Well…This has all certainly been very interesting, but I think its time to come clean about something…Turtle mentioned this but it passed over many of your heads in your attempts to flame him: I created this post to get certain reactions out of people and I succeeded in my aims. I’d also like to apologise for manipulating you Smash Boardians, but I was curious and very bored…
Basically what I wanted from this post was to:
1. See if I could get more replies out of being an arrogant egomaniac then a regular “Hey guys here is some vids, any pointers?” guy who wants help.
2. See what reactions people would have to someone who they love to hate.
3. Actually get some advice on my Metaknight (even though I knew most of it would be flaming, which as you can see…it was.)
4. Get someone to show me some awesome Metaknight vids, which I have not seen many of before…
5. And finally get the pure selfish ego bolstering effect of more youtube views
Here are my observations:
First of all, I hate people with big egos, I’d like to say that they are the opposite of everything I try do with my life, humility builds much character and spirit… but I’ve seen enough of them in my brief life to emulate one with ease. First I just had to pick a title that would be sure to piss people off…Claim I’m better then a pro, I even went further and claimed that I was better then the proest of the pros M2k, I was expecting a fanboy response of “M2k is god lol…you don’t stand a chance” and I wasn’t really that disappointed. I felt kinda guilty about dissing every other Metaknight, but it was part of getting a rise out of peoples own egos about their own playing abilities, that was the only thing I lied about…how there were no good Metaknights apart from M2k, I know there are…However I still think M2k is boring to watch…but that’s because I find every match of Brawl boring to watch (I’ll always love you Melee)…Anyway…Pretty much the results of this egotistical jerk making his post was better then I hoped… I got 350ish reads of my thread and almost 30 replies in well under 24 hours, whereas we compare too a post I made a few weeks back:
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=178385 In the week or so that I kept it bumped up on the first page it got ten replies (most of which are me bumping) and only 240 views…
I spose the conclusion to this is that people would rather hate on a person then help them out…if you want attention its far better to be a jerk then to ask kindly… Comment on human nature? I dunno…way too much to go into in this post…but yeah it was interesting.
For the second point…yeah people love to hate…Now I’m not going to attack people for attacking me…I mean that was the whole point, but constructive criticism woulda been nice… which brings me to my next point… Actually no wait… I do have one person to pick apart: Nico, your almost as arrogant as my fake post, you take other peoples supposed victories as your own, i.e. Neo, when you get a tiny flame from someone who obviously doesn’t know anything about how you play you start spouting off how high you have ranked and all the people you have beaten…You make the major assumptions that people in Australia have no idea what importing is (many of us had the game within weeks of its release in Japan…I still use my *** wii to play brawl on), and that we have no ranking system at all for any of our smashing communities…Melbourne has tournaments constantly and has a consistent ranking system… Go troll somewhere where your opinion might mean something to other trolls…(well aware of the hypocrisy, but mine at least was intentional.) In contrast, I’d just like to point out that Dojo had probably the best response out of everyone, granted there were no specific playing tips, he offered some criticism, and lamented at my arrogance instead of attacking it…You’re a champ Dojo, keep it up, we need more people like you in these forums.
Neo, I’m going to explain to you why I do those things… First of all…the rapid a at low percentages, when used correctly can still be useful, while this is theorycraft other people indulged so shall I (there is also personal experience behind this reasoning)…You catch someone with either their feet off the ground and close enough inside of you or even shielding, if you end it fast enough, chances are your not going to get hit…if their feet are off the ground…they will take a second or so to DI away from you then a bit more to be able to react as they have to put their feet back on the ground to attack (though some characters obviously have some quick aerials that can be used if the person DI’s up high enough)…If they shield, sure there is no shield lag, but do you think they can time dropping their shield at a point where they are not going to be hit by a random swing of MKs sword? Comes down to luck imo, or controller ports if they are trying to grab… and like is said…if you end it fast enough…you usually have a split second where there are attempting DI or shield where you can punish them for that…Works better at higher percentages, but it still works… My forward smashes are generally either done in anticipation with the knowledge that there is almost no lag after it…resulting in a down smash to anyone who tries to rush me…or they are spaced correctly, people make mistakes, don’t judge my entire playing style from one grabbed fsmash… Now as for Dash dancing…you say its useless, I say your very, very wrong, first the tripping factor is negligible, I trip on average once, max twice a game, even with all the dash dancing I do…So that’s an invalid point, secondly, its unpredictable and its very useful for spacing…I generally use it to try and psych out a dodge from an anticipated up-b, or into a grab…or into a dash attack or into a shff empty jump for a mind game… It was way more potential then you think…
Oh and for that guy who said attack when I grab, I prefer to keep the match fluid then waste time with Metaknight slow grab attack, which I found was getting wiggled out of the second I went for more then one…plus a quick grab into a fthrow could mean no DI, which could mean a nice shuttleloop kill…but yeah…I do think stuff through…
No one gave me any Metaknight vids…fair enough, considering it was kinda a favour…but I thought there would be some at least with “See look he is better then you, look what he does,” too much to ask I suppose…
Finally my youtube page got quite a few views in such a short period of time its kinda funny…So I suppose mission accomplished there…Couple of funny mentions though; people one starred my videos (well I would like to think so anyway) in a way to spite me and make me angry that people didn’t like my vids…even though I know they are semi-decent…kinda immature. Also I got more subscribers and a few more comments…which I love…it’s a nice little ego boost…
Anyway I think that’s enough Wall’O’Text for now…sorry once again to anyone I really pissed off, I was really bored and wanted to see some results…
Also thanks to Turtle and Shaya for having my back…even though it made you the bad guys, much respect.
Peace
Kulla
(I really cant be bothered to check for spelling or gramma mistakes so just ignore it if you see it ^^)