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Can't we just call it Redtube? You'd think they'd have googled it. Just the once. Just the one time. Does serve as a pretty great indicator for how aware these executives are of the current landscape, though.

I've never used Adblock before as it struck me as a scummy practice that mainly served to punish smaller sites, but god knows I'm likely gonna' start now what with these 16 minute long commercials popping up on every single video in a play-list. They've really shot themselves in the foot here.

@oprahtrain said:

@clairvoyantvibrations said:

@monkeyman04 said:

@oprahtrain: here you go!

Holy shit duder I have no idea why but this is one of the funniest things I've seen in a while.

Haha yeah thats the best man thank you so much!!!

You'd think I'd be accustomed to feeling envious over phallic shapes objects after all this time, but I REALLY wish that avatar was mine.

If that is what friendship looks like, then I really don't understand why guys constantly complain about being put in the friend zone.

@big_denim: As a kid, I would actually map my racing wheel to a controller and beat my friends at various editions of Bomberman and Street Fighter in order to make it more challenging on myself. In retrospect, I must have come across as such an asshole there and then.

@starvinggamer: @zella:

And huh, does seem like I've had something of a misconception about the prevalence of Fightsticks in the community. The Hori RAP 4 seems like an exciting investment, but might be I'll consider the purchase a while longer. I definitely did grow up in the arcades. Hell, I remember doing my very first fatality completely by mistake, and turning a couple of other kids present a whiter shade of pale as a result.

Between arcade machines and PC-gaming, I'm so accustomed to larger, sweeping movements that I can really get caught up in, that the minimal hand-movements required to reliably get more complicated inputs down on a pad seem constricting at times. As far as I understand it, a Fightpad wouldn't do much to help me as it's never been the face-buttons themselves I've taken issue with, but rather the analogue-stick and D-pad. Leads to me messing up specials, and the like; frequently at what seems like random intervals even after I've spent considerable time with each new game and arguably gotten too good for those errors to be so common.

You fellas sound like you know what you're talking about here, so with this in mind, would you recommend I give a Fightstick a shot, or perhaps adapt the way I play these games on a pad?

@dudeglove: That entire preamble is just an excuse that I more or less only included because I knew everyone would buy that hokey explanation, and that's funny to me. I admit as much in the post itself because I am a bad person. And my hands are very large, for your information, and you know what they say about people with large hands... They're good at fighting games. (There's no scientific proof supporting this link.)

But the accident, or rather the consequences of it, has lead me to play more fighting games of late in lieu of being able to participate in any real equivalent. Between that and the recent Capcom Cup, I find myself about to tip over into the deep end once again, and figured that this might be the time to change things up as I already have to be very mindful of my hand when playing games.

The general consensus in the fighting game community is that a stick will eventually make you into a better player once you get accustomed to it.

Also, my instructor was absolutely certain no real harm had come to my finger at the time and made me drop and give him 150 push-ups for wasting his time. As you can imagine, the following day at the hospital, I'd get to hear two things over and over again, namely that I was extremely unlucky and that it made no sense that I wasn't in more pain.

Let me explain myself here. I feel like that there's an obligation to do so. You see, some three weeks back, I broke my hand in a way no one saw coming. A knee connected with the very tip of my extended pinkie-finger at a straight angle and completely broke and detached the outermost joint. One surgical procedure later and I have a screw permanently fixing my finger together, and arguably worse, a plastic bag covering half my arm every time I take a shower.

How is this relevant to my wanting to get a Fightstick? Well, not at all really, but you bought the excuse.

I do a lot of "martial arts" in "real" life, and as is, I can't really partake in them kind of exercises until the new year. As is my wont to do, I've slipped back into playing a bunch of fighting games to tie me over, particularly Street Fighter 4. It's reignited my smoldering excitement for SF V, a game I anticipate to sink deep into.

I figured this would be as good of a time as any to relearn the controls and fundamentals, and maybe up my overall game come release time, by finally taking the plunge and getting myself a damn stick.

Unfortunately, I don't have a ton of money to throw around, and if possible, I'd want to pick up something that isn't so very extravagant. A solid, quality controller that ain't branded by pro players and their aunts' ramen places, but just gets by on function and pricing.

Could you guys recommend me something liable to work for both the PS4 and PC? If it's any concern, I live in Europe and so most like can't access any custom shops in the US.

Appreciate the help, duders.

Not quite 91 bucks.

Zeno Clash 2

or

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP

The latter is easily one of my favorite games of all time. That soundtrack is among the best I've ever seen in any medium.

As for the former, beating hermaphroditic bird mamas into the ground don't come nowhere close to how weird that thing eventually gets. It also just seems like such a Vinny game, doesn't it?

I was under the impression that Mass Effect 4 would be a departure for the series, taking place in a far corner of the galaxy, or at the very least, during a different time period.

If that isn't the case, then consider my interest in it now as were it gray matter adorning a wall in the kind of way Dexter would philosophize about.

From the sounds of things, Garrus should only show up if he in-fact reveals himself to be a time-travelling ex-cop.. I really hope he's a time-travelling ex-cop.

@jazzstar21 Don't worry about the spoiler tags this once, everyone's got to start somewhere and it ain't the newest of games neither. But for next time, I'd recommend you check out the community forum rules when you have a moment. Here's a helpful link.

@hadoken101: I may never swap this picture out. That's fantastic.