desk vs desk
January 26, 2012 11:23 PM   Subscribe

 
Marvel Forever Alone Man: Origins
posted by Foci for Analysis at 11:30 PM on January 26, 2012 [2 favorites]


This can easily be faked with an identical hand twin.
posted by Sys Rq at 12:09 AM on January 27, 2012 [2 favorites]


Impressive, although less impressive than playing two-player Ikaruga by oneself.

I'm pretty sure I would give myself clinically measurable brain damage if I tried to do that.
posted by A Thousand Baited Hooks at 12:48 AM on January 27, 2012 [4 favorites]


Desk is a prodigy. But maybe you need to know Street Fighter to appreciate quite how amazing what he's doing is. The bit at the end is a recreation of Daigo Umehara's comeback vs. Justin Wong at EVO 2004 - that he can do that, playing both sides one-handed astounds me.

Nice to see a Street Fighter post on the Blue!

I first played Street Fighter as SF2 on the SNES (I think the SNES's d-pad etched the hadoken into my soul as well as my flesh) about 20 years ago and after a long gap I picked it up again when SF IV came out in 2009 . Nowadays most nights you can catch me playing Street Fighter IV on XBox Live but I'm nowhere near Desk's level of execution. I think he's going to enter EVO 2012 this year, which should be interesting.
posted by jiroczech at 2:56 AM on January 27, 2012 [2 favorites]


More than three rounds and you're playing with it.
posted by delfin at 4:38 AM on January 27, 2012 [2 favorites]


I wonder how his mind works? Are his hands aware of what the other are doing? Someone needs to hook him up with a neuroscientist.
posted by Fizz at 5:03 AM on January 27, 2012


The good thing about Desk's videos is that they're so well made that they can be appreciated on a number of levels. The concept for this one is simple enough that anyone can grasp what's special about it - one person controlling both Street Fighter characters at the same time.

But for those with a slightly deeper knowledge of SFIII there's also the fact that the combos that he's performing are not run of the mill (exploiting invincibility frames or Dudley's weird Off The Ground (OTG)-able state after a throw). So they'd be fairly interesting even were it not for the one-hand per character gimmick.

Dress it up with some tight editing and funky music remixes and it becomes a great overall package.
posted by MUD at 5:10 AM on January 27, 2012 [2 favorites]


Dress it up with some tight editing and funky music remixes and it becomes a great overall package.

And little touches like the fact that, at 1:19, the left hand gives up and starts texting.
posted by The Bellman at 7:32 AM on January 27, 2012


It should be mentioned here that in some of his other earlier videos, he composed and played the wanky prog bass guitar music himself.

He may not be on par with, but he reminds me of ragtime pianist Bob Milne, who was famous for his multi-tracked ability to play four symphonies in his head simultaneously. In a Library of Congress interview, Milne described a fascination with distilling the necessary hand motions to the absolute minimum necessary, and you can kind of see a similar philosophy of economy in Desk's video.
posted by marco_nj at 7:56 AM on January 27, 2012 [1 favorite]


MUD: "The good thing about Desk's videos is that they're so well made that they can be appreciated on a number of levels."

This hits the nail exactly on the head, and is pretty much why I posted this. I find the kind of digging and limit pushing that desk and others do with fighting games to be absolutely fascinating (despite being a pretty mediocre player myself), but because of his presentation, his work ends up being interesting regardless of any prior familiarity with the systems he's exploring.
posted by kilo hertz at 8:32 AM on January 27, 2012


Forever alone.
posted by clvrmnky at 9:14 AM on January 27, 2012


I don't think this is something I can d---OOOOH YOU CAAN!!!

(doesn't have to make sense)
posted by mulligan at 10:48 AM on January 27, 2012


is there no single player mode?
posted by Hoopo at 11:48 AM on January 27, 2012


The sound of two hands clacking.
posted by obscurator at 1:56 PM on January 27, 2012


« Older Beyond Vanilla   |   It is a Puzzlement Newer »


This thread has been archived and is closed to new comments