You Do Not Have to Be Good - WB Yeats, Mary Oliver, and Hayao at Evo 2024
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- A video about poetry, fighting games, and what it really means to win and lose.
Footage sources are here, since I can link to them directly:
Evo 2024: Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Top 6:
• Evo 2024: Street Fight...
Evo Japan 2024: Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike 2024 Grand Finals | Sho vs Boss
• Evo Japan 2024: Street...
Evo 2024 Day 1: Stage C - Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike - Pools
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Hayao (Hugo) vs Frankiebfg (Ken) EVO 2024. Street Fighter 3rd Strike.
• Hayao (Hugo) vs Franki...
SFIII 3rd STRIKE【Hayao Compilation】
• SFIII 3rd STRIKE【Hayao...
You Are Special | Fred Rogers Birthday
• You Are Special | Fred...
MARY OLIVER READING "WILD GEESE"
• MARY OLIVER READING "W...
All image sources are either self-explanatory or from the Wikimedia Commons.
The footage of the Urien-Dudley match is from me, playing both characters using the same controller.
Incredible.
Uh, wow. Did not expect to see you here. Thank you so much.
Thank you for sharing the vod, Shu!💜
@@Voxagra yeah im so glad I found this video and thanks to him for tweeting about it, hope there's more to come from this channel because this honestly just amazing
@@urithic Editing another as we speak, as a matter of fact. Next one isn't about fighting games, but more FGC stuff is forthcoming.
"There will always be somebody who is glad you showed up, even if it is just you"
Thank you
I am an artist; freelance and professional, and with a decent, albeit somewhat meager following. I do okay for myself. I'm better off than most. I do my best. It never feels like enough.
Lately I've grappled with my sense of inadequacy, day after week after month. Questioning whether or not what I put into the things I do - from my personal life, to my close relationships, to my career and passions - is the best I could offer. If it's ever quite enough.
This leaves me paralysed, stricken with obsessive, compulsive deliberation that only a perfectionist could match. If it isn't the best, then what would it take?
If it isn't the best,
Then why even bother.
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This video made me break down crying while I was waiting at the gate of my flight back home; at the end of a vacation I took to try and manage my stress.
I'm crying still as I write this comment. I clearly needed to hear this again, same as all my friends have been saying to me, reframed yet again in the context of another one of my passions.
Despite all my persistent hangups, difficulties and fears; I always feel most alive when I'm being the truest version of myself, unconcerned about results, outcomes, nor others' judgment. I just wish that knowing how good it feels was enough for me to pursue it unconditionally, too.
Thank you so much for making this. You don't know how significant it is, and I hope that everyone who needs to see it, will.
oh man. My respects to you.
I think everybody is struggling with this chaotic adulthood with differents resposabilities. No one escapes from this reality, but this is what you need to struggle with all your heart and all your soul. To be really true to yourself.
Humans as a species adapts to the enviroment, but society push you to a irrealistic and utopic perfection.
Finally, all you have to do is to be yourself, you are more than enough. And you have to love you and what you do. The outcome will be perfect for you.
ps: not native english speaker. Hugs and cheers from Chile. ua-cam.com/video/mNXN9jMgqlw/v-deo.html
I've been trying to figure out how to respond to this.
I'm grateful for it, but just saying "thank you" doesn't quite cover it. I don't want to come off like I'm inattentive toward (or worse, grateful for) the anxieties that brought you to write that comment. I'd rather nobody even need a video like this than need it and thank me for it.
But all I can really say is thank you. This is the kind of comment I have half a mind to print out and leave under my pillow to ward off bad dreams.
@@jorgishi Hello fellow Chilean! Just interrupting your nice comment to tell you that your message comes across perfectly :D
I am also a freelance artist, and also a 3rd Strike player (I am just assuming you play the game, if not, the message still stands) and I can relate to a lot of the stuff you are mentioning.
It's really tough when we feel we put in hundreds, thousands of hours into something, yet the results are still not ideal... or at least, they're not what we consider "decent" when trying to learn a craft, whatever that is.
I think your last thought is a good one, when we find the courage or de-attachment to just DO stuff, is when we learn the most. A popular saying in the art community is "Finished, not perfect". And for perfectionists like us, it can be SCARY to do non-perfect things, but once we find the courage to just do them, someone will enjoy those. And ideally we'll have a good time ourselves.
Peace!
"You do not have to be good. You do not need to walk on your knees for 100 miles through the desert, repenting. You only need to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves." I love how the poem situates love in the body rather than the mind, and overall seems to suggest that the "spiritual" or otherwise internal problems of despair and loneliness have their solution in the physical world, embracing our belonging in "the family of things." I especially needed the reminder in those opening lines today. Thank you.
But what if I love to walk on my knees through the desert for a hundred miles?
the soft animal inside you is a fennec fox and it loves the warm sand
i saw a comment about hayao recently that said "someone who works hard will never beat someone who enjoys themselves" and that really stuck with me as i try to remember to enjoy myself with hobbies instead of being strictly competitive
Quote from baki btw
@@vatifz ty! will have to check that out sometime
@@crazymfer it's a manga I forgot to mention, not philosophical stuff sorry :/
@@vatifz no i know lol i have been looking for manga recommendations lately so that worked out
As an English grad student and fighting game player, this video is super interesting to me conceptually... never thought I'd see Hayao clips juxtaposed with some of the authors I've studied so much, lol. I think this vid will catch more fighting game players than literature people, but as someone who's both - someone who uses poetry to get through the mental blocks I've found while trying to improve in fighting games, in fact - this was a really cool watch. It overall reminds me of how poetry, regardless of its age, ultimately speaks about and to the living soul.
I think playing fighting games touches that "living" part personally. Despite the action primarily occuring on a screen, these games are still another way for us to express our existence. That's actually why I think both poems you pointed out aren't just "be yourself," but also "play the game because you love the game" - winning is living, losing is living, and the feelings evoked from the actions we direct on a screen are living, too. The only requirement to being a "real" fighting game player is "to let the soft animal of your body / love what it loves," as Oliver says, which, in a fighting game player's context, should be the game (and what the game offers to you personally - the development of one's skills and of the self) - not just victory.
Anyway, thanks for providing a little space where my two biggest interests can intersect - it's the first time I've really seen anyone consider how they can apply to one another. :)
He does act like that every time he plays. been watching him for years and he really makes everything better.
This video really resonates with me. I've been watching evo since I was kid, and I always dreamed about playing at the highest level even having never gotten particularly close. As I've been getting ready to start my career, I've thought a lot about what fighting games mean to me as an adult with limited time to play.
This video ended up in my feed just as I'd gotten home from my first day of teaching and the words at the end were really nice to hear.
Ay, fellow teacher here. Wish you luck on your first year teaching!
@@thewarrior195 thank you!
If I could, I would put money to get this video promote to be seen by millions of people. You are good and deserve to not be anonymous, inroads
Man this reminds me so much about pro-sports especially the NBA in the era of super teams.
i subbed so youre otw
i've played thirdstrike for 18 years and loved poetry for even longer so this video was right on time
In the end, whats most important is you're having fun....
To live and breath the art, the lifestyle, the hype moments
i fucking love this commmnity. i love fighting games. i love you people. i love that we are grown and thoughtful and very fucking cool and interesting or whatever now this video rules you guys are good people
How inthe hell does a man with 3 subscribers and 36 views make the best video I've watched in at least a month? Notifications are set to all! Found this on the videoessays reddit.
Thank you kindly!
Truthfully, I'm unbothered by the view count. I suspected this wasn't the kind of thing to really be optimal for the algorithm.
806 now
aaand the algorithm smiled upon this video this day.
I swear fgc UA-cam is unmatched in thought provoking video essays
it's bc these games can really give people a very special kinda passion
this video, about a game i do not play, brought me to tears.
thanks for showing up inroads. Gennuinely, I am so greatful you did.
Yeah, i can definitely say Hayao has a long history of this. Hell, he also played various anime fighters and would do crossdressing cosplay for tournaments!
My mans Hayao has been this way since the 00's dating back to old SBO tournaments. That's just the way that man is. And if he wasn't the world would be worse off.
this is excellent. love the fusion of literary analysis, philosophy and the FGC. this needs to have millions of views.
This was such a fantastic video. My love of fighting games has recently been totally reignited after having lived most of my adult life deliberately avoiding them because of the effect online play can have on the ego. Growing up, my "FGC" was just my brother and I playing Tekken, GGXX, Marvel Super Heroes, and Virtua Fighter 4 over and over. I fancied myself pretty damn good. After spontaneously buying Capcom Fighting Collection and dipping my toe into VSav ranked matches I realized I'd only gotten pretty damn good at playing one specific individual I spent years getting to know lol.
It's possible this recent obsession could end up just being another phase, but seeing videos likes this makes me feel like I do, in fact, have a place in this community, even if all I ever do is bounce between Bronze and Super Bronze rank. It's about fun, learning, and growing, not just as a fighter, but as a person. As corny as it sounds, there's a lot of life lessons to be learned from getting bodied over and over and over again.
Stay strong, friends. And when you can't, go out and touch some grass. The FGC isn't going anywhere!
I think you have just answered the time old question of ‘what is the meaning of life’
with your wonderful video via poetry masters and fighting games masters…what a match up !
❤❤❤
This wonderful video just showed up through UA-cam’s mysterious algorithm. Hope to see more :)
Thank you for this message~ 💙 Was nice to see how you tied everything together as well!
10:45 I'm not crying, you are
Damn, I've never had a fighting game video bring tears to my eyes before. As another poetry-loving FGC member, I'm glad you brought yourself and showed up. Beautiful.
I was just looking for a video to watch while I have lunch... now my food is seasoned with my tears.
That's a beautiful work.
Incredible video man. The section towards the end of “There will always be someone who was glad you did, even if that someone was just you”, brought me to tears. Thank you for making this
I'll never expect a video so deep about 3rd Strike or videogames in general.
As an example, the 2004's Evo is remembered for the Evo Moment #37, it wasn't in a Grand Finals, and Daigo doesn't won the tournament neither, and almost nobody cares or remember who won.
This year, again, no one is talking about the grand final.
That's the beauty of transcending or moving without being the winner.
@@DrunkensVision Agreed. It actually makes me feel somewhat bad for MOV. He's great to watch, and the Elena counterpick was a stroke of unique genius.
The thing is, it's not really deep at all.
I know the majority of people within the competitive videogame scene do not watch traditional sports at all, but this has happened before. There have been instances where something so amazing happens, that fans have that so ingrained in their memories that they believe because of what they've seen, that the person in question actually won when in reality, they didn't. but it is the moment that everyone remembers. It's fun as all hell and makes for great conversations when you find someone who is not detached from the real world to have that conversation with.
Which is another interesting conversation to have considering the majority of esports players and fans are really in it for the moments and not the rewards. Perfect example would be Xian winning Evo with Gen. Xian is a blackhole of charisma and that is why largely noone remembers him. But talk about Poongko during that time and you'd think he had won the event everytime he played in it.
Hats off, sir. This was quite good. Introspective works about sports or art always fascinate me.
Thanks so much for making this. Ive had this kinda of realization about 6 or 7 years ago. I try to remind ither players that are new and old to not focus on win rates. And generally need to be reminded of this.
Your lecture about being yourself had me emotional, but i cried when Oliver said "You do not bave to be good" its so rejuvenating to have this reinforced.
Hell yeah, this vid was awesome. As someone who actually is on the thin bridge that is both poems and fighting games (i even write them lol) i loved this video. The presentation of the message itself allows it to truely feel impactful and your choice of both words and music only added to that feeling. I hope that you find sucess with this, truely.
I was just thinking about dropping potemkin in +r after getting the same placements over and over. Your video appeared at the right time. Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷
Hell yeah. As a Faust main in Strive, you have my Arcsys Low Tier Solidarity.
Beautifull and Very sensible...
Thank you sir, i was in need of this kind words...
Thank you, deeply...
Incredible video. Adding to.my favorites to watch again and again
I just wanted to say that 10:55 brought me to the brink of tears. I didn't think a video about fighting games could end up resonating so much - thank you for making it.
Beautiful video. It’s important to realize games are for fun and sometimes you have to take it as it comes.
That's just perfect dude. Thanks for the video
I saw your video on my timeline, put the cursor on video for undestand whats you meant with this title and in my head i was like '' i'm not going to watch whole video'' but when i realized i had already watched everything and now I'm liking the video and subscribing to your channel. Amazing work thats you made! I'm also learning english and i can understand perfectly what your're talking about
7:05 As a Q main I have thought about this many times. When I first started playing 3S 2 years ago several people recommended me not picking up Q and said I should pick a top tier. I disregarded their advice and have no regrets. I’ll take Q as far as I can and continue to work on complaining about character balance less :p
You are the best Q I've played, no joke! Just keep playing those top tiers and it doesn't matter if they win 9 ouf 10 matches, as long as you make them sweat.
This made me cry. Amazing job on this video. This hits home.
Abel: From myself and many of my headmates, thank you for this video, for this message, for being yourself in the way that poem suggests. We used to be naturally very joyful and expressive and talkative. Through middle school and college our self-esteem took some big hits and we've been trying to find our ground both in this world and in terms of self-confidence ever since. This video spoke to our struggles and helped us feel pride and confidence for being ourselves, on a day that we particularly needed it. Don't ever stop being yourself and we will do the same. Take Care.
That was very cool. Drawing the dots between disparate seeming domains can help find deeper truths.
This video is absolutely incredible I can’t believe what a gem of “simple truths” this is
wow almost cried at the end, amazing video, keep up the good work man!
What an amazing message. Video game communities always battle the mentality to do “better” and struggle to take a step back. Seriously amazing. Thank you!
Yoooo this os top notch. Being a huge poetry fan and fighting game fan for 30 years this is so well done I am so thankful the algorithm brought me here. I'll do tmy best to share it across the community. Great work!
I don't play fighting games, but for some reason these videos keep popping up on my feed. And now I see why. That's a wonderful poem by Yates. Make more videos please.
This is was truly an incredible video.
Dear Inroads, I want you to know that this video touched me so incredibly deeply.
I was at Evo 2024 this year.
Since that short time, I have ended up at the lowest point in my life from choices that stemmed from me not being authentic to myself.
This video had me crying at my desk today.
From one stranger on the internet to another.
Thank you for making this.
A message that truly needs to spread for the massive wave of newcomers to the genre, as well as the veterans that have remained all these years.
I cannot BELIEVE that one of my favorite poems got tied into one of my fav fighting games. Bless the algorithm
Finally, my love for fighting games and appreciation for the classical arts intersect.
Amazing.
As both a poetry reader and fighting game player I must say I have never felt so seen in my whole life ❤
I cried. Thank you.
This deserves SO MANY more views and you SO MANY more subscribers.
Life can be cruel , and the lack of ability to win can hurt. I got to the second round at Evo.
It's frustrating to be mediocre. Truth can hurt.
Keep at it, trust in your ability to learn. SF6 is the most competitive fighting game out there, getting 2nd round is nothing to be ashamed for. You outplaced thousands that didn't make it through a single round.
I also wanted to ask what your MR is? Just curious. Online is a great resource, even Daigo says so
@Bladieblah Thank you for the encouragement. I know now that I don't got it, and that is okay. My MR is 1511 because I don't play ranked. Being 51 years old is probably my problem.
Do it for the love of the game, man.
If not anything else, then for the love of the game.
It's so weird how just this year I got into Fighting Games and Poetry, and I've been grappling with this idea of being myself 😂
Sometimes, the algorithm does send a gem your way.
Genuinely lovely video, dude. 😊
I love this video. The build-up culminating in Mary Oliver reading this beautiful poem on top of the beautiful joy of Hayao actually made me cry, amazing job!
What a beautiful video. I feel lucky to have seen it
Such a strong and wonderful take on a culture that's often focused on top performance! I'm sharing this with the locals.
Very insightful! Makes me feel better about my lack of talent in games I enjoy. The best thing is having fun with those around you.
this was an absolutely beautiful video, and i'm really glad it found its way to me.
Thank you so much making me cry.
Thank you man 😢
As someone who writes poetry and has an interest in fighting games (though is much better with the former than the latter), I tip my hat to you. This was a wonderful video. I agree; the best things in anything are to be yourself and have a good time, regardless of the result.
It all goes away in the end, I get to love 3rd strike for my short time here. Thx bro, from a low tier Alex player.
Damn dude, thanks for making this. I'm a big fan of both poetry and fighting games, and was just today thinking about whether or not some of my skills or interests are useless if not put to use for fortune or fame. Cheers and I hope you continue having interesting thoughts
As a videogame player, therapist and writer, this was exquisite.
MANNN THIS MADE ME CRYYYY
Amazing content! The end was so inspiring. Thank you so much!
Hayao winning 4th place is still very impressive, especially when maining a low tier like Hugo.
This was so lovely
wtf dude i was not expecting such a well thought video, keep on the good work
Thank you.
Thanks for this. Despite REALLY enjoying the last Evo (and rooting for several friends/acquaintances that attended it), I recently decided that I won't be practicing 3s anymore, or at least, not for a loooooooong time. I was really trying my best to improve at the game, as it's my favorite fighting game and I wanted to be good at these games, at least at ONE of them.
Turns out I'm not great, despite having actually improved my game knowledge and performance, I'm still not "good" at it, after 15+ years playing I'm still just one of the bajillion mid level, not-too-bad players out there. And the price I had to pay to get to my hard-earned "okay" level was just too high. As an adult man, I simply can't afford to keep playing this one game for 15-20 hours a week, only to keep my level (even more hours are needed if I want to IMPROVE). My job (artist) already requires me to put in insane hours and brainpower in order to get better, so it's just not sustainable to keep on grinding 3s at the expense of my quality time (family, wife, friends, exercise, chores, sleep) so MAYBE I can be a better player in a couple years.
What I get from your video is that I can maybe simply accept the fact that I won't be really good at the game, when I get to play it every once in a while -at a friends gathering, party or whatever-. I felt like I've FAILED at this game as I'm not able to beat other people as consistently I used to, because I am not practicing anymore. And that's fine, I don't owe it to anybody, and if they were expecting me to be better from my alleged experience, too bad I guess. It's incredibly hard to accept that we are just not good at something, but videos such as yours are a very good reminder to just chill and stay humble.
By total coincidence, the past few weeks, I have been searching UA-cam---independently---for Yeats videos and FGC content. So when this showed up in my feed, I thought for sure it was a glitch, or I was having a stroke. Fucking unbelievably weird moment. But glad I found it, really cool idea for a video!
I needed this rn thank you.
I'm gonna be thinking about this video for a long time
Best fgc content I’ve come across possibly ever. Can’t believe how little known your channel is. Godspeed, I’m sure you will get far.
This is beautiful, thank you.
Thank you for writing this.
Amazing video, poetry speaks to us on so many levels, and is applicable everywhere. As much as this was a street fighter video, it was also a life lesson. One brought apon a man who is himself, and brings nothing more; because that itself, is enough. He just happens to play street fighter. Can't wait to see more videos
Awesome video. Great watch. Informative and I love the way you put a unique spin on this moment
This kind of reminds me of HawaiianShirtMan and the impact he had on making SFV fun to watch. Lots of folks had something to say about SFV when it came to criticisms, but whenever that guy popped up in a tournament, everyone just had a fun time, including him.
As a competitive fighting game player myself, this is a reminder to me that everyone has the potential to have something to offer to the community, regardless whatever your skill level is. Content creator, funny player, hell even a raging guy like LowTierGod.
Excellent video man!
Thank you for making this video
This is art like literally man, this touches your soul and makes you reflect on how to enjoy life by being true to yourself in your persuit of self-actualization. This channel is gonna blow up and it's well deserved
Yo this was phenomenal
Thanks! Judging from your handle, I'm guessing you found it on r/Fighters?
@@Inroads-r8c yep!
Damn!
I laughed at the title and eventually clicked.
What a video man!
So many new FGC channels have a ton of cinks zo work out, but you came out the game swinging.
Great video! I loved the connection to literature and will definitely stay for this type of content 🎉🎉
Beautiful video. Thank you.
This is an amazing video. Thank you for making this
It's nice that you chose to make such a pleasant video about this, tying things together to give a perspective. Thanks =)
I really really really appreciate this video
Dude, incredible video. Keep doing These on whatever you're interested, please
It was like I was listening someone’s college final presentation. You deserved to pass the whole semester.
Sincerely, I really like the message to the video and how it tied to that EVO. It was sweet and straight to the point.
Great stuff brother.
Love and blessings!
Neat video 😁👍🏾, a lot of time I feel we get tied up in comparison we miss the forest for the trees.
Big poetry and 3rd strike fan here and there was absolutely no way I couldn’t watch this video with Yeats and Hayao
As an artist, I needed to hear this. Just show up, be authentic.
Beautiful content. Leaving this here for the algods.
They've been very kind to me already, but thank you.
Incredible video! Just ehat I needed to watch, actually
Poetry and fighting games go together like peanut butter and jelly, baby!
Beautiful video and very beneficial to someone who raged multiple times today playing sf6 ranked.