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LCAD 2012
Topic Started: Jan 17 2012, 06:43 AM (536 Views)
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It's a trap!
Wondering, is anybody going to weeaboo city meeting this weekend?
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Sonic Man
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Originally, I didn't think I'd be going, but I was invited to spend the night in Las Cruces with some friends that weekend, so I will be.
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Sanjo9
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I've made a decision that I will base my future travel plans on. If the convention will be hosting a Marvel tournament on PS3, fine. Otherwise I have no reason to attend. However, if I manage to get a fightstick sometime in the near future and practice with it to a level that I deem acceptable, and the people hosting the tournament will have sticks available should the thing be held on 360, this is the only other case in which I will go.
Edited by Sanjo9, Jan 18 2012, 01:36 PM.
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Caliburnus
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I know some of the people in charge of the gaming tournament, same group from EPAC really. You'll need to bring your own fight stick. Otherwise, it's random luck with the standard control. The equipment has typically been in good condition. I only had one gripe about a PS3 stick a few years back. After that, I've been able to play on multiple consoles/games without issues. If you're looking for a reasonably-run MvC tournament though, you're better off waiting on the Knights or 8bit to throw another one though.
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Sanjo9
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NEVER fucking 8 Bit Fix. I absolutely refuse to go to any tournaments they hold in the future. They don't understand what double elimination means, they fail to bring proper equipment, and they have no conception whatsoever of how to properly run a tournament. The Wintercon tournament claimed that fightsticks would be available, and they brought one. Just one fucking stick. The latest one at Robo Gato advertised sticks and pads, and they brought one pad that ran out of power shortly before the thing started. Both Marvel tournaments have been on 360, which already infuriates me, but everything else is absolutely abhorrent. My opinion of them can't get any lower, and because I can never be right about anything, I've been lambasted for my views on that shitty fucking group.

The 360 pad is so poorly designed for fighting games that it amazes me anyone can utilize it at all. Everywhere I go, I keep running into the same bullshit, where everyone expects me to have enough money to buy a $150 stick that I should have had already but my so-called "friends" decided they weren't going to give to me for Christmas, and then pay more goddamn money to have the thing dual modded. "Oh, you can buy a fightpad too, they're a lot cheaper. Get that dual modded." Like I have the goddamn money. I've become so fed up with this bullshit that I've been thinking about quitting.
Edited by Sanjo9, Jan 18 2012, 08:44 PM.
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Caliburnus
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Look up some FAQs on making one. Granted, you'll have to sacrifice a PS3 control, but overall it's cheaper than having to buy one. I used to make some back in the days of Soulcalibur III/Tekken 5.

I only mentioned Eightbit since they're always doing something, but you're not the first that I've heard of having experiences like that. I'm gonna talk to Ricky about letting us do stuff at the shop too, and if we do decide on MvC, I think we can do PS3 to balance things out. Unless there were more options than I was aware of, I don't think Robo Gato's latest poll included Soulcalibur V. I say we beat everyone to the punch on that one. It's just been a really, REALLY long time since I've hosted a tourney.
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Sanjo9
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I'm not going to Robo Gato either. They informed me that they were voting for the next tournament and I told them, "Fuck that, you're going to get 8 Bit Fix to do it and they can't host tournaments properly, so I refuse to attend any of their future events. Additionally, I probably won't be going to your store anymore." According to what I've been told, they deleted their post from my page (or it was removed somehow), and then either they or 8 Bit Fix publicly lambasted me, saying I sucked at Marvel and that I should stop bitching. People joined in on this and one person I sort of know defended me, and eventually that entire post was deleted.

So to put it bluntly, I have no friends and I really can't go anywhere in town because either the people I talk to are retarded or somehow they're going to find ways to hate me. Also, I alienate everyone I talk to so I think I'm going to stop trying.
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@Matt: If you decide to run a tournament at the Robo Gato, let me know, I'd be happy to help because I support the idea.
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I can guarantee that Robo Gato had absolutely nothing to do with that. Ricky's not like that. Such is the gaming scene in EP, just a bunch of kids (more correctly, kids who never grew up) who validate their existence by mashing buttons in the exact same manner until the life gauge is depleted. That's why I stopped caring about the local scene. I sort of saw the post on FB. At least recognize that they were trying to reach out to you. As we've all discussed before, you have a certain way of presenting yourself that turns most people off, so their reaction to your answer was expected. I'd just delete the post and forget I even asked. The other punks who decided to talk shit, well... such a sad existence if their pride is derived from deciding who pwns from who is t3h sux0r$ at Mahvel. They'll get their reality checks eventually.

Back on the original topic of LCAD, I find myself unable to lend them any kind of support until they have a change in management. Any organization that allows open discrimination of someone's lifestyle, ESPECIALLY one of their Staff, has no place working on any community event on this scale.
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Sanjo9
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Well, it's like I said. The post was made and deleted yesterday, but I didn't delete it myself. It was there one minute and gone the next, and by next, I mean several hours later (if I'm not mistaken). I was informed about the post and other bullshit through some girl who I met at the last tournament with her boyfriend, both of whom I was planning on meeting tonight with some of their other friends until I found out that they're getting together at the same place they did last week. I couldn't go to that based on the location (parental intervention, even though I'm TWENTY) and since the venue decision is beyond their control, I've guessed that we will probably never meet again.

I'm not in a great mood. I've stopped talking to most of my former friends because they've turned a Christmas gift into a reward and expect me to go through a dog and pony show to get it, the gift in question being a $150 fightstick. One of them claimed to be neutral on all of this but now it seems he's taking their side. They've also proven to be massive resource drains, especially when it comes to gas. I'm believing less and less in the concept of having close friends.
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