Free implies that you’re so easy to beat, you’re like a free space on the bingo board. It’s automatic.

That’s what both the PC police and Pewdiepie’s more boorish defenders don’t seem to get. Jim Norton is right: anything can be funny. Rape, racism, sexism, the holocaust, 9/11. ANYTHING. Great comedians have been telling jokes about all of those things for decades.

This. The only bad joke is the unfunny kind. You could argue Pewdiepie’s joke wasn’t funny (I generally find him irritating and unfunny) but going after his livelihood because he said/did something mildly inappropriate is disgusting.

A lot of people share your opinion but as someone who played in/ran a lot of tournaments during CvS2's heyday (2002-2005ish), it’s not a good competitive game. It’s a nightmare to run for tournament organizers because the game is slow-paced and takes forever to run in the standard two-out-of-three, double elimination…

While I personally enjoy Killer Instinct and the amount of love MS and Iron Galaxy has shown the community has been great, it just doesn’t have the community backing. It has had the lowest turnout at Evo the last two years despite big pot bonuses. I would have no problem if the game won the 9th spot but it’s been at…

The short answer is that Smash isn’t part of the FGC and doesn’t have the same culture and history. The FGC has always been of the mindset that when a new iteration of a game is released, you retire the old game and give the new game a shot. You don’t completely stop playing the old game but in major tournaments, you…

You’re correct but that has no bearing on what games Evo decides to include in its tournament slate. They remove old games over time. They try to do it when there’s a suitable replacement in the community but they’re not going to run Melee forever just because a large portion of the Smash community doesn’t like the…

Melee is a 15-year-old game. I don’t care how popular it is... it eventually has to step aside to give other games a chance in the spotlight. Super Turbo did it, Marvel 2 did it, SF4 did it.

Street Fighter IV could still pull 1,000+ players and SSF2T could draw and have a spot on Evo’s main stage til the end of time if player counts were the sole determining factor (plus top 8s wouldn’t take 4 hours like Smash games). Evo eventually retires games to give newer games a chance to develop a community and/or…

Unless you’re playing games that require an analog stick, the Sega Saturn controller is the only correct answer here. There are a ton of USB knockoffs (some higher quality than others... do your research up front).

It’s children mostly. Too much free time, not enough self esteem and poor social skills.