Month: January 2017

  • Dealing with moments of panic in gaming: the first wall

    Dealing with moments of panic in gaming: the first wall

    I think the thing that frustrates me most about learning video games are the panic moments where you know what you should have done, but lack the mental clarity to put them into practice. In a high-pressure situation, I sometimes can’t connect the dots to what I’m seeing and what I need to do to successfully…

  • Dodging the matchup: playing against characters I hate

    Dodging the matchup: playing against characters I hate

    I’ve come to realize I have a little bit of a phobia when it comes to facing certain characters. This usually comes from when they’ve beat me pretty hard in the past, and that kind of carries over to future matches where I think the same thing is going to happen. There’s some commonalities between…

  • Ladder anxiety: wanting to play, but not

    Ladder anxiety: wanting to play, but not

    Like a lot of people starting out with competitive gaming, I’m having some problems with ladder anxiety. For the uninitiated, ladder anxiety happens when you avoid playing ranked (or even unranked) matchmaking due to different reasons. Some people might be hesitant to risk the rank they’ve already earned, or those that are starting out might…

  • Starting the journey: being new at Street Fighter and Dota 2

    Starting the journey: being new at Street Fighter and Dota 2

    The last couple days have been an exercise in patience. I’ve decided that I’m going to put more of my effort into improving in two competitive multiplayer games: I’m going to both try to get better at Dota 2 and Street Fighter V.

  • Hey.

    Hey.

    So I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about what I want to do with things. I know that seems a bit vague, but I’ve been on a break since August and starting to get the itch to create again, and create regularly. I’ve been holding off on doing this mostly because I was…