meltdown ResetEra had over Baiken in GG -STRiVE- )

 

[Luigi]

Remember when everyone's favorite black guy was emasculated by a troon?

Why are his losses so funny to watch

I hope Bridget comes back buff and masculine as hell (but with yoyos and his teddy bear) just to fuck with the weirdos who ignored his backstory and believes he really is trans... instead of you know, a boy raised as a girl, trying to prove his manliness.

I'd like to see his design more in the direction of his weird XX portrait, but buff would at least be more interesting than the direction they took Testament for example.

 

[zeezoo]

had no idea there were so many trannis in the fighting community. what is it about fighting games that attracts them there?

sorry to break it to you, every gaming community is crawling with trannies now.

 

[b0x]

It's weird no one in this thread has mentioned Tekken player Tanukana. The news is months old now.

crosspost

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/porn-and-porncows.14727/post-11588750

 

[Megaroad 2012]

I'd like to see his design more in the direction of his weird XX portrait, but buff would at least be more interesting than the direction they took Testament for example.

The Testament thing didn't bother me. Seemed in character, makes sense he'd be screwed in the head lore wise and I have the old female voice burned into my brain from the days he was the ultimate subboss to the most dicky of bosses Justice.

 

[Luigi]

The Testament thing didn't bother me. Seemed in character, makes sense he'd be screwed in the head lore wise and I have the old female voice burned into my brain from the days he was the ultimate subboss to the most dicky of bosses Justice.

My issue with Testament's design is the wide hips they gave him. All the tranny shit surrounding the character is whatever, but his design from the start to before Strive were always androgynous/skinny man, the hips felt like a wrong direction to take him.

 

[pursuitsnail]

Describing Testament as having been surgically modified seems out of nowhere too. To my knowledge, in English at least, being made into a gear was never described like that. Feels like trans pandering (and/or weird fetish), but if nothing else Guilty Gear has always been inconsistent and frequently retconned soooooo
Flat women as his design is still just out of left field to me.

 

[Mister Loser]

Honestly, Japan has done this kind of thing with characters before. Horny designs for androgynous characters has always been a big thing (i.e. Yubel in YuGiOh!). It's just now that trans stuff is more in the limelight those kinds of things that used to just be described as "weird" or "hot" now get associated with obnoxious idiots who can't shut up about what they are.

Now, one could argue that the people who found those characters hot and realized they had a fetish for that kind of thing are now the same people who are shouting about trans rights... and you'd be correct. Unfortunately, with trans discourse gradually overshadowing coomers and masculine communities and the internet getting gradually more sensitive, people who merely had it as a closeted fetish have made it a blatant part of their personality and began overshadowing people who were actually trans just because of being trans coming off as cool and interesting.

 

[owTwo]

It's weird no one in this thread has mentioned Tekken player Tanukana. The news is months old now.

crosspost

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/porn-and-porncows.14727/post-11588750

It's probably several pages back. The Tanukana manlet controversy happened in February. I almost think I remember it making the front page Happenings of the site.

Still, damn, from getting washed in EVO pools to being propositioned to make money having sex. What a fall from grace. Bitches with A-Cups truly aren't human no matter how much silicone they stack onto their flat chest.

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NLBC Drama Update:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d826pz3UBuk [I have a download. Doubt I'll need to archive, and don't feel like figuring out how to upload it here yet with a 50+ minute long video]

Spooky addressing the cancellation of NLBC online. Spends a massive amount of the video just thanking people. Very boring, and doesn't cover MUCH new ground different from his Twitter post here. He DOES address that this is an SFV specific problem and takes the time to talk about how truly awful SFV's netcode is.

Don't expect a call from CapCom to come promote Lupe Fiasco VS Daigo 2: WideRyu Boogaloo anytime soon, Vic. No hard feelings. It's just that you're a manlet and manlets don't get streamin invites.

 

[owTwo]

So, some new drama happening:

Those of you in this thread should know Punk, AKA PunkDaGod, AKA DA ALfA himself

Known Alpha Male Panda|Punk's Twitter profile, where anybody who steps into his arena gets squared up upon by this vision of masculinity
**all proceeds will go to emergency dental gap-removal surgery

Punk, being the alpha that he is, of course is a strong proponent of FGC Thuggery™ and its necessary place in the scene.

That's why this event is just so puzzling to everyone on the outside looking in:


Well, that doesn't seem very ALfA or Thuggerish™ at all. But, who exactly is @DRB3000, aka Dr. B, aka Dr.B, and WHAT DID HE DO?? Well, let me explain to you about the East Coast FGC's very own exceptional individual/tournament "organizer"/"top" player

Actually, I'll let him introduce himself:

This guy plays S-Groove in CVS2... that's about all he's known for. Also, Punk, DA ALfA, wants him banned because he called him a mutant.

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link YA FUCKIN MUTANT
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Dr. B is also a perennial favorite of CVS2, winning such prestigious events as... well, he didn't actually WIN any of them, but he places really high!


Remember the CVS2 event at EVO 2019?

No, seriously, you don't remember it? Well, it wasn't on the main stage, but it was a real tournament held, at EVO, by... huh, well the main staff was busy? Who DID hold the EVO 2019 CVS2 bracket??

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Oh, it was Dr. B himself! But what's the drama? What lies could possibly be being spread around by a bunch of jabronis about THE OMEGA Dr. B?!?

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Yeah, all of those placements? Notice how they're all from 2018 through to 2019? Well, pretty much every single one of those brackets was a side event ran by Dr. B himself. The allusion here to "Justin Wong" is about how multiple CVS2/old school East Coast players have accused Dr. B of rigging the brackets that he would run, where at EVO the notable Japanese players would end up on the side of the bracket... that Dr. B wasn't on.

Is it true? I mean, from what I've been hearing, people seem to agree that yes, he did. But, they made sense if you seeded yourself based off of prior brackets you ran, where you seeded yourself high and put most everyone else who beats you on the other side of the bracket. Here's Dr. B losing in Top 8 at Defend The North 2019 and getting 5th. My favorite part is when he hits a stun, does a whack combo, then fucking dies doing wake up super. I really wish I could find the video of the NYC commentary team shitting on Dr. B when he loses, "Don't worry buddy, you'll still get 'em next time! Best player of all time!"

Anyways, you can decide for yourself here. This page has links to ALL of the available Smash.gg brackets Dr. B mentions above.

BONUS CONTENT:
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S-Groove player nutting over a training-mode only combo

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Heh... Basura... Rookie mistake, kid.

[No link this time YA FUCKIN MUTANT!]
CONSEQUENCES WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!

 

[Neil]

Two exciting pieces of Skullgirls related drama!
1) The shotacon e-whore who #metoo'd Mike Z for saying the word penis in DMs and got him cancelled and ex-communicated from the gaming community got cancelled herself for being a manipulative scammer and a snake who runs gay ops by spreading rumors to harm people she dislikes.

2) Kinuko/Mariel Cartwright and Francesca Esquenazi (a writer on Indivisible and the CEO of Future Club, the new co-op studio formed by ex-Lab Zero staff) sued Lab Zero (which only has Mike Z as its only "employee") for wrongful termination

Mike Z is countersuing.
These are the legal documents that got released from the case.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X4W8mlLmo_VOAWNXbraT5_I4EPjsVPpY/view

https://archive.ph/8Ev8I

tl;dr --

• Mike blames a lot of his social failings on his (now confirmed) autism.
• Mike believes that Mariel and the rest of the (now ex) members of Lab Zero were conspiring against him after he refused to sign the paperwork to transform Lab Zero into a co-op company.
• He calls Mariel out for drawing porn of Lab Zero IPs (lmao)
• He says that Francesca talked to him about all sorts of sexual stuff "relating sex, gender identity, sexualorientation, menstruation, body image, intercourse and related issues, etc., and solicited commentary from [him] in response to these topics."
• Mariel and Francesca knew about his autism and it frustrated them after he made the "I can't breathe" joke in June 2020.
• BunnyAyu (e-thot) and Mariel know each other and are fans of one another.
• He quotes slack messages of Mariel talking about hentai and other pornographic things
• He quotes slack messages of other Lab Zero members talking about sex
• There was a lot of gay-ops going on in the slack where Mariel created a new channel #zzz to conspire against him and held conference calls with everybody except him to discuss their plans moving forward.
• Francesca was also in charge of budgeting, and she created a budget spreadsheet showing that Lab Zero would be at its lowest monetary point by August unless their partner, Focus reimbursed them development funds. Which is really coincidental considering 90% of Lab Zero's staff jumped ship in the last few days of July, after Mariel and Francesca started talking to Focus and plotting to create a new company and maybe hire Mike Z as a contractor (and then kick him off later so they don't have to deal with him after the bulk of the programming was done).
• Mariel's biggest accusation of Mike Z's alleged sexual harassment was him asking her to be in an open polyamorous relationship with him. Mike shared in the document a screencap of Mariel outing her husband, Tyson Hesse, as bisexual and lamenting the fact that they promised to commit to each other when they got married and not sleep with other people outside of their marriage. She also remarks that she tried doing polyamory but only open to the same sex, but had it ruin her relationship.
• Games writer Kim McAskill interviewed half of the Lab Zero team to investigate the sexual harassment stories, and she remarks that "No one mentioned harassment. Everyone mentioned money and alleged lies in which Mike didn't follow up on promises surrounding money" and believes that the people accusing him of harassment were only doing so to further damage Mike's image to any future investors or partners like Focus (and they were successful in doing so).
• Mike was left in nearly 1.4 Million dollars of debt after everyone left/was fired and Focus refused to reimburse him the necessary funds.
• Francesca and Mariel were planning on replacing Mike with programmers from Playstation AllStars (Mariel acknowledges how shitty of a choice that would be too LOL), Mortal Kombat, etc
• After Mike put himself on Administrative Leave, Mariel enabled the editing of messages on slack
• Mariel tried to delete the #zzz plotting channel to hide the evidence, but Slack, the company, retrieved the data.
• Mariel deleted her twitter #metoo post about Mike Z

tl;dr;tl;dr--
This is a giant corporate game of weeb-flavored Kick the Autistic. Everybody at this company is fucking shady as shit and two-faced.

The trial is set to begin on November 7th, 2022.

Morals of the Story:
1) Never go into business with friends
2) Never go into business with weeaboos
3) Never go into business with horny weeaboos.

More info on the case on Mariel & Frani's side: https://kiwifarms.net/threads/fighting-game-community-fgc-general.72431/post-11687249

Spoiler: bonus funny post of mariel realizing what she's done

"My husband is nervous about how suspicious we look after making our way up to the top by (rightfully!!) kicking out all of the company's key top staff to the point where we now run the company. We totally didn't intend for this to happen this way, so please don't look at me suspiciously! BTW this company has so much unrepayable debt bad blood, let's all jump ship and start afresh! uwu"

It should be illegal to be this dumb. If you're going to sabotage a business, at least be smart about it.

Then again...this is a gang of tumblr porn artists, how much intelligence can you really expect?

 

[Celebrate Nite]

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This guy plays S-Groove in CVS2... that's about all he's known for.

According to tourneyfags, S-Groove is the "worst" groove in CVS2 because... reasons. I honestly don't have a fucking clue, you can dodge and get infinite lv1 supers, but it's treated like a worse P-Groove (i've personally used S Groove, that dodge is REALLY handy for Zangief, and the infinte lv1s make Dan more threatning). The most common ones are A and N, so if you're getting noticed just for using "the worst groove ever", then you must be really good at it.

 

[AutoGuyNoFile]

Two exciting pieces of Skullgirls related drama!

Cripes it never ends with this fucking game. Thanks for the update as the Skullgirls saga is both gripping and depressing. Doing some research for another project, I found footage of the Pre-Pre-Alpha version of Skullgirls, when it was JUST Alex Ahad and NO ONE ELSE. It was jank as heck but I never realized Skullgirls started as JUST Alex Ahad's project. I bring that up because whenever I mentioned that the main people behind Skullgirls got booted from the project, people give me shit and say "ACKCHUALLY, Skullgirls is the product of many many people who all worked on the game and is not the product of just one or two people" and while technically true it really downplays the fact that it really did start as just one dude's dream.

I'm also reminded of the number of times I had been told that "the Skullgirls artist" was a woman.

The whole thing is a mess and just kinda disgusting which is why it's super weird that the game is continuing onwards. I mean Umbrella comes out soon and Black Dahlia is set to be revealed at the end of the month. That's what really bothers me. Who is in charge of the game now? Who is adding all these characters? Do Mike Z and Alex Ahad have ANYTHING to do with the game anymore? ANY input? It's just sad to see a game be ripped away from the people who made it. Even moreso to see a fandom that just...accepts it and makes excuses for it.

...

...OH YEAH THAT'S RIGHT! Skullgirls is getting into EVO this year so there were jokes that something stupid would happen to prevent its EVO apperance again. Well I guess some of that is in motion now.

 

[MooseGump]

Skullgirls is continuing with the mobile game team doing the work and the artists that tried to take over Lab Zero collaborating as their new studio
Alex and Mike were unperson'd and it's looking like it's being continued out of spite, even though no one really cares about it until evo