I just caught up with Chillin's post and then SynikaL's retort and I'd like to say what Card responded with was my counterpoint back on page 2. I'm pretty sure my post is right after his, I think the community has to make peace with this issue before we move on. Which game is better competitively, and what are we going to do about it?
SynikaL says Melee is better competitively, but the community will just "go play Brawl." That's fine, but I think that many players should not go play Brawl for a lot of reasons and instead go play Melee. The players in question are the ones with good, competitive, secure attitudes. Melee isn't dying out where I'm from, and I intend to keep it alive as long as I can.
If consensus is truly not your ultimatum, then your motives have simply deteriorated into demagoguery. Attempting to proselytize using Smashboards as a rostrum will only serve to prolong the inevitable consensus, and only defame your character in the process.
You, yourself stated "the community has to make peace with this issue before we move on".
If the community is not to make peace with the two given agreements, then what other practical consensus are you expecting? Everyone stop playing Brawl and return to Melee? This is a disillusioned prospect.
"The players in question are the ones with good, competitive, secure attitudes"
As I've stated before, "Ego" is the corrupting agent that needs to be weeded out of both sects to refine and solidify the consensus. Here, is the agent in one of its more finer and more subtle forms.
At this point, you're only hurting yourself. Stop.
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Melee players: If it's our time,
it's our time. Melee will not die if the game and the players subsist, but its tenure as the face of the competitive community is up. This may not make much sense, considering the game's qualifications as a competitive title in respects to Brawl, but those qualifications are not enough to stem the flux of change coursing through this community, full of new faces willing and eager to replace just about everyone of us with unabated alacrity.
Just because Melee is taking a backseat to Brawl, does not mean Melee players are ultimately subjected to some inferior state of existence. Keep playing Melee. Keep hosting tournaments.
Is Melee dead in your area?
Find another hobby. I've chosen to use my extra free time not playing Melee or Brawl to increase my overall level of knowledge. I've begun reading a few books and I am becoming more intelligent by the day.
Reading not your thing? Street Fighter 4 and Soul Calibur 4 are on the horizon. Get involved with those scenes.
So many more practical and healthy options exist outside trying to bind your very existence and self-worth to Melee. Swallow your pride so we can truly move on.
-Kimo