Playing Starcraft instead of doing homework - Page 2

On April 28 2010 11:35 Belegorm wrote:
You know, that was more or less my life during high school (I'm now in college, btw, which has its own issues with studying vs sc). Except I was homeschooled, had my own comp in my own room, and was alone for pretty much the entire day.

But there's several issues with this. Some you mentioned, basically that your grades will possibly start to get worse (though not so bad in high school since most high school curriculums these days are crap and rather easy). Also, your game will be worse. You won't be able to really devote yourself to it (much as you aren't able to devote yourself to homework) and it'll be harder to improve. This is another thing you mentioned.

That brings me to the biggest point, that made my senior year of highschool hell (basically catching up). Even when you're behind on schoolwork, you'll still likely enough pause to play pretty often (a bad habit I've never lost even now, when I should be polishing up my paper). Problem is, you'll always have that fear of your mom walking in on you and getting real mad. You'll be nervous after awhile, and may even quit/minimise when you hear movement downstairs (when it might be just the dog).

Eventually, she'll find out. Trust me, she WILL, sooner or later. There will eventually come a point when you'll be far too into it to notice, and she'll just walk in. Or you'll accidentally maximise the game when she's in the room, either when you're frantically trying to close it or just bring up something else. Or, she'll become slightly more illiterate and realise what that icon is at the bottom of the screen. Of course, over time, the more she hears you typing and clicking the more suspicious she'll get, till she keeps an eye on you.

These are all situations I've gotten into plenty of times before. Leads to getting grounded, not only having a REALLY boring day (as in one without any games), and having your SC skill suffer far worse than it currently does. You'll start getting more and more nervous, and your mom will start noticing more, and you'll have to think up random excuses. She'll keep a far closer eye on you. I don't know how guilty you feel about this (I never really did much, myself, though I did think myself an idiot every time).

Finally, there will be a really bad break-down of trust between the two of you. You'll hate your mom, she won't trust you with anything. If you be "really good" for the rest of high-school, near the end she may trust you again, but it'll take work. I eventually did get my mom to trust me, and still never quite gave up doing stuff on my computer when I was supposed to be doing schoolwork (more often internet instead of actual gaming), I got rather skilled at that. Trust me though, try and just get on her good side, try to do well at school and she'll let you have some more time for gaming. One other problem I had was staying up all night gaming (leading to massive amounts of trouble), yet by the end of high-school she was letting me stay up as long as I wanted!

Trust me, from experience your way of playing is kind of nice short term, but extremely (and I mean extremely) bad long term.

On April 28 2010 13:22 Hypnosis wrote:


I used to get up at like 4 am on saturdays to play fastest and my mom would always fucking find out.. Then I would have a shitty day made shittier with no SC

That's when i decided to go outside and skateboard instead

On April 28 2010 11:26 ZidaneTribal wrote:
lol that sucks, it'll all be alright when u go to college