I enjoy Smash Bros. Both in playing Ultimate and watching Melee. But I never want to go to another smash tourney, or hang out with other smash fans again. I used to be part of my university’s smash group, and looking back I only got a long with a few of the people there, and everyone else was a fucking toolbag, or an incompetent manchild. I remember having an enlightening conversation with someone who tried to convince me women were incapable of playing melee competitively due to the shape of their heads and motor skills. I remember the smell being soo bad at one tournament, that I ended up forfeiting one of my matches so I could go home cause I couldn’t take the smell anymore. One of my best friends, who was a brilliant Robin player in Smash 4 was called the “N” word multiple times cause people couldn’t handle losing to him, and the tourney organizers would do nothing about it. I main Ness in both 4 and Ultimate, and almost got a controller thrown at me cause the guy kept running into my pk fires. and a local game store stopped hosting smash tourneys cause people wouldn’t stop breaking shit after losing, and shit kept getting stolen after tourneys.
Great news, the Melee community has weeded virtually all of those terrible out, though I’ve heard that most of them I’ve heard just went to Ult (whose community is fairly disconnected). I used to avoid the entire game because of the community, but now that it’s not being run by people in their low 20s or younger, I actually finally picked up the game.
I enjoy Smash Bros. Both in playing Ultimate and watching Melee. But I never want to go to another smash tourney, or hang out with other smash fans again. I used to be part of my university’s smash group, and looking back I only got a long with a few of the people there, and everyone else was a fucking toolbag, or an incompetent manchild. I remember having an enlightening conversation with someone who tried to convince me women were incapable of playing melee competitively due to the shape of their heads and motor skills. I remember the smell being soo bad at one tournament, that I ended up forfeiting one of my matches so I could go home cause I couldn’t take the smell anymore. One of my best friends, who was a brilliant Robin player in Smash 4 was called the “N” word multiple times cause people couldn’t handle losing to him, and the tourney organizers would do nothing about it. I main Ness in both 4 and Ultimate, and almost got a controller thrown at me cause the guy kept running into my pk fires. and a local game store stopped hosting smash tourneys cause people wouldn’t stop breaking shit after losing, and shit kept getting stolen after tourneys.
Great news, the Melee community has weeded virtually all of those terrible out, though I’ve heard that most of them I’ve heard just went to Ult (whose community is fairly disconnected). I used to avoid the entire game because of the community, but now that it’s not being run by people in their low 20s or younger, I actually finally picked up the game.