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You were totally figuring out my Dudley by the end. I was also infuriated by how many times you did a soul throw to beat my second Rufus divekick, and yet no matter how many times I tried to set up the same situation again and then just not do the second divekick so I could bait out a soul throw you pretty much never fell for it. Then I started doing the double divekicks again and you did the soul throws on all of them! Good stuff.

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It's a shame you don't have a headset though, I could have been telling you each time I did something that you shouldn't be letting me get away with!

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Bit of a late post but was great to meet and fight everyone last night! Nice to meet freezy though shame it was really brief!

Also pretty awesome for Uzi to finally get real (hurr hurr) after years of online gaming. Dat suit! I think everyone else has summed the experience pretty well so I'll just post this video of Uzi trashing this Ken player complete with my terrible commentary and freezy being introduced mid game! :D

Great night! Hope there will be more gatherings planned whether it's at HoG or wherever that I can plan a trips around. Also that these events will have a Yang option.

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It's okay, I managed to fix it. I went back online and got absolutely MOLESTED by a guy called Righteous Pete. I didn't win a single game out of what must have been at least 20. I think I took two rounds. It was as if I wasn't even able to block. I honestly don't understand how people can be THAT good? Seriously?? It makes me feel like I've missed some fundamental part of the game. How come when I try those things they never work?

How do people even do that cray cray lp lp lp > link > massive combo nonsense CONSISTENTLY?

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Had some excellent games online this evening but at one point ended up in a weird lobby with a guy who just constantly did one move over and over and nothing else. So he'd choose Ken and just dp constantly. Or Blanka and just hit electricity and nothing else. I'm sure he started off playing normally too.

Pretty sure I got called a knob via someone's headset in a lobby too which was nice.

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So this happened tonight -

A very sad Gootecks explains why there's no more Excellent Adventures being produced. You can skip to the 11-minute mark if you want to miss a bit of rambling, when (spoiler alert) he shows off the very sternly-worded cease and desist letter Capcom sent them in March of last year.

Fucking Capcom. Idiots.

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It sounds like it wasn't a problem until the Japanese offices caught wind of the CC guide to Akuma. It feels like something must have come from higher up because Capcom USA had worked with Gootecks before and were obviously fully aware of the videos and the CC store. It seems odd that they'd go straight to the threatening letter when they had so much time and so many opporunities to do it in a less formal and more pleasant manner.

It's also an odd move from Capcom when they seem keen to appear supportive of the FGC and let a lot of things slide with regard to streaming footage of their games and the like. Perhaps CC actually charging for the videos makes it a little different, but they don't seem to object to Canada Cup running a premium stream to try and recoup some of their costs or that other stream operators make money from advertising/sponsors etc.

I wonder if it's specifically the point he brought up about them producing and charging for strategy/tips and that potentially clashing with Capcom's deal with Brady/Prima? I could see there being some truth to that, though I tend to agree with Gootecks' point that something like the Marvel bible and the CC guide to Ryu are two very different pieces of content produced by people with entirely different sets of skills and resources.

If strategy guide producers or Capcom themselves want to hire some experts and make their own videos (and they probably should in this internetty day and age) then I'd love them to do so, but if they're not going to do that then I think it's both short-sighted and mean-spirited to come down so hard on their fans for taking the intiative. I can't imagine Cross Counter ever does much better than break even on anything they produce.

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My first reaction - which I posted and then deleted - was that it was ridiculous, but then when he pointed out the brady/prima thing it made more sense. It only takes one person in a company to get a bit worried that they might have signed an exclusivity deal with someone that would make this other thing off limits, and it becomes easier just to tell whoever to stop than it does to go and work out whether it's okay or not. Still, that's not even really their battle to fight and you'd have thought they could just leave it to prima/brady to worry about whether or not they thought their exclusivity rights were being infringed. The letter he showed was about selling material containing footage of Capcom games, not about selling footage that looked like a strategy guide or whatever.

But yes, other than that aspect of it then there's very little difference between what they were selling and the tournament streams that other people sell, or indeed between the way they were selling and the way other people make money from ad revenues and stream subscriptions, etc. So either it is worrying for everyone else or it's just a bit random and daft.

UltraDavid warned us, though, aaaaages ago, that this kind of stuff would happen if people didn't have their legal stuff sorted (clarification: I think it sucks that this is the case, but it remains true). And I seem to remember we had a discussion a while ago here about whether anyone would make big money from growing the "FGC", and I kind of felt like if anyone made big money then it would be people who already have lots of money coming in and doing it at the expense of the people (my example then being Spooky, but Cross Counter fit just as well) who were currently scratching a living from it, because our heroes don't have the resources to compete once the market expands and big players start wanting to claim pieces of it. Gootecks can't afford to fight that letter even if it is daft. An IGN or whoever could do it, indeed they could get in early and sort out an agreement first before distributing anything, whereas little guys have to make a name before anyone even notices them - and often that new attention doesn't work out well.

I guess what sucks most of all is that it just makes the whole thing less fun for everyone involved.

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