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GeMicles
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada307 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-24 19:45:52
April 24 2010 19:45 GMT
#1
i know that something bad is going to happen to me at night if i post something like this but im willing to take the risk.

you know that you are new to SCBW if you:
1. think that you are playing zerg no matter what race you are actually playing
2. you move command units into enemy territory without ever thinking of managaing them again
3. you use the arrow keys and you aren't boxer
4. you think that dark swarm is a spell put into the game for aesthetic reasons.
5. you rage at toss players that toss is imba after losing a pvp.

feel free to post your own. if you choose to post "if you make a list like this" please keep it to yourself.

cheers

*
i pikachu in the shower
LordWeird
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States3411 Posts
April 24 2010 19:49 GMT
#2
6. Your first building is an engineering bay.
Chains none
KinosJourney2
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Sweden1811 Posts
April 24 2010 19:51 GMT
#3
7. You place an evo chamber at the same time as your spawning pool in a 4v4 BGH game.
8. You go f*!¤in carriers in all free-for-all games and only attack players who got their forces away (yes im ranting )
ocho wrote: EDIT: NEVERMIND, THIS THING HAS APM TECHNOLOGY OMG
L_Master
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States8017 Posts
April 24 2010 19:51 GMT
#4
7. Your first building is an extractor/refinery/assimilator.
8. You build a minumum of 10 cannons before gateway
EffOrt and Soulkey Hwaiting!
3FFA
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States3931 Posts
April 24 2010 19:52 GMT
#5
9. You don't know a BO
10. You don't know what BO stands for.
"As long as it comes from a pure place and from a honest place, you know, you can write whatever you want."
Megalisk
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States6095 Posts
April 24 2010 19:58 GMT
#6
On April 25 2010 04:51 L_Master wrote:
7. Your first building is an extractor/refinery/assimilator.


Overgas ZvZ O_O
Tear stained american saints and dirty guitar dreams across a universe of desert and blue sky , gas station coffee love letters and two dollar pistol kisses from thirty five dollar hotel room stationary .
Lightswarm
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada967 Posts
April 24 2010 19:59 GMT
#7
11. You try sending a marine to mine minerals
(1st terran campaign)
Team[AoV]
3FFA
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States3931 Posts
April 24 2010 20:00 GMT
#8
On April 25 2010 04:58 Megalisk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 25 2010 04:51 L_Master wrote:
7. Your first building is an extractor/refinery/assimilator.


Overgas ZvZ O_O

I might experiment with extractor-> 12 pool lol->11hatch->12lair or something like that.
"As long as it comes from a pure place and from a honest place, you know, you can write whatever you want."
deconduo
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Ireland4122 Posts
April 24 2010 20:06 GMT
#9
On April 25 2010 04:58 Megalisk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 25 2010 04:51 L_Master wrote:
7. Your first building is an extractor/refinery/assimilator.


Overgas ZvZ O_O


Overgas ZvZ is pretty common, and also gas first for some 2-hatch builds ZvT I think? (Not too sure about that) I think I'm gonna see if I can do some gas first build for T or P
dhe95
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States1213 Posts
April 24 2010 20:10 GMT
#10
11. Your army consists of one of every unit
airtown
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States410 Posts
April 24 2010 20:13 GMT
#11
On April 25 2010 04:49 LordWeird wrote:
6. Your first building is an engineering bay.

On a fastest map, you can make an ebay at your enemy's base right away then move it over their minerals to block sight. That way they can't get any more peons mining.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/northwoods.pdf
neobowman
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada3324 Posts
April 24 2010 20:14 GMT
#12
12. You mass scouts.
Khenra
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Netherlands885 Posts
April 24 2010 20:15 GMT
#13
Actually a very common one:

12. You stop worker production when you have one for every mineral patch patch and then just start teching up.
This signature is ruining eSports.
Mastermind
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada7096 Posts
April 24 2010 20:17 GMT
#14
On April 25 2010 05:13 4iner wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 25 2010 04:49 LordWeird wrote:
6. Your first building is an engineering bay.

On a fastest map, you can make an ebay at your enemy's base right away then move it over their minerals to block sight. That way they can't get any more peons mining.

hyst.eric.al
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States2332 Posts
April 24 2010 20:18 GMT
#15
14. you stay on one base until it mines out
Leta , BeSt, Calm fan forever! 김정우, I am sorry I ever lost faith in you.
jimminy_kriket
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Canada5532 Posts
April 24 2010 20:18 GMT
#16
On April 25 2010 04:45 GeMicles wrote:

5. you rage at toss players that toss is imba after losing

Fixed
life of lively to live to life of full life thx to shield battery
AleC
Profile Joined December 2009
332 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-24 20:20:49
April 24 2010 20:20 GMT
#17
15. You only scout with scouts.
Reason
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United Kingdom2770 Posts
April 24 2010 20:21 GMT
#18
"if you make a list like this" perhaps something bad should happen to you during the night.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
xiaofan
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States513 Posts
April 24 2010 20:21 GMT
#19
u think ur playing warcraft
nttea
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Sweden4353 Posts
April 24 2010 20:25 GMT
#20
On April 25 2010 05:21 xiaofan wrote:
u think ur playing warcraft in space

Exteray
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States1094 Posts
April 24 2010 20:27 GMT
#21
You get Templar's Archive before your first military unit.
sharkeyanti
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States1273 Posts
April 24 2010 20:30 GMT
#22
you wonder why the hotkey for siege mode isn't 's'
Hi Mom
Kyuukyuu
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada6263 Posts
April 24 2010 20:38 GMT
#23
Make all the buildings in order
snotboogie
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Australia3550 Posts
April 24 2010 20:41 GMT
#24
On April 25 2010 05:10 dhe95 wrote:
11. Your army consists of one of every unit


Your army consists of lots of one unit
Necosarius
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
Sweden4042 Posts
April 24 2010 20:44 GMT
#25
Evo chamber before pool.
Hypnosis
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States2061 Posts
April 24 2010 20:44 GMT
#26
you get stuck on 10 supply for 56 minutes then finally figure out what a depot is and accidentally halt it halfway through and remain stuck on 10 supply for another hour until you realize you can alt f4
Science without religion is lame, Religion without science is blind
Axonn
Profile Joined April 2010
Croatia287 Posts
April 24 2010 20:53 GMT
#27
I use 3rd and I'm not Boxer (obviously), but I use arrow keys in every single game to scroll so yeah xD (Though I'll give a try to middle mouse scrolling)
SkelA
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Macedonia13076 Posts
April 24 2010 20:58 GMT
#28
You tell your ally to go 9 pool ... you check his base and you see 3 spawing pools and 4th morphin
Stork and KHAN fan till 2012 ...
TimmyMac
Profile Joined December 2008
Canada499 Posts
April 24 2010 22:23 GMT
#29
On April 25 2010 05:14 neobowman wrote:
12. You mass scouts.

hey,
mass scouts are sick
DrivE
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States2554 Posts
April 24 2010 23:29 GMT
#30
You build 3 supplies before rax to "not worry about supply"
LUCK IS NO EXCUSE
Kenpachi
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States9908 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-24 23:37:01
April 24 2010 23:34 GMT
#31
On April 25 2010 05:53 Axonn wrote:
I use 3rd and I'm not Boxer (obviously), but I use arrow keys in every single game to scroll so yeah xD (Though I'll give a try to middle mouse scrolling)

so does (Z)Crazy-Hydra

you think using the keyboard is for noobs. (I said that to my friend in 3rd grade.)
Nada's body is South Korea's greatest weapon.
GeMicles
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada307 Posts
April 24 2010 23:43 GMT
#32
On April 25 2010 08:34 Kenpachi wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 25 2010 05:53 Axonn wrote:
I use 3rd and I'm not Boxer (obviously), but I use arrow keys in every single game to scroll so yeah xD (Though I'll give a try to middle mouse scrolling)

so does (Z)Crazy-Hydra

you think using the keyboard is for noobs. (I said that to my friend in 3rd grade.)


fine

3. if you use the arrow keys and you dont have 300 apm
i pikachu in the shower
Ozarugold
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
2716 Posts
April 24 2010 23:49 GMT
#33
-You can't beat the computer.
-You play on Blizzard-made maps.
-You don't use hotkeys. Ever.
-You upgrade every upgrade and built every possible unit and building.
-You wall off your main with three Nexuses (Nexii?)
-You keep all your overlords in your base so they won't die.
-You sometimes take a few seconds during the game and wonder what you should do.
-You try to make your supply depot lift off.
this is my quote.
3FFA
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States3931 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-25 00:07:39
April 25 2010 00:06 GMT
#34
On April 25 2010 08:49 Ozarugold wrote:
1-You can't beat the computer.
2-You play on Blizzard-made maps.
3-You don't use hotkeys. Ever.
4-You upgrade every upgrade and built every possible unit and building.
5-You wall off your main with three Nexuses (Nexii?)
6-You keep all your overlords in your base so they won't die.
7-You sometimes take a few seconds during the game and wonder what you should do.
8-You try to make your supply depot lift off.

Numbered them for ya and...
6 is one I've seen many good players do. Especially in a (somewhat) recent help thread. These 2(maybe 3?) guys(Bish if I remember correctly) wouldn't admit that they were not using their overlords properly.

2 is one I do just to play against my nooby(as in been playing for 3 years but still can't get good enough to beat 3 computers) friends. The only non-blizzard maps they'll play are python(some like desti) and remakes of LT and blood bath.
"As long as it comes from a pure place and from a honest place, you know, you can write whatever you want."
DreaM)XeRO
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Korea (South)4667 Posts
April 25 2010 00:17 GMT
#35
you use the arrow keys to go across the screen
cw)minsean(ru
calgar
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States1277 Posts
April 25 2010 00:20 GMT
#36
You wonder why your drones are turning into bloody pulps as blurry blobs move around.
MacroNcheesE
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States508 Posts
April 25 2010 01:03 GMT
#37
No rally points, halt worker production @ 10, you scout but don't adapt, you don't scout after the initial probe/drone/scv, don't use hotkeys/group
Doubt is the venom that has paralyzed humanity.
numLoCK
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada1416 Posts
April 25 2010 01:08 GMT
#38
You think dark swarm only works against air units (read the strategy guide anyone? )
Tenryu
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States565 Posts
April 25 2010 04:46 GMT
#39
-You didnt know you have to put marines in bunkers
-You think the color on the mini-map is your color in the game
-You think win/loss records on b.net mean everything
-You think BGH is a non $$ map
-You dont rally workers near mineral fields
http://myanimelist.net/profile/Understar
Kashll
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States1117 Posts
April 25 2010 05:18 GMT
#40
On April 25 2010 13:46 Tenryu wrote:
-You dont rally workers near mineral fields


I don't do this and I'm C on iccup. I find early game i have enough attention to just manually move them quickly, and mid game it gets really annoying if you have to pick out the non moving SCVs among your mining ones..
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." - Aldous Huxley
littlechava
Profile Blog Joined March 2004
United States7221 Posts
April 25 2010 06:43 GMT
#41
1) you just started playing SC:BW
Entusman #12
Ideas
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States8169 Posts
April 25 2010 06:44 GMT
#42
you don't understand the concept of scouting

that's pretty much the biggest thing I see with people who dont know how to play lol.
Free Palestine
Spazer
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada8033 Posts
April 25 2010 06:54 GMT
#43
You mass air regardless of the matchup or situation.

+ Show Spoiler +
It does work pretty well in campaign.
Liquipedia
nayumi
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Australia6499 Posts
April 25 2010 06:56 GMT
#44
You mass DTs thinking they're the best units ever since they're invisible, deal 40 damage per hit and look like ninjas.
Sugoi monogatari onii-chan!
Divinek
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Canada4045 Posts
April 25 2010 07:28 GMT
#45
On April 25 2010 05:15 Khenra wrote:
Actually a very common one:

12. You stop worker production when you have one for every mineral patch patch and then just start teching up.


what that just means you're zerg, or bad obviously, or cheesing which follows possibly from the two previous

i think one is like
1. thinking 100apm is really fucking fast
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Oh goodness me, FOX tv where do you get your sight? Can't you keep track, the puck is black. That's why the ice is white.
InFdude
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Bulgaria619 Posts
April 25 2010 10:15 GMT
#46
--- Nuked ---
ironchef
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Canada1350 Posts
April 25 2010 13:02 GMT
#47
- you have 5 workers
- your unit building decisions are based on "ooh itd be cool to have one of those"
- watching a korean fpvod will blow your mind and change what you thought is standard/possible mode of playing video games .
“Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.” - Marcus Aurelius
deconduo
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Ireland4122 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-25 13:57:56
April 25 2010 13:57 GMT
#48
On April 25 2010 22:02 ironchef wrote:
- you have 5 workers


4/5 pool. Hey, Jaedong does it
Megaman703
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
Canada688 Posts
April 25 2010 15:13 GMT
#49
you make a perimeter of photon cannons/missile turrets around your base

"this way nothing can get in"
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