509 名前:俺より強い名無しに会いにいく[sage] 投稿日:2010/06/02(水) 11:39:25 ID:pOz6uJ6yP --What is your inspiration? My family, in particular, my father. My father believed not telling his children what to do.My father told me to find anything I like and become good at it. If I were to leave a foot print on the earth as an individual, I thought of pursuing mastering gameskills.
When I’ve come to terms with my own feelings and truly appreciate what I’ve got and where I am, video games and playing video games came to mean so much more for me.
Some of this is long, but also contains some of the deepest answers on these subjects that I've ever seen, so I'd say it's definitely worth your time. In particular, he even managed to capture in words my own early struggles with playing games "seriously," --the way people outside the game reacted to the fact that I played in tournaments in my free time-- and how even their compliments could seem insulting. I'm sure many of you have been in a similar situation, so it's very cool to hear one of the best in the world describing it so well. Brings a tear to an old street fighter's eye!
24 名前:俺より強い名無しに会いにいく[sage] 投稿日:2010/06/04(金) 02:17:44 ID:bMr8B0ta0 -Which tournament did you enjoy most?
2 before the last EVO. EVO 2006 or 2007?
Though I lost horribly, but I had so much fun hanging out with the other players afterward. We got so drunk and Alex [ed. note--Alex Valle] and I played arm wrestling, and all kinds of silly stuff. Man, I got so drunk. Though we may not be able communicate perfectly, we can get connected. And I think we all had great fun.
29 名前:俺より強い名無しに会いにいく[sage] 投稿日:2010/06/04(金) 02:24:08 ID:bMr8B0ta0 -Any story of SF player camaraderie to share?
When I was in my early teens, I didn’t really believe in friends ? I will spare you from the story now. I was playing at an arcade in Akihabara and missed the last train of the day at Kanda station. For someone in their early teens, missing the last train is pretty bad you know. I called my parents, and sure, they were super mad and worried. I told my dad that I had missed my train and had no means to go home. He told me to take a cab; I told him I had no money. So we settled with me taking the first train (5 am or so) in the morning home. So I thought of killing time at a Denny’s till then. Suddenly, the guy I was with asked me “wanna get on?” pointing out the back of his bicycle. You know, it would take 3-4 hours from where we were to home. I was like what are you talking about? It’s just way too far. On top of that, that person was usually blatant, not really friendly, and comment spiteful remarks, but we somehow got along and we hang out playing videogames. We got to my parent’s house after 3-4 hours of him pedaling, me on the back. He was soaked with sweat. As soon as I hopped off, he waved, turned around and left. Imagine, he had to rode back for hours again. That was then, I realized that what a good friend meant.
30 名前:俺より強い名無しに会いにいく[sage] 投稿日:2010/06/04(金) 02:25:34 ID:bMr8B0ta0 -Any story of SF player camaraderie to share?
People care about themselves. They prioritize themselves over the others. I saw that when I was little and I hated it. But gameplaying and winning the game was clear cut and straightforward.
Many of the serious gamers have certain complexes about themselves ? let it be their looks, back ground, status etc. Some sort of scar or stigma. I know that as a person who had had those traumatic feelings. You don’t need to treat them overly sensitively because they too would be sensitive to that kind of treatment, but you should keep that in back of your mind. They may not be sociable or dislikes associating with the others. I was like that myself, so I like those who keep a lot of those feelings to themselves. I can relate to them and want to tell them “it’s ok, you don’t have to worry about those things.” I’m not trivializing their feelings, but I want to tell them that there are much easier way to deal with it and live life. It’s not like I have overcome those issues, but that I just came to think “so what.” But I do totally understand their challenges.
32 名前:俺より強い名無しに会いにいく[sage] 投稿日:2010/06/04(金) 02:26:51 ID:bMr8B0ta0 -Do you think more female SF participation would help the SF community grow?
The number of female players has to increase so much more to have a real effect on the community. Even doubling the number of women would probably not do much.
First of all, if we talk about male players, their motivation of playing a game has to be pure and come from passion for the game. A lot of what happens in reality is that male players start to come to a particular arcade for a particular female player. Their interest is not game, but it’s her. So my question is what happens if the girl finds a boyfriend or you get her? I’ve seen some players grew so fast that people wonder what the hell had happened to him. It is like a steroid, and it does work so fast at the moment. A female player motivates them to play, but since their playing game is not a natural way, rather forced to play a game, they are not persistent. It can be a short term affect but because the number of female players are limited, their participation to the community somehow gets misread by the rest of the players, and I don’t think they can bring a long term effect to the community under the current circumstances. They have to increase so much more in terms of numbers to come up to the male players.
On the other hand, in the West, the situation might be different because the gaming environment is different with lack of arcades. So I would encourage the Western community to try out different options and see what works. I endorse EVO inviting more female players into the community. If it doesn’t work, we know it didn’t work and get to try something else.
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