WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW?

rollers of the realm is really good! i enjoyed it quite a bit.

Holy crap what is up with the extreme salt in smash bros players? I understand a little salt in tournaments, but I don't see this many rage quits and thrown controllers in any other fighting game scene. Smash bros rage is on a whole different level.

Likely, but it's less the amount of salt and more the level of it that fascinates me. These are regular tournaments with, uh, "pros" at smash, but the amount of rage quits and tantrums are still higher than other games I've seen.

I dunno. I'm an outsider to the fighting game community, but that's how it looks to me.

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It's called 'poor sportsmanship'. What is this 'salt'?

you sound salty dude

u unhealthy with all dat salt dude

e: and of course, how could I forget about this classic fgc line

Sodium, atomic number 11, was first isolated by Peter Dager in 1807. A chemical component of salt, he named it Na in honor of the saltiest region on earth, North America.

I’m guessing the reason why there are so many more saltier players in something like Smash, compared to other fighting games, is that Smash caters to a more diverse player group because it’s so much more open and fundamentally easier to understand and play compared to other fighting games around the block, so you’re generally going to have a much larger representation of players, and, henceworth, have a lot more instances where players lose it like this over a match.

I’ve only participated in one tournament way back in the day with Melee using Dr. Mario and I've never seen anything like people smashing their controllers on the ground in disgust or going crazy after a loss. Usually, once the match was over, it was just a hardy pat on the back and both of us would usually say something like “good game” and move on to the next match. Simple enough and no one got hurt.

But, yeah, it’s extremely silly and childish to do something like that and act like an total idiot over the results of a video game…especially when the match is being streamed online and all those people are watching you act like a total fool and laughing about it on social media. But, hey, some people like to take this shit way too seriously and that’s just the way it is. As long as they don’t hit me, or throw their controller in my face when I happen to win or lose – I’m okay with them acting like that. Makes it fun.

I'm a salty sea dog.
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Arrrrrrf

I'm glad people more important than "random posters from the internet" (and more importantly might have some power to do something about it) are looking at lootboxes and going "wtf"




e: also fuck lootboxes

There's a laundry list of names to say fuck to if I take that approach. Plus the horrible accelerationist in me is glad Battlefront 2 turned out the way it did as the straw the break the camel's back to get some heat on games trying to use gambling to fuck players over.