Bored as $#!@ story time

[TreasureFinder]

Well, I completed my Food Handler's Class, and I must, say, it was quite educational. Here are some things I learned (we really did cover all of this):


1) Fish and humans "dump loads" on oysters
2) Do not put burritos on your car engine to keep them warm.
3) Don't wash poultry with Clorox
4) Baby mice look like bubblegum
5) Don't bleed/put any other bodily fluids (eww) into food.

[Sokar468]

satoshi said:

Just a while ago, I spent all my time reading web comics and now I'm making one myself. Go figure... and I think that skipping sleep for that was an insane idea. ;D

Be sure to post your progress. We all support you here.

[Ghosty]

on Super Smash Bros. Melee:

Anyone remember a thread I made on SSBM in the console forum where I made really scrubby and newbie statements that I would probably flame now?
Well a little bit after that I went and got myself educated on current smash and got actually very obsessed with it.


[shameless plug for another site]www.smashboards.com [/shameless plug for another site]

that would be the best site for SSBM, although the forums have become really spammy, some people there know what they're talking about. If your interested in tournaments they have a forum thats actually very good for that, and if your interested in the meta game just go to melee discussion.



... and thats my bored ass story, of how i typed "SSBM" in google and found a site that has consumed hours and hours of reading time.

and if you get really obsessed like me and want videos download the DC++ hub (i can give more specific directions if need be) there and talk on it =).

[Sokar468]

One thing that pisses me off about Smash Melee is how unbalanced Captain Falcon and Mewtwo are.

Captain Falcon is just too freakin' good.

- He's fast
- He's strong
- His attacks have amazing recovery time
- He has a good throw
- His special attacks are powerful
- He's heavy and takes a good amount of damage

Mewtwo is the opposite--he's just terrible.

- He's slow
- He has mediocre smash attacks
- His special moves (except for one) deal no damage whatsoever
- He is light and gets thrown from the stage easily
- His attacks have the WORST recovery time ever

It is quite clear that Captain Falcon is the BEST character in Melee, and it is very unbalanced and ridiculous. My friends and I like to ban him. And on the flip side, the developers really screwed up with Mewtwo.

[TreasureFinder]

I would say that Cpt. Falcon's only flaw is his jumping, which is sub-par compared to other characters (Peach, for instance)

[Knight of Lodis]

Fox McCloud is probably the second best character. I will say that "FALLLCON......PUNCH!" is unbelievably powerful. He is also rather quick and sturdy. His jumping is lacking but it isn't bad.

I saw a guy play as Jigglypuff and own with that damn sleep manuver so even bad people can win. With Mewtwo, you just make those crappy energy balls really big and do that grab which is good.

[TreasureFinder]

Knight_of_Lodis said:

Fox McCloud is probably the second best character. I will say that "FALLLCON......PUNCH!" is unbelievably powerful. He is also rather quick and sturdy. His jumping is lacking but it isn't bad.

I saw a guy play as Jigglypuff and own with that damn sleep manuver so even bad people can win. With Mewtwo, you just make those crappy energy balls really big and do that grab which is good.

I think Peach has the funniest grab. When you press the A button to do a slap, it makes me think, "Bitch, where's my money?" *slap slap slap*

[Jaggy]

I like using Marth the best. Marth >>> Roy

[Sokar468]

Jaggy said:

I like using Marth the best. Marth >>> Roy

Ever so true. "ROY HAS A FIRE SWOORD!!!11 HE R00LZ!"

[TreasureFinder]

Sokar468 said:

Ever so true. "ROY HAS A FIRE SWOORD!!!11 HE R00LZ!"

Somebody forgot his valium!

I once made the mistake of inviting my friend over, showing her that you could see Peach's panties (yay alliteration!) when she does the Can-Can Kick. So, we started playing a round, and she zooms in on Marth and Roy's...well...you knows....why did they have to make that part realistic?

[DRottenI]

Yeah, Fox is probley the best, basically for his crazy speed ;D And Marth and Roy are both good

As for the game dealers I think its where you live, because the EBs by me really suck and the people that work there are complete MORONS now I get to explain! I called the EB closest to my house right and I ask them if they have Tales of Symphonia and the dumbass girl that works there was like "I havent ecen heard of the game, I guess thats a bad thing"... I just dropped the phone. As for Gamestop the one by me is really good, mostly because they had multiple copies of Tactics Ogre ;D and they had Tales of Symphonia when stupid EB didnt

[mech]

I only go to my local GameStop to check for more must-have PS1 games.

I bought Suikoden (1) the other day. (I love the game so far, though it's been too easy)
I'm just waiting for them to get an unbelievably rare game (LUCT hopefully someday) and have it at a low price.

[Ghosty]

Sokar468 said:

One thing that pisses me off about Smash Melee is how unbalanced Captain Falcon and Mewtwo are.

Captain Falcon is just too freakin' good.

- He's fast
- He's strong
- His attacks have amazing recovery time
- He has a good throw
- His special attacks are powerful
- He's heavy and takes a good amount of damage

Mewtwo is the opposite--he's just terrible.

- He's slow
- He has mediocre smash attacks
- His special moves (except for one) deal no damage whatsoever
- He is light and gets thrown from the stage easily
- His attacks have the WORST recovery time ever

It is quite clear that Captain Falcon is the BEST character in Melee, and it is very unbalanced and ridiculous. My friends and I like to ban him. And on the flip side, the developers really screwed up with Mewtwo.

Going by tourny results and the current metagame (which i doubt any of us, especially me, are playing at), Captain Falcon is actually placed in the "upper tier", in fact SIXTH best overall (out of 26 characters, including sheik/zelda as separate) which is pretty damn good but not quite the best, and hes nowhere near broken. Melee is actually one of the most balanced fighter games in that in big tournys NO character needs to be banned, and all have a chance at winning.
He may be fast, but thats only in running speed, fox has faster all-around movement, and sheik has the fastest attacking speed, his power mostly comes from slow moves that are relatively easy to avoid (except for the knee, but every character is allowed a good move or 2
Amazing recovery time on attacks? While that is very important, I'm not saying falcon is bad at all, in fact hes very good, but its not even close to the best recovery time in attacks, sheik would probably have that.
His throws? His throws are nowhere near powerful, and it is fairly difficult to combo someone, but its one of the only (and best) set-ups he has to combo them.
Powerful special attacks? Like the falcon punch? I'm assuming no one in their right mind would be hit by that (assuming of course your not playing FFA where nothing matters anyhow, and are playing 1v1 in tourny-like rules).
He's actually not THAT heavy, but he does have a high falling speed (different statistics that are easily confused), check this:
www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?s=a165890757b34682570c345841474dec&threadid=30064
for some statistics.
I'm assuming you mean Deals a good amount of damage at the end, and I don't see how he does that much more than anyone else...

For some problems with him, first of all his recovery is terrible, as soon as hes off the stage he should never be allowed to come back, also, except with dashdancing into grabs and neutral aerials, it can be difficult to approach people. His strategy lies almost entirely within his airgame, which isnt' entirely a bad idea, but you have to be very technical to consistenly do shorthopped l-cancelled attacks and combo them into more.


Now onto mewtwo:
Mewtwo is actually one of the worst characters, falling into the "lower tier", only pichu and bowser below him. Although he is pretty bad, its not like good m2 players don't stand a chance. For one, he has several good characteristics:
- His recovery is extremely good (somewhat negated by the fact that yes, he is very light AND floaty, not a good combination)
- He is pretty slow, but with wavedashing you are able to manuever much faster with him, and he can combo very well if hes moving along at a good clip.
- His special moves may be bad, but special moves aren't used much in general (there are a few exceptions)
- His throw game is very good, with 2 KO throws (up and back), and forward can deal a bit of damage, and you can combo from down.
- His tilting game is also decent, with the range and speed to match or go farther than most characters.
and for recovery time... actually his recovery time isn't that bad (if your using the right moves), bowser is definitely worse.



Sorry for the half-rant, I've just learned a helluva lot about competitive SSBM in the past few months and I like to argue stuff that I've researched a lot into like this =).

(o and about marth + roy, before i was a silly fool that thought roy was better than marth, I checked up on some statistics and marth is better in almost every single way than roy, making him actually the 3rd best character in the game (behind fox who is #2, and sheik who is #1), and leaving roy smack in the middle of the pack. (like 15th out of 26 or so))

[Sokar468]

Wow, Ghosty, that's a lot of research.

Can you post the list of characters in order, best to worst, according to tourney standards (or whatever this "tier" system is)?

Thanks!

[EDIT]

If Fox is #2, where does Falco fall? Why is he worse? I think he is better than Fox.

[Knight of Lodis]

I think he said Falcon is 6th. The tournaments at the anime convention are 4 player free for alls with different settings. They never did a 1v1 (and I have never heard of only 1v1 tournaments).