Core-A Gaming's new video is fantastic as always, it's about being salty when losing in fighting games. Spoiler: salt is good! It's natural to feel upset about something not going your way. It's how you react back to it in the moment and how you work on it after that makes feeling salty a force of good.
It references the book Feeling Good by David D. Burns. I often referred to it for the past 10 years when I was working to rewire my brain's overly negative thoughts. Everything I've been taught by a therapist comes directly from this book. It's the gold standard of cognitive behavioral therapy. The video only speaks on the cognitive distortions and catching and naming them part of the expansive book, and really, just doing that over the years has helped me so much in my day to day life. Why haven't I done this with fighting games? Probably because I had more important things to sort out than video games. I suggest watching the video before I yap about my feelings about it.
I don't mind losing in games, but I hate when I feel like I'm not in control of my actions. I hate when my brain thinks of one move I want to do and my hands do another. I feel frustrated when I practice a combo in training mode I can't do them in a match. In the middle of a set I use the bad, absolute language: "I'm bad at this game," (mental filtering) "I'll never be able to do this," (all or nothing thinking) and etc. I don't catch myself describing these thoughts in the moment and it spirals into being distracted further into games.
Which makes hopping into rank more stressful. It's not about points/rank going down, I hate feeling "stupid" I'm not at total mastery of the controls. I need a break immediately after a set.
While I grind the GBVSR battle pass the next couple of weeks, I'll start catching myself when I think these bad thoughts and see if it makes a difference. If it was like how it helped me with other things in my life, I'm confident it will help me enjoy feeling salty after getting bodied.
