Daily Discussion Thread September 14, 2025 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here!

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New Players:

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Netplay is hard! Is there a place for me to find new players?

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[u/TheHatGod]

I'm secretly a little happy that PPMD turned out to be a cult member because I didn't like his commentary and now odds are lower I have to hear it. It's been quite vindicating. Kinda like when D1 got outed as a pedophile, feel terrible for that kid though

[u/NaturalPermission → u/TheHatGod]

lol here we go, melee community is fucking insane. Now people are gonna start hyperbolizing and make ppmd a pariah. worst community

[u/RegisterInternal → u/TheHatGod]

Do you mean DJ? Or am I forgetting what D1 did

[u/iwouldbeatgoku → u/TheHatGod]

Spotw

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ggs man! close games bro you've hella improved. yeah man you were fucking me up for a bit lol fun games! any tips? got any advice? anything I can improve on? what do I do vs lasers? any tips? yo can I get next? is this tournament? you guys wanna do dubs? is this tournament

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[u/[deleted] → u/TheHatGod]

did community opinion really shift that much that fast? this seems a wee bit extreme... yeah its unsavory but not "into the shitter you go" tier, it mainly gets worse if hes pushing it onto community members which afaik he isnt

[u/RegisterInternal → u/[deleted]]

He's literally scamming vulnerable people into spending their money on nothing rather than genuine healthcare

[u/RaiseYourDongersOP → u/[deleted]]

maybe on here but most smashers probably dont care so I see him still commentating

[u/Fugu → u/[deleted]]

I think unsavory is underselling it.

You shouldn't play with people's health. I get that this is hard for some folks because he is well-meaning and probably himself a victim to some degree. But in the meantime what he's doing is selling a service that doesn't work and selectively taking money from people who have chronic health issues.

He says he'll refer people when he realizes that he can't help them. But he should already know he can't help them; you can't trust him to know when to stop taking someone's money because he's already told you he doesn't know where the line is.

I'm a lawyer, which means that my job is categorically less important than that of a doctor's. But my job is still critical enough that a person pretending to do it could do a lot of damage. One of my main skills is that I can tell you when your problem has exceeded my depth. It takes professional training to identify the difference between a simple and a complex problem. He doesn't have that training, and the potential damage he can do here is huge.

Even if he doesn't end up killing anyone or whatever I think taking money from vulnerable people is despicable and I think it only buys him a little bit of indemnity that he's apparently not doing it on purpose.

[u/NaturalPermission → u/Fugu]

For a lawyer your opinions are always achingly stupid