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Monday, November 9th, 2009
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3:03 pm - TO EVERYONE
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I want to set up BlazBlue at my apartment this Saturday, the 14th. I invite everyone who wants to come and play BlazBlue. There will be a camera set up to record matches, but not the individuals playing the matches. (That is, the TV will be recorded, people will not.)
Some days afterwards I will ask people to do follow-up interviews which proceed alongside recorded matches of them playing. If you want to do a follow-up interview, that is awesome. If you do not want to do a follow-up interview, that is also awesome. It is not mandatory. (The interview, I mean. Awesomeness, however, is.)
Spread the word: everyone is invited. Novice, expert, old gen, new gen, new old gen, old new gen, scrub, tub, bub, everyone.
What time would work for people? The evening, perhaps? I can provide snacks and drinks to keep people entertained when they're not playing BlazBlue. Also, we have a second TV we can hook Guilty Gear up to for when people aren't playing BlazBlue. Despite the fact that it's technically "research", it will be as completely informal as any other BB get together.
tl;dr BlazBlue at my place, this Saturday. You are invited.
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| Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
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10:48 pm
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| Sunday, November 1st, 2009
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4:29 pm - research
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Dear all BlazBlue players:
I would like to request your assistance with my capstone research. Some of you have already agreed to do so, but I would be overjoyed if you could attend a BlazBlue party at my apartment sometime in the coming weeks. If you would agree, then I would record the game footage for use in future interviews with the players. These interviews would be aimed at the conceptualization of decisions and decision-making, reflection upon previous gameplay, and the ways in which emotion frame reflection.
What would be a good time for people to get together and juts for a few hours (all the interview stuff would take place at another point in time)? Perhaps this coming weekend?
Thanks in prior to people who attend the future juts session, even if you end up not wanting to participate in an interview. No interview is necessary to partake in BlueBallz.
Let me know what you think and I'll set it up.
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| Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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1:00 am - ho ho
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| Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
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2:55 pm - this
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| Saturday, October 17th, 2009
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5:24 pm - origins
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| Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
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7:02 pm - cosplaying information?
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I have a friend in my program doing his capstone project on cosplayers--specifically, he's trying to get gamers and cosplayers to talk more at cons. He's also working with the idea of 'giving cosplayers a voice', or letting cosplayers speak with instruments other than their physical voice.
What he needs is a hint as to who he can talk to, or groups of people he can talk to. I thought there may be one or two people here who could help with this.
If anyone can help him, I would really appreciate it if you would leave something here. If you need more information and want to help out, his email is caddy@umail.iu.edu and I'm sure he'd be very happy to field any questions. Again, if you want to use this post as an intermediary, you can leave anything you want here and I'd be very appreciative.
Thanks everyone.
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| Friday, October 9th, 2009
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5:08 pm - oh hey
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Remember when we were gonna set up that fake Game Chariot site called Game Buggy and host a bunch of videos like we were really famous japanese players? We had kaxn, Yuki's Nose, Bippa. Good times.
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| Thursday, October 8th, 2009
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9:17 pm - the doozer
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the doozer had a Jump Cancel Cancel as well. (2D into a special, usually fish for oki)
now that I know Bang's, I might as well take another shot at learning Dizzy's. I remember telling myself back in the day "this shit is too hard, fuggit." Oh what a fool I was to have given up.
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| Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
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3:42 pm - goddamn
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| Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
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1:09 am - zomj gayz
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So I went back to play some GG and guess what my combo execution is way way better than it used to be. On top of that, I'm learning combos more quickly than I used to.
I think something about BB has helped conditioned me to successful combo execution. I don't know what.......... But I'd like to.
Oh and I've been learning Chipp combos. I don't think I'll ever play him successfully because his Faultless Defend Cancel is pain in the ass to pull off, and it's the main tool in his 50/50 oki game.
Also I miss oki. In BB I can usually just neutral tech, block low, and just worry about pressure. Which is mostly frame traps.
Hmm..... Uh oh.
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| Sunday, October 4th, 2009
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12:09 am - uh oh
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So Bang is a lot like Order-Sol: good pressure and oki (good oki being a rarity in BB). He also has a bit of Anji: good oki and guard points. On top of that, he's got some A.B.A.: good pressure and an alternate mode with huge advantages and disadvantages.
(That leaves out poor Dizzy and Fausto. Did I play anybody else? Oh fuck it all there were so many characters in GG and I want them back)
SO ANYWAY you would think that this strange Order-Bang=Mito (with a nail instead of a key) would warm my heart and get me really excited to play him. But I really just kinda miss Hoss, Anji, and ABA. And I think the reason why just comes down to character design. Bang is great, he's awesome, he's funny while having an inkling of seriousness to him minute enough not to feel contrived. (Then again, his 'serious' background is "oh no my ninja friends were killed and i got cut in the face inside of my ninja castle fuuuuuuuu".)
But he's really not my kinda guy. Not like Hoss was. Not like Anji's chest was. And not like A.B.A.'s Lucca-defying, corpse-like attractiveness was. Probably shouldn't have said that out loud.
Also BB doesn't have any pokes. At least not on characters I play. >:(
But this brings me to a more positive point about BlazBlue: I like Tager much more than I liked Pochomkin. His character design and gameplay I find much more enjoyable than Pot's. The only thing I liked about Pot was his oki, and having really great oki wasn't worth playing the fucker for the other 90 seconds of every match.
SO REALLY WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY IS hay guyz lets play some GG next time we're together because I'm nostalgic.
EDIT: But someone's gonna have to bring two PS2 controllers, because the one Xuan has is kinda borked.
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| Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
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5:39 pm - it's like the pirate bay
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| Friday, September 25th, 2009
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12:25 pm
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12:41 am
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| Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
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12:19 pm - capstone project
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I have a capstone project for my final year of grad school. At the moment, it looks like my capstone will be something like, "making the decisions of a piece of competitive play transparent in order to help players learn from the experience." Most likely the project will focus explicitly on either a fighting game or Starcraft. Experts point towards Blazblue.
Two of the things that happen a lot after two people finish a competitive match are:
a) one player gets beaten really, really hard and has no idea why he lost so fuckin' hard.
b) after the match, one (or both) of the players have trouble constructing 'take-aways' from the match, either internally or externally communicated.
I've been going back to Sirlin's post about "the scrub" to try to find out the reasons why a) and b) will happen to novice players. This has been difficult. If you read http://www.sirlin.net/articles/playing-to-win-part-1.html again or for the first time, you might find out why.
This guy is an asshole. After you finish the article, scroll down and read his responses and edits in the comments. He's just an asshole. Which is too bad because he has some very important things to say. But dear god you fucking asshole.
The other reason it's so difficult to read is because of how antagonistic he is towards the scrub. Imagine if I'm writing a piece on low income black families in the inner cities, and about why they make bad choices. Except the whole time I refer to a black person in this situation as "the nigger."
"Introducing...the Nigger
In the world of low income urban America, there is a word for black people who aren't wealthy: "nigger." Everyone begins as a nigger---it takes time to earn the income to get to a point where you know what you're doing. There is the mistaken notion, though, that by merely continuing to work or "earn" an income, that one can become a black person. In reality, the "nigger" has many more mental obstacles to overcome than anything actually going on during the job. The scrub has lost his credit record even before it starts. He's lost his future before he's chosen his profession. He's lost his job even before the decision of which fast food restaurant to work at has been made. His problem? He does not play to win."
If I wrote something like this no one would take me seriously, thank god.
I was talking with Endril awhile back and he made a good point. It was something along the lines of "I believe Sirlin is coming from a standpoint where he is the main point of antagonism, not the scrub." This does explain why he has framed his argument in such an antagonistic way, but I don't think it legitimizes it. He has, very unfortunately, resorted to name-calling in a situation where he desperately needs to treat the "scrub" with fairness. If you don't, no "scrub" will ever listen to you and you'll basically be left preaching to the choir.
I'd love to hear what other people think about this, and I know I'm saying "don't be antagonistic" while being extremely antagonistic myself. Luckily I hold almost no sway in any professional sphere, and don't have to worry so much about anyone caring when I make a fool of myself.
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| Sunday, September 20th, 2009
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2:28 pm - gabblregrrr
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| Thursday, September 10th, 2009
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1:02 pm - fullinkazang
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I have learned 4 seal combos for all but two of the cast, and the two characters for which I have not learned 4 seal combos do not have 4 seal combos that work against them. So.
Quid pro quo.
Now if only I'll be able to do them consistently when actually playing (I won't).
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| Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
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1:17 pm - bang install theme
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| Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
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10:52 am - oh yeah that
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So that tournament thing that happened awhile back.
It was a) pretty awesome and b) filled with Noel. I made it like three or four wins in (three, I think?) before I was knocked to the losers' by the Litchi who went on to kick every other player squarely in the dick and win the tournament. In the losers' I fought a Noel, and lost. But here's the kicker: previously in the tournament I had fought a Noel who was actually way better than him and won.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
It very much had to do with how much steam getting punk owned by that Litchi had cost me. (Answer: most of it.) It wasn't until the second set of matches that I had figured out how to poke against her, and actually got some pressure off. Her mixup in the corner was what boned me and everyone else. (The secret is to tech neutral and then block high, he later revealed. It's just hard to parse what's going on when there's Litchi kicking, a staff flying, and some boobers jiggling.)
But back to the Noel fight: this guy took me down in the first set and I was like "shit, I'm not playing very well. I'll probably get knocked out here" and then I was totally all like "BANG WOULD NEVER SAY THAT LET'S DO THIS" and kicked his ass so hard in the next set. Then I lost the third because my burning heart only had two rebels worth of juice left.
But all in all it was hell of fun and I don't regret paying fifteen bucks for the opportunity even though I probably won't pay that much again for awhile.
Thank you Sarah, Matt, Nate, Boco, and Dan 4 for supporting me. I think the most fun I had at the tournament was watching my friends compete. Especially Sarah in the Accent Core tournament, Matt when he beat that v-13, Boco when he stepped all over that Tao player none of us could touch before the tourny started, and Nate's ultra-conservative playstyle that forsook the ancient art of "air dashing". Dan 4 you didn't play but you came anyway which was pretty sweet. You should have registered in like Marvel vs Capcom 2 with an all Servbot team.
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