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NoodleFish
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
South Africa198 Posts
October 30 2011 15:59 GMT
#1
So I finally played my placement match today for Season 4, and got placed once again in Platinum (was scared I was gonna hit gold, haven't been doing too well lately).

And my first 6 games went just fine. All wins for me (YAY!) but nothing to really brag about. I was having fun, because we all know that you have more fun when you're winning than losing. So here I am playing some ladder games in a really friendly and good mood.

But then I hit my first loss. It was on Antiga Shipyard, and it was a bit of fail scouting on my part. I didn't really care that much, I knew I should have seen that third going down. Oh well, will try again next time.

But the next game starts, and after the usual "GL HF" the dude asks me if I like Mondays...

We all know what this means... Someone is trying to Funday Monday me! I frantically ask my friend next to me what this week's funday monday is, but he doesnt know, and googling it while playing sc2 is not an option. He carries on about Mondays and I mention DayJ and we exchange some decent banter. Eventually I tire of it and carry on with the game.

So instead of the forge FE I was planning, I played the safest 3 gate sentry opening I could against this zerg player. I lost a bit of time responding to him and forgot my 2nd pylon, and that annoyed me. But then what happens... He goes for a standard muta-ling game. I held it off pretty decently, but eventually succumbed to the loss. He then PMs me after game saying the Funday Monday thing was just a distraction.

But what has SC2 come to? Sure, if you want to just chat someone and distract them, fine. But don't use Funday Monday to do it, pretty please? It makes me want to just kick you in the (not so shiny) jewels. I guess in the end it's my fault, and I should just block everyone every game, but then the community just loses all its friendliness it once had.



TL;DR --> Don't use "Funday Monday" to distract people on ladder. We let our guard down on standard builds because we trust you be honourable when calling a Funday Monday.

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"He accidentally attacked his own nexus with a probe. Then half way through the game, poof! No more nexus. That's gotta suck!"
The_Templar
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
your Country52797 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-30 16:06:18
October 30 2011 16:01 GMT
#2
Edit: was banworthy material


Interesting distraction.
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Megaliskuu
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States5123 Posts
October 30 2011 16:04 GMT
#3
Did you not scout at all?

With probe scout + hallu you could have avoided this T_T.
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Shotzzzz
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada60 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-30 16:06:25
October 30 2011 16:05 GMT
#4
What if the Funday Monday is muta-ling
I haven't watched Day[9] recently, but it could have been something like tech to mutas before something.

I think instead of meta gaming someone, just do your normal FFE and scout then respond as if you didn't hear him say that.
UnOrthodothic plays = BEAST
Snuggles
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1865 Posts
October 30 2011 16:09 GMT
#5
If someone ever said something like that to me I would perform the most abusive gimmicky build available so that a bit of his soul will disappear into the nether reaches of the SC2 ladder.
DusTerr
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
2520 Posts
October 30 2011 16:28 GMT
#6
Everytime someone starts up chatting in the first 3 minutes it sets off red flags for me and I'll do as much scouting as I can! ( looking for proxies vs and or fast wall vs )
Luepert
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States1933 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-30 16:30:06
October 30 2011 16:29 GMT
#7
LOL, just accept it, we all get cheesed, just move on and try it on someone else. Spread the love. :D

edit: typo
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MasterOfChaos
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Germany2896 Posts
October 30 2011 16:34 GMT
#8
Which units did you restrict yourself to? Sentries and?
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SnetteL
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Belgium473 Posts
October 30 2011 16:44 GMT
#9
LOL, you are trying to take an unfair advantage someway because you think he's funday-monday-ing you, that's your own fault.

You should still, just react to what you scout.
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MrDudeMan
Profile Joined April 2011
Canada973 Posts
October 30 2011 16:53 GMT
#10
so you tried to metagame him and decided not to scout at all expecting something crazy and are upset because you lost? I didn't know there were people out there who fell for this kind of stuff.
reneg
Profile Joined September 2010
United States859 Posts
October 30 2011 17:02 GMT
#11
On October 31 2011 01:53 MrDudeMan wrote:
so you tried to metagame him and decided not to scout at all expecting something crazy and are upset because you lost? I didn't know there were people out there who fell for this kind of stuff.


This pretty much sums it up. if you lag for a second, and then see zzzzzzzzzzzz across the screen, you'll probably think about making some zealots to hold the incoming ling aggression.

But if he was just juking you, and expanded and was just messing around, would you be upset?

This is basically the exact same thing. You and your opponent shared a love of day9, be happy that you were able to connect to another person, instead of him just cussing at you
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Iplaythings
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Denmark9110 Posts
October 30 2011 17:03 GMT
#12
so someone saying good luck and have fun in all caps means cheese fun-day monday and therefore he is a dick for actually playing standard?

What has the ladder come to..
In the woods, there lurks..
RandyPinkwood
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany92 Posts
October 30 2011 17:05 GMT
#13
Well people sometimes ask u questions right before they let there banelingbust run into u and other stuff. I normaly don't get into long conversations with my oponent since i cant realy write and play.
(unless its like realy early in the game).
Sounds like u just have to be more confident in your build order even if u suspect he does some crazy stuff your FFE + scout should be fine.
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Myrkskog
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Canada481 Posts
October 30 2011 17:05 GMT
#14
ronpaul012
Profile Joined March 2011
United States769 Posts
October 30 2011 17:07 GMT
#15
If you think somebody is trying to funday monday you, why not just get super aggressive on them? Pretty sure about 90% of funday monday builds would just be slaughtered by a 4gate
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phiinix
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States1169 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-30 17:18:07
October 30 2011 17:12 GMT
#16
Funday monday is to play against a friend both at 50% handicap. if anyone tries that in a real game they'd get absolutely mauled by anything that does aoe.

Hilarious read though.

edit: lol, "this is key, i need to distract him, i need to do something gay, see i type from with a question mark..." Genius.
Mobius_1
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United Kingdom2763 Posts
October 30 2011 17:23 GMT
#17
The wicker(basket) man strikes again!

Haha TBH most 1v1 Funday Mondays are pretty much suicide, I'd probably double expand or something
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Adastrom
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Canada219 Posts
October 30 2011 17:51 GMT
#18
LOL, I do kinda of the same thing in p v t. Ill first cry about how much i hate 1/1/1 and how I always lose to it, thus making the terran go 1/1/1. Then Ill proxy 4 gate them :I, and win.
Lol pvz
Luepert
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States1933 Posts
October 30 2011 18:12 GMT
#19
On October 31 2011 02:51 Adastrom wrote:
LOL, I do kinda of the same thing in p v t. Ill first cry about how much i hate 1/1/1 and how I always lose to it, thus making the terran go 1/1/1. Then Ill proxy 4 gate them :I, and win.


As terran, I say "I'm going to 1-1-1 and theres nothing you can do about it >:D"
They like go 1 base mass immortal colossus or some shit and I fast expand. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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dbosworld
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States317 Posts
October 30 2011 18:26 GMT
#20
Ill do what I want! I'll funday monday fake you all day! L2 Scout
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Ledcaveman
Profile Joined March 2011
100 Posts
October 30 2011 18:34 GMT
#21
lol are you for real? just mute him
NoodleFish
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
South Africa198 Posts
October 30 2011 18:53 GMT
#22
no no, i didnt just sit there and wait. I scouted his 3rd and lings picked my probes off. I spent a lot of probes trying to figure out what was going on.

I guess I could have used hallucinations but I wasn't thinking about doing that in the face of a cheese.

I'll definitely just block chat every time
"He accidentally attacked his own nexus with a probe. Then half way through the game, poof! No more nexus. That's gotta suck!"
dbosworld
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States317 Posts
October 30 2011 19:29 GMT
#23
You don't have to block chat, just be confident in yourself and your game play. Words on the screen shouldn't affect you.
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SpoR
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States1542 Posts
October 30 2011 22:25 GMT
#24
This is a pretty great con, where you get the mark to distract themselves by giving them the option of getting an unfair advantage over the con artist in order to win big. Then later the mark usually wont go to the authorities because they themselves did something illegal and are implicating it when describing the details.

So you're not going to get any sympathy from TL this time.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
NoodleFish
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
South Africa198 Posts
October 31 2011 05:09 GMT
#25
On October 31 2011 07:25 SpoR wrote:

So you're not going to get any sympathy from TL this time.


Hmmm, in the end it was my own fault. I guess it's all part of the game we all love so much. In retrospect, it gave me something to talk about :D and at least I had a few wins for the day
"He accidentally attacked his own nexus with a probe. Then half way through the game, poof! No more nexus. That's gotta suck!"
itkovian
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States1763 Posts
October 31 2011 05:29 GMT
#26
Hehe, I don't know why you changed your build at all when you didn't even know what the funday monday was. Just keep doing what you were gonna do XD

I like talking to people on ladder but at the same time my opening usually suffers when I'm in a conversation. I can only hope there's does too. If you're really worried about being distracted than I guess all you can do is block communication while you play
=)=
mizU
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States12125 Posts
October 31 2011 08:48 GMT
#27
Imagine how the Funday Mondayers feel when we have to double expand, or make only certain units then get demolished by players who figure it out...
if happy ever afters did exist <3 @watamizu_
QuanticHawk
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States32082 Posts
October 31 2011 13:26 GMT
#28
You are the exact reason that I frequently type out '.f m yeah one second im just gonna 4 (or 6 if sc2) pool and get this game over with'

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OmniEulogy
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada6593 Posts
October 31 2011 13:31 GMT
#29
On October 31 2011 22:26 Hawk wrote:
You are the exact reason that I frequently type out '.f m yeah one second im just gonna 4 (or 6 if sc2) pool and get this game over with'



ahahaha makes me sad. good thing its so easy to hold =p
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