So… you really believe in all this “Me Against the World” bullshit…
Wow.
Anyway, when it comes to criticism, much of what determines whether it is constructive or not, is the way a person chooses to take it.
Therein lies your problem. If you already have this ridiculous attitude (like you’re Tupac or something…), it keeps you from finding the value in any type of criticism. I know I can be abrasive. I know this. Personally, I feel like if what I’m saying is true, it doesn’t matter how I choose to phrase something. You could say that’s a personal flaw of mine… whatever. If you really want your community to thrive, though, you need to be able to pull the good out of anything, and that is something you don’t do. You revert to the mentality of a six year-old, and that doesn’t serve your community at all.
EDIT- Also, I don’t know why you think playing the games has anything to do with this. You could be the best SNK player in the world, you still come off like a scrub. You have displayed a scrubby mentality. Whether or not you’re good doesn’t even matter.
What you don’t seem to understand is that if you’re going to be leading the SNK scene into the future, your job is to market SNK as best as possible to the general FGC. When concerning marketing, perception is all that matters. Truth doesn’t mean shit.
Just judging by your posts alone, I get the impression that I could beat your ass in one of these games if you gave me until Evo to do it.
Now will I? No! I don’t even care to. Even if I did care to, there’s a great chance that I would be wrong, and you would own me up. Sure.
What’s important, though, is that it doesn’t matter whether I could beat you or not. What matters is that I firmly believe I can, based off of perception, and that sentiment alone keeps me from taking you (and via extension, the entire SNK community) seriously. That sentiment alone would keep me from starting to play the games.
Just for the record, because I KNOW you’re gonna miss the point of what I’m saying… I’m not gonna devote the next 7/8 months to playing some SNK game so that I can beat you. I really don’t care. The POINT is that you come off as a scrub, and it really doesn’t matter whether you are one or not. The POINT is that you need to develop a much better sense for marketing yourself and your community, because you are certainly a scrub at that.
