I inject the veins in my hands with Red Bull before every tournament.
i’ve used adderall (and many other substances) to see if they’d give me an advantage in SF.
on adderall, i was about as good as i was sober, maybe 5% better.
on weed, about the same as adderall.
opiates, worse than sober, but not by much - felt “slow”.
alcohol, garbage, although my friend does way better w/ alcohol.
cocaine, garbage, scatterbrained.
above all, i’d say green tea is the best (thanks to the l-theanine in it). it acts as a natural tranquilizer without putting you out of commission like you took a xanax. so you can relax & think clearly while you play. probably why the japs are so good.
i’ve tested a few other substances, but i can’t in good conscience recommend them to SRK folks.
edit: all of these drugs were used in small amounts - 10mg adderall/1 bowl weed/10mg morphine/2 drinks, etc. a high dose of adderall (>40mg) will NOT help you think clearly or play better. also, taking amphetamines to play better doesn’t work out for long, after a while, you will need a dose just to feel normal, definitely not giving you the advantage. if you need something to take the edge off, drink green tea.
Wow, just wow reading this thread is freakin’ hilarious.
Just practice no drug is gonna make you Daigo.
I don’t know if I agree with you guys, though I certainly get more focused when I play. Still, I can’t tell if I’m ever actually playing any better.
KFC´s doubledown is the only drug you need for tournaments!
Daigo needs no drugs. All he needs is for Capcom to upgrade his hard drive with the latest metagame info.
wtf i use Ritalin to sleep i didn’t know it helps you in games
Yo, Ritalin is like focus-up x20.
I play games when I’m sober. I can’t be disorientated while playing.
I play games when I’m winning.
… wait.
Nothing enhances fighting game ability more than a thizzle
i cant ever sleep the day before the tournament at all so i drink 3 full throttles the day of the tournament and sometimes take an aspirin as well
atlanta’s best sf4 and one of their best tekken players (same guy) shows up to every tournament drunk and high (on weed) out of his mind, sometimes unable to form complete sentences, and he consistently places 1st or 2nd in sf4 and top 5 in tekken 6
and of course this thread: http://www.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=91713
I just read that whole thread. Interesting read to say the least. srk was really more hostile back in the day
having sex or jackin off helps me focus
“you look too calm and focused, lemme drug test you right quick.”
I am guilty of juicing up before tournaments
Chaos Control a hoe.
think the OP is saying more of once you really hard to beat already, an extra push makes you ridiculous
gonna try to put this as best I can
people here and even in other competitive scenes like to pussy out so fast that they never even stop to examine the situation. I remember a boxing match I saw one day going on for the world title. during the match, first boxer brought his head up and cut the other boxer in the eye. now, I believe that shit was on purpose he punched the other guy while he was complaining about it to the ref. once ref saw that cut though, they stopped the match and examined it. immediately after that, they determined the first boxer to be the winner. The second boxer was complaining hardcore, talking about it’s not fair and shit that a match gets put in that guy’s favor because of a headbutt. first boxer just said “I’ll fight him again if the money’s right”. you know why I call that boxer the second guy? cause that mother fucker not only lost, he scrubbed out.
I dunno about yall but I don’t think anything takes the idea “playing to win” extreme enough. where most people say “STOP!! HIT THE FUCKING BRAKES, ARE YOU INSANE?!”, I say “Keep going”. I wouldn’t mind playing someone in a tournament who used shit like turbo buttons or macros, don’t care if he picks Akuma, don’t mind if he uses Anakaris’s mummy glitch (though it probably will annoy me). I think the banning of such stuff should be supported because it places limitations on the enjoyment of the game, not because they’re “overpowered” or cheap. just say they’re not worthy for a fun tournament. I wouldn’t use them (or maybe I would if I really really had to in order to succeed?) but if that’s how someone else rolls and they roll well, I don’t wanna fuck up their flow but I do want to think about how to win and proceed to kick their ass. I basically draw the line at anything that either bores the shit out of everyone (ex. ssbb’s ledge hop stalling) or makes the game far less and less about actual in-game battle (ex. pulling out my controller, constant touching, hitting). I don’t think drugs cross too far into the latter. so use a goddamn drug if you want. but you’re gonna lose to the guy who really has his heart set on winning. I think it’d bring in interesting players, at least for a while.
but get over this scrubby ass mentality and understand the reality of the situation. you most likely didn’t lose because someone was Akuma, was using turbo, or had some sort of drug in their system but because you got your ass kicked. what’s wrong with the gaming scene is you want to not lose more than you want to win.
Oh noez, this has never been talked about before…but I guess you missed these:
Get yourself a strong strong sativa and smoke that shit before a tournament and you will play 10000 x more focused.