Mucky

In my experience, trying to rationalize why you're feeling nervous doesn't really help to stop feeling nervous. It's like trying to swim upstream, lool. Best bet is to embrace it, like SKD said. One way to do this is to reframe your anxiety into something more positive, like excitement. I mean, just calling it anxiety is essentially telling yourself you have a disorder, since that's the term used for actual disorders. Not to say that I know anything about your life, but nobody needs to be bogged down by thoughts that there's something psychologically wrong with them while there's a tournament to win. Depending on how severe it is, you may want to try breaking it down to its most basic blocks and knocking them off one at a time. Being on stream: Stream lobbies and netplay tournies can help desensitize yourself to this. It might also help to know that, aside from the spectator aspect of it, streaming inspires the sense that everyone is together in the same room, like the oldschool days of gaming before netplay existed. So, in a way, it's not too different from having to be with a crowd in an offline venue. Being in an offline environment: TD's advise to socialize is good. Having people you know, even a little bit, helps to feel less like an alien. Let them know some things about yourself, too. In an ironic sense, you'll feel like there's less eyes on you, like "who is this dude playing right now." Pressure to perform well/win: Not sure what to do with this one, lool. I would say this pressure comes down to a notion that you have something to prove. For most people at a tournament, that "thing" can be as basic as "I can win this," which you seemed to realize as you wrote your post. Trying to understand what it is specifically that you want to prove can help you deal with it more efficiently, or perhaps re-evaluate why it needs to be proven in the first place.

Because you can't just start a blockstring with a standing move and then go into the 8-10f low? This is almost on the same level as "react to jump startup"

I actually tried to do this once. Honestly, 4 states isn't enough to fully simulate how a real player does mixup, even with a basic character like Ragna.

he said player, not food critic

5D goes active on the 23rd frame. It's not that slow. Trying to challenge it is like trying to challenge Ragna 6B.

You know what? Fuck it. This shit has gone on for three nights already, and I have had enough. You are obviously lying through your DIRTY TEETH when you say you don't want to talk about this, because you keep taking these cheap-ass potshots on twitter, and now here. So here we go. WE FUCK NOW. This whole thing started from one flippant comment I made on twitter. "fuck gapless blockstrings." Yet the first thing out of your mouth is "LOL TRY INSTANT BLOCKING." Then you immediately contradict yourself in your conversation with mac, where you say Rachel's blockstrings are meant to be gapless. In other words, trying to instant block Rachel is pointless, and so is your fucking rebuttal. Which brings us back to where we started. Next day, you say TD is irrelevant. That's a fucking laugh. Yes, he plays differently from you. Guess what? He also WINS MORE GAMES THAN YOU. I've played hell of a lot more games with his Rachel than I have with yours. I can count on one hand how many times I've landed a 720 on him across all the games I have ever played with him. You, I land a 720 at least ONCE A MATCH. I play like an idiot, know fuck all for CP Tager combos, and I've still won at least half of the games I've played with your Rachel. Would you say that's a coincidence? I would say that not only does TD play smarter than you, he also has better execution than you. According to your logic, he has no reason NOT to do what you try to do. And yet he doesn't. Why do you think that is? Have you ever stopped to think that you don't understand your character as well as you think you do? Or that the character you play is versatile enough to be played in more than one way at a high level? Go on. Try telling TD that he's playing Rachel wrong. Let's see how far you get with that. YOU'RE NOT LOSING BECAUSE OF DROPPED COMBOS! What, do you drop EVERY fucking combo, in EVERY fucking match? Because if your problem really were just dropping combos, I highly doubt it would've gone on for THIS LONG. It's the first thing any player irons out in their gameplay. And then you go back and forth different answers. Oh, I don't really care, tsubaki is bad, rachel is too hard, blah blah blah. WELL GOSH, I DON'T SEE ANYTHING ABOUT POOR EXECUTION THERE! DO YOU? You take "perfect" to be a completely axiomatic term, throwing it around without elaboration or justification. You throw it around like a fucking 10 year old who just learned his first cuss word. You want your arguments to have substance? Then try putting some thought into what the word actually means, and how we're supposed to relate to it as fighting game players. As HUMANS. Imperfect human players for which this romantic ideal of perfect you have floating around in your head is NOT POSSIBLE. Why are we supposed to care about this? You keep talking about how Rachel is unstoppable with a perfect offense. Why is it so hard for you to imagine an opponent with a perfect defense? What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? You even concede this point in your own post, yet you continue to argue it ANYWAY. Is this Animal Farm or something? Is your character's perfect more perfect than another's? Is that what you're trying to argue? That's not even the real issue here. The real issue is this: Every game, every set, every fucking time I see you posting in this thread, you're regurgitating this shit time and again. And every time you do that, it comes off as an attempt to protect your precious ego. Well FUCK YOUR EGO, man. Remember the things Star-Demon would say? "I shouldn't be getting by this, or that." "I can't believe I dropped that combo." "I'm so bad, woe is me." You might remember the outbursts he had, and maybe even chuckle at the thought. Or maybe you don't, it's been so long that the exact times are too hazy to pinpoint. But try to think about what he was really doing back then. He was crying out for attention, telling that sorry story to himself, over and over. He did it because deep down, he wanted to convince himself it didn't matter to him so he could feel better. There's plenty of other people who do the same thing. Don't think for a second that you are any different from him, as you are now. I'm not gonna sit here and coddle your feelings. I'm not gonna sit here and tell you the things you want to hear. You can resent me all you like after reading this. I don't give a fuck. I am absolutely done giving a fuck.

Stop putting words in my mouth. For fuck's sake.

I'd be careful with assumptions like this. Walking 720, sure, but walking 360A is pretty legit with magnetism.

it could have its own new column at this rate mAc Chaos: Serial Chain-Grabber Claims Another Victim

then why do my rooms always get flooded with hakumens

sometimes I get grabbed so many times that I think I'm playing Smash Bros

I knew you would like it. <3 I'll put all the names of the songs I used in the description.

guys i made a video about netplay

fuck yo netplay stage

why am i in a room with 5 hakumens why am i trying to play stick WHY AM I STREAMING THIS my head