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Trezeguet
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States2656 Posts
December 24 2009 02:13 GMT
#61
Best of luck to her. If she got good enough to complete even the single player campaign that would be a big accomplishment. Hope you guys work out!
nttea
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Sweden4353 Posts
December 24 2009 02:22 GMT
#62
On December 24 2009 07:18 Misrah wrote:
Don't worry I will be keeping you updated on the games! She really likes the look of the carriers as well- and she wants me to show her how to make them. However that would require gas- and i don't want to get there yet. I am just working on having her build all of the buildings that require minerals first, and then move on to gas.

It's amazing how fast she gets it tho. She understand that zerg can only build on creep, and that pylons make an energy field like creep- and protoss buildings can only build on the energy field. She also understands the concept of shield generators, and how protoss shields work. It's sweet! I can't wait till me and her can start bashing noobs on US east with 2v2s !


wow... she's almost...... human?
Archaic
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States4024 Posts
December 24 2009 02:24 GMT
#63
Hahaha, good luck. She'll be a solid D player by the end of the month!
daz
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Canada643 Posts
December 24 2009 02:44 GMT
#64
i wont lie you make it sound like your teaching a 4 year old
Some eat to remember, some smash to forget. 2009msl.com
Ilikestarcraft
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Korea (South)17733 Posts
December 24 2009 02:49 GMT
#65
practically everyone who i taught sc ended up better than me boo
"Nana is a goddess. Or at very least, Nana is my goddess." - KazeHydra
WheelOfTime
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Canada331 Posts
December 24 2009 03:18 GMT
#66
Bonjwa.

I wish my GF was as cool as yours.

APM is overrated.
DamageControL
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States4222 Posts
December 24 2009 04:44 GMT
#67
On December 24 2009 10:09 Misrah wrote:
God i want to smack each and every single person that has muttered the word condescending. Elitist pricks.

How does it make them elitist Misrah?
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Misrah
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States1695 Posts
December 24 2009 05:26 GMT
#68
On December 24 2009 13:44 DamageControL wrote:
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On December 24 2009 10:09 Misrah wrote:
God i want to smack each and every single person that has muttered the word condescending. Elitist pricks.

How does it make them elitist Misrah?


Well logically everyone should simply understand what creep is / does, what pylon energy is / does. how easy it is to mine minerals, that you have to build a building on top of green shit to get more, that you have to worry about food. Ohh shit and shields of course they recharge with out you doing anything, and of course the fucking health would not.

According to everyone this is simply common knowledge that anyone with any cognitive sense will understand. I mean if you have never played an RTS before, it's fucking 2+2 to figure out that you need to build miners, where to mine, get resources, build buildings on special locations, and different buildings do different things. I mean shit why the fuck would anyone break down every single aspect of an RTS and completely explain every little thing, when any normal person would understand this already.

I am sick of this, I was never condescending, and i think the world of ginger. I teach small children / teens / adults how to swim every day. Trust me things always work out better when you take it in small very achievable steps. Assuming that anyone can logically understand anything is simply garbage when it comes to teaching. so i am merely taking my many years of teaching experience and translating it to SC.

Elitist pricks are people that are fucking calling me out for taking it nice and slow with teaching some one who has never played an RTS. Considering that this was HER FIRST FUCKING GAME i thought that it was rather impressive that she memorized the BO that quickly, and didn't need to second guess at all. As i stated earlier when i first started to play this game, i always had to look in the fucking book to figure out what did what. But i guess that makes me a retard, because logically any cognitively functioning human would have figured that shit out.

God fucking damn i think that i am just about done raging. To all you butt hurt 'my girl friend hates starcraft' and 'I wish i had a girlfriend' SCREW YOU. I want SC to be a positive experience for ginger, that means- not a fucking memorize this this this this and this, now do this this this. as i said before- it's just to hang out with her. I am not trying to make the next tossgirl.

Forget about posting her progress games. Every time i post a blog it's the same shit, from the same POS that this site has suddenly found its self immersed in. This blog was going to be nothing but a fun thing.... And of course some how this ends up happening. I can't believe i just wrote all this to answer a simple question. Really 99% of this has nothing to do with your question, i am just so tired of what TL has become. It's a god damn place of complete fools that always find a way to 1 star your blog, and call you an idiot - no matter what the content.


/rant
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And i feel that by posting this i am going to get a swift ban from the mods... But meh i probably deserve it. It's just so funny how TL is suddenly infested with asshats, just thousands and thousands of them. They cannot put in a good word, and always ALWAYS find something wrong with anything. Maybe it's just the internet that turns people into ass holes, and allows people like me to get trolled and so riled up with faceless/nameless idiots that sit behind a computer and type what ever. That or maybe it stems from the fact that I put a lot of my personal life / true feelings / stories on the internet, and i guess expecting people to not be an ass is to much. Or maybe i just take everything too seriously, and i should only post blogs that mean absolute shit, and keep anything remotely important off the net, and especially off of TL,
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TheAntZ
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Israel6248 Posts
December 24 2009 05:32 GMT
#69
Fuck the haters take pleasure in the fact that your girlfriend either likes the game, or likes you enough to want to play the game for you! its win/win man, gratz :D
43084 | Honeybadger: "So july, you're in the GSL finals. How do you feel?!" ~ July: "HUNGRY."
quirinus
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Croatia2489 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-24 15:53:07
December 24 2009 15:51 GMT
#70
It's nice that you're focusing more on having fun with her while teaching her than just teaching her. Props for that, you've got it right.

From a few similar blogs that I read, they were always focused to make the gf a next Tossgirl from the get go.



Edit:
Woot, this is my 386th post. Long live old computers! a 386 was my first computer. I'll never forget that turbo button... that crazy key lock... that lovely screen. I was in love.
All candles lit within him, and there was purity. | First auto-promoted BW LP editor.
NonFactor
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Sweden698 Posts
December 24 2009 16:34 GMT
#71
You sound like your teaching the game to a 7 year old. Lol. Surely she can manage harder build orders then ''3 zealots''? Especially after watching a few progames. Anyways, it's always cool to have people close to you with similiar interests. Campaign Ì've noticed is most of the time a good place to start too! And she would get a deeper understanding of her race and the lore overall. (Campaigns start with controlling a few units and end with base vs base etc.)

----

Scrolled up and saw that long post, apparently I wasn't the only one thinking that it sounded a bit off, LOL. Though I still stand by what I wrote.
MrHoon *
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
10183 Posts
December 24 2009 17:43 GMT
#72
when I first started dating my girlfriend she always asked me whether or not I was "obsessed with gaming"

I told it her it wasn't obsession

It is a lifestyle

And she tries to find all my posts
dats racist
Ian Ian Ian
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
915 Posts
December 24 2009 21:25 GMT
#73
Misrah that rage was so pathetic :/

Read your posts back to yourself. You literally act like your teaching a 5 year old.

"IM SO HAPPY, SHE MADE 3 ZEALOTS, OMGGGGGGGG"
Usurper
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Macedonia283 Posts
December 24 2009 21:37 GMT
#74
She will make fine Matriarch.
I love humanity. It is people that i can't stand.
sky_slasher
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States328 Posts
December 24 2009 21:37 GMT
#75
On December 24 2009 07:43 HazMat wrote:
For some reason i kept imagining toss girl while reading this blog

5/5

Here comes the next TossGirl~~~~

On December 24 2009 09:42 SlayerS_BunkiE wrote:
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On December 24 2009 07:19 Mortality wrote:
To Op:

It's cool that you're teaching your girl SC, but do remember that she's probably not actually interested in the game so much as she's interested in learning about this strange game that you like so much. In other words, she's after quality time with you. I'm not saying you're doing anything wrong, just always keep in mind that making this an enjoyable experience for the two of you is by having this something you do together.

Have fun~


nice advice

but i beg to differ...

lol... just saying there are exceptions...

like me, at first i really don't like SC cause i hate RTS games (but i'm a resident evil addict). i've been telling my bf that i will never like playing SC. to cut the long story short, he managed to teach me how to play. at first, i was really hesitant, but what the heck, i should learn to play so i could relate on his addictions. but after playing some games, reading TL, and watching pro, i became addicted to it. i even told him to create this TL account since he's been lurking in TL for some time already. now, i'm a resident evil and sc addict.

i also chose protoss because he's playing terran and i don't like the appearance of zerg units. i'm also a bisu fanboy (or girl) hence the protoss race.

to the OP: that is so cool, i hope your gf will appreciate SC, too

lolz. i just laughed at ur signature....Oov's clan, Flash's clan, Boxer's clan, SKT masco, Bisu's clas all together..
OpticalShot
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Canada6330 Posts
December 24 2009 23:42 GMT
#76
Man ignore the haters, they're all jealous of you and your gf. Presumably now she's taken her 5th gas and mass producing her favourite fuzzy balls of death and melting ugly lings into ketchup.

I just can't get over the expression "fuzzy balls" for archons oh man that was such lulz made my day (well the day before or two). Two thumbs up

P.S. Yeah perhaps it's time to introduce her to campaigns, a nice storyline would only make the gaming experience better. Well, the spending-time-together experience better...
[TLMS] REBOOT
frogmelter
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States971 Posts
December 25 2009 07:11 GMT
#77
I am sorry if I offended you in some way, but I was only stating my honest opinion. I am not a 'hater' at all. I've taught my girlfriend StarCraft too and I fully support the notion.

Nor am being an 'elitist'. I don't think my girlfriend and I are any better than you two. The thing is, your girlfriend seems to be learning at a pace slower than I did back in 1998 when I was 8 by myself. StarCraft was also my first RTS game ever. Just to think that someone would have a coach and is many years older than my 8 year old self and can't grasp such concepts is just... a little unbelievable to me and a few others. It takes a person a week to learn how to build 3 photon cannons and 3 zealots from 3 zealots? I learned that much in my first sitting with Protoss as an 8 year old and as SC as my first RTS.

And you don't need to memorize anything to play StarCraft. Everything is labeled. Everything has its costs. If a person can manage to purchase something from a store I find it hard to believe a person couldn't grasp the StarCraft system.

And yes I believe that you should take small steps. I've held many leadership positions and am currently a trainer for an organization. You do start small and take small steps. But the equivalent of me teaching someone at the same rate would be like saying Oh, I taught someone the way to the office! Maybe next week I can teach that person to go there /and/ come back!

Again, this is not supposed to 'attack' or 'hurt' anyone. I'm not a 'hater' and I certainly am not elitist. I hope that you can view this blog in an unbiased fashion. But if you want to hate me and flame me for posting in this thread, go for it. I honestly believe in what I posted, and I tried to post it in an unoffensive manner. If I am to be castigated for this, then so be it.

And for the record, I rated this blog 5 stars.
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NibbloniaN
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States377 Posts
December 25 2009 08:02 GMT
#78
I've taught a few of my friends that are girls and some of them picked up on it pretty quick but some just don't grasp the concept and end up with one hatchery, 4 drones and 50 overlords...
My folks were always on me to groom myself and wear underpants. What am I, the pope?
Illusion.
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States348 Posts
December 25 2009 08:30 GMT
#79
how am i to find dis gamer girlfriend i will pay 1,000 Rupes for one!
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