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Bibbit
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada5377 Posts
August 29 2010 19:25 GMT
#1
So a friend of mine from school (we weren't close or nothing, just kinda knew each other) just messaged me on BNet and said "Your record is awesome!" I would like to state for the record that its not. I'm a very average player (800~ diamond, about 60% winrate).

But the average person you know in real life is terrible. This particular guy is bronze. It's so cool how these people look at your record and think you're some sort of super being. Such a different feel when comparing yourself to the average casual gamer than when comparing yourself to these teamliquid SuperPeople.

Anyone else have real life friends who think you're spectacular?

***
illu
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada2531 Posts
August 29 2010 19:27 GMT
#2
I am more worried if I beat someone with a 4pool, then it turned out that that guy is from my school, then the next day I got beaten up IRL.
:]
OmgIRok
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Taiwan2699 Posts
August 29 2010 19:29 GMT
#3
I kind of hate when my friends ask for me to play with them 2v2/3v3 because I know I'll rage at them for being bad, and I don't want to do that. Also you don't get any better playing people that are worse
"Wanna join my [combo] clan?" "We play turret d competitively"
Bibbit
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada5377 Posts
August 29 2010 19:32 GMT
#4
On August 30 2010 04:29 OmgIRok wrote:
I kind of hate when my friends ask for me to play with them 2v2/3v3 because I know I'll rage at them for being bad, and I don't want to do that. Also you don't get any better playing people that are worse


This hasn't been a problem for me because my computer is too bad to handle 2v2/3v3. So if they ask, I can honestly tell them I can't play. And I don't request to play with these people because I feel bad rolling them. But sometimes they ask me for a 1v1 and its still fun. I went mass DT vs a friend in silver yesterday (was his idea so I dont consider it BM )
Malinor
Profile Joined November 2008
Germany4753 Posts
August 29 2010 19:33 GMT
#5
When I tell my friends I'm Diamond, they think I'm a complete freak (which for once is not the case, I have played like 35games). So no, they don't think I'm spectacular.
"Withstand. Suffer. Live as you must now live. There will, one day, be answer to this." ||| "A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It's the shit that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come."
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
August 29 2010 19:34 GMT
#6
On August 30 2010 04:29 OmgIRok wrote:
I kind of hate when my friends ask for me to play with them 2v2/3v3 because I know I'll rage at them for being bad, and I don't want to do that. Also you don't get any better playing people that are worse

Yeah I get this problem a lot =/

I feel like a dick declining their offer, but I'd rather play with people around my skill where I'm not carrying a team of IRL friends to platinum...
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
seRapH
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States9808 Posts
August 29 2010 19:34 GMT
#7
the people you find here at tl are like what, the top 1% of starcraft?

i try hard not to let it get to my ego

On August 30 2010 04:29 OmgIRok wrote:
I kind of hate when my friends ask for me to play with them 2v2/3v3 because I know I'll rage at them for being bad, and I don't want to do that. Also you don't get any better playing people that are worse

i play 2v2 with them all the time, but i usually do shit like mass queens, pure marine/medivac and dropping everywhere, mass infestor, phoenix/dt, mass thors etc

its weird how our winrate is still over 50% too lol.
boomer hands
The PWNion
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada39 Posts
August 29 2010 19:36 GMT
#8
All my buds and bros think I'm gosu at bw. I beat my bros 5-3 at 2v1 just recently. t v pz and i loved the respect lol.
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Slaughter
Profile Blog Joined November 2003
United States20255 Posts
August 29 2010 19:43 GMT
#9
Yea I have that. In SC all my friends used to play vs me and they would lose most of the time (ranging from 2-4v1 lol). They are just reallly bad and it sucks because they rarely ever want to play vs me because they know they will get stomped. Once 1v4 I literally heard them say "all right gather our armies and lets attack" then I rolled their combined army >< and im not a good player either.
Never Knows Best.
Piy
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Scotland3152 Posts
August 29 2010 19:46 GMT
#10
Meh, people IRL are always so impressed if they see you playing with a keyboard, let alone with 300 apm.
My. Copy. Is. Here.
seRapH
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States9808 Posts
August 29 2010 19:54 GMT
#11
On August 30 2010 04:46 Piy wrote:
Meh, people IRL are always so impressed if they see you playing with a keyboard, let alone with 300 apm.

i've been quizzed on the shortcut keys before. both games.

they're always strangely amazed that i know them even though they're almost all intuitive.

"how do you remember what each hotkey group is?" >.<
boomer hands
palanq
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
United States761 Posts
August 29 2010 19:58 GMT
#12
one way to do it is play team games with IRL friends and just practice 1v1 builds in the team game while not worrying so much about winning
time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
Rhyme
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1069 Posts
August 29 2010 19:59 GMT
#13
i feel like one of the lucky few...i'm ~700-800 diamond and one of my really good RL friends is basically on the same level as i am. we're probably 50% winrate against each other in 1's, and we both really enjoy playing.

funny thing is, neither of us played anything but casual RTS before SC2.
dont ever say that
Bibbit
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada5377 Posts
August 29 2010 20:04 GMT
#14
On August 30 2010 04:59 Rhyme wrote:
i feel like one of the lucky few...i'm ~700-800 diamond and one of my really good RL friends is basically on the same level as i am. we're probably 50% winrate against each other in 1's, and we both really enjoy playing.

funny thing is, neither of us played anything but casual RTS before SC2.


I actually do have one good RL friend about my level too, but he hasn't been in to 1v1s too much. Was playing team games for a while and is currently playing WoW. T_T
Rhyme
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1069 Posts
August 29 2010 20:07 GMT
#15
On August 30 2010 05:04 Bibbit wrote:
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On August 30 2010 04:59 Rhyme wrote:
i feel like one of the lucky few...i'm ~700-800 diamond and one of my really good RL friends is basically on the same level as i am. we're probably 50% winrate against each other in 1's, and we both really enjoy playing.

funny thing is, neither of us played anything but casual RTS before SC2.


I actually do have one good RL friend about my level too, but he hasn't been in to 1v1s too much. Was playing team games for a while and is currently playing WoW. T_T


hahaha damn those other games. the friend i mentioned is now deeply entrenched in minecraft
dont ever say that
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