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[Stormpaw]

MOBAjobg, on 21 November 2019 - 06:36 PM, said:

I can't even achieve it. You are asking for a lot.

yeah, but you're not claiming to be regularly putting out 1000+ damage matches

if someone can regularly put out 1000+ damage matches, the sheer amount of damage they would be dealing to the enemy team in most drops would produce the numbers Kubernetes is describing

[Horseman]

Nosferatu 666, on 21 November 2019 - 03:25 PM, said:

the truth is the truth and I don't care how you feel about have nothing to prove,

Sorry, bud, but it seems like you haven't head the saying "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence".

Kubernetes, on 21 November 2019 - 03:37 PM, said:

The truth is that there's nothing surprising or interesting in what you're saying. Every few months some big-talking scrub comes in here bragging about how he's so much better than his stats show, and how only performs badly because "I don't do meta blah blah blah."

You underestimate them. I've counted no less than three in the past month.

[PhoenixFire55]

Oh boy, another 30-percentile-er claiming l33t skillz ... here we go again.

[justcallme A S H]

PhoenixFire55, on 22 November 2019 - 01:14 AM, said:

Oh boy, another 30-percentile-er claiming l33t skillz ... here we go again.

It's almost as if this hasn't ever happened...









.... this week

[Burning2nd]

oh no.... you guys are starting to anger the nerds .....

DONT DO IT!!! they will try to make you feel worthless for not being good as them on A FK'n VIDEO GAME lol

mean while in reality

[Horseman]

Burning2nd, on 22 November 2019 - 01:58 AM, said:

DONT DO IT!!! they will try to make you feel worthless for not being good as them on A FK'n VIDEO GAME lol

The point isn't to make anyone feel worthless. On the contrary.

Pretending they're some kind of badass/expert/authority when public evidence shows the opposite? Whether it's deliberate lies or an actual delusional belief (the latter being WAY more common), it speaks of a lack of self-confidence.
Unfortunately, it not just terrible for their image in the community - nobody likes self-aggrandizing liars - but also, worse, prevents them from honestly evaluating their own performance - and therefore from actually improving.

"I'm an expert player, it's my team that's the problem"
"I'm good, it's this mech I play that prevents me from doing well"
"I'm better than anyone else on this team, it's the enemy team's fault that their lights ganked my assault while I was solo capping in Zimbabwe"
All self-serving excuses absolving oneself of any responsibility for their abysmal performance.

Do you know how competitive players do this? They don't sling blame, they analyze the **** out of the match:
"What in this strategy went right? What went wrong?"
"What ultimately won/lost us the match? What are the counterplays to that?"
"What individual mistakes were made? How do we guard against them?"

All ultimately in the service of one question: "How can we do this better next time?"
Anyone who stops asking himself this and assumes his gameplay is above reproach and beyond any improvement is refusing to grow both as a player and as a person.
And that's ******* terrible.

[Burning2nd]

Horseman, on 22 November 2019 - 04:05 AM, said:

All ultimately in the service of one question: "How can we do this better next time?"
Anyone who stops asking himself this

TangSOO!

now your reading between the lines

Edited by Burning2nd, 22 November 2019 - 07:46 AM.

[Horseman]

Something else to consider:
When we tell someone their performance is X and not Y (where X<Y), it's rarely a condemnation.
If you read between the lines, the message always is "You can do better, and you owe it to yourself to try. Now up and at 'em!"

[Rustyhammer]

Nosferatu 666, on 21 November 2019 - 10:29 AM, said:

Spoiler

so ya....disagree lol ^^^^^^, even with my trolling I am still well above 1:1 lmao

I feel you forgot to edit the 903 Avg XP to match your KMDD & W/L ratio.

[Aidan Crenshaw]

too much medical marijuana and other sensible seeds, I guess XD
that comes close to a certain other post I once saw. Rofl