Member Spotlight - Counterpunch Takes The Seat

Nice job. Always good to learn more about Counterpunch.

Great answers.

I've known the man for a good few years, and he still manages to surprise me.

Quite the enjoyable read, I must say. An excellent insight into one of our favorite "villains" :3

i was hoping these interviews were still occurring. Glad to see the douche got his turn under the microscope

Your 'Why I Love Transformers' articles are among the best forum posts I'd seen this year anywhere online. Inspired me to go for completing AEC at some point in the future.

BTW, I see the Photobucket collection belongs to 'Daidoji Kage'. L5Red much?

Nickolai wrote:BTW, I see the Photobucket collection belongs to 'Daidoji Kage'. L5Red much?

I am OLD school L5R.

I fought to rescue Hoturi. I had a full play set of Crimson and Jade. I was there for the battle of the Second Day of Thunder.

I have a Kachiko promo card from the debut GenCon signed by Matt Wilson...

Alas, when we were burglarized last year, my L5R card collection was massacred. They stole the box with my complete character card set and my action card box.

Counterpunch rules because he shares 2 of my biggest passions...TF/toy collecting and STREET FIGHTER!!! Awesome...anyways frickin sick collection man and displayed beautifuly, must be a blast dusting etc haha. Hopefully someday we shall meet in a duel to the death...via SF4 online of course!

Trale Strife wrote:Counterpunch rules because he shares 2 of my biggest passions...TF/toy collecting and STREET FIGHTER!!! Awesome...anyways frickin sick collection man and displayed beautifuly, must be a blast dusting etc haha. Hopefully someday we shall meet in a duel to the death...via SF4 online of course!

I await your challenge warrior.

That was a great read... I am glad to be one of the few to have seen his collection in person... It is quite impressive....

Counterpunch wrote:

Nickolai wrote:BTW, I see the Photobucket collection belongs to 'Daidoji Kage'. L5Red much?

I am OLD school L5R.

I fought to rescue Hoturi. I had a full play set of Crimson and Jade. I was there for the battle of the Second Day of Thunder.

I have a Kachiko promo card from the debut GenCon signed by Matt Wilson...

Alas, when we were burglarized last year, my L5R card collection was massacred. They stole the box with my complete character card set and my action card box.

Oh man, exactly the same as me L5R-wise AND a 2d fighter fanatic? Seriously, almost all I did during 2001-2002 was play CvS2. It took me a year and a half to get shoshosho and paint perfect.

I meant, L5R should have died a decade ago. They're not just beating a dead horse anymore, that thing is downright skeletal already. I was WAY into it 1996-1998. I loved the supercrazy broken stuff like Lion killing 2 provinces before you could take your turn, that OVERPOWERED (understatement) ho-bag Osugi, the fact that Crab were super popular but basically godawful, allowing for many tourney wins. I spent all my allowance and lots of holiday money on that game up until ToV.

Not like I'm shy, but here are the obligatory 'in person' pics:

Nickolai wrote:Oh man, exactly the same as me L5R-wise AND a 2d fighter fanatic? Seriously, almost all I did during 2001-2002 was play CvS2. It took me a year and a half to get shoshosho and paint perfect.

I meant, L5R should have died a decade ago. They're not just beating a dead horse anymore, that thing is downright skeletal already. I was WAY into it 1996-1998. I loved the supercrazy broken stuff like Lion killing 2 provinces before you could take your turn, that OVERPOWERED (understatement) ho-bag Osugi, the fact that Crab were super popular but basically godawful, allowing for many tourney wins. I spent all my allowance and lots of holiday money on that game up until ToV.

I've always been an A3 person and for a time I was formidable at 3S. I've backed off those two a lot and settled down with ST. ST is all about fundamentals and I don't have time to practice genai jinn or VCs anymore...

I and a few others around me are some of the best KOF MIRA players in the country. We promote the hell out of that game.

Interestingly enough on the L5R thing...the one tournement I won I had planned to play an LSD deck. Last minute I shifted to Crab Oni and went undefeated.

The Crane is my clan though. I could just not ever play the style that would let them win at tournements. As the results counted to story, I just didn't want to whore them out to the honor arches. I wanted more Iron Crane stuff...(so I lost )

Osugi rules. Making her Unique was a bitch move.

Ah KoF. I miss it. I was pretty damn good at 95, 98, 01 and 03. Those are all we basically got here. I have no idea where the franchise went after 04.

98 was my specialty though. I liked start-Terry, start-Yashiro and the most imba character of all time (seriously, don't bring him back ever if you can't really fix him) Goro. Goro was hands down just... defies description. I've killed more entire teams with just Goro than I spent tokens total on 98.

Downforward C - obscene.
D, downforward C, superthrow - disgusting
Downforward C, roll, downforward C, roll, Earth shake - yuck
Just standing there and poking with B and D - horrible

This was a great interview. Nice pics too. Will there be more of this member spotlight?

olokin wrote:This was a great interview. Nice pics too. Will there be more of this member spotlight?

That's the plan.

Serious inquiries only.

So he started collecting around the same time as me.
Nice interview, will CP be making more of these now?

Transformers AND Street Fighter? Epic win. Why aren't more chicks throwing themselves at you??

Great read and nice collection CP. Love those "in person" pics lol. sweet set up you got there.

Awesome interview. Cool to hear about the man himself! You always have such rational and well thought out points of view, Counterpunch. I admire that. And the crazy devotion to minicons. To me they're just an afterthought, an accessory to a larger figure, but you really appreciate them. That's so cool.

Unfortunately I can't view said Collection Of Legend, whatever hosting site they're on seems to be blocked at my workplace. I shall see it later!

Great interview, great collection pics.
And as for what you said about BotCon09, I'm sure it's gonna rock harder than even 07. See ya there!

Counterpunch wrote:

olokin wrote:This was a great interview. Nice pics too. Will there be more of this member spotlight?

That's the plan.

Serious inquiries only.

ahem ... forgetting something?

Burn wrote:

Counterpunch wrote:

olokin wrote:This was a great interview. Nice pics too. Will there be more of this member spotlight?

That's the plan.

Serious inquiries only.

ahem ... forgetting something?

Actually no.

You're next up.

I too have had the pleasure of seeing this collection in person.

I also replaced about half of it with knock-offs while he was in the other room playing video games.

Interesting insights as always, CP.

Cool interview, and your collection is impressive as hell.

Holy epic collection, Batman!

Heh, cool interview, and whoa nice shelf.

Cool interview!

This reminds me back to when I used to do these interviews with board members. I even did one with Joe Ng aka NgBoy, before he became a famous comicbook artist, when he started out just doing some of the MTMTE profiles from Dreamwave.

I miss those simpler times!

Sorta related, I guess. I can't dig up the "Why I Love Transformers: Energon" article Counterpunch did earlier this year. I'm looking for a push to get into the Energon pool and re-reading that article will probably do it. Can someone link to it?

Nickolai wrote:Sorta related, I guess. I can't dig up the "Why I Love Transformers: Energon" article Counterpunch did earlier this year. I'm looking for a push to get into the Energon pool and re-reading that article will probably do it. Can someone link to it?

Ta-da

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Yaus! Thanks. Gonna ctach 'em all now (well, just the cons. Autobots DO NOT WANT) and lookit, ma, synchronicity, here I am off to buy a, well, what else? $100 Galvatron.