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The EVOLUTION 2015 MKX MegaHype and Updates Thread!

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Shady

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MILKY SITUATION!!!!! An online warrior who does ranked and KOTH all day just placed Top 16 with Reptile. This makes me proud to be a regular stream viewer of his.
Been around since MK9. Made Top 32 in MK9s first Evo and then Top 8 at Toryuken (when I forcefully dragged him out). He just doesn't get to travel and play offline a lot because of being in Rhode Island. Always knew he had that shit in him. @Milkman
 

CrimsonShadow

Administrator and Community Engineer
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Ah, I see. That's why your "thanks for giving me my quickest quotable" post happened after REO beat Foxy, which has nothing to do with Pig. Come on.
No, that was in response to you and one other guy saying that Foxy always beats REO in tourney in response to my comment about who was the best draw for Pig :).

To which I gave the specific reasons for which I felt Pig was best prepared, regardless of who would beat the other; and then after REO beat f0xy later, I explained that REO used an alt at TCW so it was possible things were different between those two at ESL.

I specifically replied "which of them beats the other doesn't change who I feel Pig was best prepared for". And that's still true. But it was amusing that you guys were so emphatic about who'd beat who.
 
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funkdoc

Apprentice
oh we're still talking about this

re: my last post, something can be true and still an OS excuse. see: that favorite of top players & their fans, "i don't practice this game anymore"

if you don't play a game, you're not as good as the top players who still keep up with it. if you don't pick your best character when trying to win, for whatever reason, you're being an idiot and thus worse than your opponent. all that stuff is part of skill too, ya know

honestly one of my least fav things about FG culture in general is how no top player ever loses because their opponent was better than them. it's always the character being cheap (or "gimmicky" if they aren't top tier), not practicing because "this game is ass anyway" or whatever...always something. i see so much less whining in competitive tabletop games that are far, far more random than any FG, and really wish we could learn something from that.
 

CrimsonShadow

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honestly one of my least fav things about FG culture in general is how no top player ever loses because their opponent was better than them. it's always the character being cheap (or "gimmicky" if they aren't top tier), not practicing because "this game is ass anyway" or whatever...always something.
Here are some guys who will never make that excuse:

DJT
MIT
Sonic Fox
Foxy
Pig
Ducky
Theo

And that's why I have no problem rooting for them (RIP Theo 2015).
 
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coolwhip

Master
No, that was in response to you and one other guy saying that Foxy always beats REO in tourney in response to my comment about who was the best draw for Pig :).

To which I gave the specific reasons for which I felt Pig was best prepared, regardless of who would beat the other; and then after REO beat f0xy later, I explained that REO used an alt at TCW so it was possible things were different between those two at ESL.

I specifically replied "which of them beats the other doesn't change who I feel Pig was best prepared for". And that's still true. But it was amusing that you guys were so emphatic about who'd beat who.
Actually, all I said in response to you claiming "the alternative would have been REO or Sonic Fox, so it could have been much worse" (in which you only mentioned players, not characters. But of course you were referring to characters because you thought Pig should be terrified by Kitana ;)), was that Foxy beat REO when they played at the TCW and outplaced him. Never did I say "he always beat him" nor was I emphatic about who'd win if they played again. You can check my post, it was literally "well, Foxy bodied REO a TCW" which is a sensible enough response to someone claiming that facing REO is "much worse" than playing Foxy.

So your above post is full of it because nowhere did I claim any of the stuff you're mentioning. You're just lumping my response with someone else's to save face. It's funny because my initial post in this thread was just fun and games in response to you always blowing up Foxy. Turns out you can dish it out but not take it.
 

coolwhip

Master
Here are some guys who will never make that excuse:

DJT
MIT
Sonic Fox
Foxy
Pig
Ducky
Theo

And that's why I have no problem rooting for them (RIP Theo 2015).
And yet you're making that excuse for someone else (ie REO not playing his main, despite the fact that he's been changing mains every week since the game came out). Odd.
 
Holy fuck MILKY
Yeah! He had one set vs. a raiden I believe where he had that last little red sliver or just above it(enough for raiden's 1,2 I believe it is chip him out), raiden was at like 30% and he took it. Just went for it and won.

Also, if Aris is in the building, he should be on commentary at every event. Perfect color commentary guy. He has me cracking up AND he knows his shit regarding the game.
 

CrimsonShadow

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And yet you're making that excuse for someone else (ie REO not playing his main, despite the fact that he's been changing mains every week since the game came out). Odd.
It's not an excuse. I have no doubt he'd still have lost with Quan Chi at ESL. And at that time Quan Chi wasn't actually his main at TCW -- he used him on a dare after an argument from Jr.

Turns out you can dish it out but not take it.
No, I laughed at your joke about Jupiter because it made more sense. This one doesn't.

You can check my post, it was literally "well, Foxy bodied REO a TCW" which is a sensible enough response to someone claiming that facing REO is "much worse" than playing Foxy.
This makes absolutely no sense. This is a simple concept, and since you seem to have trouble understanding it I'll put it in terms of MK9:

Suppose someone says (in MK9) "REO or Carl is a better draw in tourney for 16 Bit -- it could have been Dizzy". Now, you'd lose your sauce with accusations that both REO and Carl have better MK9 tournament resumes. And if REO or Carl outplaced Dizzy (which happened a lot of the time), you'd say that was somehow proof that the statement was wrong.

The truth is, it's dead-on. Bit felt very comfortable matching up against REO and Carl and he'd tell you that himself, while Dizzy had his number and he never felt comfortable against him in tourney. That says nothing about which of the 3 is the better player, has the better resume, or would outplace the other. If REO would beat Dizzy at a tourney, it has absolutely no bearing on the point that REO was still a better draw for 16 Bit.

You wouldn't respond with "Well Carl beat Dizzy most recently at UFGT 2014 and has two MK EVO championships" because it has zero relevance to whether he's a better MU for Bit. It's also not a "blow up" of either REO or Carl.

If you can't understand this simple point, I'm just going to leave it here. I made a call about who it was more favorable for a specific player I know well to face -- and it was correct :)
 
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Alright RyRy

Florida Kombat
In case anybody was wondering , I put Dab into losers.

That Jacqui didn't stand a chance but that brawler Cassie is amazing. Mad props to Dab for using that variation.

I was super scared to play against him after he beat Detroit. So that makes me better than Detroit?:DOGE
 

coolwhip

Master
This makes absolutely no sense. This is a simple concept, and since you seem to have trouble understanding it I'll put it in terms of MK9:

Suppose someone says (in MK9) "REO or Carl is a better draw in tourney for 16 Bit -- it could have been Dizzy". Now, you'd lose your sauce with accusations that both REO and Carl have better MK9 tournament resumes. And if REO or Carl outplaced Dizzy (which happened a lot of the time), you'd say that was somehow proof that the statement was wrong.

The truth is, it's dead-on. Bit felt very comfortable matching up against REO and Carl and he'd tell you that himself, while Dizzy had his number and he never felt comfortable against him in tourney. That says nothing about which of the 3 is the better player, has the better resume, or would outplace the other. If REO would beat Dizzy at a tourney, it has absolutely no bearing on the point that REO was still a better draw for 16 Bit.

You wouldn't respond with "Well Carl beat Dizzy most recently at UFGT 2014 and has two MK EVO championships" because it has zero relevance to whether he's a better MU for Bit. It's also not a "blow up" of either REO or Carl.

If you can't understand this simple point, I'm just going to leave it here. I made a call about who it was more favorable for a specific player I know well to face -- and it was correct :)
Except the MK9 example was based on actual data gathered over numerous tournaments. Years of tournaments play, basically. So if you'd said it, it would have made perfect sense. Your Pig/Foxy/REO thing is based on nothing. You had no data to back up the fact that "it's much worse." So either it was a shot at Foxy (which is totally fine by the way) or you're Nostradamus.. Yes, it turns out your prediction was right, that's undeniable given the result at ESL, but I don't think your intentions were as clear as you're trying to portray.

PS: Saying "it's not an excuse but" is the oldest form of excuse making. You're better than that.
 
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