In fighting games, this is exactly the way "scrubs" think. They lose and appeal to some vague notion of fairness to avoid confronting the reality - they lost!

Would be funny if it wasn't real.

I feel the comparison is too apples-to-oranges, games are designed things with goals like the enjoyment of participants and—on at least some level—a fair playing field.

And with him saying that, millions of his followers instantly started believing it with no second thought.

It’s all the VAR referee’s fault.