I really hope this doesn’t come across as slander or anything of the like…
But every single time I play a Japanese player on fightcade in Garou they seem so incredibly condescending…Like ridiculously so. I’m not sure whether I am actually being condescended or whether or not it is just a cultural or language discrepancy though…
And it makes me really sad, because I just want to play and share the love of the game, not being trash talked and treated like a lesser human being for reasons I’m not sure of…
Examples are I’m called baby, or play at a baby level, or tell me not to use a character because I suck with it, or them trolling in the game and losing and then laughing incessantly. Or ignoring me completely. The thing is it isn’t like they are so much better. I’ve only played competitively a year and I’m already pretty good and of course can get to their level with enough passion for the game. But it really isn’t about winning or losing here. I just want to be treated like a valid player and person.
I believe I can help. See, Garou is life and you insult them with your ass skills. By insulting you they are attempting to instill in you a drive to better your play. Therefore you need to level your game and grow thicker skin or you will keep embarrassing yourself and Garou in general.
except I’m not ass at all, nor am I embarrassing anyone. In fact I beat them sometimes even multiple games in a row, and soon I will be hanging with the top fightcade garou players. But again it isn’t about that.
It’s not even a problem of having thick skin or not. I could care less about what people think, I am just confused as to what is going on…
yes, I’m sure. I am confident in my skill level, especially for only playing competitively a short time. And again, I’m far from a poor player. I have a long way to go, sure, but I have potential to be a top player.
I was using marco… A character I am inexperienced with but am picking up quickly.
the thing is everyone is really nice in the garou room, save for a few, but specifically all of the japanese players seem to be so condescending, and I just want to know whether it is me not understanding their intention or whether they are actually just being incredibly rude.
and then when i brought it up in the chat he just said i was crazy to a chinese player and said “really he is crazy, plz no touch lol”
meh it just really bothers me how every japanese player ive played talks like that to me
I’ve to say in my experience none Asian player has ever talked trash to me on fightcade if they don’t feel like playing me they just quit the game without notice. Completely different story on the KOF 2002 room with the Mexicans I can’t stand those fuckers if you’re not up to their level they 're going to troll you and leave harsh comments before leaving the game.
It is what it is not all of them are assholes though just ignore them, keep playing.
Any person having similar experience and though process like the OP I suggest reevaluating your priorities. IF want my advice, First thing get your ego out of your ass. No one is entitle to cater to your feelings, sad and harsh but we don’t live in perfect world were everyone can be chummy. Don’t take any experience dealing with strangers personally, let alone online. BE better and just shrug it off, and move along. Adapt to your environment in healthy manner where in this case simply ignored these people and not give them your attention. if can’t do that than change your environment, and if last but hopefully never warranted last resort don,t get involve any more and find another thing preoccupy yourself with.
But coming to forum and speaking to more stranger to voice your complaint is not tactful and will be viewed mostly as an annoyance. Reason why because Its a personal problem and in my opinion should not be taken Online. Most people who are online will be considered adult most pf the time, If your able to go online with out supervision then your an adult by online standards, and no one wants to see an adult act like a child about something as trivial as “they were mean to me”, most of time your response will be suck it up.
Find a copping mechanism, preferably one you can do easily and on your own. Their a lot of techniques but you need to know what works best for you, if your the type to be impulsive and need to let loose energy then try working out, or simply running to extinguish that energy, be weary of negative habit of impulsiveness such as directing your energy at something or some one in destructive manner like doing physical harm or even verbally. If have to hit something then invest in punching bag.
Their is also the expressive type who always need to refer to their feeling and sentiments, invest in journal or log of sort and try writing down your experience and what it did for you and how you want to reflect, or can look for guidance or counselor, but this also bring bad habit of needing feedback and becoming code pedant on others. Some time one can discern things on their own when they had time to think over it. Receiving feed back is nice when its available or offered but you have to be state of humbleness or you could take thing like criticism or advice as an attack and antagonize that individual. Learn when you are humble and when your not, Find some solace and you’ll eventually realize that this problem is nothing to worry about
to what help you understand that your taking experience way out of context? or that you want some one else to justify another action? we can’t help you understand other people act and operate because were not them. IF you really want to understands then ask those people you have problem with and not us. If you can’t due to language barrier then learned their language if you can’t do that then simply not invested enough to learned and need to reevaluate your priorities
The only thing we have to go by is your word and your response, so anything I’ll speak of will be about you only because thats all i have to go by since i dont find your other info credible. so with that said you want me to tell you what you are? very well your and idiotic cry baby.
Your idiotic because you you clearly don’t understand your position and place.
your cry baby because you seem to just want things your way and when don’t get it whine about.
My current impression is You never truly wanted to understand the situation but wanted some one to make you feel justify, Fuck out of here with that. If you wanted to just play your games and have good time than play your game and have fun.
I feel i can considered my self credible and call your experience an isolated thing because i’ve been on kaillera, 2df, ggpo, arclive,fightcade and some, I’ve had opportunity to play many different region people including japan and mexico. I can count the number of times acted the way you explained on my fingers and I’ve been online gaming for over 12 years. food for thought
I agree with keo-bas. forget about validation from nobodies thousands of miles away who probably can’t even type good insults due to the language barrier. japanese trash talker gives me the vibe of bottom feeder who wont show up at a game center anyway. more importantly though, assuming you don’t already, go play and compete offline. because fighcade is really not a competitive environment, and you will actually find people who share the love of the game.
see title of thread. clearly you have a need to pretend you are superior to me by casting me as a baby when in fact i simply sought to understand what their actions meant, particularly people who might have a better understanding of japanese culture.
I remember I played few games with a very good player in Fightcade called MARCO or something and he was a regular. He had a Japanese flag.
No insults or whatever
i didnt intend to revive this POS thread, and it really shouldn’t, but just wanted to make a final clarification, because someone pointed out this thread to me today (by someone I have beef with; I guess he kept this shit on tabs or something).
The thread was never intended to be an act of taking a personal issue with fightcade players to complain or whine about it here. I think it may have come across that way in writing, but this wasn’t my intention, and I failed in saying what the intention of the thread was. I also didn’t respond very respectfully, so I apologize.
Anyway, I’ll try to clarify. The thread was trying to ask if there were cultural discrepancies in how people act and communicate that one should be aware of in a multicultural space like fightcade. At this point I was not only new to fighting games, but also new to competitive games in general, not to mention new to this kind of social sphere, so I just didn’t understand why there was so much trash talk, and was wondering if perhaps there was an aspect of japanese culture or something i was misinterpreting.
What I have learned is that yes, sometimes the differences in culture and styles of communication across culture can be misinterpreted. And this actually leads to a lot of overt racism within the fightcade channels. It is what it is, and you gotta just deal it or ignore it, and I’ve learned to try and do so, sometimes in a positive manner by laughing with friends I’ve made from different countries over some racist idiots from my or their country. We then poke at our own opposing cultural differences.
Anyway this truly was a thread about understanding the kind of environment I was getting myself into with competitive fighting gaming, and particularly if I was misinterpreting some aspect of japanese communication that those here with more knowledge on their culture might clarify. It wasn’t about having anything my way, being validated, caring what someone says over the internet. I understand those who painted me that way, because the tone was a whiny and maybe egotistical, and I appreciate those who didn’t jump to that conclusion.