Giving Up

I made an account just to say this. (long time lurker first time poster) my buddy KrispyIce has bodied me (no joke or exaggeration) about 300 times.

This fact alone is the primary reason i keep striving to get better. To be able to do it back to him. Once i beat him i will find a new challenger and strive to be better than them.

If you wanna give up go for it. But that's a foolish reason.
 
100Percent said:
You know what if you've lose one billion times I think it's better off you just quit. You may have just given every Soul Calibur player a 99% W/L ratio. In all seriousness though, you gotta lose before you win that's how fighting games are.
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I was exaggerating there. Lol. I was basically trying to say losing helps you learn.
 
Kalas said:
Wrong! I'm still young.
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On the outside maybe.

But on the inside you're a bitter old man, spending your days drinking yourself into a stupor with cheap beer and reminiscing about the great time you had with that cute Chinese hooker when you were still a bonny lad.
 
ZeroEffect317 said:
Confidence =/= results.

Sources: Having been in position of wanting to give up before, and sniffing out BS.
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I noticed that same thing. If I feel like I suck then I'll suck but if I feel more confident (but not arrogant) I'll do way better. Lately I've been feeling like the former myself.
 
Solo said:
I noticed that same thing. If I feel like I suck then I'll suck but if I feel more confident (but not arrogant) I'll do way better. Lately I've been feeling like the former myself.
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wow... you totally misread my post then. I said confidence does NOT equal results. I firmly believe that how you see yourself as a player has little to nothing to do with your performance.

and for that matter, most everywhere else in life.

I see KrayzieCD and Oofmatic and Woahhzz mentioned a lot in this thread. Those guys just have it naturally. The rest of us are puttin in work trying to get there.
 
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ZeroEffect317 said:
wow... you totally misread my post then. I said confidence does NOT equal results. I firmly believe that how you see yourself as a player has little to nothing to do with your performance.

and for that matter, most everywhere else in life.
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Sure did now that I have reread it. This week sucks. Lol
 
I'm sorry, I wrote this when I was very depressed. I'm not quitting because I have exactly the right combination of stubbornness and melancholy that will force me to try and try again despite insistence that I will fail.

But I do truly feel stagnant. I understand on a cognitive level that losing to players much better than you will help you grow stronger, but I fail to turn that into actual personal growth because I don't understand what caused me to lose in the first place. Rage, frustration, and depression cloud my thoughts, and by the time the match is over I've completely forgotten every detail besides the fact that I lost. Which I then reinforce by screaming obscenities at my television.
 
NarokKurai said:
I'm sorry, I wrote this when I was very depressed. I'm not quitting because I have exactly the right combination of stubbornness and melancholy that will force me to try and try again despite insistence that I will fail.

But I do truly feel stagnant. I understand on a cognitive level that losing to players much better than you will help you grow stronger, but I fail to turn that into actual personal growth because I don't understand what caused me to lose in the first place. Rage, frustration, and depression cloud my thoughts, and by the time the match is over I've completely forgotten every detail besides the fact that I lost. Which I then reinforce by screaming obscenities at my television.
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Been there man. (well... minus the obscenities at TV thing) Have you asked the person who beat you what you were doing wrong? I'd try that next time. I feel at least SOME of the better players here will be willing to try and help you out. (the rest don't really know why they're good, and will be of no help to anyone due to just being "gifted" and not knowing the meaning of hard work, lol)

That's what this place is supposed to be for. Whoever you were using, try looking that character's soul arena or to other players who are successful with them and see if you can learn anything. Or maybe watch your online replays and see what was beating you after calming down.
 
Meh I lost to reptile149 like 11-o once lol haha the guy should enter offline tourneys oneday I think he'll do good with raph,leixia and Aeon.
 
It is especially poignant because I don't just try to play fighting games competitively, but I'm a competitive fencer as well, and practically all the same problems I have in SC I have in fencing. I'm an above-average competitor, but I fail to recognize my own strengths and weaknesses. I just do things, without having any good idea why I do them. Somehow I'm good enough that it works against most people, but when it doesn't, it really doesn't, and my failure to understand why I failed ensures it will happen again.

I can't shout obscenities at a fencing match though, cause that will get you a Black Card. But I did break my hand punching a wall once.
 
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