One thing I've been thinking in all my argument is that there are always the guys who have the screenshots or videos to prove they're exactly as awesome as they say. I'm assuming there's no fake video or Photoshop here, since usually the stuff I see is just impossibly lucky but still clearly possible. But then, that brings me to the question, how can you be this prepared for this kind of stuff? I remember seeing a 'making of TAS' video before and it took like 20 hours to make a 5 minute TAS clip on a game that isn't even terribly complicated with TAS, and that's TAS. Here I'm talking about fairly spontaneous things where you can't possibly prepare ahead of time and you certainly don't got magic gadgets that can slow down or rewind time until you get it right. There are a lot of cases based on my estimation would take tens if not hundreds of hours of continous playing to ever get a situation that lucky. Now, I certainly play some games enough to get that kind of stuff, but again we're talking about fairly spontaneous event. It'd be like if I ask you to find a clip of a MMORPG PvP where you went 1on3 in a standard battleground format (so they're at least comparable to you in level) and won. Even if you can do that, this isn't something that just randomly happens. Even if you're trying to make a video of yourself doing that, it'd take a very long before you stumble on the guys who are just bad enough for you to pull this off that somehow aren't already rolled over by the rest of your team.
Okay some of these might be considered accomplishment so that you frame it later to show everyone, but even then, that'd mean you've to constantly think 'where am I going to find a 1on3 I can win' and make sure you record yourself each time you get a potential matchup, since it'd obviously be too late to record your awesomeness after the event has expired. The only way I can think of this make sense is that some people are recording all of their gaming time and taking a screenshot of every game they ever played in case it's useful later to prove some point. Do people really play like this? BTW I'm not talking about relatively simple stuff like "Montage of me owning everyone in PvP". I'm pretty sure I can do that in under 10 hours if not significantly less as I'd just have to start playing a game, record everything and edit out all the bad parts. I can probably do that even if I totally suck at the game since eventually there's going to be some cases where I accidentally looked awesome especially if I leave out certain details in my video. I'm talking about things you know are at least 1 in 10+ hours kind of lucky for even a single occurence. It doesn't even have to be something impressive like say, drawing 2 super duper rares in a row in any type of cash shop game. That is, certainly no one's going to worship you for doing that but it's still incredibly lucky and even if you routinely buy this stuff all the day, the only way you'd be able to show that off is if you always remembered to record yourself redeeming the cash shop stuff.
Okay some of these might be considered accomplishment so that you frame it later to show everyone, but even then, that'd mean you've to constantly think 'where am I going to find a 1on3 I can win' and make sure you record yourself each time you get a potential matchup, since it'd obviously be too late to record your awesomeness after the event has expired. The only way I can think of this make sense is that some people are recording all of their gaming time and taking a screenshot of every game they ever played in case it's useful later to prove some point. Do people really play like this? BTW I'm not talking about relatively simple stuff like "Montage of me owning everyone in PvP". I'm pretty sure I can do that in under 10 hours if not significantly less as I'd just have to start playing a game, record everything and edit out all the bad parts. I can probably do that even if I totally suck at the game since eventually there's going to be some cases where I accidentally looked awesome especially if I leave out certain details in my video. I'm talking about things you know are at least 1 in 10+ hours kind of lucky for even a single occurence. It doesn't even have to be something impressive like say, drawing 2 super duper rares in a row in any type of cash shop game. That is, certainly no one's going to worship you for doing that but it's still incredibly lucky and even if you routinely buy this stuff all the day, the only way you'd be able to show that off is if you always remembered to record yourself redeeming the cash shop stuff.
