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Yeah but still you could have 2! Anyway but fucking YAY!!! New Bezel!!! Finally! I messed mine up while messing trying to paint it.. 

 Yeah combos are good to know but check out some video of top players, like Daigo, you'll see the combos they do are fair and in between. Usually it's pokes and setups into them. the game is surprisingly strategic. I started playing fighting games after a near decade break (Yes I'm old!), just because there wasn't an arcade scene near me to sustain it. After coming back to SFIV and getting into it this is what I did to get into the groove and I was in the exact rut you are in. 
 
1. Beat the game on the hardest difficulty. I know it's really meaningless but beating the game does give you a sense of "cool I can beat the computer". The hardest cpu opponent is almost as good as your worse. Now the reason I personally suggest this is that the computer has Patterns and you can figure out those patterns. Now people have a pattern too, sometimes there are well known one that everyone uses like Barlog's 2 jab grab move. So ultimately you are training yourself to see and discover patterns in the person your playing. Regardless, everyone has a pattern.  
 
2. Do EVERYONE's Trial. I started with Sagat, and I felt my Fireball game was decent, but then I tried playing El Fuerte who is very mobile but at the same time you need to have tight control on what he does. His run is a fire ball motion (QCF+punch). As a result because I had gained better control over Elf but it gave me better control over my fire balls because the move to do it was etched in my head.  
 
3. Learn one 1 combo and milk it for a while. Since you like Ryu, just the Low Forward into fireball. It teaches you what cancels are (Stopping an animation and going into another like low forward into fireball), but more importantly it gives you a point of progression. One of the most frustrating things about fighting games, is if you don't have a combo you kinda feel open and useless. "Oh he missed a Shoryuken, what do I do? Sweep I guess" but if you have a go to combo then you feel better prepared to punish wiffs. you then build from there. I remember the 1st time I did RSF with Elf, it's stupid I know, but I saved the game and showed my chick. She called me a nerd but she plays WoW so she has no room to talk. =P
 
4. Save any and all matches where you have been perfected. Yeah, that's right, save those games where you ass has been soundly handed to you. Study them, think "what I was I thinking" look at what worked for him, what combos he did on you (if he used a character you use) and learn from it. 
 
5. GG everyone you play, win, lose or draw. More people will like to play and people will help you out. The FGS can be a very dickish one but 9/10 people are less likely to be a dick to you if you say good Game. Fighting Games aren't like MW2 for example where the worst player on the winning team can talk trash. Fighting games are 1 on 1 battles, so if you lose, it's because you fucked up. So people know that you will encounter that guy another time at some point, unless you blocked them, but most players that do that do it 1 of 2 reasons usually. 1 becuase they are babies an can't take a good ass whipping, or 2 which is the only reason I ever block, when people drop out mid game.  
 
6. Take tier list with a grain of salt. There are rankings to which characters are the best. Objectively they are fairly accurate till they get in the hands of a players. Even Dan can be amazing in the right hands.. Just learn it.
 
 Here are some site for more info like frame animation data, combos and other forums 
 
http://www.eventhubs.com/   (Best Frame Data and Good Strats)
http://iplaywinner.com/  (Good Strats and good place to find streams)
http://shoryuken.com/  (Best Strats, Best Community of Players and where to find a match, sadly though a lot of jerks. Just have thick skin when you go there) 
http://option-select.com/ (Best Videos)  
 http://www.youtube.com/ (There are TONS of SFIV videos there. From all over the world as well as tutorials. Search out VesperArcade, they have a good 10 part, I think, series of SSFIV Basics.)   
Enjoy and welcome. Do you play on XBOX or PS3? If on PSN hit me up FADC_Mabans. I'm almost always on, anyone else is welcome too of course. =)

Taunts are cool if the dude is on mic talking trash and you have yours off. The only character I taunt consistently with is Dhalsim mainly because of his Yoga Tower which looks like one but serves the purpose of avoiding projectiles. His taunts usually get used when situation are appropriate. If the dude talks a lot of trash and I have it he'll respond with "You are not ready for Yoga", if he tries to rush me down and fails he may get a "Calm yourself". Sometimes I'll even use taunts as bait.. Especially with Cody who has one where he just lays down..

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Cody's is the best by far.... 
 

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 Mine are:   
Eating Wake up Ultras 
Missing my Ultra Window and sweeping 
Letting in free jump-ins 

 I know it's been a weekend but I needed the time to be able to play some of the games on OnLive to really get the true feel of it. So I thought it would be best try 2 games, 1 game I'm familar with and the other I'm not. So the games I decided to were Borderlands, which I own on steam, and Batman: Arkmym Asulym a game that my computer can't even run. Also these 2 games give me the chance to best use my KBAM and Controller (Gamestop Xbox 360 Controller ) so I get the feel how the system is supposed to work. 2 games seemed good becuase of the percise aiming that BL can use and combo system Batman and being a SSFIV nut timing to me is EVERYTHING.
 
Before we start I figured that everyone should know what Kind of PC I'm running. 
 
CPU: Intel Core Duo 6300 
Ram: 2 gigs Corsair XMS 2 DDR 800
Hard drive: 2 x250 SATA 7200
Video card:  Nvidia 9400 1gig. EVGA
OS: Windows 7, rating 4.9 
Monitor: LG Flattron W2353V (23 inch LCD)
  
I  also test it out on a Apple Macbook Pro (Intel Core Duo 2ghz)
 
I have Cox Communication handling my Internet here in San Diego and it runs at a modest 6mbps.
 

...No rest for the wicked, ugh that's a dumb song.

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2002 E3 Hideo Kojima. That was kinda cool, asked me for a light for his friend.. I told him "I really enjoy your games, thank you.." he smiled.. I ran because I didnt' want to ruin the moment by wanting to kiss him.