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Hot_Bid
Profile Blog Joined October 2003
Braavos36387 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-13 18:02:25
July 13 2011 18:01 GMT
#41
I charge for coaching if you want blog writing lessons.

I am Top 50 blog ranking page 1 division.
@Hot_Bid on Twitter - ESPORTS life since 2010 - http://i.imgur.com/U2psw.png
kollin
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United Kingdom8380 Posts
July 13 2011 18:13 GMT
#42
On July 14 2011 03:01 Hot_Bid wrote:
I charge for coaching if you want blog writing lessons.

I am Top 50 blog ranking page 1 division.


What team are you on, because it sounds like you have some serious skills.
Cyber_Cheese
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia3615 Posts
July 13 2011 18:15 GMT
#43
On July 14 2011 00:56 boesthius wrote:
Best blog I've ever read.


I don't think I've ever agreed with a statement more in my life.
The moment you lose confidence in yourself, is the moment the world loses it's confidence in you.
Kanil
Profile Joined April 2010
United States1713 Posts
July 13 2011 18:15 GMT
#44
Best of luck in the TBL, SirJolt!

I expect the competition to be real fierce this season, have you seen Trozz's syllable micro? But I think you can take it. Just don't let Glider draw on your blogs and you'll be fine.
I used to have an Oz icon over here ---->
SirJolt
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
the Dagon Knight4010 Posts
July 13 2011 18:26 GMT
#45
On July 14 2011 03:15 Kanil wrote:
Best of luck in the TBL, SirJolt!

I expect the competition to be real fierce this season, have you seen Trozz's syllable micro? But I think you can take it. Just don't let Glider draw on your blogs and you'll be fine.


I actually heard a rumour from some Korean pro-bloggers on Twitter that Glider is opening up a completely new style this season.

They call it "sketchblogging" - essentially, he just freehand draws an image of your blog, but perfect in every possible way. It's a pencil sketch that shows off features other people might not have even noticed your blog even had. The only difference is that where it once said "SirJolt" it now says "Glider." I'm not sure how to even approach it yet.

+ Show Spoiler +
I only really need to worry if other players emulate it. I wouldn't put it past FuDDx to make an entire blog out of balloons... What hope is there left for me then?
Moderator@SirJolt
tedster
Profile Joined May 2009
984 Posts
July 13 2011 18:31 GMT
#46
A few things:

a.) Your multitask is a little weak. I'd recommend opening several more browsers while working in Word - and if you can't juggle multiple documents simultaneously, you're not going to do very well in the face of early Flame War aggression. Most low Silver and Gold players like to come out the gate with quick flames and if you aren't able to have multiple responses developing at once you're going to get run over around the 2-page mark.

b.) It looks like you are trying to develop your own gameplan - you are very focused on shifting the metapost. The truth of the matter is that proposting is going on 12 years now and the meta has been largely developed; there are set openings with intricate grammar windows that you really need to learn first. From there it is more a function of refining the message and developing unique headers, instead of trying to build a post from scratch when the reality is you really can't compete with the established templates.

c.) You're spending a bit too much time on risky, one-dimensional all-in posts. You commit everything to the page in the opening post and if the other posters deflect or flame it, you're basically done. While you can rack up a lot of cred posting rapid-fire in short threads, you're also not going to learn a lot and when you find yourself in a 10 or 20-page postwar, you're going to be outclassed time and again.
the last wcs commissioner
rebuffering
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada2436 Posts
July 13 2011 18:36 GMT
#47
im. so confused.
http://www.twitch.tv/rebufferingg
phantem
Profile Joined September 2010
United States163 Posts
July 13 2011 18:36 GMT
#48
You're using Cambria? If you ever plan on going pro you're gonna need to switch to a much more standard font. I would suggest Times New Roman or Calibri. If you really wanna change it up then a Comic Sans maybe once for a bo5 but Cambria is just a bad strat.

Also there were like 15 to 20 seconds at the end of your video of you doing nothing. 0 WPM. It's not over until you hit post my friend, and even though you think you may have it you gotta keep going til the very end.

I'm not gonna lie, with the fierce competition and the Koreans your chances are slim, but good luck to you nonetheless.
"At MLG Dallas, I got up, bitchslapped hot_bid and went back to bed."-Liquid`Jinro
SecretDoves
Profile Joined May 2011
United States8 Posts
July 13 2011 18:38 GMT
#49
I'm brand new to the blogging ladder, and I'm wondering if I could get any advice for holding off one sentence run-on all-ins? I'm an art-blogger but have been thinking of switching to Starcraft since Webster refuses to nerf verbs and I just don't know what to do. I know you're supposed to wall-in with commas and semi-colons, but no matter what I try, they always manage to find a hole, and once they're in, it's just a matter of time before they follow up with expletives.

Am I doing something wrong or do I really just need to switch subjects?
Ojahh
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Ireland728 Posts
July 13 2011 18:41 GMT
#50
good luck in your endeavours, but truth be told whats your plan on beating the boxer-flash-jaedong-bisu-iloove-MC-all in one personification that is know as the "Fuddx"
===== Barcraft Münster ===== www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=282905! ////// ♥ Nyovne is the new Manifesto
Herculix
Profile Joined May 2010
United States946 Posts
July 13 2011 18:42 GMT
#51
fucking retards in this blog, all of you. proposting doesn't exist because it isn't a sport, it's a hobby. the only way to even break even off of it is to go to korea and get on a real team.

and WTF @ 2000 ESPORTS$ per hour? idiots like you are killing esports. i hope that's not the average for this kind of coaching.
Hurricane Sponge
Profile Joined March 2010
868 Posts
July 13 2011 18:44 GMT
#52
Typical kids who can't hack it in the real, old school blogosphere. I remember back when the text field didn't have spellcheck, auto hyperlinking, and everything was a single font size: Impossibly Small. Blogging is so easy now, there's no skill required to be a pro-blogger.

Any of the current old bloggers would disintegrate these new ones.
SirJolt
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
the Dagon Knight4010 Posts
July 13 2011 18:48 GMT
#53
On July 14 2011 03:36 phantem wrote:
You're using Cambria? If you ever plan on going pro you're gonna need to switch to a much more standard font. I would suggest Times New Roman or Calibri. If you really wanna change it up then a Comic Sans maybe once for a bo5 but Cambria is just a bad strat.


Why don't I just go the whole hog and start fingerpainting my blog posts with my own semen?
Moderator@SirJolt
Primadog
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States4411 Posts
July 13 2011 18:48 GMT
#54
Damn it, you forced me to spent one of my precious remaining post before the thousand.

Well played. I too are hard at work on the poster ladder, and only recently advanced to the "TL writer" league. Now that you have earnt your first "featured thread" achievement, it's only up from here!
Thank God and gunrun.
marcesr
Profile Joined June 2008
Germany1383 Posts
July 13 2011 18:54 GMT
#55
I dont know what to say, probably the funniest blog I've ever read! (ok i didnt read too many)
Good job!
twelveapm
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States46 Posts
July 13 2011 19:00 GMT
#56
Need more pictures. Pictures = 1000 words, so with that you can boost overall WPM and effective WPM together. What a noob mistake.

On July 14 2011 03:48 SirJolt wrote:
Why don't I just go the whole hog and start fingerpainting my blog posts with my own semen?


Or this. That's going above and beyond. You may be able to get a 10x multiplier for the effort--well worth it to show you're a serious contender. Best of luck.
"She said she loves me and I am like her brother. I think we are going to bang soon." =ILOVEKITTENS ...┐('~`;)┌
Trozz
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada3456 Posts
July 13 2011 19:07 GMT
#57
I found out something.
If someone gets themselves banned,
Their votes are undone.

You're already pro.
You even hit the spotlight!
Blog rank top 10 soon...!
A build is not a guess, an estimation or a hunch, a feeling, or a foolish intuition. A build is a dependable, unwavering, unarguably accurate, portrayer of your ambition.
rastaban
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States2294 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-13 19:09:47
July 13 2011 19:09 GMT
#58
I am just in bronze and didn't watch the video but that is because blogs have been nerfed so bad I didn't need to see your flawed method. You are better off posting in general where more people see it and then having mods move it to blogs l8r after it already has exposure. SC2 General is so OP.
Tyler: "...damn it, that's StarCraft. Opening doors is what we do. Being the first to find food is the greatest pleasure a player can have!"
hmc
Profile Joined July 2011
495 Posts
July 13 2011 19:10 GMT
#59
This is hilarious, well done.
dudecrush
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada418 Posts
July 13 2011 19:14 GMT
#60
On July 14 2011 03:38 SecretDoves wrote:
I'm brand new to the blogging ladder, and I'm wondering if I could get any advice for holding off one sentence run-on all-ins? I'm an art-blogger but have been thinking of switching to Starcraft since Webster refuses to nerf verbs and I just don't know what to do. I know you're supposed to wall-in with commas and semi-colons, but no matter what I try, they always manage to find a hole, and once they're in, it's just a matter of time before they follow up with expletives.

Am I doing something wrong or do I really just need to switch subjects?


Sentence run-on all-ins are actually not that hard to hold with some good punctuation micro. The idea is to hold back the sentences with semicolons and commas while stalling until you have period tech out. Once you have period tech its easy to target-slice large clusters of words. The tricky part is holding out waiting for periods, you'll have to work hard on you comma-splitting micro. If one good run-on sentence splices a large group of commas its gg.

Just my two cents.
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