What a worthless piece of shit thread.
Just open your mouth and say something, a handshake is not necessary unless somebody sticks they hand out and even then just fold your hand up and hit them with a fist bump because I dont know where your hands have been and keep it moving. I think that carries the message that I’m not mad enough to fight you because I got my ass handed to me in a video game it was fun now let’s keep it moving.
If I lost badly in a match I’m usually not going to say good game if they were intense matches. Im going to say “Oh hell naw you aint have to fuck me up in street fighter like that, this nigga got cheat codes(moreso a football or basketball game(real life) than a fighting game though)”. If you ever, ever, ever hear me say good games I’m going to be sincere about it. Stuff like this isnt really obligatory, I’m saying it because that’s how I feel.
However don’t say gg you only write or type that abbreviated version out you’re never supposed to say it aloud… that’ s kind of embarrassing yourself.
Yeah I can’t believe a debate actually even came up about this.
Here’s the jist guys cuz I’ve been going to local and major tourneys 4 years straight including 4 Evos in a row. **Some people will shake your hand and some people just won’t. That’s tournaments. ** Jimmy’s post made it seem like there’s several players in the scene who don’t shake hands after fights but in reality most do shake hands or at least say good fight after things are through. Though YOU ARE going to run into people who just won’t say shit or won’t shake your hand. It’s also NOT ALWAYS because they are trying to be rude or outright hate the way you play SF or anything like that. Some people are just anti social or are just too caught up in their loss to give you a handshake. Especially at an event like Evo where people have been training for all year and then a 2/3 match set decides whether or not they get anywhere close to a chance to make it to semi finals after a 4 hour flight or 10 hour car ride. I’ve had people literally look at their stick like it was broken or put their head completely down on the stick after barely beating them in a tournament. Sometimes you’re just too caught up in the moment to shake hands.
You will also get the people who just won’t shake your hand period even after the fight is over but you can generally tell who those people are before the fight starts. Usually if the opponent doesn’t say shit to you before the match starts don’t expect to feel the warmth of their hand when you win/lose easier. In the end people are people and a hand shake after every fight is not going to make the difference between the scene crumbling to the ground or huge sponsorships.
Your epic walls of text are nice and all, but…
/pointlessthread
Who would have guessed that when you make a thread that you don’t do socially accepted things, you’ll get backlash!
Again, that’s your thing. Good for you.
Are seriously trying to deny that you are just trying to start shit? Seriously? Hell you’re trying to provoke me right now. I dunno if you’re just being thickheaded or trolling.
A: Dude your OP had so much name calling it’s not even funny
B: No shit, it’s a forum. Ignore the ones you know are just talking shit
Which is why you put:
I’m not even trying to be that hostile towards you, so don’t go off calling me names for inexplicable reasons.
Some people, I won’t say who, need to learn to not take themselves so seriously.
word. well i didnt mean to imply there was anyone exactly like me that just doesnt want to shake your hand at all, and i dont think i made this clear, but although im not a fan of saying good shit, or good games after every match i have out of some so called courtesy towards the other player, but if someone says good shit, ill reply with a, word, or something. no big. im just not really big on handshaking and all that. ideally, yes, i just wanna sit down and play, and keep it movin. does that mean im gonna talk shit to anyone, or be a complete anti social dick? no. i invited a couple md players, and a fellow tvc player to drinks on me during the breaks at last years evo, and i dont talk to them much, and i never met royalflush before in my life before evo, other then on the forum. im not exactly a dick head in real life, nor am i some weird anti social nerd behind the forums, but when it comes to the match at a tourney, i just want to sit down and play. im trying to stay in my own personal zone. i dont wanna shake, and we dont have to even say anything after. id probably be more inclined to big you up later on the forum, then say shit to you there. thats just me.
thats what i said. i was just pointing out that, not everyone is always gonna put their hand out to a winner, or a stranger all the time, and that does not make them some anti social dick… if anyone watched jeff’s videos speaking on his past, it obviously didnt sound like the most lovey dovey type shit, but its not like they were all uber dick heads who you wouldnt wanna be around. they just had their own certain way of playing to win, and keeping a certain swag about how they got down in games.
this is not directed towards you deviljin, but this is where some people have me twisted. im not some random who has never been a part of a scene, or anything, and just sits behind my computer all day ranting on srk. i was a regular part of my tekken scene for almost 3 years before i moved away, and people know me, im cool as shit. everyone who met me at evo last year for tvc knows im cool as shit. we all kicked it, and chatted it up, but i just personally am not a fan of hand shaking. does that mean im just gonna mean mug you before and after a match? no, lol. whats wrong with people. hell, if it was tense, i might have to say good shit myself, or if its at me, ill reply with a word. but personally for me, im not into handshaking at all, and im selective on all the good game shit. thats just me though. i want to come in and do work. save all the cool shit for later. thats when ill be like, yo, you wanna go get a shot at the bar or something.
can a brotha have his own personal tourney mentality please. ha ha
yes, i do think people are having some insecurity issues. maybe im assuming myself, but the post speak for themselves in my opinion.
I have no problem with shaking hands after a battle. I did it a whole lot while playing MVC2 in the arcade, along with KOF, and many other games.
When I played this one guy in Street Fighter 2: CE, he talked mad shit, but I ended up winning and I offered a handshake–but a second after realizing he wouldn’t accept it, I pretended I was sneezing, so I brought my hand back up to my face to cover my mouth real fast so I wouldn’t look like a fool. I was pretty annoyed by it, but realized that some people are just douches no matter what.
Shaking hands or saying good games just shows some respect and good sportsmanship, I usually do one of the two after a match.
I don’t usually initiate the hand shaking, but if someone puts their hand out I’ll shake it. If they don’t, I’ll say good games, if they don’t respond I don’t care lol.
haha
Before the match its all business (unless they wanna shake hands, than I’ll be sure to shake) but after the match I always make sure to shake the hand of my opponent, whether I won or lost.
True story:
A couple of years ago at EVO, I went up against a scrubby Chun Li player (in ST) that literally didn’t do anything but throw a random fireball and then jump forward LK/MK and then mash out legs. As a Dhalsim player, those moves have high priority and can be tough to counter correctly. A few times my spacing was off or my timing was off. But mostly, I was just thrown off by the fact that he kept doing the same thing EVERY SINGLE TIME. Surely, I thought, this time he’ll change it up. After all, this guy came all the way to Evo to play. There’s no way he’ll do jump in LK -> legs for the 50th time. 49 times sure…but not 50. But, I guess that’s the mixup. And he kept it up. Anyway, the last round came down to the wire and I just barely squeaked out the win. As ashamed as I was to almost get beat by those “tactics”, it was a close game, so I got up, said “Good game” and stuck out my hand for the shake. Dude just unplugged his controller and stormed off. The fuck?!
So, two things:
- That guy was a dick
- jimmy1200…I have to ask…was that guy you?
EDIT: Almost forgot to give my thoughts on the subject. If you win, be courteous and shake or say GG. If you lose, don’t be a dick. Be a good sport either way, basically…IMO.
^ lol. no, that was not me.
LOL! Fair enough. Figured I had to ask :wgrin:
I nominated this, great post.
Yeah that’s the thing. I love fighting games because they really show off the personality of who you are playing against both in and outside of the game. The flowchart chun li was just looking for a quick win and then gets upset when his strategy was ultimately predictable and failed him. Its just hard for some people to fly or drive all the way out to a tournament and put their all into it just to lose. The whole sportsmanship thing isn’t on their head and they just want to win.
What they don’t realize is that fighting games are ultimately an art and it requires u to respect the opponent. The way the chun li player was playing even through the game showed he had no respect for ur mind as a player seeing he went after u with the same pattern like u were a training dummy. Someone who plays one dimensionally will ultimately also only see one dimension in real life. Themselves. They are only thinking about what they are doing not realizing what u are doing as an opponent is equally as important to their goal of winning the set and moving to the next bracket round. Sometimes people learn from it and for others it just becomes their personality in tournaments.
You guys had me rolling by page 2… 
Anyway, fist bump ftw. My hands get clammy as I’m sure half of these posters have the same situation. Do you fist bump, jimmy?
Found this hilarious for some reason. >_>
Terrorist fist bump ftw.
i should substituted it for a hand shake just to be funny. just fist bump their hand shake and walk away. good games! lol!