About that leak...

Let's go. Turns out uh we know the entirety of the Street Fighter 6 next DLC season. If we're talking about things that are just being treated as complete truth without any uh verification, I got to reestablish myself on some of the things that we have been saying in the past. And I have luckily experience because I am that old. I am 67 years old. So I'm trying to give you guys a little bit of perspective. I'm calling [ __ ] on at least a chunk of it. I think if things do end up happening, I think it's going to end up being conveniently true if something does end up happening. Number one came from a source that was right once but then came back later and did not have any information and then suddenly comes back again and they're like, "Oh, I got information again." Which is always a little weird to me. also doesn't line up with the other stuff. There was a complete other amount of info that has been circulating for like just over like 6 months of what the next characters are. I don't think any of them are the same. Here's what's fascinating about this, and I'm just going to offer my personal experience. As someone that absolutely covered leaks uh of fighting game stuff in the past, whether it was like rumor or leak, and there's a reason why I stopped. The number one reason why I don't cover leaks anymore is that number one, you're setting up an audience and it's like your responsibility to give your audience somewhat factual information and you just don't know if it is. Problem with leaks as well is that yeah, I'm not doubting what either I heard or somebody heard about things being real. What I'm presenting is that [ __ ] changes. And until actual information is actual information, that does not mean that it will become an actual reality at some point. I have heard fighting games that I am ridiculously excited about, you know, being in development. For them to just vanish off the face of the [ __ ] earth and been like, well, that's just not even happening anymore. Like it would have been really cool to be vocally excited about cool things that are happening over the past like 10 to 15 years of me covering [ __ ] and then they just stop existing, bro. So it sort of sucks to build people up to be excited about something that is not confirmed to be actually happening because [ __ ] changes in the in behind the scenes. You know, [ __ ] changes on a dime behind the scenes. Anyway, that's why I just don't care generally talk about leaks very much. The other issue is which is something that matters to me is credibility. And if people are looking towards you about like leaks of things and it's sort of like this wishy-washy heard this from this so yeah I can cooperate that and then that does not eventually happen then people start asking later on dude what was all that stuff that you were talking about that this was going to happen like why didn't that happen when you're actually cooperating things it's like [ __ ] this is not good this is not a good thing and I've personally had in the 10 years ago I called them bait leaks which is why what's happening right now is especially especially relevant. I have had bait leaks where people are out there spreading information that specifically feels like it is to get me to talk about something and these feel like plants and it's like bro okay uh this [ __ ] feels like a plant. I have found out later that through literal inside sources at certain places yeah that it was completely not true and found out oh who the actual like leaker of real information is. I stopped taking that bait. Does anybody remember uncanny Marvel vs. Capcom 3. From what I recall, it was a complete bait leak. The whole point was to get me to talk about it in video, which we did, and some other content creators to talk about it. And some other content creators at the time had said that, "Yeah, I've been hearing about this, bro. Like, this is what's happening." And even in other situations where I had heard around the block, you know, you talk to a lot of people about something potentially being true. Here's the part that got me. This is where I was like, uh-oh. I think it was around either Mortal Kombat X or MBCI. So this is like nearly 10 years ago when information got out from some rando or something that nobody was this what this person is saying might not actually be true. All of a sudden somebody with a following is like yeah Ben I and I said this myself. I was like I also heard the same thing so that [ __ ] might be true. At that point, I started reading articles about said information and it was like some rando said something about something being true and then it went to me in the article quoted, "Hey, this [ __ ] who also loves Capcom stuff by the name Maxmillion dude also heard the same thing." At that point, I was like, "Uh-oh, wait a minute. Now I'm the leaker. Oh [ __ ] This was some random [ __ ] that was just on the internet saying [ __ ] and all of a sudden now I'm the one that is leaking [ __ ] Now I'm the one where all the eyes are on, oh this [ __ ] is cooperating this. It's like uh-oh. So that's a lesson I learned really hard. I became the leaker all of a sudden. So that at that point it was like ah [ __ ] Did even that stuff end up coming true? No, it [ __ ] didn't. Things changed. In fact, that stuff got pushed even further down the DLC cycle for some of those games and in NBCI's case got pushed out of the [ __ ] DLC cycle because the game got cancelled. Yeah, I just stopped doing that. I just was like, "This doesn't make any [ __ ] sense." We'll talk about rumors and things that I will absolutely not cooperate because I until something is officially announced in my personal opinion, I will not be talking about it, you know? I just won't until it's until it's a real thing. I also think it also sucks the excitement like straight out of the air. It leg just sucks the excitement straight out out of whatever could have been a cool moment. I appreciate us being in the moment with each other all on the same equal footing. I don't like being a person that is like that is feeling like I am getting specifically privileged like out of what everybody else is cuz it feels like I am disconnected from a lot of what you guys are experiencing which is the whole goddamn point to be connected to your audience in some way. I don't specifically like that. I don't like being in that like that situation because I want to experience this stuff at the same point where everybody else does. Anyway, so over the past like 24 hours with all this [ __ ] I'm not entirely on board with it, you know? I'm just not super on board with everything that's being said. There's literal two there's multiple different leaks now with images and stuff which are like potentially fake of what the characters are. I think there is something in here that is like, hey, there's a lot of this [ __ ] happening here, right? But there's also this character, and this character is the one that is like, "Oh, this is the one that is now getting This is the thing that's going to make front page and clicks and all this bullshit." And I'm just not [ __ ] buying it, dude. I'm not. So, I think it's just fair to say that we can I I can talk about this with with some cuz this is very related to me. I think we can gather up a bit of like gusto here because this feels like it's almost like calling me out specifically. I'll just say it straight up. I cannot believe that they would utilize this character to like effectively bait all of us into making front page. Everyone has this expectation and I think it's [ __ ] that I have been more excited about this character being in anything ever. We've wanted this character to show up in other things. We've wanted this character to be a reality like for so damn long. We all know who that character is and I'm I'm not afraid to talk about it. It's Vega. Vega is like the most iconic Street Fighter character we have ever seen that has not been in Street Fighter 6. And it's insane that if we go all the way back to like championship edition, this character is not around. It's crazy. And now we got all this cooperation that Vega is like the big character. And I'm like, dude, we've wanted Vega in Tekken. We've wanted Vega in in six. Vega was [ __ ] in five. He was boring as hell. So, we've been waiting for Vega to come back in some way. So, all I'm going to say is a lot of you guys are seeing all this [ __ ] all over the place. The character is on not on one leak list, could be on another. And all I have to say is that like this is an all-in kind of situation. We can't be picky and choosy. Oh, if just Vega makes it in, then that's cool, right? It's like no, no, no. This is a put up or shut up. Like, if we're out here accounting that some rando on the [ __ ] internet is saying that this [ __ ] is real, then it all better be real. Whenever this trailer happens, whenever something happens to show us what's happening, every single character, including Vega, the most requested character in Street Fighter history, is on that list. It better be real. then maybe we could learn something here. We should not just be listening to randos that have no accountability and being like, "Oh yeah, that could be real just because it has something extremely appealing like Vega, you know, the number one character from the Street Fighter 2 animated movie." That's my take on the situation and that's what I'm waiting for. Like I am waiting for whenever this trailer shows up, Vega is the first goddamn character that's there. He's the first goddamn character. He better be cuz it's the most popular one. There's a couple other characters in there, don't get me wrong. There's a couple other ones, but unless every single character is lining up with what this stuff is saying, I would be pissed off and immediately accounting to all the people that say this stuff is real. We can't be wishy-washy. Oh, this kind of came true. This kind of didn't. It's like, no, you said it. It better come true. Everyone's now excited for this stuff. If Vega isn't in it, if he doesn't throw his goddamn mask, I am pissed. I want this [ __ ] This is what I've been waiting for the whole time. And it's clear because it's like the front page of everything. Unless it's Vega and all the other [ __ ] And if it's not, how about we just do not take the credibility of leakers anymore? Because the majority of them are just saying [ __ ] They are just saying [ __ ]