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Starcraft 2 analogies: applications to real life.

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phiinix
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States1169 Posts
October 28 2011 04:41 GMT
#1
Originally written for my tumblr and thought i'd put it here too. Written for people who have no experience with starcraft(most of my followers), but of course having knowledge of sc makes it more applicable and easier to follow. If you'd like to check out and follow the blog, which has many sc and tl references as of late, you can just search the sc2 tag and it's on the second page as of now. (not sure if posting the link is allowed =o)


Starcraft2 analogies #1: The Midgame Plan.
sc:

There’s a very simple notion in the game in revolves the idea of a midgame plan. What is it that I want in the midgame? Of course I want to win, but that is the end game plan, and there’s so many ways to do it. The idea is to be specific, with small steps. Maybe what I want is a 11 minute marine hellion medivac push with 3 rax, 2 fact, combat shields, stim, and blue flame, while securing my 3rd, afterwards in which I’ll take my extra 2 geysers, and switch into double tank, triple reactor rax production while getting +1/+1. Now, you don’t have to know anything about starcraft to know that it sounds like a really really laid out plan. What if the opponent goes for a mass +1 roach/ling/bling push? What if he eco baneling busts me? What about fast muta since I have no turret defense? None of it matters. The point is that no matter the course of the early game, I’m always trying to get back to my mid-game plan.

life:

Just as starcraft rewards those with good on-the-fly decision making and crisis management, life rewards those with mental stability, adaptability, and a calm mind. Maybe for once, life isn’t as complicated as starcraft. Maybe your midLIFE goal is to be done with college, work at a stable job, and rent in comfortable apartment while dating someone you hope to marry. Maybe that’s when you’re 30. Maybe an earlier goal is to be done with college, at a stable job, not career, but looking for one, and trying to move out of your apt/parents house to a new place. Maybe you’re 25. (timings vary, get it? lol.) Either way, nothing in life is smooth. It’s about making and taking opportunities. When something wrecks the state of the game/life, it’s about finding ways to get back on track, knowing the goal, changing it if need be, but always having one. Think of it as a big connect-the-dots picture, where the lines represent your path in life and the dots represent places in life. If the big picture is your goal in life, then the more dots you add in, the easier it is to draw. The more goal checks you have for yourself, the smoother the picture is. The more dots you remove, the harder it is to see the final product. If you don’t have enough dots, you can’t even get to the picture. It’s just a line. Where and what is the goal?

Maybe you miss scouting the baneling nest by a pixel and you lose the set. Maybe your 4 year plan turned into a 5 year plan. In both situations you’re behind, but in both a bo7 or in 7 years, it’s minor. With a good plan and good execution, no matter the set back, those who deserve it ultimately succeed.

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Deleted User 183001
Profile Joined May 2011
2939 Posts
October 28 2011 04:42 GMT
#2
For me, all of my trials are like the fight to reclaim Aiur. It's very difficult, but it must be done!
Chrispy
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada5878 Posts
October 28 2011 04:43 GMT
#3
We all know where this thread is heading.
Retvrn to Forvms
SonuvBob
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Aiur21549 Posts
October 28 2011 04:48 GMT
#4
On October 28 2011 13:43 Chrispy wrote:
We all know where this thread is heading.

To a very uncomfortable place?
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Caesarion
Profile Joined April 2011
Australia8332 Posts
October 28 2011 04:50 GMT
#5
On October 28 2011 13:48 SonuvBob wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 28 2011 13:43 Chrispy wrote:
We all know where this thread is heading.

To a very uncomfortable place?


I think you're over-analysing it.
AC3
Profile Joined April 2006
Canada337 Posts
October 28 2011 05:01 GMT
#6
I just clicked on it because it said "Starcraft 2 anal...".
"The idea is to try to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another" -- Richard Feynman
DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States44255 Posts
October 28 2011 05:02 GMT
#7
On October 28 2011 13:50 Caesarion wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 28 2011 13:48 SonuvBob wrote:
On October 28 2011 13:43 Chrispy wrote:
We all know where this thread is heading.

To a very uncomfortable place?


I think you're over-analysing it.


I feel that's analogous to what Gretorp sometimes does as a caster.

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tok
Profile Joined April 2010
United States691 Posts
October 28 2011 05:03 GMT
#8
On October 28 2011 14:01 AC3 wrote:
I just clicked on it because it said "Starcraft 2 anal...".

Yea it's another one of these great threads.
BLinD-RawR
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
ALLEYCAT BLUES50118 Posts
October 28 2011 05:05 GMT
#9
I thought it was another thread about a guy who found out that the extractor looks like an anus.
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Misanthrope
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States924 Posts
October 28 2011 05:11 GMT
#10
On October 28 2011 13:48 SonuvBob wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 28 2011 13:43 Chrispy wrote:
We all know where this thread is heading.

To a very uncomfortable place?

Like the back of a volkswagen?
Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve. - Benjamin Franklin
lOvOlUNiMEDiA
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States643 Posts
October 28 2011 05:17 GMT
#11
I'd just like to point out that this blog title appears as "Starcraft 2 anal" in my browser
To say that I'm missing the point, you would first have to show that such work can have a point.
ch33psh33p
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
7650 Posts
October 28 2011 05:32 GMT
#12
Only reason I clicked on this thread was to.... oh...
secret - never again
Emporio
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States3069 Posts
October 28 2011 05:36 GMT
#13
This topic is like one of those times you wished you had misplaced your hatch.
How does it feel knowing you wasted another 3 seconds of your life reading this again?
Gann1
Profile Joined July 2009
United States1575 Posts
October 28 2011 05:36 GMT
#14
sorry OP, it looks like you put a lot of thought into that post Use a different word order next time.
I drop suckas like Plinko
synapse
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
China13814 Posts
October 28 2011 05:45 GMT
#15
poor OP
someone should compile all the "... anal..." blog posts haha
:)
marttorn
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Norway5211 Posts
October 28 2011 05:48 GMT
#16
Oh my god, Starcraft 2 anal... I can't stop laughing roflroflorlfolololol
memes are a dish best served dank
DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States44255 Posts
October 28 2011 06:00 GMT
#17
I'm gonna rate this blog a 5/5 just because no one's going to actually read it... especially those of us who posted here
"There is nothing more satisfying than looking at a crowd of people and helping them get what I love." ~Day[9] Daily #100
th2pun1sh3r
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States107 Posts
October 28 2011 06:24 GMT
#18
On October 28 2011 13:41 phiinix wrote:
Originally written for my tumblr and thought i'd put it here too. Written for people who have no experience with starcraft(most of my followers), but of course having knowledge of sc makes it more applicable and easier to follow. If you'd like to check out and follow the blog, which has many sc and tl references as of late, you can just search the sc2 tag and it's on the second page as of now. (not sure if posting the link is allowed =o)


Starcraft2 analogies #1: The Midgame Plan.
sc:

There’s a very simple notion in the game in revolves the idea of a midgame plan. What is it that I want in the midgame? Of course I want to win, but that is the end game plan, and there’s so many ways to do it. The idea is to be specific, with small steps. Maybe what I want is a 11 minute marine hellion medivac push with 3 rax, 2 fact, combat shields, stim, and blue flame, while securing my 3rd, afterwards in which I’ll take my extra 2 geysers, and switch into double tank, triple reactor rax production while getting +1/+1. Now, you don’t have to know anything about starcraft to know that it sounds like a really really laid out plan. What if the opponent goes for a mass +1 roach/ling/bling push? What if he eco baneling busts me? What about fast muta since I have no turret defense? None of it matters. The point is that no matter the course of the early game, I’m always trying to get back to my mid-game plan.

life:

Just as starcraft rewards those with good on-the-fly decision making and crisis management, life rewards those with mental stability, adaptability, and a calm mind. Maybe for once, life isn’t as complicated as starcraft. Maybe your midLIFE goal is to be done with college, work at a stable job, and rent in comfortable apartment while dating someone you hope to marry. Maybe that’s when you’re 30. Maybe an earlier goal is to be done with college, at a stable job, not career, but looking for one, and trying to move out of your apt/parents house to a new place. Maybe you’re 25. (timings vary, get it? lol.) Either way, nothing in life is smooth. It’s about making and taking opportunities. When something wrecks the state of the game/life, it’s about finding ways to get back on track, knowing the goal, changing it if need be, but always having one. Think of it as a big connect-the-dots picture, where the lines represent your path in life and the dots represent places in life. If the big picture is your goal in life, then the more dots you add in, the easier it is to draw. The more goal checks you have for yourself, the smoother the picture is. The more dots you remove, the harder it is to see the final product. If you don’t have enough dots, you can’t even get to the picture. It’s just a line. Where and what is the goal?

Maybe you miss scouting the baneling nest by a pixel and you lose the set. Maybe your 4 year plan turned into a 5 year plan. In both situations you’re behind, but in both a bo7 or in 7 years, it’s minor. With a good plan and good execution, no matter the set back, those who deserve it ultimately succeed.


no offense but life has nothing to do with starcraft 2 strategy. Any analogies are pure fabrication,
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FuRong
Profile Joined April 2010
New Zealand3089 Posts
October 28 2011 06:46 GMT
#19
Almost as good as "gf does keen analysis of Starcraft game", but not quite.
Don't hate the player, hate the game
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