Defense Mechanisms In Gaming 

Nice video! All those nights of me beating you in smash back in Dallas lead you to create this? keep it up! Great content!

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ty for this video. back then i wasnt aware for having such tendencies but in retrospect- when playing smash with friends- ive always seemed to lose despite dedicating a couple of hours into the game and make up excuses such as “youre not even good youre just spamming smash attacks.” the ego did not let me realize that it was my shortcomings that lead me to my loss, when i thought of this i needed to correct my mindset. now i think that every loss is a stepping stone of learning and improving and its best for me to utilize losses by learning of what went wrong instead of getting tunnel visioned to success alone.

This might be the best video yet, thanks for addressing this, it happens super often in different communities but no one talks about it

Excellent video , it’s the true !

Not so sure about the retirement thing, but there is a strange sensation i get whenever i play with casuals and they finally take a game off of me. Ive kind of just learned to let them pop off because of course they do deserve their win, and theres no good excuse for me losing to them so making up shit to try to seem cool still does nothing. But then, if they decide to take their w and leave, and Im left alone still wanting to play, that is what bothers me. Im not sure why.

I absolutely agree with you and its interesting this mechanism people apply for one reason or another; at the end of the day what truly matters is not their behavior, but your goal as a fact of your efforts. Keep the good vids Giorgio!

Great stuff.

Good video!

Yo I like the video and perspective and I would love to see about ego in competitive videogames because is something really big and has its effects on players and viewers specially in smash

Awesome stuff! Keep it up!

this is 🔥

😂 nice vid man

Damn, good video!

I've for sure noticed this all over the place, even fans of certain players will proactively defend their fav smasher with excuses. I've noticed it in a scramble situation goes against me mostly due to luck, I'll hyper focus on that, meanwhile the opponent is taking full advantage of winning neutral. Gotta keep your mind on the current moment

What a proper way to geek ngl lol nah pero en serio me parece muy cool que cubras estos aspectos mentales en los videojuegos y en los fighting games specifically. No había visto que esas críticas a los juegos siendo una mierda pueden ser un mecanismo de defensa. Really insightful bro, keep it up. FGaming Properly con el Giorgio.

I have spent a long long time playing competitive melee and a few months ago the idea of retirement popped up in my head along with me getting older. Behind it all was frustration over stagnation, the wish to be seen and supported when I try so hard, especially by my community and friends. I was so frustrated and losing the fun in my game despite being so insanely motivated.. Well, likely even BECAUSE of it. That intense love and motivation, stressed to the breaking point by feeling stuck socially and competitively.. Despite probably having my best years by far. It's still tough though, which is my sensitive state of mind and wavering energy levels. I really hope to do well to match my ambition but also LET myself have a breakthrough. Mentality is weird.