From: caine@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dark Lord of the Sith)
Subject: Re: SF2 regulars at UIUC.
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 05:32:34 GMT

skillian@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Seth James Killian) writes:

>>Seth Killian AKA "Annoying Ryu"
>>-------------------------------
>>I'm sure you've all seen his 20 posts per day :)
>>Anyways, he's predominantly a Ryu player. Hmmm...
>>How should I describe this... You know the
>>fireball-fireball-ROUNDHOUSE kick players?
>>Yup. Seth is the epitome of one of these players.
>>In terms of style, he plays the "safe" style.
>>His ultimate goal is to win. He doesn't really
>>take risks except against scrubs. In terms of
>>combos, he's probably one of the weakest "comboers"
>>His main "combo" is jumping roundhouse, short dragon punch.
>>Originally, we called him one of the "non-dragon
>>punching Ryus" (We got a few of 'em)
>>Despite all of this though, he does win his fair
>>share of matches. I'd say his main weakness is
>>against masters of characters which require a
>>consistent dragon punch (Blanka, Bison, esp.)
>>His main strentgh lies in his ranging...

>	In defense of my numerous posts, I will say that my life has shriveled
>	and died since finals began.  I can't get away from studying long enough	to do anything but spew SF2 crap to other pitiful USENET addicts...
>	I will only comment on my own "review", but I encourage all the other
>	regulars to talk back too.  You make us all sound like SCRUBS for 
>	God's sake, if I was reading this, I would sure think I sucked!  First
>	off, I will grudgingly accept the moniker "Annoying Ryu" but I got stuck	with this, Cybergeek got to make up his own, and just cause I don't
>	change my sig.... Anyways...
>	About Ryu:  I must accept most of your criticism's, but with regards to 	my style, you forgot to mention the HK!  It is this that I proudly 
>	consider my most annoying trait.  I think I have title for "master of
>	the annoying HK".  No one else seems to share my fondness for this moves
>	near infinite utility.  It serves as my main ground to air defense (the
>	Dragon Punch crutch), offers increased range to my FB trap, and is 
>	boundless fun when you can HK over FB's at any time (you guys still 
>	don't see it coming!) The HK trades damage better than any other move
>	I can think of as well.  Secondly, although I do have a soft spot 
>	against Bison (unless I'm ticking like there is no tomorrow) I think 
>	most of us do.  And vs. Blanka?  I love fighting Blanka.  Excepting
>	Ming's Blanka, which uses the same basic style as my own, I can beat
>	_all_ of the numerous Blanka masters, about 80-95% of the time.  Also,
>	I consider my Blanka to be at least as (probably more) devastating than
>	Ryu.  Many others laugh, but they have not seen "Evil Blanka".  I also
>	play Dhalsim and Sagat and Vega (even a little Guile!).  I think that
>	our schedules have drifted apart for some time, I have changed somewhat
>	considerably.  I also think that you are just sore cause of all the     	times I've roundhoused Guile out of the air :).  I think the roundhouse
>	is actually _better_ than the DP for knocking Guile down, but this is 
>	a separate thread.  Look what you've done to me!  Sent me rambling on
>	a defensive rampage.  Anyway, come by and see the "new" Annoying Ryu,
>	I think you'll be unpleasantly surprised :).  Also, any other feedback
>	from you other regulars is also more than welcomed.  Use e-mail or feel
>	free to continue making me look bad with your net posts.

Hey...I mentioned that godforsaken move.  I can't count how many times I got
hit by that damn thing.  Also, I think that Crying Freeman was not making
us sound like scrubs, but was rather being conservative in order to preserve
our integrity.  Imagine if he wrote how awesome we actually are...:).

Caine Schneider

-- 
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------<
"I've got a bad feeling about this..." -Solo -Skywalker -Leia
"Attack me if you dare, I will crush you!" -The One and Only...Ken
<------------------------------------------------------------------------------>