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Skill Issue Squad

Humans who have spent thousands of years training their skill issue
by Shew-Chan February 7, 2024
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Skill Issue Fallacy

The Skill Issue Fallacy is when a person, who via indirect means of exposure, says that a certain media is bad, then when they finally get to experience it, they don’t take it seriously because of their low expectations. This leads to them having an objectively unenjoyable time, later reinforcing their unproven belief that the certain media is bad and continuing the loop.

The Skill Issue Fallacy can be found most often in debates about similar video games, such as between Terraria and Minecraft, Valorant and Counter Strike, etc. While the fallacy is not inherent towards a specific group of players or fandoms, reviews from people with no prior, direct experience with the media, people who had an initial, coincidental negative experience, or reviewers who previously fell victim to the Skill Issue Fallacy while consuming said media, exhibit noticeable traces of the fallacy. Some examples are, but not limited to: vague/irrelevant/a lack of evidence (“Terraria sucks because its 2D graphics are bad”), cherry picked reasons (“Valorant’s ability mechanic sucks because of the lack of balancing”), and reaching (“Minecraft’s community sucks”).

This fallacy doesn’t have just limited to a few individuals either. Large groups of people can be deluded and herded into the fallacy because of viral videos posted by those who fell for the fallacy prior, causing a chain reaction of falling for the fallacy when the target media is sometimes actually peak.
“Mark fell victim to the skill issue fallacy the other day, he finally got around to try Roblox but half-assed his attempt to find a good game cause he thinks everyone’s either a pedo or a scammer. What an idiot. He was two scrolls away from Entry Point.”
by asdffrfrnocap September 27, 2025
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winter skill issue

Winter skill issue is the phenomenon in which a person's performance in a video game is significantly worse during winter and its surrounding months, or even just cold weather in general. The causes for winter skill issue could be anything from cold hands making it more difficult to aim in a shooter game or just general discomfort in cold weather translating to worse performance.

Derived from winter + skill issue.
I dropped to Bronze 2 in VALORANT today because of winter skill issue.

I used to be #375 in OCE in April, but now I am #562 and it's July. Bloody winter skill issue.
by MelbourneTrainEnthusiast June 21, 2023
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winter skill issue

when your 4090 ti stops acting as a space heater and your hands cool down until you drop from iron to plastic in val
"I didn't even know it was possible to be plastic" - Alice
"haha winter skill issue" - Bob
by TharmalSauce June 24, 2023
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Talen "Skill Issue" Chen

Name for a kid named Talen Chen who has a massive skill issue. He's going to read this definition and get mad. Skill Issue.
Talen "Skill Issue" Chen is mad that he lost, what a skill issue!
by Jacket_Pocketatiel October 7, 2022
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Talen skill issue

The definition of your friend who named talen who has a skill issue from sucking at everything
Bro cant believe talen skill issue sucks at Mario kart
by Thwomp skateboarder September 28, 2022
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Massive skill issue

Leaving your seamoth in a reaper-infested area in Subnautica
He lost his seamoth because he had a massive skill issue
by Bickering82 August 1, 2023
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