Does it count as a drunkblog when you've had a few glasses of wine and a little bit of that fake sudafed they sell OTC in CVS now? I wonder how much I ccan get through this before I collapse on my keyboard/desk/other surface. 

OVAs/Movies to look out for:

I would like to take this moment to rage against a Drive-spamming Noel. I am pissed that my opponent had double my rank based solely on pushing two buttons in "Beginner Mode" online, but even more pissed at the fact that I couldn't counter it enough times to beat that asshole even when I saw him/her/it mashing the exact same combo.
 
That is all. You may now go about your business.

If you've played a fighting game online (or maybe any game, but I've personally noticed this only when playing fighting games), there's a good chance you run into a certain kind of people. The kind of people who send you a personal message after a match that didn't go in their favor because their "surefire" strategy was utterly useless when you saw it coming and did something super cheap and complicated like "blocking low and then counter-attacking" or "pressuring in a corner."
 
I'm not talking about mere rage-quitters, though I have come into my share of them. Like when I played a mirror T. Hawk match against someone in SSF4 and he pulled the plug just as I busted out a U1 that would have ended the match. Or that time when I fought a Hakumen player in BB:CT who had no other strategy than to simply use a standing 6C and hope for the best, then pulled the plug when I did something like jump over his attack and knock him down. I'm talking about the people who go that extra mile to tell you just how much they hate you. Who send you a personal message when the match is over expressing their disapproval of your actually learning to play the game when they bust out that one combo that always won against their friends but doesn't seem to affect you at all.
 
There's the simple "fuck u fagot" from some 12-year-old who probably should not be playing the game in the first place. Also, the incomprehensible "try playin me on PS3 o wait u cant", as if it was Microsoft's fault that they couldn't backdash to avoid a grapple move. Or even one who apparently thought that because he tacked "USMC" (US Marine Corps) on to his gamertag that his military experience held more weight than the fact that he played a bad Makoto in a SSF4 match. These folks project their utter inability to adapt and grow stronger on you. Doubly so when you beat them with a lower-tier character, like using Dragunov in Tekken 6.

When I play someone in a good or a close match, I give them a simple "gg" message to approve. When I get blown out of the fucking water in a fighting game, I get angry, but I don't take it out on them in a personal message. After all, even if I did, there's a good chance they would simply react as I would: chuckle at the stupidity of the message and then delete it before moving on with their lives. I use it as an impetus to do better, to learn a few more combos, or simply learn to block the somewhat predictable mix-ups and counter-attack when the timing is right.
 
I'm sure similar topics have been posted across GB, but here's the question I ask you fighting game fans: how do you deal with people who feel the need to project their losses on you? The RAGE and the hatemail? Do you send them a mocking message back? Do you simply say "gg"? Or do you just ignore it and move on to the next challenger?

Maybe it's just me, but I've been noticing a trend in DoWII games online, maybe because I've been spending most of it playing as a "pubbie" with other pubbies, but it's been sticking in my craw.
 
Yes, capturing the Victory Points are critical in ranked matches in order to prosper, but before you vie for control of these points, there are three important things you should know:

    * Cap the fucking power node
    * Cap the fucking power node
    * CAP THE FUCKING POWER NODE

Why do I say this? Because it fucking bears repeating after witnessing several matches where one or two teammates feel that if they just mass most of their units around the victory point closest to our base, that will be enough to ward off any attacker. Then the other side advances to Tier 2 tech while we're still buying flamers and plasma grenades for our basic troops. This annoys me to no end when the other side has enough power to build a line of turrets guarding the point and each other, or when a chaos player sends a Bloodcrusher stomping through our front line while our team doesn't have a single anti-vehicle unit.

And you know how the enemy is capable of teching up so quickly? Because you people don't cap the fucking power nodes, or if you do, you forget to actually build generators on them. As a result, they're rolling out the bloodcrushers and the fucking dreadnaughts while we're still picking our noses trying to invent fire (metaphorically speaking) and by the time we get around to it the match is practically over. They can afford to upgrade their units and build suppressive turrets or boys while we're still trying to break through with basic marines or sluggaz or what-have-you at tier 1, and someone just sighs in defeat and reaches for the "concede match" button.

So please, people, for the love of the fucking Emperor, cap the fucking power node, defend it when you can, and give your side a shot at victory. Think of the Greater Good (or Evil, or WAAAAGH! if that's your thing) and don't just sit on one point for the whole match, thinking it will bring you victory, because it will not save you when the other side begins rolling out the vehicles.

[This PSA written by some duder who didn't want to create a shitty one-line blog post for the sake of the "quest." May all those who do so burn in the fire of a thousand suns.]