Careercow Narcissa Wright / Cosmo Wright - Former speedrunner tumbling down

[Butter]

https://twitter.com/narcissawright
is back

Not too familiar with Twitter... But does he really have 0 followers, or is that just some "recently deleted" fuckery?

 

[Kiislova]

If Narco also deleted all her followera it will be fun to see who even cares joining back anymore.

 

[Ron Jeremy]

https://twitter.com/narcissawright
is back

... because he took another edible one hour before reactivating his account. Because after complaining on his discord he needed another place to vent about the GSP ranking situation. So much for his plan to not use Twitter for year.

Not too familiar with Twitter... But does he really have 0 followers, or is that just some "recently deleted" fuckery?

Just a glitch, the follower count is back to normal. All in all he lost roughly 30 followers.

 

[yeahweknow]

All in all he lost roughly 30 followers.

didn't he used to have 30,000? i remember seeing a screencap of him talking about it directly

 

[Ron Jeremy]

And he still has his 30k followers.

 

[ZE 021]

From SamAndTolki's HaberdasherA: another day in GSP hell

Funny to see the insanely low level of interaction that the chat has with Narcissa. Looks like even Red's given up.

 

[Ron Jeremy]

> give it like 2 months
> and ppl will catch up to me

Aaaaand once again it's not "Narcissa does not understand something", it's "Narcissa is ahead of the curve in her brilliance". And no, Narco when you are inevitably reading this, it's not that I am pissing on you for not understanding something (I don't understand GSP either, but I don't care). I shit on you for immediately jumping to the "I must be better than everyone else, clearly, obviously, nothing else makes sense." conclusion. Nothing about being trans, it's just 100% just your ego.

 

[Kiislova]

From SamAndTolki's HaberdasherA: another day in GSP hell

Funny to see the insanely low level of interaction that the chat has with Narcissa. Looks like even Red's given up.

If it had padded walls arround her she would have a greater interaction level

 

[Cyber Bowling]

Does Cosmo really not understand how a rating system works in a video game? I haven't played the new Smash online/any competitive level so maybe I'm missing something with GSP, but I'm assuming it works like any other video game rating system. Once you get into the high leagues, it is significantly harder to maintain those numbers because hitting those numbers requires a lot of grinding. The best way to climb the rankings is to beat the people higher than you for the most points, but the higher in the rankings you are, the fewer opponents there are above you. As a result, the majority of the games you play are against lower ranked people. Beating them barely nets you any points because you are already so high. Losing points nets a huge loss because, based solely on ratings, you are supposed to be significantly better than that person.

To use a non gaming comparison, say a recent gold metal winning Olympic athlete was competing against some up and coming college track star. The college runner has a decent reputation, but is still severely outclassed by the Olympic winning athlete. Nobody is going to raise a fuss if the Olympic athlete wins the race, but if the college kid managed to pull out the win, it would be a huge deal. Of course, with how video game matchmaking works, more often than not the Olympic athlete is paired up against runners from the local rec center. Or just people who own running shoes. Basically, in those tiers, even finding someone who is comparably close and still lower ranked is hard, let alone someone equally or even higher ranked. Even if you do find an elusive higher ranked person, they aren't that much higher ranked so while you're still getting a decent gain, it isn't nearly the same gain as when you beat them when you were lower ranked.

This is also subsequently why ranking systems are dismissed by pro players in favor of things like tournament wins, which are a better indication of actual skill level. At the very least, ranking systems tend to fall more into tiers, where as long as you have something like rank X, you're considered a good player. Say it was 30,000 points. Someone with 35,000 points is generally given the same level of respect as someone with 39,000 points because it could honestly end up being the differences of like, 3 or 4 losses. I'd think in a game like Smash the ratings would vary even more because there's so many characters to choose from so players/game modes to choose from, and just because of the kind of game Smash is players are way more likely to fuck around and lose games as a result. Players who really care might make a separate account for casual nonsense, but more often than not, the actual skilled players don't give a damn because they know their abilities speak for themselves/recognize how meaningless such a fickle rating system is.

 

[PrincessHomura]

Does Cosmo really not understand how a rating system works in a video game? I haven't played the new Smash online/any competitive level so maybe I'm missing something with GSP, but I'm assuming it works like any other video game rating system. Once you get into the high leagues, it is significantly harder to maintain those numbers because hitting those numbers requires a lot of grinding. The best way to climb the rankings is to beat the people higher than you for the most points, but the higher in the rankings you are, the fewer opponents there are above you. As a result, the majority of the games you play are against lower ranked people. Beating them barely nets you any points because you are already so high. Losing points nets a huge loss because, based solely on ratings, you are supposed to be significantly better than that person.

To use a non gaming comparison, say a recent gold metal winning Olympic athlete was competing against some up and coming college track star. The college runner has a decent reputation, but is still severely outclassed by the Olympic winning athlete. Nobody is going to raise a fuss if the Olympic athlete wins the race, but if the college kid managed to pull out the win, it would be a huge deal. Of course, with how video game matchmaking works, more often than not the Olympic athlete is paired up against runners from the local rec center. Or just people who own running shoes. Basically, in those tiers, even finding someone who is comparably close and still lower ranked is hard, let alone someone equally or even higher ranked. Even if you do find an elusive higher ranked person, they aren't that much higher ranked so while you're still getting a decent gain, it isn't nearly the same gain as when you beat them when you were lower ranked.

This is also subsequently why ranking systems are dismissed by pro players in favor of things like tournament wins, which are a better indication of actual skill level. At the very least, ranking systems tend to fall more into tiers, where as long as you have something like rank X, you're considered a good player. Say it was 30,000 points. Someone with 35,000 points is generally given the same level of respect as someone with 39,000 points because it could honestly end up being the differences of like, 3 or 4 losses. I'd think in a game like Smash the ratings would vary even more because there's so many characters to choose from so players/game modes to choose from, and just because of the kind of game Smash is players are way more likely to fuck around and lose games as a result. Players who really care might make a separate account for casual nonsense, but more often than not, the actual skilled players don't give a damn because they know their abilities speak for themselves/recognize how meaningless such a fickle rating system is.

He claims that he's losing more points than he gains even against players that are ranked higher than him, though. I don't know if that's true or not because I have no interest in watching his streams. I wouldn't be surprised if he's making it up, but that's what he says.

I honestly don't know how GSP works either, nor do I care (I just play sometimes and have fun), and I'm sure I could find ways to be annoyed with it too if I was super into it, but I just think this whole thing is hilarious since he's breaking down so hardcore over Haberdasher having a higher GSP than him.

 

[AnOminous]

Players who really care might make a separate account for casual nonsense, but more often than not, the actual skilled players don't give a damn because they know their abilities speak for themselves/recognize how meaningless such a fickle rating system is.

This isn't great for pros because it doesn't necessarily directly reflect talent, but it isn't meant to do that. It's meant to generate interest and sales of the game by creating action, and people changing ranks and new people showing up, and the opportunity to jump up in ranks is what keeps people interested. Just having some hateful cave troll who is horrifying to look at at the top of the rankings for years straight isn't interesting and doesn't make any money. Not that Cosmo has that kind of skill any more.

 

[Bonedome]

There isn’t one. Narco hasn’t been streaming with a camera for a while now and nobody is that interested in lurking or recording his stream anymore. I was there for a bit of it, he was just just arguing with chat over his mic and then got emotional over the samandtolki thread drama and I assume eventually logged off for the night. I didn’t stick around that long.

So what's with all the typing? Is the voice dysphoria finally getting to him/her? I'm willing to bet a few more people would stick around if walls and walls of rambling text (from the streamer) didn't appear in the chat.

 

[ThunderPlunder]

So what's with all the typing? Is the voice dysphoria finally getting to him/her? I'm willing to bet a few more people would stick around if walls and walls of rambling text (from the streamer) didn't appear in the chat.

I am not sure but from what I’ve gathered it’s some kind of ivory tower syndrome. Cosmo seems to believe that the unwashed masses aren’t worthy of hearing his voice. Over the past few days of gawking I’ve only heard him speak into his mic once and that was to sperg out on how “he’s intimately familiar with how ELO and algorithms works because he’s a speedrunner”

I think other than that it’s just him heavily sighing with each loss, bordering on the verge of a breakdown.

10/10 good stuff

 

[Cut my dick into pieces]

I think other than that it’s just him heavily sighing with each loss, bordering on the verge of a breakdown.

I think he's basically been in the middle of a breakdown for the last 2 years or so.

 

[Idea Waifu]

From SamAndTolki's HaberdasherA: another day in GSP hell

Funny to see the insanely low level of interaction that the chat has with Narcissa. Looks like even Red's given up.

The legend lives on 4ever

Only a matter of time until she kills herself and it gets blamed on transphobes.

let me fix that

Only a matter of time until she kills herself and it gets blamed on transphobes Kiwifarms.

I am not sure but from what I’ve gathered it’s some kind of ivory tower syndrome. Cosmo seems to believe that the unwashed masses aren’t worthy of hearing his voice. Over the past few days of gawking I’ve only heard him speak into his mic once and that was to sperg out on how “he’s intimately familiar with how ELO and algorithms works because he’s a speedrunner”

I think other than that it’s just him heavily sighing with each loss, bordering on the verge of a breakdown.

10/10 good stuff

Maybe his soul finally gave up and the body is struggling to function

Red Proletariat, is there anything you want to come out? or talk about it? i can see the Narcissa self inserts on your drawings

 

[ThunderPlunder]

I think he's basically been in the middle of a breakdown for the last 2 years or so.

Poor choice of words. Another sperg out then.

 

[Rei is shit]

I wonder if nintendo was smart enough to do some anti-boosting stuff with the gsp. Cosmo playing for 12hrs a day would surely trip such a system off.

But its probably like Cyber Bowling said, he is playing against much lower ranked players. I'll bet that we'll get a major breakdown if he drops below 3mil.

 

[Man vs persistent rat]

let me fix that

I am curious how much Narcissa knows about/follows this thread, as most of her outbursts are specifically directed to S&T - she's signed up to post there on many occasions.

 

[RJ MacReady]

I am curious how much Narcissa knows about/follows this thread, as most of her outbursts are specifically directed to S&T - she's signed up to post there on many occasions.

He's known about this thread since September 2016 (as the OP states), spent a few days several months back replying to posts here in video format, and then nothing.

I think it's just because he has a personal hatred for some of the S&T posters, so they're in his headspace all the time and he can't resist replying to them.

 

[MyOtherNicknameIsAPun]

Not too familiar with Twitter... But does he really have 0 followers, or is that just some "recently deleted" fuckery?

To speed up shit Twitter uses cached values of things like followers, your timeline and other stuff. When you drop your account your cache gets stale and it expires. When you resuscitate your account, for few minutes, you see empty timeline and nothing more. Then, the most recent twits starts to show up, and then you get the history.

So what you see is a side effect of it, Twitter still didn't settle the current follow list, and it has to not only fetch her timeline but reinsert her account into other people timelines, at Twitter scale it takes some time.