Get a divorce.
This is true.
This is false.
The prime of a baseball players career is usually around when he is 32 years old. It is a million times more difficult to swing a bat to react to a 96 mph fastball or a 85 mph curve, than it is to react to reactable things in a fighting game. Not to mention, a baseball player’s career usually ends because his muscles aren’t fast enough to react. We don’t have to worry about the muscles in our wrists and hands anytime soon.
I suspect we’ll start to get shitty around our mid-50’s.
A lot of pro players are bums. I don’t even compete that much these days and run into some pretty cool top players who practically need handouts in order to survive. I mean food, shelter, and all that shit.
This isn’t everyone, but it’s a bigger portion than anyone really wants to admit to.
My time is usually in demand but when it isn’t I get some games and training in. To get really good, however, I’d have to give up time from more meaningful shit to devote to what amounts to a useless trait and enjoyable hobby. I’d just rather not bother.
Wow, this is madness but perhaps expected? Which country or countries do these bum Pros come from? I have seen a guy cry after a tournament because he knew that the only thing he was good at in life was this particular fighting game. But I seriously hope this guy was an anomaly…
Yes, it is better to do this when you are young and active, because later you will not care as much
LOL at the examples you picked fam. Just wtf.
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I’m a living example that can tell you from past experience, To be THAT good to where you can place even just top 8 in a major - you have to live, breath, eat, sleep, shit the scene.
When I was in the tourny scene hard (MvC1/A3 - MvC2/CvS2 days) I was 18 ~ 25
Everybody I knew and associated with, Played.
My girlfriends, Played.
Job? - Nope.
Games were my entire life during those years, It’s all I had…same thing with most top players, That’s frankly the only way to get that good - You have to dedicate your life to it, It sounds dumb but that’s truly what has to happen. My personal best was Top 8 at Texas Showdown 2 in 2002.
Mycah in 2016? - I can’t play for shit but I have a home, career and a BMW Roadster and I can afford to pretty much go out whenever and do whatever.
It’s easy when you aren’t married and don’t have kids. Just my dog and I and he doesn’t care when I play fighting games as long as he gets a chewy to chew on while I do it.
I know Justin streams on twitch and is partnered. I don’t know how he made money before twitch streaming was big.
He used to win virtually every tournament. He’d travel all over, enter every single game and win in almost every single one.