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You're not a real fan

Think you're a hardcore? These extreme gamers will make you question your loyalty and devotion

Words: Tyler Nagata, GamesRadar US

Honestly, you kind of suck too

We all like to think we’re really good at games. But no matter how much you pepper everything you type with numbers and symbols you’ll probably never really be ‘teh 1337sauce.’ True champions use their gaming skills to win fabulous cash prizes and earn themselves product endorsements.

It doesn’t matter what shooter you’re playing. It doesn’t matter if you’ve memorized every map. It doesn’t even matter where you live. Chances are that Jonathan Wendel (better known as Fatal1ty) can kick your ass so bad you’ll curl into the fetal position and quit playing out of shame. The professional gamer has earned over $500,000 in cash prizes from fragging the competition at gaming events around the world and used his hard-earned loot to start his own company, which sells just about everything from designer motherboards to headsets.

Above: Fatal1ty recommends exercise and math to kids interested in becoming a pro gamer. You don’t have to look like this to be truly 1337 after all

Think you’ve got the skills to pay the real-life bills? Try these tips straight from Fatal1ty himself in an interview on The Reboot:
“…playing sports is definitely very healthy for you. I work out, running two/three miles a day. It helps my stamina in the game. It helps my neural fitness and my neural transmitters so I can think faster and increase my hand eye coordination and reflexes.”
“Having good math skills will also help you a lot in gaming.”

 
5 Comments
meljr97 - 2 months 2 days ago
YAY FIRST COMENT
meljr97 - 2 months 2 days ago
YAY FIRST COMMENT
Reload92 - 2 months 2 days ago
In your rush to post "YAY FIRST COMMENT" it seems as though you have double posted.
Bluzlbee - 2 months 2 days ago
That Zelda girl, DOES NOT LOOK LIKE ZELDA!
I don't understand how you can possibly do this, because Anime should stay in fiction and not turned into something for ugly humans to look like.
dreamgor - 2 months 1 day ago
man im stunned i have to argue with it right now not enough with the possibility of some ppl think that hinaXrock is even imaginable (i think i can counter every dam arguement for that if there are any) and get rewarded for it but also there are some nerds in my school that i pwn in every thinkable way about games but you give them credit for being better than me cuz they think that they are different colored links all the time and get mad when some other classmate tease them with saying that there is a pink link if thats even a bit true im gonna cry of pure sadness
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