:O I should be more careful about bashing people in my posts. People actually read them! Thanks for your thoughtfulness again.
You said that everyone who is well known or accomplished in the world did so by starting out as a nobody. This is true. The picture changes when you realize that few people have what it takes to do great things, like invent a new kind of light bulb, run a 100m dash in under ten seconds, or become the president. But most people, no matter how hard they try, can not do the things stated above. No women has ever ran a four minute mile or a 10 second 100m. You have to have an above average IQ to become president, and have to be relatively tall for people to take you seriously as a leader. You have to get at least a reasonable amount of fps to win a sword fight in MCSG. "Rats" are rats because they are rats. They are not tigers or humans. The goal of a rat is not to invent a lightbulb, but to live, and rejoice when they cause a pandemic that brings a civilization of humans to its knees. In the case of MCSG, the "rats" are people who get few wins, disrespect, don't fit in, but still like playing. I will never become well known or respected because I:
- Can't PvP well.
- Feel extremely ungrateful and guilty in going out to earn money solely for the purpose of gaming, and feel even worse if I tell my parents that I want/am going to buy better equipment.
- Grimace every time someone swears, even at the age of 16, making me an oddball.
- Don't belong here because of my personality, but still like to play MCSG
So I guess I am a rat, but Blamph has everything it takes to earn respect. The age, the intelligence, the personality, the equipment, everything I cannot get. I do not mind though. I fit in and enjoy myself at school, which cannot be said for most teenagers, so at least I am not a rat there.
I... still don't see how being famous could ever suck, though. If you get targeted, that is only a reaction from good times you had earlier in your career, when you became well known and had good times. And from what I see, famous people don't get targeted as much as they whine about, even before the disguise feature. Huahwi said himself that he never had a big problem with targeting before the disguise feature. Besides, you should be able to destroy those targeters because of your amazing computer. If I leap into a sword fight with someone, I usually get dashed to pieces before I know what is happening. At least if you lose, you know what happened, and you can plan and prevent for the future. If you lose, you can look back and say, I casted my fishing rod too late, or I should have avoided that corner where they got a triple hit on me. When I die, I just stare blankly at the screen, in awe at my predator's insane reach and ability to shoot around walls which I was supposedly hidden behind. I have no sympathy for famous people because they always, always brought it upon themselves in the first place.
The greatest joy for me is finding someone with little or no MCSG experience, then teaming up with them to lead them to victory. I guide them to chests and safe places, then hopefully the two of us can take down the lion at corn with a 1/5 ratio, then have a fair fight where I will most likely get destroyed because of my ping, but usually I just give them the win.
Edit: This post is quite off topic, but whatever. It comes from a discussion that used to be on topic.
Honestly, I don't have top of the line equipment or the best PvP skills in the world, but I still managed to make a name for myself. I guess you could say that was primarily because I was capable of inventing a lightbulb: That is, I became most known when I started doing the famous "fishing rod tactic," as most call it, that is used by almost all of the best players around today. And honestly, it wasn't because I was some super smart guy who did testing for weeks that I "invented" it: It all stemmed from one moment when I asked myself while playing, "Why is it that sometimes people have a hard time hitting me with melee after I hit them with an arrow at close range? I can hit them, but they can't back to me?"
And that was it really. I tested for a few games with the fishing rod attempting to force it to happen and got some interesting results. I thought this was just one of those crazy ideas I occasionally have when playing games that turn out to be too much of a loss to be worth it, or already tested and accepted as a bad idea, but to my surprise, after enough practice, it was effective enough that people I fought noticed it.
Now I understand these things don't just happen to everyone: I was very lucky in my case that people:
*Mentioned they saw me in particular do it first.
*Didn't assume I was hacking because it looked odd.
*Managed to have successful results themselves so they'd share, despite being mildly difficult to pull off.
*Assumed I created it when there was no evidence of such.
In fact, what's really odd, is that egrodo, in an old video of his around the same time I started, demonstrates himself doing it once in the video, or rather attempted, as it was a bit sloppy. It looked almost like he discovered it at the same time I did and was experimenting, though it may have just been an accident. But oddly...I got credited for it, even though egrodo was already extremely well known: I was an absolute nobody who just played for fun, sometimes with friends, just like you. (I've actually spoken to egrodo about this before: He and I have discussed it before and attempted to figure out who did it first, but we can't find any evidence either way. It's up in the air at this point who actually discovered it first.)
Everything I just said was admittedly a huge streak of luck for me. Some guy had to, for example, figure out the eating while running thing, but he was never credited that I know of, and that was mostly because those who did it didn't say who did it first. He also had the unluckiness of it getting patched. Most of these types of things get found way sooner normally because of how many people play the game. My point with this is just that all it takes, even if you don't have any sort of skills, is a bit of luck to become well known: But this won't happen if you refuse to let it, though.
Probably the most awkward part for you would be some sort of social issue, like you said with how you react to swear words: But everyone starts somewhere. Maybe, as you said, you aren't super intelligent, or old, or have a bunch of fancy equipment, but honestly, none of those really applies to me either and, while I'm not famous by any means, I'm one of the more well known members of the community. I'm only 16 now, my grades haven't been over the top in the past, (though that's improving significantly in recent years!) and I started playing with a computer that crashed my game on half the available maps, an old mouse from like the 90's that randomly had moments where the pointer moved incredibly fast towards the upper right of my screen causing me to spin in circles at the sky in game for a few seconds, and the keyboard that came with my computer. (Still use that keyboard...but there's nothing wrong with it exactly.)
Instead of focusing on becoming youtube famous, I participated in the community. (the community was better at the time, truthfully.) I posted frequently and became known for my "long, well though out posts", (Still at it!) I applied for staff and helped the community by taking care of rule breakers, while meeting the staff who introduced me to many cool people. I started hopping on the Teamspeak every day and talking to various members of the community. None of these things required me to be the most intelligent, oldest guy around, it was just a matter of going to the right places. Now, I may not be famous, but I've become friends with many awesome people and made a name for myself within the community, all only because I decided to be a part of it instead of hiding in the flood of nobodies my entire time playing here.
This isn't to say everyone will have the same results for doing the same things: Again, I'm just saying, I didn't exactly do or have anything special, and yet I'm well known. I've personally spoken to some of the youtubers mentioned in this thread on voice chat: Lovelights, Egrodo, Blamph, Huahwi. (Even SkyDoesMinecraft once...long story. That was more by chance than anything.) Some of them on numerous occasions even. But meeting them wasn't the special part for me like it may be for many others: It was other people I became close friends with, spoke to everyday, and had a good time with, that I wouldn't meet if I didn't post on the forums more, or hop on TS once in a while, or help out the community as a staff member. Maybe not everyone will get so lucky as I did, but if you are so down on yourself that you don't try, you can be almost sure it won't happen.
Still, though, being well known isn't easy as you suggest it may be. I'm not even "famous" or a youtuber like Blamph or the others, but I perfectly understand the pains of it. It's not just getting targeted: It's setting an example. It's not letting people down, and the time required to do that.
Every day that I come online, even now after being gone for so long,
somebody notices me. And I feel obligated to answer their questions or communicate with them. This becomes tons worse when you are a frequent uploader to youtube: You can't possibly please everyone, as much as you want to, and the flood of of messages you get on the forums, youtube, in game when joining and the like are stressful to deal with. It's not exactly butterflies and rainbows, because if you do exactly what you want to do, it may not end well. It's about finding out what the fans want and giving it to them, because if you don't, you'll let lots of people down. The feeling of being locked in like that is harder to cope with than it sounds, you'd really have to experience it to fully understand it.
At this point, my post is becoming jumbled thoughts on the subject, and like you said, I guess it's a bit off topic, but I felt the need to say it. Becoming famous isn't about having certain qualities others don't from the start: It's about starting with what you have and developing it over time. Almost no youtuber I've ever seen, whether they have 5 thousand or 5 million subs now, has ever started with fantastic videos - in fact, they almost always start out pretty terrible by today's standard. They had to develop their skills with their equipment before they even really needed the better equipment.
If you wish to become well known instead of being a "rat", you have to start somewhere.
