Talk:Button mashing

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[edit] A spot of editing

Hi all. Wikipedia's great sometimes, isn't it? The ability to read about gaming techniques and games released before half of the people reading this were even born will never cease to entertain me. Maybe I'm just weird, I don't know. Anyway. I've done some editing here to address the POV and Weaslewords issues for which the article was tagged, taking a few lines out, and putting a couple in. I hope the authors don't mind this. Cheers, --Unreadablecharacters 14:54, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

This article makes us sound so bad... I mean, isnt the whole point of a game to have fun?

Playing casually "just for fun" is merely one form of play and no more or less valuable than any other form of play. Jeodonnell 18:03, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Controller molestation

Since when the hell is button-mashing referred to as "molesting/raping the controller"? Sounds like someone let their opinions get in the way. 63.3.0.129 21:41, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scrubs?

This article is definately biased towards the Elite players and shouldn't exist in this form on Wikipedia. This is Wikipedia people, not shoryuken.com.

I agree. I propose to rename the article to Button mashing, since that is the popular vernacular, and rewrite or remove elitist segments. If interested parties agree, I will start working on it. Aguerriero 17:33, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
It would probably make the most sense to keep everything about button mashing in a Button Mashing article (that doesn't link to "Scrub") and move everything about "scrub"s to another article.
I agree. The redirect from button mashing is very confusing. Should be seperate articles. Pimlottc 18:48, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
I think that the entry is still extremely elitest in its word-choice implying that there is some greater happiness in playing a game on a pro-level. This is still only objective and has no place in an encylopedia. July 2006
Being populist and immplying that high-level play is somehow intrinsically less meaningful than playing "just for fun" is no less NPOV. Writing about "scrubs" means writing about a perception - this is not the same as having that perception. This article needs to be broken up into two articles; button mashing as a designed game mechanic (which is primarily what this article covers) and the perception of 'scrubby' players in competitive games are two seperate topics. 207.30.206.67 18:01, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
There should be an article about competitive video games in general and this topic could include a subtopic on scrubs.

[edit] The Name

Why is this article called Scrub? Scrubs are mentioned shortly in one place of it... Why not "Button mashing?" 80.55.2.254 06:41, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kamehameha

Others, like many games based on the Dragon Ball franchise, require the player to mash the button to win a "power wave" move (such as a Kamehameha).

And Kamehameha is...? --Sonic Mew 19:28, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

It's obvious that it's an example of a move from the Dragon Ball game franchise. --DarshaAssant 17:34, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] move

Can someone move this to button mashing? I've never even heard the term "scrub" in gaming. BackInBlack 23:34, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

I also agree, as did the people above. i'm not sure why there are so many "topics" discussing the same thing ;p Chaotic Mind 10:33, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the debate was move. —Nightstallion (?) Seen this already? 14:04, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

Scrub (gaming) - Button mashing - Rationale: Button mashing is the actual article subject, and the current title is extremely un encyclopedic Judgesurreal777 20:07, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Survey and discussion

  • Support per nom - Hbdragon88 05:22, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Support seems to make sense Aguerriero (ţ) (ć) (ë) 13:05, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Wear on Game Pad

Button mashing or button bashing does not wear down a gaming pad. To destroy a gaming pads buttons a great deal of force would have to be exerted, more than the quantity pressed when one is playing a stressful game.

That makes no sense. The weak link in a controller's button is the rubber "blister" that pushes the switch back up. I've had plenty of aftermarket GameCube controllers fail because the rubber gets cracked or loses elasticity. I have never seen a controller button become damaged from exerting too much force on it. You would need a lot of force, as you would have to crack the circuit board. I have a non-functional aftermarket GC controller that I could use to find out how plausible it is. I'll try using a thumb or finger, but I wouldn't be surprised if I needed to use a C-clamp to crack the circuit board. Joel Blanchette 20:28, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sonic

That sonic game really hurts my hand. Rush does cause a rush of button mashing. 4.245.143.219 05:45, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Why is there a criticism section?

This whole article is a derogatory criticism. Why on earth would people be making "desperate attempts" to beat Sagat anyways? If content can't be added to this article without making it derogatory, then take it out. JohnnyMrNinja 01:39, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

This whole article is crap if you ask me. It started out as a form of slander against players who *chuckles* loses because he refuses to choose powerful characters in a fighting game? The whole format is un organized at best. One minute it's about track and field, the next is about how much the tactic sucks. You can't make button mashing sound decent without sounding a bit biased if saying it is "cheap" in the article.--Neofcon (talk) 00:37, 25 January 2008 (UTC)