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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

ok so i really want to not be mean, but this is like exactly what i'm complaining about. you got an impression of the game from the marketing and from people online discussing it and you have held that in your heart and are repeating it here without actually playing it.

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

warming up for the regional today went well

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

i go through this cycle like at least once a week nowadays lmao

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

i actually have so many fucking words to say about this lmao so we're doing screenshots instead of a thread short answer is imagine if xrd YRC wasn't really frustrating on the defender side but was still strong and fun to use. and also made combos cooler.

longer answer is that it's kind of the fact that it's limiting that makes them sick, i guess? because you can't use them on everything all the time and there's a lot of strong ways to spend meter in +R it's very rare that you 100% *need* to know an FRC for a character to function and it's even rarer for said FRC to be especially difficult, so they're kind of an optional mechanic that you don't need to engage with when you're learning. it adds layers to a character's kit that you can engage with at your own pace. them being tied to specific moves means that those moves gain depth that you don't see with RC in the later games because YRC and drift RRC and shit are *so strong* that you want to get the most out of them.

because like that's the thing, RC mechanics in later guilty gears are like. they're objectively much stronger but they're stronger in a way that makes them less versatile? for one you just, straight up cannot use YRC for combos in xrd. like that's how the mechanic works. but outside of that i find the time slow effect on RCs in xrd and strive to be really overbearing and centralizing in terms of what you do as the attacker, and frustrating and disempowering as the defender. the only thing that FRC and RC do in +R is cancel your move, and outside of like the very strongest FRCs like gunflame and exe beast and such you usually aren't getting so much blockstun on them that you get a guaranteed strong offensive position for doing the move with the right positioning. in xrd if i as an i-no player do HCL YRC from roughly roundstart distance and they're standing, i airdash and get a mixup. no questions. and there's a lot of moves like that that just let you force your way in because of how much the time slow skews your frame data. in +R, my strongest way to turn 25 meter into a turn as i-no with FRC is like, air note frc into immediate dive? which is much more finicky screen position wise, has a good amount of startup, and just generally has more moving parts which can go wrong. it's still really good, but i need to think about it's application more and it's not my automatic go-to when i have mid-game amounts of meter and i find myself at the right spacing. (hcl 6frc6 is also good but most characters can 6P you for trying if they think you're gonna pull the trigger on it. but you might not and it's really hard to react, so it's something of a mindgame instead of a guaranteed turn.)

finally i just find it preferable when there's stuff in a game that people can't hit 100% of the time. it's cool when someone goes for something hard and hits it. it's even cooler when they can hit it consistently. there's still mechanics like this in modern games, like strive IB and sf6 perfect parry are 2f windows, but they're all defensive in nature. and like, idk i just prefer to put the burden of execution on the aggressor, i think. i think defense in fighting games is hard enough as is, and personally i find rough defensive situations i need to do some esoteric bullshit to escape more palatable when i know my opponent is working just as hard to get me there.

that was ramble-y but i guess to summarize, i like FRCs because their power budget is a lot vaguer and generally lower, which means to make them as useful as your other metered tools you need to be skillful and creative. they enhance a character's kit and add a lot of depth without demanding attention, and they tend to make situations more complicated rather than less.

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

i had to go to the post office to ship a package to the states and they made deal with their fuckass evil ai app to pay for duties. so i drew bugs bunny playing mahjong to cheer myself up.

An amateurish drawing of Bugs Bunny in a white button up shirt sitting at a mahjong table with the text "Dat's Ron, Doc. Haku, Honitsu, Iittsu, Dora 3. Last I checked, dat's a Baiman."

The visible tiles reflect this reality.

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

silver's fun. awooooo and such important context that dynamo had enhanced healing tempo and had been basically immortal for the entire match

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

this game is so ass i cant get enough

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

"don't you want to know, Seth MacFarlane? don't you want to know what happened on that day 24 years ago?"

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

yeah this owns this is here to stay. era of haunted doll alice

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

getting around to learning makeup after like 6 years straight of saying i will and then not

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

jp took a bit longer but like, not very. i love doing special moves

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

close enough to halfway through the cast to call it halfway, this guy took me like the better part of an afternoon.

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

if you can consistently kill these little fuckers you can play 3rd strike

the little ant ninja with two knives from silksong whos name escapes me but it burrows into the ground and has a double slash attack and throws a projectile either straight ahead or up at an angle

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

yeah mk jinrai isn't ok they shouldn't have made that move like that

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

IT IS DONE i have proven to myself that i am capable of holding downback and reacting correctly to what villain does. crucible overcome.

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

GUHHHHHHH i don't WANNA replace the strings on my guitar but it sounds like ass when they're rusted aughhhhhhh

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

i have learned absolutely nothing from this experience

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

ed is really hard for me lmao, this is a character that is entirely incapable of playing the game i usually default to. forced me to get a lot better at the actual game. also im really pleased with my promotion match so look at it now please and thank you

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I HAVE PASSED THROUGH THE CRUCIBLE, NOT UNSCATHED BUT STRONGER FOR IT

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

when i look at these two images i see the same thing

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

ok yeah ed level 2 is sick, i get it now

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

yeah this didn't take very long at all huh

screenshot showing that i got kimberly to master rank

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

fighting games are something so great

a screenshot of street fighter 6 where my opponent has disconnected after decisively losing the first round

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

also landing zangief level 3 gives me the big dopamine. i used to feel like 720s were fucking impossible lmao

i have so many things to criticize sf6 for, i don't like how many ways you can just declare "neutral is over" and force your opponent to react, i don't like perfect parry, i don't like how centralizing normal throw is when you can't tech OS, i think games without air blocking are stinky. the super meter feels vestigial and idk how i feel about how it affects rounds 2/3. there could be more and better women.

but like shit everything else feels so good. i love how the system mechanics and the lack of + frames make offense outside point blank a lot of spacing traps and weird timing reads at +0. i love walking into my opponent's effective range and down backing to make them waste 3 bars on a DRC because they just threw out an EX that did nothing and winning because of that decision. i love how fireballs work. burnout pressure feels really satisfying on the characters that don't suck at it.

i think i've grown a lot as a player since the game came out, i really wasn't in a place on my journey to appreciate what this game does.

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

you all liked the sword and i am nothing if not a slut for attention, so

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

neat that they still make girls who are knights

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

real fuckin neuron igniter of a move lemme tell ya

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

with the new oki after spin knuckle, a cammy with full resources can threaten to three touch most of the cast off of something as simple as a midscreen counterhit jab confirm. of course they might not just downback when faced with charged hooligan, but her other mixup options also hurt, if less so.

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

at least evil pussy attack will always have my back, i love you delayable launching overhead that cuts my vertical momentum 🥰

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

today on "alice risks her hand health for like 20 tension" double dive loops!!! i love these they look so fucking cool and once you find the rhythm they feel great also

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

i love it when my friends teach me fun new tricks

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

midscreen j.D routing is so fucking cool i love this character so much

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

playing with some meterless routes today. i feel like there have been a lot of rounds lately that i lost on the back of poor meter management, i do a lot of hcl frc and fb dive midscreen where a meterless route like this will do fine, and that's basically throwing 50 tension to the wind.

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

meterless you can do stuff like this for a lot of corner carry. i also messed around with stuff like point blank j.H p dive, which is cool but you need to be close and it doesn't really lead to much without spending more meter. and the other routes seem better if you're already doing that.

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alice girlthing @iceboundwitch.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

you can straightforwardly meter dump off of K dive starter, though this won't work if hos doesn't action charge the dp. does a lot of damage though

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