EPTDean Becomes a Progamer - Page 2
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Gatsbi
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cz
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Complete
United States1864 Posts
On September 03 2011 02:38 Chill wrote: This is what I think when I see people opening threads about becoming a progamer. It's not a switch you flip and then go "okay, now I'm dedicating my life to this." If you weren't already playing at the high masters / grandmasters level and winning tournaments and playing 20 hours per week, you aren't even in a position to attempt to become a progamer. If you meet those criteria then I apologize, but I haven't see anyone making these threads meeting them. You don't like Naruto do you?  | ||
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iamperfection
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cz
United States3249 Posts
On September 03 2011 07:42 Darkdeath3 wrote: Did anyone else think before opening the thread that it was about a dean of a school trying to become a progamer. I did. I thought it was a school dean trying to become a programmer lol. It took me until halfway down page 1 that I realized otherwise. | ||
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balmung135
United States31 Posts
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SecondChance
Australia603 Posts
Player makes it to masters. The end. | ||
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mizU
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Vlare
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I hope you can achieve what you want, but damn it's going to take a lot out of you. Hopefully you have some korean blood in you XD Like Tyler said though, don't let your real life take a hit. | ||
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shinosai
United States1577 Posts
I think that long term goals are nice to have, but it's probably best not to announce them to the world. Rather, keep them to yourself, and if you must announce something, announce short term goals that you can be held accountable for. | ||
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balmung135
United States31 Posts
And shinosai, I dont see this as any accomplishment, I see this as a declaration that I want to do something, and that if I dont I would have failed the people that are supporting me. Seriously, the amount of negative attitudes towards people who just want to do something special is crazy. doubt any of these naysayers have ever tried starting something on their own. So quick to kick anyone who is ambitious down because they are the people who have seen what will come. like they have some divine knowledge of knowing whether someone will fail or not. If you told every small business that its 90% chance of failure so just give up, then we wouldn't have the 10% that make it. Because they would have listened to people like you who just want to crush them and tell them they are doing something wrong. | ||
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OutlaW-
Czech Republic5053 Posts
thats a very random and incorrect reference if the OP was naruto then hed have no problem becoming a sc2 progamer, but he also wouldnt have posted this blog because hed just play more instead | ||
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blabber
United States4448 Posts
On September 03 2011 04:55 balmung135 wrote: Well you know, the people in masters started somewhere else. They got there through hard work. not really. i'm high masters, won my share of sc2 and bw tournaments, been invited to good sc2 teams, and i'm a lazy mofo who plays starcraft casually. you can't compare "becoming an sc2 progamer" with starting a small business. The latter actually has an okay chance of succeeding. | ||
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balmung135
United States31 Posts
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blabber
United States4448 Posts
But when you come into a forum and say you're going to do something you think is "special," and people with a good understanding of starcraft and progaming know that it's probably a bad idea, they're going say it. it's like if you were to say "i'm going to China to work in the coal mines because I love the smell of coal," you may think it's "special" and whatnot but people with a clearer head know it's a bad idea and are going to tell you that it is. But in the end no one really cares if you do or not because they don't know you | ||
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SpaceToaster
United States289 Posts
On September 03 2011 02:49 Turo wrote: baller posted. this is legit. Why has no one but us noticed this. | ||
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shinosai
United States1577 Posts
On September 04 2011 03:33 balmung135 wrote: And shinosai, I dont see this as any accomplishment, I see this as a declaration that I want to do something, and that if I dont I would have failed the people that are supporting me. When you announce your goals to people, or maybe even write them down on a blog or whisper it to your cat, you receive psychological satisfaction from doing so, making you less likely to actually do anything about it. Why do you think we have so many blogs about people announcing that they are going to be pro gamers? Because they receive satisfaction, and this satisfaction is a false sense of accomplishing something by merely announcing the goal. I'm not saying this was your intent. Most people probably don't announce their goals to intentionally give themselves satisfaction; rather, they see it as some sort of way of being held accountable. But this isn't really what's going on. Instead of announcing the goal, I think you and everyone else would be a lot better off just going out and doing it. Or at least announcing a short term goal, because you can't really be held accountable for failing everyone in a "long term" goal like becoming a pro gamer. If you were to say, promise everyone you would play 100 ladder games this week and you didn't, we would be entitled to scold you for failing to keep your commitment. But how can we scold you for not becoming a pro gamer, since it is such a long term goal, you may always 'be on the path'. And if you ultimately give up, you'll simply fade into nothing as all other want-to-be pro gamers tend to do. My point is, if you're doing this for some kind of accountability, you're not - you can't be held accountable to this. What exactly were you looking for in this post, anyways? For people to say, hey, cool, you spent a few minutes writing a blog post and you made a goal for yourself? Congratulations? Anyone can make a goal and announce it to a group of people. I could go write a post write now about how I've decided I'm going to change my life tomorrow and work on becoming an astronaut. But any rational person is going to say, "So what? Come back when you've actually done something to help achieve that goal." | ||
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Gann1
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Jedclark
United Kingdom903 Posts
On September 03 2011 02:19 OutlaW- wrote: this is probably like the 10th im going to be a progamer blog and so far, none of them came even close though good luck i guess It takes longer than the average person is willing to wait to get results - no one is going to be a pro in a few days, which you all seem to think. | ||
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Qumquat
Israel353 Posts
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