I haven’t been doing much gaming lately. What I have done is mostly… Tetris, and contemplating what fighting game I want to goof off in next.

In the (fighting game) news, we have Daigo Umehara losing to YHCMochi horribly. Daigo tried his usual tactics which weren’t so successful for more than HALF of the set. Then he finally tried something new, and was somewhat successful, but lost anyway, and to a double KO.

But what’s fascinating about this is that the Daigo apologetics were quick to defend him:

Man, if Daigo wins this hes undoubtedly the best in the universe, if he loses, as far as skill Daigo is better than mochi, by a good margin. Dhalsim to me has always been a bit broken, majority of his attacks take, but one button to keep u at bay. As where others have to be twice as fast to compete with him. I say Daigo was still the better player just a kinda cheap character he was fighting.

http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2010/jul/16/live-stream-godsgarden-daigo-yhc-mochi-ssf4-match/#c108661

Wow. At first I thought this was weeaboo-ism but then I realized that it might be worse. Far far worse. Either way, this is still the sort of thing coming from people who say that Melty Blood, a game that is about as Japanese as Street Fighter, somehow panders to weeaboos.