A Small Rant on People Always Accusing Fast Button Mashers of Using a Turbo Controller

So, this is pretty pointless, but something I just want to get off my chest.

Something I always run into when checking out people's runs on games that require quick button mashing - such as Mega Man and the like - are people accusing the runner of using a turbo controller.

It's happened to me, as well, on a couple of occasions. And I don't mean people asking whether I use turbo - I mean people outright making an accusation.

It's not like I care that much personally, but the notion of it does annoy me.

What I mean is that these are people to whom the concept of working hard seems so foreign, they can't fathom the idea of someone just working hard to learn a skill.

They see someone being good - better than they are - and the automatic assumption is that they're cheating. One way or the other.

I guess it's not common in my generation, but some of us actually still do work hard for things. So many people seem to give up on things after three failures at most.

Then they compare somebody else's skill set to their own, and if that skill set is noticeably better, it has to be because of cheating the system.

What you see in that Mega Man X opening stage is murderous on my trigger finger - which isn't what it used to be as a kid. It's something I've learned in order to beat the stage in the quickest time possible. And it's not easy, it's not supposed to be easy.

Most things worth having in life aren't easy.

And no, I'm not naming speedrunning a videogame's opening stage as a super worthy talent, or anything.

I'm just ranting on kids today who only ever see the easy way out, and then they project that mindset onto others. You can see it everywhere in society; everytime someone succeeds, it's because of some sort of unfairness.

He cheated the system somehow. Why can't he be a miserable fuck like us?

Even when it's about something as silly as quick button mashing in a videogame. It's totally learnable, by the way. Sure, different people have different limits, and mashing has always seemed a bit easier for me than some of my gamer friends, but you can always improve just by practicing. There are actual techniques to it, and they go beyond just quickly pressing a button repeatedly.

It just seems to me like a lot of people these days quickly run away as soon as something takes work and practice. And then they get annoyed when someone is willing to put in the work.

I dunno, this was a pretty pointless rant, but it's been on my mind lately.

By the way, it'd actually be possible to rapid fire quicker than what I can muster if one were using an old CRT television because there would be no input lag at all. Modern TVs always cause at least a slight input lag, which skews things.