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Cramsy
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Australia1100 Posts
July 18 2011 03:07 GMT
#1
It's as if the game is going out of its way to screw me in this lock. What's that? you just made it to plat? Well done :D now play gold people with over 2000 games played and lose to them AND also play people in plat who are way way better than you.

I know exactly what the game is thinking now. "Look at this, he's losing to gold and against plat better demote him at the start of next season." It's going to happen and then I'll just be done. Mid plat. That's where I am. Not these gold portrait farmers who deliberately drop back down to play worse players. The game is punishing me for trying to improve by fucking me sideways with the players that I play.

I hate this lock because I have no fucking idea of where I am now or how close I am to demotion.
jesusfuckingchrist.

****
"give me 20 minutes and I'll make them quiet" - MVP
Sega92
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States467 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-18 03:11:37
July 18 2011 03:10 GMT
#2
its alright man, right after I got into plat it spawned my close positions ZvP for about 25 out of 30 games played back when P was unbeatable for zerg, needless to to say I was demoted BUT that demotion made me so mad I played all night and got right back up into plat by the next morning, you may get demoted but let the fact that you KNOW you can make it into plat drive you
TelecoM
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States10793 Posts
July 18 2011 03:10 GMT
#3
Just relax and enjoy the game~ Keep fighting! Don't think about what league you are in just try to get to #1 ! gogo ~
AKA: TelecoM[WHITE] Protoss fighting
obesechicken13
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States10467 Posts
July 18 2011 03:13 GMT
#4
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=235432
Use this in the future.
I think in our modern age technology has evolved to become more addictive. The things that don't give us pleasure aren't used as much. Work was never meant to be fun, but doing it makes us happier in the long run.
Sega92
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States467 Posts
July 18 2011 03:14 GMT
#5
um obese this is a blog, you can write whatever you want in a blog
Dalguno
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States2446 Posts
July 18 2011 03:16 GMT
#6
On July 18 2011 12:14 Sega92 wrote:
um obese this is a blog, you can write whatever you want in a blog


Well it's a good place for it as well. Maybe if he had said "Use the search function in the future" we could be a little bugged but it is a fitting place.
"I'm gonna keep making drones cause I'm a baller, and ballers make drones." -Snute
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24782 Posts
July 18 2011 03:17 GMT
#7
On July 18 2011 12:14 Sega92 wrote:
um obese this is a blog, you can write whatever you want in a blog

This isn't really true for teamliquid. On TL the blogs section, while generally your own space, still has to abide by the 10 commandments. New threads, even in blogs, must also provide a certain minimum amount of content to be acceptable. This one is fairly borderline but I feel bad and worry the OP will smash something if I close his blog while he's in this state of mind lol
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
JingleHell
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States11308 Posts
July 18 2011 03:20 GMT
#8
On July 18 2011 12:17 micronesia wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 18 2011 12:14 Sega92 wrote:
um obese this is a blog, you can write whatever you want in a blog

This isn't really true for teamliquid. On TL the blogs section, while generally your own space, still has to abide by the 10 commandments. New threads, even in blogs, must also provide a certain minimum amount of content to be acceptable. This one is fairly borderline but I feel bad and worry the OP will smash something if I close his blog while he's in this state of mind lol


That might make for a really entertaining blog post, though. Unless the something is his keyboard, PC, or monitor...

Would "I took a sledgehammer to my girlfriends car because my blog post got closed" count as a rant, or a girl blog, anyway?
Sega92
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States467 Posts
July 18 2011 03:37 GMT
#9
maybe I spoke a little quickly, but how is telling him to post elsewhere gonna help sc2? why not just offer what little help we can and hope for the best?
tube
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States1475 Posts
July 18 2011 03:37 GMT
#10
my god you speak of the ladder system as if its a sentient, malevolent being
Two in harmony surpasses one in perfection.
Scaramanga
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Australia8093 Posts
July 18 2011 03:39 GMT
#11
"Look at this, he's losing to gold and against plat "
Im pretty sure that means you should be demoted...
no one drops back to play people in lower leauges either...
just dont worry about it, every game you're getting better
Loda talked about the fun counter, it's AdmiralBulldog on his natures prophet
101toss
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
3232 Posts
July 18 2011 03:42 GMT
#12
You won't get demoted if you stop playing ladder games :D
Math doesn't kill champions and neither do wards
garlicface
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada4196 Posts
July 18 2011 03:47 GMT
#13
On July 18 2011 12:37 tube wrote:
my god you speak of the ladder system as if its a sentient, malevolent being

I like how the ladder supposedly spoke with a :D face.
#TeamBuLba
Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
July 18 2011 04:16 GMT
#14
Dude, I know what you mean. When I got to Masters, it had me facing some really good Diamond players. It was like: "Let's see how you like, foot on the other shoe" or some shit like that.
https://twitter.com/#!/TorteDeLini (@TorteDeLini)
moltenlead
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada866 Posts
July 18 2011 04:51 GMT
#15
Hmm... happened to me as well right after I got promoed. Rage inducing until you find out you don't get demoted, at which point you usually go "WTF Bnet?"
marttorn
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Norway5211 Posts
July 18 2011 05:14 GMT
#16
No matter what your brain tells you, the ladder rank is just a useless stamp (not entirely useless of course, one can expect someone in Master league to play better than the average bronze-league player, but you get the point) so have fun getting better at the game and just play. If ladder is too stressful maybe you should go off ladder for a while-
memes are a dish best served dank
JingleHell
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States11308 Posts
July 18 2011 05:16 GMT
#17
On July 18 2011 14:14 marttorn wrote:
No matter what your brain tells you, the ladder rank is just a useless stamp (not entirely useless of course, one can expect someone in Master league to play better than the average bronze-league player, but you get the point) so have fun getting better at the game and just play. If ladder is too stressful maybe you should go off ladder for a while-


Concur.

I specifically don't play enough to rank up because I don't want a fun game to feel like a job, myself.

I'd rather stay in my Bronze league forever than not be enjoying the game from worrying too much about ladder.
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