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sc2effort
Russian Federation269 Posts
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iamperfection
United States9642 Posts
I will be dissapointed if you dont win mlg within the next 2 years. | ||
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kushm4sta
United States8878 Posts
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TuElite
Canada2123 Posts
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Sinborn
United States275 Posts
But hey, if you make it, I'll remember this blog for sure. Good luck :3. ^ This is what I wanted to say, but I cracked a joke preemptively. | ||
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SnetteL
Belgium473 Posts
On August 06 2011 00:31 Sinborn wrote: If this plan fails, there's always Burger King, where you can have it your way. But hey, if you make it, I'll remember this blog for sure. Good luck :3. You're awfully mean for no reason. Says more about you than about him. | ||
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iamperfection
United States9642 Posts
On August 06 2011 00:31 Sinborn wrote: If this plan fails, there's always Burger King, where you can have it your way. But hey, if you make it, I'll remember this blog for sure. Good luck :3. Ya it was kind of cold but im not gonna lie i lol'd when i read it. | ||
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Sinborn
United States275 Posts
On August 06 2011 00:39 SnetteL wrote: You're awfully mean for no reason. Says more about you than about him. I actually had no intention to be mean. Sorry OP. The desire to crack a joke overwhelmed my sense of empathy. | ||
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TelecoM
United States10673 Posts
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StorkHwaiting
United States3465 Posts
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radscorpion9
Canada2252 Posts
You may see starcraft as an escape now, but thats very different from choosing it as a long term career option. There is a lot of intense competition...and if you don't get the results you would hope for how will you support yourself? Will you get signed to a team...and do they pay salaries? I think the key question is do you have the passion and drive to really make it a career. And if so you should go for it, but if its more something you do to relieve stress and escape from the situation in detroit...that might not be good enough to really make it as a pro gamer. At least try to identify whether its really passion or an escape for you, of course playing video games all day is fun, we all like it, sc2 was designed to be fun. Anyways good luck to you. I wish I went into physics  . Hopefully you'll make a better choice than me | ||
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Probe1
United States17920 Posts
On August 06 2011 00:39 SnetteL wrote: You're awfully mean for no reason. Says more about you than about him. Actually you know Burger King employees and pro gamers that don't win tournaments make about the same amount of cash -_- | ||
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SnetteL
Belgium473 Posts
On August 06 2011 02:10 Probe1 wrote: Actually you know Burger King employees and pro gamers that don't win tournaments make about the same amount of cash -_- Because making money is the only thing that matters. | ||
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Sotamursu
Finland612 Posts
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cha0
Canada504 Posts
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Ferrose
United States11378 Posts
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Gnial
Canada907 Posts
On August 06 2011 01:59 radscorpion9 wrote: I think you really need to ask yourself whether this is what you want to do for the rest of your life. There are plenty of people who want to be professional athletes, but few make it. What happens to the rest of them? How do they pay the bills? You may see starcraft as an escape now, but thats very different from choosing it as a long term career option. There is a lot of intense competition...and if you don't get the results you would hope for how will you support yourself? Will you get signed to a team...and do they pay salaries? I think the key question is do you have the passion and drive to really make it a career. And if so you should go for it, but if its more something you do to relieve stress and escape from the situation in detroit...that might not be good enough to really make it as a pro gamer. At least try to identify whether its really passion or an escape for you, of course playing video games all day is fun, we all like it, sc2 was designed to be fun. Anyways good luck to you. I wish I went into physics . Hopefully you'll make a better choice than meThis is good thinking. Keep spreading it. The more people we can divert away from pro-gaming, the less competition there will be for the OP! Also, if you think playing SC2 for 10 hours a day, 7 days a week is fun... well, I don't even know what to say. That sounds painful to me and screams pure "drive". I've done my big gaming binges in high school where you do 16 hours a day for a few days, but then I've always burned out. If this guy can self-motivate to play 10 hours a day every day, then he has the work ethic and drive to be pretty great at this game. Imagine, with that work ethic, if he gets good enough to get on a team...he should easily be able to fit into any training regiment. OP, what league are you in right now? | ||
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3FFA
United States3931 Posts
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SarR
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Pawsom
United States928 Posts
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sc2effort
Russian Federation269 Posts
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sc2effort
Russian Federation269 Posts
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Probe1
United States17920 Posts
On August 06 2011 02:21 SnetteL wrote: Because making money is the only thing that matters. I'd say affording food is rather important. Anyhoo, Good luck on your dreams! | ||
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sc2effort
Russian Federation269 Posts
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QuanticHawk
United States32051 Posts
On August 06 2011 00:39 SnetteL wrote: You're awfully mean for no reason. Says more about you than about him. How dare he, trying to smack a little sense into a 17 year old! | ||
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sc2effort
Russian Federation269 Posts
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charliewinsmore
98 Posts
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QuanticHawk
United States32051 Posts
On August 06 2011 05:44 sc2effort wrote: sarcasm, and im 18 in like a week, I dont got money to go to collage so thats not an option. Im trying to have food on the table here. shave a few minutes off of your 70 hours a week of gaming and research some tuition assistance programs. It shouldn't make much difference in your quest to move out of plat | ||
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Kronos84
United States15 Posts
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sc2effort
Russian Federation269 Posts
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Porcelain
United States218 Posts
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QuanticHawk
United States32051 Posts
On August 06 2011 07:05 sc2effort wrote: Hawk, worry about yourself. its not that easy, you may think it is, but you have no idea what its like. It is easy. It's literally googling the financial aid info, sending in an app, and waiting for a response. | ||
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thOr6136
Slovenia1775 Posts
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sc2effort
Russian Federation269 Posts
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Slaughter
United States20254 Posts
 And hey When I went to school I knew a few people who came from the bad sections in Detroit and were poor as hell but they still got to go to school. | ||
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Z3kk
4099 Posts
Take Hawk's advice, dude. He is not talking about surviving with low income etc., he is talking about getting tuition assistance so you can obtain higher education and make a better living for yourself. | ||
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Cassel_Castle
United States820 Posts
http://commcoll.umich.edu/apply/mythbusters.html | ||
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Elegy
United States1629 Posts
Look, OP, spending 70 hours a week playing SC2 isn't going to get you anywhere. it just isn't. Anyone who says otherwise is just trying to keep your hopes up for an ultimate failure. Be realistic. How many hundreds of random ladder kids play hours on end and make absolutely nothing at that game? Think of the thousands of master players throughout all the servers, and then add in the hundreds of GM players, and realize that very very very few of them get anything beyond entertainment out of their insanely high time commitment. Hell, just think of the dozens of lower-tier Korean pros (in either BW or SC2). Think the BW B-teamers really got their time's worth of compensation for the hours they put in? They scored free room and board, maybe a small salary, and only a tiny handful ever made it to the top where the money was. Think of all the guys in Code A. Think of all the guys who practiced and trained for the various MLGs to fall flat on their faces time and time again. People are always going to be telling you "oh, chase your dreams! Shoot for the moon, so if you miss you'll land among the stars!!" and all that, and sure go for it if you really really really want it, but don't throw away your future on a video game 70 hours a week when you could be going to a community college with financial aid and still play a crapton of starcraft to boot How many blogs have people posted in the last year about becoming pro SC2 players? And how many are anywhere near even remotely resembling achieving that goal? (answer: none) If you think Starcraft is going to be your escape or if you think SC2 is going to allow you to pull an Eminem and sign with a major team to solve your woes, I wish you all the luck I possibly can but please at least attempt some form of education so you have something to fall back on when you (inevitably) fail. Sorry to be so negative, but the world isn't full of rainbows and lollipops...and rap songs about breaking out big in an industry can usually be reduced to "someone got lucky" (and where 1 guy gets lucky, hundreds of equal talent fall to the wayside). Good luck! | ||
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Z3kk
4099 Posts
You have inspired me to severely cut down on my gaming/Internet-browsing/time-wasting/life-wasting in general. Thanks, man. | ||
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Swede
New Zealand853 Posts
I'd even have to doubt whether this is actually a real 'dream' of yours. It seems more like you were wasting a shitload of time on SC2 and needed to justify it to yourself. In other words, it's more a dream of convenience than an actual dream. It's the lazy person's way of telling themselves they're achieving something. I might be totally off the mark though. Maybe this really is your dream. But I'd take a good hard honest look at your reasoning behind this decision before going through with it. | ||
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sc2effort
Russian Federation269 Posts
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sc2effort
Russian Federation269 Posts
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Swede
New Zealand853 Posts
On August 06 2011 21:01 sc2effort wrote: Iv been told I cant hundreds of times, It has never stopped me before and wont stop me now. If you ask me it's not a question of 'can', it's a question of 'should'. SC2 and its community have the unfortunate quality of making time spent playing seem more worthwhile than it actually is. There's also the fact that it takes virtually no effort which makes it that much more enticing. Obviously you are already set in your ways though. It's unfortunate since life has so much more to offer than playing some totally inconsequential video game. Personally I also think it's a self-centered non-contributory lifestyle, but that's another post for another day. | ||
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penopeno
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sc2effort
Russian Federation269 Posts
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Whole
United States6046 Posts
On August 06 2011 21:01 sc2effort wrote: Iv been told I cant hundreds of times, It has never stopped me before and wont stop me now. When I read this post, it instantly played in my head. | ||
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PassiveAce
United States18076 Posts
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guldurkhand
Netherlands71 Posts
10 hours per day is waaaaaaaaaaay to low, I remember artosis saying playing 8 months straight 16 hours a day before he could win a tournament. If you really want to become a pro gamer, play 16 hours straight, don't join any tournaments for 1 year and at the end, do some qualifier or something. If it doesn't work out, you don't have the talent for it and you have only wasted 1 year of your life. | ||
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Buruguduy
Philippines238 Posts
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guldurkhand
Netherlands71 Posts
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