For me the salt come in 2 forms:
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Losing to shit tactics makes me know that I’m a shit player. Especially when I can do things that are advanced and win against better players using the advanced stuff, but then lose to shitnuggets doing dumb shit and I have to reassess myself as fellow member of team shitnugget… Which is highly salt inducing.
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Putting ALOT of time in to learn a game, and still losing to bs stuff. Makes me feel like I’m not progressing and/or that I’m wasting my time with the game/genre.
Learning is fun, but when you lose to something that you don’t know how to beat or seems impossible to beat no matter what adaptation you’ve made, it can become frustrating.