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greetings, I, the War Owl greets you the
Armchair general of Counter Strike returns once again; this time to talk about the tilt
 
Coming to you for the first time ever in 1080p 60fps
Facecam trying it out in this video. We'll see how it goes
I guess you can't really see the full effect of it yet since I'm like sitting so far away from the camera
I've been going through a lot of the matchmaking
Academy demo submissions as well as the messages that you guys have sent me and there's been a recurring theme throughout
Them that I want to touch upon in this video
Previously I made a video about ladder anxiety which is the anxiety I'm actually getting into the game
and I gave you the mantra of
Give yourself permission to fail that was my War Owl impression of me saying it there, a little exaggeration
This video is kind of a follow up to down where I talk more about once you get in game
And you have problems with your mental state or your emotional state and getting into tilts and and getting into
Recurrence loops where you just play worse and then you get worse because you're playing worse at a certain point
Counter-strike like any sport or competitive activity becomes a mental game
You put a lot of time and practice into learning the game into getting really good
So you know like I have the aim I have the brain
I am better than these people I am playing against, but then you hop in game and you lose and it's that shock
it's that disparity between the
Expected outcome and the actual outcome that leads to the tilt
You lose to somebody you know you're better than or something happens outside of your control, and you lose as a result
It's the chaos of an actual match that can leave you with
Anxiety that can leave you broken
Emotionally and that of course just snowballs onto itself and gets worse and worse until you're mad and you're missing every shot every
Shot goes a little bit to the left to the guy's head. It is a pain. Now
I talked to a
professional poker player about because tilting is a very big thing in poker and the advice that he gave for me is
To only focus on things that you can control
So only focus on things that are within your sphere of influence
For example if your solo queueing you can't control who your teammates are and you can't control what your teammates do
the only thing you can control is how you
Respond to them. This is something that I am
Awful at. It's like
You want to have complete control over the environment and all the variables
But you just don't a real match is pure chaos in that sense
so a great way to avoid the tilt is again only focus on things that you can control would an
Incontinence man get upset every time he soils himself
no, for he cannot control his bowels
When you're in game and things aren't going your way
And you feel the salt welling up inside of you and changing your body chemistry like it turned around to look at Sodom
Here's a little tip to help you improve cuz it this really really helps me
Pause the game. Now, we all know you can't pause a multiplayer game
except mother's for some reason
but it really helps to just take a little bit of a time out a little bit of a cool-down period
Where you can sort of
Reset your mind. It's something people call practicing mindfulness
little hoo-ey doo-ey stuff, but it works
so it
Helps to just kind of take a few seconds to relax and to sort of reset your mental state now how I can do this
and how I do this I take off my headphones I
put the keyboard and mouse away in front of me, and I just kind of shut my eyes, and I sit there and
I breathe
And I'm very mindful of the breaths, you know like kind of like how you're at your meditating
Just do that like when you die
And it's gonna take a few seconds for your team to get back into the end just do that for like 20 seconds
as long as you can really until the next round starts and
Trust me it's like it resets
What's going on in your brain.
Just by pausing just by hitting that pause button for a little bit you can fight off a tilt
You can fight off some rage now
for a lot of us
There's something sick deep down within within us that likes the rage that likes the anger that likes that confrontation
so you're gonna have to fight that part of you in order to get to the point where you can pause and
Reset that's it. That's all coming from me. This isn't something most other stuff. I'm talking about like I read it
This is something that comes from my personal experience so try it out see if it works. It works for me
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Don't worry about your rank so many people whine about their rank
It's like oh, I'm gonna de-rank oh I de-ranked. Oh no I'm getting your rank doesn't really matter
It's just a tool to match you against players of equal skills so that you have a good balanced game also
Don't worry about smurfs so much if somebody comes into your game
Who's like really good and destroying everybody and they're not cheating?
Look at that as an opportunity to improve
You only really get better by playing with and against people who are better than you
And when's that gonna happen when you play in these?
Matchmaking games where they place you against other noobs if you're a noob you're playing against other noobs
How are you gonna get better so I always would say like look at a Smurf and look at a really good player as an
Opportunity to really improve yourself even if you're gonna get owned look at those
Opportunities to improve every time you fail every time you make a mistake don't get so serious and bent out of shape
It's an opportunity to learn that's another thing counter-strike
It's a game
You're supposed to be having fun as you improve, and you challenge yourself
So don't get too serious you let me explain it this way remember before when I said that
Tilting happens when there's a difference. There's a disparity between the expected outcome, and what actually happens
That's the exact same place that humor happens if you can find the humor in the situation
if you fail miserably
And it's funny have a little laugh and move on I think that humor is a great coping mechanism for those
Sorts of things, have a good sense of humor. Have a good time. Have fun
Don't get so bent out of shape like me
Don't make my mistakes. I'm a tilter I'm a rager. I know I'm working on it I
Made this video as much for you as I did for myself
I'm gonna try to be better on my stream
Cuz I always get ragey. I just need to practice man. They was very much for watching
I am the war owl, and I still
am
super comfortable in this chair I
Still no closer what the heck was that
Stay in school kids
