This is an American thing, believe me. I live in the UK and literally nobody uses literally wrong. Ok, perhaps not literally nobody, but I’ve hardly heard it.
Is KI ranked literally just ■■■■■■■■?
It looks like everyone in ranked are just a bunch of SQUARES.
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Yeap, the game allows that “sad tging”, so it’s something most have to deal with if we lose (you can’t win them all unless you are very , VERY (EVO) good or have lagswitch, it’s a fighting game). Even so you can still lose XD
About long ultras..I find them to be easy to perfom in this KI and kind of boring. In KI 2 weren’t that frequent in doubles (people would do them vs the AI because they needed those ex bars vs good players).
But once in a while when somone do a stylish Ultra is kind of cool, I’ll give them that, it looks nice (but no need for extended hits, KI94 Ultra’s weren’t long and KI2 was different). This is a little too much sometimes.
I have my opinions on ranked, which are relatively well documented. As a player with no vision whatsoever, though, they are likely to be rather skewed against sighted players, who in certain situations appear to just be using their sight to deliberately ruin your day (Faced a Jago and a Wulf player who did nothing but this). It’s such a shame, as these two players have, I believe, on multiple occasions, given me such a beating, regardless of their true skill, that I’ve had to force myself to take a breath, calm down and turn off the game for the rest of the night.
Now if that’s not a pain in the backside and something that could make you quit the game, I don’t know what is.
If only there was an accessible way to tell who I was fighting, reporting players who disconnect as well and partially got me into this mess might be an option too.
The difference being that in a tournament setting or a competitive lobby people are just in it for the fight especially at a tournament when time actually is a factor and they have to get to the next match and keep the event moving along. Same goes for folks trying to learn the game, they’re taking it seriously.
When you queue up with a random person the odds of them wanting to just play for fun (or at least a lot less seriously) is a lot higher so you see jokers teabagging and people trying to get high hitting ultra combos.
Most of my experience is 90% rude opponents that Tea bag, 2x ultra and send rude messages., Some are cool, they dont move after winning, they cancel their ultras, and they say or message GG.
Most to me seem like they have been getting beat so bad and tea bagged that the first chance they get to do the same they take it. Its like they cant get revenge on the person they destroy ed them so they take it out on the next person regardless.
Ive also ran into SEVERAL forum members that were surprisingly rude also.
But what do you do?
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I won’t go into names but I can attest to this. Not several in my case but some that I’ve run into that perhaps don’t know that I’m a member too.
This and surprisingly some “pros” that I’ve run into have been rude as well.
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In all seriousness, bumholish behaviour happens, that’s when I’ll likely retreat to the shadow lab or to another game, I’ve been doing this lately, I just don’t feel like I can cope with the potential stress of playing online. I know I’ll likely come out of it sooner or later, but for now I’ve been keeping myself to myself, fighting the fake/real AI peoples.
I try and be as pleasant as I can be online, though I do have some bad days, I did make some derpy noises on mic at a triple combo-ing t-bagging Wulf once after I’d only been playing Maya for a short time, and told someone (not exactly in a nice way) to turn their background music off as it was a bit like participating in a military stress test. If people are cool with me however, I’m generally cool with them.
Have not played long, or as frequently as I’ve wanted (fighting games sometimes spark a really anxious reaction out of me that’s hard to manage), but teabagging doesn’t really bug me. Part of that is that I don’t notice often and part of it is just my not caring. Being taunted gets me a little more, and even then, it just makes me get more excited to try to win (not the case in every fighter, but definitely the case for me here).
As for multiple Ultras, I love it, lol. I had a Shago do some crazy Ultra sequence into Ultimate and it was bombastic, excessive, and just fun to watch. At most, it gets an “Ahhh, you ■■■■■■■” out of me. There was a time I played a guy whom I beat, and did an Ultra into Stage Ultra. He goes ■■■■■ dude no mercy?” I messaged him “None! lol ggs.”
I just take it in stride. Even if I don’t wanna see the Ultra, I just look away and use the time to think about what I did wrong and how I lost. Hell, I’m not that great, so to me sometimes it’s a relief to have that time to reflect on missed combo breaks and stuff. Maybe I’m just weird in that I find it either fun or easy to ignore? I did the same when I briefly played MKX (although fatalities are way less fun because they’re just cutscenes and I like the renge/combo super styled stuff we get in KI a lot more).
Personally, I’m pretty excited to catch a double Ultra into Ultimate lol. I should also note that, as I said, my play time in KI is limited, and my time in Ranked is more so because of my anxiety stuff, so I tend to just play casuals. Often, playing Ranked causes me to put way more pressure on myself and reduces the whole experience and I swing on the verge of an anxiety attack.
To OP though, I’m sorry you’re running into jerks and not having as much fun as you could be. That sucks. Hopefully things pick up for you. Just remember that everything passes, and sometimes you hit a rough patch, but eventually you’ll meet someone cool :-D.
I believe it was the venerable Huey Lewis who said “it’s hip to be square.”
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I main Sadira, so I’m always getting taunted, tea bagged and RQued on. I’ve accepted it as a fact of life. I played Ranked for an hour today and had 5 Rqs, two lag switchers, and FlipperAntonio. 
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The ones Ive ran into weren’t the typical normal daily posters, but enough to recognize their names. Well except for one of them lol… which he was banned the other day so… owell
Mocking the way the word was misused in the context of the thread, that whole post was me being sarcastic and facetious.
@GalacticGeek maybe consider looking at things in a more light hearted fashion and consider trying to sound a little less condescending, it was completely unnecessary of you to point out the language used in my obviously sarcastic joke post. I’ve read a few of your posts on the forums and it honestly sounds like you’re going out of your way to bait people into arguing with you, maybe take it down a notch?
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That doesn’t even look real. But…at the same time…what? It looks so…plasticity.
lol, run it one more time, will still be funny
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You do know that literally has been used in the place of figuratively so often throughout the history of the English language that they are now literally considered synonyms of each other, right?
[spoiler]Actually literally is considered a synonym of virtually, but they’re all so closely related now they are virtually inbred cousins. [/spoiler]
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Did you forget to tell them how great they are, and that you are a big fan? 
This also might be why I only have around 5 friends here on the fourm.
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It was some macaque’s behinds and was honestly the single most safe for work picture of bumholes I could find. I’m not entirely sure what’s so abhorrent about an animals bottom considering we’re on the internet and what I posted was the equivalent of something you’d see in a nature documentary, but I digress.
Also there’s no need to go all passive aggressive either, if I ever get to the point where I’m not being playfully sarcastic and wander into offensive territory I’d almost expect to be reported, but as such I don’t feel my post really warranted this reaction, you could always do what I do, ignore it and move on, you don’t have to react, y’know?
Also, there was no backstabbing, just a request to consider your tone is all. 
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I “literally” 
died laughing when I seen that pic. I could see someone at a job having that pic on the screen, then someone going to HR to complain about it. 2 days later a mass email is sent out saying that only pics of family members, or solid colors could be used as desktop pics from now on.
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