[STL VF] Evolution of a New Generation

Re: Dum Dum Maru is the juice!

maddy,
I suck, and I am sure I will just get destroyed while I am there so you still have nothing to worry about.

Anybody in STL who wants to play tonight, hit me up in this soft batch because my finals are over.

DUM DUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum!

conk out,
not "Wow Santa, that is a ton of gifts, thank you!", just...

IS THAT ALL YOU GOT? I WAS HOPING YOU WERE BETTER THAN THAT!!!!

 

Re: Dum Dum Maru is the juice!

Damn,
It is a ghost town in this soft batch!!!!

Anyway, good shit to GorillaPimp aka Dolemite(Jacky has a little black in him? Holy shit! /versus/images/graemlins/tongue.gif) and Kaminari_Oyaji!

GorillaPimp-You are hemma dumb, that is all I can say. Anyway, your Jacky keeps getting better so I am going to have to show you some juice I thought up with him while we were playing the other night. It is about to get cheap in this batch!

Kaminari_Oyaji,
Great games to you too as well and way to see your Kage improving since coming back from New York. Brooming Shoutime in the tourney? I see you two are rivals to the end. Also, I have a few ideas cooked up for your Kage as well to improve cheapness so hit me up later today or tonight. Also, thanks for the cool ass Evo leash! I am sporting that batch as we speak. /versus/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Man, it felt weird to break out my oldschool Goh and Vanessa, but anything to get you guys used to more characters will always help.

conk out,
not The Great Wall, just...

THE OLD GREAT WALL!!!!

 

Damn, this thread is like Menopause....HEMMA DRY!!!!

Yo,
Wazzup everybody? Let's get some games in this batch soon so I can prepare for my session with the American and Japanese players in Japan. I want Brad to be stronger than the end of the world, aka ARMAGEDUM, so hit me up.

conk out,
not "king me", just...

CHECKMATE!!!!

 

Re: Damn, this thread is like Menopause....HEMMA DRY!!!!

I'm on vacation starting now. /versus/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

Re: Damn, this thread is like Menopause....HEMMA DRY!!!!

Have a good time in Japan Conk n come back even stronger! /versus/images/graemlins/blush.gif < --- scary

 

Tourney/Gathering in February...?

Hey all, sorry to troll your thread. =P

I'm one of the newer members of the Ohio VF gang...the short kid with glasses who plays Wolf, for those who've met me in Columbus or Iowa. I'm having a giant weekend tourney thing at my house on Feb. 6-8, and Evo will be included as one of the 3 main tournament games (the others being the two flavors of GGXX). Sarcasm's Ghost mentioned to me that STL was interested in coming down, so I'd just like to know if that would include anyone here. /versus/images/graemlins/smile.gif

FYI, here is a link to the Gamecombos thread with all the important information:

http://www.gamecombos.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13132

Thanks,
Josh.

 

Re: Tourney/Gathering in February...?

Josh the Funk Doc,
I could be listening. Depends on work at the time, but I will try to make it. If you could throw in some TTT, there is a strong chance I will come and bring others with me.

Akai and IMF,
Thanks, I will try to rep the Midwest, STL, Brad, and Dum DUUUUUUUUUUUMs, lol.

conk out,
not Einstein, just...

E(vade)=DUM DUM SQUARED!!!!

 

Re: Tourney/Gathering in February...?

Conk,

I think having a TTT tourney will be definately feasible if he have the STL crew coming over. Ohio crew have all heard about STL's reputation in TTT so we will be more than thrilled to have an opportunity to experience it first hand. I think we can draw ohio TTT crew to the event for more fun as well. That's going to be tight.

Have fun with all DumDums in Japan. When you come back, my Akira will be totally listening to you for sure.

Can't wait to play you next time. /versus/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

Re: Damn, this thread is like Menopause....HEMMA DRY!!!!

Anyone freed up for new years? I would like to hold a gathering tonight if anyone is interested? I am jonesing for some comp...Anyone out there????

Drew> You back in town? I need some of that venessa experience.

Gorilla Pimp> Hope you got your new computer running and can see this post. Hit me up tonight. There was a couple of peeps at nwp that were interested in vf. Please hook it up! I'd like to make them regulars.

Hatman> Dunno if you read vfdc, but it was a pleasure battling your aoi the other night and I hope you continue with vf. Hopefully, I will see you over this 4 day break.

Badman & Killbomb> Where did you guys vanish too? Did I smell that bad? Seriously, start the new year off right and play more vf please!

Shou> Are you alive and do you still play vf anymore or does the job own you for free? I'm tired of chasing the banshee to get comp. Come out of hiding, so I can cut the cheese. /versus/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Conk>Good luck and have fun in the land of the rising vf population. How good is the dum dum's? We shall see....

Player>Good games at nwp. Anytime your up for some games holler back. Give vf a shot. Who knows, you just might like it?

Laters^^

 

Re: Tourney/Gathering in February...?

Alright, TTT is definitely cool with me. One caveat...

My original plan was for any non-Guilty Gear/VF tournaments to have no entry fee and a SPECIAL BONUS PRIZE for 1st place. If you guys want this to be like a normal tournament, then I'm sure we could do that. Let me know, alright? =)

And BTW, do any of the STL guys play 3rd Strike at all? Just wondering cause I've started playing it seriously and am looking for some comp. One-armed man's hungry for some beatdowns, y'know! /versus/images/graemlins/grin.gif

funk out,
not high, not baked, not blazin', just...

TENGU STONED!!!

 

Re: Tourney/Gathering in February...?

Josh the Funk Doc,
I would prefer Tag to be a normal entry fee tourney like say 10 bux or something like that split 70/20/10. Also, I used to play 3rd Strike a LONG time ago with Urien, but I suck now. I dont know of anybody who plays it in STL except for maybe a few of the Mid River's kids.

Kaminari_Oyaji-Glad to hear you had a good holiday and hope to play you when I get back.

Here is a log I have cut n' pasted from Tekken Zaibatsu of my time in Japan thus far. It is long, but I hope you enjoy it.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------Happy New Year and Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu, kotoshi mo yoroshiku!
HOpe everybody is doing well and wanted to pop a mini log on here to keep the updates flowing. bare with me because I am not used to the keyboards and wont correct my mistakes.

arrived in Japan and the flight was the jayuice because Japan Airlanes has infinite topple and pocky candy free of charge plus beer and wine which put me to sleep. after I woke up I watched tomb raider 2 and I was there.

after arriving I met the fam and exchanged gifts. then soaked in the juice tub that is hemma deep. I then ate some great kaiten sushi. after that I peaced.

next day hide and his father want me to go to pachinko slots with them. now slots are hemma dumb in my opinion, but I woke up hemma early and went. after playing and losing hella, I started tearing on the inside, but they were both doing very well and had hella money falling out the machines. now it is not real money, but *medals*(where is teh damn quote button?* and I was really tearing. Now I wasnt even using my own money, but I was losing every time. then, they were telling me all of these strats. _i was like what strats? see i was trying to pick the juiciest symbol and line them up. they said you cant do that and have to press the buttons at a certain pattern to have a chance for a replay or a chance for about 4-15 mmedals. well, i did so and won a few, but was still losing then they said to listen to the different sounds and look for certain patters. I was like WHat? so there are about 10 patterns to memorize and if you find one, then instead of putting 3 medals in, you only put one in and get a chance to pick from the middle line to get a *reach*. once you get this, you pretty much won equiv of $50 and if you are on a good machine, they dont change the rate of winning so I kept at it and we busted a huge ass pot once I learned how to look for the reach and get the jayuice. so afterwards, hide stayed and won even more while Mr. N and I went to teh counter. now there are all of these crappy things you can buy with hemma medals kind of like tickets from ski ball, but instead, he got like 12 single gold and silver pens in clear plastic boxes just big enough for them to fit in each, then we left. I was like, wow they look pretty shitty, but okay. so we leave the building and walk for like 3 minutes to a noodle shop where there is this miniature window about the size of my arm with a very small hole and no window at all. he tells me to put the pens in, I do, then a *mysterty* hand sets out over $200. _So since gambling is illegal, this is how you have to do it. Also, being more interested in getting this kind of grip, i found out that Hide has the game at home and ways for you to train to get better at it?!?! I am listening! So we all did, and they taught me hella. To top it all off, it wasn:t my money to begin with to gamble with, but Mr. N says, keep $200, give $100 to the fam for dinner and keepa bill for yourself. _That is what I am talking about!

for dinner, i had the jayuice yakiniku and BOy was it good and also they ordered Pride, K-1, Battle Enoki Bom Ba-e, and some other fighting one. It was an entire night of watching conks get creased and THERE WAS SOme HEMMA PEACE IOUTS in that batch! we didn:t tape it though, but they were all the jayuice and I saw mike tyson on the big screen in one, but it had to be forfeit to watch a better match. also, bob sapp beat the shit out of the Japanese hawaian wresler Ikebono. then there was this guy who had a real face like kaz turning into devil and he was joking around mid-fight only to take a vicious kick to his muthafuacking dome and get koed, lol.

next day woke up early, ate sushi and udon, then went with the fam to meet extended fam. before that, I received a new years gift from Mr. N and Mrs. N. They handed me a small envelope and it has 2 man-en($200) in it! I tried to give it back, but they wouldn't let me. That was a great way to wake up. on the way to meet the fam, we saw a tight figure store HAtman!, and also some crazy car accident. we arrived, ate a small meal, met the grandma, uncles, aunties, everybody, then went to pay respects to everybody at their family grave in the nearbye temple. also learned of this temple that has a beast inside of it who eats human babies and has a 1000 babies of her own. god said she was whack so he took one of her babies then she felt regret and decided to help human babies so everybody gave props to it. I went and gave it daps too, lol.

then we went to some huge ass fucking shopping center, but I thought I would be in boringville, but instead they had some tight shit there. I went to the games section and spotted Hyper street fighter II turbo aniversary edition for 4000 yen so that was tight. also they had the new gundam z: titans vs eug which I havent played yet. I also saw a dragon quest game, but instead of a game it was a plastic sword that was fairly large. you plug it into your tv, then play a dragon quest game on your tv that is wired to the sword. you then swing it in the correct manner to kill your opponents which I thoght was tight. out of nowhere, Yuko's aunt comes up and asks if I like games. I was like, yeah. then she looked at Hyper Street fighter that I was looking at and then bought that shit for me. I told her she shouldnt do that, but because I am so tall in Japan, they couldnt find a coat for me so it was the next best thing. I am listening.

after that, we returned to the house and ate with the extended fam. the grandma made sure I was always eating hella and everybody was hooking me up with endless wine and chu-hi's so I was mildly buzzed. before leaving, the aunt and uncle handed me a tape and said since Mr. N and Mrs. Ns vcr was broke, they taped the fights for me so we will have many conk creasings to watch when I return. Then we left and checked the figure store on the way home for HATMAN!!!!, but they didnt have any taki shit so I will find some later.

then on the way home, everybody is sleeping in the car, but mr. N convinces mrs. N to go to pachinko slots. so we all go. I dont see any good machines, but sit down to play anyway.

same slot I won hella from the other day, but there was no lucky sign above it so I sat down anyway because the juice ones were taken up. I lost 2000 en(20 bucks) so I said I was out to check the nearbye game center. when I walked in *tomato* I remembered everything like it was. then I went upstairs, got change, and saw a card station. at the station, I bought a guilty gear xx isuka card for 5 dollars for online play and it had a picture of may on it. I popped it in and tried the game. wow, the controls took a long time to get used to because the button where the dust used to be turns you to face the opposite way and in order to do a dust attack, you have to do oldschool x style of pressing hard slash and regular slash. also pressing the switch button plus hs goes in and out of the background. pressing switch plus another button is forground-background transfer, but with an attack this time. then you can press another comination for a kind of turn around attack for when you don:t want to turn around with the button. like eddie for example has his shadow turn into a horses ass and do a double heel kick to your grill. anyway, I played hella and it seems like the characters that will dominate are the ones who can cover the most screen. It seems hard for eddie so I tried baiken and it was a little easier. she feels like xx baiken a little more as opposed to reload baiken. the frcs are a little different like reload, but the pushback is like xx so i am listening. also the backgrounds are the fucking dominator, but you can notice a slight decrease in teh quality of graphics when on the line that is closer to the screen. after playing the computer for a while, they make you play survival mode actually, and at the piont when a new challenger would come in the home version in a gold form, instead you fight against two characters at once.

WOW I WAS FUCKING TEARING LIKE A BABY, holy shit! I literally yelled out for Dre, * TWO AGAINST ONE< ITS NOT FAIR!* lol. Some of the team combos they were doing to me were off the hook. Also, your lifebar is very small,b ut it is kind of like Killer Instinct where after you lose one, you will fall over and die, but then you will rise up with one last lifebar. I didn:t get to play two player, but this is how it was in one player.

Then after that I played Gundam Z....

All I can say is that that game is the MUTHA FUCKIN Jayuice! I am going to buy it immediately tommorw. For one, it has a billino new suits in it, and two, due to time release, all of the old suits fromt he old game retunred, but with some new abilities and a little tweaking. hella fun game, especially with two players against two. ugh, too juicy.

next I saw kof2003 and Samurai Spirits. I did:t have time to play, but saw a guy regulating that shit in 2003 with billy kane. wow, he did a combo in a corner, into an air hit, then some flaming ass circle super that was huge. the super didn't connect, but it looked like it might be able to. I sure hope not otherwise that wouldve done hemma.

in samurai spirits, the popular guy was the billion swords character. why is he so cheap? don:t know too much other than he does hemma and is fairly safe from what I could tell. didnt get to play it though.

vfevo didn:t have anybody playing so I didn]t get my card yet.

ggxx reload had hella comp so I may check into that one again.

before leaving, we played pachislots and won some more, but since it was in this game center, it is only for fun and not for grip, but it was still fun. also, there was a billion ufo catchers in it and one of them was a Dragon Quest one. It had some slimes and mini figures in it. Yuko]s brother Hide tried it, we both chipped in a dollar for 3 tries, but on his first try, he won a big slime, and two mini figures at one time! gave all of them to me too. also, the slime is like a breast implant with a face beacuse it is filled with some crazy shit and is feels like gel.

we got back and I am going to bust out some hyper st now to get some championship blanka, hyper blanka, and championship claw, and hyper claw in this batch.

tommorw I have nothing planned so it will be gambling time at the pachinko slots hopefully with some new gaming shit on the side. As I am writing this Yuko just handed me a thick SCII book so I will show it to you guys if you want when I return.

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Happy Newyear everybody and keep playing!

alright, some more juice went down so here is what is up...

January 2nd,

the next day Hide and Mr. N go to Pachinko slots, but I didn't get to go because I was too busy reppin Shaun, sleep in a billion years, style. They came back some time later and after eating a dominator breakfast, Hide wanted to go to a denkiya(Kind of electric appliance store with a little bit of everything) so I was down. The thing is, that in America, they have frequent flyer miles for people who fly a lot, but in Japan since all of the stores are in super competition mode, they all have individual point cards that give you a percent of the money you spent on a purchase back to accumulate and use when you like at the same store. Well, Mrs. N had about 3000 yen(about 30 bux) saved on her Yamada store card and she wanted me to use it up for a game. I didn't want to use it, but I did want to buy a game so we went and I was perusing the game area and saw about everything I was looking for except the new Gundam Z: Eug vs Titans was sold out. Then I saw a mini-Hori stick so I bought that and it works great and I also saw a Gundam Z:Eug vs Titans in a bigger box for sale at over 8000 yen(80 bux). I looked and it had the online adapter along with the game inside so I was listening and picked that plus the Hori stick up. When Hide asked me if I wanted to use the 3000 points left on the card, I said no, let's just give Mrs. N a favor and accumulate even more from my purchase so we did. Suddenly after the purchase, the clerk says something like I won a Jackpot. I thought my Japanese was bad or something, but then when Hide verified, it seems people have a random chance to win a ton of money, and I hit that shit and won over 8000 yen totaling the point card at over 100 dollars! That was the muthafuckin jayuice so I gave some of it to him to use to buy CDRs then I used the rest to buy a set of Taiko no Tatsujin(Proffesional Drummer, you know the big ass single drums) and the game for a deal of 5000 yen(50 bux) so that was hella tight. Then I used the rest to buy Yuko's fam a heater fan that is really crazy looking. So we got back and her whole family and I and a guest they had over known only as Sensei were all playing this drum game hemma. Then I busted out Gundam Z:Eug vs Titans and that game is the best of all time holy shit. Everybody must play when I get back. ALL of the old suits are still in it along with so many new ones that I still havent had a chance to play all of them yet.

Also Lenny, there is a new type of death in Gundam Z I call the "ABOUT FACE!" which I know you will pump up!

Then after that Hide is like let's go to a game center! Now this one we went to at first was fucking huge and 24 hours called "The Warehouse" and it was filled with so many gambling kids and adults...unreal. They didn't have the pachinko slots he wanted to play so we went to a different one. This other one I have been to last year and it is probably one of my favorite in all of Japan. It is simply called "Game" and may be a part of a much smaller Pachinko Slot place called Banigans or something. Anyway, we go in and even though there was no Guilty Gear Isuka, there were 4 machines of VFEvo with a TON of comp on them. I was listening! So I payed 5 bux for the VF card, then popped it in and played against some players. See, since I had just got the card, my character name is NO NAME and I am the lowest rank. Also, I am a foreigner so all of the players watching were immediatly saying things before I even played like, "This should be funny." or "Wow, that guy put the card in at the wrong time, I bet his playing skills are just as bad ha ha ha" or the best one was "He picked Brad? He must not know about this game at all." Well, I played against players including a Vannesa, Pai, Lei Fei, Goh, and Sarah. I destroyed the Vanessa, Sarah, and Pai players and they were all ranked 9dan, tsuyamono, and ohjya. Then the Lei Fei player stepped up. Right now I am searching for a smiley face to describe what happened....................................................................................................................ok, found it......
because I got CLOWNED, FUCK! His Lei Fei was off the hook. He had something like 5000 wins and 2900 losses. Whenever I attack, it is parryed into half life. Whenever I sit there, I am eating throws and UNPUNISHABLE sweeps and when I evade, more throws and sweeps. He did a wall combo to me with Lei Fei in the Temple Stage that hurt so bad I was wondering when he was going to quit hitting me! The first match he got an E broom on me so that is how that went. Then when I came back in on him, I turtled that shit and he ate way too many Dum Dum SAMICHES!!! I got an E broom back on him to let him know so I felt good. We kept challenging each other and overall I won against him like 4-3 so I was happy. Then that Goh player was doing really well against me even though we had only one match. I swear that guy was just an empty body chanelling Hatman's playstyle x 10 into his brain because every second he could he would run in my face, do nothing, and wait for me to make a mistake. His throw breaking was off the hook too which made me not want to throw him, but I barely squeegied that shit. Also, I played against a Brad player who beat me the first time by a squeegie, but I came back and beat him 4 times in a row to prove that fluke, lol. Overall after about 20 games, I had a 67% win percentage and was at 7kyu so I was happy. Also, since Yuko and Hide were there they heard people on the other side say, "He is really strong, who is that guy?" and "that guy is very strong, but using Brad is what shocks me!" I left hella happy and the Lei Fei guy came over and we gave each other props so then we peaced back to the house for another ricockulous dinner of sushi prepared by Mrs. N.

Before going to sleep, I had to get my mad GundamZ on so Hide and I played it hella. I am telling you guys, this game blows the previous one out of the water in almost every aspect. Also, it lets you know when you do something special like a team combo or protecting your teammate before they get jacked by saying stuff like, "Great combo assist!" and "Great intercept" and "Great protection. Also, when the bar is flashing, your speed and power are up and off the hook so in a team game both players have to press L1 at the same time to do it so it requires some verbal comands to make sure you both get it at the same time.

January 3rd,

Had to wake up semi early so Yuko and I could get my friend Joe H from the Airport. His flight was delayed and after we ate some Tempura and watched some planes land, I got my mega sleep on near the terminal. Finally at about 6:30pm Joe arrived and we took a bus back to omiya, then took a train to higashi omiya, then were met by Mr. N waiting in his car and made it back to get a meal at their place. We had sukiyaki which was the dominator so Joe pumped it up hella. Then we went to a game center to show Joe what it was like.

The one we went to was a different 24 hours one than the Warehouse, but it was much better than that one. They had a ton of crane games, music games, racing games, and test of physical skill games. Joe being a park ranger and practically a body builder took out each physical skill game one after another. First was the Sonic Blast Man Punching game where it takes a picture of somebodies face, then puts it on a monster and you hit this pole as hard as you can and the person's face gets all distorted. That was tight, then Joe went to play this game that tests your kicking skill and the top ranking number was 453. So you get two kicks. Joes first one was 402 which just barely missed the 3rd place ranking of 410. Then his final kick was hyped by us by our screaming and he kicked that damn machine so hard that it not only jumped over to the side(it actually moved about a foot to the side a centimeter off of the ground!), but I swear I saw the machine shed a real life tear! His number? 477! Then I took a picture of him next to the score being a jackass. After that, they had this robot arm wrestling game and of course Joe ovened the hardest opponent robot. The second match against the robot gave him a real challenge, but he still won. Then Hide went to try the kicking machine and it didn't work at all anymore! Joe fucking broke it with his 477 point kick :lol Now you want to talk about in somebodies face, the arcade worker game to fix it and had to reset it, and when that happened, Joe's top score ceased to exist so the machine jacked him hella hard. The 453 was still on there though, ha ha ha.

So now it was time for me to get some comp in that bitch. They had some Guitly Gear Isuka, 3 VF Evo machines, SSV, and some Kof 2003 machines. Well, I tried two games of GG Isuka and there was only one Johnny player playing at the time, but damn. I picked Baiken, and he literally must have come over to my side, took a big ass piece of paper, wrapped me up in it, pulled out a lighter, then smoked me like a J because he almost perfected me in that game and you have two lifebars!!!! He did the sickest Johnny combos, different from XX and XX Reload ones and also used the backturned attack, then did an air combo from it! I was facing the wrong way most of the time and missed my air dust loop every time due to having to hit S and HS for an air Dust and a sweep. It wasnt even funny how bad I got beat so I have to do a little better next time. Also, the last boss of that game is fucking madness. Some giant dog headed? beast looking thing.

After being embarrassed, I decided to go get embarrassed at Vf Evo. Since the other day, Hide allowed me to use his cell phone to update my data on my card so now my name is Shon Ribera in Japanese Katakana and my quote when I start the match is, "Kore ha gaikokujin no chikara da(warai)!" which means, "This is the power of a foreigner(lol)!" Anyway I played against Jacky, Shun Di, and Pai.

My first time played, I couldn't get my card in correctly so it didn't register and I just gave up and tried a different machine. When I finally got to play, I played this Shun Di player who was off the motherfucking hook. I had no idea of his crazy priority or damage after he gets a few drinks going. This guy was hella good so I pump that up and eventually beat him 5-3. Also I played a Pai player who had about 6000 wins and about 4000 losses a few times, but I won 3-0. Since Brad can't box with Pai, I was just turtling that shit hemma to punish whiffs. Then I played the Jacky player. Wow Lenny, if only you could have seen the stuff this guy was doing. He got me pretty good the first two games, but then I came back and won overall, but when I won against him, they were mostly squeegies with only one E Broom in there. I remembered where I can sway and land a rim rocker on his strings so after he didnt use them as much, I got him to freeze and eat some throws.

Then when I was done playing and beat the game, I saw a guy playing next to me against the clear dural. His character was a mega pimped out Lau and his ranking was a HaoOu!!!!!!!!! His name was something like .........(unknown kanji)........ and since I couldn't read the kanji, I was like oh well. Then I noticed, though, that the name was the same as the guy who was playing Shun Di so I was getting ready to play him and I sat down, put my card in, but he beat the game so I didn't get a match. Damn. Well, we busted out and before that we played some Taiko no Tatsujin 5 in the arcade(the big drum game) and then peace out.

All four of us went to eat some Gyudon(beef over a bed of rice in a bowl) and it was hella good. Then we went back and everybody got their mad sleep on around 3am because we had to wake up at 6am to go to EdoMura(Ninja Wonderland aka Ninja Town) the next morning.

Januray 4th,

Woke up hemma early, then went to the place and on the way we saw Western Town that had a fake mount rushmore, lol. We then went to Ninja town, watched a few tight ass ninja shows and exhibitions, had Joe go through the maze, get jacked because it took him hemma long, and then went into the slanted house on the hill. I can't describe any of this stuff so i will just show you the pictures I took because it was all tight as hell. Then there was this show with Tokugawa Ieyasu(the Shogun) and they ask for an audience member to go on stage and be him. Of course everybody elects me to do it even though I don't want to, but I found the courage to give it a try. They took me in the back, dressed me up, asked if it is okay that I drink real sake during the performance, and gave me all of these things to read. Well, the show started and I had to act all of this shit out in Japanese so it was pretty challenging, but I regulated it and everybody was cheering for the foreigner repping the Shogun style when I nailed my lines and drank my sake. Afterwards, they gave me a picture of me and the Geisha dressed actress who was hella beautiful looking along with some other gifts and it was all very fun.

At one point we ate some tempura in that place too and it was hemma good. We also had some oldstyle sake which was fairly strong and hit the spot.

After leaving, we drove back and I mega peaced on the way home, but we arrived at another Kaiten Sushiya and it tasted hemma good. Damn, I ate so much food that I thought I was going to explode because it just kept coming. Also, it was Joe's first taste of Sushi so he handled it like a champ for never having it before.

Then we came back, and I read for a little bit as every night I have been reading this book called Memiors of a Geisha which is very good. I always thought they were prostitutes, but this helped me understand that it is not the case and it is a lot different. I also read some manga and read the new Arcadia for February with a ton of info in it.

Here is some of the GG Isuka info in it and there may be some errors because my reading ability is in the negatives:

gg isuka changes from #reload:

-dust, sweep, and air dust are S and HS at the same time

-burst is now done by pressing 4 buttons at the same time, can also be done while you are in stagger now.

-instant kills, taunts, and respects are now gone

-faultless defense is done with K+S at the same time, S+HS will not give it to you anymore.

-(not sure about this one), but air faultless defense cannot guard against opponents moves from the ground. example would be if sol does standing kick on a johnny that jumps in with faultless defense, I believe the Johnny player gets hit.

-if your character is facing the wrong way and you press back to block, you won't block, but instead walk the opposite way.

-the negative edge has now changed. before you used to only lose all of your tension, but now you also get your guard meter maxxed out. The conditions of getting this penalty are not moving, not attacking, running away from your opponent often, or keep going to a line of play where nobody is fighting(example is if it is a free for all of 4 players, and everybody is in the front line, but you stay chilling in the back line, then when they come there, you move back to the front line). Another thing is that if you backstep, that doesn't count toward your negative edge.

-(not sure) when you get hit in the air when facing the wrong way, you can't turn around( and eat the full combo).

-(have no idea) when you are knocked flying though the air, the character can go through you?
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in two vs one, points to remember:
the single player:
-the single player's bursts are always gold?

-tension guage and tension balance get maxed, after it starts?

-the damage the single player deals is 1.1 of normal damage.
the two player team:
-after it begins, their burst guages go to zero

-doing damage to your teammate does only 1/4th of the normal damage?

-the damage the team does to the single player is reduced to 0.9 of normal daamge.

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Then there are a ton of team strats for the teams of
Ky/Testament
Sol/Axl
Potemkin/Dizzy
Eddie/Jam


That's about it for now, tommorow I should meet up with the VF Evo players(Jan 5th), Jan 6th I should go to a shrine with Joe and the family here then go clubbing that night with a ton of people, then on January 7th I go to Mikkii game center for strictly Tag action against Kazuya, Nagasaki, Sdz, Ika, Tsubame, and the Armor King player who is really good from what I hear. On January 8th, maybe shopping for everybody day and take my girlfriend out somewhere very nice to eat like Komugikos and also get some Sengoku Jiman ramen, on January 9th I will meet Mike who just came in from Shanghai and meeting his Chinese girlfriend's parents for some food, then head to Playmax to play tag with everybody there. On the 10th, I return to America.

conk out,
not Scrappy Doo and his Puppy Power, just...

SHAUN RIVERA AND HIS FOREIGNER POWER!!!! /versus/images/graemlins/grin.gif /versus/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

Re: Tourney/Gathering in February...?

Go Conk! Good job representing Dum Dums and Man in Brad in Japan. /versus/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

quick update cuts from the past few days....

Yesterday, I went with Joe and Hide to Ikebukuro and met this VF player who lives in STL, but is studying abroad there called Mukatsuku Shun(Dave) and his Shun Di was off the motherfucking hook. He beat me very badly at first and I only beat him like 3 out of 8, but then I started finding some stuff out and made him get change twice to my once. My final percentage was 61% and I am now at beginning dan. I tried to play a Lei Fei at my rank, but he beat me the first 2 and went to 2 dan and I finally beat him the third match, but it didn't matter at that time. Then Dave said to me how this Oujya came and beat his ass really bad so he was pissed. Well, I wanted a piece of that dude. He played Akira and Dave told me he is on the same team Chibita is so I was hyped at how good he was. I lost to him the first two times, but then I beat him and he just stood up in amazement and said I was very strong. Then his friend must have been watching because he jumped in with an Oujya ranked Kage with a 70% win percentage and over 4000 wins to I dont remember how many losses. Well this guy beat me 16 times in a row and his Kage was just off the hook. The upper he has gets under everything like dark upper so I wasnt pissed, but pretty happy that I got some really strong comp. I gave him props afterwards and then peaced.
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check out my vf phrases....


HOW YOU DUMING?(when killed by a Dum Dum)

This game is shitty, lets play Tag(for when I lost horribly, and of course it is in Japanese)

This is the power of a foreigner!!!! (can be used when I lose or when I win, double meaning)
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the other night we went to the 24 hour game center and while getting drunk(public and in certain gamecenters is a okay ) I played some GG Isuka and VF Evo.

Because of that kage player from before, my win percentage was downed to about 50% so I managed to keep it at that level after about ten games. Wolf, Jacky, and Akira were mainly in the house. Also, the other day I saw a Haoh ranked Lau, but I heard from a friend that arcade workers stay after hours and make those fake ranked cards then sell them online for a grand to people who dont know any better. that's hemma dumb. Akira wasn't so bad, but Jacky was a beast. Even more so was this Wolf player, wow he is pretty cheap, holy shit. I could be listening. I also changed my VF name to UNCONKABLE (STL) and after I beat a guy I picked the quote, "HOW YOU DUMING?". After losing to the wolf player when he got to 2 dan against me I used the quote, "This game is shit, let's play Tag!" because I was tearing! I had a lot of fun.
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conk out,
not wolfenstein 3d, just...

WOLF?!?! /versus/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /versus/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

Re: quick update cuts from the past few days....

Yo dum dum's,
Good to hear your having a wonderfull time and regulating that shit! As far as the ninja goes, well??? I have to pump that up!! Kage's upper is the finest! I hope you get to play hella matches before you come back, so you can power up properly and really own us all for free. If you see any new vf literature over there pick it up and I'll reimburse you later. Thx in advance. Can't wait until you get back, so we can get some matches in these soft batches!
Laters^^

 

a request....

What's up people?
It turns out that my brother Scott and his fiance Beth are one of six finalist couples in a Y98FM radio station free wedding contest(including free catering, free tux, free dress, and a free honeymoon) and by Thursday, if they have the most votes, they will win.

Well, my brother is a hard worker and also very generous so trying to rally a ton of votes for him is the least I can do.

Also, if anybody has any ideas how we can win this thing by shady methods, by all means please go ahead with them /and or let me know!

Thanks again everybody,
Shaun Rivera

p.s. Here is the message that my brother and his fiance sent to me:

HHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLPPP
PPPPP!!!!!

My fiance, Scott, and I entered Y98's Mega Wedding Contest to win an ABSOLUTELY FREE wedding (free dress, tux, flowers, limo, wedding, reception, honeymoon.) Everything FREE!!! We are one of 6 finalists and are very excited about our chances.

Please help us by voting for us at www.y98.com or you can go directly to the sight at http://www.y98.com/n_extra02.shtml.

The couple with the most online votes will win the contest. It will take only a very few moments for you to log on and go to the special wedding site and vote for couple #3 Scott and Beth.

Also, if you don't mind, please forward this to anyone else you know who might also vote. We need all the votes we can get.

Thank you very much for helping!

Scott and Beth

 

Re: Back in STL this weekend

Good shit the other night Hatman, Gorilla Pimp, Shou, and Kaminari_Oyaji in VF Evo. I need to start throw breaking after my lagging ass moves, lol. Way to regulate on a poor old Brad player everybody. Next time go easy on me please, kthx!

conk out,
not How U Duming?, just...

NOT DUMING TOO WELL THESE DAYS!!!! /versus/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

Re: Back in STL this weekend

Welcome back, Conk. /versus/images/graemlins/smile.gif Hope I can get some matches in with you soon in Ohio.

 

Re: Back in STL this weekend

Monkey See, Monkey Do
Monkey Get You

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