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Smash is played by people who can't do a quarter circle.
A quarter-circle is pretty much the posterchild for fighting game difficulty. It encapsulates everything. It's representative of everything. When someone tells you they can't play fighting games, they'll almost always tell you: I cannot do a quarter-circle. And you know what? Yeah, a lot of people can't. When you're first start out the first thing you need to do is do a quarter-circle ten times in a row. It's a basic fundamental thing. It's the building black that everything else is learned off of. And you're gonna have to lab that and learn it, along with a lot of other fundamentals. But it always comes back to, "I can't do a quarter-circle".
Smash players are those guys that can't do it. They don't want to lab it. They don't want to put in the (perhaps autistic) amount of time practicing to get good. Instead, they bitch. They know they cannot change fighting games so instead of reflecting on themselves, they blame the beasts. But they still want to be fighting game players. They want that prestige that comes from playing a difficult and competitive genre. So they go over to Smash and then tell people, "ayup, I'm a fighting game player".
But the effort a Smash player and a Guilty Gear +r player put in are two completely different beasts. In +r people can play thousands of matches and only know a single character. I know a guy who played Bridgette for over a hundred hours and he GENUINELY thinks of himself as a novice that needs to improve. I know a Sol whose won tournaments whose still on the path to improvement and his gameplay gets critiqued a lot. Characters in +r, each of them, are all practically their own game. There's so much depth and complexity just to one character. Smash doesn't have that. But they want to pretend that they're on that same level.
There are people who have put nine hundred hours into Guilty Gear +r and go, "I'm a huge novice, I'm still learning". Because even if you're a new player and they perfect your ass and they're seemingly a god, there's a bigger fish out there.
I don't care about whether or not Smash is a fighting game. I think video games are for fun, just play. Enjoy yourself. But Smash players can't do that. They need to argue with you every step of the way how they're real fighting game players. They feel the need to insult you and your favorite game for not being as good as Smash.
And above all else, they can't stop touching children.
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