this is awesome

How???????

i should be clear in that i have a belief in the distinction between like taking something super serial and the type of person im talking about, the "im not here to make friends" guy that im making up, who will *never* do the introspection to realize that no, his opponent wasnt mashing

what that then leads to is, well, what we got. where some will just auto assume they have say over everyone else cause theyre the best, that game'd be dead without you, damaging to both how you see the game and also to your progress and everyone in the orbit. ive been that person. dont do that

ive been consistent in saying since the beginning that you have to create the environment thats chill and appreciative enough to have people see that its worth investing their precious time, before you do anything. cause if its just about prioritizing who's the best and its just transactional, well

got into it w/ a bud again the other day, we go back and forth a lot on whether to do bracket or just let ppl play and i get the sunk investment in it, i've been there. but its easy to get softlocked in chasing that identity, The Tournament Player who plays Tourney Worthy games, you lose something

cause lotta ppl just have no bandwidth to think any broader than this & how it relates to their routine. there was that one tweet about how all ppl wanna do after long day of work is turn on the game, just grind ranked & not be "dependant" on friends being online. but thats how you get that picture

Ikenfell is a great one I'd recommend personally

the whole thing reminds me a lot of a post i saw, i forget if it was here or elsewhere, went something like "i opened a game's accessibility menu and found a bunch of cheat codes and no option to resize the subtitles"