Elitism...

Do a search on Slammed RJC Girl and Wee Shu Min. I think as much as it doesn't concern us 'gamers', I do feel the need to address a mentality that we have localised. As much as we are the better Tekken gamers in this country, I cannot begin to stress that without the rest of the population, we are merely white elephants, championing extinction.

Of course I do understand the emotional quotient we all would have when it comes to idiotic, retarded things people do in their games but in reference to real life, shit happens too. I think our group is not merely a case of friends who decided to be due to situation but also to beliefs and amongst these beliefs is elitism.

Now of course I do not deny the fact that there are others out there, but the clan itself has its challengingly brightest if not, the best amongst the best in all of what this country can give. Make no wrong about it, its true at certain levels and I wouldn't bother to argue... BUT I think I do not agree with everything within the group itself.

We are different people, with different backgrounds thus, naturally we do have disagreements in things. I ideally believe that with this 'elitism' we could take the community to the next level by educating them the dos and don'ts of the game. Of course, to whichever level of comfort...

Fine, we have monkeys who love to pull the trigger to the black face phenomenon but I do urge the resistance and implore self-control in everyone of us in a greater belief (true or not was never the question here) to accept rather than defame others for their ridiculous or naive acts.

I think we are encouraging a culture of people who believe the elites will always be and that they do not need to play, erhem, 'fair' to win. Fact is, most of these people do not even have a voice. Some of them may even be fanboys GONE WILD (teamJPN). I think its each and every person's level of understanding towards the whole game, the whole community and for same cases, themselves that makes the difference between good and NOTGOODENOUGH.

I feel that instead of being negative about others, its better to take our next step to SELF-IMPROVEMENT and SELF-DETERMINATION rather than waste time to RANT all day long about people who probably don't give a hoots how hard some of us have to cope with our games.

I picked this up reading some posts about the incident that I asked you guys to search. This guy said : "It is easy to put people in a box, and then claim you are a complex universe unto yourself. If you demand empathy, why not show some first? Be the change that you wish to see. If you expect the "elites" to make the first step then you are already implicitly bowing to their top-down philosophy, so immediately game over liao." Reverse that nature of the paragraph on to us the 'elites'... and I do think that being condescending on people who defensively gets angry at our ridicule and comments isn't helping the whole community at all.

They don't respect the game? Then there's no need to play with them. I think we should prove a point by playing against them and triumph against the so called ordeal. Smart aleck comments thrown at us? I think they'd be wiser to stop when we allow those comments to pass.

We all get angry or sad or whatever... but it doesn't constitute to anything at the end of the day. But being able to control ourselves and hone this community does allow us to move a lot further from where we stand currently as... elites.



Jac

Disclaimer: I think we can really learn something from the
RJC chick. She screwed up so much that the efferverscence of it got passed on to everyone. Hey like those who do crappy d+1s, throws, we learnt how to deliver their mistake back into their face.