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^ This is a good post Also, behold, I converted an old chatlog into Zoatry: http://armoredcoreuniverse.net/forum/index.php?/topic/43-quote-of-the-day/page__view__findpost__p__11156 I picked it up As a skipping rock I had a few in my pocket to skip On the lake When I head down there After school. I was going to skip it, and suddenly this guy Starts harassing me What a dick. I was on my way to the lake when I met him And we're both dicks; when he sees me and I don't see him, he starts When I see him and he doesn't see me, I start Two dicks, locked in a frenzy It's like... Our nature. I felt this topic could do with some found poems.

our inability to unite as we collide is the whole reason we only did it in that one movie. EQUILIBRIUM Guns Plus kata Equals gun kata. Christian Bale.

I laughed entirely too fucking hard at this.

AC: V for Vendetta. I lol'd.

lol

I have a life, which is one of the reasons I haven't been posting much lately, but I really have nothing lined up for this weekend. I'm sure I could set some time aside.

Wow, I missed a lot while I was away. I actually wouldn't mind getting in on this.

I will probably find and kill you IRL if I ever see it. Also, Marshall Law doesn't actually look like Bruce Lee, it's just Forest Law (who probably won't be in it). Forest was only in T3 and TT as a sub-in for Marshall, IIRC. Though now that you mention it, BOY I SURE HOPE AKUMA STILL HAS HIS SILVER HAIR COSTUME SO I CAN USE THAT WITH LEE TO HAVE TEAM TOTALLY SWEET SILVER HAIR XFD ...Oh, and I don't even understand that quote edit, man.

And that's why he did a creepy photoshoot of himself wearing a gasmask and a hooded trenchcoat. Also, Claw + Yoshimitsu. Ken + Lars. Guy + Lee. Just letting you know that these are the teams I will use to body you all.

Welp, knew I was forgetting something. Aris kind of rubbed me the wrong way the first time I heard him on stream, but I have to admit he earned some respect at Evo. He does play a pretty good Smoke, and I was pretty impressed with the reset he did in the semifinals. Also, I just want to say that Evo was fucking awesome, and that of the four guys I know who went, three got eliminated by Brady and the fourth made top 40, IIRC. It could be higher, he was three games into the quarterfinals when he was taken out. JOP sent him into losers in his pool, and Prelude to Agony eliminated him. He DID, however, beat Trophy Club's Cyrax and Banana Ken's Cyber Sub Zero in the quarters. I was pretty fucking impressed when I heard that. Apparently, the majority of his matches were Kung Laos, Cyraxes and uh... One or two Raidens. I feel for him.

I don't think it's going to kill the competitive scene, but I do think a lot of people will stop taking MK9 seriously, especially outsiders. At this rate, inconsistency stands a great chance of killing the competitive scene than some dumb guest character. ...That said, I am going to fucking cringe whenever I see someone pick Freddy at a tournament. So get this: Two of the best players I know (and uh, one who's not so great) are going to Evo. Guess who they're all in the same pool with? Tom Brady. ...Yup. I told them: "Everybody loses, brotha." In the same pool is Aris, who is apparently playing this game because on top of being a piece of shit, he's a hypocritical piece of shit. I don't even know who to cheer for anymore, but it sure as shit won't be this guy.

Yup, I was definitely raging when I saw this shit. If I don't get Cyber Smoke in the next batch of DLC, I will fucking flip a bitch. I'm pretty pissed about the unmasked Sub Zero, too. I like the idea, but like, this isn't even MK3 Sub Zero. It's UMK3 Sub Zero, without the mask. Seriously, what the fuck? How hard would it be to take that skin and edit it to look like his MK3 outfit? What bothers me most is that this means we probably won't get a genuine UMK3 Subs OR MK3 Subs, we'll just be stuck with this half-baked bastardization. If I still get UMK3 Subs with the hood, I'm down, but if not, I'll be pretty pissed. ...On the other hand, I am going to start trolling the scrubby Kung Laos with pre-patch Sub Zero, so at least there's that.

...Is this a serious question? Like, think about how stupid that sounds for just one minute.

http://shoryuken.com/2011/07/20/umvc3-all-...racters-leaked/ For those of you who don't feel like scrolling over the images to see the filenames (shoutouts to SRK for arbitrarily leaving the names out) here's the full list in order: Dr. Strange Ghost Rider Hawkeye Iron Fist (s-m-fucking-h) Nova Rocket Raccoon (what in the FUCK is that?) Firebrand Frank West Nemesis Phoenix Wright Strider Vergil There, I just saved you the trouble of clicking on the link to see the pitiful ensemble Capcom put together. Seriously, where the fuck is the substance? Nemesis is kind of nice to see, even if Capcom's given reason for excluding him from MvC3 is that he was "too grotesque". Vergil is... Alright, but here's to another generic DMC character I still won't use. Phoenix Wright is lame; weeaboos, eat your fucking heart out. Firebrand from GnG/Demon's Crest is a nice addition for nostalgia, but then... I can't really see myself using him, especially with how stupid they made him look. I am declining comment on the raccoon. Now, all that said, Capcom represented its fanbase. People wanted Nemesis, and so they added him. Strider fans were pretty pissed off when he was left out of the game (myself included), and so that was rectified. Dead Rising and Phoenix Wright are popular franchises, so while I may not agree with either inclusion, they're sensible. Vergil is a character that should've just beaten Trish for a spot in the base roster, but whatever, he's in. Now... Marvel, really? Dr. Strange I can kind of see, even if he bores me. Ghost Rider is alright, even if I was never a huge fan, and he definitely has a following. Now... Iron Fist. Iron. Fucking. Fist. Who gives a good goddamn about Iron Fist? Marvel's been pushing this character for years and years, and to this day, no one has been bothered to care. He's such a bland, generic character that he'll never attract a fanbase unless he stops being himself. Nova is... Wait, who the fuck even IS Nova? Sweet man, let's add this guy no one has even seen before. Anyway, that's my two cents. Really, I can't help but feel that these twelve spots could've been put to better use. Capcom apparently hasn't improved their character choice in the past four months, and now we'll be treated to a full 50 characters worth of who-the-fuck-is-that. As much as I disliked Marvel 3, I was willing to give Ultimate Marvel an honest effort. I see now that it'd only be wasted on another game I'll lose all interest in after the first month. At this rate, I might rent it a few times just to see if I can put together a Strider team I like, but as it stands, I'll be sitting this one out too. Here's one more nail in the Capcom coffin, boys and girls. P.S. Unless Capcom got seven characters to Marvel's five, Rocket Raccoon is a Marvel character. If so, I am even more fucking spellstruck at this roster. That said, I don't even care enough to google him and find out.

...I don't get it.

Fuck that, Strider has been my favorite character since MvC1. The fact that he wasn't in MvC3 is largely why I couldn't be bothered to give a fuck about this. Seriously though, Marvel 3 has been out for FOUR FUCKING MONTHS, and there's already an expanded edition coming out? This is pathetic. Maybe it's been awhile, but I remember there being a larger gap between SF4 and SSF4 than there was between these two.

...I don't really know where you're getting this from. For one, Johnny Frametrap will always be the most aggro character in the game, by a wide margin; Kung Lao and Nightwolf are runners up. Two, Rain CAN be aggro, but he seems to capitalize more on punishes than anyone else. Like Sub Zero, he can trade projectiles for full combos. He can also counter-zone in a roundabout way, because lightning + control ball will let you reel them in from fullscreen distance. Personally, I think Rain is fucking awesome. What sets him apart from all the other rushdown characters is that he's a lot more about space control. Kung Lao can use low hat + divekick for space control, but that's really just used for pressure to draw your opponent in. Cyber Subs can control space with bomb setups in the same way, because forcing your opponent to jump leaves him open to crossunder slides and divekicks. Rain just controls space from fucking everywhere, and I love how free-form his combos are. Damn near all of his specials are launchers, and that makes it so easy to link everything together. I can tell you right now this character will be in my top five, if not top three. Realize that I've worshipped Rain since I was just a kid; I would've been all over this character even if he was total shit. More than that, I don't see where you get the idea that Cyber Subs is better than Rain. For one, geyser kick is the ultimate anti-crossup with rape damage, and the fact that his EX roundhouse has armor is going to be a godsend against Johnny Frametrap. I couldn't really say if one is better than the other at this point, but Rain is definitely a good character. Cyber Subs can't punish zoning attempts from fullscreen for 20% or more. Cyber Subs can't X-ray you from anywhere if you so much as let go of blocking for a split second, and considering Rain can use an X-ray followup to rack up 39% (if not higher, I'm still working on this), that's a pretty big deal. Rain isn't really gamebreaking, but he's definitely a great character. He was pretty much what I was expecting from the trailer, and to that end, I'm satisfied.

I seriously stayed up to download Rain. I wasn't going to miss this for anything. Sure enough, he came out at 3:30, just like Kenshi did. Good stuff, at least he's on time now. ...I try downloading him, and it takes fucking forever because my internet connection is having one of those days where it's randomly fucking useless. I waited HALF AN HOUR on a 70 meg download, and near the end, I lost connection. I said fuck it and went to bed. I'm getting a new modem with my next paycheck. I'm also taking a fucking hammer to my old one, because this has happened one too many goddamn times now.

I'm mostly just anxious. Like, if it ISN'T Cyber Smoke, I'm probably going to think it's a huge disappointment and I may not even give a shit. It's not even that I'm not open tihe idea of anyone else, it's just that I can't think of "anyone else" being someone I'd want more. It'd probably have to be a new character to even come close to him for cool factor.

It's not like this is the LAST character, though. He's the last character of the season, but so far, NRS has made fucking bank on the DLC so far, and they're going to make a lot more on Rain. Paulo Garcia did say that they're basically going to steadily roll out DLC as long as it's selling, and if you think about it, it'd be stupid not to. They get a lot more bang for their buck on these characters than they do on a new game. It's kind of a win-win, because NRS gets to sell each character for five bucks (if they got that kind of return rate for the on-disk content, the game would be $155 for the roster alone), and anyone over the age of eight can afford to spend five bucks every couple weeks. All things considered, they have no reason to stop making DLC characters. In fact, they're better off putting them out while the game is still young, because that's when they'll sell the most. Either way, I don't think it'll be a new character. IIRC, Boon (or one of the NRS guys, I forget who) deconfirmed it. I could be wrong about that, but I remember reading about it on TYM. It could be interesting if it was, but as it stands, I think they just want to get all the big names out of the way for returning characters. That does seem like the most sensible approach to me, because if all the most requested characters are spoken for, they're far less likely to disappoint people with the results. Think of it this way: If you're a Rain fanboy, you had Rain and they put out some new character who might be kind of cool, you'd probably give him an honest effort. If you were expecting Rain and DIDN'T get him, you'd look at that character and think "Man, what a fucking jip, I can't believe this is all we're getting". Truth be told, it's kind of how I look at Tanya, because I could see them actually making her pretty cool if they really revamped her movelist, but like... If she gets in before Cyber Smoke, I will immediately reject her. UPDATE: HO SHIT SON, look at this. http://shoryuken.com/2011/07/18/mk9s-final...ring-comic-con/ Three more days, goddamn. I can't wait.

If not, and if you can't find a better deal on ebay, there's always this: Cross Counter is always running these promotions, so at least you could save a little bit of money.

I think you can admit that regardless of what you think of Cyber Smoke, you'd like him if they made him a cool enough character. I mean, he definitely ha the potential. I personally want Cyber Smoke to be in the game just because he's Cyber Smoke and I fucking love him, and I really like the other three cyborgs. Still, I think he'll be a likable character if they make him interesting. Thank FUCK they deconfirmed Riddick guy. Like, no offense, but he just seems too plain to me. If I saw something more convincing, like some gameplay footage, I might be open to the idea. It's really interesting that he was in the game at one time or another, though. I really thought we'd seen everything there is to see on disk, though WE STILL HAVEN'T SEEN THE GORO AND KINTARO ENDINGS THAT WERE LEAKED. The movie files are bound to be in there somewhere, so why haven't we dug them up? Also, I did have one interesting thought about Cyber Smoke: It'd be really cool if he kept the oldschool trident spear as an anti-air. I just picture him doing this dramatic SWING YOUR ELBOWS OUT AND TILT BACK A BIT TO SHOOT A HARPOON OUT OF YOUR CHEST, kind of like Sektor's up missile. If it was just a quick snatch/retract and just went up at an angle, he'd still be able to have his oldschool spear without making him a lame Scorpion ripoff, so that'd be really cool. I'm about 99% sure he'll have Sektor's telepunch if he is added, but whatevs.

Not if you'd make a shitload of money otherwise. NRS has been making a killing on DLC sales so far, which is why I couldn't understand the last character being... Whoever the fag in that video is. They wouldn't be making bank like they are now.

The fact that it's so terrible is why I'm almost certain No Face wouldn't be added. Tremor, from the same game, is constantly denied when he actually has a strong cult following. No Face is somebody that no one has ever given two shits about.

...Well, I called it, as much as I REALLY didn't want this to be the case. Honestly, I do think they made these outfits look as good as they possibly could, but like... That's a pretty low ceiling. The costume design itself is just unimpressive, always has been. I can kind of appreciate the MK1 ninjas ironically, even if I don't use any of those alts, but I just can't get into these. On the upside, you're still going to have ample opportunities to play Rain because everyone wants to play Rain. Judging by the uproar from the fanbase, you'll probably see as many people picking up Rain as Skarlet and Kenshi combined, so don't sweat it just yet. Here's the silver lining for you, though: Aren't you glad it isn't Strkyer? This is still one hell of a letdown, but let me tell you, the idea of a retro Stryker makes this look like a fucking godsend to me. Fujin was already more or less deconfirmed by Boon, by the way. Like, he didn't explicitly state that, but he gave a pretty deadpan answer to some smug asshole who tried to call his bluff about it. I already called Shinnok being ruled out, so I'm not really surprised to hear it; there's just no way that he could be ready in time for August if Boon is still undecided on him. The fourth character was ostensibly decided on by the time of the Skarlet trailer, because I just can't see them going "Hey, let's announce a fourth mystery character in a huge press release, we'll figure out who it's going to be later". I'm sure a ton of smartassed virgins would feed me some quip about how I'm overestimating NRS, but there's a big difference between sloppy and stupid. And now, this brings me to my next point: http://www.kamidogu.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=416566 Some idiot on LL linked me to this, and told me Cyber Smoke is deconfirmed. I immediately thought "God fucking dammit, that's disappointing", because I assumed he was linking to a reliable source. ...What I didn't realize is that this idiot was linking to another idiot linking to an unreliable source. Like, really? Some guy requests Cyber Smoke on Paulo Garcia's twitter, and when he responds with a tongue-in-cheek joke to plug his own game, we somehow extrapolate that Cyber Smoke is deconfirmed? Jesus fuck, man. I want to say these people don't know how the hell to read between the lines, but they can't even read the lines to begin with. Like, I realize I'm way too irritable for my own good sometimes, but I just have no tolerance for stupidity. I'm utterly amazed at some people's inability to put two and two together, but it's not just that: If you aren't capable of deductive reasoning, at least come to terms with it. Don't go on the internet and make far-reaching assumptions, like "MAN I'M SO SURE THE RETROS WILL BE JAX AND SONYA EVEN THOUGH THAT IN NO WAY FITS WITH THE TREND OF USING MIRRORED SKINS" or "CYBER SMOKE IS DECONFIRMED BECAUSE I'M TAKING A JOKE TO HEART" or "FROST WILL BE IN THE GAME JUST BECAUSE". On that note, I had some pretentious douchebag in the GFAQs party tell me, in a very smug manner, that he hoped I'd be around when retro Sonya was confirmed for the upcoming compatibility pack. This was around a week ago. He said I was going to look really stupid. I can't wait to talk to that guy again. As for the DLC character, it looks fake to me. I can't quite place it yet, but I swear his frame looks familiar, like it's just an edit. I'm 99% sure it's not real, but I'm going to try matching it up with some of the other portraits just to see who it's edited from. I really hope to fuck this isn't the last character they've been hyping for the past two months, because it pretty much looks like a bland version of Kabal. The part that worries me: He has a Black Dragon tattoo, no ears, and obscured features. He could be some kind of fucked up reimagining of No Face from Special Forces, who know one has even HEARD of. He didn't look anything like this, but uh... The boot fits.