In the break room at the job, there's one of those little Arcade1Up Street Fighter II cabinets, and the other night, a coworker asked me to play. I was Ryu, he was Ken. He asked me how I was throwing fireballs. I explained the motion to him but he couldn't do it. (1/4)
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Now this was prolly down to the joysticks on the machine being kinda busted. BUT: a little while after our match he said to me, "I think only Ryu can throw fireballs." Meaning, his explanation was not that he didn't do it, but that the character of Ken just doesn't have the move.
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And my response to this was, "Oh, maybe, yeah." Even though of course I know for a fact that Ken can throw fireballs. Even though I've been playing Street Fighter II since 1991. I just didn't want to deal with the potentially uncomfortable outcomes of me telling him he was wrong.
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I guess the fact that he even needed to rationalize his failure to do the move with the explanation that Ken must just not have the move was a bit of a red flag for me. Like it was an attempt on his part to save face. And I didn't want to threaten that. (5/4)
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