I grew more as a player in one month after meeting someone else who gets excited and focuses on becoming better whenever they lose than I did over two decades of playing with "I'm happy to play as long as I win" players.

We'd play for hours and every time we met back up it was like playing against an entirely new person. He would just always be at a new tier and it would push me to reach for the next tier beyond.

After we had just played for a couple weeks there was no longer a chance in hell of my other friends even competing with me. Smash Bros had just become a party game that we played with all items on while drinking.

That fucker went off and died after beating me decisively. Dick move, Mike, dick move.