your analogy doesn't work in your favor
you, a cuck, will inevitably get mad, cause you married your videogame
me? merely having fun with her on the weekends, and if I'm not having fun I'll go play another one
Tryhard mindset is always wrong. It will always, sooner or later, result in you hating the game because you are no longer having fun and you're playing the game just to prove a point.
>especially online one's
Bitch, please. In team-based games, getting good will only help you so much until you start getting grouped with mouth-breathing morons who make you lose the match no matter how hard you try. At that point, you might as well just stop trying and start having mindless fun instead.
Source: ex-player of Dota 2 and current player of R6: Siege.
Bitch, I play hard games to improve my skills, and that feels great. Meanwhile you give up so fricking fast that you have nothing to do but try to put others down for having "no lives" rather than using that time to get better yourself. YOU are the pathetic one here, not us tryhards.
>games are fun only if you're a tryhard
Wrong.
I already have enough challenge at work. When I come back home, I just want to have fun.
>even counterpoint about how the guy is just trying to improve himself
Bitch, I play hard games to improve my skills, and that feels great. Meanwhile you give up so fricking fast that you have nothing to do but try to put others down for having "no lives" rather than using that time to get better yourself. YOU are the pathetic one here, not us tryhards.
>instantly start raging and insulting the person he disagrees with, which just proved the original guy's point about how being a tryhard makes you miserable
Bitch, I play hard games to improve my skills, and that feels great. Meanwhile you give up so fricking fast that you have nothing to do but try to put others down for having "no lives" rather than using that time to get better yourself. YOU are the pathetic one here, not us tryhards.
he's not only wrong, but hell never be a winner
because when your goal is "winning" you can only lose
play to enjoy your time, anything else is a waste of it
He's right, BUT only if gaming is one of your main "achieving something" hobby. Every man needs to have at least a few hobbies that involve him beating a challenge or honing a skill. It doesn't have to be deep or noble, but it should exist.
So if you look at this tweet and think "it is just a game, but this applies to ____" then that's fine. If you look at this and can't apply it to anything in your life then you're a failed man.
ok, sure, get angry, thats a good way to deeply focus your mind on what went wrong. there are very productive ways to channel your anger, that isnt new. when people say "dont get mad" they actually mean "dont fricking go on a god damn flying rage screaming at Black folk and ppl who have nothing to do with it and break shit, thats you being highly destructive and super annoying". but really, if u insist thats a good way to live, pls do it far away from me, record it and put it on youtube, its always fun to laugh at petulant manchildren like you
Is a coin that flips heads more right than one that flips tails? Is rolling 2 sixes more "correct" than rolling snake eyes? Truth doesn't exist in random, chaotic outcomes. So when ninja opens his mouth and makes random noises, why would you ask if they might be true?
its all just money, anon
it doesn't matter what these things were in the past
any sport is a joke, acting like you're superior just shows that you're out of touch or stupid, or both, which is likely since you hold sports in such high regard and games in low, while posting on a videogame board of Ganker of all places
I'm not going to explain to you the difference between pic related and your average e"""sports"""man. I get it, you were picked last, you hated sports when you were young, it doesn't mean you should act like a b***h about it.
don't assume everyone is american, like you
and don't assume sport can only be physical
2 years ago
Anonymous
>whining about americans >when it's like 4AM over there
lmao I bet you're british
2 years ago
Anonymous
>don't assume everyone is american, like you
That's ironic cause I'm not a burger. >and don't assume sport can only be physical
troony-tier "don't assume my gender" argument.
2 years ago
Anonymous
damn I guess I'll tell all the chess players they aren't sportsman anymore
2 years ago
Anonymous
It's true, they're not
2 years ago
Anonymous
unfortunately for you, reality disagrees
2 years ago
Anonymous
You're confusing normalhomosexual opinions with reality, nerd.
2 years ago
Anonymous
you know guns exist, right
2 years ago
Anonymous
americans are asleep you obsessed schizo
2 years ago
Anonymous
>whining about americans >when it's like 4AM over there
lmao I bet you're british
>how to spot normalgays 101
2 years ago
Anonymous
>if you're not obsessed about americans like me you're a normalgay
sure thing bucko
2 years ago
Anonymous
>NOOOO THE AMERICANS ARE ONLINE AT ALL TIMES!! >THEY'RE GONNA GET MEEEEE!! >THEY'RE GONNA SAY CHESS ISN'T A SPORT
2 years ago
Anonymous
if you go to bed before 6am you're a normalgay
or worse, a fricking wagecuck
2 years ago
Anonymous
there's a 100% chance that you're fat and have hypertension
2 years ago
Anonymous
no idea what hypertension is but I'm 197cm and 88kg
2 years ago
Anonymous
>The metric system
If you wanna pretend to be an American you have to adopt our superior measurement system.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I can't imagine a worse country to be borne in
maybe china or korea
why would I want to pretend being american >superior
oh yes, the accurate and logical way of measuring distance with arbitrary amount of bodyparts and other funny things
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Measuring shit for human use >Use measurement intentionally divorced from humanity >Americans are the dumb ones
2 years ago
Anonymous
yes I'm sure its a lot easier for you to visualize how many feet a humans height is or how many stones they weigh
2 years ago
Anonymous
No matter where I am I can measure an inch with my thumb. Can you measure with your thumb?
2 years ago
Anonymous
yes, because I was exposed to an alien technology called a ruler, I know how long my fingers are and I can use them to measure, if for some reason I don't have my phone with me that has a fricking ruler in it
2 years ago
Anonymous
>No! NO!!! >The ONLY people that shitpost on Ganker are total losers just like ME!
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Ganker twitter cap thread about tryharding in videogames devolved into sports shitposting
if you think you aint a loser you must be huffing paint for a living
2 years ago
Anonymous
Euros have shit taste in sports.
2 years ago
Anonymous
how the frick is this a sport? might as well call poker a sport then
2 years ago
Anonymous
no I'd say it's more comparable to darts or bowling, they're games of dexterity and precision
2 years ago
Anonymous
Snooker is the gentleman's game of skill, calculation, patience and strategy. Honestly I wouldn't expect anyone outside of a Europe or The Orient to understand it.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>he immediately started seething about Americans
OBSESSED
The only thing giving sports and esports any legitimacy is money and popularity which are kind of the same thing in the end.
In some countries like Korea esports are already way bigger than sweat-sports. And the way things are going it will be the case everywhere in the world in a few years. Pretending that a sport is inherently better because you work out is just plain moronic.
That's like pretending dodge ball is superior to professional chess because you have to move your entire body.
It's just a game, if you get angry about it that mean that you're using this game as a substitute for accomplishing things in real life instead of as a game.
Depends. I mean if you're a hyper competitive player who makes his money playing in tournaments, then sure. If you're a casual more interested in just having fun, then no.
It depends entirely on why you're playing in the first place. If you're trying to be the best or if there's money on the line then, naturally, you will be in a different mindset than somebody who is just trying to play a few matches to unwind after a shitty day at work.
it pisses me off in casual content in FFXIV, like normal mode raids and alliances when people are like "who cares it's casual" and just frick off and suck shit. If everyone was going as hard as me they would be done at minimum 15 minutes faster.
eCeleb homie
Also he should have been the wake-up call for everyone that all this "competitive" shit is a load of baloney. Literally irrelevant until Fortnite needed a dedicated shill and then he immediately a "Totally Organically" became one of the most well known entities to the internet.
Streaming in general is a mistake.
Literally the biggest streamers there are, are the walking literal definition of who copyright law was meant to punish before it got completely israelited up by Bush, Gates and Disney
you sound like the local playground sandbox king that ruined all his friends fun and ended up bitter and alone with noone to show your "achievements" to, coping by getting "wins" but never actually filling that hole inside of yourself
If you're getting angry (and I mean angry like actually angry as in throwing the controller/screaming/punching walls/etc not mildly frustrated but quickly cooled off) while playing fricking video games you're a sad pathetic child who should just end it all now. It is just a game.
There's middle ground to be found between not caring at all and caring too much, and not every game needs to be a Sisyphean treadmill of self improvement. Ninja meanwhile is a manic moron that starts shrieking Black person in frustration when he gets killed by children in bottom of the barrel BR games for children
You shouldn't stay angry after failing at something but instead cool down and find ways to improve, that's what I did every time I hit a wall in monster hunter freedom unite, I got really fricking angry to the point where I would start hitting my chair and say that I was never going to touch that bullshit game again, but after a couple of days had passed I'd watch a guide to see how to properly dodge the attacks of the monster, or if I was missing any items that would make the fight significantly less tedious, or some hidden mechanic that I didn't know about and successfully hunt the monster in my next attempt
He's right, but he said it in a homosexual way. All you need to say is "it's just a game is a cope". No need for explanation because you're giving shitters more room to rationalize their shittiness.
But you do care when you lose, we're hardwired to care when we lose. It's literally just a game, but in the broader sense nothing exists in a vacuum and we're always trying to improve ourselves and find ways to apply what we learn to other areas. A loss hurts on some level even if it's just a game and anyone who says otherwise is coping. You can choose not to act on that with meaningful practice because you recognize that your effort is better used in other areas that's cool, but it doesn't change how the brain is designed to react to failure.
Do I rage and smash my keyboard? No. But do I feel a brief moment of frustration? Of course. What are you trying to accomplish by pretending you don't?
>You're not actually fine with losing in a game >You're mad just like me but PRETENDING
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Anon literally can't grasp the idea of someone not being mad because of losing at a video game
I'm fine with losing in a game, but I experience the frustration of being faced with a problem I don't have the solution to. Do you have no stake in the outcome? How can you feel joy of victory if there's no frustration on the failure to achieve it. What is the reason to even play a competitive game at that point?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>He cannot fathom being ok with losing in a game and coping >competitive game
That's not really anger though. It's just frustration. If someone walked into the room and asked if you wanted to grab food you wouldn't yell at them or lash out. When you're angry you lash out, when you're frustrated you can just brush it aside.
This always reminds me of the film 'Trouble with the Curve', where they get some Hispanic guy from nowhere to try out for a baseball team and pitch against the hyped prospect. The scout lady asks the hispanic guy if he is nervous, and all he says is "It's just a game." That stuck with me for some reason lol.
It's the casual sore loser cope, but you don't need a twitter screencap from some homosexual to state the obvious.
Anyone who acts as if anger is an intrinsically wrong emotion to feel is a c**t of the highest degree. It's fundamentally inhuman to pretend otherwise and to artificially try to subdue your anger every time you're invested in something. Now that's a mindset that will actually kill you in the long run.
If there's one type of person I hate it's fricknuggets treating every second of their lives as a competition or a quest of self-improvement. I prefer not being the best I could be over being fricking unsatisfied with myself and everything around me the entire fricking time. Keep spinning that hamster wheel homosexual, you'll never achieve perfection.
>I prefer not being the best I could be over being fricking unsatisfied with myself and everything around me the entire fricking time
You can tell this anon has been an underachieving loser all his life because he doesn't even begin to grasp how the competitive mind works.
>I'm the best at toy >my life is fulfilled
and when you reach your peak and start to decline, then what? you have a nice day after becoming an alcoholic?
Right in that the phrase "it's just a game" is a cop-out excuse 99% of time, wrong in the implication that everyone needs to care about honing their video game skills.
I get it, you became a multi-millionaire through playing fart night on stream, but some people want nothing more but to click things and watch flashy animations.
Getting frustrated at games can be understandable, but if you find yourself getting genuinely upset and stressed over a video game then you need a new hobby and maybe some blood pressure medicine before you have a stroke.
Gaming isn't a fricking craft. You aren't CREATING anything. Getting mad is losing because you're losing control of yourself. You can seek improvement without anger.
I care about losing when I know people. I enjoyed scoring touchdowns in an afterschool game against the varsity team, being a delinquent myself. I talk shit with card and board games when it's friends. Never got the same thrill online.
Twitter post from one of the most relentlessly stupid streamers on the planet. moron doesn't even come close to describe the moronic lunacy that this thing can spew over social media. Does he still get lots of views on whatever streaming platform he's on?
I used to love challenging games but around 18 or 19 something just turned off in my brain and now if I get 1% frustrated I just get annoyed and shut the game off
Now my favorite games are mega casual shit like harvest moon
>be stupid teen >get mad when losing AoE2 matches >start training BOs and rushes against AI until I could do them in my sleep >go online and repeat, don't even care about winning, just about perfecting my first 15 minutes of the game >winning starts to become a habit at this point >friends host a LAN party >demolish everyone while not even playing seriously >don't feel happy, just feel sad because of it >tell them I'm sorry next day >they don't care and invite me to next LAN party >just put me in a team with the biggest scrub and say I have to defend him against 6 other players while I'm not allowed to attack, only scrub is >have the most fun ever and help scrub to defeat everyone by constantly tributing him ressources and telling him where to raid the enemy economy so they can't built up big armies while putting up defenses >realize that the biggest fun isn't in winning, but helping someone else win >be friends with scrubs and training them to this day
guess this is the reason why some people have kids
>getting beaten in any RTS by a scrub when you actively train it
sadly impossible. skill gap in RTS is extreme to a point were the match is over before the scrub can even register what's happening.
it can happen in fighting games it can happen in RTS too
depends on how much the ai cheats
but either way, setting your goal as victory will always be shallow in the end and leave you empty or angry
enough time passes and they become the only outcomes
>it can happen in RTS too
absolutely not. there has not been a single instance in the history of RTS where a scrub accidentally defeated someone who knows what he's doing. if the scrub's opponent isn't having a stroke, it's sheer impossible. I've been there, and I've ruined enough games for other players and friends by playing the game casually from my perspective. >setting your goal as victory will always be shallow in the end and leave you empty or angry
well, it's one goal, but it's one of many goals, that's what people have to realize. some people just play games because they want friends.
>play all day to defeat ai >play against human >all of your skill doesn't work cause ai was doing some moronic shot/cheating
do you know that a skilled chess player might have trouble playing against an idiot because they have no way to rationally predict what he's doing
2 years ago
Anonymous
>do you know that a skilled chess player might have trouble playing against an idiot because they have no way to rationally predict what he's doing
RTS isn't chess. There is a major speed factor involved, and if you are raiding your opponents economy before he's even produced his first military units, he can be as lucky as it can get and the game will be over in the first 5-10 minutes. Age of Empires is the best example for this. I have played against enough scrubs to know that one match is enough to completely crush their spirit.
2 years ago
Anonymous
you know that speed chess is a thing, right?..
2 years ago
Anonymous
show me a speed chess match where a pro gets defeated by a scrub
2 years ago
Anonymous
I can't, but why can't you accept that its not that simple
RTS games aren't insanely special, or that much different from chess
and as for speed there been cases of guy with sub 50apm beating another with 300 in Korean starctaft
2 years ago
Anonymous
>why can't you accept that its not that simple
Because it is that simple.
you can search for more examples on YT. the skill gap between a scrub and a good player in RTS is insane, it's not even funny at this point. and the people he was fighting weren't even new players, they had their fair share of matches but simply never understood the game.
2 years ago
Anonymous
not everything is aoe
and the situation was never "professional vs beginner" it was "someone who only played ai vs someone who played humans badly"
2 years ago
Anonymous
>and the situation was never "professional vs beginner" it was "someone who only played ai vs someone who played humans badly"
where did you get this from?
2 years ago
Anonymous
from the original post of the chain
2 years ago
Anonymous
ah, you read it wrong then, sorry. I was playing in german A leagues back in the day.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>you read it wrong then
meant to say I expressed myself wrong. ESL and all.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>you read it wrong then
meant to say I expressed myself wrong. ESL and all.
could be me as well
also ESL and its 14:33 and I haven't yet slept
could have gone worse
2 years ago
Anonymous
I know that feel, get some good sleep soon mate.
2 years ago
Anonymous
a bit impossible sadly
all this war shit been stressing me out for months
I want to go back to the times where closest one was on my screen in RTS games instead of outside my windows
and RTS wasn't a dead genre
this guy isn't aware of a lot of things, especially about how he is not a good player or pro in any shape or form, he is a pubhero, and will always stay a pubhero.
>imperfection of a craft
Of all the things to fret about not being good at, it should not be videogames, a medium meant to entertain and waste time. Being good at the game means youll enjoy it more, but its still just wasting time. On youre deathbed you will be saying "what a life lived, I got really good at playing those videogames huh?" if they are your focus in life.
Nah it's a stupid mindset unless you are aiming at pro or very high skill. I used to get super angry especially in DotA 2. I've calmed down and don't take anything seriously. Gaming is way more enjoyable this way.
If you're trying *really really hard* in a casual pug you should frick off. If it's some 24/7 high ticket infinite time server shit you shouldn't be taking it too seriously
if you're in ranked you should put in at least some effort. You don't have a right to be screaming or raging in frickin bronze league tho
some games have issues with this due to ranked/casual modes having different mechanics. For instance CS:GO gives free armor and kits in casual and has bigger teams than ranked.
@605280091
You're not even getting a (You) for that. Here we are, talking about why video games aren't sports and how you shouldn't even try to put gamers and sportsmen in the same category and you've got this homosexual going MUH GAEMS POPURLAR. Black person shut the frick up.
well my favorite LoL player understands it's just a game and there's no need to get angry. That's why he can play 8 hours of LoL every day.
Relax Ganker it's just a game
I was talking about josedeodo, tyler1 can only dream to be like him.
But well if you scream like a moron at the camera for money I'd said it's justified kek
>real sports
here we go again
the only difference is one is more physical and another more mental and small motorics
esportgays train harder and longer than sports all gays
partly because you'd fricking die
and esportgays die from it still
have you seen the Korean kids playing StarCraft for a living? most of them have ticks and twitches cause they train 14 or more hours every fricking day, not even talking about bloodclots and heart shit you can get from sitting all day
it only matters how much you apply yourself and how expensive the industry is
if football wasn't popular and expensive youd call them losers instead
I've gotten pretty good at a few fps games.
It just makes you notice the flaws, you realize how moronic and shit that guy who just got a lucky kill on you is, you have people taunting and teabagging you after you kill them 6 times and they kill you once, i had more fun when i was shit and didn't think about anything.
Literally thousands of hours of my life to get good at something that i fricking hate.
>git gud at mordhau >finally feel free to just make fun loadouts and troll enemies with trap and firebomb builds >copy default class loadouts and pretend to be a noob, secretly helping out enemy defaults or pretending to fight them to lure them and show them secret places all around the maps >run around as pacifist bard only to dunk und tryhards whenever possible
no. the value you assign to your hobbies is up to you. take it seriously if you want. don't care if you want. but either way getting angry is beside the point. if you can't look at what you've done wrong and try to improve without feeling any anger, then you're not cultivating discipline, you're just playing with your emotions.
When zero won like 70-something tournaments in a row in smash bros and he was the undisputed best he mentioned that he was really happy, for like a day, then he got super depressed because he realized that there's nothing really after the achievement of being the best.
People talk about "always improving" but I honestly think there's a cap to how good you can get at something, it's why people plateau at certain ranks in games and never really get past gold or platinum or diamond or whatever.
"Never settling" and always trying to improve isn't a bad mindset but the reality is ninja (or whoever is good at what) has probably gotten as good as they're ever going to get at something. Same thing with people who win at tournaments vs people who only make top 8 or they're hardstuck in plat
If he means that you need to have a mindset always focused on improvement, then yes he's right. Still, anger only contributes to having less focus on whatever you're doing unless it's punching walls.
Men don't get angry, or visibly angry anyway, they're always in control and when i say men i mean people in general but we let women get away with acting like children.
Well, there are actual useful things in life to git gud at. But if improving your vidya skills is how you enjoy yourself, that's fine. No reason to keep playing a game that you're shit at and aren't having a good time with.
>fools think the opposite of "just a game" is getting mad
frick no, thats both coping being bad
the opposite would be admitting you played bad and trying to improve.
>"reeee you're not playing a REAL sport!"
good. frick sports and frick sportgays.
some weeb drops a few hundred on a figurine, that's creepy and a waste of money. meanwhile sportgays bid tens of thousands of dollars to own an ordinary baseball.
some dude gets mad at a new video game and posts on social media about how bad it is and how he wishes the devs would die in a fire, this makes him an unhinged threat to society. meanwhile sportgays riot and burn down cities when their team loses, or even WINS, and this is seen as normal and perfectly acceptable.
someone who makes games is accused of hugging someone and is banned from the industry and turned into a total pariah. sportBlack folk brutalize their wives on a regular basis as a side effect of the illegal drugs they use and the entire world turns a blind eye to it while continuing to pay them millions of dollars.
if you ever talk about a game or show you love that's slightly outside of the mainstream, you're forever branded a creepy virgin weirdo. if you're a sportgay you are completely immune to this and can prattle on in autistic detail about meaningless stats to anyone and they will be socially obligated to listen since sportgays are incapable of understanding that not everyone shares their interests.
the reason we hate you isn't because of some silly hatred between jock and nerd cliques, we hate you because you're no different from any other shitty autistic fandom. you are the worst kind of sperg who doesn't know when to shut up, is physically incapable of not spending exorbitant amounts of cash on dogshit, and throws tantrums regularly. you are no different from those disgusting furries spending shitloads of money to flood the internet with their terrible art, except you've been doing it for far longer, working your asses off non-stop to normalize your autistic behaviour. we hate you because you are the sonic fandom but worse. every sportgay should die a painful death.
I used to care a ton about my in-game performance. I'd watch hours of guides and train different aspects to be as good as possible. Even managed to become a GM in SC2 because of that. Then I started having success irl and instantly stopped giving a shit. Dunno how it is for other people but I was definitely compensating.
For me, it was just the desire to elevate myself from the unwashed masses, but I was never ambitious enough to reach actual top levels like you in SC2. This desire never stopped for me, even when I finally found a well-paying job. Every time I play something new online, I immediately start to learn the core mechanics as well as possible, then the meta, while never actually playing the meta (mostly because I just want to know what I'm up against).
I think I just want the noobs to look up to me while still hanging out with them. I barely ever hang out with good players, many of them aren't really fun to be around. I think I'm sort of a reverse bully. I like the feeling of being able to bully someone but actually helping them.
I think you lose interest the moment you gain distance. I tryharded competitive top 10% til i had to stop entirely for a year finishing degree. That pause allowed to look back and realize i dont even care about the achievements but i still looked fondly playing together with people.
So in hindsight i think the competitive play was more just a vehicle to get together with people and have something to do just like others get to drinking merely as a vehicle to get together.
Depends on what the game is. I'm liable to fight someone if I lose in Chess. Or at the very least I will throw a tantrum. Video Games don't feel real to me so the illicit very little emotional response. I mostly just play them because I like hit and clicking buttons.
Any type of competitive 1v1 game makes me incredibly angry, like if I didn't live with others I would probably be breaking shit. Chess, fighting games, sports games etc.
Part of me feels like I secretly enjoy it somewhat since other games mostly make me feel nothing.
He can say that because he conned zoom zooms out of millions while playing games. A decade ago he'd be pumping gas and as far as I'm concerned that's where he belongs
Wrong, but if you play "eSport" type games this is the mentality you need to keep going. I saw someone literally get chastised for not playing Street Fighter V when they didn't feel like it, because >you gotta put in the hours to get good, even when you don't want to
like it's gym exercise or something. Some people think vidya is a real sport, and we know actual athletes get heated when they compete. Why you would choose to treat a videogame like a real sport, I do not know, but it's a thing now.
He's right. However, that mentality can be damaging to others around you if video games aren't a focus to them, which is almost always high unless you're playing competitively. If you want to get gud at vidya, or any hobby for that matter, then it's perfectly acceptable.
>he's never met a tryhard on his team that steals kills, isn't helpful, or raging at everyone
Also most successful esport players are living proof that this mentality does work.
well I care about my fun, if the game isn't fun I don't play it
the reason its not fun is not that important
2 years ago
Anonymous
My initial point anyway was that they are damaging to casual players, so there proves that point. Also just because you don't care about them doesn't mean others don't.
2 years ago
Anonymous
It's just a game, why get mad over people "stealing" kills?
2 years ago
Anonymous
I personally mostly don't agree with the phrase "it's just a game". I think in most contexts you should find a problem if someone is being dickish on your team.
He is wrong. Videogames are nothing more than pointless distractions, and should not be allowed to hold too much sway over you. Any game that requires serious effort and engagement is draining your attention from more meaningful pursuits, such as communing with God.
What if strive for improvement in games but rather than raging like a little baby b***h who just had his toy taken away, you learn to keep your cool, understand that you still have room to improve, objectively analyze what you did wrong and ultimately be more productive in bettering yourself?
the whole purpose of play and thereby games is to learn and improve. Its literally the sole reason play instinct exists in animals and by extension humans.
"It's just a game" isn't a mindset for overcoming losing. It's a mindset for not being an unlikable c**t. Remember that you are playing a profit driven entropy machine that rewards your participation with transient hits of dopamine. You can win or lose with dignity and still learn from it, just don't place it as a ce terpoint if your existence unless it is quite literally the only way you support yourself (like ninja).
What if you never get angry at all because it's just a stupid game?
Then you're low T
>you're low t if you aren't basedfacing at video games
Also eceleb thread kys OP
t.low
>spends his time on a video game forum criticizing others for ever showing emotions towards video games
so ninja is high test
ninja is low T. he's a pubhero and not a pro.
multimillionaire mindset
poorgay coping mindset
Frick you, bigot. Trans Rights.
>Frick you, bigot. Trans Rights
How rotten must your brain be to fall for such an obvious false flag?
Well it is an actual false flag with no true meaning to it sooo....
you go girl
my fist is up in the air for you sister
> What if you never get angry at all because it's just a stupid game?
>trans rights, bigot.
How is this a bigotry at all
either a mentally I'll troony or equally mentally I'll antitroony falseflagging
It's pretty obviously just bait but of course Ganker is moronic enough to take it seriously
it's pretty obvious you're a bigot, truscum
you have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you.
I think trans girls are cute.
>SKRRRRRT BOING BOING BOING
You might need a break from games
Then you should find a better, more fulfilling hobby.
Then you're a well-adjusted adult, unlike the gay in the OP.
Do you tell your wife's bull "its just sex"?
your analogy doesn't work in your favor
you, a cuck, will inevitably get mad, cause you married your videogame
me? merely having fun with her on the weekends, and if I'm not having fun I'll go play another one
>"im a chad because I double dip after other men"
>"conquering? lmao whats that"
Go drink your onions b***h boy
I'll be taking yours after I finish mine
>conquering
>video games
Wrong. People get paid for being shit at games
>tryhard irl
>tryhard in media consumption
peak americanism
if you aren't first your last
Where is your foreskin?
Yeah, that's what I thought.
Gaming isn't a craft.
He's right but only if it's something you truly care about.
Tryhard mindset is always wrong. It will always, sooner or later, result in you hating the game because you are no longer having fun and you're playing the game just to prove a point.
No there is beauty in perfecting a game especially online one's. You don't do it to prove a point you do it to become the best.
>especially online one's
Bitch, please. In team-based games, getting good will only help you so much until you start getting grouped with mouth-breathing morons who make you lose the match no matter how hard you try. At that point, you might as well just stop trying and start having mindless fun instead.
Source: ex-player of Dota 2 and current player of R6: Siege.
>games are fun only if you're a tryhard
Wrong.
I already have enough challenge at work. When I come back home, I just want to have fun.
>two of the must hate inducing and designed to drain you of your soul games there is
how have you not killed yourself
>one's
American detected.
love the dichotomy of these responses
>even counterpoint about how the guy is just trying to improve himself
>instantly start raging and insulting the person he disagrees with, which just proved the original guy's point about how being a tryhard makes you miserable
Bitch, I play hard games to improve my skills, and that feels great. Meanwhile you give up so fricking fast that you have nothing to do but try to put others down for having "no lives" rather than using that time to get better yourself. YOU are the pathetic one here, not us tryhards.
What skills have you improved so far?
Definitely not any social skills or anything that is useful in real life.
>implying calling you here Black person means i treat my teammates equally
keep coping getting filtered with "im just not trying"
he's not only wrong, but hell never be a winner
because when your goal is "winning" you can only lose
play to enjoy your time, anything else is a waste of it
Playing a videogame is not a craft.
Making them is.
He's right, BUT only if gaming is one of your main "achieving something" hobby. Every man needs to have at least a few hobbies that involve him beating a challenge or honing a skill. It doesn't have to be deep or noble, but it should exist.
So if you look at this tweet and think "it is just a game, but this applies to ____" then that's fine. If you look at this and can't apply it to anything in your life then you're a failed man.
Cooking is my only skill 🙁
And its one of the best you could have
That's a good skill to have anon.
That's hot
>He's right, BUT only if gaming is one of your main "achieving something" hobby
It shouldn't be gaming
>He's right
The guy is a turbo homosexual
Last time I checked being a raging sperg is not a good thing. Like that guy in OP post
If you don't rage, then you don't take it seriously
ooga booga
I don't listen to people who dye their hair to look like an anime character.
ok, sure, get angry, thats a good way to deeply focus your mind on what went wrong. there are very productive ways to channel your anger, that isnt new. when people say "dont get mad" they actually mean "dont fricking go on a god damn flying rage screaming at Black folk and ppl who have nothing to do with it and break shit, thats you being highly destructive and super annoying". but really, if u insist thats a good way to live, pls do it far away from me, record it and put it on youtube, its always fun to laugh at petulant manchildren like you
Fortnite isn't a craft
Is a coin that flips heads more right than one that flips tails? Is rolling 2 sixes more "correct" than rolling snake eyes? Truth doesn't exist in random, chaotic outcomes. So when ninja opens his mouth and makes random noises, why would you ask if they might be true?
Games aren't sports, you disgusting nerds. Stop treating them like they are.
Neither is calling people nerds you fricking failure
Oof, touched a nerve.
games are sports
and about as dumb to take seriously in modern times
>games are sports
its all just money, anon
it doesn't matter what these things were in the past
any sport is a joke, acting like you're superior just shows that you're out of touch or stupid, or both, which is likely since you hold sports in such high regard and games in low, while posting on a videogame board of Ganker of all places
I'm not going to explain to you the difference between pic related and your average e"""sports"""man. I get it, you were picked last, you hated sports when you were young, it doesn't mean you should act like a b***h about it.
don't assume everyone is american, like you
and don't assume sport can only be physical
>whining about americans
>when it's like 4AM over there
lmao I bet you're british
>don't assume everyone is american, like you
That's ironic cause I'm not a burger.
>and don't assume sport can only be physical
troony-tier "don't assume my gender" argument.
damn I guess I'll tell all the chess players they aren't sportsman anymore
It's true, they're not
unfortunately for you, reality disagrees
You're confusing normalhomosexual opinions with reality, nerd.
you know guns exist, right
americans are asleep you obsessed schizo
>how to spot normalgays 101
>if you're not obsessed about americans like me you're a normalgay
sure thing bucko
>NOOOO THE AMERICANS ARE ONLINE AT ALL TIMES!!
>THEY'RE GONNA GET MEEEEE!!
>THEY'RE GONNA SAY CHESS ISN'T A SPORT
if you go to bed before 6am you're a normalgay
or worse, a fricking wagecuck
there's a 100% chance that you're fat and have hypertension
no idea what hypertension is but I'm 197cm and 88kg
>The metric system
If you wanna pretend to be an American you have to adopt our superior measurement system.
I can't imagine a worse country to be borne in
maybe china or korea
why would I want to pretend being american
>superior
oh yes, the accurate and logical way of measuring distance with arbitrary amount of bodyparts and other funny things
>Measuring shit for human use
>Use measurement intentionally divorced from humanity
>Americans are the dumb ones
yes I'm sure its a lot easier for you to visualize how many feet a humans height is or how many stones they weigh
No matter where I am I can measure an inch with my thumb. Can you measure with your thumb?
yes, because I was exposed to an alien technology called a ruler, I know how long my fingers are and I can use them to measure, if for some reason I don't have my phone with me that has a fricking ruler in it
>No! NO!!!
>The ONLY people that shitpost on Ganker are total losers just like ME!
>Ganker twitter cap thread about tryharding in videogames devolved into sports shitposting
if you think you aint a loser you must be huffing paint for a living
Euros have shit taste in sports.
how the frick is this a sport? might as well call poker a sport then
no I'd say it's more comparable to darts or bowling, they're games of dexterity and precision
Snooker is the gentleman's game of skill, calculation, patience and strategy. Honestly I wouldn't expect anyone outside of a Europe or The Orient to understand it.
>he immediately started seething about Americans
OBSESSED
holy shit we have an actual washed up loser jock here
No, you have a washed up loser artgay who happened to be good at sports.
I still play regularly. You should try it, it's good for you.
I play different sports right now
its called war
its not good for you
The only thing giving sports and esports any legitimacy is money and popularity which are kind of the same thing in the end.
In some countries like Korea esports are already way bigger than sweat-sports. And the way things are going it will be the case everywhere in the world in a few years. Pretending that a sport is inherently better because you work out is just plain moronic.
That's like pretending dodge ball is superior to professional chess because you have to move your entire body.
Shocking twist: Sports are ALSO just games.
It's just a game, if you get angry about it that mean that you're using this game as a substitute for accomplishing things in real life instead of as a game.
>iToddler
This sounds like something a 14 year old who's live revolves around video games would say.
Depends. I mean if you're a hyper competitive player who makes his money playing in tournaments, then sure. If you're a casual more interested in just having fun, then no.
but then its just work
and work fricking sucks
look at all the washed up pros in any """esport"""
they look like hardcore depressed alcoholics
Not wrong that there is always room for improvement.
However raging is going too far.
t. moron who rages
It depends entirely on why you're playing in the first place. If you're trying to be the best or if there's money on the line then, naturally, you will be in a different mindset than somebody who is just trying to play a few matches to unwind after a shitty day at work.
Wanting to improve after you fail at something is fine. Getting incredibly buttfustrated whenever you don't pull it off is not.
it pisses me off in casual content in FFXIV, like normal mode raids and alliances when people are like "who cares it's casual" and just frick off and suck shit. If everyone was going as hard as me they would be done at minimum 15 minutes faster.
He's wrong, as he himself acknowledged after he actually grew up.
i'd like to see this acknowledgement
we all do son
This guy doesn't realise you can improve yourself without getting angry? That's legit like a mental issue.
eCeleb homie
Also he should have been the wake-up call for everyone that all this "competitive" shit is a load of baloney. Literally irrelevant until Fortnite needed a dedicated shill and then he immediately a "Totally Organically" became one of the most well known entities to the internet.
>streamers actually believe playing videogames is a craft
Videogames were a mistake.
Streaming in general is a mistake.
Literally the biggest streamers there are, are the walking literal definition of who copyright law was meant to punish before it got completely israelited up by Bush, Gates and Disney
man this guy really fell off, haven't heard his name in what feels like years
>scrawny nerd thinks he's the same tier as a prize fighter
lol
who do you think is living better
a brain damaged boxed or a scrawny nerd that gets paid more to suck at videogames
He is right. If you don't want total victory by any means you are a weak homosexual. Hail Victory.
you sound like the local playground sandbox king that ruined all his friends fun and ended up bitter and alone with noone to show your "achievements" to, coping by getting "wins" but never actually filling that hole inside of yourself
>t. has only managed to stick around in the new era because matchmaking forces people to tolerate you
If you're getting angry (and I mean angry like actually angry as in throwing the controller/screaming/punching walls/etc not mildly frustrated but quickly cooled off) while playing fricking video games you're a sad pathetic child who should just end it all now. It is just a game.
A person can learn and improve their game without punching a wall or seething internally.
"it's just a game" has always been a cope.
>craft
Holy shit.
He's wrong. Video games are toys.
There's middle ground to be found between not caring at all and caring too much, and not every game needs to be a Sisyphean treadmill of self improvement. Ninja meanwhile is a manic moron that starts shrieking Black person in frustration when he gets killed by children in bottom of the barrel BR games for children
You shouldn't stay angry after failing at something but instead cool down and find ways to improve, that's what I did every time I hit a wall in monster hunter freedom unite, I got really fricking angry to the point where I would start hitting my chair and say that I was never going to touch that bullshit game again, but after a couple of days had passed I'd watch a guide to see how to properly dodge the attacks of the monster, or if I was missing any items that would make the fight significantly less tedious, or some hidden mechanic that I didn't know about and successfully hunt the monster in my next attempt
I never get angry at games, but I never stop trying to improve at them either.
Frankly if you have this mindset and you play in ranked you're a homosexual. Go play unranked you potato.
He's right, but he said it in a homosexual way. All you need to say is "it's just a game is a cope". No need for explanation because you're giving shitters more room to rationalize their shittiness.
But it is just a game.
But you do care when you lose, we're hardwired to care when we lose. It's literally just a game, but in the broader sense nothing exists in a vacuum and we're always trying to improve ourselves and find ways to apply what we learn to other areas. A loss hurts on some level even if it's just a game and anyone who says otherwise is coping. You can choose not to act on that with meaningful practice because you recognize that your effort is better used in other areas that's cool, but it doesn't change how the brain is designed to react to failure.
>But you do care when you lose
I simply don't lose.
>I am autistic and get mad when I die in Fortnite
Ok
Do I rage and smash my keyboard? No. But do I feel a brief moment of frustration? Of course. What are you trying to accomplish by pretending you don't?
>You're not actually fine with losing in a game
>You're mad just like me but PRETENDING
I'm fine with losing in a game, but I experience the frustration of being faced with a problem I don't have the solution to. Do you have no stake in the outcome? How can you feel joy of victory if there's no frustration on the failure to achieve it. What is the reason to even play a competitive game at that point?
>He cannot fathom being ok with losing in a game and coping
>competitive game
>Anon literally can't grasp the idea of someone not being mad because of losing at a video game
That's not really anger though. It's just frustration. If someone walked into the room and asked if you wanted to grab food you wouldn't yell at them or lash out. When you're angry you lash out, when you're frustrated you can just brush it aside.
If you're playing ranked he's right
if you're playing casual you're the homosexual ruining online games
He is right about the phrase [it's just a game] being shit. Everything else is stupid.
I don't need to win to get worse. Losing does that just fine.
He's wrong.
Eet da poupy
Have fun talking to someone who doesn't exist lol
Poeup
This always reminds me of the film 'Trouble with the Curve', where they get some Hispanic guy from nowhere to try out for a baseball team and pitch against the hyped prospect. The scout lady asks the hispanic guy if he is nervous, and all he says is "It's just a game." That stuck with me for some reason lol.
It's the casual sore loser cope, but you don't need a twitter screencap from some homosexual to state the obvious.
Anyone who acts as if anger is an intrinsically wrong emotion to feel is a c**t of the highest degree. It's fundamentally inhuman to pretend otherwise and to artificially try to subdue your anger every time you're invested in something. Now that's a mindset that will actually kill you in the long run.
>grown men trying to cope with having the temperament of a 5 year old
if you don't win monetary compensation then gtting angry for a game is just pathetic.
He's a homosexual.
If there's one type of person I hate it's fricknuggets treating every second of their lives as a competition or a quest of self-improvement. I prefer not being the best I could be over being fricking unsatisfied with myself and everything around me the entire fricking time. Keep spinning that hamster wheel homosexual, you'll never achieve perfection.
You sound like a pathetic and miserable little c**t. Unsurprising since you're a casual shitter.
>I prefer not being the best I could be over being fricking unsatisfied with myself and everything around me the entire fricking time
You can tell this anon has been an underachieving loser all his life because he doesn't even begin to grasp how the competitive mind works.
>I'm the best at toy
>my life is fulfilled
and when you reach your peak and start to decline, then what? you have a nice day after becoming an alcoholic?
I was wondering why some guys have heart attacks in their 20s, guess they're the type to view anger as a virtue
or they took a "vaccine."
Probably both
Right in that the phrase "it's just a game" is a cop-out excuse 99% of time, wrong in the implication that everyone needs to care about honing their video game skills.
I get it, you became a multi-millionaire through playing fart night on stream, but some people want nothing more but to click things and watch flashy animations.
its really not
this is why Japan has so many work suicides
>craft
Are videogames crafts?
If you get mad at videogames you are a gay.
Couldn't be me, because I never lose.
Nah. It's just a game. It has endless tries and doesn't punish you for losing.
There is never any good reason to get angry at anything at all.
If you get angry at children's entertainment, there might legit be something mentally wrong with you.
Getting frustrated at games can be understandable, but if you find yourself getting genuinely upset and stressed over a video game then you need a new hobby and maybe some blood pressure medicine before you have a stroke.
Gaming isn't a fricking craft. You aren't CREATING anything. Getting mad is losing because you're losing control of yourself. You can seek improvement without anger.
I care about losing when I know people. I enjoyed scoring touchdowns in an afterschool game against the varsity team, being a delinquent myself. I talk shit with card and board games when it's friends. Never got the same thrill online.
I'm not reading this shit but blue checkmark twitter homosexuals are always wrong.
My soul is more important than my score.
Twitter post from one of the most relentlessly stupid streamers on the planet. moron doesn't even come close to describe the moronic lunacy that this thing can spew over social media. Does he still get lots of views on whatever streaming platform he's on?
He's not a supposed evil Nazi like Pewds, so that's why he was noticed and pushed.
literally who?
I used to love challenging games but around 18 or 19 something just turned off in my brain and now if I get 1% frustrated I just get annoyed and shut the game off
Now my favorite games are mega casual shit like harvest moon
But getting angry is terrible for learning. Makes you look for things to blame outside of yourself.
>be stupid teen
>get mad when losing AoE2 matches
>start training BOs and rushes against AI until I could do them in my sleep
>go online and repeat, don't even care about winning, just about perfecting my first 15 minutes of the game
>winning starts to become a habit at this point
>friends host a LAN party
>demolish everyone while not even playing seriously
>don't feel happy, just feel sad because of it
>tell them I'm sorry next day
>they don't care and invite me to next LAN party
>just put me in a team with the biggest scrub and say I have to defend him against 6 other players while I'm not allowed to attack, only scrub is
>have the most fun ever and help scrub to defeat everyone by constantly tributing him ressources and telling him where to raid the enemy economy so they can't built up big armies while putting up defenses
>realize that the biggest fun isn't in winning, but helping someone else win
>be friends with scrubs and training them to this day
guess this is the reason why some people have kids
in the alternate story anon gets beaten flat by the scrub of the group and becomes depressed after everyone laughs at him
>getting beaten in any RTS by a scrub when you actively train it
sadly impossible. skill gap in RTS is extreme to a point were the match is over before the scrub can even register what's happening.
it can happen in fighting games it can happen in RTS too
depends on how much the ai cheats
but either way, setting your goal as victory will always be shallow in the end and leave you empty or angry
enough time passes and they become the only outcomes
>it can happen in RTS too
absolutely not. there has not been a single instance in the history of RTS where a scrub accidentally defeated someone who knows what he's doing. if the scrub's opponent isn't having a stroke, it's sheer impossible. I've been there, and I've ruined enough games for other players and friends by playing the game casually from my perspective.
>setting your goal as victory will always be shallow in the end and leave you empty or angry
well, it's one goal, but it's one of many goals, that's what people have to realize. some people just play games because they want friends.
>play all day to defeat ai
>play against human
>all of your skill doesn't work cause ai was doing some moronic shot/cheating
do you know that a skilled chess player might have trouble playing against an idiot because they have no way to rationally predict what he's doing
>do you know that a skilled chess player might have trouble playing against an idiot because they have no way to rationally predict what he's doing
RTS isn't chess. There is a major speed factor involved, and if you are raiding your opponents economy before he's even produced his first military units, he can be as lucky as it can get and the game will be over in the first 5-10 minutes. Age of Empires is the best example for this. I have played against enough scrubs to know that one match is enough to completely crush their spirit.
you know that speed chess is a thing, right?..
show me a speed chess match where a pro gets defeated by a scrub
I can't, but why can't you accept that its not that simple
RTS games aren't insanely special, or that much different from chess
and as for speed there been cases of guy with sub 50apm beating another with 300 in Korean starctaft
>why can't you accept that its not that simple
Because it is that simple.
you can search for more examples on YT. the skill gap between a scrub and a good player in RTS is insane, it's not even funny at this point. and the people he was fighting weren't even new players, they had their fair share of matches but simply never understood the game.
not everything is aoe
and the situation was never "professional vs beginner" it was "someone who only played ai vs someone who played humans badly"
>and the situation was never "professional vs beginner" it was "someone who only played ai vs someone who played humans badly"
where did you get this from?
from the original post of the chain
ah, you read it wrong then, sorry. I was playing in german A leagues back in the day.
>you read it wrong then
meant to say I expressed myself wrong. ESL and all.
could be me as well
also ESL and its 14:33 and I haven't yet slept
could have gone worse
I know that feel, get some good sleep soon mate.
a bit impossible sadly
all this war shit been stressing me out for months
I want to go back to the times where closest one was on my screen in RTS games instead of outside my windows
and RTS wasn't a dead genre
don't worry too much
amen
This guy isn't aware that most people actually do have more important things in their life than video games.
this guy isn't aware of a lot of things, especially about how he is not a good player or pro in any shape or form, he is a pubhero, and will always stay a pubhero.
>imperfection of a craft
Of all the things to fret about not being good at, it should not be videogames, a medium meant to entertain and waste time. Being good at the game means youll enjoy it more, but its still just wasting time. On youre deathbed you will be saying "what a life lived, I got really good at playing those videogames huh?" if they are your focus in life.
Nah it's a stupid mindset unless you are aiming at pro or very high skill. I used to get super angry especially in DotA 2. I've calmed down and don't take anything seriously. Gaming is way more enjoyable this way.
If you're trying *really really hard* in a casual pug you should frick off. If it's some 24/7 high ticket infinite time server shit you shouldn't be taking it too seriously
if you're in ranked you should put in at least some effort. You don't have a right to be screaming or raging in frickin bronze league tho
some games have issues with this due to ranked/casual modes having different mechanics. For instance CS:GO gives free armor and kits in casual and has bigger teams than ranked.
@605280091
You're not even getting a (You) for that. Here we are, talking about why video games aren't sports and how you shouldn't even try to put gamers and sportsmen in the same category and you've got this homosexual going MUH GAEMS POPURLAR. Black person shut the frick up.
Sounds like someone who would like to put he plays videogames on his resumé he's about to send to Jeff Bezos.
well my favorite LoL player understands it's just a game and there's no need to get angry. That's why he can play 8 hours of LoL every day.
Relax Ganker it's just a game
I too enjoy the antics of tyler1
I was talking about josedeodo, tyler1 can only dream to be like him.
But well if you scream like a moron at the camera for money I'd said it's justified kek
do you remember guardsmanBob
It's literally consumption of electric toys.
If he were talking about drawing/painting, playing an instrument or real sports I would agree.
But video games are hardly a hobby, more of a time waster you play when you have literally nothing else to do.
>real sports
here we go again
the only difference is one is more physical and another more mental and small motorics
esportgays train harder and longer than sports all gays
partly because you'd fricking die
and esportgays die from it still
have you seen the Korean kids playing StarCraft for a living? most of them have ticks and twitches cause they train 14 or more hours every fricking day, not even talking about bloodclots and heart shit you can get from sitting all day
it only matters how much you apply yourself and how expensive the industry is
if football wasn't popular and expensive youd call them losers instead
I've gotten pretty good at a few fps games.
It just makes you notice the flaws, you realize how moronic and shit that guy who just got a lucky kill on you is, you have people taunting and teabagging you after you kill them 6 times and they kill you once, i had more fun when i was shit and didn't think about anything.
Literally thousands of hours of my life to get good at something that i fricking hate.
>git gud at mordhau
>finally feel free to just make fun loadouts and troll enemies with trap and firebomb builds
>copy default class loadouts and pretend to be a noob, secretly helping out enemy defaults or pretending to fight them to lure them and show them secret places all around the maps
>run around as pacifist bard only to dunk und tryhards whenever possible
absolute top notch my man
youre great
guy like you is why I didn't quit third strike on fightcade
some people want to win
others just want to play a game
so simple but describes it perfectly
no. the value you assign to your hobbies is up to you. take it seriously if you want. don't care if you want. but either way getting angry is beside the point. if you can't look at what you've done wrong and try to improve without feeling any anger, then you're not cultivating discipline, you're just playing with your emotions.
When zero won like 70-something tournaments in a row in smash bros and he was the undisputed best he mentioned that he was really happy, for like a day, then he got super depressed because he realized that there's nothing really after the achievement of being the best.
People talk about "always improving" but I honestly think there's a cap to how good you can get at something, it's why people plateau at certain ranks in games and never really get past gold or platinum or diamond or whatever.
"Never settling" and always trying to improve isn't a bad mindset but the reality is ninja (or whoever is good at what) has probably gotten as good as they're ever going to get at something. Same thing with people who win at tournaments vs people who only make top 8 or they're hardstuck in plat
So I'm supposed to wreck my shit after losing a game?
No, your supposed to learn from you're misstakes. Don't buy the railroads ever
Ok but if Zelda was a trans?
link was also trains man
got death threats too but never rape
If he means that you need to have a mindset always focused on improvement, then yes he's right. Still, anger only contributes to having less focus on whatever you're doing unless it's punching walls.
Men don't get angry, or visibly angry anyway, they're always in control and when i say men i mean people in general but we let women get away with acting like children.
Video games aren't my "craft." It is a hobby, a hobby for fun. "Esports" are a fricking joke.
This Black person never played dwarf fortress. Losing is fun.
When you start confusing an entertainment with real life, maybe, just maybe you should stop taking so much Aderall.
Well, there are actual useful things in life to git gud at. But if improving your vidya skills is how you enjoy yourself, that's fine. No reason to keep playing a game that you're shit at and aren't having a good time with.
>fools think the opposite of "just a game" is getting mad
frick no, thats both coping being bad
the opposite would be admitting you played bad and trying to improve.
If you're under 20 maybe.
>"reeee you're not playing a REAL sport!"
good. frick sports and frick sportgays.
some weeb drops a few hundred on a figurine, that's creepy and a waste of money. meanwhile sportgays bid tens of thousands of dollars to own an ordinary baseball.
some dude gets mad at a new video game and posts on social media about how bad it is and how he wishes the devs would die in a fire, this makes him an unhinged threat to society. meanwhile sportgays riot and burn down cities when their team loses, or even WINS, and this is seen as normal and perfectly acceptable.
someone who makes games is accused of hugging someone and is banned from the industry and turned into a total pariah. sportBlack folk brutalize their wives on a regular basis as a side effect of the illegal drugs they use and the entire world turns a blind eye to it while continuing to pay them millions of dollars.
if you ever talk about a game or show you love that's slightly outside of the mainstream, you're forever branded a creepy virgin weirdo. if you're a sportgay you are completely immune to this and can prattle on in autistic detail about meaningless stats to anyone and they will be socially obligated to listen since sportgays are incapable of understanding that not everyone shares their interests.
the reason we hate you isn't because of some silly hatred between jock and nerd cliques, we hate you because you're no different from any other shitty autistic fandom. you are the worst kind of sperg who doesn't know when to shut up, is physically incapable of not spending exorbitant amounts of cash on dogshit, and throws tantrums regularly. you are no different from those disgusting furries spending shitloads of money to flood the internet with their terrible art, except you've been doing it for far longer, working your asses off non-stop to normalize your autistic behaviour. we hate you because you are the sonic fandom but worse. every sportgay should die a painful death.
I used to care a ton about my in-game performance. I'd watch hours of guides and train different aspects to be as good as possible. Even managed to become a GM in SC2 because of that. Then I started having success irl and instantly stopped giving a shit. Dunno how it is for other people but I was definitely compensating.
For me, it was just the desire to elevate myself from the unwashed masses, but I was never ambitious enough to reach actual top levels like you in SC2. This desire never stopped for me, even when I finally found a well-paying job. Every time I play something new online, I immediately start to learn the core mechanics as well as possible, then the meta, while never actually playing the meta (mostly because I just want to know what I'm up against).
I think I just want the noobs to look up to me while still hanging out with them. I barely ever hang out with good players, many of them aren't really fun to be around. I think I'm sort of a reverse bully. I like the feeling of being able to bully someone but actually helping them.
I think you lose interest the moment you gain distance. I tryharded competitive top 10% til i had to stop entirely for a year finishing degree. That pause allowed to look back and realize i dont even care about the achievements but i still looked fondly playing together with people.
So in hindsight i think the competitive play was more just a vehicle to get together with people and have something to do just like others get to drinking merely as a vehicle to get together.
Depends on what the game is. I'm liable to fight someone if I lose in Chess. Or at the very least I will throw a tantrum. Video Games don't feel real to me so the illicit very little emotional response. I mostly just play them because I like hit and clicking buttons.
how did an ooga booga caveman like you end up playing chess, and I'm assuming win enough not to get into much trouble tossing boards around
Any type of competitive 1v1 game makes me incredibly angry, like if I didn't live with others I would probably be breaking shit. Chess, fighting games, sports games etc.
Part of me feels like I secretly enjoy it somewhat since other games mostly make me feel nothing.
He can say that because he conned zoom zooms out of millions while playing games. A decade ago he'd be pumping gas and as far as I'm concerned that's where he belongs
Wrong, but if you play "eSport" type games this is the mentality you need to keep going. I saw someone literally get chastised for not playing Street Fighter V when they didn't feel like it, because
>you gotta put in the hours to get good, even when you don't want to
like it's gym exercise or something. Some people think vidya is a real sport, and we know actual athletes get heated when they compete. Why you would choose to treat a videogame like a real sport, I do not know, but it's a thing now.
He's right. However, that mentality can be damaging to others around you if video games aren't a focus to them, which is almost always high unless you're playing competitively. If you want to get gud at vidya, or any hobby for that matter, then it's perfectly acceptable.
you got it backwards
its damaging to you only
other people will just forget you
>he's never met a tryhard on his team that steals kills, isn't helpful, or raging at everyone
Also most successful esport players are living proof that this mentality does work.
I have and I don't care about them
if the game has nothing to prevent impact from it I play a different game, simple as
>if the game has nothing to prevent impact from it I play a different game, simple as
So you do care if tryhards are ruining your game.
well I care about my fun, if the game isn't fun I don't play it
the reason its not fun is not that important
My initial point anyway was that they are damaging to casual players, so there proves that point. Also just because you don't care about them doesn't mean others don't.
It's just a game, why get mad over people "stealing" kills?
I personally mostly don't agree with the phrase "it's just a game". I think in most contexts you should find a problem if someone is being dickish on your team.
I found that getting angry actually makes me play worse. The angrier I get, the more I lose and the cycle continues until I turn off the game.
>another e-celeb thread
immediately have a nice day
Of course he's wrong. What kind of idiot would treat a game like a major sporting career?
He is wrong. Videogames are nothing more than pointless distractions, and should not be allowed to hold too much sway over you. Any game that requires serious effort and engagement is draining your attention from more meaningful pursuits, such as communing with God.
What if strive for improvement in games but rather than raging like a little baby b***h who just had his toy taken away, you learn to keep your cool, understand that you still have room to improve, objectively analyze what you did wrong and ultimately be more productive in bettering yourself?
the whole purpose of play and thereby games is to learn and improve. Its literally the sole reason play instinct exists in animals and by extension humans.
isn't this the guy who reports anyone for killing him in fortnite
depends if games are your job or passtime/escapism
Cheating homosexual has value to his opinion.
Cancerous op that posts twatter threads needs a beating, until you shit yourself.
"It's just a game" isn't a mindset for overcoming losing. It's a mindset for not being an unlikable c**t. Remember that you are playing a profit driven entropy machine that rewards your participation with transient hits of dopamine. You can win or lose with dignity and still learn from it, just don't place it as a ce terpoint if your existence unless it is quite literally the only way you support yourself (like ninja).
Video games are a hobby. What's the point of getting all emotional over a dumb way to kill time?
>improving at a video game
get a hobby lmao. Getting skilled at games is nothing remarkable.
shitters in here will obviously seethe at this. what i wouldnt give to sodozime random Ganker gays in fortnite or whatever other game