Yeah, if you took exactly what I say and apply it to everything, you will look ********. It's generally accepted that the Earth is round, England does exist, the Moon is tangible, etc. Even if we don't know first hand, we can use what research has found and use that knowledge. I still stand by the fact that we can't know, but you should at least accept it as general fact. If you can't do that, you end up being a conspiracy theorist... or killing yourself.
You can study everything about Melee, but you can't know until you play it. It also helps you understand how it works if you play too! If someone tells me that I can drop a bomb, FF and then Screw Attack into it and cancel it... I don't know about it. That may work, but I'll have questions. If they make a video of it, I'll believe them. I'll try to do it myself too, of course, and make a final judgment. By using my experience with Samus, Melee, and Video Games, I know it would be hard to do if possible at all. However, there are people with no experience with Samus and they would make the assumption that that person is right. They didn't test it, they don't have the experience, and they don't mind telling everyone that it is a fact.
Same for everything else! You can't just look at Melee's tier list and know everything about it, but people do that and it blows my mind. They see a video of M2K's Marth and think they've got everything down. It's very annoying.
You can study everything about Melee, but you can't know until you play it. It also helps you understand how it works if you play too! If someone tells me that I can drop a bomb, FF and then Screw Attack into it and cancel it... I don't know about it. That may work, but I'll have questions. If they make a video of it, I'll believe them. I'll try to do it myself too, of course, and make a final judgment. By using my experience with Samus, Melee, and Video Games, I know it would be hard to do if possible at all. However, there are people with no experience with Samus and they would make the assumption that that person is right. They didn't test it, they don't have the experience, and they don't mind telling everyone that it is a fact.
Same for everything else! You can't just look at Melee's tier list and know everything about it, but people do that and it blows my mind. They see a video of M2K's Marth and think they've got everything down. It's very annoying.