Ok so here's an interesting topic to discuss that I am very curious to hear from other people about.
So Mugen is over 20 years old, and there is no doubt it has always been a large part of many of our lives.
In all the years you have spent playing mugen and interacting with other fans or reading blogs and posts, have you learned any important lessons or gained some knowledge that has helped you in other areas of life? Or has Mugen helped you understand anything interesting about this world or dealing with work, people and stuff? Lets talk about it!

Patience, the importance of paying Attention to detail, and not rushing things unnecessarily.
It definitely has taught me the importance of these three things.
As cliché as this sounds, "Rome wasn't built in a day". Good things take time and extra effort always pays off in the long run. I would say I learned many of these things from creating mugen content

That you shouldnt obsess over things or center your life around only one thing.
I learned that after quitting mugen for almost 10 years and seeing the people i know still doing it.
Outside of Mugen, this community has a bad reputation for being trolls and weirdoes even in the FGC.
There are some really obsessed people that spend hours every day on mugen.
Hell, even some peoples entire social life online is purely mugen im sure.
Don't waste all your life staring into a 2d screen at rearranged pixels and images when there really is 1000 better things to be doing. It will only make you become more weird and obsessed without realizing it.

That is a good question actually
If I think about it, I learned that if you have some special skill or some talent from other things that isnt mugen, you can use it to apply it to mugen and make even better achievement with it. Mugen I was not really making creation for it in beginning, but I was involver in some architecture drawing and artwork community before mugen and my school, so I just apply it to mugen and it has some good success so far.

SuperWhiskey wrote:
There are some really obsessed people that spend hours every day on mugen.
Hell, even some peoples entire social life online is purely mugen im sure.
Don't waste all your life staring into a 2d screen at rearranged pixels and images when there really is 1000 better things to be doing. It will only make you become more weird and obsessed without realizing it.

This is very true actually. I have some strange experience where some user become madmen online over mugen things. i never understood it but i also dont really worry about it. I think mugen is the type of activity, that time, can be used infinitely so it has this addict problem if you do not stay away sometimes. I have some big break sometimes. Like now I am not doing any mugen things most the year because i am satisfied what i already did for now, but i will always do some more and finish older things i didnt release

One thing I think I can say I learned after many years observing mugen, is that the imagination is a powerful thing, and if you can imagine it, the only thing stopping it from becoming a reality, is you!

An important life lesson learned from mugen, was to spam genocide cutter.

Cant please everyone and some people will take credit for your work and then have you banished claiming your taking credit for their work other than that there will always be drama always avoid it or rise above it!

AcidUnleashed wrote:Cant please everyone and some people will take credit for your work and then have you banished claiming your taking credit for their work other than that there will always be drama always avoid it or rise above it!

true bro.
One lesson mugen taught me is that you cant rely on other people all the time for answers, if you want something you should go and figure it out on your own rather than wait for somebody else to do it for you

What I learned was to take your time. I learned that just now while working on a character of my own lmao.

chris wrote:I am a MUGEN enthusiast in China. I once commissioned someone else to create a character for 4000 RMB, with a deposit of 2000 RMB in advance. Later, he kept asking me to pay him for various reasons, such as being short of money and having no money to eat. Then he scammed me into paying him all 4000 RMB. However, after a whole year, only four skills were produced, and the money was not returned to me, and they even had to borrow money from me. He only said he would pay me back when he got rich. When I realized he was a jerk, it was already too late. The character was not produced and lost 4000 RMB. The money I lost cannot be recovered at all

That is a very sad story to hear.
Unfortunately, there are these kinds of non-proffessional creators in the mugen community.
You should be very careful with any activities in the mugen community that involve a monetary exchange.
Never send another person money in private that is not a proffessional or trusted creator.
My suggestion is to only use trusted websites and forums that are visible to the public and provide a safe way for paying and managing commission services.

Also, always ask to see the previous work of that creator and be certain he has a good reputation before decing to trust them with any mugen related work.
Newagemugen is a safe place for these types of commissions and we donot tolerate or allow any types of dishonest behaviors here. Thank you for telling your story

I'll be honest, if there's one thing I learned, is that people can be really, REALLY unreasonable.

Recolors, spriteswaps, renames, copy and pasted moves, there's so many things that I consider stupid in MUGEN that other people just don't see the problem with.

Hell, I've had people attack me for defending authors who didn't like their characters being edited without permission. Like what?

But yeah, if I learned one thing, it's that not everyone is reasonable enough to talk to.

oscarlin814 wrote:I'll be honest, if there's one thing I learned, is that people can be really, REALLY unreasonable.

Recolors, spriteswaps, renames, copy and pasted moves, there's so many things that I consider stupid in MUGEN that other people just don't see the problem with.

Hell, I've had people attack me for defending authors who didn't like their characters being edited without permission. Like what?

But yeah, if I learned one thing, it's that not everyone is reasonable enough to talk to.

When i was still very young and immature, I had this similar view.
But now as i look back as an older man with family and responsibilities i see that inwastwd lots of time focusing on these pointless things instead of just enjoying the surface level fun of mugen.

It is great to have community and personalities but it can ruin your passion if you are too focused on small details that will not matter in 20 years time when you are married with children and lots of bills and less time on the computer.

Mugen taught me to enjoy the simple things in this way and worry less about negative aspects