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Hey there!
Yeah you, the one with the face. Before I start, I'd like to thank you for at least looking over this way. If you're like most people on this site you're crazy about smash brothers, be it 64, Melee, or Brawl and that already gives us a common interest. And it's with that thread I decided to make my own blog: A Smasher's Life. It's here to detail all the at least somewhat interesting happenings in my life related or completely unrelated to smash brothers.
I don't want to bore you anymore with introductions, so I figure I'll get right into myself. I'm a 19 year-old college student who attends business major at Johnson & Wales University in Charlotte, NC. I mained Sheik in Melee and after some experimentation continued with her in brawl. My secondaries are still up in the air, but I do love playing R.O.B a whole hell of a lot.
Moving on, I have two friends who attend the same college that play brawl, and boy do we play brawl... a lot. At pretty much any given chance we boot up the Wii and play our assess off. My two friends [we'll call them by their brawl aliases Blur and Blade] play Marth and Samus respectively.
Blur is a Marth player who's mained him since melee and is a bit of a hot-head. I sometimes feel sorry for his controllers because he has a habit of launching them at either the floor or the wall upon losing. Coupled with his ability to shout random swear-words at the top of his lungs it's kinda funny, but makes for really awkward silence when the results come up on the screen and he has a pissed look on his face.
Then there's Blade. Blade and Blur were roommates freshman [last year] year, and so I met Blade via Blur and that's how Blade got involved in smash. He's never been too into this whole idea of playing a video game competitively because he has this whole thing about fun and competitiveness. Like the rest of us, he's mained Samus since melee and on occasion plays Zero Suit Samus.
When I say this, I don't want to sound big-headed but it's going to come off that way. Since melee I've dominated Blur and Blade. In truth, it's not really even a challenge fighting the two anymore. Blur wants to think that he plays competitively, but for the past few months now [since I've been getting serious at getting better at brawl] I've been consistently visiting the smashboards, learning what I can, and I can say that he doesn't. At every given chance I tell him "Yo, if you want to get better, visit the smashboards and read up on some of the stuff there. It really helps" but he never does. He wants to get good but doesn't put in the effort.
Then there's Blade. Blade has this whole idea that fun and competition are two completely different worlds when it comes to video games. He has all the stereotypes of a casual smasher: C-Stick is cheap, Grabbing the edge to prevent someone from coming back is an ******* move in his book, etc. Granted he doesn't like items [guess that's one good thing competitively.]
Playing them isn't really even excited anymore, and I realized this the other day when I beat Blur and he said, "Wow, it must not even be a challenge anymore." I thought about it and he was right, but I didn't want to hurt is feelings so I told him that it still a was a challenge playing him.
This is where my problem comes up. Should I try harder to help them get better when they won't take the time to commit themselves or do I not try to help them and just beat them as hard as I can in hopes that they'll want to get better and start putting some effort toward it themselves? Possibly another idea? :S I'm not sure what to do.
Hey there!
Yeah you, the one with the face. Before I start, I'd like to thank you for at least looking over this way. If you're like most people on this site you're crazy about smash brothers, be it 64, Melee, or Brawl and that already gives us a common interest. And it's with that thread I decided to make my own blog: A Smasher's Life. It's here to detail all the at least somewhat interesting happenings in my life related or completely unrelated to smash brothers.
I don't want to bore you anymore with introductions, so I figure I'll get right into myself. I'm a 19 year-old college student who attends business major at Johnson & Wales University in Charlotte, NC. I mained Sheik in Melee and after some experimentation continued with her in brawl. My secondaries are still up in the air, but I do love playing R.O.B a whole hell of a lot.
Moving on, I have two friends who attend the same college that play brawl, and boy do we play brawl... a lot. At pretty much any given chance we boot up the Wii and play our assess off. My two friends [we'll call them by their brawl aliases Blur and Blade] play Marth and Samus respectively.
Blur is a Marth player who's mained him since melee and is a bit of a hot-head. I sometimes feel sorry for his controllers because he has a habit of launching them at either the floor or the wall upon losing. Coupled with his ability to shout random swear-words at the top of his lungs it's kinda funny, but makes for really awkward silence when the results come up on the screen and he has a pissed look on his face.
Then there's Blade. Blade and Blur were roommates freshman [last year] year, and so I met Blade via Blur and that's how Blade got involved in smash. He's never been too into this whole idea of playing a video game competitively because he has this whole thing about fun and competitiveness. Like the rest of us, he's mained Samus since melee and on occasion plays Zero Suit Samus.
When I say this, I don't want to sound big-headed but it's going to come off that way. Since melee I've dominated Blur and Blade. In truth, it's not really even a challenge fighting the two anymore. Blur wants to think that he plays competitively, but for the past few months now [since I've been getting serious at getting better at brawl] I've been consistently visiting the smashboards, learning what I can, and I can say that he doesn't. At every given chance I tell him "Yo, if you want to get better, visit the smashboards and read up on some of the stuff there. It really helps" but he never does. He wants to get good but doesn't put in the effort.
Then there's Blade. Blade has this whole idea that fun and competition are two completely different worlds when it comes to video games. He has all the stereotypes of a casual smasher: C-Stick is cheap, Grabbing the edge to prevent someone from coming back is an ******* move in his book, etc. Granted he doesn't like items [guess that's one good thing competitively.]
Playing them isn't really even excited anymore, and I realized this the other day when I beat Blur and he said, "Wow, it must not even be a challenge anymore." I thought about it and he was right, but I didn't want to hurt is feelings so I told him that it still a was a challenge playing him.
This is where my problem comes up. Should I try harder to help them get better when they won't take the time to commit themselves or do I not try to help them and just beat them as hard as I can in hopes that they'll want to get better and start putting some effort toward it themselves? Possibly another idea? :S I'm not sure what to do.
