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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_peopl...a#Stevie_Wonder Wikipedia is so awesome.

Throw anything you want at me as long as I can get it on YouTube. If there's anything that's literally not a problem, it's this. Golden Lady - it sounds like a cop out, but I'll be damned if this isn't golden brown. The piano is a silvery tone, though. Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing - this is a dark brown, the piano is black. Sir Duke - the brass and sax are yellow and the bass is black. Guitar parts are a sky blue/turquoise. All vocals white. Good shit.

His vocals are high pitched, so they're usually white. His bass parts are usually purple. All typical funk instruments tend to be bright yellow. I can get more specific if you list particular songs you want to know.

It's not arcade perfect, it's the console version retrofitted to be more akin to the arcade version, I guarantee it. It will probably be close, but definitely not "perfect." I would've paid 60 bucks to get this game as a new release hard copy if Capcom actually even attempted to fix the appalling balance issues. I suppose I still have to get it for Hugo and Q...

I want to see Brady play Skarlet more than anything. People in this community just don't seem to understand dick unless Tom Brady does it for them. I want people to realize that Skarlet isn't a rushdown/combo character. Or maybe I'm insane. But I've spent a lot of time playing her, and it just seems logical that she does zoning and mixups, and the combos are reserved to fuel her biggest selling point which is 40+% meterless damage in punishment situations. Most of her starters are just too slow to actively go combo hunting. Aside from her 2,1~df2, 2~db2, u3,4~teleport, which does 35%-ish and gives you oki. Most people just try to rush me down with her and get destroyed for their troubles. Or they spam teleport because they're failed abortions. Actually, I lied. Her ability to punish isn't her biggest selling point. It's that she seems to be a counterpick to Sub-Zero. She shuts down the clone and ice ball just by existing and it seems like her projectiles recover to fast to trade with ice ball if they ever do throw it out unless the spacing is just so. But Sub-Zero has to play her game, and is ill equipped to do so. EDIT: Finally started working on getting Kabal's f3,2~spin cancel--henceforth referred to as "The Soul Crusher"--and it's a fuckton easier than I thought it would be. Then again, the dash isn't canceled with b,b anymore. It's done with back+block like the enhanced version, so that's interesting. After like... two hours in training mode, my hand hurts like FUCK because of this, but being good with Kabal is worth it. EDIT 2: Just played a Skarlet who managed to kill himself by doing the blood orb. I'm not fucking kidding. EDIT 3: Yo, Altaire. You like Sektor and hate morons right? This thread is for you. Just read it. EDIT 4: This is new, Skarlet's match-up chart vs. the cast according to REO: Scorpion: 2-8 Liu Kang: 2-8 Kung Lao: 6-4 Sub-Zero: 2-8 Sindel: 4-6 Ermac: 5-5 Reptile: 2-8 Kitana: 3-7 Johnny Cage: 2-8 Jade: 5-5 Mileena: 4-6 Nightwolf: 5-5 Cyrax: 3-7 Noob Saibot: 5-5 Smoke: 7-3 Sektor: 3-7 Sonya: 2-8 Jax: 2-8 Kano: 3-7 Stryker: 2-8 Shang Tsung: 3-7 Baraka: 2-8 Kabal: 4-6 Raiden: 7-3 Cyber Sub-Zero: 4-6 Sheeva: 2-8 Quan Chi: 2-8 I've spent so much time trollololing with her, I really don't doubt this completely. Her kunai shenanigans are really that strong.

I was watching... Fuck, I want to say it was Outcast's stream or something. They had Brady on right before/after the first hotfix berating the people in the stream chat for being retarded. Somebody asked him why he mains Sub-Zero and he corrected them saying "Actually, it's Sub-Zero sub, Noob Saibot main." I just thought that was interesting. I'll try to see if I can find that stream again. I go around the cast too much to really say I've got anything mastered. I'd say my strongest characters are probably Kung Lao and Ermac just because I once spent fifteen minutes in training mode with them. After that it's CySubz. I also ended up randomly getting pretty okay with Sektor just because I fucking LOVE the Scarecrow. My regular Sub is okay but I mostly use him to gauge the retardation level of my opponent. It's simple math. You take the amount of times they jump right into your ice clone after they watch you plant it, multiply it by how many times they get caught in wake-up slide and then divide it by how many times the best punishment they can muster is an uppercut. The result is your opponent's IQ, accurate to within .5 points. More importantly: Keanu Reeves available for DLC July 5th. Jesus Christ that was fast. I am SO sold on Kenshi. Those fatalities are fucking godlike. The whole playstyle looks so goddamn stupid awesome too. I can honestly hear the screams of "OP" from 90% of the MK community already.

I think I have horrible luck. The second I see a crouching opponent is the second they usually start mashing uppercut and I always seem to lose with Smoke's overhead vs. an uppercut. At least the faster ones. I have HUGE success throwing it out as a meaty, though. Don't Smoke bomb just off the b+2, though. You can add a little more damage doing... I think it's b+2,3~smoke bomb. And it looks pretty cool too. Unless they took that out in the patch. I don't think the smoke bomb hits OTG in that situation, but I'm out of practice with him. QFT. The only reason to play Kung Lao now is if you actually like Kung Lao. Back in the pre-patch days during the long-long ago, Kung Lao had massive damage output generated from the spin, which back then was basically unpunishable in addition to being the most versatile move around. Sick anti-air, hilariously good on wake-up, I think it was tied with Reptile's elbow dash for third fastest move behind Raiden's respective enhanced and regular supermans... in addition to launching for that damage. Now he doesn't break 30% without meter or a corner, and spin is super punishable now with all the post-patch added recovery. Online it might as well have never changed, since people online can't punish anything that recovers at a distance because I guess it's just really hard to dash in when your asshat is obscuring your vision. I'm not really sure. I think the joy of playing Kung Lao is in his defensive strengths rather than his rushdown. Just hanging back and throwing hats to either keep them away or baiting them to jump in at me so I can spin and combo them. His anyjabstring~spin, jump kick~dive kick, f+3~spin BnB as well as anything ending in his 3,4,throw,2 string are great for pushing your opponents into the corner, and Kung Lao pushing you up against the wall is still destruction, even after the damage nerf. I like that one string he has... I forget what it's called, it's like seven really fast punches in a row that sends them full screen on hit, and on block does like 10% chip damage and builds 2/3rds~ a bar of meter. It's wildly punishable on block but you can cancel it into ground-hat and make it safe, and probably get that to hit too. I also just like dive kicks in general. The reason his popularity still remains is probably because no one in this game utterly STOMPS the clueless quite like Kung Lao. Even when all you have to do to watch him drop down the tier list in real time is block low. People also don't realize that jumping in on Kung Lao = free combo. I can't tell you how many people just jump in, eat a combo and just keep doing it over and fucking over until they die. It's absolutely pathetic. Essentially, there is no big deal regarding Kung Lao unless you're really into bait-and-punish characters with no mixup options whatsoever. His 2nd fatality never gets old either, so there's that too. You know, Tom Brady has consistently disappointed me in every tournament appearance that I've been aware of ever since the one he closed out with Noob. Did you see his matches with Chris G at CEO? Flawless victory vs. his own dignity. Hahaha. It actually wasn't really that bad, but when he whipped out the Kung Lao, my eyes rolled so hard I swore I saw my own optic nerves. He's good and definitely the highest level Sub-Zero around, but I think all the other high-level players have either caught up to him or surpassed him. If you really are bummed about Tom Brady being eliminated from ECT, Wonder Chef's showing at FFA from a little while ago will probably makeup for it if you've yet to see it: I mean, how often does high-level Sektor play come around? Virtually fucking never. I just wish he didn't go with human Sektor. I hate that shit sooo much. Regular Sektor looks like a Beetleborg. Why would you want to fuck with that?

Yeah, Smoke is pretty beastly. I'll have to try him again. I've been playing CySubz/Subz/Ermac/Kung Lao/Johnny/Noob the most, basically since launch. Who could I never get to work for me? Fuckin' Smoke. The three button wonder, and I could never really use him successfully (at least not successfully enough for my taste) against expressly non-zoning characters. But he's really fucking strong. His high/low game is so lacking though. You can train your opponent to respect sweep > oki and block low all day, but at least 50-55% of the cast can just mash and/or uppercut the fuck out of that overhead on reaction when they see the lunge (well, probably not online); it just has zero priority over anything. Smoke also loses hard to universal d+3s. It's all made up for by that super sexy abare, though.

The real crime is that they sell CDs of nothing but bass loops specifically for those assholes.

Yeah. They're marked L and R, and I wear them the correct way. I actually tried wearing them backwards once to compensate the inversion but it's uncomfortable as shit.

My headset is gay, shit sounds like it's coming from the left rather than the right, vice versa. It's weird to have that inversion.

Usually the opposite direction you focus on.

REO, fellow competitor, friend of Tom Brady posted that for him over on TYM from an AIM correspondence. REO/The Justin Wong of Mortal Kombat's top eight is basically exactly the same too. And that was Tom Brady actually listing character order. Whether or not it's true is debatable but that's how Brady sees it. EDIT: You know some things that should really happen for this game DLC-wise? One, the compatibility pack for Skarlet and the MK3 Cyrax/Sektor skins really needs to be a mandatory-to-sign-in patch. This is a character I fucking PAID for and I only get to play her with my opponents permission. What a load of horseshit. Two: Automatic blind character select. I just think this whole process would go a lot faster if my opponent didn't have to wait and see who I pick before he picks Scorpion. EDIT 2: I wrecked a Raiden with Skarlet and got her totally superduper goregasmic second fatality off on him. That made me feel good. Then I checked my stats and saw it was my 1337 match. Fuckin' gdlk.

That's how I've been using it. It's also a pretty good down to the wire reversal. There's a strange hit box to it too, that you can use to your advantage. I think it his overhead too. So that's nice. Huh? Anyway, if anyone wants to tierwhore this bitch up, this is how Tom Brady recommends you do it:

I already corrected this. When I was in training mode with her I just saw "UNBLOCKABLE" and moved the fuck on. It actually didn't dawn on me that they'd consider the self-inflicted damage an attack. When she was being demoed, it was slow as shit. Now it's actually pretty fast, but has start up too slow to be worth anything.

I don't know how I feel about this existing.

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Golden Butterfly? You arrested the right guy, just not the politically safe guy.

d = down b = back 1 = front punch 2 = back punch 3 = front kick 4 = back kick Standard MK combo notation since the internet was shat into existence by Al Gore and Japanland. EDIT: Okay, Bloodbitch is absolutely insane. Just end all your combos with 1,1,2 for a reset into your d,f3 shenanigans. You can loop 4~d,f3~b2 three times, and you can cancel d,f3~4 with the f2 with good timing and get a combo or do the same thing only with b2, but you don't get a combo. And it's safe. It should be your go to strat if you like winning a lot. And when you're not doing that she has everything else in her bloodfuck toolbox. Kabaltana.

For Skarlet: b2 db2 dash 2 3 df2 dash 212. 35%, mid-screen, meterless, effortless. You can also do the same combo only replace that last 212 for f4~3 and it does 39%.

I haven't pulled it off in a match yet. She's got some stuff that put you at a good range to toss it off as a meaty, but you'll get fucked by advancing wake up moves. And the startup is painfully slow and it'll probably just get stuffed if you just throw it out and you'll eat a punish + the 7% you did to yourself just throwing it out. Also, I fucked around with her more. She's got buttfuck easy, meterless, mid-screen combos that do close to or upwards of 40% so the nerfhammer is going to come down pretty hard on her in either a patch/hotfix when that happens. Her teleport definitely has invincibility on wakeup. I think the startup to it is a little hooky too. I've done it right in my opponents face as they were pressing buttons and it just totally ignored their attacks. I'll have to experiment with that a little more. It's just difficult since they didn't release the compatibility patch along side her so I can only play her against people who also bought her. EDIT: MOTHERFUCKER. The "Unblockable" is the damage you do to yourself. Fail.

In training mode, when the blood ball hits, you get big letters that say "UNBLOCKABLE"

Playing some Skarlet right now after I totally got fucking SCREWED by somebody. Season Pass and still had to pay 1200 points for her, I don't care since I had a fuckton of points and it's really no skin off my back but goddfuckingdammit. She's got Shao Kahn's hammer, only REALLY FUCKING FAST and it doesn't set up for a combo. Gotta pay for it with 7% of your health to do 15% of unblockable damage to your opponent. You can also change it's trajectory similar to Kung Lao's hat. It'll fizzle out at range if you aim it down, and it'll turn into Johnny Cage's d,b2 (but unblockable) if you aim it up. Teleport is fast as fuck too. Scrubs are going to be crying about this bitch endlessly. Only combo I've really bothered figuring out so far is 2,1~d,f2 dash 2,1,2. 22% and fast. 2,1~d,f2 dash 2,1~d,f2 dash 1,1,4~d,f3~4. 35% I'll figure out more later when I'm not so tired. Probably not. She's not really my kind of character, as good as she obviously is. BRING ON KENSHI AND RAIN.