>>15398650
No, and most of the games I don't own since I've been playing most of them at locals. You don't even really need a training buddy, just play a couple of online matches and deal with the lag hell that is online. Ironically it will actually help you if you play with bad lag because it slows down all of the movements and you get more information about every move and how it works.
There's one important thing to learn about salt. You must accept loss. Loss is learning. Learning is gitting gud. Gitting gud is victory.
Through loss, you learn to stop the tears and rage. You become zen. Stop thinking with anger when you lose. Try to learn why you lost, a little each time. I started out like you, as we all do. But as I lost and lost, I learned to accept it. And then when I accept it, victory becomes real. You're not being a doormat, you're not pathetic for losing, you're learning. The first step to learning anything is to learn that you know nothing, it breaks down your ego to make you receptive to all future knowledge. If you're aware of this, then all future matches are just learning experience.
You must accept the salt and let it run through your veins. Do not resist the salt. Only once you have let it run it's course shall you become free of all sodium and mines.
Now go forth, my child, and lose. Lose and become great.
Just be there for him. Be his friend. Don't act like you need to step around anything. Be the pillar of normality, truth, and genuine kindness. If he needs you, then help him. He is your friend. You aren't his friend because of his damage. You're his friend because he's earned it, he's earned you, your time and your care. If he strikes out at you, be patient and don't push him away unless you know what he's doing far exceeds his damage. If he's you're friend, you real friend, you'll know exactly what you need to do if that ever happens, it's natural. And above all, joke with him.
>>15398670
I've seen drug addicts, narcissists, the depressed, the evil, all kinds of people in my life. During HWNDU when he struck out at one of his own people, he didn't look angry, just exceedingly depressed.
There's a difference, it was pushing behavior, not demonizing behavior. When someone's in a bind like depression, striking out like that is a natural thing that happens. They're not happy that they do it, and they don't get anything out of it. They're doing it because they need to strike out at a percieved threat, not a target.
On top of that most of his actions leading up to HWNDU and even the event itself was classic attention seeking behavior, not mocking him at all this is clinical definition, it's actually really sad, that depressed people go through.
The reason i'm good at mindgames in fightans over reflex is because i'm someone who's very empathetic and receptive to emotions and reactions, and as a result naturally pick up the tics and quirks of people and emotional states they go through, and i've picked up a few textbooks on the subject because i'm interested.
Nothing about Shia's case says that he's anything but an actual victim undergoing an extreme amount of grief that any human would crack under the pressure.
Being a celebrity frequently means that you have no one to trust, and likely never will and this shit is EXACTLY the type of behavior that someone with long term complicated grief exhibits.
The only real cure or treatment for this shit is some sort of support system, a network of people, like family or friends.
If there's any reason to pray to god anymore, it's for good fortune for souls like him. I've seen too many cases like this in my area to even mock him. I just can't. I've been in his place myself.
God fucking dammit, I don't want to see someone suffer like that, no one deserves that fucking pain, it's inhuman. I don't want to work in psychology, i've seen too much. Every time I see this shit I suffer along with them. I'm scared of people around me feeling bad, because seeing someone suffer is like a knife to the heart. If I had to be a therapist i'd fucking kill myself.