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How do you stop being so salty?

If I do get salty I chant the red lantern corps oath:
With blood and rage of crimson red,
Ripped from a corpse so freshly dead,
Together with our hellish hate,
We'll burn you all--That is your fate!


I then squat like a mofo.
 
Denizen said:
I love fighting, it's my life's blood. I enjoy every second of hand to hand combat in all forms. Some of my greatest moments of happiness have come from within an arena. However, almost everyone who fights for sport understands that you have to clench your fist in order to deliver a punch. Strictly gentle and positive emotions like happiness can't clench that fist, you need something hard and negative like anger to do that.

It's very natural to be angry when fighting someone, both in real life and in a video game. However, it's unhealthy and detrimental to your progress if that anger consumes you and you let it take away from your enjoyment of the fight. In the end fury isn't mutually exclusive from joy, you learn to love both and you need a balance of both to be a successful warrior.

Fury fuels my power and Joy makes it all worthwhile.
My point is that Skymin shouldn't get Salty, he should get Hyped. He should be angry that he's losing, but not hate his opponent. He should turn his rage into motivation for his training and use it to boost his ability in a match, and he should enjoy every second of it. Listen I don't blame you, it's difficult to understand from the outside looking in.

This has been a rant from your unfriendly neighborhood Zen.


I can definitely agree with hype over anger. Personally I still think one should train oneself to avoid getting angry in the first place. I personally, don't like being angry at all, and I don't think it adds to either enjoyment or ones chances of winning. But that's just my philosophy.
 
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I think a good way to stop getting angry is to record yout matches (with something like OBS if you're on PC) and then watch the match again in slow motion, using video editing software. The "bullshit" you encountered earlier is plain to see on the recording and you will have a good idea as to how you got hit/reset/baited whatever. Just check if your attacks got stuffed in their startup frames,or if you didnt react correctly to a reset. Hope that helps.

edit: goddamn phone keyboard giving me typos
 
Squire Grooktook said:
I can definitely agree with hype over anger. Personally I still think one should train oneself to avoid getting angry in the first place. I personally, don't like being angry at all, and I don't think it adds to either enjoyment or ones chances of winning. But that's just my philosophy.
That's fine for you, but I think everyone should remember which one of us has actually dedicated their life to fighting and which one of us just plays video games. I'm here to tell you that it's a complex amalgamation of all emotions, both positive and negative. I've realized that suppressing any of those emotions only harms myself, so instead I've learned to control and enjoy them and it's done wonders for me.
 
Skymin50 said:
Question in point - how do you deal with bullshit online without controller dropping? Fukua pisses me off beyond belief and I found myself complaining in a stream about Fukua, and then lagged my way into a victory. I feel really, really upset over how negative I was. How do you personally deal with shit that just annoys you on SG? I'd kind of just like to learn how to tolerate it.

because for me that's about everything

you have to respect your opponent.
If their play is annoying you, then that means they are doing something right. Or you are doing something very wrong.
 
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More likely the second thing.
 
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If I notice that I'm getting frustrated/demoralized, I just take a break, and clear my head. I'm pretty panicky anyway, as a beginner, and I don't want to lose more focus by getting bummed about things.
 
You have to become one with the saltiness
Be salty so many times, it doesn't affect you anymore
always keeping a positive attitude
Accept that you will lose some times as a fact
 
Here's my take on "getting salty". If you get angry that you lost or that you did something incredibly stupid or the other person did something incredibly stupid but it worked and killed you, it means that you actually care about winning/doing well. In my opinion people who say "Meh, I lost, whatever" are fine with how they are playing and do not feel the need to get better/do better in matches.
Yes getting extremely mad and chucking your stick/computer in rage is a bad thing. But getting a little salty isn't because it shows that you wanna get better and aren't content. So just channel it into "I can't believe I didn't do "X", I'll make sure I think about that next time", or "Wow I didn't think people ever did "X" with Filia, now I know that's a rare option". That also comes with respect for your opponent with that last one.
 
Personnal procedure : mash your face against your controller a few times. Works pretty well to clear your head.
Cool thing is if you're getting too salty, it'll force you to take a break, as you'll knock yourself down mashing your face too hard.
 
Hmm dunno, I find losing more enjoyable than winning, I mean, I rather try, struggle and find new ways to play and learn things than perfecting my opponent.

But I guess it's every FG's player mindset more or less, because they are still playing game's.

However I can become really salty because how bad I am, I'm pretty much a rage kiddo when I feel like I'm losing to myself rather than to my opponent.

Especially when I'm losing control because of stress or my crispy mental. Never went so salty than the time I lost to a top player because I missed a killing HD with 2 more characters in my last KOF13 tourney.
 
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Skarmand said:
Just blame the lag for everything and clap loudly while saying "Wow, I can't believe that worked. Online play everyone."

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What happened to help me with this sort of thing was focusing on myself instead of the other person. Instead of thinking "That's a bullshit combo," stop and think about how you could've avoided it. "Oh, I got caught in that mixup, I should vary up my blocks" or "Those little footsie punches were for it confirmation, I should try teching against a grab next time I see that." This has the extra side effect of getting you thinking about the game instead of losing yourself in your own anger.

Also laugh more often. I'm sure you've gone online to watch some video of people pulling off some crazy combo for fun. When it happens to you, just enjoy being in the presence of someone impressive. You like the game, just let yourself enjoy it a little more!
 
Just remind yourself it's just a game, but don't let that give you the mindset that you can't get better at the game, because you can. If you put effort into getting better, then in time you will. I never get salty at my opponent when I lose, I only get upset at myself if I do a stupid mistake, had a wrong read, etc. To me, that's what motivates me to get better and keeps me level headed, by looking at the mistakes I made and look to see what I can do to improve upon it and not make the same mistake again.
 
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