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BlueInkAlchemist
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States73 Posts
September 14 2011 03:38 GMT
#1
Wow. It's been two and a half months, give or take, since I posted here.

A new season has begun. I lost my dayjob. And my play has gone absolutely nowhere.

I've been out of practice. Previously, wearing about a half-dozen different hats on the job was consuming a lot of my time. I no longer have that excuse, and have been skirting around the issue of my problematic play since getting let go.

Thankfully, Day[9] returned to his daily today. He brought back Newbie Tuesday and, bless him, answered a question I asked: "How does one choose where to start improving on the mental checklist?"

I do have one, after all, which I put together during his last NT stint and tried to apply after doing stage 1 and 2 of the Accelerated Learning for Terrans (by the way, volunteers to help me with stage 3 at some point?). It sits on a post-it next to the reminder that I should write 1000 words that aren't in a blog every day.


1. How's your cash?
2. How's your food?
3. Are you building SCVs?
4. Are you building dudes?


Given Day[9]'s advice that one should "JUST PICK SOMETHING", I'm going to spend my next 15-20 games just building SCVs. I want to make sure I never miss one. I suspect I will lose every single one of those games, but as long as I'm always building SCVs, it shouldn't matter to me.

Encouragement is appreciated, and I will post again after those games are complete. Which, hopefully, will not be another two and a half months.

*****
"Speed is the essence of war." - Sun-Tzu
MrDonkeyBong
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Canada103 Posts
September 14 2011 03:46 GMT
#2
I suggest just trying to keep your cash low, its the most important, and leads to better macro. Its also less likely to lose you games, considering you're making shit the whole time, or at least trying to, which includes SCV's.
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." -- Carl Sagan
Probe1
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States17920 Posts
September 14 2011 06:07 GMT
#3
Why did you wear roughly six hats at your last job?
우정호 KT_VIOLET 1988 - 2012 While we are postponing, life speeds by
IceCube
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Croatia1403 Posts
September 14 2011 08:39 GMT
#4
^ yeah I want to know the same ;;
Forever Vulture.. :(
AndyJay
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Australia833 Posts
September 14 2011 08:41 GMT
#5
Lol it's a saying meaning you had to do a lot of different roles.
IceCube
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Croatia1403 Posts
September 14 2011 08:55 GMT
#6
Oh I just thought he's like a metrosexual or something :D
Forever Vulture.. :(
Probe1
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States17920 Posts
September 14 2011 16:45 GMT
#7
WHY DID YOU WEAR SO MANY HATS ANSWER ME.
우정호 KT_VIOLET 1988 - 2012 While we are postponing, life speeds by
BlueInkAlchemist
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States73 Posts
September 14 2011 21:12 GMT
#8
On September 15 2011 01:45 Probe1 wrote:
WHY DID YOU WEAR SO MANY HATS ANSWER ME.


Jegus, all right, calm down.

I was hired as a web developer for a small start-up. Front-end, built on WordPress, nothing fancy.

I brought in my Twitter profile and I was complimented on having a ton of followers. Not all of them are great, but whatever, right? They wanted me to help with that.

Our PR guy was let go so I started helping out with that as well.

And I started going along to client meetings.

Hence, all the hats.
"Speed is the essence of war." - Sun-Tzu
BlueInkAlchemist
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States73 Posts
September 15 2011 01:49 GMT
#9
Me again: 3 out of 15 down, and focusing almost exclusively on SCVs produces a LOT of minerals.

My next task will be to ensure I'm never supply blocked, but I'll deal with that and post some of the SCV-centric replays once I finish 12 more games.
"Speed is the essence of war." - Sun-Tzu
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