Playing late at night = almost no lag. Surprise surprise. I'm firmly at C level and probably will be for-damn-ever. Oh well. The only problem then is finding the medium between TOTAL beginners (ie: people who are even worse than me and/or go cheap as soon as they realize they have no business) and SSF4 devotees who are counting every point, playing with only the highest of tiered folks, and cheesing/laming/doing whatever.

I must say though...my Ryu to other folks ratio is a lot different late at night. Its like 1 to 9 as opposed to 1 to 1.3. Very enjoyable.

- I fought a couple of good kens who didn't SRK their way through life. One was almost turtling..didn't know what to do
- I fought a cool ass Makoto that had me guessing all the way to the third round where I accidentally won with a cheap ultra. Had to friend that dude and say I was sorry.
- I don't like the way folks play Bison. His scissor kick has WTF priority too. At least vs Gouken that is.
- I still hate all Ryus. Whether its the tourney cats with their 34%combos, outrageous priority or the noobs who try to emulate them, I hate that fucker with a passion. HATE.
- A cold Cody is a pain to deal with. And I haven't figured it out yet. At all. I met up with a combo beast Cody. Every time he touched me, it was 3 moves and/or 30% damage. And he was a D, so I had no clue that it was coming.
- I didn't play ONE CHUN-LI.
- I played a B Akuma. Dude was pretty good. Tourney style..kinda cheesy, but not too bad. He was a bit defense deficient so I had a chance when I cornered him. I flubbed a combo (see, I still suck) that would've won the fight for me in round 3 and ended up losing. I cussed 3 times.
- I even took on a Hakan and that shit came down to the wire. He threw a random ultra (like I do) and costed himself the match. Whew!
- I can't beat a Balrog to save my life. Can't guess and counter the way I'd like to.
- I can only beat a weak Guile
- Zangief can eat a dik ith his glow fist into piledriver boolsheet. I beat one/lost to another

Jimaveli

>>I ate 2 50%ish combos in two rounds. Got straight murked.
>I'm
>>still getting used to the PS3 controller (yep..playing on a
>>pad). I have to keep telling myself to quit throwing out
>>ultras at the first hint of an opening cuz folks are all
>about
>>squeezing one out (huh!) of you just to set you up for the
>>damag.
>>
>>I promise you that I'm sick of playing Ryus. Number one, its
>>like every third fight online. Plus, I've always hated the
>>character (been partial to Ken since SFII), and he always
>gets
>>pretty appalling priority, lag-friendly speed (great for
>>poke-athon folks to (ab)use)and somewhat easy-to-setup, high
>>damage combos. And he's just a horrible matchup for Gouken
>in
>>so many ways..especially since I'm not good.
>>
>>Jimaveli (is my gamertag..come whoop my ass as I try to get
>up
>>to 1000 BP before the end of next week)
>
>I'm already over 1000 BP on PS3. I WAS at 900-something PP for
>Gouken. Then, I fought 15 fights last night. 11 of them were
>Ryus. 11. I'm not making this up. 11 out of 15. And it was the
>same fight for 10 of those. 20% and greater lag/poke combos,
>dragon punch cancelling, outlandish blocking out on landing
>from MISSED dragon punches, lag abuse festival. 2 of them were
>E Hondas. Good fights, but I lost those too. Honda has some
>pretty strong priority advantages over Gouken too. If I could
>reliably Gouken reverse the low kick that folks finish Honda
>combos with, I'd have a better chance...
>
>I think the other was a Juri.
>
>I went 2 of 15 or something like that and now I'm at 600 or so
>PP. I wish I could block all C+ and over Ryus till I get
>better at timing the gouken high reversal DURING LAG, which
>feels pretty impossible to get on a regular basis. And of
>course, vs Ryu, every time you don't get that bullshit away
>from you, it about 30% damage and maybe a stun. The PS3 lag
>seems pretty bad at times..and this ain't random hating, cuz I
>took a gang of Ls on XBox too, but not multiple ones where lag
>and the associated abuse was a strong culprit.
>
>Jimaveli...good morning
>>>I've fallen in love with this character. I've noticed that
>I
>>>give a lot of my time to the ladies of Street Fighter and
>>it's
>>>a good distraction from Kenville.
>>>
>>>I'm using a HRAP Japanese version.
>>
>