Are Top Players Depressed? 

Excellent video. I'm a content creator first who also plays Melee (but I don't make this aspect of myself that well known since I'm a newer player), but juggling the pressure of creating art and creating videos, with or without the added pressure of practicing Melee is a lot. While there's no monetary or ranking benefit from improving at Melee I feel a sense of personal satisfaction, the same way I feel satisfied with any other sort of skill. The way content creation works is that numbers strip out the enjoyment you could get from something by directly telling you it's not your best, but never enough on what to do better to get theoretically more views. And there's so much in terms of stuff you need to improve on in terms of making content, it's overwhelming. You always need to work harder and it's easy to feel like you're not progressing especially when you compare yourself to your peers. It's hard but I believe we have to remember to keep ourselves grounded and have a sense of personal accomplishment, just feeling proud of ourselves for even getting out of bed or any other small milestone. It's not much, but as long as we keep trying it'll ensure everything somewhat improves, and Melee has given me that lesson that we're in control of improving in everything just due to the energy we spend in learning it. But we can't get to that point immediately, which is why we need to take care of ourselves.

Nice video Magi. I’ve recently been reflecting on my relationship with melee and this video adds to that perspective. Getting good at this game takes a lot of sacrifice and it’s been harder for me to justify the time commitment when other areas of my life need improvement. Nice to see you talking about this, I hope other top players appreciate the video

I always really enjoy these videos where you open up about some yout personal experiences and feelings. Makes it easy to be a big fan 😊 There's a lot of food for thought here! Stuff I don't think about as more of a consumer than creator of content. It can be too easy for people like me to forget that a whole human being is behind an online identity. You talking about it definitely helps people remember!

To paraphrase David Foster Wallace, the thing you worship will drive you crazy; if you worship success, you'll feel like a failure; if you worship beauty, you'll think you're ugly. Therefore, it must be really hard to find the very thin line of balance of healthy prioritization that doesn't sacrifice progress. As much as your content and parasocial presence brings me a lot of joy, I don't begrudge you saving some life for your own private enjoyment. (moreover, it's totally not my place to act like you need my permission to have your own life) To build off what you were saying about sharing your struggles, I also perceive a sort of contest of struggles, where if you don't have a big dramatic struggle to achieve your goal, it's somehow not as big of a success if you didn't share your deepest fears with absolutely everyone. There is. So much. Thanks for giving the viewers a new way to understand. This stuff would cook my brain. (hopefully comment makes number better)

good video Magi. really interesting to get the in depth perspective on a top player. most people don't know everything yall go through

Thank you for the the consistent(?)/recurring(?) vids look forward to the next one.

Thank you for sharing your perspective Magi!

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Incredibly good videos. It's funny to say that you touched on philosophical ideas, but what you discuss and search for is similar to a Buddhist named Thich Nhat Hanh. Maybe look him up if you want

Your content is pretty good admittedly

Fuckin love you magi, thanks for sharing

good vibeo

good on you magi

MAGI!

Honestly, Melee competitive scene has been going down since quarentine I've been having a good time on slippi, with friends and so, but... Dunno, I miss 2013-2018 melee scene so much

this was good

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I'm happy because I'm a bottom player. ❤

are top players cats

magi¡

cat :3

Are top players verse-bottoms?

MAGI!