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I haven't been posting here for a long time but TPP is the real deal. More info here: https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp

Game seems to work fine otherwise, but just attempting to enter the video settings screen will crash it. Anyone know how I can set this thing to fullscreen?

If my character has no way to pressure from afar, which IMO is the kind of match-up where Val really shines. If my character has any kind of ability to get things done from afar those time-out losses turn into wins. Val has to approach, putting her at some risk. Her normals are slow and her...

Or you overestimate it. Regardless, I am mostly satisfied that we've hashed out the differences. At this point it's just a value judgement. It's not like I don't see how Valentine can win by making use of her movement. I just don't see it as being better than what other characters have going...

I have been saying from the start that Val has great movement, but her mediocre close-range mix-up and non-existent long-range pressure mean she doesn't get much out of it. She can get wherever she wants to be, but she's not dominant no matter where she goes. This ability to engage is good...

Not at all. I am taking defense as playing reactively. In some games (like SF4) this is extremely advantageous. Part of my point is that SG is not one of those games and Val is not one of those characters. If CM or anyone else would like to prove me wrong, they are welcome to do so. Dancing...

I am not claiming it to be self-evident at all. I welcome disagreement and discussion but if you're going to repeatedly miss the point, that's an ELI5 situation right there. I'm willing to rephrase, restate and simplify to a certain extent based on a good-faith belief that you are genuinely...

I think she was pretty good in the very first iteration, when she could green-vial into a kill from anywhere. You may have a valid point here. My experience with BB (and Eliza) is not extensive. Despite this, I still see Peacock as being extremely strong simply because she can apply pressure...

I have always said that Val has great movement, which is a great thing for her. In fact I think it's pretty much the only thing Val has over the rest of the cast. She has some cool corner combos and nice mix-ups, but everyone has those. I remain unconvinced that Val's great movement is better...

What I got out of this is essentially that Valentine is really, really good at doing something that is not good in the game. Why is the game rushdown-heavy? Because SG is an offense-oriented game. What does Valentine get out of resetting to neutral anyway? She's not Peacock. She needs to get in...

I agree that Val is essentially PW, but worse. About Double: I think that point Double sucks, but I think her support is so good she's good enough for mid-tier anyway. I wouldn't mind some buffs for her on point.

I mained Val for a looooong time and I don't even know how to do counter super to this day. :PUN: In other news, I might drop Big Band to bottom tier for retail, to join Val. I was having trouble with some of his tools before but it turns out I just wasn't familiar with them. Also dropping...

People have been saying that Val got better in Beta. I don't play beta because my main laptop is Linux-only and I hate firing up my old windows machine. Anyone case to fill me in on what her improvements were?

I don't even look at damage these days. Everything I do revolves around getting the other guy into the corner then double-snapping. I'm 99% rusty and suck at everything now, but I am almost 100% at converting assist hits into double-snap kills when I tag multiple characters. I used to play...

I have had Valentine at low tier ever since SDE. She has one thing really going for her: amazingly good mobility. She's average to slightly above average at some other things and horrendous at others. Having her on a team is a huge liability since every time she is snapped, you essentially lose...

I'm stuck on a programming problem so I'm just gonna go ahead and make a random post to take my mind off it for a minute. Here's my updated tier list after tapering off my SG gameplay over a period of many months, until I stopped playing at all, then spent the past weekend playing a crap-ton of...

Been busy for a while, but this seems important: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141216/10362129451/celine-dion-human-cannonballs-garcia-v-google-en-banc-oral-argument.shtml

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Latest TPP chapter leaked: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141016/05300128842/latest-intellectual-property-chapter-tpp-agreement-leaked-would-be-disaster-public-health.shtml

A history lesson: http://www.cato-unbound.org/2014/09/08/eli-dourado/true-story-how-patent-bar-captured-court-shrank-intellectual-commons