What are the chances you would have tweeted about it if it was a real guitar? I'm thinking zero. Because you don't actually care. You just want to cry about video games.
I think Matt is completely right here. I love GH and can't play a lick of real guitar- the whole point of the game is you can live out your rock star fantasies without spending the thousands of dollars on equipment and hundreds/thousands of hours practicing. Spending this much time to perfect score 1 video game level at 2x speed just seems completely stupid to me.
In that time/effort he could have become a pretty decent actual guitar player.
Is it better to instead spend hours to do a RE2 handgun only no hit run? Or watching all of the x-files? I could have spent that time on a gun ranges or falling into the occult. In the end it’s just entertaining ourselves.
He didn't do this to entertain himself, he did to to post and brag about it online. 50k attempts at something arbitrary and failing over and over doesn't sound like fun to anyone sane.
Spending this much time to perfect score 1 video game level at 2x speed just seems completely stupid to me.
Its a famously difficult level that people still talk about nearly two decades later, being played on ultra hard mode just for the hell of it. I wouldn't do it myself, but dismissing it to this level is laughable. For people who care about this thing, its impressive.
Most "professional" gamers are probably double or more that kind of time playing their specific arena. They just don't have a running total to judge it by.
the whole point of the game is you can live out your rock star fantasies
Is Dark Souls' entire point to live out your knight fantasies? Did the Wu Kong game prove that millions of people really want to be monkeys? Has every Metroid player secretly wanted to be a woman?
Maybe people just enjoy playing a game without a deep psychological reason or self-insert.
He's also going to remember this win for his whole life. Any time he's feeling down he'll be able to say "I did something amazing".
What's missing for men these days is that important state of mind of being great at something. It's a built-in imperative that women don't have much of and so don't understand - because they don't need it. Males have to put on the show and have the bright colors.
Any talent you try to develop, you can go on youtube and see somebody so much better and it makes men feel listless. What's the fucking point if I'll never be that good? Well this guy is the best at something - or worse case one of a tiny handful - and at his core he'll be happier than most men today will ever know.
Every man needs that one story, that one achievement that they can fall back on. Even if no one else appreciates it, it'll be there for you. As you said, most men don't get that in their life and you can see how broken so many's self esteem is. Heck most are so fucked up they can't even appreciate it when they have it (like a lot of speedrunners). Most of us live our life without having an achievement nearly as unique and skillful as this guy, and I hope he feels that in his soul.
That's something guys like Walsh never understand. Because to them, the only barometers of success and "being a real man" are money and fame. Which is certainly one source of that greatness, but also a very vapid and easily lost one (while being hard to obtain). And the more guys who chase it, the higher the bar becomes to even reach something notable.
Its the same old "men should be dancing monkeys, women's attraction is god" from Feminism, repackaged as a "you don't want to be cringe/beta, do you?" for Right-leaning men. You can't enjoy something that isn't Woman Approved Good in your life, you must only have hobbies and a lifestyle that appeals to them.
Every man needs that one story, that one achievement that they can fall back on. Even if no one else appreciates it, it'll be there for you. As you said, most men don't get that in their life and you can see how broken so many's self esteem is. Heck most are so fucked up they can't even appreciate it when they have it (like a lot of speedrunners). Most of us live our life without having an achievement nearly as unique and skillful as this guy, and I hope he feels that in his soul.
That's a great point from you and fauxgnaws.
That's something guys like Walsh never understand. Because to them, the only barometers of success and "being a real man" are money and fame.
Wouldn't that just be "money" for Walsh? Since he complains about people with notoriety all the time, like this guy for instance.
Is Dark Souls' entire point to live out your knight fantasies?
Um, yeah? Like the Arkham games let you live out your Batman fantasies.
And he wasn't enjoying playing a game- he picked an absurd, arbitrary object that doesn't even exist in the game and spend 9 months and 50k failed attempted to do 1 little thing. I doubt he enjoyed it much at all, he wanted some weird clout by achieving it and posting it online.
Like the Arkham games let you live out your Batman fantasies.
This is beginning to sound more like a you problem. Not everyone is self-inserting into every game and getting deeply emotionally invested in that specific character. Sometimes its just fun to play.
I don't play DDR to live out my dreams of being a backup dancer for a boy band. I enjoy working up a sweat listening to gay europop trash because its hilarious.
he picked an absurd, arbitrary object that doesn't even exist in the game
He took something that was already impressive on its own in game and then doubled it. Its an entire industry to gain uniqueness among the crowd in streaming and the like.
LobosJr didn't have to do barehand, 1 hp runs of Dark Souls games. But he did and now people know him as that guy. He went from one of thousands of generic Souls challenge runners and now is a named meme everyone knows.
If you want to say streaming/youtubing as a whole is a gay industry that everyone is wasting their time in entirely, that's one thing. But this is literally how that game is played, its picking whatever you can be best at (skill, charm, funny, rage, fail, etc) and using it to make you stand out.
https://x.com/GPrime85/status/1898789718277357705
https://x.com/DDayCobra/status/1898768663567577176
https://x.com/TheQuartering/status/1898815960229781865
I think Matt is completely right here. I love GH and can't play a lick of real guitar- the whole point of the game is you can live out your rock star fantasies without spending the thousands of dollars on equipment and hundreds/thousands of hours practicing. Spending this much time to perfect score 1 video game level at 2x speed just seems completely stupid to me.
In that time/effort he could have become a pretty decent actual guitar player.
Is it better to instead spend hours to do a RE2 handgun only no hit run? Or watching all of the x-files? I could have spent that time on a gun ranges or falling into the occult. In the end it’s just entertaining ourselves.
He didn't do this to entertain himself, he did to to post and brag about it online. 50k attempts at something arbitrary and failing over and over doesn't sound like fun to anyone sane.
Its a famously difficult level that people still talk about nearly two decades later, being played on ultra hard mode just for the hell of it. I wouldn't do it myself, but dismissing it to this level is laughable. For people who care about this thing, its impressive.
Most "professional" gamers are probably double or more that kind of time playing their specific arena. They just don't have a running total to judge it by.
Is Dark Souls' entire point to live out your knight fantasies? Did the Wu Kong game prove that millions of people really want to be monkeys? Has every Metroid player secretly wanted to be a woman?
Maybe people just enjoy playing a game without a deep psychological reason or self-insert.
He's also going to remember this win for his whole life. Any time he's feeling down he'll be able to say "I did something amazing".
What's missing for men these days is that important state of mind of being great at something. It's a built-in imperative that women don't have much of and so don't understand - because they don't need it. Males have to put on the show and have the bright colors.
Any talent you try to develop, you can go on youtube and see somebody so much better and it makes men feel listless. What's the fucking point if I'll never be that good? Well this guy is the best at something - or worse case one of a tiny handful - and at his core he'll be happier than most men today will ever know.
Every man needs that one story, that one achievement that they can fall back on. Even if no one else appreciates it, it'll be there for you. As you said, most men don't get that in their life and you can see how broken so many's self esteem is. Heck most are so fucked up they can't even appreciate it when they have it (like a lot of speedrunners). Most of us live our life without having an achievement nearly as unique and skillful as this guy, and I hope he feels that in his soul.
That's something guys like Walsh never understand. Because to them, the only barometers of success and "being a real man" are money and fame. Which is certainly one source of that greatness, but also a very vapid and easily lost one (while being hard to obtain). And the more guys who chase it, the higher the bar becomes to even reach something notable.
Its the same old "men should be dancing monkeys, women's attraction is god" from Feminism, repackaged as a "you don't want to be cringe/beta, do you?" for Right-leaning men. You can't enjoy something that isn't Woman Approved Good in your life, you must only have hobbies and a lifestyle that appeals to them.
That's a great point from you and fauxgnaws.
Wouldn't that just be "money" for Walsh? Since he complains about people with notoriety all the time, like this guy for instance.
If I run around cutting down enemies irl with a sword I'd be in big trouble is the difference
Um, yeah? Like the Arkham games let you live out your Batman fantasies.
And he wasn't enjoying playing a game- he picked an absurd, arbitrary object that doesn't even exist in the game and spend 9 months and 50k failed attempted to do 1 little thing. I doubt he enjoyed it much at all, he wanted some weird clout by achieving it and posting it online.
This is beginning to sound more like a you problem. Not everyone is self-inserting into every game and getting deeply emotionally invested in that specific character. Sometimes its just fun to play.
I don't play DDR to live out my dreams of being a backup dancer for a boy band. I enjoy working up a sweat listening to gay europop trash because its hilarious.
He took something that was already impressive on its own in game and then doubled it. Its an entire industry to gain uniqueness among the crowd in streaming and the like.
LobosJr didn't have to do barehand, 1 hp runs of Dark Souls games. But he did and now people know him as that guy. He went from one of thousands of generic Souls challenge runners and now is a named meme everyone knows.
If you want to say streaming/youtubing as a whole is a gay industry that everyone is wasting their time in entirely, that's one thing. But this is literally how that game is played, its picking whatever you can be best at (skill, charm, funny, rage, fail, etc) and using it to make you stand out.