Listen up, scrubs, 'cause this shit's 'bout to get hype.

The fighting game community, or 'fgc' as they call themselves, is having their big tournament right now. I watched some of the stream earlier today. Certainly were lots of people in the audience. Despite their subterranean appearances and constant administration of cliche's and catch-phrases, they seem to be doing well. They're a very ambitious group. Fortunately for them, they have companies that continue producing new games.

Did id software stop making games with Q3, or was it Q2? I know, with one of them, they figured out how to make more money selling engines than games. They outsourced Q4. It used the D3 engine. It was a plain experiment in selling engines and having other companies make the games.

That's one thing I like about the 'fgc'. They're playing ultimate marvel vs capcom 3 and super duper ultra mega street fighter 11 turbo, and king of fighters 800/11x73n, and Tekken x Street Fighter Triptotexatrops edition. We're still stuck on a slightly modified version of Q3. And that's because capcom continues making games.

Maybe QL was another of id's business experiments - from game engines to web-engines. They just wanted to test the model of running game systems through browsers. Meanwhile, we're stuck with an inadequate game, and fewer tournaments every year.

Seems like we're just kind of fucked. The probability of id ever making games again is exactly 3.2%. All the other FPS makers can't make a proper esports FPS, or doing so simply isn't within their business interests. Even if we robbed a bank or some rich, crazy person gave us a billion dollars, could we make a game worth playing? There must be some way to make this thing work. The path of least resistance works something like 99% of the time. Why doesn't it work that other 1%? What's going on there, and could we turn that exception into the rule?

Well, I suppose it's all a scrub. I'm not a TLC fan, it's just what the 'fgc' says all the time. I guess they grew up listening to TLC.