Im sad to say I also abandoned KoF15 for SF6 for the online playability. Even though SF6 ranked is the bane of my existence, the fact that I can actually play people says a lot.

The big three are now Capcom, Bandai, and Arc. And we allow Arc Vs SNK for that 3rd slot cause that fight is worth watching (CotW is gonna rip that slot away but Hunter Hunter may reclaim it) but NRS doesn't have the juice yet. I wish it did but it don't

MK1 ended up a big and controversial failure as a competitive game. But then how are we going to describe the game that got even below MK1's numbers? (And kinda far below, not even very close)

We really are in the fighting game Renaissance. I may not be as old head as some but I've been playing fighting games for 20 years now and they are in the best state possible. So many options it's hard to pick what to focus on lol

Have you tried Bison yet? Why play kim when you got psycho bombs!!! I know it's not the same but even with bad defense bison is better then her imo

I HATE that his lariat is so untrustworthy in SF6! He can easily be hit out of it, whether normal or OD. So many attacks just overrule it.

Never take chat comments about any game seriously

Would've been 6 games had NRS not dropped the ball.

Real men watch 400 Chun vs. Yun matches and they like it!

james zaslav is restructuring wb since walter hamada ruined wb

Wait! I need this kimberly video right now James! Cant believe i missed it

I'm watching the Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8 tournaments!

I've posted these numbers in other comment sections before, but I want to post this here. It's a list of the top 45 games that have gotten over 1k entrants in the 12 years. I think they're interesting. 1. Street Fighter VI (2023) - 7080 2. Street Fighter VI (2024) - 5265 3. Street Fighter V (2016) - 5107 4. Tekken 8 (2024) - 4646 5. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2019) - 3532 6. Super Smash Bros. WII U (2016) - 2662 7. Street Fighter V (2017) - 2622 8. Dragon Ball FighterZ (2018) - 2576 9. Street Fighter V (2018) - 2496, 10. Guilty Gear Strive (2023) - 2471 11. Super Smash Bros. Melee (2016) - 2372 12. Ultra Street Fighter IV (2015) - 2227 13. Guilty Gear Strive (2022) - 2155 14. Guilty Gear Strive (2024) - 2058 15. Ultra Street Fighter IV (2014) - 1979 16. Street Fighter V (2019) - 1949 17. Super Smash Bros. WII U (2015) - 1926 18. Tekken 7 (2019) - 1896 19. Super Smash Bros. Melee (2015) - 1869 20. Samurai Shodown (2019) - 1726 21. Ultra Street Fighter IV (2013) - 1637 22. Tekken 7 (2023) - 1587 23. Mortal Kombat 11 (2019) - 1574 24. Tekken 7 (2018) - 1544 25. Ultra Street Fighter IV (2012) - 1520 26. Super Smash Bros. WII U (2017) - 1505 27. Super Smash Bros. Melee (2017) - 1425 28. Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising (2024) - 1377 29. Super Smash Bros. WII U (2018) - 1355 30. Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 (2023) - 1352 31. Super Smash Bros. Melee (2018) - 1350 32. Street Fighter V (2022) - 1321 33. Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 (2013) - 1302 34. Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 (2012) - 1297 35. Tekken 7 (2017) - 1283 36. Tekken 7 (2022) - 1215 37. Dragon Ball FighterZ (2019) - 1197 38. Pokken Tournament (2016) - 1180 39. Blazblue: Cross Tag Battle (2018) - 1178 40. Mortal Kombat X (2015) - 1162 41. Under Night In-Birth EXE: Late[ST] (2019) - 1154 42. Street Fighter III: 3RD STRIKE (2024) - 1101 43. The King Of Fighters XIII (2012) - 1072 44. Ultimate Marvel VS Capcom 3 (2014) - 1014 45. The King Of Fighters XV (2022) - 1006

"i don't understand why us players don't wanna pick top tier" "All i did was walldive... Claw is really stupid" There's your answer lol Its a game, we should try to have fun in it. Claw aint fun. (Addendum. Wouldn't it just be nice if we, as gentlemen agreed to never pick geneijin super? Or to not pick sa2 chun?sf3 would have so much more variety and be so much more interesting! I for one have zero interest in fighting genei yun. Ill just take the l lol its not my job to win so why stress over unfair BS, y'know?)

46:00 "That's what all the other people would do, the people who claim the scientists are doing that" Yes, and the scientists are doing it too. If you've ever worked with scientists on publishing a paper that goes against the grain, you'd know exactly what it's really like trying to publish results that go against someone else trying to get millions in funding. Most of them just want to keep their head down. As far as global warming goes, the idea that CO2 is going to turn Earth into Venus is something that is actually said by serious people, I guess completely forgetting that the Earth's atmosphere was about 70% CO2 when it was a giant snowball. We're currently at 0.04%. There are benefits to a warmer planet too, but you'll never hear it from the climate change people. There are also people saying we should suck CO2 out of the atmosphere, and I'm honestly most scared of those people. We're actually very low on CO2 on the grand scale, believe it or not, and we're not far off from the hypothetical plant death. Plant death would be gradual enough to notice before you sucked out all the CO2, but the very idea that we're going to fix what we didn't realize we started is an insane idea anyway - we're still the same species that nearly wrecked the planet because of things we did and now you want to try to course correct, what else are we going to inadvertently do at grand scale? I don't know, but the odds of doing something unintentionally drastic goes way up.

KoF with only 375 saddens me.

The cool tone in the shadows make him green, James. Compare it with the other image you show: the yellow one have warm shadows. Warm = no blue. Cool = blue. Since the base is yellow, the blue addition depicts green.

Lmao PLEASE upload that Kimberly video James, the time is now!

For 3rd strike i do wonder what theyre playing on. Not everyone play on stick so im curious what theyre gonna use or has it been confirmed that theyre using arcade?

Just got into fighting games a few weeks ago, can't wait to watch my first Evo 😮

Came to see what quick comment Chen might've had about the MvC2 reveal on the Direct. Noticed that the video is one and three quarter hours long. Got very excited and hit play.

The stream monsters are definitely gonna be dunking on 3S for that inevitable Yun, Chun, Ken finals. Spectators who don’t understand The Beautiful Game just want variety…

21:21 so what you’re saying is… Justin Wong is the Freeza of Marvel vs Capcom 2?

Prepare for Chun vs Yun vs Ken: The Game in Top 8 😅

Prepare yourselves for a Yun, Chun, and Ken top 8. (Evo Japan's top 8 only had 2 characters in there)

I can totally listen to your HDR rant for 2.5 hours. Do it!

For me its more like, 3s but without yun is the dream. Chun is op but she plays the game. Yun just runs away until he gets meter, and then steamrolls. And he's basically just as good as her, just way more obnoxious

Did you get permission on the Original Uploader?

Sfxt was a dope game to me. But outside of the gems, what I hated was the chain combo system. There were so many different dope combos you could do with just a Lil bit of practice finding who all flows together. But everyone just settled on the basic ABC basic chain combos back and forth. Zero execution needed for that. Smh.

Off topic but I wanted to leave a comment on the latest SNRronize show that yes it is sad that people from South America have trouble travelling to North America because of fears that they won't return. I guess you weren't uploading those shows anymore? I am watching it on twitch though tbh lol. Maybe the SNKronize numbers aren't as good? Big fan 👍

Damn, the same exact thing happened to me after SFV Crash ended. I thought it was just me.

Ken's theme is perfection it hits hard and also has emotion behind it. It tells his story of loss without saying it. Just love it.

Great video!

Lucky. Back in my day, local arcades around me were full of bullies who would boot people off of the machines. Being able to play SF2 and MKII at home was a godsend for learning the mechanics.

I don't like playing against Modern controls. I have returned to play SF after 30 years and what low level players do is learn a cheap combo, Drive Impact, and use the ease of Modern controls to perform the combo with complete ease or they spam a special ability at rapid speed without any opportunity to mess up an input. It's not fun nor easy for someone who has been gone for a long time and switched to the Hitbox from console controller to: input specials correctly in-game, hit confirm correctly in-game, mental stack DI and jumping attacks in-game, and then perform combos in-game. At beginning levels, Modern controls gives a decisive advantage over Classic controls. A two button normal into special hit confirm is so easy to do compared to a normal into a special with multiple properly timed inputs. My argument is that it isn't fair for new or like new players who are trying to train with Classic controls and then have to match up against a faster, easier input system. Capcom needs to give the option for ranked matches to be accepted or rejected based on control usage. I typically do well against other Classic controller players because we are in the same boat of working on our input skills while doing the mental stack and spacing, etc...

I'm introverted but I do have extroverted tendencies that I've picked up, especially when I'm around my friends. I bowl in a league and I'm usually going and watching and talking to other people when it's not my turn(I'm a substitute and my league lets subs bowl on whatever team needs a spot that week so I'm not always attached to my team or I just have people I also wanna hang out with). I'll also occasionally make comments with other people in public and stuff and my Daddy was the same way. But I absolutely *WILL NOT* text or call anyone first or rarely order food over the phone. When my job had me working 5 days in a row for like a month straight and my 2 days off were my Yugioh locals and my bowling league I had to just not go to locals some weeks because I was so socially drained. It also didn't help that I was already depressed from a breakup at that point so my mental health was pretty bottomed out. Sorry for the ramble James but just know that I get you. That introvert girlfriend example sounds awesome. And you're awesome too.

Great insights for me as a beginner and semi serious player of fighting games like sf6

It feels very weird that Light Psycho Crusher has slower startup than Heavy Psycho in SF4. Also his Slide Sweep being only on Down Forward while Dhalsim can use Down and Down Forward is not cool. Not what I wanted from M. Bison but I'm glad people are enjoying him.

Remember before launch they had that reality TV show, Big Brother style series where fighting game players were living in the same house and trying to eliminate eachother? And it got really weird and had harassment claims? Just another example of throwing all the shit at the wall. What a disaster

I thought being an introvert has giving 0 shyts about being alone. Like who cares I’m not there to socialize I can but I don’t feel drained or whatever depression ppl get, or hate anything. It doesn’t bother me cuz I don’t care to entertain it. I think anti social ppl are confusing themselves as introverted tbh. Like I go to the movies alone and my friends ask how I do that or if it’s weird. Nah bro who cares about what others think lmao just go enjoy yourself

Its called a socisl battery. Sll of us hsve thrm just different ammounts. After work i dont talk to anyone i dont have to. Its just a socual battery. Being social actually takes energy

Damn bro, maybe go visit a doctor

Is Jebailey an extrovert? I mean he’s literally Mr. CEO after all

Thank you for wearing your heart on your sleeves. It’s helpful seeing that I’m not alone in my own struggles. Wishing you the best .

The ‘crash’ you’re describing sounds like autistic masking.

I feel the same way. I wonder if aging is a big part of it

"I dont want to talk to anybody but I also feel alone" is not the best way to put it, IMO. It sounds contradictory when it is not. I've found it is much better to just say "I want a deeper connection with someone". This is why big groups don't satisfy us at all, why social gatherings leave us tired and sick, and why being alone later feels easier but not better. We WANT human connection, but we want a dedicated, high quality one. And we don't have practice creating this, and many people even frown whenever we try. According to the current social norm, being social is not being intimate, freeminded and openhearted. Powerful, dense conversation is not honest, but uncomfortable. Sharing a trusting silence is not calm, but weird. And that is what we crave: to be able to share a moment, FOR REAL, with someone who gets us. I know this way to see it does not makes things easier, but I think at least makes things more clear. As introverts, we still need to learn how to be alone, how to support and love ourselves, but we also need to practice how to cultivate better, deeper, more meaningful interactions with others. EWGFs are so much easier. But both can be done with enough patience, IMO. Don't give up.

This video made me feel good. I feel a lot better about those days when I'm just like, I just wanna be in my bedroom. I feel like the stigma of not going out much really needs to change. It's okay to not be out and about in crowds.

Is it an existential problem of contemplating why you exist and why you have to go through these things everyone else goes through but deals with differently?

Will always love talks about mental health. Especially directly related to your own experiences/examples of when you’ve noticed a struggle of yours. I definitely think James hit it on the head when he said it’s like you pull all your reserves for the event until you’re so depleted by the time it’s over, that you feel like you have a big crash. The kicker is the adhd making you feel like you have no idea where it came from or why it’s happening