SwiftTomHanks
missiles are coming
The event of watching or taking part in fighting games can really bring out some crazy emotions in people that I feel like you would never see otherwize. I'm normally a pretty calm guy, but set me in a crowd back in the mlg days of mk, I'd rip a bitches' head off to show my devotion to KT Smith. However after years of exposure to the fgc, it's fair to say that people like ourselves have just become accustomed to this... that anything loud and crazy is good hype lol.
The school I teach at held a Smash tournament today after school hours to raise money for Holliday charities. Having bodied my students in a Marvel, Madden, and Halo tournament, once again I was asked to enter this one. Where this got really interesting was watching and hearing students reactions who have never been around fighting games, or maybe even video games at all. A good chunk of my students found out about this and wanted to come see what was going on just as spectators. Once there was only 4-8 people left some of these kids went fucking nuts. These are hipster art kids mind you. I almost lost a match from cracking up when I heard an otherwize super polite art girl yell "get puffed on bitch!" as my Jiggs won a match against some Marth scumbag.
What is it about fighting games that bring out these raw emotions?! These students have no pre knowledge of the fgc, and would have fit right in with a god damn Marvel scene. How do we know, naturally to act like this around video game competition? I thought it was just us, the hardcore scene that shouted crazy stuff like that...not quiet and respectful art students.
What I gained today if anything was
#getpuffedon
The school I teach at held a Smash tournament today after school hours to raise money for Holliday charities. Having bodied my students in a Marvel, Madden, and Halo tournament, once again I was asked to enter this one. Where this got really interesting was watching and hearing students reactions who have never been around fighting games, or maybe even video games at all. A good chunk of my students found out about this and wanted to come see what was going on just as spectators. Once there was only 4-8 people left some of these kids went fucking nuts. These are hipster art kids mind you. I almost lost a match from cracking up when I heard an otherwize super polite art girl yell "get puffed on bitch!" as my Jiggs won a match against some Marth scumbag.
What is it about fighting games that bring out these raw emotions?! These students have no pre knowledge of the fgc, and would have fit right in with a god damn Marvel scene. How do we know, naturally to act like this around video game competition? I thought it was just us, the hardcore scene that shouted crazy stuff like that...not quiet and respectful art students.
What I gained today if anything was
#getpuffedon