Ultra Street Fighter IV

[mayor_mike_haggar]

should I have made it less pulsatingly erotic?

[Camel]

Like I say, I'm no expert. Combofiend's lumber party.

In other news, I downloaded the Walking Dead demo but spent the whole night obsessed with Rock Band Blitz. Again.

[joffocakes]

I just noticed that Super Hexagon is getting a release on Mac via Steam next week. I'll be all over that. I'm coming for your scores, Choo!

Not really obviously. Those times are obscene. You insane human.

EDIT: Hold on; I think maybe it's out already? Doesn't really matter since my online will absolutely never be activated.

[Choo]

Come at me Joff-bro! Why can't you activate online? Everyone should own this game. I just lost my whole lunch break to it.

[joffocakes]

Just moved flat about two weeks ago; activation date was last week but the line is totally dead. A wee man with a tool belt is gonna come round on saturday and huff around my hallway in worn denim while I akwardly make the most inadequate small talk imaginable.

I'm pretty sure the fact those situations arise is the only reason most men like football. Maybe I'll ask him what his favourite Hakan taunt is.

Also, I bought Super Hexagon on the iphone, but it's not my iphone so I've hardly played. And I'm awful. I got over a minute on the first stage, but then I clicked on leaderboards and saw your cheeky wee face with something humbling. Insane.

[Plopboy]

I just got 632 coins on the Mushroom course if you want a challenge Mr Cakes.

In more related news I forgot about the streams last night and ended up playing ranked and it was an awful experience, luckily I played an Akuma who didn't like my Chun and I ended up wiining the match with a 4 hit combo. Which to be fair is my best Chun combo and about the only one I can do

Anyway back on topic I will be getting the other coin courses later and then I will beat all of Mr Cakes scores (in my dreams, not that I dream of Joffo of course I hope.)

[Choo]

Ah I see. Those chaps in denim bizarrely always seem to talk about COD with me. Videogame s . Don't let my scores put you off! It's all worth it for the secret ending.

[Qazimod]

Yeeeesss, he replied. But he can't make it

How the fuck do I do that thing where you insert a tweet into a post, then?

I think you can only do account links, like this - @SoAndButAnyway - although you can obviously c/p the direct link like this - POW - or something. Awesome effort, by the way.

I re-watched Desk's FADC stuff recently and I don't think I do enough focus taunts. It's kind of inexcusable when you consider that I'm using a Fightpad and my enormous thumb can easily cover four face buttons. Focus taunt lobbies?

[Camel]

Damn you haggar, you've got me back on Twitter now.

Didn't joffo basically discover focus taunts?

[joffocakes]

Ha, no; the first person I ever saw do them was a guy who goes around online calling himself either Jeemer or PaulieTheB0ss; he had a youtube video showcasing all the taunts and colours as well as Focus Taunts. So I played him online by chance in ranked and did loads of focus taunts, got a message back telling me I'm excellent, then I told him he taught me it, and it turned out he lived in Blackpool but was from glasgow, and knew guys I knew. A month later he came back to Glasgow and we went to his mate's house and played Street Fighter with Papa Johns and beer then watched some streams and Archer. It was a good and excellent time.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

You could even bind the two shoulder buttons to focus and taunt to allow optimal focus taunting. It's what joffo would want.

Also I might ask zhi over tomorrow, assuming he's in the country.

[joffocakes]

You could even bind the two shoulder buttons to focus and taunt to allow optimal focus taunting. It's what joffo would want.

Also I might ask zhi over tomorrow, assuming he's in the country.

That's exactly what I did do for a while,with those rightmost buttons on the stick. Focus and taunt. Because you have to taunt just as the focus absorbs the hit to get the cancel and cant just press them all at once. Now I just do it by hopping from focus to taunt with two fingers. It's such a great thing. I'll do it any time there's a full screen fireball.

[Camel]

So just to sum up:

Joffo has a good success rate when it comes to pulling Street Fighterers. Haggar has persistence.

I never quite managed to master focus taunts.

Or FADCs. Or combos. Or Street Fighter.

[Plopboy]

I once pulled muscle playing Street Fighter, does that count?

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Zhi is currently trying to get tickets to see Man U. I think he might be in London soon, so I might stalk him a little this weekend.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

I just want to meet him face to face and tell him that I find his persona somewhat obnoxious but as a technical commentator I think he's really top notch.

[joffocakes]

I don't like football but even I know Man U are from the Manchesters.

#streetfighterslumberparty.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

I've invited him to see Fulham Spurs with me at the weekend. Let's see how this goes.

I have no tickets for that game.

#replacingmyjoffoobsessionwithzhiobsession

[Qazimod]

He'll probably ignore the match and make observations about what's going on in the background, occasionally leaving his seat to try and find random girls to creep on.

#seriouslyzhi

[joffocakes]

I like the idea of inviting these nice Street Fighting men out for nice meals to experience the local culture. I also am slightly obsessed with how easily it could all get out of hand.

I played Limmy at Street Fighter live on his webcam once. I lost. My brush with Street Fighter fame.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Who did limmy play? Blanka I bet.

[JLM]

If we was being a really bad bastard then that would be the right choice.

[joffocakes]

He uses Sagat exclusively. And repeatedly says "They call me the king for a reason" down the mic. His patter disappears completely when he is losing.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Aha, my second guess was going to be sagat, due to SF4 god-tier.

[Yasawas]

If all goes to plan there should be a Marvel stream where Combofiend ruins London people tonight at http://www.twitch.tv/thepeoplesstream starting about 8ish.

[ah]

Apparently Super Hexagon doesn't save your scores if you're offline. Given that I'm only ever going to play it on the bus, at the moment my high score on Hexagon is about 65, Hexagoner is about 35 and Hexagonest is about 14.

Edited the next day: It seems I got this wrong. My score is there. I only have Choo on my steam friend list though, apparently.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Imagine how nice it would be if combofiend came over for dinner. He'd really adore the food, would smile warmly the whole time and probably crack a few jokes that you could all heartily laugh at and of course his tables manners would be impeccable, despite his American upbringing. And you can bet that his napkin would be tucked neatly into his shirt collar throughout the whole meal, keeping himself spotless while he's scraping his plate clean and making warmly appreciative noises. He'd even make sure to notice that you picked a wine which complimented the main meal, and bring up the fact in conversation since he'd just want you to know that he knew (he loves metagame!).

And, hey, maybe a few games of post dinner street fighter or Marvel 3 (Sorry peter I don't have ultimate [he chuckles, hey, that's no problem man, I'll just blow you up at vanilla{cue back slapping laughs all round}]) because he's that kind of guy. And if you wanted him to do excellent adventures, maybe add a few sneaky points to your account, oh you'd better believe he's totally down with that, heck, he'll even commentate on your matches!

And then, at 10.45pm sharp (he wants to make sure he gets the tube), he leaves to get up, and there's not even the slightest moment of an awkward pause before he comes in to give you that big warm embrace that he just knows you've been waiting for the whole evening, puts on a warm, shapeless fleece and skips off into the brisk November eve.

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Lads should I sack off kickboxing, go to HMV gamerbase and read out the above post to combofiend, live on stream.

[JLM]

Yes. That post is literally all I want for Christmas.

Also I watched the Dreamhack singles stuff. Laugh vs Skatan was a highlight, but the standard throughout was excellent. I particularly liked that Ixion's losses weren't shown on stream because I only like watching him when he wins.

Zhi was making the case for running at least 3 out of 5 sets for Streetfighter at all tournaments. As if I didn't love him enough already. I think at the very least they should do this for top 32 if their argument is that pools will take too long. I think the European model of having groups and then a double elimination bracket is also preferable to the American format. More games leads to higher quality sets and usually provide a better indication of who was the better player.

SF4 isn't as random as Marvel, but the first game in a Streetfighter set between two players who haven't

played before is rarely indicative of anything at all, and for the winner of that game to then be on match point is pretty ridiculous. At Dreamhack they even have winners and losers Finals as a 2 out of 3 set, even though grand finals is played hours later on a different stage so time can't possibly be an issue. Sort it out tournament organisers.

[cale]

Excellent stuff in here today lads. Haggar's fienddream in particular is great. If carlito was still here that scenario would've ended up with someone in some kind of torture dungeon being forcefed their dad's balls or something. Some.

I'm glad he doesn't come round anymore.