joe it's just that you've been pumped about mass improvement/consistency for mad long, but 3 years down the line you still come around and lose to one of the people who are pretty content where they're at and are just playing for the love of the game and the community.
i'm sure it sucks that nobody's playing for the same megacompetitive reasons you are, but i think it's time to accept that everyone plays the games for different reasons. the people who would respond to your goading by 'stepping it up' are the people who ALREADY are invested in improving. all you're doing is making yourself look like a ******* for not accepting that people want to do their own thing
oh well, this is probably going to get laughed off anyway, and most of the people who aren't in megaimprovement mode aren't bothered by being called out, but you seriously seem to make that same post 5-6x a year and then wonder why nothing's changed
responding to that sentiment by asking for a MM is pretty much proof (in da puddin?) that you don't understand
i definitely have not been "always motivated" in terms of smash; on the contrary, the last year/year and a half i've gone through periods of not caring, not seeing the point in caring about smash, or thinking "man, this time would be much better spent working on school/hanging out with friends/doing other real life activities." it's been like a personal battle to weigh priorities in my life when my interest in smash is waning; i end up feeling bad/lame about still spending so much time on smashboards, or wasting time skimming through youtube videos when it feels like i don't even like the game anymore.
but the main thing is
i didn't want to ***** about it
looooool
i just figure that, honestly, nobody wants to hear about it. plus, i think it would be wack to project the attitude of "not caring" to other, younger competitors, or whatever.
rest assured, i go through phases of hating smash or not caring about it like everybody else; i think that you have a kind of skewed perspective of me as being a gung-ho kid like i was when i first moved here. in those days, yeah, i was super motivated, but i'm not a constant geyser of competition/enthusiasm like you're making me out to be.
the tournament where i lost to atma/peter was probably the worst i have ever felt about smash; i was tired from hardly sleeping all week (8am classes), and my mind was completely on school, on the other things i had to do, etc. i didn't really want to go to the tournament, but i went anyways, so whatever. my personal analysis on the matter is that i had a bad day, and i had a bad loss. i could explain all of the feelings i have behind this, but why should it matter?
why does having a bad loss preclude me from wanting a more motivated, close-knit community? i don't think i'm being hypocritical at all.
(what are you trying to prove by bringing up my loss to peter? is it that playing for simple enjoyment [or whatever he does] yields the same results as someone who plays with the intent to get better? if so, i'd look at every other tournament and compare my performance to his....)
i'm not a competitive person by nature, at all. instead of anger, the first emotions i'd resort to after a loss were resignment and feelings of worthlessness. i had to teach myself to loathe a lack of improvement to stay motivated and get better; i had to make smash my life to care about it enough. (now, it's a lot harder to do that because of "IRL" ****)
anyways, the lack in the norcal community that i've been talking about isn't even a lack of competitive spirit; it's equally about a lack of love/enthusiasm for smash itself, and it's a lack of unity as compared to socal. what example are we setting for the arcadians? even if (insert player here) isn't excited about smash, i still think it's lame to bring the mood down when there's another player who's really into it. all the subtle jabs, like jokes about fox/sheik/marth, saying "you don't have to do anything with this character except _____", or acting paternalistically, "Oh, tournaments? Been there, done that"...... they really rub off on people, and i think this general attitude is what's holding us back as a region. (it's also this lack of enthusiasm, i think, that stops people from driving a far ways for smashfests or whatever like socal does)
the very point that you assumed that my earlier post was motivated by "competitiveness" is proof in the pudding (god we need to stop doing that). it SHOULD be about the love/fun of the game, but this lack of enthusiasm isn't just a lack of competitive spirit, it's about a lack of enjoyment.
my feelings, anyways
if i post again then i'll do it in caps and real sentences and stuff