I get my ass handed to me at fighting games daily and for some crazy reason the only time I get mad is when I play SSf4. I never get pissed when I lose at HD Remix or Third Strike. There is just something about SSf4 that really brings out the worst in me. It’s a good thing I don’t own a nice stick, I play on that cheap Mayflash stick and I have slammed my fist on it more then a few times and it’s still going strong. Cheap piece of shit can really take a beating. Also go see the movie Kick-Ass, it fuckin rocked.
Its super effective! It’s SO effective, I can’t believe it.
It goes something like this:
lose match vs jump back roundhouse nonsense because of lag/frustration overwhelming my judgement
Instantly super pissed off, muttering swear words as I’m getting down on the floor and into pushup position… normally, this is where I’d be violently punching my stick/the wall/my cat…
start counting off pushups
1 still mad
2 less mad
3 hardly mad
4 not even mad anymore
…
By the time I’m finished, my mind is clear and I’m in a much better mood for the next fight!!
I’ve heard of CS teams doing that push up thing too. Pretty decent idea.
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I just realized the guy I quoted put push ups in quotes, indicating that he wasn’t even talking about physical pushups… 
If I started to do this since the first time I played SF, I’d be like John Cena right now.
I just got a new break horse in the garage to practice on, and that is getting a metric fuck-ton of use right now… mostly thanks to SSFIV. Spend a couple of hours practicing combos, ultra execution, learning strategies, planning ahead - then get your ass unequivocably handed to you (with a smile no less) in match after match after match. I think I won one match out of ten tonight, and it was against the world’s worst Ryu player with 0bp who was probably some ten year old who’d never played a fighting game before.
P.S. I’m still pretty angry, as you can probably tell from how much I’m going on and on about it.
edit: I like sandwichcookie’s idea though. I’ll try 10 pushups every time I lose. At least there’s benefit whatever happens that way.
Well when I lose I start thinking I deserve to die and burn in hell. Hows that for an answer?
<---- Also has constant suicidal thoughts after losing
I want to hit up a bar after I lose in a laggy match…
I get really really mad at myself. Mainly because I am sitting here playing as much as I can to get better, and when I lose because of how dumb I’m playing I just rage and walk off. 
Doing the regular “hit whatever moves, stands still or lives”-method with controller pad, fist or anything else worth using
Controller pad (see 360) makes up for very good reasons to hit stuff. Good thing it’s sturdy as hell or the thing would have broke since long.
Hehe, I might actually have to steal that idea back. :tup: push-ups sound like a good plan to calm my nerves after losing to the 100th flowchart because I just got my first fightstick and Juri just won’t move where I tell her to :wtf:
Does anyone else have trouble sleeping if you stop playing on a stupid loss? I found that i had to force myself to go to sleep or id stay up until i get a win. And not a scrubby win either i gotta win a GOOD match. Stupid psyche
usually when I screw up inputs, or when i blank out and fail to punish a whiffed ultra or something… then there’s the FUCK HOW DO BEAT THAT…
I know that one.
It’s the same when I play against my brother, or practice combos. I forget about everything else and just feel I CAN DO IT (haha, as if). sooner or later, it hits 2am and I am still as scrubby as before. rinse and repeat to 3am. thats usually when I get to bed after said practice round
I don’t get as upset as when I first started SF4 SERIOUSLY, because I put in a lot of practice and I am starting to understand the game more. I only get mad when I do somthing stupid. I am only mad at myself for not making a smarter move. But sometimes the other player just played smarter. I don’t get mad when I lose to someone being cheap. I.E. Blanka players that sit on the ground and use electricity the entire round. Wait till I have a chance to go figure out how to beat it. Lol.
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i used to just smoke a bowl when i take too many L’s. now that i cant, i just try to stay calm and if its gets too bad, i just quit the game and play something else im good in
First of all, I criticize myself even if I get a* win*. I might beat someone in ranked but be unsatisfied with how I played. Many times today I didn’t use the right punish combo, screwed up the execution for a simple move (abare,oroshi,FK,SPD), and made dumb mistakes that made matches end one or two rounds later than what they should have. I’m thinking to myself, “Yeah, I won…but I could done better than that”.
But I think I’m part of the general consensus here. If I lose to someone who’s just better than me at the game I just try to understand why I lost and move on. The last match I played tonight I lost in a Bison ditto, but it was okay because the other player was a pretty good player and understood how to work him better than I did. If I lose to some lame shit (some dipshit mashing out his ultra combo in the middle of a combo), I get very angry at myself for not playing more intelligently. There is nothing I hate more than losing to someone I know I can beat, and given some of the circumstances in this game it happens more than you’d think. Sorry if I come off as ranting, but it really makes me want to break someone’s shins with a blunt object when I play well, then make one mistake that costs me the match.
I do get mad when I lose to someone that appears to be of lesser skill online. (whiffing specials, getting punished all over, random ultras, etc) especially when I watch replays and their inputs are nothing but a series of mashed buttons. It makes me sad when watching a throw tech that on one side I see 20 lp+lk inputs and on my side just one, yet there’s no penalty for mashing it out. Sure it makes me feel a little better because I know I timed it just right, but what good is that?
I also get angry when I spend like a week working on new skills: spacing, zoning, baiting, easy punish combos, and feel like I’m generally getting better only to get the floor mopped with my sorry butt by a friend who just “naturally” seems good. (By this I mean they pick up concepts and advanced stuff much faster than anyone else we play with.) I forget all the stuff I learned and feel like I’m hanging on for dear life rather than executing a plan. 
Try to tell myself to relax and breathe, but everything just seems futile.