Row is part of this generation that convinced themselves that they are dope and the old verses suck. Really, these days, LB is so heavily influenced by this idea that text bars have to be "complex" so they write 5000 stupid references to the one punch in a line that takes up 3 lines.
Right now, or at least a few months ago, the only guy I could say that was actually dope from the site is Indica. Lockhart was also pretty good when he really worked at it. The rest of you could NEVER use your bars in a live battle, and that's the point. I don't want to read a fucking glossary or have to go back on the line to figure out the punch. To hit, that shit has to be delivered the second the line ends.
Essentially, being a vet all comes down to the real "name value". It's always been a very broad term but when we were youngsters we felt it was some elite group we wanted to be in one day. Guys like Row and Lockhart are vets since they are known in "the fold". That's really all it comes down to. Guys like Jason and Huey were vets in their first couple of months on the site. It's mostly about time but someone like MaCc is far from a vet. A guy like Celsius was kind of fringe forever and never crossed over.
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