Pillows are harmless until someone smothers you with them. Hammers are harmless until someone beats you to death with it.
Houses are harmless until they collapse on your head. Guns are generally harmless. Just look at how often they are fired vs how often they hurt someone.

Notations can be turned off, theres a button in the player itself. The ads are still annoying and im not aware of any way to get rid of them.

Surely you must be joking. The golden standard for fighting games is 60 and nothing else.
Heres a faq for Tekken 5 Also have a look here and here

Offensive? The scammers lose some time and dignity if they get baited, nothing that will matter in a day or two. If they manage to scam someone that person might give away a large portion of their livelyhood.
A swedish man got scammed for about 800.000 SEK (roughly 120.000 USD) and the bank/police cant do anything about it. They prey on the weak and exploit them to the max, they deserve what they get.

The fact that one of the judges was a member of a copyright lobby group didnt exactly hurt the RIAA folks. He has since been removed from the "case".

This is just in, update your bookmark.

"Chess game"? You have got to be shitting me.

"Fighting games are excellent with thumbsticks" Dead wrong. Thumbstick are stupid to the extreme in fighting games for a number of reasons.
The games themselves are designed to be played with a digital joystick; they dont have things like 'almost crouching' och other smooth motions.
You either crouch or you dont, with nothing in between so the analog part of the thumbstick is pretty useless.

Another thing about analog thumbsticks are that they usually come connected to the amorphous shape called a 'pad'.
Pads are notoriously crappy for fighting games since you are effectively reduced to your thumbs. One thumb vs 6 buttons = no good.
Sure, you can use you indexfinger for the shoulderbuttons and bump the number of fingers up to 2, which is better but still crap.
Joysticks on the other hand are made for fighting games all around with 6 buttons on the faceplate and a joystick with 4 digital switches and in som cases replaceable parts.

Real posters use Emacs.

Taking advice from someone named 'Cumming' sounds like fun.

Its not an issue, its a feature.

True. But we want to be better than microsoft, not like them.

Those classes were held at UC Berkeley by Alan Feng and two others. Here is a writeup about them, quite interesting.

Is there a windows equivalent? Preferably open source.