AngryBird on Managing Ego, Expectations, and How He'd Improve Street Fighter 6 | Talking with T #9 

I’m not religious or anything. But AngryBird talking about how is goal isn’t even to win it’s to show appreciation, is super heartwarming.

Angry Bird with that wisdom. I'm impressed. Dude's got a good head on his shoulders.

My Ken’s brothers ❤️❤️🔥 MMG AND HABIBI 🫡😮‍💨

you're killin' it man I'm pretty new to the FGC and this show has been helping me get more familiar with all these legendary figures in the community. Much appreciation (:

I'm not a religious person at all but I have so much respect for AB in his convictions and how humble he is. BTW Chris you're doing a fantastic job with these conversations, a lot of interviewers I see will kind of rapid fire topics like they got somewhere to be, but you make sure the topics are more fleshed out before moving on. You are killing it

The strategies that Angry bird is talking about during gameplay is really useful

That was awesome. As many people already commented, these interviews of yours allow us to see these sides of our favorite players in a way that tournaments and gaming livestreams would never do. Thank you Chris

A lot of these points you made regarding ego hit very close to home for me. I lead a small group of people and during SFV ego played a huge part of my growth being stunted because I was not only jealous of the higher performing people in my group, but as a Ken player I felt that my legacy knowledge made me better than I was . The minute I took ego out of it and decided to try and be humble that was when my gameplay improved but not only just that but the relationships between me and my teammates also got better. Now in SF6 we’re thriving and it’s in no small part because of me losing my ego and being kinder to myself. Thank you for these insights, the FGC needs more conversations like these.

😮 Didn't know Chris is Middle Eastern. Maximum Habibi power.

I love AB's approach to the game and his mentality. The man's a BEAST!!!!!!!!!!!

That was a great conversation, thank you both. Here's my 2 favorite quotes from this episode, from Angrybird: "You should accept reality more than complaining. That's what makes the difference beteeen the best, and [one step] below the best. The best accept realities as they are, and try to adapt to them. The people below the best? ...Very good, but they don't accept reality." And "Play for yourself. If you don't feel like playing for yourself, don't go to that tournament. When you go, make sure you are playing ONLY for you. Not to prove anything to anyone else, not to play for people's expectation... who cares? At the end we are all going to die ... whatever people think about you is not going to matter anymore."

It's actually surreal that you interviewing the very best in the industry and it's so casual at that. I'm literally watching history. Best FGC podcast so far hands down!

Canada cup 1st to 7 was an amazing tournament format. Some of the best sets I've ever seen was there.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.

This is my favourite podcast. Thanks for this Chris, this is doing a lot for the community and will only continue to do more.

These interviews are sooo good. I love Ts calm yet serious approach. Seriously the best FGC interviews since bornfree

You’re outdoing yourself with these top tier guests Chris. Keep it up!

Yeah, things should be reactable and punishable by reaction. The moment you make things unreactable you make everything a gamble.

I wish I learned how to play on stick. Been playing since Vanilla ('91. I'm from Amsterdam. In the 80s and 90s things got to us about a year late. I'm 43). I went to arcades, but never had money to play. So I just watched, and would then invite people to my house to play, just to prove that I was good if I had a controller (SNES, at the time). These stories, even though 30+ years later, remind me of my beginnings. Good Times😊..

LETS FUCKING GO, My 2 FAVOURITE Kens 🔥🔥🔥

Very insightful conversation, thank you so much for having the discussion so that everyone can hear from the beautiful mindset and practices

So much value in this series, thank you!

So happy we’re getting this from you. Thanks fam this what the game been missing.

Those interview series are great, thank you for this content. I especially liked this one.

Very nice work Chris!!! Great series!!

Thank you so much for these! Watched all of your podcasts and and they been so good! It's been very motivating! Love from a UK guy living in Japan

dude's got a great head on his shoulders. great mentality. and i absolutely agree with his take on neutral drive rush. a universal tool to skip neutral that benefits certain characters more than others is broken. needs to be easier to punish in neutral and cost slightly more 100%

Keep it up Chris!

Bro bro bro these are so good. You are in such an amazing spot to do these interviews because of all your skill and dedication to your craft. You have the sense to ask the right questions AND the respect from your peers to get these conversations from such big names across multiple eras of gaming. Much luv from SoCal! LA all day!

A top notch video again. Keep up the consistency Chris, I think this is some of the most well-informed and informative mindset content for the game released so far because you ask questions that we are mostly scared to ask - or don’t have the access to top players to ask. Enjoy the journey and don’t worry if the masses haven’t fully caught on yet - it makes it better for the early apopters to get better faster. Thanks again for the video!

Keep up the great content Chris!

Fire questions bro! Keep it up! Asking the good stuff!

Beautiful and insightful conversation. Thank you both for this 🙏

Another great video!

ayyy my favorite kenss! great video chris !!

Thank you for putting this together for us, this is now my favorite podcast. Hope to see one streamed too. I needed to hear a lot of things that were said thank you

"when i was a kid he had me play sf4" that line just took me out and puts in perspective of how old im getting....christ lmao

BABE WAKE UP! NEW TALKING WITH T JUST FUCKING DROPPED

Brilliant interview!!

This is an outstanding conversation. Great work, T. You're on a roll. Best of luck and much success.

Thank you Chris for these deep conversations!

LEGENDARY. 💪🏽

Best interview so far, i learned a lot here about the mindset, something that most of the time we skip it. You're really doing well chrisT

Beautiful spiritual approach and conversation

Just wanna say thank you for uploading this podcast and having such an amazing player like Angry bird. His thoughts on mentality when competing in bracket and casuals helped me so much in only a few days.

Hej, just wanted to drop this for the algorithm. But i really love this series. FGs can just be a game to some if not most players, but if you dig deep, they can be so much more. I can't stress enough how important this very episode is to me. I'm fighting my ego for almost twenty years now, since it kinda developed a life on it's own in my head, and FGs and their humbling nature are such a great way and chance to learn to deal with something that has in part ruined things for me that i used to love doing. Thank you very much. The fact that it's my two favorite Kens in the world talking makes it just that much better.

These interviews have been fantastic. If I may offer a tiny bit of interview technique advice: it's usually best to ask one question at the time. I think you're gradually realising this naturally, but the multiple-questions-all-at-once not only puts more burden on the interviewee (and translator if present as in the Infiltration interview) but also the viewer somewhat. The interviewee may often choose the bit of the question they're most comfortable with (or simply remember) then you gotta ask again anyway :) It's always possible to link or widen the conversation to other topics with "following on from that..." or "expanding on that...". Just my 2c on a tiny way to level up even more - overall amazing work!

I double perfected you on Ranked because you happened to be away from the game when I was Diamond. Led me to following you on socials and now this show. New to the scene but this mindset talk is awesome and really appreciate the work you put into interview questions and guests are top notch. Hope to meet you in person one day my bro!

Angrybird is top as human an as SF player, i love this boy

Very informative interview! Learned a lot in terms of street fighter play, mindset, mentality and keeping god close to us always, amazing interview, keep these up Chris! 🔥

Amazing episode!

you should put these on spotify so i can watch them at work, great content man

One of the best interviews I’ve ever watched. This content is gold.

i enjoyed the episode. keep em up

yo ChrisT this podcast was amazing due to the topics you chose (as per usual). I learned a lot from you and Amjad and I will apply everything he said to get better as a player.

Good conversation about SF6 and I picked up some knowledge on the game…thanks for sharing the video. You’re both 2 of the best SF players of the world…keep up the good work and god bless

This podcast is great man, good work!

Got to say this is one of the episodes I have been looking forward to the most! Great stuff Chris! Wishlist requests from people to interview from me: - Daigo - Tokido - John Choi - Justin Wong Maybe I have to wait for the season 2 DLC of Talking with T to get my wish 😆

It would be great to have timestamps on different topics... a lot of podcasts do this and it makes it more digestable Great questions and great guest! Keep'em coming ^^

Changes to Parry 1 - I'd make regular parry regain meter equal to the meter the move usually drains. Right now parry regain 1 bar regardless of what normal it parries and 2 bars regardless of what supers it parries. I'd keep meter gain for regular parrying a fireball the same but make perfect parrying a fireball gain 1 bar instead. 2 - I'd increase regular parry active frames from 8 to 12 while keeping the total frames the same. 3 - If parry connects withing the first 2 frames you get perfect parry, if it connects within 3rd to 8th frame you get normal frame situation(same as block), if it connects within 9th to 12th frame you get additional -2f situation. There should be a new animation for parry on the 9th to 12th frame to let players know they are in an additional -2f situation. 4 - Getting thrown when in parry state drains 1.5 drive meter instead of just 1. These change should encourage players to use parry as a reactional move, 12 active frames is lenient but it still has to be timed and has modest meter gain. Its used more for perfect parry attempt and meter protection, not for meter building. There's better reward for better timed parry and more risk for a loosely timed one. Changes to drive rush 1 - Getting hit while in drive rush state will always trigger punish counter state 2 - Raw drive rush attacks no longer drain opponent's drive meter on block Right now raw drive rush is used to skip neutral easily, and it has the advantage of giving oki with the natural +4f advantage, it also drains opponent's meter on block while regenerating yours. For such little cost, the advantage is huge. Making it a punish counter state whenever you are hit in drive rush state(green) guarantees some meter drain and allows for bigger combos and punish, directly increasing the reward of checking drive rushes and reducing the risk of blocking drive rushes. Changes to drive reversal 1 - Double the drive reversal grey health damage from 500 to 1000. 2 - Reduce the drive reversal meter cost activated from parry state from 2 bars to 1 bar. Drive reversal cost activated from block remains at 2 bars. This should make successful drive reversal slightly more rewarding. And the reduced cost from parry drive reversal helps to offset the parry meter gain nerf. Changes to burnout 1 - Reduce the natural frame disadvantage for blocking in burnout from -4f to -2f but make burnout duration last twice as long. 2 - Increase the drive meter gain in burnout by 20% when attacking or blocking. Natural drive meter regeneration remains the same. Right now, the game is all about skipping neutral with raw drive rush and buffering drive rush cancel with 2mk or 2mp. There is very little actual footsie and neutral game, much less hit confirms because of buffered drive rush cancel that is not only safe, it also gives extended pressure with +4f advantage. Making burnout last twice as long will make players think twice about using raw drive rushes and buffering drive rush cancel like its free. It is however balanced by reducing the frame disadvantage for blocking in burnout and increase meter gain for defending and attacking so players have a better fighting chance in burnout than before. These changes will promote actual footsie and neutral game instead of just mindlessly skipping neutral.

Excellent ! Very good questions and extremely good answers from Angry Bird.❤

Chris T and Angry Bird, very positive and inspirational! On top of being elite players 💪🏼💯

Good stuff Chris T!

This needs to become a podcast.

• names himself after an iPad game • wins Evo *KINGLY BEHAVIOUR* 🗿

Amazing dude. get some background and foreground lighting going and it’ll make the production look 💯

Great conversation guys 👌🏿🫡

Amazing video

beauitifull interview

41:23 and this is why he's one of the best much respect. 🔥

Amazing video. Also me hearing that Ken needs buffs:- 😳😳

“It’s in the Past”-AngryBird❤

Wonderful video! Angrybird is so wise and has opened my eyes in some aspects of neutral god bless him 🙏

Chris got a super relaxing voice

The amount of class among competitors is beautiful to see.

Hello chris you got an unique voice =) greetings from switerland/albania

"You cannot keep birds from flying over your head but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair" Martin Luther It is ok to feel jealousy, but don't let it occupy you

ANGRY BIRIIIRD LOOK AT DIS 14 ACTIVE FRAMES

I liked all the system changes he had

50:20 godlike lol

Comment before starting to listen: Would love to see someone like SonicFox at some point to hear the perspective of someone who’s new(er) to the FGC scene compared to some other guests you’ve had on to see what/if the contrast is on perspectives of how the scene has grown over the years to include more and more types of people. Now to listen to the episode🤙🏼

Que dieu vous bénisse , god bless you Chris and Angris bird , your amazing players et your podcast is top, y speack french but i learns so mutch ,thanks

As a Luke player, I have to say he kinda exposed me. This is the mistake I see so many players make against me : trying to enforce their own game plan on Luke. It doesn’t work. I’m a defensive player. I will check you with sandblast, get a small life lead walk back and let you dig your own grave. Like angry bird mentioned. Me crouching covers all your offensive options. You jump I down heavy. You walk in I down medium kick. You are in my face I down medium punch and I’m plus. Your goal against Luke should be like he said, get a life lead and let him chase you. Not to downplay Luke. He is one of the best in the game for sure. But people that act like the gap between characters is so big mostly have no clue what to do against him.

I’ve heard ChrisT.. and ChrisT.. but then when I heard your last name Tatarian I was thinking “🤔 is my brother Armenian?” 😂 I love Armenian people man .. being from the Valley/L.A./Hollywood and working and knowing Armenian people I’ve met some of the most beautiful people in the world..❤ and also being a HUUUUGGE System of a Down fan since the late 90s 😂 I can say Armenian people have changed my life and grown my heart 10 times bigger than it was before I met them..

The Cammy corner wakeup game is the same against every character, I don't get how it's a Ken specific thing, in fact its even more of a nightmare for characters that don't have a side switch combo (Ken has one) after she switches positions.

As someone who is religious and started playing fighting games the last year. It is surprising and refreshing to see someone who not only has put a lot of thought in how these two spheres interact, but also is at a high level.

Ken nation in the house

Angrybird is Wisebird xD

Hey, Chris, if possible ask your guests the old vs new games question while the topic is still hot after ryan hart's interview, would be cool if you invite Ryan once again to elaborate on that and adress the criticism from notable players

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I would like to know who uses what in terms of sticks and gates. Is this information available? I just put an octagonal gate on my stick and now I can react like Modern players with Supers. I've noticed Angrybird walks and blocks like he's on hitbox but he uses stick. I've also noticed he uses many different sticks. Is his lever a normal Sanwa? Great podcast, btw. I'm recommending it to everybody.

The religious points he mentioned really hit different

Big Bird Rashid & AngryBird Rashid❤❤❤❤❤❤

"Posted 28 mins ago"... *hits play*

👀👀👀 HABIBI

Its amazing. Could you/someone also timestamp this?

I know it isn't really important but you look better without beard 😅 9:50 I dedicate this part to punk

Am I crazy or does Habibi translate to baby in English ? Lol Regardless, awesome episode

Do you still produce music Chris?

Only one religion can be the true one, though. Ave Maria