It's Just A Game (The Jimquisition)
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Influencers are like proper celebrities now, so we have to listen to everything they say.
Ninja is an influencer, and he has plenty to say. Recently the Mixer Man caused a fuss by extolling the virtues of anger and deriding the notion that a videogame is "just a game."
This sparked up the age old Hardcore Gamer debates, and I've got bugger all else to do this week, so let's talk about competition, attitudes, and Cucumber Succulence!
#Ninja #Fortnite #Gaming #Influencers #Competition #Twitter #Hardcore #Difficulty #esports #Gaming #Games #Gamers #JimSterling #Jimquisition #BattleRoyale #CucumberSucculence
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"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life."
Picard FTW!
Needs to be the top comment. Really ,all you need to know as to why his outlook is so toxic and false is contained here.
My dad would say that too. As long you do your best noone can ask more
it's more like hearthstone, really
that rng bullshit clown show
"Usually I lose because my teammates are jumping off the map and screaming in the voice chat that I'm a tryhard." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War
As the wise russian ice hockey player Ilya Bryzgalov once said: "it's only game, why you heff to be mad?"
It's such a great quote.
As a thinking person always says: "Did you watch the video?"
It’s humongous big
"Having a competitive mindset" is not an excuse for throwing temper tantrums like a toddler whenever you lose.
@Sir Festus The funny part is he isn't even that good. He is just well known.
Little babies like this use it to cover up that nobody likes them irl because of their tantrums when they don't get their way. So they try to spin it as a positive by saying they're just "competitive." No bruh, you just got anger problems. Get some help.
@Sir Festus Well that is the thing, he thinks he is more important than he is. That is why he thought everyone at the square would do the floss with him. you could see his facade his world breaking for one moment when like no one was doing it. Of course after that day he could go back to his streaming where he is idolized by young children as a god.
Can i have another Red Bull?
This has always been my issue with self described "competitive" folks. You want to push yourself and be competitive? Fine! But most of the time these folks are sore winners and even sorer losers that suck the fun out of anything they touch.
real ninjas love this, imagine bieng so sucesful sneaking, when you get googled you dont even get the right thing.
I was about to say that. Why would real ninjas be upset about being undetectable?
And then I remember that Naruto was a thing in America. Real ninjas are not and have never been a top Google result.
I can't wait for janitor being suspected of espionage because he doesn't work some ridiculous shadow garment.
His point was that real ninjas as part of one country’s culture and history have almost vanished from the most accessible tool for finding information. And for whom? Some sick-looking dude with virgin facial hair that earns dozens of millions of dollars playing a stupid game and talking stupid shit on camera (and in his books). Imagine some band named Kung-Foo appears and becomes a worldwide phenomenon, breaking all sales records and being so popular that you wouldn’t find the martial art even on the China Internet.
Or Mozart.
We’re becoming more stupid as a society, is what he meant.
@@adaptorperish1322 Oh, please. I'm so tired of the Idiocrazy-argument. So there may be a cultural phenomenon that is wildly popular at the moment and that happens to rob something older, better the spotlight. Big deal.
But you bet your ass in a hundred years, Ninja, as in the ancient assassins, will be in peoples minds while nobody will have any clue who Ninja, the video-gamer is.
The fact that most people think of the Brandon Frasier version of the Mummy when they hear "The Mummy" does not mean that the Boris Karloff and Hammer versions will ever be forgotten.
The fact that there was a family movie called "Beethoven" about a dog doesn't mean that the classical composer Beethoven was forgotten.
I would rather argue that with the Internet, it is all the easier to access those older versions than it has ever been before.
But ever so often some pretentious ass thinks "We are getting dumber as a society". These short-lifed popularities have always existed. Low-art has always exited. That's nothing new. The Internet only exaggerates an effect that has always been there.
And in some cases, a similarity in names has not erased the original. Last time I checked, people did not forget about the medieval theologian Martin Luther because Black Rights activist Martin Luther King existed.
Take comfort in the fact that good art will prevail and remain through the ages. Or do you really think "Ninjas" as a term for old Japanese Assassins will forever sink into oblivion due to one popular guy?
"The biggest difference between a novice and a master is that the master has failed more times than the novice has tried." -Korosensei
I love this quote dearly.
Best Quote
Also a master no longer gets angry over their own failures.
Its true.
You literally cannot master anything without failing a couple thousand times. Ninja is just rationalizing his anger issues and childish attitude
"ARE YOU GONNA BE THE BEST PERSON TO EVER PLAY THIS GAME?!?!" he screams at me as I just want to feed sheep in minecraft
that mindset is so offputting to me, as someone who is staunchly non-competitive. Someone will literally always be better than me at something, so why should I fight it?
@@NuriaWatts What?
@@Romanticoutlaw It was a joke bud. Edit: guess not.
YOU NEED TO BE ANGRY BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT FEEDING THOSE SHEEP BETTER THAN EVERY SINGLE OTHER PERSON IN THE WORLD! YOU NEED TO BE ANGRY UNTIL YOU'RE BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE AT FEEDING THOSE SHEEP!!!!
@@annolog There's no joke in there. It happens. He wants you to be the best, while we just want to feed a sheep in minecraft.
I'm not even surprised the guy made such a tweet. In fact it perfectly suits his entire character. Ninja has been known to be a whiny toxic gamer who rages when he gets killed in a video game
Oh and when he said how he doesn't understand how they keep kickers that sometimes miss kicks. He's just a prick, who thinks being famous makes him right. He's only popular because he has no major personality traits, he's boring but visually marketable. That's perfect for advertisers. You think they prefer people that speak out for particular things or have big personality traits? No, they like blank slates that look pretty.
@Mark Frost no, not looking like a basement dweller and looking like an actual person. You wanna make everything race? Go right ahead, doesn't make it true XD
Miss Misery I don’t think a few is enough to invalidate a very real representation issue.
@@Mark Frost , if you make a statement that would be racist if you replaced "white" with any other skin color it is still racism. Racism is racism regardless if they are the minority, the majority, the privileged, or the poor.
Never seen or heard of him before, but he sure looks the part. For a second my mind superimposed his face with angsty drama queen emo girls from ancient years of two decades ago.
Irony: A man who named himself after a quasi-mythical type of covert operative best known for their extreme discipline, obsession with secrecy and being as inconspicuous as possible becomes famous internet personality and makes a controversial public remark about the value of getting disproportionately upset over losing competitions.
@cookies fan ...You're gonna have to explain that one to me.
@cookies fan no the irony is that he is everything but inconspicuous
@cookies fan i only read your first comment
"And Commander: It is possible to make no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life." Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
The Kobayashi Maru as a learning tool is one of the best things Star Trek ever came up with.
Tell Captain Kirk!
Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat. - Jesse "The Body" Ventura.
“Mom why is there a fat man in a Halloween costume on a rooftop?”
*we don’t talk about that guy....*
He is not fat. He is optimized.
That's what peak performance looks like
@@iglidor Optimized for the harshest winter ever recorded in human history. A thin Jim at this point would look weird.
@@sidrat2009 You mean, a slim jim? I'm sorry, I'll leave.
Why, thats Jim fucking Sterling, son.
Okay, even if you have a “competitive mindset”, anger is not how you get better. Learning is.
The best players in the world lose games. It happens. But they don’t magically fix themselves by throwing a tantrum. They fix themselves by calming down and studying the film. They fix themselves by being shown what they did wrong and learning how to fix it. If we’re talking about aging athletes, they might not be able to “fix” or improve the way younger teammates can, but they can retool their strategy.
Now that’s not to say that they don’t get angry or would be “wrong” to get angry. Losing a game you wanted/needed to win, especially if money is on the line, sucks, and anger is a natural response. But you aren’t going to find that self-improvement in the anger. You’ll improve after the anger passes and you can clearly understand what went wrong.
Any cunt who starts a paragraph with "okay" needs taking out back and killing
@@bensmith5288 Can't tell if this is shit-tier bait or a genuine instance of babies first internet toughguy act.
@@Sneakysneaky88 Doesn't matter either way, does it. He's shown his whole ass in just one sentence.
@@bensmith5288 This is coming from somebody who was born and named "Ben"
I follow Dragon Ball FighterZ and I'm just imagining if SonicFox or Go1 got mad whenever they lost a match.
They're the best in the world at the game, and yet somehow they don't compose themselves like enraged infants. Clearly they just don't care or something.
"i HATE him, simply because he is younger, more attractive and more popular than me." AHAHAHAHAHA. take solace in the fact that he isn't as honest or funny as you.
Whenever I envy how rich some of these ridiculous fools are I like to imagine them when they're 50 years old, still desperately trying to be relevant to the kids 🤣
@@rhythmandblues_alibi German let's player and streamer Gronkh is still incredibly popular even with 43 and I doubt that'll change anytime soon 🤭
I want SterDust to be this cryptid, often seen by many in the streets, but never fully accepted/not-blurry photographed.
People *were* filming in the street below. I think I could justify wandering around on rooftops like some sort of horrible yeti.
"Lieutenant, is there a six-foot disco-ball heel in Philadelphia? And if so, is he on the police payroll? And if so, what's he pulling down... after taxes?"
If it was Sterdust on the rooftops, he'd probably be referred to as the Philly Flying Purple People Eater
I'm not sure there are enough Purple People in Philly to sustain that, though...
If The Tick were ever renewed a guest appearance from SterDust could be pretty fun.
"Influencers - their followers have given them inflated sense of purpose and self-importance." Couldn't agree more
Yeah, nail on head.
Hallison Michel At least he’s self aware and didn’t blow up overnight out of random chance. Almost all of these “hip” influencers are really just riding the wave they caught by luck and have little to no value to add to their “area of expertise”.
So basically any celebrity?
www.quora.com/q/laughingatnarcs/The-Circle-of-Slaves
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I’d imagine ninjas would be happy to have everyone’s eyes on Ninja instead of themselves. Makes the whole going unseen part of their job much easier.
but how I am supposed to get in contact with Ninjas (the real ones) if I need to schedule a hit or need a bodyguard!?!?!?!
They are so good at hiding now that they can't even make money off it!
@@nhagan001
Try Shinobi or Ninjitsu?
This is all part of the plan.
But in the world of assassins, only Agent 47 can be trusted fully.
It at least has to improve their backstab game. That's for true.
@@SavageRush012 This is sound logic!
"The vast majority of people playing Fortnite..."
I'll be honest I expected you to say "Are children"
Yeah, I was expecting 'are ten years old'
@@NIgHTMaReFortyTwo Also speaks volumes about the kind of parenting (or lack thereof) they are receiving
Are children
Are dipshits
Are krauts
Are people without self respect
NIgHTMaReFortyTwo more like -10
@@liambrewerpowerlifting Like, i am 15 years old, and when i play fortnite, is not to win like Ninja says, its literally to meme with my friend, because its a free game, and i never spent a single cent in this
I still feel like this is the annual "Hot Ninja Take" tweet that is designed to stir up controversy and keep his name trending. There is usually one every few months and they always seem to pop up when most people have stopped talking about him. This is probably me being conspiratorial but I would not be shocked to find out he has a PR guy who tells him when to make a hot gaming take.
That's being quite generous...I'm sure he has several PR people for that.
Wouldn't think that's too far from the truth. He's a brand, an influencer used to promote nothing but positive hype for Twitch and now Steam. A lot of his public comments may be encouraged or even outright orchestrated.
Agreed. Most drama in the world is exaggerated at best, totally fabricated more often than you think. We live "in a marketplace of ideas" according to neoliberals, (the default mindset of the west, currently) so you have to do something to keep your name on the market at all times.
And here you are.... talking about him .... he wins
Shotsy322 yep you’ve nailed it 👍
"His livelihood is tied up into being very very good at Fortnite." Sounds like a curse... I would even say "poor guy", were it not for him being stinking rich.
@Uninteresting TH-cam commenter and a times using his mild disability as a charity case. That people throw money at him for while playing
a lot of people's livelihoods are tied up in work, at least in the usa. this is the problem we currently have. live to work, just to get by. feel sorry for someone very successful and has done well financially? sure.
@@thegoodsmaster lol i could use some over spray. Been on my own since 15. Dealing with seizure dissability. After trying to save my grandma my aunt put me in jail so she can keep exploiting her. Right now after a big break up being forced to resign at the time of my final project at college and all my about 10k of savings stolen from me. Stuck in a living grind loop. Because my condition im experimenting medicine for im barely making enough to just strictly pay the bills. As i have to leave work early. At only 11 an hou
@Uninteresting TH-cam commenter Being good certainly didn't stop him from being an arrogant, elitist dick now did it.
@@alexubel Yeah, it's a shame really. I've watched random tournaments and top players and such, and seen many of them to be decent human beings. They can accept a loss, and sometimes even laugh and joke about it, and learn and grow from it. And when they're that good, they don't try to act like they're better than other people (well, except at that game I suppose), but they don't lord it over people. They put in the time and effort and are happy to share their experience with others. They win AND lose graciously.
real ninjas: "Good - we've finally been able to conceal ourselves from the prying eyes of the retched Google Search."
Real ninjas: WHAT THE HELL, KRIS?! WHY DID YOU TELL EVERYONE OUR CENTURIES LONG PLAN?!?!!
Aww, I was hoping to make this joke.
Welp, that a big monkey off thier backs
To be fair, before this ninja streamer guy took the face of ninja in google, the spot was occupied by an anime guy in an orange jumpsuit.
The ultimate ninja distraction! Everyone look at this REEEEE-Lord while we get back to infiltrating top secret facilities in peace!
"I'll cut your hair while you're asleep," might be the most frightening thing Jim has ever said.
Yes but he’ll leave a quarter under your pillow.
@Scion of Madness Jim comes up to you while you're sleeping and cuts your eyebrows
Well, considering lockdown and stuff, I think we all need a haircut.
Not my mullet!
I'd welcome it now - The lockdown hair is real.
The picture of Ninja being digitally manipulated to "speak" along with his tweet is upsetting in a deep, difficult to explain way, which means it will certainly be used again in the future.
Upsetting? It looks less fake than the real Ninja who's really just a male plastic barbie-doll thingy.
It will haunt my dreams
Cucumber Succulence needs to be a returning character. I feel he has potential.
We were laughing very, very hard when we filmed those segments.
Jim Sterling Your cameraman's reaction in the reflection says it all
Its basically Boomer humour, but without jokes about how much men hate their wives
Cucumber Succulent vs. Surprise Mechanic?
U sure that's a he
"As near as I can tell American football is a game in which people stand around waiting for their turn to fall over."
R O F L!!!
Nailed it!
Not to mention the fact it's just Rugby with pads to most people. But the biggest joke is the corporate side of things. How the coaches get millions of dollars while the players kill themselves for a win, quite literally in some cases for peanuts. If your not the top MVP player, salaries in football is generally pretty bad, especially at the college level in where they get nothing at all while the coaches still make millions. At best they get a scholarship, but not all players do.
Okay but couldn’t this also be a description of wrestling, Jim’s favorite sport? Lol
I mean....they wait around for their chance to get bulldozed by men 20 pounds heavier than them at full speed. So would you rather fall over at your own behest or be forced down 20 times a game? It's not as simple.
@@mmcolony I mean, wrestling is a kind of acting. I don't like it personally, but it _is_ very much a totally different thing.
@@JustaGuy_Gaming used to call it rugby for pussies, learned better. But now I will call it that once again. Except the pussies refers to the coaches getting stinking rich off encouraging young people to hurt themselves.
"a defeat learned from is more important than an empty victory" - Ryu
could be goku, people seem to forget but he loses a lot when earth is not in danger, he could defeat everybody, but that would be less fun than discovering a new trick, he fights to enjoy, not to win
Ryu has so many awesome quotes. One I like a lot as well is
"Don't fight for victory--fight to improve yourself. Victory will come."
@@daviddamasceno6063 I wouldn't say he has a lot of awesome quotes, he just has quotes that are genuinely about the art of fighting and similar things.
I'd buy a Jim Sterling book. Imagine all the voices you'd get to imitate in your head.
Here's a theory: Jim Sterling's characters all exist in the Filthy Frank universe.
I'd buy that for a dollar!
LIIIIVE SERVICES!
He should narrate books for Audible and get some of that sweet sweet audiobook money.
tRiPPLe AAAAAeeee
You know, Ninja makes enough dumb comments to lead me to believe that he isn’t all that bright
And here I thought, Ninja's, dumbass hair would have already given that fact away.
You don't need to be all that smart to do what he does. He's very good at games and probably has very good people behind hin but he himself seems dumb as a box of rocks whenever I hear him open his mouth.
He looks like the younger sibling all older siblings are legally obliged to beat up on a regular basis.
He doesn't really seem dumb to me. Just young, and not very experienced in the way that he thinks what he says has more value than it really does. A bit self inflated and idealistic because he just flat out isn't old enough to have lost enough times yet in the game of life, and learned.
Found the ninja fanboy lol
Jim: "Ninja has a book? I don't have a book!"
Honestly I would buy this hypothetical book of yours solely for the purpose of having the inevitable title spine listed on my bookshelf:
"Thank God for Me!" by Jim Sterling
If it's just exposition, yes.
But his autobiography is "I'm jim Fucking Sterling, Son!"
I'd buy it on one condition. Each copy must come with a complimentary Boglin.
So does Yahtzee, he has several books.
@@Marinealver Even Laura has a book, how come Jim doesn't have a book? That's incredible, even people playing sports you've never heard of has a book!
Jim's not even trying any more now that he's in the city of brotherly love, rocking out in his lycra on the roof tops like a homage to Tevye, or Mary Poppins between wrestling shows and the like.
Where's the book Jim?
If there isn't a centerfold in the middle, I would be disappointed.
I'm glad you referenced Ohmwrecker. Because he's one of the professional gamers that will still be professionally gaming when Ninja is not.
I recognize the name, not from any competitive play, but from watching him fail miserably at Prop Hunt with a giant bunny fursuit as his avatar.
On the internet, failing is just as lucrative as winning. And it's a whole lot easier too.
I’m not. Didn’t really age well, did it? At least he isn’t Craig, tho.
The "MUST ALWAYS WIN" attitude is my main problem with the entire realm of PvP, to the point that I'm convinced it exists solely for people who hate themselves and want to die slowly of stupidity poisoning.
Now to watch Jim play Saint's Row 2, which sounds like a better time than being 'the best' could ever be.
this is why i only play single player games or co-op games. when i was younger all i cared about was shooters and trying to be the best at them, but now im at a point in my life where i wanna just come home from work and enjoy a game not become even more stressed out. if a game isnt fun, whats the point. if a game becomes your job, is it even a game anymore?
I've always liked the attitude in PvP of "Must Try To Win." If I know I'm trying my hardest then hey, I can't really get too upset if I lose to anyone. Means I personally need to go and gain skill or knowledge. Or just 'uninstall n00b lol'
Cant relax after work with a game you like. You gotta work just as hard and if you lose you MUST feel bad
If not you are the outcast
Being not happy is the norm
Isnt that fun
@@Ionic0 That's exactly what I do. I hate memes and most online culture anyway. I like to unwind with a game, get lost in a world of someone's imagination. Running through the same stages doing the same thing over and over is boring as shit. Add on top of that the toxic nature of PvP games you can count me the fuck out.
Depends what game your playing I guess do I take COD or bf seriously no not at all lol
Do I take RTS games seriously online ? Yes without the tactical gambles seeking the pay off of victory the games would ring hallow ...
“Imagine how real ninjas must feel.”
Ninja: Can you see me? No? Good.
This pasty white boi is what IT is to clowns.
Jay K. Ninja was the ninja’s plan all along
The vast majority of ninja-related stuff is super inaccurate anyway, thanks to both western and Japanese media. So like honestly who cares, they're been rendered unrecognizable for at least decades now already
They love it, all the eyes are on ninja. Not ninja.
@SilveR's Channel I was going to say something similar. They didn't even wear black for the most part, that was the stagehands at puppetry and theatre plays.
"You shouldn't be upset about losing."
"There is always room for improvement."
These ideas are not mutually exclusive. You can get over a loss (easily) and still believe that you could get better. I lean towards the "hardcore" side of the spectrum; I love the feeling of improvement and I'm always striving to improve. However... no matter how "hardcore" I am about playing my games, there's always going to be people better than me and if I took every loss so seriously I would have had a mental breakdown 10 years ago.
Honestly, there's a healthy way of being upset about losing and an unhealthy way of being upset about losing. If you're healthily upset about losing, you get better at the game, you get over the loss and use it to learn something, and then look bad at your loss being like "boy, was I green back then! I've learned so much!". Otherwise, you become Billy Mitchell.
Love the Icon.
Almost went pro playing LoL waaay back as a Leona, Nocturne, Lee Sin , Veigar, Fizz. Stopped when I was playing Random Hero 6v6 for 8 hours a day & no longer having fun.
Yup, and this applies everywhere in life.
You don't need to get angry and hate yourself or your work/play in order to get better. You just need to recognize you'll never be perfect, and thus there's always room to improve yourself.
THE FUK U SAY TO ME U LITTLE SHITT
I completely agree.
I never understood when players would absolutely lose their shit over the concept of "losing." It's the main reason I never want to play games that have PvP elements (LoL, Overwatch, Dota 2, Siege, etc.) because I absolutely fucking hate seeing toxic shit. Hell, games that don't even have PvP can result in people getting ridiculously toxic over nothing (I used to play WoW a lot, it's bad in dungeons sometimes). I wouldn't scoff at my ability to play a game, but, at the same time, I am no professional by any means.
I can understand why I lost and, as long as I'm still being challenged at an appropriate level, I'll continue to get better at a game.
At the same time, unless you're spending literally thousands of hours playing a game, you will not get to the level of a, by definition, professional.
I want to unironically like the beginning. Cause holy shit does Ninja make my job harder.
Funny how Gaijin Goomba drops a comment and nobody notices.
@@sigurdtheblue me too.
Gaijin , hello.
Today on: people i love but didnt expect to be fans of jim sterling
@@300IQPrower Who is Gaijin Goombah? Why does Ninja make their job harder?
You know, I've been working as a teacher for over a decade now. Generally, getting angry at something does not mean you get better at it. You get better by practice and by analyzing what you do wrong. The only thing anger does, is make you more prone to mistakes. It blocks you from growth, from thinking outside the box. Strong emotions are generally like that.
So… Even if you DO accept the premise that it's "weak" to not see games as a super-important competition… Anger is just stupid. It's not helpful. It's not going to make you better at the game. Calm, rational, long-term strategies are much more effective.
And honestly, IF throwing a f-ing tantrum every time things go badly for you is the only way to progress in whatever you're doing, then you should maybe get yourself a new hobby. Anger is pretty much never the constructive solution, and should be reserved for things that actually matter.
Considering he isn't even top 100 of his so-called craft, I don't particularly think the impotent rage is really working for him. His current ability is more despite his mentality than resulting from it. If he calmed down and properly analyzed what he wasn't doing correctly or what other's were doing better he could possibly climb the rankings even more while also having a tolerable personality.
Also, yes I would tell Tom Brady that it's just a game, and would do the same to any sports ball players, hockey players, as well as chess grandmasters, poker players, and similar professions. I'd name specific individuals but I would need two things to do so: one, knowing what their names are, and two, actually caring.
I have been playing games all my life, and this is 100% correct. When I get angry or frustrated, I stop progressing. I start beating my head against the wall instead of looking around for what other options I have besides that one thing I can't pull off. When I take a break and come back later, calmed down, the solution often becomes obvious to me. Even my reflexes get better and I can pull off things I couldn't before.
Nowadays I rarely allow myself to get angry at games due to this knowledge of that it will only make me suck more and make the situation worse.
The whole fuss about his tweet isn't even about the anger, it's about how the anger is handled. I think everyone, at some point, has gotten mad at video games. Whether it's a boss pulling a fast one, RNG being unkind, a teammate letting you down, or frustration at a mistake you made. But how you deal with that anger is the key. For a lot of people, saying "It's just a game" is an easy way to blow it off, to let that anger vent out by simply dismissing it as something not worth getting angry over.
Of course, for more competitive people, it's understandable that blowing it off as a minor thing isn't as easy. But in Ninja's case, I think he's using this to try and justify his over-reactions. He's known to get incredibly mad, accuse opponents of cheating (which has sometimes ended with bans for said opponents, regardless of evidence), and even yell racial slurs live on stream. No matter how you feel about the "it's just a game" mentality, you cannot pretend that is a healthy way to deal with anger.
This. I remember that when I used to get very mad playing, my parents confiscated the game for a day. That was because my cousins constantly threw their game boys to the floor when they lost. I only remember doing that once and never again.
And then I find out many years later that throwing controllers is COMMON in the FGC -_-
_Once_ I almost threw my OG brick DS while trying to complete the grand finale epilogue stage of the original Trauma Center. I didn't. I _did_ on that day develop a tendency to start raging at games in general more easily, though. So maybe there's some merit to spiking the peripherals if you're at a certain frustration threshold.
Basically what I'm saying is, FUCK Trauma Center.
The healthiest thing you can do when you lose is walk away. As a child at the tender age of 15 I remember breaking 5 controllers in one month because of people taking advantage of christmas noobs in cod. Then, one day, I got my ass blasted. Instead of throwing my controller, I pulled the disc out, turned the console off, and walked away. I stopped competitive, hard games that made me mad because that wasn't healthy for me.
What do you mean
I thought screaming like a child would get you things in life ..... Actully im glad ninja plays fortnite ... I dont want him screaming at me when i tell him he gave me the wrong change or scaned something twice
Sounds like the trouble with Ninja is he has anger issues, and is making a statement about games in order to avoid learning to manage those issues.
Conspiracy theory: Ninja is a creation of real ninjas to hide themselves of the Internet.
He's just another type of smoke bomb Haha
I think your on to something...
Oh... well that's less annoying. That's actually kind of sly. I'll think this every time I check out my buddy on Mixer, but have to go through his face first.
Makes Sense since His Name ist the Most disleading Part of His persona.edgy, yes, fitting, ist Not
He is naruto, being loud in public while every other ninja has sex.
American superheroes: "IM GONNA PROTECT THIS CITY AND ALL ITS PEOPLE!"
English superheroes: "Ah the city... cold up here isn't it?"
Based on those excerpts, Ninja's book sounds like a storm of cliches someone ghost-wrote for a paycheck while a pseudo-celeb put their name on the cover.
More like a storm of clichés copied and pasted off the internet.
@@SoanosBarcoded Right. Ghost-wrote.
Surprised?
See Pyrocynical video on it, it´s awesome and hilarious
Pseudo-celeb is accurate. Like all the pseudo-reality tv youtube celebs.
"American football is a game in which people wait around for their turn to fall over." I'm a fan of football, but I can't even be mad. This is just an accurate description of the game.
i dont see how being a fan of football and having an opinion on that description of AMERICAN football are related
On top of the fact that it is damaging and takes a toll on the body. Causing brain trauma and no, rigider helmets wont help, if anything, they need softer ones do deaccelerate or else, the brain is just going to hit its own skull
And counting minutes before a knee injury
My opinion on this is that it’s very ignorant of Ninja to justify his perspective as the only way to see it. Kind of like how some people say microtransactions don’t affect them and so therefore they don’t affect anyone at all which is just false. It’s a very blinkered view and lacks any nuance.
I don’t think he thinks that’s the only valid way to play games... if your non-competitive you can just relax...
Ninja seeing ppl walk into a restaurant
"Why are you going there....im full"
The wildest thing to me is that Ninja isn't even very good at Fortnite. He has actually NEVER performed well at any competitive setting for Fortnite, usually getting somewhere between 40th and 50th place, and many times not even qualifying for the "big boy" matches. He wins against kids. That's it. (I actually just googled to see if he was at least top 50 in the world. Turns out he's not even top 100)
He did follow this up saying he was not speaking about casual gamers breaking their stuff but pro gamers who don't have a drive to improve and become excellent at their craft. With that context it's not a bad statement to make.
@@ShaneAddinall but theres 2 times of pro gamers
Super competitive e sports guys who sell their skill
And the barest definition... people who just play games for a living
Some reviewers,
But mostly your run of the mill streamer basically....like ninja except without winning the lottery.
Your boy has no self awareness
"google search for ninja, and manchild with blue hair pops up." 😩😩😩I died a little inside.
Dayum, that's sad. Welp, at least you can type "Shinobi" instead.
These intros just get better every time
We do our best! :)
Tbh it shows. Honestly I never thought you'd take the wrestling thing this seriously, its quite refreshing
He looked like Batman 💪
@@JimSterling It could have been funnier if you quoted some of the monologues from that bat shit crazy bad superhero movie "The Spirit". Watching Jim "Fucking" Stirling Son talking about the city like you wanted to have sex with it, like in the film, would have been hilarious ;op
Got those Fredrick Knudsen vibes with that song.
I think John Candy said it best in Cool Runnings, “If you’re not enough without it, you’ll never be enough with it.”
When you get angry, truly and deeply angry, after losing a game you've lost twice. You're letting your failures own and consume you where you should be assessing what you can do avoid the next loss. If you truly want to improve you need to be able to roll with your failures so that you can remain level headed enough to learn from them.
I think it's a product of a toxic environment. Some people make way too big of a deal out of competitive gaming and it can result with people overreacting and getting way too emotional about it.
Also busting a nut works
You should tweet it at ninja.
Absolutely, anyone in sport will tell you that if you lose, do it with dignity and make sure you learn from it. A true loss is one where you look like a twat and don’t learn from what happened
Jim has a style of shitposting that I similtaneously never want to experience ever again in my life every time I see it, and must keep watching because it's so morbidly fascinating what he's gonna do next.
he is literally a magician
Yyou described what I’m experiencing so perfectly as I was experiencing it.
I never really notice Ninja in my daily internet consumption, truly a master of his art.
Sun Tzu: It is the unemotional, reserved, calm, detached warrior who wins, not the hothead seeking vengeance and not the ambitious seeker of fortune.
Ninja: raaaawr!
Isn't the first step to learn from your mistakes is to rationally analyze the actions you took, and not get angry.
True for common man, to #1 in the world talents, no rules apply.
@@Cypeq If he were #1 in every aspect, maybe. But there's likely many players who are better at one given aspect of the game than he is.
"Y'know, everyone's best at something..."
"But no one's best at everything."
You see that? All he had to do was quote a squirrel and a sponge from near 20 year ago.
That was nearly 20 years ago??
fuck
Am I to understand that's A spongebob quote?
Everyone is best at something until you meet someone better than you at that thing.
MY POPCORN!
@av rmx which results to the mass bullying in the kid audience he has.
Take note people still make fun of those who don't buy virtual costumes in a video game.
This kind of mind still create toxic a child's mind. Especially if said mindset comes from a guy who is marketed TO KIDS.
I'm more upset that Jim has obviously been living in the States so long he's become fine calling football "soccer" than anything Ninja might have said.
The English invented the term 'soccer'.
Michael Burgess They invented it for the Americans because they realized America would never call a sport that involves a kicking a ball with your foot “football” so they invented the word for them to keep them happy :)
@@TheGreenGobshite No. "The word "soccer" was in fact the most common way of referring to Association football in the UK until around the 1970s, when it began to be perceived incorrectly as an Americanism" its an official uk footbal term. Nowt to do with the yanks.
Michael Burgess They invented the game, too.
@@kudosbudo I'm absolutely not saying you're wrong - it's just too late where I am to do the research - but, assuming that's the case, why do you reckon so many ancient clubs have, "Football," in their full name but none, to the best of my knowledge, have, "Soccer?" I guess the formal term might always have been, "football," with the predominant colloquial term being, "soccer," but it still seems a little odd.
EDIT: I just realised I'm replying to a two year old comment. I can almost certainly do the research long before you see this.
People mention the professional athlete argument of “getting angry as a means of ensuring you improve”, but a critical component of, say, team sports is, yes, constantly trying to achieve self improvement. But an equally essential part of that mantra is accepting when you, or a teammate, makes a mistake, and moving on in the moment, lest your anger impact your performance in the short AND long term.
I don't personally disagree with your point but I can certainly see the validity of both sides of this argument. To the 99% of players who aren't in competition to be the very best like noone ever was (sorry), it is and always will be just a game. But on the other hand there is validity in getting angry over a loss as a professional player. As a League of Legends player this conversation plays out a lot (especially on the North American server) when pro players are losing to ; Bad matchmaking, client issues, stream ghosting, wintrading etc. Now I can't say for certain but I imagine a lot of professional players are contractually obligated to maintain a certain rank lest they be seen to be plateauing or even getting worse, and when the barrier before you is not your own skill but the game itself, or other players abusing mechanics like wintrading in order to gain ranks, it is perfectly reasonable to feel frustrated or even angry. I'm not a Fortnite player and I couldn't give less of a fuck about Ninja if you paid me but I can at least see where he might be coming from. Froggen (a Danish League of Legends player) had a discussion with his chat on stream last year about this exact issue, and I have echoed his sentiment here, when the game is your livelihood, when the game is your job, it's not just a game anymore, it's your livelihood, it's your job.
On the other hand if he was really just bitching at his chat for telling him it's just a game and to calm down then I guess I was wrong, I could give less of a fuck about him and shall do so.
@@tomcrook5269 good points, I hadn't thought about it that way (and I also commented here before I read your comment) It IS his living, so therefore does become more than just a game to him. I sure hope he has other plans for the future though as Fortnite isn't gonna last forever. Gamers soon move on from these type of games (Overwatch for example, once THE game) and so will his audience.
Not to hate on professional gamers, but you can't really compare them to athletes.
Preforming a physical activity takes alot of mental stress away, were as screaming at games only amplifies it.
So this analogy doesn't really work.
@@r.p.4756 Well said. There's no comparison to working out religiously, strict diets etc and sitting on your arse playing the same game over and over.
He's a professional giving children a valid reason to scream obscenities over the internet, throw controllers through windows, and break keyboards in half.
Not a very valuable lesson, chief.
Man Vash the Stampede I haven't seen you this angry since Knives made your arm destroy that town
"He's a professional child--"
There, fixed it for you.
@av rmx But he's the one giving advice to the world, get on his case for trying to be a role model when he shouldn't be
Bruh, kids were doing that WAAAAAAAY before Ninja came along.
TH-cam videos of gamers losing their shit and breaking their hardware in rage have been around for the past decade. Videos that gained MILLIONS of views.
Summit punching his monitor after losing PUBG comes to mind.
@av rmx He literally wrote a book giving advice though.
There's a difference between determination and anger. Characteristics like determination, persistence, patience all contribute far more to winning than anger does. And while it's okay to be frustrated, that's just a human emotion that we all feel, anger can easily turn destructive. Channelling frustration into a productive cause can work.
And yes, it is just a game. Just like a job is just a job. Because _there is more to life than just that_ .
Exactly. in my experience, I have never seen someone say 'it's just a game' to someone having a reasonable reaction to losing - or winning for that matter. it generally seems to happen when someone flies off the handle and throws a tantrum like a toddler having their toy taken away. no-one's expecting people - particularly those who have their livelihoods tied to being good at a game - to react with no emotion to losing, but anger tends to make you look childish, unprofessional and unsportsmanlike.
I see anger as the response to not liking how things are because you want them to change. Rage is a bit different though.
and being upset, doesn't mean your angry either.
You see ninja is a child raised by the internet he doesn't have a mature enough mindset maybe his parents should've raised him better
Anger is a strong feeling of displeasure. I would agree that upset run a larger range anger is a more precise word.
Every time I hear Our Lord & Savior rant against the "git guds" it greatly upsets me that it needs to be said by anyone in the first place.
My niece is an avid gamer; her little brother has balance & coordination issues that make simple tasks challenging. It disrupts his school life and his social life, and playing video games is where he gets to lose himself in fun & fantastic worlds *thanks to the existence of an easy mode.*
The notion that there's *anyone* out there who would see video game fun & accessibility robbed in favor of petulantly - arbitrarily - proving themselves "better" than other players... my god they've missed the point.
Agreed.
Agreed. Furthermore, if you need to have accessibility to others removed in order to prove something, you probably know damned well you aren't that gud in the first place >_>
@@kojikakoifish2862 eh, this one I disagree with.
Mostly because I'm one of those people that wasn't in favor of a Dark Soul's easy mode. Eh I don't care about souls games in general or anything, Sekiro, go for it. Bloodborne, cool. But Dark Souls was a sticking point because of the way that multiplayer is handled in that game. The PvP is about Invasions and when that's a thing, balance becomes really important between players. So, if you have an easy mode, how exactly do you implement it? Do enemies just have less health? Do you not get certain types of enemies? Do you get more resources? All of those would affect PvP, be it by what sort of gear a player has access to, or what types of items, etc.
The quick and easy way to balance it, is don't. Make easy mode its own thing with its own servers, but then that too has the consequence of splitting the player base and in a game that was already pretty niche, I think that's asking a bit much of what was already a relatively small audience to begin with. Sure it *could* grow the audience, but could isn't would. For me the question was always that it seems really complex with how things are handled in DS. In less multiplayer focused games cool, but Souls was definitely based around the multiplayer aspect, be it messages and co-op, or invasions and pacts.
Ninja was talking about PvP games where you are part of a team. A very specific game type. Nice way of sidestepping everything said and going in for the touching story.
Some games are made for competition, others aren't. I don't have any issues with easy or even very easy modes. Heck, play in god mode for all I care, in a single player game. But if you are playing as a part of a team, you have a simple minimum obligation out of common courtesy. And I have seen one handed men do above average in FPS. How? Practice. Lots and lots of practice.
So, nice strawman but you're in the wrong here. We're not talking about Dark Souls in this one. Thank god.
@@LupineShadowOmega The easiest thing would be no multiplayer in easy. Or maybe, white/gold player phantoms only. I'm trying to think of how you could balance PvP against an easy mode and I'm drawing a blank except for splitting the modes like you said. That would suck but OTOH, an easy mode might bring in more players and if there were cross-platform multiplayer, I bet you wouldn't have any trouble finding a co-op or pvp partner
"Cucumber Succulence" is the greatest online alias I've ever heard and I'm shamed I never thought of it.
Sounds like the alter ego of ReviewTechUSA
@@ricojes Or someone he'd sponser
"As near as I can tell, American football is a game in which people stand around waiting for their turn to fall over."
As someone who has watched plenty of American football, that's fairly accurate.
Oh? I must have it wrong then. I thought it was a game where a bunch of guys with lumpy clothes and tight pants fight over a stupid little ball that isn't even round.
@@randomstuff-qu7sh and what football that you hold by hand?those are rugby
If one of my football mates had a fit and behaved like Ninja have due to a loss, then they would be off the team immediately. I don't mind people playing with a winners mentality or getting a bit frustrated but toxicity is a cancer which need to be ruthlessly removed so it doesn't spread to the rest of the team.
Yeah I always hated having to play sports with those guys who take the whole winning thing far too seriously. It always felt like they were trying to compensate for something.
"Fellow streamer Ohmwrecker"
Shows a picture of NL
LOL
Jebaited by google images.
I was looking for this comment.
13:58 for those who want
The egg is all and all is the egg, as it was written in the slab that shall not be returned "it all begins and ends in the shine of thy scalp"
@@nutriacubica Amen brother
If you're a ninja and find yourself on Google images, I believe that makes you a very bad ninja.
So statistically, all ninjas have become better ninjas without doing anything within the last two years.
🤣
Or really good, like the picture of Putin behind a US President during the cold war.
Uh the Edgy Pre-Teens who watch ninja do not need that kinda mentality.
I don't think anybody needs Ninja as an influence in their life whatsoever.
Rosenkreuz Here here.
To quote a game:
"Anger gives motivation without purpose"
To quote another game.
"Losing is Fun!"
"Strike the Earth!"
"The spinning Lion Corpse struck the Elephant in the Right Upper Leg, bruising the Fat!"
Thats a dumb phrase though because the anger is the purpose.... many vengeance based stories are based solely on that. It may not be a good purpose but it is A purpose..
@@nolives the purpose is what you're mad at
I prefer this quote:
Press "F" to pay respect.
@@nolives anger isn't the purpose, it's the catalyst and fuel used to achieve a purpose. As proven by all revange driven tales, if it's the only thing you have, it is poison and will get you nowhere.
"Time comes for us all children!" -Cucumber Succulence. Thank you for making me laugh really hard. You are funny. Thanks for that :).
_Tempus Edax Rerum_ ...
'Y'see kids, back in ancient Rome, there used to be this chap named Ovid....'
I get the impression Jim really wasn't all that invested in this week's subject and decided to fill the time with as much piss-taking as he could get away with.
I approve.
varmintx0 Well if he were to get as invested as he sometimes does then he'd be flying off the handle at the subject of why people should just chill out about videogames.
Ninja: "Getting angry after losing makes you better."
Shroud: "Lol, okay dude."
shroud is almost clinically incapable of getting mad and he's one of the most amazing FPS players to ever rise out of the muck of the internet
IDK a thing about Fortnite but to use an example from Smite, Incon is probably the best player I've seen and he's totally in control of his emotions. Never seen that guy get upset, and it's his combination of incredible gameplay and genuine, pleasant, never BM nature that makes him so fun to watch.
If anything, I'd say that never getting mad actively makes you a better player. Every time my team starts tilting when a match starts going poorly and I manage to keep us level-headed and thinking positive again, we turn it around. I've never seen Incon get mad - at a loss, at lag, at some wild glitch or inconsistency, at getting absolutely denied - and yet he still uses every opportunity possible to improve because ultimately the goal is to win. But however it turns out, he's still having fun doing it.
I think that's a much stronger lesson than "get mad or else you lose twice". Frankly I don't want to play with anyone who takes that advice seriously. Those people ruin any competitive game they touch.
Yeah even if you're in to "honing a craft" that's not an argument in favor of any particular emotional response. "Rage out and REEE" is not actually a step in the scientific method.
Faker's the G.O.A.T of LoL, and yet he's chill as fuck. At the same time, Dopa/Apdo is almost as good but gets angry all the time.
It's why DarkSydePhil is famed as one the best gamers on the planet
When I read that tweet, I thought:
Young man, nobody decides how I should think or feel. There are a lot of games I don't care about, and anyone can be so involved they get frustrated over them.
Don't tell me my mindset is wrong, when it seems to me you bet your life on your victory all the time.
There is an interest in losing: you learn a lot. Nobody made World Champion without a loss, and learning from it.
git gud scrub
@@mustapleko damn casuls
When I read that tweet, I thought:
Young man, there's no need to feel down
I said, young man, pick yourself off the ground
I said--
@@nekkowe thank you!
Meanwhile, the Magic the Gathering streamer Day[9] lost nearly all of the games on his last stream, but only got slightly angry when he lost because he misread a card.
for many, competition is an incentive. For others, it's a distraction but bad sportmanship always leads to toxicity. It may be more than a game but no one is entitled to have no consequences for their actions
The competitive gaming scene is the worst thing to happen to video games.
He's a brand. It's all fabricated popularity like another Beiber. That rapper Drake and those involved were all "compensated" by game companies like Epic and Amazon to help create the Ninja brand and skyrocket his popularity (because he fit the look they wanted to sell crap to kids) - not his "competitive mindset" or talent. Ninja is a publisher paid game demonstrator who exists because companies want a streamer to advertise. A brand and everything hes saying is selling.
"it's just a game" is normally a response to toxicity, so if he or anybody else gets that comment alot, then maybe they're just very toxic.
Thats a fair comment
It's what you tell people who take video games far too seriously. It's supposed to just be some entertainment.
John Klise Here here.
It's also a pointlessly hollow, smug, statement that is just said to get a rise out of people.
@@MezMez It only gets a rise out of people that are toxic, aggressive gamers that don't understand "it's just a game".
He has to act like there’s self-betterment or something sort of rationality behind the anger or else he’ll just come off like a rich child screaming at video games for money.
Which would be...I mean that’d just be terrible....for people to think that...
"Good! Use your aggressive feelings, boy. Let the hate flow through you."
-Ninja
It worked for Goku.
Ninja is a Sith, confirmed.
@@harunsuaidi7349 I would have disputed your claim until I saw Kylo Ren throwing a bitch fit on screen like a 5 year old having his gameboy taken away... *sigh* confirmed Ninja is a Disney Sith.
Ninja's tweet isn't a healthy mindset. I've never once thought "Oh, can't wait to play a game and get pissed off".
or win and piss everyone off who isnt me
Clearly you dont play overwatch then.
@@16xthedetail76 lmao accurate as fuck
@________ Yeah but with those games, it's the hope of "everything just working out" that keeps them going! 😂
Honestly Ninja’s whole rebuttal against the “it’s just a game” comment just annoys the heck out of me given how he goes thinking he knows how people should freaking act when it goes to video games. The clip that shows him talking about it feels more egregious in my opinion.
I've never seen a man more butt devastated than Ninja when he is "stream sniped" by an 8 year old fan who just got home from school.
What's really more ridiculous than anything he said is people who will tell you "It's just a game." in one breath and then tell you in the next that they're the "True fan." **coughPokémoncough**
When you say that you are eschewing any right to complain compared to those who do not. All opinions from people saying that should, if not be immediately ignored, be placed at the bottom of the barrel in taking into account changes to the thing being criticized.
If you don't really care then act like it and stop being an asshat trying to screw it up for those who do. Your apathy shouldn't be the standard by which decisions are made. End of discussion.
Local Blue haired man gets angry at people for downplaying his career of beating pre-teens at a money pit of a game.
I'm just impressed by the unironic use of the phrase "refinement of a craft" referring to playing video games.
The way I understood it was he was applying that kind of thinking to life, those who don’t take things seriously or have an apathetic view tend to not be successful in life because they don’t have drive. It’s not about video games it’s about life and applies everywhere , what will you do when faced with hardships.
The Virgin Shrugging Off Defeat vs The Chad Smashing Your Keyboard Through Your Monitor
So Neuro vs Avilo
Don't you have homework to do?
Jim, I loved that you dropped "This Is Hardcore" by Pulp in the background of this video, I love it!
Why do we say GG at the end of games?
I enjoy playing competitive multiplayer games, namely League of Legends (I'm no good but I enjoy it nonetheless). Sometimes I will dominate a game and carry my team to victory. Other times, I will be the one who GETS dominated and throws the game for my team. I enjoy the occasional shit talking and feel like I can take it pretty well too. No matter what, I will always type GGWP at the end of a game.
Why do we say GG at the end of a game? To let others in the game know that, no matter how heated or intense it got, no matter what was said or done, that there are no hard or personal feelings about it now that the game is over. That all players, win or lose, can walk away from the game with dignity and self respect. That IT IS JUST A GAME.
No matter what game it is, good sportsmanship is always appreciated in my book.
Gee Gee
GLHFDDDSGG
I say this every game
Good luck, have fun, don't die, don't suck and good game
Most of the time it's a taunt, particularly if the winning person or team is the first to type it. Not very sportsman-like.
@@XenoSpyro I'm a 30 year old gamer who might be a bit naive and out of touch. I wouldn't be surprised that GG now means Git Gud instead of Good Game ha.
Meh im not gonna be a dick but im also not going to say gg when someone plays like a nonce.
Jim: "...be it *soccer* or..."
All of England, the UK and Europe: "Traitor!!!!"
Until he bought it back by being the only TH-camr to make use of the theme song to Big Break lol
For gods sake just call it European football everyone is happy and no one should be confused. Always thought Jim is a UK chap because of his kind of humour.
_Soccer_ was originally British slang, and it is still called that in Ireland, because 'football' refers to Gaelic football by default. Everyone should just call it soccer because that would be very convenient for me.
pretty sure in latinoamerica we also call it football (futbol)
@@Gaff. Well I am German and by German efficiency it id called Fußball because it is a ballgame that is played with at least one foot ( foot ball) instead of American handegg. ( There is also a sort of Australian Handegg) btw I love fantasy football games like bloodbowl. By the way is that a Welsh name or just gibberish?
Just sounds like Jock talk to me. You know when you look something up on google and one of the results is a forum for a health and fitness blog and almost everyone has a little quote under their profile saying something like “losing is for losers, I’m a winner because I don’t lose and I don’t lose because I train until my eyes bleed and after that I train some more because I’m so so so afraid of losing and appearing like I’m inferior to these other guys who train like hell because they’re also afraid of looking even slightly inept.”
It sounds a lot like that. I also like how the advice in Ninja’s book is “you either got it or you don’t.” Cool. That book costs $20, btw.
Ninja has a big boosted ego, but he doesn't know he's so popular because he's marketable for having no real noticeable character traits, but is visually marketable. He's like a plank of wood that looks pretty, that's him. No one gives a shit about what he says, he might as well be a cardboard cut out cause that's how he's used.
Friendly reminder: Fortnite is a game where the likeliness of winning/losing is largely RNG dependent. Your odds of winning a match of that are more dependent on luck than skill.
@Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Honestly if you die to a sniper after he's tried sniping multiple times, that kind of your fault. But if you get sniped randomly first try, then that is very unlucky
As a "pro" of an even heavier RNG game, this is only very partially true.
The key is consistency. A bad player might win sometimes, and you have to accept that. But a good player will still win more often over the course of a large number of matches.
Best players will still top leaderboards, and hopefully be able to enter tournaments, depending on how esports for their game is set up.
In the game I play, it features 8 players in free for all. I can play 6 ranked matches on a new account, and be placed in a lobby with players that have played 400-600+ matches that season. Within those 6 matches, I may have even finish the match sometimes lower than a player that has played hundreds of games, and is still ranked very low. If you place in the bottom 4 you lose points, and top 4, you gain points. Maybe Fortnite doesn't have something like this? But I'd be astounded to find that it doesn't. How do players get into tournaments? Tryouts? Is there a requirement? Surely there's some sort of leaderboard that ensures that top players participate.
During tournaments in RNG heavy games it's going to typically be multiple matches, at least 5. Points are tallied. Maybe you have a bad match, but everyone's going to get unique RNG, so largely the better players will still win or place highly. Of course that doesn't mean that you could have a very bad run, but the odds aren't high of having awful RNG every single game for 5+ matches.
If you're in a lobby with lower elo players a better player will likely still dominate most games or be able to place highly despite the rng.
Once you reach the highest levels it becomes more rng, but the better players, maybe only better by a few percentage points, will still win more games, if again, only by a few percentage points.
"Billy Mitchell was so desperate to be the best, he wound up cheating in the end."
In the end? Billy basically started his whole career cheating. In basically every game he set 'records' for. And he got away with it because of the former owner of Twin Galaxies was his co-conspirator. That's the reason why all of Billy's "records" were scrubbed everywhere, not just because of something like a "tough esports moment".
I think you have him mixed up with his main man Todd Rogers. Billy was at least good enough to get to the top even if he couldn't hope to STAY there, while Todd lied and cheated at everything he ever touched and relied on everyone else being too stupid to notice
I thought at least his Pac-Man records were legit.
@@GELTONZ they were to a point but he wasn't the first to get the perfect score. He was the 6th and even that is disputed because he had to take a restroom break
@@GELTONZ Walter (former Twin Galaxies owner) and Billy deliberately downplayed/hid the fact that Bill Bastable got the first "perfect" Pacman score in '88, years before Billy did. There were also conflicting reports about how long it took to get the score, with the reveal that Billy took an illegal break during the "approx. 6 hours".
@@TARINunit9 Billy might have had some talent, but he was a complete fraudster, claiming he was the first perfect Pacman score (he wasn't), and that he had tapes that proved he played Donkey Kong on original hardware (his tapes showed MAME, or were "lost"). So much evidence has come out that Mitchell cheated so much, or couldn't back up his claims, both Twin Galaxies and Guinness removed all his scores.
Personally, I feel, that it is “just a game”... Ninja’s conundrum is that’s he’s “working” in space where many come to play.
So his inability to recognize this disparage between what he plays for and what most of the rest of the world plays for is an adequate display of how disconnected he is from the mindset of 99% of the community.
Ninja is basically saying “don’t be okay with a loss” and that’s just not a healthy way to approach anything.
You have to be okay with, be able to shrug off, and find enjoyment in times of defeat... otherwise the only time you’re having fun is when you win... and in a damn BATTLE ROYALE game?! That means you’re rarely having fun, because no matter how good you are, you’re going to lose more than/as much as (at best) you win in games like that.
The funny thing is, if he made loosing fun then he would probably make MORE money and be even more personable. The "Always win win win NEVER LOSE" just makes you into a shallow elitist, loosing your 'normal'/average audience.
@@gaychampagnesocialist7213 Joke's on you, though. ICYMI Ninja was literally THE single biggest streamer on twitch at the time of switching to Mixer.
Yeah, except, that excerpt from his book makes it obvious that he's always been like that when doing anything competitive ever. He always gets mad when he loses anything. I've known people like that, they're completely mentally fucked.
I grew up with "Failure is the key to success, each mistake teaches us something"
Honestly, getting mad for a loss doesn't really teach you anything. Generally I get mad when I feel I am doing everything right and everyone else is not. This makes me ignore the things I was doing that also led to the defeat.
I've seen contest shows (even ones with monetary prizes) where not only do the eliminated contestants take their losses in stride, but you sometimes even see contestants helping each other out at times (even if its just encouragement).
So he's going way beyond the disparity between gaming as a job and gaming as a hobby.
"When you stop getting angry, you've lost twice."
That makes absolutely no sense to me. How do you lose twice when you stop getting mad over a game? If anything the madder you get at a game the less you perform at it because you're not thinking properly, you make more mistakes and so you keep losing. If you keep your cool and play the game to the best of your abilities, then you have more fun, right? Sure you might get mad now and then but you can just take a break and come back in a better frame of mind. Oh wait, Ninja is a really popular streamer who plays Fortnite and apparently that makes him infallible or something. Oh silly me. I'm so silly. I forgot games meant you couldn't be human and have flaws.
Checks out.
You can't play Dwarf Fortress while angry, and in Dwarf Fortress, Losing is Fun.
That depends on what kind of and what level of anger you’re experiencing. A little bit of anger makes you more invested in the game and might lead you to put in extra effort and gain an edge over your opponents. And then, if you win, you’ll feel better about yourself than if you didn’t care as much, because it’s an emotional payoff.
I think Ninja's articulation of it is pretty poor. What he actually means to say is it's a competitive mindset. This isn't just about games, it's about determination. What he calls anger is what he refers to as caring enough to maintain the drive and will to improve, and any reluctance on that is going against that meaning you've given up; you no longer care so you've lost the game the first time, and you lost it a second time by not caring enough to be "angry."
In reality, I don't believe he really means angry. I think he means caring enough to have a reaction to maintain a competitive drive. Personally, you don't need to be "angry" to demonstrate you have a drive or a will. You can have a reaction without that, which shows his narrow view on what it takes to be competitive. I think he's only speaking for himself but projecting onto others the requirements to be the best.
Keyfur It just him trying to sound deep. The stuff that can make me angry is when you have people who just completely throw in your game or troll so you lose when in a competition. Even then I won’t be mad about it in a couple hours - the issue is these new games are trying to fuse competitive/esports (to have a cash cow ) and casual/what get called ‘normies’ . But those two types of gamers are totally different
@@Amagys - But if that was what he meant, why would he not say it like that? Especially when he worded it better in his book?
I still can't believe he has a bloody book...
Yes, failure most of all.
The greatest teacher, failure is.
Yoda dropping facts,
"More like a nonja. Terrible what passes for a ninja these days."
Now that’s a reference I haven’t heard in a very long time...
God that movie is overly hated.
Best reference of all time. Needs 10k likes.
Yea he isn't even a nanija. :P
A memory that'll never leave me is my first week at college, when we all installed UT'99 and played a couple of friendly games together. Most of us had never played before and were laughing as we figured stuff out and died in spectacular ways, but there was this one guy, a self-proclaimed Counter-Strike "pro", who was literally bashing his mouse in rage when he died. To this day, I still find that kind of sad. Games are supposed to be fun.
@@kaizokujimbei143 I would like to believe that World First WoW guilds from back in the day were inducted into some sort of planet saving realm ala Last Starfighter.
@@kaizokujimbei143 As someone who both gets really angry at games, and also kinda hates himself for it, I can tell you there's not always that much logic behind it. I just happen to have an obsessive brain. I got issues. And so, when it comes to me failing to do something I KNOW I can do, my brain just kinda explodes and it takes a ton of effort to stay calm. You can't control your immediate emotional reaction, you can just practice calming yourself down afterwards.
Wveth, I agree and can relate. In my early to mid 20s i definitely got very heated over very little. Thinking about it is quite embarrassing. But i avoid online games now because of this and i also don't get any real enjoyment anymore out of them. I'm 31 now and mostly play offline games with Monster Hunter World being the exceptional online game.
If we feel annoyed, reflect back at what happened and try and learn from it instead of letting our emotions take over.
“They were making movies back then and they didn’t even have Netflix”
Best line imo
MILLENIALS DONT KNOW MOVIES LMAOOO HAHAHAHA
YOUNG PEOPLE BAD111!!!
Playing Doom:
Gitgudder: UV, pistol start, no mouselook
Me: idd1d, sv_infiniteammo 1, sv_fastweapons 2
As an interesting aside, many sports figures, when they've aged out of the sport, most of them don't go on to excel at something else. This whole "drive to improve" seems to end about the same time as their professional careers. I don't begrudge them this - competitive sports are goddamn hard - but whenever one of them says something about how they couldn't imagine what it's like not to have this "drive to be the best," my retort is, "Wait a few years."
Exactly. I think The Rock has (more or less) made a real transition. Jordan has his sneakers, but we all know he's a basketballer. But I've spoken to folks who had no clue The Rock is a famous wrestler, just an actor. XD
Very interesting point.
@@murfeel1173 One of the teens in the FBE's react series didn't know Arnold was an actor, so that's really nothing. She literally didn't know Terminator was a thing.
@@NateLeonhart Imagine how blown her mind will be when you tell her he's a famous bodybuilder too.
Are you sure ninja isn't a ninja ?
I mean he managed to dodge a sense of humor with his lames ligma jokes
these are the real questions
Professor Linhardt join discord.gg/tXdtQu
I like your name and profile pic :D
That Down the Rabbit Hole music really threw me off at the beginning
when I heard it I came straight to the comment section to make sure I was not imagining things
Sammmmmme
Yeah, me too. It's an Incompetech track, isn't it?
That's actually stock music.
It's like when i hear the Level-1 Techs music deployed randomly on other youtube channels
4:33 "Hey, little pickles! It's me, popular Twitch streamer influencer, Cucumber Succulence!"
Probably my favourite creation of yours!
I got serious Kideo vibes off that guy...
(Succulence appears to explain who Kideo were...)
Damn, Jim got Cuccumber Succulence on the show?
Respect.
I hope to see more of him, I learnt so much ! 😂
😆
I need CuccSucc to be a regular on the show. ^0^
They might be related, they look pretty similar.
Me: What was the role of ninjas in feudal Japan?
Google: These aren't the Ninja you're looking for.
As funny as this video was, I was also kind of hoping that you'd touch on his angry outbursts, his racist outbursts involving the hard n slur, his outbursts at his teammates, and how this dangerous statement encouraging that as not only ok but a good thing is just him trying to justify all of That.
100%
Fuck his kind, they are all toxic self important trash heaps lmao
The video response to the tweet has him mentally falling apart. The guy has succumb to the pressure of keeping viewers.
Maybe it's time Blevins got a real job... 🙄
@@_PatrickO Sounds like he's coming unhinged. Being an overnight celebrity is dangerous work.
@@pglagowski That's a good response. Unfortunately I feel like it's a complicated issue, as a lot of these extremely big influencers appeal to children, so it does them benefit to behave in kind. Preferably they would grow and be a positive influence on their audience in turn but that's hard work. Could probably write an essay on it if you were inclined. :')
I demand more Cucumber Succulence! XD
He made this episode a hit!
"If you don't get angry when losing, you lost twice"?
No. It means you are not a manchild. I wonder what will happen when Ninja has a significant real life loss; his mind will break.
Unless this is a galaxy brain maneuver to get more of the playerbase to tilt off the face of the earth, thus increasing his chances of winning.
@FaceMace 87 man the youtubers I watch 10yrs+ I no longer follow or watch cause their humor and actions are that of a manchild. Appealing to children and tweens.
"One day you'll be in your 30s, wondering what the hell is going on in the world."
If I die before I'm 40, just put this on my grave stone.
It's ironic that he's called "Ninja" when he's the *EXACT REVERSE OPPOSITE* of a ninja. He's super loud, extremely colorful (just look at that hair) and he has the attention of millions of kids around the world.
If you've ever seen a Godfrey Ho ninja movie, you'll understand just how well that parallels with Ninja.
Sander Cohen so... Naruto then?
Yes, but also by winning ,
Sneak -100
I mean, so are the turtles so...
the "git gud" outcriers love to unsubtly show that they point blank do not want disabled individuals in their communities. I have a hand tremor, aiming is incredibly difficult in games because of this.
Yeah, it's honestly kind of tiresome how up their own asses about games being challenging the git gud crowd is. Like, I'm just not good at games in general, I struggle my way through games that other people think are super easy and fun, and for some reason, no amount of trying to improve myself seems to produce any results other than continuous failure. So I choose to go easy mode when I can because it takes some of the weight off my shoulders and allows me to relax and, you know, actually enjoy myself.
You'd think I just told people that I steal Christmas presents from children, the way some of them respond.
There are plenty of games where disabilities don't massively hinder gameplay. I always considered "git gud" about passing mental blocks. There's a pro League of Legends player with one hand, he's not the very best, and it clearly is a problem, but he's overcome it massively. If you're talking about people talking down to you over bad aim, it wouldn't be about them not wanting disabled people, but just them not knowing the person is disabled.
I'm not sure they care whether disabled individuals are part of their community or not.
Someone with a hand tremor wouldn't struggle any more in the game I play, than someone that doesn't. But in a TPS/FPS of course the disabled individual could have problems with precision aiming. If you have fun in those games, despite a disability hindering your mechanical skill I don't see the problem. There are games that I enjoy more, but I'm not the best in the world at.
@@scotty7850 Stuff like that is great. I've seen someone play a game with their mouth before. They were using unique setups.
But I just looked up Street Fighter. If you mean "BrolyLegs" he plays with his mouth on a regular Xbox360 controller? That's amazing.
No. That's not the issue. The issue is that From Software games are meant to be played in a specific way. The games are only impossible if you don't understand how to play them. If you charge in guns blazing, with no regard for strategy or skill then you're going to lose. There are challenges that are meant to be overcome, and if you can't that's your own fault. There's nothing an "easy mode" could do for you in one of those games, aside from just make the NPCs sit there and let you hit them.
It's akin to getting upset that you can't beat a grand master of chess just because you want to. If you want to beat a Souls game, then practice.
Also, granted, these are still just games. If you don't want to play them then don't. The whining that something's too hard is just as pathetic as what Ninja said in my opinion. Things are what they are, not everything has to cater to you personally.
And, I'm sorry you're disabled, but that's just something about your life that makes certain things inaccessible. Get over it. And I've seen plenty of "Get Motivated" material where disabled people overcome obstacles and find new ways of doing things instead of bitching and moaning that it wasn't tailored specifically to them.
@@patrickmaley7325 I have to agree with this. The games definitely aren't that hard. But they are designed around the mentality of improvement. Once you know what to do, they're very simple. Making them "easier" would defeat the entire point of the game. Without the core philosophy the games would be so much closer to average than good.
Even a player who doesn't know how to should come to the realisation of how to play the game if they choose to.
I disagree about the catering thing though, in the video a mod is referenced. Here, the catering doesn't detract from the experience other people enjoy. Game developers could even add it themselves. However, in a lot of cases this would likely cause the core experience to suffer and be a massive negative in most cases. As the difficulty selection could be used to cover up for poor design. One difficulty tends to make sure that design is efficient and balanced. The harder that difficulty, the better, because the developers are then required to design tools for you to overcome it.
As a wise woman once said:
"NO CAPES!"
A wise woman voiced by a man in a great movie.
Lamillion would disagree
@@Haldrie Of course a bird would disagree with capes!!
Have it held on with Velcro so it won't kill you if it gets caught on something and no problem.
You mean a CGI puppet of the #EvilestCorporationOnEarth.
Can we just flash forward a few years to the gratifying "Where are they now?" piece on this guy that talks about how he squandered his Twitch fortune and is living out of a van?
He blew it all on hair dye - get it? :D
Schadenfreude.
Not just any van. A van down by the river.
@@noctair8147 I'm not even sure this guy has the makings of a Matt Foley caliber lovable loser. ;)
I thought I was watching a "Down the rabbit hole" episode there for a minute.
EDIT* 69 likes.... Nice
Same here, mate.
Well, even some professional athletes thinks "it's just a game". Que Ilya Bryzagalovs famous quote: th-cam.com/video/-Ns14hRqwY8/w-d-xo.html