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I don't think you need to go as far as selling your game, just put it down for a week or two and see how you feel. If you still feel an urge to play Smash, then you probably still want to. If you feel like you are dreading picking it back up, it's probably time to stop for good. If you are having addiction issues that are preventing you from stopping, maybe try canceling your online subscription and not going to tournaments.

As I said before, if this is from frustration or disappointment, it will subside eventually. But if you are feeling like competition is too toxic for you and makes you feel bad all the time, maybe consider playing casually from now on. Again, don't keep playing out of some sense of not "running away." There will be other things you might end up actually enjoying that are more worthy to invest your time and energy in. If you don't know what they are yet, maybe take a break from Smash and go try other things that interest you. Competition isn't for everyone nor is competitive fighting games. Don't forget you can always come back to Smash if you feel like doing so.

Or Ultimate might not be your cup of tea either. Maybe try playing other Smash games again or just other games period.

Also, I'll answer your post in the video thread tomorrow, I have to go for tonight. The short of it is that you had a better concept of stage control in that one, compared to your tournament ones. Keep center stage as much as possible and don't try to attack when you don't have frame advantage(like when you are next to their shield).

I feel the dilemma as of late is "is it worth the suffering"? Yeah, I really enjoy Smash...and then I don't, half the time. It's like I care but I don't really care, and I don't know if I even what to put up with many more failures for a "maybe". It's basically the dilemma of life, at this point. Maybe someone that genuinely loves the game would see everything as a learning experience, but that's definitely not me.

I feel there's a societal preassure that you *have* to be good at something. It's like this desperate attempt to find an identity. Your credentials to the world. Any tangible concept you can grasp and say it's "you".

My mother is aware of my partaking in competitive Smash, and she's actually been really supportive of it. So much, to a point where she doesn't want me to give up because she wants me to be good at something. I even had an arguement with her after the monthly (that I DQ'd myself of) telling her that I don't see why I have to be good at something if I don't feel it so.