joy

Individually, a person who plays fighting games may have a bunch of different complicated nuanced motivations and emotions that are served by different parts of the fighting game experience — not limited to the game itself on their console, but the broader journey of mastery and connectivity. The high-minded ideal FGC stuff I mentioned above is real and does exist! It just doesn’t exist enough to sell the millions of copies that go into funding the next Street Fighter or Tekken. At scale, building and selling games as a service looks a lot more like making a theme park or a casino, where you have customers entering at a given point, you give them choices on what kind of experience they can have in your game, and you give them clear signs and paths to choose from in order to make it easy for them. In the above section, we established that people play video games because they want to feel something specific. It’s a brief moment of agency in a day where you were otherwise probably at the mercy of some stupid bullshit at your job, or at school, or in your family, or on the bus, or whatever. We spend most of our day pushing the boulder up, and the brief moment of rest we get is choosing the video game we play in between eating dinner and going to sleep, where we get to act like the person we imagine ourselves to be as the boulder rolls back down the hill.

"Why ranked sucks and we can't get rid of it"

Wrote about how fighting games rely on ranked matchmaking to retain players even though it often makes the experience worse. Read this to learn about friction, addiction, motivation, and how you can Ranked responsibly.

www.patreon.com/posts/152427...

Weekly Xrd #Rev2Forev2 thread is up!

If you have an event for the calendar, DM me!

Love your life, be good to one another, and play some mfing guilty gear <3

You can also find this calendar + IRL events at playguiltygear.com

March 2026 Caliburst Suika Game Top 3:

1st: @abridge2far.bsky.social
2nd: @cloudstrife420.bsky.social
3rd: @numbuhsix.bsky.social

March 2026 Caliburst Xrd results are in!

1. Treble
2. @maidshrike.church
3. @joyxrd.bsky.social

Congrats to Treble for his first ever Caliburst W! And thanks to everyone who brought snacks <3

VOD: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjvd...

#rev2forev2

the best part of this is the mappa yrc. a clear vision of me saying “wow that could’ve been bad” before foolishly thinking i was in the clear

this can't keep happening...

pattheflip - Twitch CALIBURST 3/7/2026

CALIBURST XRD STREAM IS LIVE! BRACKETS START IDK 215 OR SO

twitch.tv/pattheflip #rev2forev2

Fan art of the human Kum Haehyun popping out of the old man robot via emergency exit system.

Kum Haehyun in #ggxrd
Xrdの琴 慧弦

💪🕹️

"Why haven't fighting games died yet?"

I wrote about the unique strengths of the fighting game genre that have allowed fighting games to survive multiple generations of evolution intact, and why you didn't fall in love with a product. Warning: This is a long one.

www.patreon.com/posts/152148...

bsky.app/profile/saff...

WNF x NorCal Online: Episode 301 The best place for WNF x NorCal Online: Episode 301 brackets, streams, standings and schedules all in one place!

REV2SDAY 3/3/25 REG IS LIVE!

- Two skill ladders, S-Rank and A-Rank!
- A-Rank is for beginner/int players
- S-Rank if you want the smoke (and $20)
- Wired w/ connection test
- 730PM PDT
www.start.gg/wnfoakland
#rev2forev2

March 2026 Caliburst The best place for March 2026 Caliburst brackets, streams, standings and schedules all in one place!

CALIBURST IS BACK 3/7 @ GAMECENTER
- 1PM Venue open
- 2PM Xrd Bracket
- 5PM Xrd Beginners
- 6PM CvS2, MBAACC, Suika Game
- $10 venue
-💉SEPT 2025 COVID VACCINE REQUIRED
- Sign up for 🍕
start.gg/caliburstirl #rev2forev2

Weekly Xrd #Rev2Forev2 thread is up!

If you have an event for the calendar, DM me!

Love your life, be good to one another, and play some mfing guilty gear <3

You can also find this calendar + IRL events at playguiltygear.com

I finally got around to uploading the past Onlymids CMVs onto youtube. Telefu's "Sleep Is For The Peak" unfortunately got kneecapped so i threw it into a drive folder. Enjoy yall!

🧨 Congrats to our =ONLYMIDS 36= top 8!! 🧨 A bracket full of violence and crazy upsets, whew. And as always, a BIG thank you to @highwaymilkshake.bsky.social for the incredible highlight video! 🙏

🥇 @meltron.bsky.social
🥈 @citriux.bsky.social
🥉 @justavery.bsky.social

#rev2forev2

🥊=ONLY MIDS CLASS WARS=🥊
Our first tournament of champions event is this SUNDAY, FEB 22 at 6 PM PST! 2022 alums will be facing off in a FT3 single elim bracket to determine class rep.

ALUMS: @yoyokite.bsky.social, @hatsunethemikus.bsky.social, @espadapete.bsky.social, @highwaymilkshake.bsky.social

♥️ BLUSHBOWL IS BACK!!

📅This... WEDNESDAY?! Feb 18th @ 8:30PM EST!!

A 2v2 waseda bracket of your xrd OTP~ 1st place gets ship art of their team 💘

💌 start.gg/blushbowl
💌 dsc.gg/guiltagear

we definitely stealing THC lmao

Shoutout to Norcal Xrd for pulling through, we had a great time! We will try to be back next Genesis but next stop for Team Harmonic Combo will be well, Harmonic Combo in March followed by Slashback in April!! See yall there!

Your Genesis X3 Xrd Top 3!!

1st: @pattheflip.bsky.social
2nd: Treble
3rd: @abridge2far.bsky.social

1st in Xrd and 3rd in CvS2 at Genesis this year 💪😎👍

...Hey, do you hear that?

treblewtb - Twitch Home of Beans Arena and Harmonic Combo

GX3 XRD STREAM LIVE AT www.twitch.tv/treblewtb

It is unfortunate on the news, but also we are incredible lucky and blessed to have a great venue to host these tournaments for over 7 years in the Sacramento area.

We will greatly miss Innogrove, and I want to thank Steve Barnett who allowed us to use this space for so long.

worth the 3hr journey every time. RIP and good luck finding a new home

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pattheflip - Twitch REV2SDAY 2/10/26: NEW AGE OF XRD

REV2SDAY 2/10/25 TOP 8 IS LIVE!

Evangeline vs mkj
ElvenShadow vs Highway Milkshake
pzooo vs Joy
abridge vs White Beast

twitch.tv/pattheflip

pull up

bsky.app/profile/joyx...

Today sucks, but the Weekly NA Xrd #Rev2Forev2 thread is up!

If you have an event for the calendar, DM me!

Love your life, be good to one another, and play some mfing guilty gear <3

You can also find this calendar + IRL events at playguiltygear.com

SoCal (or maybe not even just SoCal at this point.)

I need to be moved out of my current place in 6-8 months if anyone has any leads on new housing, ty I appreciate it. 🙏