Ending the night at 7145 lp. I am a failure. 
I was going really well, but the boost from the rum wore off and I started playing much worse and never recovered the form I was at the start of the run.
I will get platinum during the week.
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I just woke up I’m getting 318 as a 5 average. I’m on a laptop touch mouse which may be slightly slower.
Or I’m just a fucking tiger uppercut wrecking machine.
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This LordWilliamesque malarkey needs to come to an end. Absolutely nothing positive will come from having a shit attitude. Its going to impact how you perform in all aspects too. If you going into a game thinking that you’re shit, you won’t have the confidence to basically do any of the things you need to. So really you’re walking into games giving your opponents a massive psychological advantage: instead of them creating insecurities in your gameplay (which is a large underpinning behind certain aspects of the game) you would be handing it to them in a platter.
The thing you should really focus on is that you dont’ have a gameplan for any part of the stage. You can complain about Ed if you want, but its the issue is on you. I used to have similar problems with Zeku. I used to blame him for things I wasn’t doing. A lot of that had to do with playing with purpose. Now when I enter a game, I try to gameplan for the character, then what the player is doing with the character and change goals. When I do I win, when I don’t I lose badly. But the important part is that my losses are firmly under my control. Either I failed to reasses something, I got hit with something I don’t know how to beat, or I’m feeling matches out.
In your case you can’t do most things right because you aren’t in the right mind set to do them. I jumped in a lot and you anti aired with air normals. This happened because your whole gameplan is nonexistent. Had you given yourself a goal, you could’ve focused on anti airing in a more meaningful way.
Your gameplan seemed to be to stop me from getting to you physically but not taking control of the neutral. So the round starts, you dashback 8 times and then tried to throw fireballs. Problem with that is that Ed’s normals, memes aside, are pretty good to play footsies with. So instead of getting at me where it hurt, you opened up the whole stage for me to dictate the gameplay.
You had a similar problem opening me up. Yeah, Dash up throw isn’t real for a lot of characters after a knockdown, but it doesn’t have to be. The important part is that you establish that your meaties are. Once I know I can’t hit a button, I’m susceptible to a throw. In your case you never really did that. You got a combo and the automatic meaty came in. People are gonna cry that XYZ isn’t real, but the psychology of the situation is. Ed gets to stack so much grey damage on you that the last thing you wanna do is hit a button. So if you’re establishing your blockstrings to be tight, you need to start throwing for the pay off.
If you’re midscreen, start giving yourself a goal of what you want your opponent to do.
“I’m going to force my opponent to expose himself by doing this.”
Consider that bad jump ins are basically simlar to an opponent falling for a shimmy. You made your opponent take that risk. When you get a knockdown work on getting your opponent to take the throw midscreen. When they’re cornered give yourself one of two gameplans: 1) I’m going to take control of the corner because Ed can protect the skies well enough to do so or 2) I’m going to get my opponent to be afraid to hit buttons so I can dash throw.
You and the rest, don’t give yourself a terrible mindset. You won’t improve in a meaningful way with a bad one. Similarly the things that your opponent has to do: put doubts on your defense, your ability to move forward or how you approach him on the ground, all of those become easier.
So there ya go.
@Maravilla I’ll get you next.
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My biggest problem is lack of play time, but my next biggest issue is that I decide too strictly what I want to do next and tunnel vision in on that without reading the opponent.
I feel you on the lack of play time I’m only home 2 days a week and in that time have to fit in family and all the other things. Other than that it’s impatience and just being stubborn trying to force situations.
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I averaged 280ms which means I’m still free too command grabs and dashing
Averaged 320 on that reactions thing on my phone.
Facts time is rare these days. I like to read, draw, and im thinking about writing. I also gotta spend time with the lady, work, and start class next week. And a nigga need sleep.
Fuck I miss being a kid
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Being single has massive advantages.
Good thing that I have always thought that men have cooties and are generally not worth the trouble.
Lone wolf forever.
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I’m not even sure I count as moderately good at this point and it still feels this way.
I’m trying to find a character/plan that I can focus on without VTrigger or other things so I can learn the game flow (one of the reasons I keep picking Kolin VT1) first and then layer on top of that. But I’m beginning to feel that just doesn’t work here.
Just pick Gief with VT2. You will play VTless and it will force you to learn how to play SFV neutral and how to deal with it’s bullshit pretty quickly.
Same here I’ve got a business to help run, people depend on me, and my priorities are just different than the we’re a mere 4-6 years ago. I still like my games but can’t foxus on them like I used to.
Same here, and an added problem to me is the fact that I’m still pretty lazy to draw and such so I procrastinate so much.
Procrastination fucking sucks man, I like to draw so much and I’m having a good time learning digital, but this thing gets in the way even when college hasnt started 
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Not really sure why you guys are lamenting getting older. Invariably most of the things mentioned here are all far better than playing fighting games. This is a hobby, not a job. People have been trying to make it a job since 2010 and its leading to a lot of issues.
@Maravilla About your question, its actually dependent on your time and what your goals are for this hobby. The biggest misconception is that people enter the FGC to play at tournaments. This is invariably wrong. The vast majority of the people in this community of enthusiast join because they just like the games. What differs is that people here are going to take the game more seriously than in other places.
So let me know what your goals are and I can give you a hilariously indepth answer on how to get there. Mostly because I know what I need to do to really be good at these games, have figured out how to do, just don’t. 
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The problem is, psychological problems aren’t so easy to fix with a go get 'em attitude. The reality is, I’m a deeply flawed individual with legitimate mental problems that I’m honestly not sure I’ll ever be able to truly overcome by the end of my life, whenever that may be. One of those is simply that the second I lose confidence it takes a long time to come back which means I easily fall prey in set play because one setback ruins me for pretty much the rest of the set.
Those mental problems show quite clearly when I play. No matter how much I can look at a situation logically, it simply is irrelevant if my mind cracks at the first opportunity.
Ultimately I’m just better at analyzing a situation on the outside than actually having the ability to really play. It’s why my career choice is to be a teacher. I’ve just come to a point in my life where I understand that I am not able to truly be great, but I can at least help others achieve what I cannot.
Yeah being some SF tournament god just isn’t in the cards for me logistically. That’s why I relax and just sorta play the game. Not really worried about how good or bad I am. I still try to improve but I’m only gonna put so much time in.
Procrastination is a real bitch for me. I made a resolution to finish one piece a month this year. I know I probably won’t make it but it’s not a lofty goal and I’m really going to try.
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I just miss not having to choose between having a hobby and getting a night’s sleep.
And when I do get to play I’m already fatigued to shit and have to spend a minimum of an hour getting my inputs cleaned up.
Plus it doesn’t help that fg require more time than most games to git gud. One of y’all used a good analogy describing it like playing a instrument. I can not play COD for months or weeks drop in and place top 3 almost all my matches. But with this I feel like I’m constantly trying to improve little things to see even a slight improvement.