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So as you know from one of my previous blogs. My brother used to play Starcraft a lot with me, and John. So my brother and I after about a year, just drifted apart. We like different things, and it feels like, I'm just a kid to him. A random kid he picked up on the street that won't stop following him. You know? He won't do a lot of things with me. Feels not the best. Anyways the most we've played together is maybe a few games of Advance Wars and Broodwar over the weekend, if he suddenly decides to. If not, I can't get him to do anything with me.
So to my family. My family views starcraft as my game that I am fanatical about. It's just a stupid game to them, that I just can't stop playing. They don't view it as the awesome pro game that it is. I feel like I can't show them the documentary that National Geographic did, without them being like. Wtf are you trying to show us? It doesn't really feel like they are open to the idea.
Anyways. For now that's all. I just wanted to say, is they anyway I can get my family more open to this? Without making a fool out of myself.
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I'd say show it to them and try to look like a reasonable, well-informed member of the community not an obsessed fanboy. If that does not work i'm afraid you just have to accept their lack of interest.
Not everyone thinks Starcraft is awesome, don't try to push it or else they will just be even more convinced that you're a fanatic or something.
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There really isn't a way to get people to open up to things unless they want to. That said, why do you want them to understand SC so much? If you enjoy playing Starcraft, it shouldn't matter what everyone else thinks. You should do what you enjoy doing, regardless of what others think of you for doing it.
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Show them Day9's daily haha.
My parents also thought I play Brood war too much. I explained that it was really big in Korea, and that it requires a lot of skill, concentration, and they just realized it was actually pretty good. Just spending a little bit of time to explain will make you look like a smart kid who plays intellectual games instead of a stupid video game nerd. At least that's what happened to me.
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Well im gonna take the counter teamliquid mentality here.
It's just a game, it's fascinating yes and it's great but maybe u are being too fanatical about it, trying to concive mom and dad that ur game is the second coming of Jesus is not gonna work on 99% of the time.
As great as starcraft is, life is better, maybe u should try other things and still play it.
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On January 11 2011 15:18 Darkren wrote:
Well im gonna take the counter teamliquid mentality here.
It's just a game, it's fascinating yes and it's great but maybe u are being too fanatical about it, trying to concive mom and dad that ur game is the second coming of Jesus is not gonna work on 99% of the time.
As great as starcraft is, life is better, maybe u should try other things and still play it.
Slow down buddy, hes not trying to convince them that he should drop out of school and play sc2 all day, he just wants to show his parents that sc2 is more then your average 12 hour long game, which is totally fine.
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