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Nethilia [[404 Error - Person does not Exist]] ([info]kittikattie) wrote in [info]i_wank,
@ 2008-06-08 11:39:00
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Current mood:wanky

Pokemons are SRSBSNSS.
On the Pokemons community, myuutsuuman posts a video about SSBB tiers, then goes comparing Pokemon tiers to SSBB tiers. The main bit?

While the video's basically regarding Smash Bros. (and parodies using the logic tournament players use), you can apply the same to competitive Pokemon players. Apparently, you become a "noob" or an idiot for not playing a video game that's built around customizing YOUR team with the way YOU want to play. Sure, there's some stupid choices that can be made (like a team of six Water-types or using a Fire-type with only Fire-type moves or having a Pokemon with Thunder, Blizzard, Fire Blast, and Hyper Beam), but really. Am I the only one who thinks the whole "competitive" aspect ruins the point of the games? They're called "games" for a reason; they provide entertainment and are meant to be fun. Not to be treated as a contest of who has the bigger e-peen in battling Pogeymanz.

People agree, disagree, complain about tiers, and fuss. Not major, but a touch wanky.

On iWank because I wanked. Competitive Gamers Creed my fucking ass.

--Neth


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[info]ashenmote
2008-06-08 06:49 pm UTC (link)
Ha! I was just thinking I haven't seen you around for a while.

The html is bad. I think you need to re-edit this in the html tab instead of the rich-text tab?

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[info]ashenmote
2008-06-08 06:50 pm UTC (link)
Oh. Nevermind that.

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[info]kittikattie
2008-06-08 06:51 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, Stupid Rich text.

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[info]deliciouschaos
2008-06-08 07:01 pm UTC (link)
FUCK YEAH LUCARIO

That is all.

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[info]grapefruitzzz
2008-06-08 10:50 pm UTC (link)
*hugs her cute itty wee dialga*

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[info]morgyne
2008-06-08 07:19 pm UTC (link)
That first paragraph types like Shatner talks.
Brilliant! I applaud you :)

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[info]coyotegirl
2008-06-08 07:49 pm UTC (link)
Competitive Gamers Creed my fucking ass.

Oh, so much word.

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[info]kylenne
2008-06-08 07:57 pm UTC (link)
THIS.

I guess I'm just one of those rare hardcore gamers that does not give a flying fuck about how other people play. Because, you know, this hobby (and I don't care if people are "professional" gamers, it's still a damn hobby), is about having fun. And fun for me is not necessarily fun for thee. I will happily spend hours maxing out stats in a game for the express purpose of slaughtering whatever sekrit uberboss is in it. This is not everyone's cup of tea and I am not losing sleep over it because I am too busy having fun in my own way. Jesus.

As someone who used to regularly own the local SF2 tournaments back in the day, I can tell you that 99% of the dudes (and it's always dudes) with the loudest mouths who wank the hardest about "casual gamers" are the ones with the least amount of actual skill. These are the guys who would literally empty out rolls of quarters because they couldn't deal with anyone beating them at "their" game. This whole thing reminds me of when my (thankfully) ex-BF got all butthurt whenever I would beat him at [insert fighting game here]. And he was a self-proclaimed feminist, at that. He would "jokingly" accuse me of button mashing when I would break his supposedly unbreakable combos. He was one of those people that would print out move lists from Gamefaqs and study them. He also once spent two hours barracaded in the bedroom because I beat all his Mario Kart Advance hi scores. I tried to explain that the reason I'm really good at video games was because I was a solitary nerd girl with no friends growing up and it wasn't really anything to be mad about, but he wouldn't listen.

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[info]mcity
2008-06-08 10:20 pm UTC (link)
I'm really good at video games was because I was a solitary nerd girl with no friends growing up

How you doin'?

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[info]puipui
2008-06-09 07:13 pm UTC (link)
God, you're creepy.

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[info]mcity
2008-06-09 10:07 pm UTC (link)
No, I was joking. Poorly, to be sure, but I was not sincere in the least.

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[info]puipui
2008-06-09 10:11 pm UTC (link)
No, I knew you were joking. It was still creepy.

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Can't argue with that.
[info]mcity
2008-06-09 10:18 pm UTC (link)
In fact, making that comment was a bad idea in the first place.

So, why was Hiei wearing bunnyears?

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Re: Can't argue with that.
[info]puipui
2008-06-09 10:25 pm UTC (link)
Same reason he always does, obviously.

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[info]ecchaniz0r
2008-06-09 03:59 am UTC (link)
OH GOD dfgkjsdfgs.

...They especially hate it when you really are button mashing. I'm BAD at fighting games, but I have a good twitchy hand-eye thing going, which leads to such Ecchanisms as "*high-pitched delighted squeeeee* WHAT DID I DO TO MAKE EVERYTHING CATCH FIRE WHAT DID I HIT I WANT TO DO IT AGAIN AHAHAHAHAA" and everyone else STARES.

I am also a level-maxing stat machine. XD

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[info]kylenne
2008-06-09 07:57 am UTC (link)
What really gets me is when wankers yell about button mashing in Smash Bros. games.

The entire battle system is based on button mashing. It's right there in the title, dude. A finesse game it is not.

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[info]chibikaijuu
2008-06-09 09:11 am UTC (link)
I am a resolute button masher, though sometimes I manage to suss out a move or two that works and do them repeatedly.

I won a Smash Bros. Melee "tournament" (a bunch of friends fucking around at a party) with Princess Peach.

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[info]kylenne
2008-06-09 06:09 pm UTC (link)
Hee. I like having "theme" matches. Like when me and my friends used to have Jerry Springer episodes with Link, Zelda, and Ganondorf. Or when the three of us would all be Dr. Mario and we would just fling pills at each other.

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[info]blackjackrocket
2008-06-12 01:37 am UTC (link)
Peach seems to be quite popular at tournaments at the cons I go to.

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[info]chibikaijuu
2008-06-12 05:42 am UTC (link)
Well, she does have hip rockets.

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[info]tofuknight
2008-06-09 04:42 am UTC (link)
I was a solitary nerd girl

Solitary nerd girls unite!

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[info]kylenne
2008-06-09 08:00 am UTC (link)
I can honestly say Cloud Strife was literally my prom date. And not even in one of those crazy astral plane type ways.

I stayed home and beat FF7 for the first time that night. XD

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[info]lots42
2008-06-09 10:51 am UTC (link)
Hmmm. Hot nerd girl in exchange for losing at video games?

I'm willing to trade.

Sigh. Fandom.

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[info]iwanttobeasleep
2008-06-08 08:04 pm UTC (link)
If you want to be a special snowflake about games, you should probably stay far from RPGs, and really fucking far from JRPGs. God forbid this guy go near an MMO.

The metagame actually ruined Pokemon for me because I love that kind of thing and want to master it but holy shit, serious full on, non-sparkly-cute-animals JRPGs don't reach that level of complexity.

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[info]demonoflight
2008-06-08 08:20 pm UTC (link)
SSB has tiers? I thought it was just split between heavy characters, medium-weight characters, featherweight characters and characters that frellin' suck (and Yoshi isn't one of them! He turns people into eggs, that's awesome).

How would Kirby be a bottom tier character, anyway? Kirby is FUCKING HARDCORE.

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[info]kylenne
2008-06-08 09:17 pm UTC (link)
Kirby's so bad ass he deserves to have a harem of sister wives on the astral plane.

*volunteers*

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[info]ecchaniz0r
2008-06-09 04:00 am UTC (link)
Kirby and Jigglypuff are the pinnacle of awesome.

Round pink awesome.

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[info]demonoflight
2008-06-09 05:46 am UTC (link)
Ah, but Jigglypuff doesn't get to SAVE THE FREAKIN' UNIVERSE.

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[info]kylenne
2008-06-09 07:58 am UTC (link)
Jigglypuff draws on the Universe's face when she falls asleep.

(Now I need to go watch Excel Saga again.)

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[info]hold_nothing
2008-06-08 08:40 pm UTC (link)
Am I the only one who thinks the whole "competitive" aspect ruins the point of the games?

I think someone's missing the point.

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[info]lady7jane
2008-06-09 12:08 am UTC (link)
we are always looking for ways to not only center their chance of winning, but also outsmarting the other by changing things up...to say it's some stale tourneyfag fest is an insult to anyone who has ever said that they wanted to be the very best that no one ever was...

"You're an idiot" is also an insult to anyone who says they want to be the very best that no one ever was. But it's also true.

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[info]ecchaniz0r
2008-06-09 04:02 am UTC (link)
See above in re: wanna/b/tards who think appending 'fag' as a suffix to everything makes them instacool.

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[info]tofuknight
2008-06-09 04:46 am UTC (link)
I was so confused by that! It wasn't even a grammatical insult. ...I think I miss the point of the internets sometimes.

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[info]puipui
2008-06-09 07:15 pm UTC (link)
YES.

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[info]blackjackrocket
2008-06-12 01:35 am UTC (link)
That's why I defriended myuutsuuman and deleted all the icons he'd made for me. I objected to his use of the word "fag" and he and his friends started calling me names. They also insisted that it couldn't possibly be offensive, and told me I was "being too serious" when I told them otherwise.

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[info]lots42
2008-06-09 10:49 am UTC (link)
You meen games are meant to be fun? SHOCKS.

I always had trouble when playing pool with the siblings. They wanted me to hold the stick a certain way and lean here and do this...they might as well have hired a flunky to be their game robot. When I ignored them, I rocked.

I never won but I rocked.

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[info]sarajayechan
2008-06-09 02:49 pm UTC (link)
Since I don't wanna pepper the wank by commenting there..

Your levels of win are OVER 9000!

(Pardon the old meme, but it's true. I HATE the kind of attitude the kid was copping there, and you did good to put him in his place.)

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[info]seiberwing
2008-06-09 06:25 pm UTC (link)
He types, but all I see is "blah blah blah you suck". The wanker, I mean.

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[info]lady_ganesh
2008-06-19 06:24 pm UTC (link)
I liked "Don't you have some "Fox Only Four Stock No Items Final Destination I want my Wavedashing" shit to be doing?" myself.

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I know this is a late comment and everything butttttt
[info]sol
2008-06-16 08:41 am UTC (link)
We immerse ourselves much more than you people who call yourselves 'fans' of something.

So...because I only write gaysex fanfiction, I'm not a true 'fan' of the gaming fandoms? Because I can't play as well as those 'top tier' players, I can't immerse myself into it like they can? Who knew! Fuck you too, buddy :D

For fucks sake, IT'S GAMING. You just want to play a game to pass the time and relax? That's good. You want to throw hours into your life and aspire to be the next champion of the tournament circuit? That's fine too.

What's NOT fine is saying one is more fun than the other, or who is a true 'fan' or 'gamer'. Both sides might be guilty of it, but damn, it always seems tons more pretentious when a "competitive gamer" says it for some reason.

Honestly.

Also, "scrubs" =/= HORRID DETESTABLE FILTH THAT NEEDS TO BE KILLED ON SIGHT. I hate it when I infer that sort of attitude from posts. D:

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[info]chaootaku
2008-06-16 10:09 pm UTC (link)

Also you are taking the VERY raw end examples that never really existed but people love to take and blow to epic proportions. Seriously, I've seen like the top Smash Players just stare at posts like these and answer 'WHAT. THE. FUCK. We aren't like this at all' And it's true...they aren't. the image you are using is a bastardization joint effort by people who can't win at the game for the reasons I stated above.

Also this is not what I mean either. You also don't know me and my melodramatic ways, so this also came of as unnecessary . We don't wank over anything. We find it much more enjoyable that we can find all these little things that make such a simple game good, much deeper and way more enjoyable with extra replay value. We immerse ourselves much more than you people who call yourselves 'fans' of something.

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[info]kittikattie
2008-06-16 11:28 pm UTC (link)
You're only a fan if you're an obsessive!

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[info]chaootaku
2008-06-19 12:53 am UTC (link)
You're not a fan you have to go sit in the not fan corner.

Have fun NOT BEING HARDCORE >:(

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