NBC (unless other networks picked it up too). They started doing that shit last year where they just made the field between the line of scrimmage and first down dark green. Surprise! Grass also happens to be green...

What exactly does your screenshot of a Wikipedia page have to do with Paypal banning people for raising money to endanger refugees on the Mediterranean or Twitter banning people for trying to incite violence, which it says it will do in its guidelines? Which is a limitation Twitter has specifically placed on its…

yep.

In Canada we have hate speech laws. This allows law enforcement to charge facists based on their speech as an attempt to suppress the freedoms and rights of identifiable groups. The fascist’s right to free speech does not supercede an identifiable group’s right to exist without the threat of tyranny.

When things like that happen in other sports, they tend to be made illegal by the governing body. To give another tennis example, spaghetti-string rackets.

Yeah, Melee definitely is old and outdated, the problem is that there’s no game to replace it. No game that currently exists has the movement mechanics and depth of Melee, except Project M, which is a mod.

The players aren’t cheating at all, this article was just garbage at explaining what’s going on. There’s a potentiometer issue on many Gamecube controllers (bad manufacturing standards) that prevents you from being able to 100% consistently dash backwards out of a standing position. This is an issue with the…

Hmm, how do I explain it.

I didn’t realize I had an alt account.</jk>

Are the tight sticks and sticky triggers due to them being “newer” and the eventually they’ll loosen up with more game time? Or do all of them function like that?

Yeah, blatant glitches and unintended features should not be allowed if you ask me.

I understand if you don’t have a working controller or being hard to come by a GameCube Controller, but that’s not the case here. Thanks to Smash 4, GameCube controllers are incredibly common to find now. There’s no excuse not to get a newer controller and enter the tournament with it.

No, the most boring thing is playing 1v1 with items and losing because some goddamn rng powerdown. Brawl was the worst for this. The speed+ and speed— were indistinguishable, ditto with the Mega and Micro mushrooms. Battles were often decided by sheer RNG. RNG is a fickle god.

The problem is the smash community doesn’t understand that nintendo doesn’t want anything to do with them.
Melee itself is an issue because you can’t ask for everyone to buy a new version of a game and move on, especially if people are out right spitting on it before it gets announced.
But Nintendo will never budge,…

And you’ve once again highlighted why this is such a stupid problem in the first place:
Event Organizer: Okay, it’s taken us months to setup this large scale tournament with the best possible up to date equipment to make recording, streaming, editing, and producing much more effective. We want to make sure everyone’s…

Thank you! For the life of me, I just can’t stand this inherit hypocritical stance on just about everything that’s Smash related.
But the worst is the item issue:
Take out item usage to make it “fair”, but taking out the items makes the game more exclusive, not inclusive to new players and decreases the fun.  

at least this controversy isn’t revolving around sexual harassment. no troll, like 4 in 5 stories kotaku runs on competitive smash are about negative incidents.

Too hard to find monitors? Go to any estate sale, they’ll often give CRT TVs away for free.

Pete Sampras would only play with rackets from a specific factory. All baseballs are treated with a specific type of mud that comes from a specific source. All top level competitions have things like this.

I would love it so much if this came up in EVO:
EVO Admin: “Okay, Smash ‘Gods’, you got your wish, you’ll be a featured game. Are you ready?
SG’s: “Um...no, we can’t play.”
EVO: “why?”
SG’s: “our controllers are broken and they can only be replaced by a controller that’s over a decade old”
EVO: “We’re putting our entire…