You don't get it. He's an anime protagonist. He will chase and realize his dream despite the overwhelming odds, prove the naysayers wrong and get a harem while at it from which he will choose the childhood friend at the end of the inspirational story. He will succeed because the plot and fate is on his side.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have found Dan in real life, down to his Alpha 3 victory line; "I hate the art of fighting, but I want to be the king of fighters!"
In hindsight its wild how similar my mindset was when I was 15/16 and I'm 25 now. What I didn't realize was the reason I kept bouncing off of everything and never being able to settle on a passion or career path was due to my intense depression and trauma coupled with how stifling and suffocating it felt being in high school and havung so many people with different expectations for your future. It was so hard to envision myself with a future because I just wasn't comfortable or content with any aspect of my life at the time. I couldn't focus, I couldn't envision myself ever being good enough at anything to be wanted or admired in any career field. I had no self esteem and no sense of direction coupled with a depression that made me borderline agoraphobic when it came to going to school or even being around family. I enjoyed playing games though because that was my primary sense of escapism, so I just saw pro gamers and thought "Ok, I guess this is what I want my future to be, because nothing else feels worth living for or even tangible in the first place" Now that I'm on medication, in therapy and working through that trauma its opened my mind up and has allowed me to focus and set genuine career goals for myself while paying more attention to my hobbies. I still have my fair share of issues but I definitely relate to where this dude's head was at the time. I hope he's in a better place now
Me too, I think one thing that's not obvious from this video is that I'm honestly really rooting for this kid, I just think his ambitions are hilariously naive.
Late reply, but I'd just wanted to say that I also struggled with depression and similar issues and used games as an escape. Glad to hear you're in a better place now 🙂
@@FelipeWalker2 Essentially it's a concept that gamers play video games to "escape" from reality for a while. It's also an unfortunate argument against certain games that shouldn't include real life issues or problems because "I play games for escapism"
Honestly, I applaud the kid for wanting to follow his/her dreams, it's nice to see people shooting so high in whatever they want to do and being honest with themselves about their motivations, but the guys at srk made a valid point. if you're truly determined you need to have a grounded plan and design, or at least some means of supporting it. Me? My goal is to get my dan into pro games, but I just suck so bad, when I was playing a long while back my dan was actually bordering B-rank and I was the top 70, which for dan on pc might as well be the top 7000 but you get the idea. i learned the hard way that to improve yourself and become better at something and follow your dreams you HAVE to persevere, there is no truly easy path in this regard, so if you're determined and willing to go through true hardship for your dreams, then you can pursue those dreams. but never assume it's going to be easy, you have to make it easy by applying the right mindset, by pushing ahead and striving for self improvement. getting a job or some form of financing to help support this desire/not fucking putting all your eggs in a single basket like a moron is basically the best advice those guys could give. hell I"ve been setting up my own business because I'm only motivated to do certain things like writing and art, it's hard as hell making ends meet but i knew the consequences of my decisions when I set out to accomplish them and I relish in the difficulty and how I cheapen the difficulty every day by just doing it and striving to improve my outlook on life. I raise my own bar and set my own standards, life is only hard if you want it to be i tell myself. there are always avenues people can pursue if they're independent minded and just want to work for themselves, but it's extremely rough getting that started and isn't for everyone. There's really no "right way" to live life, there's a sensible easy path, and then there's that hard as balls unnecessary path for prideful fucks like me who just want to prove that the easy way isn't always the most rewarding, even if it's the one people are taking. TL;DR don't just say you're going to pursue some lifelong dream if you're not ready for the consequences, but don't let that deter you if you're really determined. have a plan, work it out, put in that effort, really put in that effort and work as hard as possible to achieve those lofty goals. anyone can reach them, but you can't be lazy about it. those goals are lofty for a reason.
I had the same dream as this dude, except I also went to college at the same time. My 2 highlights are getting top 16 at SoCal regionals in UmvC3 and getting out of my pools on winners side at EVO in UMvC3.
The talk about becoming an artist at any age is what I really needed since I'm pursuing art and other video game related stuff so I just wanted to thank you for that
I see myself coming back to this video often every few months. The teenage delusion is so refreshing and funny I can't help myself. Hope he's doing ok.
I hope this guy has gotten good or at least decent by now and enjoys playing fighting games. I would guess he hasn't stuck to the dream of being a pro but I do hope he is having fun with it as a hobby.
@@LuluStarlight why would you send me down such a sad and depressing rabbit hole I hope this person seriously gets the help that they need so they can stop feeling that way
honestly mad props to this guy if he's serious and fuck the people outright telling him to give up, especially the first guy. It's important to understand the scope and need of another source of income etc but the first few replies outright just shat on this guy and that's horrible.
Imagine even the accidentally funny Mii-verse kid who posted "Why Metroid no crawl!" who got stuck in the first screen eventually went on and completed Super Metroid on Wii-U. And then there's unstoppable anime hero here who haven't been seen ever since the that day he cringe posted.
If he's not motivated to grind a real job he's nit gonna be motivated to labbing out a game and he's not willing to put in the real work to live a confortable life. It sounds to me like the typical lazy person who thinks going pro will absolve him from having to work.
dude, so good, i had similar asperations (get the pun?) for a couple o weeks after i got my first fight stick. Then i met up with one of the local guys who happens to be one of if not the top chun li players in australasia. (Skullator) after losing almost 100 straight between me and my friend I realised i was a friggen dummy. I'm looking forward to sfv though, it's gunna be nice to start off with a relatively even playing field and not have to worry about learning 40 characters movesets and how to defend against them (also parries are the cools). Gotta say Baf your vids are the shit. Much chill, very appreciate. 10/10 would watch again.
Yeah your Ken lab work was solid IMO. Maybe you haven't put it all together into higher level Ken game, but it was a good dissection/deconstruction. Good building blocks to work with.
There's not enough ways to warn this kid to get his shit together first before trying to play fighting games professionally. Dude should be out meeting girls and looking at colleges at that age not worrying about fighting games
@@Bafael that's so good to hear. i stopped dropping by when they announced they were shutting down the forums. i was afraid eventhubs would be the only place left for all things FGC. thanks for the heads-up! i hope they saved all those S-Kill articles.
As someone who hasn't been playing fighting games since they were created, I have a certain sympathy for dude. I look to people like Gootecks and Mike Ross, Combofiend, and Maximilian as guys who manage to surround themselves with the game and community they love but in a super grounded way. They worked for years and got somewhere which, as was said, is possible in almost any undertaking(the 'I can't draw, Ill just quit' people have always made me laugh/cry). Fighting games have strange parallels to other kinds of real personal growth. Coming back after a failure, recognizing your flaws and working at fixing them, being humble, knowing yourself, asking for help, etc. Also I highly doubt this guy's on 'the spectrum', he seems socially able and self-aware enough, he's just YOUNG poor guy...
+Capin91 believe it or not I have a lot of sympathy for him too, thinking about him talking about his dream and why it won't fly is like when I first realized myself that being #1 in the world isn't a practical goal.
+Bafael Nah I believe it, haha. You're all good man, I know how much you do for low level players. I know you weren't just shitting on the guy, just that weird teenage attitude he had. Fighting games DO take me into weird pseudo-philosophical headspace sometimes, which is part of why I love 'em. And yeah, being the #1 guy isn't really a good goal. Or rather, it isn't a good starting point for a realistic plan. That's how you crush yourself, because progress is invisible on a scale like that. Small bites
6:47 wow a pound cake reference in 2015 ...being recognized in 2021 idk who's the more permanently online person between me and that poster but my pfp isn't anime porn so I feel a few steps ahead
kinda insane how big the prizepools for fighting games have gotten recently tho, kinda crazy to see 2015-era fighting game community members talk about how their community isn't big enough yet while there's this massive boom awaiting the fgc just a couple of years down the line
"or becoming an artist in the manga style" lmaoooo, for someone that isn't even motivated enough to learn programming he sure is surefire he can pick up how to draw manga. You know, just casually learn one of the most complex and in-depth forms of drawing available that require mastery of basically every aspect of art-fundamentals from composition to anatomy and perspective to architecture and form mostly produced by severely overworked and underpaid artists that have been drawing since childhood in societies like Japan/Korea that are known to have "absolutely no chill" on the side of his equally motivated drive to learn SF4/5. At least he's realistic about not becoming an artist but not out of an understanding of why it's basically impossible, he's just envious of other people that already put in the work and *that* is why he doesn't have any motivation. What a lameass anime protag.
This guy is looking for opinions, whereas if he was serious, he would be playing people online in order to git gud. Instead, he'll read the online opinions, think it sounds hard, lose interest, and then jump on to the next thing to obsess about.
I'm not entirely sure why I watched 9 minutes of this video. I thought, since you tend to make good videos to help out people trying to understand the game, that this would actually be an interesting thread to discuss, not just a way for you to make fun of a delusional teenager. My friend had this exact same mindset in Marvel a couple of years ago coming from hardly ever playing a fighting game before, and while he never went pro or anything like that, he practiced every day for two years and ended up getting top 32 or something like that at EVO last year.
+SivartAuhsoj Well I'll happily discuss it as long as you want to. Let me first say that I see absolutely nothing wrong or weird about wanting to practice every day to get good at something, or wanting to be one of the best players. I had a bit of a laugh at this guy, not because he wanted to be one of the best or even because he didn't have a back up plan, but because every time he said he failed at something else he would give up immediately whereas he was insisting he would and could stick to it for fighting games. I do not think this guy is dumb or anything, literally the only thing I think about him is that he doesn't or can't understand the gravity of the undertaking, which is why I was interested in this thread: this is a very large portion of the people I interact with as a tutorial maker and my sincere goal is to make it an easier undertaking for them. These people are common at bottom level but almost vanished by low level, and I need to see where most of them give up and address THAT in a video, but I feel like THAT isn't game advice but rather lifestyle advice on how to handle losing long enough to get good.
I'm glad I didn't end up thinking like this. 5 years ago I was 13 but now I'm 18 and I only play fighting games for fun (played them my whole life). I obviously always still strive to improve and get good at all the different fighting games I play but like it's for fun. Never at 17 would I think "Y'know what I'mma be a pro fg player no matter what it takes! Even if I end up a bum!" cause I know fighting games AREN'T a reliable income source and they never really have been unless you're (like ppl pointed out in the thread) like Diago Umehara or (using a newer example) MenaRD or even Idom winning 6 digits from Capcom Cup.
6 digits isnt worth the years taken away. Fighting game is not transferable in the real world. sure mena won 250k but will that last the next 20 years? unlikely. There are alot of manchildren in the fgc, so one has to be careful not to get sucked into this fgc highschool bubble and be 35 with no skill other than really good at fighting games.
Though the FGC kind of lacks audience streaming-wise, it's not uncommon to see people paying their bills with money they earn from playing. I know it's not the same thing this guy wants, but it's not like it's impossible to earn a living out of gaming.
This is an important discussion because there are alot of "manchildren" in the fgc. Playing to get good is fine but becoming so obsessed with the fgc can be frankly disastrous.
The funny thing is, you frequently see the classic mentality of the classic brainwashed human in places like the now defunct SRK. The first thing 80% of those people on the forums want to do is tell someone how something is not possible, when in reality, anything is possible if you put in the energy, and time. A few people (only after a shift in energy) gave him positive motivation, while most of the others tried to tear him down with smug and condescending remarks. Their logic is: they themselves aren't good or dedicated enough to get there, therefore, it's unlikely that anyone else can get there. Sad.
Okay i have a crackpot overanalysis of the mind of some kid in a 7 year old video about a fighting game forum thread: I wonder if he's trans. Like I dunno there is another comment on this video talking about depression being a root cause of his flighty behavior. I mean what is practically the main symptom of gender dysphoria? Depression. I only say this because the guy brings up the fact that he doesn't like playing male characters almost unprompted. He also represents himself as a woman in the forums. Obviously these things taken in a vacuum don't come anywhere near to pointing to someone being trans. Just taking this snapshot of his life as a whole it shows a pattern to me. Anyway I'm not getting the time I just wasted writing this comment back so thats cool.
it's easy enough to poke fun at this, but the person is a teenager. At this point it's like, "ha ha ha lol look at the stupid teenager saying silly things because they are a teenager!" I mean, especially if many of the people laughing at this kid are adults, which I suspect is the case. So, does that make you feel like a man? An adult laughing at a teenager saying dumb things?
As I said in other comments, the thing I find especially interesting about this random guy is how relatable he is, and how frequently people exactly like this pop up in the fgc in general. I spend a ridiculous amount of free time making tutorial videos so I try to keep my ear to the ground on what beginners need help with, which is how I found this guy in the first place. You're right that I'm having a laugh at this guy but genuinely speaking, I think one of the single most important things tutorials need to address is having a healthy mentality for learning, which might include setting up realistic expectations or having no mental restrictions that prevent you from learning and branching out (e. g. I only play female characters). This guy is some anonymous who-cares so I'm obviously not trying to target anyone but I am enjoying how he perfectly presents some prevalent ideas in the community almost to the level of parody.
You don't get it. He's an anime protagonist. He will chase and realize his dream despite the overwhelming odds, prove the naysayers wrong and get a harem while at it from which he will choose the childhood friend at the end of the inspirational story. He will succeed because the plot and fate is on his side.
THE FATE OF THE FGC RESTS ON HIS SHOULDERS
damn hez like 24 now
Truly a speshul 14 year anime hero protagonist live in flesh and blood.
The odds are 1/1000 he'll make it i'm sure.
Always knew evil ryu was badass but didn't know he was....... Knowledgeable
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have found Dan in real life, down to his Alpha 3 victory line; "I hate the art of fighting, but I want to be the king of fighters!"
shoutout to the guy at 18:59 who said sfv will have good netcode LOOOOL
This guy probably gave up after getting bopped at a local lol
In hindsight its wild how similar my mindset was when I was 15/16 and I'm 25 now.
What I didn't realize was the reason I kept bouncing off of everything and never being able to settle on a passion or career path was due to my intense depression and trauma coupled with how stifling and suffocating it felt being in high school and havung so many people with different expectations for your future. It was so hard to envision myself with a future because I just wasn't comfortable or content with any aspect of my life at the time. I couldn't focus, I couldn't envision myself ever being good enough at anything to be wanted or admired in any career field. I had no self esteem and no sense of direction coupled with a depression that made me borderline agoraphobic when it came to going to school or even being around family.
I enjoyed playing games though because that was my primary sense of escapism, so I just saw pro gamers and thought "Ok, I guess this is what I want my future to be, because nothing else feels worth living for or even tangible in the first place"
Now that I'm on medication, in therapy and working through that trauma its opened my mind up and has allowed me to focus and set genuine career goals for myself while paying more attention to my hobbies. I still have my fair share of issues but I definitely relate to where this dude's head was at the time.
I hope he's in a better place now
Me too, I think one thing that's not obvious from this video is that I'm honestly really rooting for this kid, I just think his ambitions are hilariously naive.
Late reply, but I'd just wanted to say that I also struggled with depression and similar issues and used games as an escape. Glad to hear you're in a better place now 🙂
I'd be really interested in hearing about this "gaming escapism" thing?
@@FelipeWalker2 Essentially it's a concept that gamers play video games to "escape" from reality for a while.
It's also an unfortunate argument against certain games that shouldn't include real life issues or problems because "I play games for escapism"
Honestly, I applaud the kid for wanting to follow his/her dreams, it's nice to see people shooting so high in whatever they want to do and being honest with themselves about their motivations, but the guys at srk made a valid point.
if you're truly determined you need to have a grounded plan and design, or at least some means of supporting it.
Me? My goal is to get my dan into pro games, but I just suck so bad, when I was playing a long while back my dan was actually bordering B-rank and I was the top 70, which for dan on pc might as well be the top 7000 but you get the idea.
i learned the hard way that to improve yourself and become better at something and follow your dreams you HAVE to persevere, there is no truly easy path in this regard, so if you're determined and willing to go through true hardship for your dreams, then you can pursue those dreams.
but never assume it's going to be easy, you have to make it easy by applying the right mindset, by pushing ahead and striving for self improvement.
getting a job or some form of financing to help support this desire/not fucking putting all your eggs in a single basket like a moron is basically the best advice those guys could give.
hell I"ve been setting up my own business because I'm only motivated to do certain things like writing and art, it's hard as hell making ends meet but i knew the consequences of my decisions when I set out to accomplish them and I relish in the difficulty and how I cheapen the difficulty every day by just doing it and striving to improve my outlook on life.
I raise my own bar and set my own standards, life is only hard if you want it to be i tell myself. there are always avenues people can pursue if they're independent minded and just want to work for themselves, but it's extremely rough getting that started and isn't for everyone.
There's really no "right way" to live life, there's a sensible easy path, and then there's that hard as balls unnecessary path for prideful fucks like me who just want to prove that the easy way isn't always the most rewarding, even if it's the one people are taking.
TL;DR
don't just say you're going to pursue some lifelong dream if you're not ready for the consequences, but don't let that deter you if you're really determined. have a plan, work it out, put in that effort, really put in that effort and work as hard as possible to achieve those lofty goals. anyone can reach them, but you can't be lazy about it. those goals are lofty for a reason.
I had the same dream as this dude, except I also went to college at the same time. My 2 highlights are getting top 16 at SoCal regionals in UmvC3 and getting out of my pools on winners side at EVO in UMvC3.
That's no small feat, good job man
@@sirjeanpepper2492 thanks bro :D How about you?
👏 good job
@@josephhtv6209 thanks homie.
Yo can you send me a video of you playing mvc3 at evo
Legend has it he is still grinding fundamentals in sf4 to prepare for sfv....
The talk about becoming an artist at any age is what I really needed since I'm pursuing art and other video game related stuff so I just wanted to thank you for that
I see myself coming back to this video often every few months. The teenage delusion is so refreshing and funny I can't help myself. Hope he's doing ok.
5 years later, id love to know what he thinks when he looks back on this post.
I think we can all admit that Haitanis makoto would make anyone fall in love with Street fighter.
I hope this guy has gotten good or at least decent by now and enjoys playing fighting games. I would guess he hasn't stuck to the dream of being a pro but I do hope he is having fun with it as a hobby.
same tbh
www.resetera.com/threads/im-seriously-considering-quitting-my-two-jobs-to-focus-exclusively-on-fighting-games.169449/
@@LuluStarlight why would you send me down such a sad and depressing rabbit hole I hope this person seriously gets the help that they need so they can stop feeling that way
@Jaymon99999 I seriously hope he can get better
@@jdestroyer9721 sorry man but it just how life is i hope something will help him in the future.
20:17
I didn’t expect the parallels between getting gud at fighting games and getting gud at life.
lmao hopefully this kid looks back on this thread in a few years and has a good laugh.
Wonder where this guy is now
Its been 5 years. He should be in the world of jobs now, whether he likes doing what he does or not.
Problably a full time weeb now.
NEET
Travelled to the universe where he achieves everything he set out to do
honestly mad props to this guy if he's serious and fuck the people outright telling him to give up, especially the first guy. It's important to understand the scope and need of another source of income etc but the first few replies outright just shat on this guy and that's horrible.
Imagine even the accidentally funny Mii-verse kid who posted "Why Metroid no crawl!" who got stuck in the first screen eventually went on and completed Super Metroid on Wii-U.
And then there's unstoppable anime hero here who haven't been seen ever since the that day he cringe posted.
this was me when I was 17. I'm so glad I never posted anything because this is exactly how I used to think. glad I grew out of it
"Sorry guys I'm just built different"
Do people who name themselves after their waifu not stop for a second and say "Jesus Christ I'm cringe." I liked Katawa Shoujo too but fucking hell.
It's that time of year again this shows up on my recommended
If he's not motivated to grind a real job he's nit gonna be motivated to labbing out a game and he's not willing to put in the real work to live a confortable life. It sounds to me like the typical lazy person who thinks going pro will absolve him from having to work.
Man, I'm glad I actually became a Juri main or else I'd be this guy
dude, so good, i had similar asperations (get the pun?) for a couple o weeks after i got my first fight stick. Then i met up with one of the local guys who happens to be one of if not the top chun li players in australasia. (Skullator) after losing almost 100 straight between me and my friend I realised i was a friggen dummy. I'm looking forward to sfv though, it's gunna be nice to start off with a relatively even playing field and not have to worry about learning 40 characters movesets and how to defend against them (also parries are the cools). Gotta say Baf your vids are the shit. Much chill, very appreciate. 10/10 would watch again.
+RSSteele33 Also, we gon' see you on capcom pro talk or excellent adventures anytime soon? cause we should.
+Wisdom Child Thank you thank you, i'll be here all week. :)
man of culture for recognising katawa shoujo
Juri was my 1st SF4 main and she is a what to learn
I felt those Juri remarks
That man grew up to be PunkDaGod
That thread is godlike
I made a similar Facebook post when I was around that age (tho not as long or detailed) and cringed really hard when it popped up in my memories
hes in love with cammy LOL
Bro I wanna see an update to this what a dream he's going to come back to this thread and cringe but let's see if it's still up
jdestroyer97 Best profile pic I've seen in a while.
@@TurnOntheBrightLights. thank you lol its old
jdestroyer97 For sure! I assume AE 2012?
any teenagers dream...playing games and getting paid for it... well nerds that is
I remember watching this video a few years back. I wonder if there have been any new interesting SRK threads lol.
Honestly wished this guy would post again, wonder where he ended up after a few years after the post
Yeah your Ken lab work was solid IMO. Maybe you haven't put it all together into higher level Ken game, but it was a good dissection/deconstruction. Good building blocks to work with.
oh I remember this thread. Also RIP old SRK forums.
There's not enough ways to warn this kid to get his shit together first before trying to play fighting games professionally.
Dude should be out meeting girls and looking at colleges at that age not worrying about fighting games
Damn. Didn't the SRK forums close down a few years ago? When did they go back up?
I think they never went down after an outcry from the community.
@@Bafael that's so good to hear. i stopped dropping by when they announced they were shutting down the forums. i was afraid eventhubs would be the only place left for all things FGC. thanks for the heads-up!
i hope they saved all those S-Kill articles.
17:10 big lol
Just a heads up, NuckleDu confirmed this was him.
I know you're probably joking, but for real?
That's dope if true, source?
As someone who hasn't been playing fighting games since they were created, I have a certain sympathy for dude. I look to people like Gootecks and Mike Ross, Combofiend, and Maximilian as guys who manage to surround themselves with the game and community they love but in a super grounded way. They worked for years and got somewhere which, as was said, is possible in almost any undertaking(the 'I can't draw, Ill just quit' people have always made me laugh/cry). Fighting games have strange parallels to other kinds of real personal growth. Coming back after a failure, recognizing your flaws and working at fixing them, being humble, knowing yourself, asking for help, etc. Also I highly doubt this guy's on 'the spectrum', he seems socially able and self-aware enough, he's just YOUNG poor guy...
+Capin91 believe it or not I have a lot of sympathy for him too, thinking about him talking about his dream and why it won't fly is like when I first realized myself that being #1 in the world isn't a practical goal.
+Bafael Nah I believe it, haha. You're all good man, I know how much you do for low level players. I know you weren't just shitting on the guy, just that weird teenage attitude he had. Fighting games DO take me into weird pseudo-philosophical headspace sometimes, which is part of why I love 'em. And yeah, being the #1 guy isn't really a good goal. Or rather, it isn't a good starting point for a realistic plan. That's how you crush yourself, because progress is invisible on a scale like that. Small bites
BTW, JWong has a side job? Didn't know that, what does he do?
I'm just finding this video now and I gotta say, that kid got destroyed
6:47 wow a pound cake reference in 2015
...being recognized in 2021
idk who's the more permanently online person between me and that poster but my pfp isn't anime porn so I feel a few steps ahead
kinda insane how big the prizepools for fighting games have gotten recently tho, kinda crazy to see 2015-era fighting game community members talk about how their community isn't big enough yet while there's this massive boom awaiting the fgc just a couple of years down the line
"or becoming an artist in the manga style"
lmaoooo, for someone that isn't even motivated enough to learn programming he sure is surefire he can pick up how to draw manga. You know, just casually learn one of the most complex and in-depth forms of drawing available that require mastery of basically every aspect of art-fundamentals from composition to anatomy and perspective to architecture and form mostly produced by severely overworked and underpaid artists that have been drawing since childhood in societies like Japan/Korea that are known to have "absolutely no chill" on the side of his equally motivated drive to learn SF4/5.
At least he's realistic about not becoming an artist but not out of an understanding of why it's basically impossible, he's just envious of other people that already put in the work and *that* is why he doesn't have any motivation. What a lameass anime protag.
It's been 5 years, is hanako still around and how good is he at fg's
I bet he probably chases clout in league of legends or fortnite, video games you can actually get hella money in compared to any fg
Lol kbrad is in love with cammy
Wonder where this kid is now.
Where is this guy now?
@@namelessxdread Wow
This guy is looking for opinions, whereas if he was serious, he would be playing people online in order to git gud.
Instead, he'll read the online opinions, think it sounds hard, lose interest, and then jump on to the next thing to obsess about.
Almost 6 years later, has anyone heard anything about this guy making it big in fighting games? Lol
Lol Indeed friend
So, what became of him?
Interesting video!
I'm not entirely sure why I watched 9 minutes of this video. I thought, since you tend to make good videos to help out people trying to understand the game, that this would actually be an interesting thread to discuss, not just a way for you to make fun of a delusional teenager.
My friend had this exact same mindset in Marvel a couple of years ago coming from hardly ever playing a fighting game before, and while he never went pro or anything like that, he practiced every day for two years and ended up getting top 32 or something like that at EVO last year.
+SivartAuhsoj Well I'll happily discuss it as long as you want to. Let me first say that I see absolutely nothing wrong or weird about wanting to practice every day to get good at something, or wanting to be one of the best players. I had a bit of a laugh at this guy, not because he wanted to be one of the best or even because he didn't have a back up plan, but because every time he said he failed at something else he would give up immediately whereas he was insisting he would and could stick to it for fighting games. I do not think this guy is dumb or anything, literally the only thing I think about him is that he doesn't or can't understand the gravity of the undertaking, which is why I was interested in this thread: this is a very large portion of the people I interact with as a tutorial maker and my sincere goal is to make it an easier undertaking for them. These people are common at bottom level but almost vanished by low level, and I need to see where most of them give up and address THAT in a video, but I feel like THAT isn't game advice but rather lifestyle advice on how to handle losing long enough to get good.
What's Justin day job
this guy should try making fighting games
I'm glad I didn't end up thinking like this. 5 years ago I was 13 but now I'm 18 and I only play fighting games for fun (played them my whole life). I obviously always still strive to improve and get good at all the different fighting games I play but like it's for fun. Never at 17 would I think "Y'know what I'mma be a pro fg player no matter what it takes! Even if I end up a bum!" cause I know fighting games AREN'T a reliable income source and they never really have been unless you're (like ppl pointed out in the thread) like Diago Umehara or (using a newer example) MenaRD or even Idom winning 6 digits from Capcom Cup.
6 digits isnt worth the years taken away. Fighting game is not transferable in the real world. sure mena won 250k but will that last the next 20 years? unlikely. There are alot of manchildren in the fgc, so one has to be careful not to get sucked into this fgc highschool bubble and be 35 with no skill other than really good at fighting games.
Though the FGC kind of lacks audience streaming-wise, it's not uncommon to see people paying their bills with money they earn from playing. I know it's not the same thing this guy wants, but it's not like it's impossible to earn a living out of gaming.
17:10 ROFLMAO, oh lord I feel the same way about the weird ass characters like Yoshimitsu, Faust, Oro, Voldo, etc
oro is weird?
@@majinbros9971 idk, an argument could probably be made for him looking weird. I wouldn't say he acts weird at all though. shrug.
i find them cool ngl
Joke is a crappy job will leave you with no time to good practice and get good.
This reminds me of my buddy Eric
So what makes this thread interesting?
the common-ness of this kind of person
Where is this guy now is my question I wonder if he ever achieved pro status in any fighting games he loves
Just looked his profile up and no new posts
@@Bafael profound sadness
Oh Baf, there's _plenty_ indicating that this guy is hella young.
its never too late. he'll fail.
9:20 art is not a competition lmao bruh
This is an important discussion because there are alot of "manchildren" in the fgc. Playing to get good is fine but becoming so obsessed with the fgc can be frankly disastrous.
i miss the srk forums
betting $15 that before this kid quit fighting games he was playing analog instead of pad, lmao
Why does this feel like a Syndrome-esque monologue
The funny thing is, you frequently see the classic mentality of the classic brainwashed human in places like the now defunct SRK. The first thing 80% of those people on the forums want to do is tell someone how something is not possible, when in reality, anything is possible if you put in the energy, and time.
A few people (only after a shift in energy) gave him positive motivation, while most of the others tried to tear him down with smug and condescending remarks. Their logic is: they themselves aren't good or dedicated enough to get there, therefore, it's unlikely that anyone else can get there. Sad.
To be fair, League is an unbalanced and shitty game to play. 9:55
Everyone knows OP is trolling, right?
I bet that kid streams and earns money grinding online fighting games.
I love Tebbo lol
“Those tedious things” damn you ever learn a combo longer than 5 hits? That shit is fucking tedious my guy
Okay i have a crackpot overanalysis of the mind of some kid in a 7 year old video about a fighting game forum thread:
I wonder if he's trans. Like I dunno there is another comment on this video talking about depression being a root cause of his flighty behavior. I mean what is practically the main symptom of gender dysphoria? Depression.
I only say this because the guy brings up the fact that he doesn't like playing male characters almost unprompted. He also represents himself as a woman in the forums. Obviously these things taken in a vacuum don't come anywhere near to pointing to someone being trans. Just taking this snapshot of his life as a whole it shows a pattern to me.
Anyway I'm not getting the time I just wasted writing this comment back so thats cool.
You know sometimes people just have general identity crises and depression.
@@ImortalZeus13 If you read my comment you'd be able to figure out for a fact that I do actually know this. Thanks for reading!
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it's easy enough to poke fun at this, but the person is a teenager. At this point it's like, "ha ha ha lol look at the stupid teenager saying silly things because they are a teenager!"
I mean, especially if many of the people laughing at this kid are adults, which I suspect is the case. So, does that make you feel like a man? An adult laughing at a teenager saying dumb things?
As I said in other comments, the thing I find especially interesting about this random guy is how relatable he is, and how frequently people exactly like this pop up in the fgc in general. I spend a ridiculous amount of free time making tutorial videos so I try to keep my ear to the ground on what beginners need help with, which is how I found this guy in the first place. You're right that I'm having a laugh at this guy but genuinely speaking, I think one of the single most important things tutorials need to address is having a healthy mentality for learning, which might include setting up realistic expectations or having no mental restrictions that prevent you from learning and branching out (e. g. I only play female characters). This guy is some anonymous who-cares so I'm obviously not trying to target anyone but I am enjoying how he perfectly presents some prevalent ideas in the community almost to the level of parody.