"You are not the dumbest person in the world, but you are also probably not the smartest person in the world either" This is such a powerful statement that only a complete idiot would take as an insult. This video is golden bro.

I remember a fiend who is a very dedicated online player telling me that he never hires people for his business if he finds out they are the type fo ragequit at video games of any kind. People like to prerent that being sleasy in fighting games is just something for fun, but it does show their true colors.

League of Legends is another video game that will test your emotional state beyond fighting games. In fighting games it's just you and your opponent. In League it's you, your 4 teammates, and 5 opponents and you have to deal with 9 other personalities and their fragility.

I’m a scout leader, I’ve told parents with kids who have short fuses to play fighters. Because you can get the heated quickly and then you can make them calm themselves down. As we know the more you work to keep yourself calm the harder it is to get heated or you can bring yourself back into check

fighting games can be emotionally and mentally draining because you can imagine the best line and do the wrong thing, the frustration of putting yourself into something and come up short and having to admit "They were better than me." and looking at what is wrong with what you're doing. Sometimes you got to have fun blocking, have fun getting knocked down and guessing, have fun getting rushed down, tick thrown, losing because if you keep getting better the number of people that will free you up will decrease and getting better and doing sicker and sicker shit is really really fun.

I couldn't agree more.

Just happened to run across this video randomly, man this was good. Definitely had to subscribe.

My experience with fighting games back in the late 90s and early 2000s was primarily with my close friends from high school. They all had noticably different styles in terms of how they approached fighting games, including my own which was distinct and unique from theirs. My cousin played horribly and usually just shrugged off his losses. He was the youngest in our group and took the losses as if he expected them. My friend Chris tried a little harder than my cousin, but typically lost to the rest of us and treated the fights in a joking manner, expecting he was going to lose against us. My friend Sahil was a one and done kind of guy and prefered to spectate instead of compete. My friend Alex I had the most fun competing with, because he would laugh jovially after every loss, but occasionally would beat me too and we both would laugh it off and generally just have a good time with the games. My friend Derek took every game VERY seriously and would pop off into a fit of rage every time he lost and did anything he could to win against me, even if it meant using cheap tactics. As for myself, I just adapted to my friends' play styles. Would go easy on my cousin and Chris, played at my best with my friend Alex and had fun with it, and took the fights equally serious when fighting against my friend Derek. Later, when online fighting became a thing, I began to realize how much more skilled people are out there in the world, it frustrated me at first, but then I started putting in the effort to learn new tactics and get better. Playing online over the years humbled me and made me realize I'm not the greatest at fighting games, but can still put up a decent fight. Now, I mostly play offline against the CPU at a medium difficulty. I've accepted that I can no longer measure up to most players online, especially now being 37 years old and having a full time job and having to provide for my wife and daughter. I can't put in the same amount of effort and time I used to put into these games as I used to, so I've hung my hat on playing competitively completely. I just play these games for nostalgia sake and just for fun nowadays against normal difficulty CPUs, at my own pace. What does that say about my emotional intelligence/maturity? I'm not sure, but that's my own personal story and experience with these games.

i remember this guy on fightcade flaming me midmatch cuz he was beating me so bad and then i finally got a win and he changed characters to his main and railed me once again. after he was done he quit and later on i noticed him praising me for not engaging in a fight with him even tho he was insulting me n shit. I remember that with joy now i hope hes doing great, that test of character was very important to me. props to you if youre reading this and also your akuma is nasty dawg 20+ years playing 3rd strike they show, keep it up.

This is just true, Play/Game Therapy is very accurate in discerning a person's character....

I mean I feel like persistence and dedication isn't an exact analogue for emotional intelligence; but I agree that being especially dedicated to something that's complex and difficult displays good qualities that probably translate roughly into other areas of life.

Killer video dude and the footage of your Boxer is always a treat to watch! I do feel that the way people act in games pretty much mirrors their real life behavior.

I saw this concept first in animes and later in martial arts, once you fight with someone you are able to talk to that person's heart the way a person fights you says a lot of how a person really is. And I've found that those who complain and make excuses are precisely the ones that never improve even in life

Este es una de las reflexiones más hermosas que he visto con respecto al mundo de la competitividad en los videojuegos y en la vida real. Tienes toda la razón y muchas gracias por compartirlo! Siempre he pensado que puedes conocer mucho de la persona si te fijas como se comporta al momento de jugar videojuegos.

This is the first time I've seen one of your videos. Well done man. Great points. I know for a fact what you're saying is true because that used to be me. It took a long time for me to get hold of myself and control my emotions. I didn't really start grasping it until i hit my early 30s (40 now). I had to step back and be honest with myself, looking at how i acted in defeat (getting pissed, and the occasional rage quit. Not often, but once is too much), and realize i was just embarrassing myself. Thanks for the words of wisdom. You've earned a sub, sir.

One thing that's been enlightening to me is I started playing fighting games because I spent most of my childhood playing Smash Bros and later Rivals of Aether and so I wanted to be "more cultured" you know? What I found out about myself from this is my fatal flaw is fighting laziness, if a game tells me I have to learn a specific flowchart I get bored and it causes me problems. Lately I reasoned with myself to fix this by just telling myself when I'm watching like cartoons or something I might as well also lab then and that stopped me from being too lazy to learn bread n butters.

A fight is about who is left standing, nothing else

I have always enjoyed your videos F101 but this one is downright genious. You have created a video that is so carefully worded that only negatively triggers the rage quitters, the smurfs, the script users and all the vermin that pretend that doing those things in games does not reflect in who they are in real life. I tip my hat to you sir!

I love playing fighting game so much... But this video really catches me and yes this used to be who I am in real life in a fighting game, like being a scrub for an example. Being young is hard to be in control even playing games like Sports, or even FPS, also MOBA too. I used to be good in Street FIghter IV since during high school during lunch time. I was only playing just newbs and casual and I kept winning as much I tried to defend my streak but I do have my share of losses. Playing people in School no many were into Street Fighter but they took time to play with me whenever I need a grind and play. But if I were playing through Online Network is a different story. I knew that I wasn't as good I once was during school. There are many things that I need to learn and from mistakes. But I kept falling over them due to my emotions and pressure even my mind I couldn't think fast, I always say to myself that I was never smart even in Video Games. I was never a Pro or a Competitor in genres of games. But I wanted to keep playing cause I like the game. I want to do my best in matches even if it were going to be dishonorable moments. And true "there are no rules!" Learn that lesson! "Anything goes!" I'll try to keep watching this video whenever possible. There are flaws within my waste of talent and skills. I hope to keep going and grind but it won't last forever cause of other personal things and life... Thank you this video! I hope to play with you guys in Fightcade!

I think the problem is most people not leaving they comfort zone. As much as i enjoyed fighting games i got tired of people not trying other games. Another thing people it's ok to lose it doesn't mean you are trash. I've tried to get so many people who play other fighters to try new ones and since they lose more on the other goes right back to the one they win the most. It personally made me not care for the genre anymore

The FGC has become a place for weak minded players.

(Not seen the Video yet) So, according to the Thumbnail I am: -A Ninja Master with a Metal Helmet that hates Turtles and Rats -A Martial Artist roaming the World, trying to find out who I really am -A Mafiaboss who only uses his left Hand and keeps the right in his Pockets, because of how destructive it is -A Super Hero, that is able to slow down and speed up time, as well as centering the Camera on me so everyone can see my Moves and Poses -A Succubus with Green Hair -A Divine Wolf, using divine Weapons and a Brush -A Guy in a Bed, that is now only a Bed -A big Dragon/Turtle who tries to make a Princess his Bride -A Pro-Wrestler with a Jaguar Mask with a Scar -A trolling, murderous and violent Ghost, who is literally a God of Destruction -A little Catlike Caricature of another Person, causing Chaos and taking nothing seriously I will stop here. Have fun finding out which Characters I meant. I’m gonna watch the Video now.✌🏻

Another great video

Now that's an interesting topic, indeed! Every day you learn something new about yourself 😅 - I play almost exclusively fighting games, and yes, what you said makes sense, at least in the majority of aspects. But I can't agree in every point, and "emotional INTELLIGENCE" may be the wrong term. Whatever, playing FTGs (mainly competetive) is somehow comparable to real sports events, the level of stress and frustration can be the same, and you have to learn to deal with the feelings of winning and loosing, so it's a valuable lession for your real life. I'm 41 now and compared to let's say ~20-25 years ago, my behavour has changed to the positive (of course) and I'm not a rage quitter anymore. I think continuing playing these games helped me a lot with it. Playing FTGs can be very useful as some sort of therapy to manage your anger and feelings, and they're much better suited for this than any other genre of video games imo. Please excuse my bad English, it's not my language, have a nice day 😉

I always pick the most attractive female character despite my skill with her so yes, it does say a lot about me 😂

Usually I can control myself and my actions whilst losing constantly in a game, but sonetimes I get in the mindset of "this should be working, why isnt it?" which causes immense tilt and I forget all about how to stay calm. Accepting the loss, or accepting that what I did wasnt correct, goes a long way.

Unlike me, a intelectual, i purposefully play low tiers so i get my ass whopped and say "it is what it is" #buffLars

Great advice not only in fighting games but in life, hopefully we can play 30th again your the only boxer I have trouble with.

thank you

Online my control is perfect but offline i lose my shit

Thank you for this

(Now I have seen it) I Love playing Games and Fighting Games are no exception. But I have never (as I recall it) won a Single Battle in any of them online. That’s how bad I am. But I keep playing regardless, because it’s fun. I enjoy the thing more than the outcome. Also, I can‘t keep playing the same Game for too long, because I want to try other Games, complete them or go back to some of them. One day it might happen, that I’m gonna win a Match. And on this day, a little Child will rage. My Age is 37. Nice Video. Have a good day everyone.👊🏻

Much needed video for fighting game players within FGC-community.

Good video man, touching subject.

I’ve never quit in a fighting game, but I have shouted when dealing with a lagged online. That’s not something I ever do in real life though.

Just a few weeks ago I played against a streamer who went on to rage any time he was beaten by someone in the lobby and was unironically arguing that if he won, it was because he was good, but if he lost, it was the fault of the game or the other character being overpowered. He continued to argue this with the chat for over 45 minutes. It takes a special kind of person to be that delusional, self-centered, and unable to accept any kind of personal responsibility for their flaws.

Well said!

what fighting games is showing me is that i'm too broke to afford the game, the characters and pay for a yearly subscription to play online

I thought you meant the character you play as is who you are from the title. Hehe...I used to compete in karate, kickboxing, and jiu-jitsu in real life and was a counterstriker. But when I play SF, I play as an ultra aggressive Balrog. Even when I drive, I'm a defensive driver, but in GTA, I drive like a maniac and ram into everyone.😆

If this video makes you mad, guess what....LOL.

they always say shit like it's just a game but if you're like this in a game, imagine in real life in the workplace or home competitive games are a emotional test

Paging DSP... Paging LTG...

Wingnut from TMNT, and Rufus from Street Fighter. I'm also constantly doing dive kicks IRL too.

I feel like in my case, rather than getting upset over the opponent, I just get upset over myself. I just self-deprecate when I take a reasonable loss, something that I notice in real life as well. So, I feel playing fighting games can be another way to recognize practicing kindness to myself. I'm not gonna block every mixup, but that doesn't mean I'm worthless. Getting into fighting games s already daunting to most folks, so I have to be proud I gave it a shot to begin with.

My issue has never been losing, I couldn't care less, espeacially against a good player. Where I find myself losing my cool is against players with "ignorant" playstyles. Fighting games are a conversation and when I feel like my opponent doesn't listen to what I am saying I get so unbelievably bitter and the game just stops being fun.

Disagree hard. While I think its petty and lame to ragequit, or to "one and done", or only "play people you know you can win", I don't think how people act in the context of ENTERTAINMENT let you judge someone else in other areas of REAL LIFE that matter. You talk like a fighting game is an actual fight, or some honorable thing. Its purely entertainment unless you're competing for money. People approach it and treat it differently. Someone "one and done" might just be tired of fighting the same character online over and over, or don't feel like playing a super defensive game again, or are hopping off to do something else or something came up. Even "playing people you know you can win" I don't care if people do that. If someone's priority is their rank and they're not quitting mid-match that's their choice if the game doesn't force best of 3's. Even rage quitting, that's bad sportsmanship but that's as far as it goes. I just report and move on. I think its incredibly short sighted to try and judge someone's REAL LIFE on a video game meant to entertain. Yeah they might have some petty bad behavior in the game, but could be great in other areas of life. I know tons of people who fit that bill. I think you're really grasping at straws to try and justify judging someone based on shallow observations about how they behave for a hobby for fun. A lot of the big examples of this like DSP or Low Tier God aren't even genuine, they are playing into a troll persona and have morons giving them money to keep it up. There are other factors influencing their behavior.

i need to learn how to lose properly without thinking about it the next few days

Good talking point. This is one reason why I've always enjoyed watching Japanese players, they're very respectful and emotionally grounded where as many Westerners (even really good players) are often emotionally immature and I've always found it off-putting as a spectator/fan (not to mention as a player of course).

Someone needs to recommend this for dsp Ree-acks

Lol i def thought some zangief and e honda shade was coming

A lot of the players of these games are young men and their brains for the most part are not fully developed at that age. Your brain doesn’t really truly mature until you’re 25. That’s why you see all these lack of emotional control and immaturity coming from these young gamers. As people age and grow up, many people will start to develop these emotional skills and mature. Some do not and stay the same however. That’s why I find the retro community to have more mature and clear headed people compared to more modern games. The average age of the retro player tend to skew older hence people with more emotional maturity.

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When I lose in a fighting game I don't take it as an attack on my being and self-worth. I see it as data on my performance and a sign that I need to change what I'm doing in order to have a better outcome. I'm a grown man. I can't be flipping out over a video game.

I fuckin love fighting games they are so deep on so many levels aside from technicals and gameplay. the fact that someone can pseudo analyze you and be in the realm of understanding you and how you behave/react in a fight is pretty crazy and can be an eye opener to how that person behaves in other situations

It takes lot's of time and dedication to become really good at fighting games. Study show that reaction time is better when your younger. Most pro rage at some extent and one day or another you'll become too old to compete against younger people. I don't know if your evidence is right but I agree that some people become too much disagreeable through competition. Smash melee community is a good example of why most people (even pro) rage. Perfectionism and obsession can be damaging too. Disagreeable personality type are also more competitive in general and hate to lose.

Makes sense. I’m a little thicc and I play grapplers

My mom corrected this when i was a child. I remember being maybe less than 10 years old and playing SF2 Super on the Super Nintendo. My mom wanted to play with me and she beat me. I couldn't take losing so i slapped her and she slapped me back and that definitely is the moment that responsible for me being chill no matter what happens in a fighting game

I always behave quite furiously while playing fighting games. I tend to swear a lot and curse the characters unfairness, the controller or the game design. Lag makes me speacially mad. Sometimes I've even question the other players intention, although that takes a lot more to happen, and has never happen offline. However, I've never disrespected the other player or the game agreement. I do not ragequit, ever. I never one and done. I don't try to distract or make the other player uncomfortable outside the game itself. So I don't consider myself "emotionally intelligent", really, but simply "emotionally not stupid".

I'm a fan of Ken, Kazuya and Kung Lao... KKK xd

Having momentum off your knockdown shouldnt even be called "unfairness", its just the reward for you playing good. And if your opponent can do it, so can you

One thing I wanted to touch on, re: Claw/modern fighters. It's true that modern fighters are a lot more guess-heavy than their predessors. Older games were full of guessing too, but the majority of it ws quite weighted. Not all options were equally good at all times. A lot of SF6's interactions aren't 50/50s _per se_ , but more like 33/33/34 (high/low/throw) at the most basic level. It gets alot messier with DI, so a lot of interactions are 25/25/25/25. However, I will say that despite this, SF6 on the whole isn't nearly as bad as SFV. SFV is, in my experience, "Guess Fighter: The game". Nothing is weighted there. It feels like every character is like fighting Viper or Makoto, with endless equally weighted guessing options all over the place. I've been playing SF since the arcades in 1991, and while I don't like all SF games, SFV is the only SF series I ended up _hating_ . SF6, on the other hand, I think has supplanted HF as my all-time favourite SF/fighting game. Even when I lose, even when I don't react to a DI for the 997274th time because I'm closer to 50 than 40 and my reflexes, which weren't that great in the first place, are worse now (you have to either expect the DI or stick out cancelable-only normals to reaction counter), generally, which is something even old players like myself can learn), I may get angry, but ultimately calm down and realiae I just need more practice. It sucks to lose in SF6 but it feels great to win, while in SF5 it felt bad to lose _or_ win. But regarding ST Claw: Nah, that character is _bullshit_ . He's overtuned _without_ the wall dive spam, and when you drop the actual 50/50 wall dive nonsense on top of it... Yeah, no. Even as much as I hate SFV, SFV in aggregate wasn't as stupid as ST Claw. 😂

I'm 1700 MR in sf6. I get pissed off about the game, but for different reasons. Even then, I do not quit the game because I can't win consistently because I'm still playing and i certainly don't win consistently. I also find it interesting the number of people who refuse to lab. There are days where instead of fighting other people, I will just lab muscle memory for combos on hit confirm (using random block) so that I can make doing these things as second nature. Also, I one and done, but only when I win, mostly when a new character comes out.

Some good insight here. It also takes emotional intelligence to accept the fact a game’s design just isn’t for you. Choosing the right fighting game is half the battle.

As much as I understand the sentiment, there's portions I disagree with. There's a lot of manipulation that goes into fighters(and other online games) to elicit this response. These games are designed to ensure that most people outside the best 1% or worst % of players win and lose just as often, putting people into a vortex where they never feel as bad as they actually are or as good as they actually are. I don't condone quitters nor partake in it but I feel like this reflects their real life maturity no more than these games reflect a proper competitive atmosphere. In real life people stick with things they have good results in and find another hobby when they are bad at it. However by design everyone feels like they're good but not great. Everyone gets hot streaks to feel good and cold streaks to feel trash. That's not reflective of true competition; that's reflective of gambling addiction.

Does this apply to chess?

I've never understood when people rage into headsets when playing a game. You just display to your opponent and potentially the world if they are streaming that you are highly immature.

Facts

I think this would be more true if fighting games were more tightly designed and balanced. More like Boxing. Objectively speaking, without a sufficient amount of fairness and honor being enforced by the ruleset/game design, there can be no competitive integrity. If you're right about fighting games, then that actually means its quite pointless as a conpetitive activity and ones rine is better spent in something with actual competitive integrity. Maybe that is why I've drifted away from the genre over the last 7 years in favor of things with more integrity forced by stricter regulations and less exploitable dominant tactics. And, even though I know I have a high level of emotional intelligence/maturity and patience, I've actually been happier for playing fighting games less.

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you rack discipline .

man thats bars AF. i be telling this to nooblets i teahc coming from other games. If its in the game Its fair game. Their is no such thing as cheap . those who dont understand this are doomed to be stuck in the lower ranks.

After watching this video...I feel terrible 😔 I have no control of my feelings when I play or in real life. Also I have Asperger. I guess my parents were right. If games make me feel bad then stop playing.... I give up playing fighting games.

Ragers beat themselves. You can see it in real time, you can see your opponent getting frustrated via their gameplay. If you watch the recent SF2 tournament at CEO, there's a certain guy that's known to be a rager, and if you watch him, him and him alone was the only person showing rage and emotion during the top 8. Everyone else was cool as a cucumber. That guy beat himself, and lost a matchup that is like 7-3 in his favor. This guy has been this way for years, and it's hilarious to not see this person or hear about them for so long, only to see them again and see they haven't changed or evolved as a person at all in like a decade.

no lies detected

wouldn't the title be "who you are fighting is a real person not a machine so respect them" i.e stop spamming throws, don't be cheap, don't win at all costs, the otherside have feelings too, don't ruin someone elses day for the sake of winning

If it works use it. If its cheap use it. Sounds like a scrub mindset to me. I aint saying honor should be a thing. But when you play a fighting game it shouldnt be about who the best character is. Its about who you enjoy playing. Otherwise wed constantly see bison in top 8 in sf6. I think that mindset is the reason why people dont pick up fighting games. And its sad. I play to win yes im very competitive and i learn from my mistakes just like any player does. But to call people emotionally immature or have a lack of control is frankly laughable. Its called losing your temper. Anger is a normal emotion people are allowed to express it. Just because pros like daigo dont show it at tourneys doesnt mean hes a cold machine he experiences it too. I think this topic would hold more merit. If you actually encouraged others to be allowed to vent their frustrations and move on rather than calling them emotionally immature.

I was with you until you said that "no honor" mess. There is honor. That is why we have rules and precisely why no one likes cheaters. Just because a glitch (or oversight) is in the game doesn't excuse the use or reliance of it. If so, then Guile's no touch toss would be the top of every SF meta, or just slap your opponent in the face before the round starts. I think what you mean [hopefully] is application and skill. There is no honor in application of skill, nor is there in skill of application, but there is honor on how the game is played and viewed. In short, what you finish with doesn't support your idea. The "no honor" spew is what an emotionally weak person would say to justify cheating.

Ive literally lost friendships because I'm a calm person that calls out emotionally unintelligent losers lmao

I disagree wholeheartedly The reason why I disagree It's because it's a video game Made for many different reasons It has nothing to do with necessarily control Not really The video game you want to win And there's a lot of people that don't mind losing But they get mad because of How they lost Not that they lost When it comes to a real Life job You get angry You can be fired You get Angry in video game The only thing that happens is you Lose points or get Suspended Temporarily That's It There's a big difference And getting mad over video game And getting mad in real life

Lol this video is so bad