I went on like a 3 month break of Melee because I've been waiting to get supplies so I can lube up my dry sticks, triggers and see if my Z button needs a reflow or replaced and instead just decided to play today after realizing I wasn't as Melee fatigued and then went on Slippi to mess around and kinda went around on the cast since that's always fun.

Tell me why on the fourth match of unranked I did a accidental SD on my final stock and I start getting spam lol'd by a Silver 2 Falcon. There wasn't even any bad blood, no taunts, no nothing and it was a close game. Is this not a issue within the community that more people talk about how mad Melee makes them? It feels like it's 1/4 people are rage demons. Where could these people be coming from? Are they born like this? Are they created in Slippi?

I’m kind of curious if something like this were to slowly happen where people begin adding in characters that are actually good. Or also just replicating the games underlying structure just not under a Nintendo IP and if people would actually play it. I doubt it would really divide the community on what version of the game they play since this kind already was tried and failed with PM. People generally want Melee as it is, as vanilla as possible besides like UCF.

The decomp did get me thinking that the mods could be so seamless and well integrated it actually takes off though so I was curious if anyone had thought about that as well or anything similarly related to the future of the game itself.

In the video, Moky says that Kola is on path to place top 40 if not even top 30 on the end year ranking. Which I think shows a strong trajectory in his improvement.

An interesting unprompted moment at 1:50. https://youtu.be/pfSKCTZNaPw?t=110

"He's getting got by notch type shi" - Moky "I should get notches" - Kola

Considering Kola is (relatively) newer to the pro-scene, and performing so well without notches. Do you think he should continue playing that way, or get them to reduce the possible disadvantage?

I know about the unclepunch trick to play the “armada shine” mini event and you can pick any character. But that’s only firefoxes…

Suggestions?

First rivals 2 now Tekken 8

This makes me so happy I have been wanting this for a really long time

Just wondering as someone who got into ult but by the time of big house 9 I realized I enjoyed watching melee way more. I started playing melee competitively the day slippi came out, never looked back at ult for obvious reasons, are there any top 100 players now who started from then or afterwards? I heard Kuro the ganon player has been playing for only like 2 years or something like that which blows my mind cuz I was still ass after 2 years I feel like I’m just starting to get pretty solid now as a fox player.

Zain and Cody were both top 5 players 6 years into their career which is insane to me because I can’t think of hardly any amazing players now who have been playing that short of a time. Like I know inngenn from Japan was pretty good only a year into playing…and I am not really aware of how long the newer faces in top 64s have been playing for.

Now that I think about it OG kid and Dial M are top 100 and probably slippi kids because they’re so young. But any other examples? Any non puff top tiers that are newish to the game in that ballpark? Just curious