>both pick up a fighting game together
>neither of us know how to pilot our character but we have funndies from other games
>literally hours of fun
>we were both improving at the same rate but he gets a remote gig and has infinite time
>starts taking the game more seriously, labbing matchups, looking at high rank replays, ect
>I'm just stuck occasionally playing for fun
>just get mad a few sets in because I'm not making metoric progress and trying to beat him is like bashing my head against a rock
>occasionally try to improve but I'm not a psudeo-NEET and I have other games, so I drop it
Fighting games suck