Cherry64
Smash Master
- Joined
- Dec 7, 2008
- Messages
- 3,029
- Location
- Southern Alberta,Canada
- NNID
- Willzasarus
- Switch FC
- SW-2905-1228-1895
Link to original post: [drupal=4703]A Few Last Words...[/drupal]
Ironically, this will probably, as with most things you put time and effort into, turn into a blog post about how i'm torn between life and this game. As my join date says, I came to this site with high hopes in 2008 and soon turned into a regular in every respect. I would frequent my character boards (At the time it was only Samus) and find out any information I had no already absorbed. Simply, I treated Super Smash Bros. Brawl as a crush; My Girlfriend did not enjoy the friendly competition with something more plastic than her. In fact, Brawl could very well be the turning point in which my relationship with sav started the enevitable teeter. Sav and I have been broken up for over a year now(I'm not going to raichu a love story) and she was the love of my life. I do not miss her her, but this game draws me back more than she does. I've often thought about the "why?" and here is a jambled semi composed list of reasons I think this game won.
Hours invested in brawl -my wii got sold along with brawl so I do not have actual numbers- far outnumbered those invested in my ex. By this I mean, hours of my life invested into attaining my potential, getting good enough to call myself good. With my ex it was merely attaining a relationship status and with my silver, talking tongue I managed to do it in under two weeks from the beginning of the chase. Is my inability to let brawl go simply refusal to let go of the time I've put into it? is it something as simple as that? am I really that weak? All of the time I invested into attaining skills, parting from the real world to divulge into a world that someone's imagination helped conjure up, all of it for what? I'm not saying that I regret it, I've lived my life so far and I appreciate where I am now, who knows, maybe smash is something that helped me arrange my life and got my *** in gear. I do not hate you smash, I am but a meager pawn that got dragged into your world and could not pull himself from it, from your community, from your depth. In a way this is an untold apology to the game itself for hosting someone who could only achieve excitement through the day, by thinking thoughts about Brawl. I am sorry that I could not control myself. If I had, we might still be closely intertwined like the vines and my shiny new fence in my backyard, wrestling together beautifully and composed. Could there be something that I've missed though? something more, something that eyed my personality and immediately thought "gotcha!".
I am competitive by nature and in all my glory the only thing I've been successful at was quitting. I always say I've played all the sports in the world, but in order to do that, I had to move from one sport to another; that makes me about as much of an athlete as it makes Oprah is skinny. There's an apology to Oprah coming along too, I respect her as a human and believe that she is doing something decent for this pitiful world we live in, you go girl. Anyways, back to my competitive nature. I think that I played all these sports purely to start beating people at their own games. I found it fun to run in there and learn tricks in half the time it took others to do so. I implemented team work when it would make me look like the real hero, and scored goals that other, by rights, should have scored for me. Brawl could very well fall into the same category as my many sports careers. Another opportunity to spit into the faces of many, while somehow having a large grin on my face. Smash provided a challenge, it's learning curve alone is high and then you add in the character-specific outcomes to every situation just to make things more complex. I never turn down a challenge, and I always put that challenge first and foremost so that I can dedicate as much time to completing and moving on from said challenge.
Adios Brawl, for a third time, we had a good thing going but you got greedy. You wanted me all for yourself, you demanded hours with me that I should not have given you. For some reason or another, Brawl will be with me to the bitter end; I love you Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Once again though, you have seemingly "borrowed" time you should have no business borrowing. On to a bigger and brighter future, one year of post-secondary education at a time.
Cheers,
Will.
Ironically, this will probably, as with most things you put time and effort into, turn into a blog post about how i'm torn between life and this game. As my join date says, I came to this site with high hopes in 2008 and soon turned into a regular in every respect. I would frequent my character boards (At the time it was only Samus) and find out any information I had no already absorbed. Simply, I treated Super Smash Bros. Brawl as a crush; My Girlfriend did not enjoy the friendly competition with something more plastic than her. In fact, Brawl could very well be the turning point in which my relationship with sav started the enevitable teeter. Sav and I have been broken up for over a year now(I'm not going to raichu a love story) and she was the love of my life. I do not miss her her, but this game draws me back more than she does. I've often thought about the "why?" and here is a jambled semi composed list of reasons I think this game won.
Hours invested in brawl -my wii got sold along with brawl so I do not have actual numbers- far outnumbered those invested in my ex. By this I mean, hours of my life invested into attaining my potential, getting good enough to call myself good. With my ex it was merely attaining a relationship status and with my silver, talking tongue I managed to do it in under two weeks from the beginning of the chase. Is my inability to let brawl go simply refusal to let go of the time I've put into it? is it something as simple as that? am I really that weak? All of the time I invested into attaining skills, parting from the real world to divulge into a world that someone's imagination helped conjure up, all of it for what? I'm not saying that I regret it, I've lived my life so far and I appreciate where I am now, who knows, maybe smash is something that helped me arrange my life and got my *** in gear. I do not hate you smash, I am but a meager pawn that got dragged into your world and could not pull himself from it, from your community, from your depth. In a way this is an untold apology to the game itself for hosting someone who could only achieve excitement through the day, by thinking thoughts about Brawl. I am sorry that I could not control myself. If I had, we might still be closely intertwined like the vines and my shiny new fence in my backyard, wrestling together beautifully and composed. Could there be something that I've missed though? something more, something that eyed my personality and immediately thought "gotcha!".
I am competitive by nature and in all my glory the only thing I've been successful at was quitting. I always say I've played all the sports in the world, but in order to do that, I had to move from one sport to another; that makes me about as much of an athlete as it makes Oprah is skinny. There's an apology to Oprah coming along too, I respect her as a human and believe that she is doing something decent for this pitiful world we live in, you go girl. Anyways, back to my competitive nature. I think that I played all these sports purely to start beating people at their own games. I found it fun to run in there and learn tricks in half the time it took others to do so. I implemented team work when it would make me look like the real hero, and scored goals that other, by rights, should have scored for me. Brawl could very well fall into the same category as my many sports careers. Another opportunity to spit into the faces of many, while somehow having a large grin on my face. Smash provided a challenge, it's learning curve alone is high and then you add in the character-specific outcomes to every situation just to make things more complex. I never turn down a challenge, and I always put that challenge first and foremost so that I can dedicate as much time to completing and moving on from said challenge.
Adios Brawl, for a third time, we had a good thing going but you got greedy. You wanted me all for yourself, you demanded hours with me that I should not have given you. For some reason or another, Brawl will be with me to the bitter end; I love you Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Once again though, you have seemingly "borrowed" time you should have no business borrowing. On to a bigger and brighter future, one year of post-secondary education at a time.
Cheers,
Will.
.
