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Apathetic
Joined: Aug 2008
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To the Top of the Mountain
GhaudePhaede010: Does this man need an introduction? Most likely not.
Would any intro do this amazing player justice? Probably not. Am I going
to try anyway? Definitely! I am joined today by Super Smash Bros. Brawl
best player. The standard, the epitaph, the zenith, the man, the
legend, the wonderkin, the benchmark for all of us. If you are not him,
you basically dream of beating him every day, every time you fire up
this game. He is a multi-time national tournament winner, he has earned
more than anyone else playing the game, he has won on multiple
continents, been at the top of Melee, is the Ghaude of Brawl. The man's
name is synonymous with Metaknight. A man of as much controversy as
contribution and earnings. I have on thee other side of this interview,
the one and only MEW2KING. HOLY **** MEW2KING!!!! Mew2King,
congratulations on winning Genesis 2 singles and doubles. You freaking
raped everyone and everything and thank you so much for keeping your
word and doing this interview.
Mew2King: Thanks =D Glad to do it.
GhaudePhaede010:
I am going to go straight at the biggest and most talked about subject
of Genesis 2 right off top. It seems it would not be a National event
without Mew2King having some sort of controversy. At Genesis 2, most of
the talk was about if you were deserving of a, "red card" over the fact
that you sandbagged a match against Sade in pool play. Now in my
opinion, pool play is like the, "regular season" to brackets being the,
"playoffs" in competitive gaming. Meaning, once you have secured your
spot, you can play how you want to because you have earned the right to
relax and enjoy some of the tournament. You are not entitled to play
hard so the next player can get through. That job is on each player
individually. The backlash was severe though and I wonder how you felt
knowing about this and do you regret any of your actions regarding this
situation?
Mew2King: I don't see the big deal
honestly. It's not like I had any malicious intent. I was guaranteed 1st
seed at that point no matter what happened. At Clash of Titans 5 Ally
went Wolf in pools and got 2nd seed because of it but no one made a big
deal of it. I already apologized to Kirinblaze for that anyway.
GhaudePhaede010:
Since we are on the topic, I know the MLG crap is now a figment of the
past and I am not going to try to pry my way into thee inner workings of
that situation. What I want to know is in retrospect, is there anything
you would have changed about yourself in that situation?
Mew2King:
Lets not talk about this as it brings bad memories. That was my year's
goal and I really needed the money and both got ruined.
GhaudePhaede010:
Like I said, I am not here to pry anything so we can move on. The Unity
Ruleset is one that disappoints me to no end. I am very adamantly
against it usage and see it as counterproductive and very elitist in its
implementation. How do you feel about this ruleset and if you had the
power, what would you adjust and why?
Mew2King: Honestly, I don't really care much either way. The ruleset does not affect me too much.
GhaudePhaede010:
I constantly feel like you are personally upheld to a hypocritical
double standard. Because of your persona, people feel like you are too,
"robotic" and far too introverted. On thee other hand, if you do
something that comes off as, "natural" and even, "normal" you end up
being penalized for that as well. Do you feel the double standard and
how do you handle those situations?
Mew2King: Anything I do gets hated on a lot. I might have my problems and be a weird kid but so what?
GhaudePhaede010:
Everyone of us has problems and is just a taste weird. Like I said, I
feel too many people uphold you to that double standard. It is easier to
do that to you than say, step up themselves. Anyway, most people
shudder in fear when they find out they will have to play you. I know
you are pretty much at the top of the game but is there anyone that you
truly feel pressure or nervousness when you know you will have to play
them?
Mew2King: I don't go into most matches thinking
I'll win. I go into them thinking I'll lose so that I don't **** around
and I can try my best
GhaudePhaede010: But since
you win all the time, I find myself cheering against you because I enjoy
rooting for thee underdog and you are basically never thee underdog.
Does it bother you that people like me never want you to win anything?
Do you have anyone that you personally root against for whatever reason?
Mew2King: I don't like cheering against people. Oh
hell yeah that gets annoying but you have to get used to it. I'm kinda
used to it (even though it sucks =/ ).
GhaudePhaede010:
I understand it sucking and I hope you understand, I do not root for
the Yankees for the same reason. Every year the Yankees are involved and
it is nice to see other teams, faces, and fans earn it over the top
dog. This next question is as much for Melee as it is for Brawl. Is
there any player that you have never beaten that you would like to have
gotten one last shot at?
Mew2King: I guess a rematch with Armada? Maybe some day...
GhaudePhaede010:
A rematch with Armada would be pretty ****ing amazing. You two should
just do a high dollar money match because I think everyone would want to
see it. I prefer doubles to singles as most people already know. One of
the main reasons is that you can team with other great players and see
them for a short period as an ally and not your cut throat nemesis.
Everyone I interview wants to team with you because most people agree
that you are the best doubles player out there. So my question is, who
is the best doubles partner for you and what does it take to get you to
partner with someone?
Mew2King: If people take me to
tournaments or do me favors, I'll team with them. It's easiest to win
with Anti or Ally in my experience but I do well with a lot of people.
GhaudePhaede010:
As far as traveling goes, you have been to some amazing places
including Australia, the one place I really want to go for gaming. Where
have you been that you would never want to go back to? Where would do
you like to revisit? And where would you like to go that you have never
been?
Mew2King: I'd rather not answer negative
things, but I really enjoy going to California. And NJ/NY is good too
(and convenient for me). Oh yeah, and I wanna go to Japan.
GhaudePhaede010:
Semi on this topic: You have seen a lot of cities, states, and even
other countries. Where is your absolute favorite spot to eat?
Mew2King:
Hmmm. I don't know... Chipotle and In N Out are really good, or any
good chicken or asian food places are generally really good as well.
GhaudePhaede010:
I am partial to Del Taco and Jack in the Box. Oh how I miss Jack in the
Box. We are all men and mostly all of us love women. So I think we all
want to know what kind of women does Mew2King want to b-air, d-smash,
and JV 4-stock?
Mew2King: Asians! >_>... what the **** I'm not answering this specifically LOL.
GhaudePhaede010:
Wow so many men love the Asian *****es. I guess Asian *****es dabess...
Because you were basically always on the road, there was a period where
I thought you did not have a home. When not on the road, what do you do
to relax?
Mew2King: I really like sleeping.
Traveling is also really fun, because it's always a new adventure. I
enjoyed doing this because I want to live life to the fullest instead of
wasting it, but I believe I'm going to start going to college again
soon and settling down more from now on and as time goes on.
GhaudePhaede010:
In all thee interviews I have done, nobody has ever said they really
enjoy sleeping so that is a first. Since starting to play competitive
Smash, do you have a rough estimate of how much money you made?
Mew2King:
50k at most. But I've had a lot of bad luck and it should have been a
lot more. My total right now is about 10k, and a lot of it (vast
majority by far) goes to helping my family. I'm not lying at all.
GhaudePhaede010: May I please borrow a hundred dollars?
Mew2King:
No! <_< but I do lend out money to my friends a lot. Except, I
found out a lot of them aren't even friends, but people who just took
advantage of me and don't intend to pay me back. niceness is my weakness
I think.
GhaudePhaede010: Aiight, so from now on my
goal is not to be the best Smash player out there; rather, to become
your friend. Aside from basically ruling the community and raping the
competition, what keeps you coming back? Is it all about the money? The
celebrity? The whores? Is it something else that I could never
understand?
Mew2King: It used to be about proving
myself to be the best. Now that I've reached that (Even though me and
Ally are essentially equals depending on who's playing better that day)
it's for money. It's also kinda fun. Sometimes it isn't fun at all, but
Genesis 2 was extremely fun to me.
GhaudePhaede010: I
think only you, dmbrandon, and Fatal are openly willing to admit that
money is a strong motivation. It is like other players are ashamed to
admit they want the money. I think we all want money though. Going into
Genesis 2 you did not seem very confident you would place first. Why was
that and do you think agreeing to do this interview had anything to do
with you performing so well (I like to think of you wanting to do this
as a turning point)?
Mew2King: I don't go into
matches thinking I'll win as I said. I simply try my best to make sure I
do. I don't underestimate my opponents or sandbag them. When I lose I
was usually either outplayed or just playing bad, but if it's a big
tourney I generally don't like to underestimate my opponents.
Mew2King: And no, agreeing to the interview had nothing to do with it XD
GhaudePhaede010:
Man come on now... I know agreeing to this interview had a little
something to do with your success. You know in the back of your mind you
were thinking, "I cannot let GhaudePhaede010 down. Gotta win for that
interview" right? Heading into a big national event like Genesis 2, do
you feel any extra hype or is it more of a, "business as usual" approach
for you these days?
Mew2King: It is a combination of both, really.
GhaudePhaede010:
You never played Wifi and I have to wonder why... were you part of that
elite group that would alienate online players when at in person
tournaments?
Mew2King: No, I was not. But it's just too laggy that's it.
GhaudePhaede010:
A player was robbed at gun point after Friday's conclusion. Besides
thinking the community is full of **** for reacting the way they did
(really community, a guy gets robbed and somehow it is HIS fault?
Really? Think...), your sandbagging was somehow more important and news
worthy than this. I did not see one blog on the front page and other
than a twitter post, I was basically thee only person actively trying to
pursue information. While blogs about you sandbagging were reaching
huge numbers of replies (which I did voice my opinion on), there was
very little about this bit of unfortunateness. Did you hear about this
and how does it make you feel to know that you sandbagging was more
important to the community than the safety of the players?
Mew2King:
This Brawl community is incredibly immature I would like to say first
off. All most of these kids do is gossip or start and/or spread rumors,
whether they are true or just plain made up or simply something they
want to believe or doing it for attention. That's the main reason I
rarely bother with this website hardly anymore. Stealing money or
threatening people is ****ing rude. As someone who is actually owed
about 7000 dollars from various tournaments not paying out (Winterfest
SNES Pound5 Activegamers and I forget the rest) and being robbed (in
2007 I housed a bunch of people and they stole over 1000 dollars from my
room just before FC:Diamond, and many other occasions I have had
of similar times being robbed but I'd rather not think about it but in
my life it's several thousands easily) I know what it feels like to get
robbed (not gunpoint but the robbed part definitely). However, that
doesn't mean you should do bad things back to other people, and what
most people do is they take the bottled up anger that they have, and
because of their sadness they enjoy making others sad or doing greedy
things. I even used to be like that at one point but I think the older I
get the more clear this becomes. This may sound stupid but one of the
reasons I don't really like doing bad things is because, if heaven does
exist, you don't go there if you do a lot of bad things . Also, I
generally feel a lot of guilt if I were to do bad things (lying,
stealing, hurting people, are all things I greatly dislike). I know this
isn't part of the question you asked but it's stuff that I wanted to
say anyway.
GhaudePhaede010: Oh my Jeebus that was
totally not an answer I was expecting. But for the most part, you are
correct. In my short interviewing career, I have gotten to interview
UltimateRazer, Fatal, dmbrandon, ADHD (on my daughters birthday. THANK
YOU ADHD), and now you as big names go. You are about as big as they get
so who would you like me to interview next and why?
Mew2King:
I really do not know. Someone you really want to interview is probably
better than anyone I could tell you to interview. Hmmm... maybe Ally, Anti or Tyrant though lol.
GhaudePhaede010:
Mew2King, thank you so much for taking the time out to do this
interview. I totally love you, appreciate you, and wish you so much luck
and wealth and *****es in the future. Will you please buy me a boat? If
you have any shout-outs or e-hate, please feel free to send it out now.
Mew2King: thanks =D. And no wtf LOL. I'll buy you a
toy boat that squirts water though. And for shout-outs I don't like
naming specific people so I won't but the VAST majority of the rumors
about me are not true and that is the truth. Reason I don't really use
this site much anymore is cuz caring about it is unnecessary stress that
I'd rather have ignored or out of my life. For the few that are true
I'll just fix them, but the immature smash community making a big deal
of everything I do (and HAVEN'T done but they think is true) and hating
so much is absolutely unnecessary.
GhaudePhaede010: I
normally do not add anything to the beginning or end of interviews
(with ADHD being thee only exception) but there are a few things I feel I
have to say. First of all, I feel like king of the world getting to
interview amazing and not so amazing players and legends simply because
they are people and I want to know about them as much as anyone else
does. Second, I want to give some special shout-outs because this
interview right here has earned me the freelancer badge and when I
started out, I was not sure I would stay around long enough to get this
far so here goes:
GhaudePhaede010: I want to shout-out
the following people in no specific order: numonezeldafan for being my
first interview and helping me develop this style. Vermanubis for
basically showing the world that an amazing interview is not solely
based on name recognition. dmbrandon and Inui because even when I
disagree with either of you, you are both men and you understand what it
takes to be real and stay integral. Neither of you sell out and I
respect both of you so much for always being yourself even when we do
not see eye to eye. Plus, you both raped when I interviewed you. Patg
and Kyleisreal because you both take care of me. Always reading,
supporting and watching since near the beginning. I would definitely not
be near where I am today without you two specifically as fans. Most of
the people in free play for keeping my skills sharp since I do not have
the time to play like I used to. My wonderful girlfriend for giving me
so much to talk about, and helping me out by asking so many important
questions. A lot of the stuff I ask, especially the funnier, more
eccentric stuff comes from her. My baby's momma for being so drama free
and supportive (and telling me to mention this next person). Miles, my
editor for putting up wth, looking over, and posting my interviews
despite length, or brutal editing processes. He is a gift to me and he
does so very much to contribute to this website. I feel ashamed that my
baby's mother had to point out that I needed to give you this shout-out,
but she is 100% correct in not letting me submit this without giving
you the praise, love, and respect due to you. Thank you. My brother for
being my brother. Most people have family that will support them no
matter what, but not me. My brother is not a nut rider and like dm and
Inui, you have to earn his respect and once you have it, the doors open.
He gave me absolutely nothing in terms of respect but now he reads as
much as anyone. Lastly, everyone else I have interviewed. All of you
hold a special place in my heart, even if it did not go well or I did
not like thee interview. Every experience is a special one and it has
led to me getting big name players, and much love and respect from the
community. I will never turn my back on players on that level. I
appreciate every one of you. Thank you all.
GhaudePhaede010: For Iyolah! For Eternity!
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