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Because florescent lighting has fucking murdered people's concept of contrast and appropriate levels of illumination.

All I know is you made no explicit mention of swing, and because of this family honor demands I hunt you down and take your writing hand from you.

Great grand pappy was a swing drummer in a circus. Blood shall be spilt for this.

You'll probably want to start here, and perhaps looking about the Creative Projects subforum.

Also, the biggest tip I could think of is, "Don't be surprised it getting anywhere substantial takes a while".

"Oh traveler, I have need of you, I wish to build a pen for my sheep that is 32000 square feet, but the fencing materials for the north and south sides must be made out of a special material that appeases the gods of the summer and winter, this material costs $2 per foot. Similarly the east and west sides must be built of one costing $1 per foot, to appease the gods of the sun and wind. But surely you would have to be some kind of mathematic machine to find what the cheapest-"
"About 253 by 126.5 feet, b'arch."
"Oh thank you kind sir, perhaps you could also help my brother who wants to build a similar pen using only $6000 of material, perhaps you could-"
"1000 by 1500"
"May your path be showered with a thousand blessings."

Well, my interest in this likely won't last since I've already gone below $100. Still a small amusement.

Eh, if you break bank it'll go up to a bailout limit. 20's the base, which raises as your level increases (which happens as you make bets). If you're looking to make money, really, the best option that doesn't involve spreadsheets or automation is simple flat memorization. After several hundred matches, if your memory's good enough, you'll start being able to make good predictions as to who will win 'cause you'll have seen both fighters at work before.

Of course, after over nine hundred matches bet on, and probably a few hundred more not, I still haven't seen all of the roster, and there's still more than a handful of dudes (especially among the trickier fake ones) I can't recognize well enough to bet on well. So... yeah.

I dunno bout ya'll, but I like actually playing MUGEN, rather than watching the AI beat the crap out of itself.

Eh, I'm terrible at fighting games, and half the fun of Salty is just the scenarios that occur. S'a lot of just... great stuff. Watching the Asteroids ship blow up Darth Vader is wonderful. Seeing Nanoha XP beat the everloving shit out of everything, etc., so forth, so on. It's better than TV.

Yeah, Iggy's in this. He's... not entirely terrible? Hitbox char, took down some fairly tough guys, but folds pretty easy. Pretty fun to watch, potentially good for an upset.

Petshop, on the other hand... Petshop is pretty brutal. Has a good chance to wreck anything that doesn't have a solid rushdown AI. Spam like goddamn, some other stuff going on for him. He won a tourney that involved one of the actually good Gokus.

Seriously though, if you see the blue coat Jotaro named just Jotaro, that's probably a decent bet. Same for, iirc, the one just called Jo Jo. One of those two are actually flat out brutal, approaching AC Burst level, and the other isn't far behind. The better Dios (there's actually a couple, but one's an altered dio of some sort... forget exactly what) are about on par with the lesser of the good Jotaros.

Ah. Yeah... Ronald isn't actually Dark Donald tier, at all, even though DD is basically Ronald's doom!upgrade. Iirc, he's about on par with one of the Colonel Sanders (though I don't think the Dark Sanders, whatever the actual name for that guy is)... got beat by one of the better Flashes in the one of the tourneys. And Aleti, of course, but Aleti's a beast so that's not exactly a surprise. Solid, definitely A or high B tier, but not one of the... I guess you could call them Salty Gods? Dark Donald is... well, he's Ronald, but colored mostly black and capable of roflstomping most of the game's lineup. No clue what the story behind him being named Dark Donald instead of Dark Ronald is, but... it is what it is.

If you haven't seen a Dark Donald match, well... well. That link a bit earlier had one versus Rare Akuma... in which DD trounced RA. DD's up there with dudes like Doruge and, well, Rare Akuma, heh.

There is a Donald and then some kind of jacked up Donald character, though, iirc. The former is a fairly alright potato (probably around middle of the potato pack, maybe a bit on the lower side), and I don't quite remember how the latter fared (though I imagine decently).