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Core-A always doing good work.

I get salty, but usually kept it pretty minimal when I was going to locals. Now that I've started playing online some, it's really hard to lose repeatedly. Seeing the human makes such a difference.

(So I can't watch a video right now, but I have some thoughts on this topic that may or may not be covered.)

At some point during the SF4 era I had to just force myself to give up being salty, and for the most part it worked. Before I would occasionally get pretty mad playing online, and it was just kind if privately shameful.

Basically I had to remind myself that winning and losing was mostly a reflection of my skill vs my opponents. When I lose, it's simply because I didn't have the right strategy, the right answer for their strategy, or good execution and blocking. If I lose because it's terribly laggy or something, who cares.

For me, I think a big part of eliminating salt is to deemphasize winning and instead focus on doing well at a specific thing (like punishing anti-airs, landing a specific combo, hitting a specific poke, getting a good mixup, etc).