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* Several years back, a former tournament-level player called David Sirlin, who\'s now working for {{Capcom}}, wrote an article called \
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* Several years back, a former tournament-level player called David Sirlin, who\\\'s now working for {{Capcom}}, wrote an article called \\\"[[http://www.sirlin.net/articles/playing-to-win-part-1.html Playing To Win]],\\\" which contrasted {{scrub}}s and {{tournament play}}ers with little middle ground. The article made some good points, but the tone made it the poster-child of {{Stop Having Fun Guys}} for years. More recently, he followed it up with [[http://www.sirlin.net/articles/playing-to-win-part-3-not-playing-to-win.html Not Playing To Win]], a limited defense of casual play.
* Expect to receive grief for even \\\'\\\'lagging\\\'\\\' in online video games. How \\\'\\\'dare\\\'\\\' you not pay for the most expensive internet connection, even if it isn\\\'t available where you live, and how \\\'\\\'dare\\\'\\\' you be using a wireless network that\\\'s prone to going on the fritz or randomly burping? There is \\\'\\\'no\\\'\\\' excuse for not having the best internet out there!
* Do you play on anything that isn\\\'t part of the glorious PC Master Race? Well, you\\\'re wrong, and a terrible person for having fun that way.
* If you\\\'re a PC gamer, do you dare to play any game with a controller instead of a keyboard and mouse? You may as well have just raped a baby.
* Again, PC \\\'\\\'users\\\'\\\'...did you buy a pre-built PC? Do yourself a favour...\\\'\\\'\\\'DON\\\'T. EVER. SAY. IT\\\'\\\'. Admitting it is like saying you like to poison babies with LSD.
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[[folder:Fighting Games]]
* The biggest, and perhaps most [[MemeticMutation goofy]] of all fighting games\\\' [=SHFG=] goes to the \\\'\\\'entire\\\'\\\' SuperSmashBros series. Despite all the ways that this game can be played on both the goofball mess fests and serious 1 on 1 duels, a lot of the serious players seem to heavily focus on the Tournament Level, which focuses on not using items and playing very static stages. While there is nothing wrong with this style of play, it isn\\\'t how everyone likes to play, per se. None the less, a quick stop to any Smash Forum [[InternetBackdraft and asking up the idea of \\\"how do you play\\\" is not really a good idea...]] This is lovingly [[http://legendaryfrog.deviantart.com/art/Hardcorez-75608753 drawn out in this LegendaryFrog comic]]. The Tournament scene is arguably more well known for its Hatedom than anything else. Despite this, it\\\'s hard to find Brawl games that \\\'\\\'do\\\'\\\' allow items and break the AbridgedArenaArray.
* In \\\'\\\'StreetFighterII\\\'\\\' series, you\\\'ll have those who sneer at players who chose RyuAndKen, because Akuma (who is banned in most tournaments) is \\\"[[GameBreaker So much better]].\\\"
* Inverted by players who prefer \\\"old\\\" Sagat ([[CharacterTiers also extremely good]]) over Akuma, since Akuma is banned in tournaments -- and that means that many people don\\\'t find it \\\"useful\\\" to practice [[SeriousBusiness against a character you aren\\\'t going to play against in tournaments anyways.]]
* \\\'\\\'GuiltyGear\\\'\\\' fans will often scoff at you for not knowing basic blockstrings and combos, even though many of what they term \\\"basic\\\" require a fair amount of practice (ideally on a home system) to get down pat.
* You\\\'re a {{scrub}} if your Ranked Match team in \\\'\\\'[[CapcomVsWhatever Marvel vs. Capcom 2]]\\\'\\\' consists of anything but [[GameBreaker Captain Commando, Psylocke, Cyclops, Cable, Magneto, Storm, or Sentinel]]. Now that the game has been released for [[XboxThreeSixty Xbox Live]], don\\\'t you dare complain about seeing the same five or six characters over and over.
* \\\'\\\'{{MUGEN}}\\\'\\\' has a LOT of these guys running around. Due to just how much ground the MUGEN fanbase covers, you are bound to find every type of this imaginable. For every helpful fellow willing to show you the ropes and help you learn how the engine works, you have a hundred angry vets calling you a noob. For every kind soul that offers to guide you to better versions of the characters you like, there are a ton of snarky folks yelling at you for not knowing better. Then there\\\'s the fact that nearly every franchise with characters available in the engine has solid fan base and hate bases, so you can expect a lot of controversy in that regard. Finally and probably most aggravatingly, there is the elitist fighting game fanboy that will laugh at you and despise you if you show so much as a passing interest in Mugen. Because clearly enjoying a fighting game engine means you know nothing about fighting games, right?
* The first requested faq on any \\\'\\\'SmackdownVsRaw\\\'\\\' game? \\\"I want a CAW of last year\\\'s JohnCena, and 2009\\\'s Cena, and 2008\\\'s Cena, one with a hat, one without a hat, one with a singlet...\\\" The second requested faq however is \\\"lol what are all the unblockable Gamebreaker moves? I go tke my 98 level CAW to pwn all u noobs cause i\\\'m so l33t lol.\\\"
[[/folder]]
* Expect to receive grief for even \\\'\\\'lagging\\\'\\\' in online video games. How \\\'\\\'dare\\\'\\\' you not pay for the most expensive internet connection, even if it isn\\\'t available where you live, and how \\\'\\\'dare\\\'\\\' you be using a wireless network that\\\'s prone to going on the fritz or randomly burping? There is \\\'\\\'no\\\'\\\' excuse for not having the best internet out there!
* Do you play on anything that isn\\\'t part of the glorious PC Master Race? Well, you\\\'re wrong, and a terrible person for having fun that way.
* If you\\\'re a PC gamer, do you dare to play any game with a controller instead of a keyboard and mouse? You may as well have just raped a baby.
* Again, PC \\\'\\\'users\\\'\\\'...did you buy a pre-built PC? Do yourself a favour...\\\'\\\'\\\'DON\\\'T. EVER. SAY. IT\\\'\\\'. Admitting it is like saying you like to poison babies with LSD.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Fighting Games]]
* The biggest, and perhaps most [[MemeticMutation goofy]] of all fighting games\\\' [=SHFG=] goes to the \\\'\\\'entire\\\'\\\' SuperSmashBros series. Despite all the ways that this game can be played on both the goofball mess fests and serious 1 on 1 duels, a lot of the serious players seem to heavily focus on the Tournament Level, which focuses on not using items and playing very static stages. While there is nothing wrong with this style of play, it isn\\\'t how everyone likes to play, per se. None the less, a quick stop to any Smash Forum [[InternetBackdraft and asking up the idea of \\\"how do you play\\\" is not really a good idea...]] This is lovingly [[http://legendaryfrog.deviantart.com/art/Hardcorez-75608753 drawn out in this LegendaryFrog comic]]. The Tournament scene is arguably more well known for its Hatedom than anything else. Despite this, it\\\'s hard to find Brawl games that \\\'\\\'do\\\'\\\' allow items and break the AbridgedArenaArray.
* In \\\'\\\'StreetFighterII\\\'\\\' series, you\\\'ll have those who sneer at players who chose RyuAndKen, because Akuma (who is banned in most tournaments) is \\\"[[GameBreaker So much better]].\\\"
* Inverted by players who prefer \\\"old\\\" Sagat ([[CharacterTiers also extremely good]]) over Akuma, since Akuma is banned in tournaments -- and that means that many people don\\\'t find it \\\"useful\\\" to practice [[SeriousBusiness against a character you aren\\\'t going to play against in tournaments anyways.]]
* \\\'\\\'GuiltyGear\\\'\\\' fans will often scoff at you for not knowing basic blockstrings and combos, even though many of what they term \\\"basic\\\" require a fair amount of practice (ideally on a home system) to get down pat.
* You\\\'re a {{scrub}} if your Ranked Match team in \\\'\\\'[[CapcomVsWhatever Marvel vs. Capcom 2]]\\\'\\\' consists of anything but [[GameBreaker Captain Commando, Psylocke, Cyclops, Cable, Magneto, Storm, or Sentinel]]. Now that the game has been released for [[XboxThreeSixty Xbox Live]], don\\\'t you dare complain about seeing the same five or six characters over and over.
* \\\'\\\'{{MUGEN}}\\\'\\\' has a LOT of these guys running around. Due to just how much ground the MUGEN fanbase covers, you are bound to find every type of this imaginable. For every helpful fellow willing to show you the ropes and help you learn how the engine works, you have a hundred angry vets calling you a noob. For every kind soul that offers to guide you to better versions of the characters you like, there are a ton of snarky folks yelling at you for not knowing better. Then there\\\'s the fact that nearly every franchise with characters available in the engine has solid fan base and hate bases, so you can expect a lot of controversy in that regard. Finally and probably most aggravatingly, there is the elitist fighting game fanboy that will laugh at you and despise you if you show so much as a passing interest in Mugen. Because clearly enjoying a fighting game engine means you know nothing about fighting games, right?
* The first requested faq on any \\\'\\\'SmackdownVsRaw\\\'\\\' game? \\\"I want a CAW of last year\\\'s JohnCena, and 2009\\\'s Cena, and 2008\\\'s Cena, one with a hat, one without a hat, one with a singlet...\\\" The second requested faq however is \\\"lol what are all the unblockable Gamebreaker moves? I go tke my 98 level CAW to pwn all u noobs cause i\\\'m so l33t lol.\\\"
[[/folder]]
