Fighting games saved my life
I sit on my PC musing over this topic having had barely an hour of sleep over the last night and barely 6 hours two days ago, so I'm definitely not in the best possible shape I can be, which warrants writing one of these I suppose, just to sate my own emotions. I just came back from SXU2018 in Auckland, which commemorates the end of my second year of playing travelling around NZ for fighting games. During these two years I think I have had amazing growth as a human and as a player, going through many ups and downs and meeting tons of amazing people from all walks of life along the way. I find it not to be an exaggeration when I say that I think fighting games saved my life. It turned my from a bumbling fool with crippling social anxiety so a bumbling fool with still a lot of social anxiety who knows a lot of people and who is known by a fair amount of people. It really hit me when I introduced myself to IsaacFromDC, and he told me he appreciated my commentary for DBFZ top 16