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I just spent ~45 minutes at work reading through this thread, and I have to say I think it's the funniest I've ever read on TL.
Thank you OP and everyone else for entertaining me. I laughed, I cried, I had a good time. Special thanks to talleyho for his spectacular posts (especially the second one) - someone give this guy a medal!
No doubt I'm not the only one greatly looking forward to OP's next post(s), purported to be about foreigners versus koreans. Ladies and gentlemen, will both groups' skill levels ever be on par with each other? Should they adopt the training regimen of their korean counterparts? Are recent favorable results (by the likes of Idra, Stephano, and Huk) flukes, or indicative of greater things to come? Only RETFAN, using the incredible power of his cunning legal mind, can tell us what to think!
O wise Retfan, mighty educator of 14 to 21 y.o. adolescents, enlighten us with your mighty intellect! Your flock yearns for the direction that only a virtual demi-god such as yourself can provide!
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No, Korean players should all join foreign teams, make lots of money and then adopt foreign training habits and become sedentary. Then foreign naniwa can win GSL.
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this blog is borderline genius
borderline between idiocy and genius, anyways
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On November 16 2011 17:48 RetFan wrote:+ Show Spoiler +
Introduction
Let me start off by asking everyone a question:
"If you had to choose three of four professionals listed below to bring with you to an abandoned island set up a colony. Which one would you leave out? "
Your choices are: Doctor, engineer, scientist, or lawyer.
Most people will ask that the lawyer be left out. Some will recite Thomas Moore's Utopia in describing lawyers as being 'evil and incapable of any acts of good'.
I challenge that view. As of background, I am a law student in one of Australia's leading universities. In Australia, our top law schools accept only the top 1-2% of the highest achievers from High School. This ensures that we have lawyers and judges which reflect the brightest academic minds in the country.
The high entry requirements of the top law schools ensure that most of the students admitted into our top law schools are "LESS prone" to making mistakes. Thus ensuring a fairer justice system and less decisions being arbitrarily made or which lack equity.
As by way of introduction. I am also a high achiever within the cohort of other intelligent students within our law school. I have secured clerkships two years into my degree with the top four law firms in the country. I have worked with partners and senior associates which work on mining and energy, workplace relations, arbitration and litigation work within these firms. The transactional value of the work these lawyers deal with are of hundreds of millions of dollars. They trust me with understanding these matters to a basic basic level and allow me to do research for them. I will be working for one of these firms next year.
A problem with lawyers is that they often write too much. A look at any basic court judgement will confirm this. However, please understand that none of the words I'm writing are wasted. They are not meant to show off. They are there because I want readers to understand that what I write, my analytical skills and the depth which I can view a situation is such that MOST other readers will not be able to match. This will be my job. My career path will be such that I am the one who will adjudicate disputes. Please do not feel insulted if your views have been completely disregarded by me as being incorrect. I am not trying to be pretentious. However, I also do want to make my credentials known.
This whole section is the reason why no one chooses the lawyer. You come off very arrogant and you don't really prove why lawyers are useful. Also the last paragraph... lol.
The rest of the blog is too long, and the perspective you take on it is not appropriate for the situation. Again its sort of unclear as to what the purpose is, other than insulting everyone but yourself of course. Have you ever heard the saying 'If I had more time I would write you a shorter letter'?
Also the way you view people and education is very immature and hilarious.
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what the fuck, i read the op and rated it 2/5
but i think after four pages i should give 5/5...
i am actually laughing. and i don't have the time to read on and the op's arguments are very poor.
but still very funny. topic derailed. well done!
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Reading this blog was like playing a JRPG where you can't avoid random battles.
Where you can't avoid random battles and they happen every 3 seconds.
Where you can't avoid random battles and they happen every 3 seconds and you've reached the 50th floor of a basement labyrinth maze only to find an empty treasure chest and a locked door because you forgot to advance the plot 12 hours ago.
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Being in the top 1-2% makes someone probably "smart" but doesn't garanty that that person isn't an ass / subjectif / ...etc.
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I read this entire post and at the end realized I was crying.
At first I thought I was crying at how funny this troll was (getting all legalistic about Coco LOL), but then I realized I was crying because deep down I knew it was for real. Consequently, I had lost all hope in humanity.
I was in dential at first, so I had to make sure. I checked to see if his other posts were as ego filled and absurd as this one. He probably isn't so bad, right?
The other posts were even worse.
In this post he attempts to pass down "Commandments" to his chosen people. Narcissistic is an understatement. He is the epitome of what it is to have a god complex. This guy actually believes he is not only a perfect lawyer, but a perfect law giver as well.
+ Show Spoiler +In response to some of the unfavorable comments left on Kyandid's controversial post. I decided to make a new one with some modifications with a glint of satire.
1. Thou Shall Not Post Thy Rank With Strategic Advice
Nobody knows how accurate advice is without knowing the qualification of the poster. Most people are comforted knowing that they are being given information by 'better' players.
It would certainly be anti-climatic to receive length advice, to try it, to find out it doesn't work and later realize that it was in fact provided by a someone from Bronze league.
State your rank first, your ladder position should reflect somewhat on people's reception to your advice and your relative skill level.
Conversely, thine advice shalt be the judge of thine advice's quality.
2. Thou Shall be entitled to post Replays Where You Win And Ask For Help
Not every game that is won is done so on your merit. A good player who wants to improve will criticize games that he has won, considering alternatives where things could have gone wrong. This is particularly important where you are trying a new build and considering whether it could be countered by another strategy. Of course, don't post replays where it is a simple two gate proxy rush or straight forward dt rush. We are talking about games like Jinro v OGS Top, where it extends to late game macro and where a number of pathways could have been taken differently to the one chosen and have led to a different result. A good player never gets too smug on winning.
3. Thou Shall Not Worry About Thy Rating
You put in the hard practice time, the gaming hours and the time on the forums reading. You've now sowed the produce of your hardwork. Why not show it off to your friends? After all, you've put in the miles and if the ladder ranking is some reflection of your accomplishments, than don't forget to mention it for credibility's sake. After all, would anyone read Kyandid post if it wasn't for his 3000+ master league ranking and his semi-professional wc3 career?
4. Thou Shall Cry 'Imbalance'
Tired of losing the last few consecutive games on battlenet? Sick of getting two rax rushed by Terran on close distances? Join the club, post on TL.net. Where nerds get together to vent their frustrations. We've all felt it before, and there needs to be a place where you can cool down from tilt and share it with your friends. After all, we all know that Starcraft 2 isn't balanced.
5. The Grass can be Greener
Some races are easier to play than others, *cough *cough Terran. But if you are a better player, you can overcome the imbalance. The quicker you accept it, the better you'll become. Or as Idra says, you can also give up your self respect and play Terran.
6. Thou Shalt Not Argue With Pros
This is self explanatory. Just as commandment one said, stating your rank gives you credibility. If masters league gives you some authority, than being a pro player gives you GREAT authority :D. This is not to say that pro-gamers can't be wrong, it just means its highly unlikely and most lower ranked players should refrain from commenting unless they are absolutely sure they are correct. But if they were absolutely sure, they wouldn't be so lowly ranked right? :D
7. Thou Shall Think Of SC2 Exclusively In Terms Of Unit Composition
Each element of SC2 needs to be thought of separately, and while mechanics are important, they are hard to teach on a forum. Here on TL, we teach you to think correctly. And unit composition, ceterus paribus is the crux of the game.
8. Thou Shalt Not Think Of SC2 Exclusively In Terms Of Counters
To be continued.... need to go out now Hope you guys enjoy!
In this post he attempts to tell IdrA how to win more effectively. He gives him a pep talk and imparts more of his genius lawyer wisdom upon the poor little Gracken. He basically tells IdrA to train more.
+ Show Spoiler +On January 14 2011 21:51 RetFan wrote:
Hi Idra,
now that you've got into the ro8, I think you should throw away your life and train your a ss off until the GSL is over.
Don't be proud of your achievements yet, the key to winning is to peak at the right time. This is true for many sports including weight lifting, badminton, etc. I think in terms of SC2, it should be no different.
This is what your fans have been waiting for all this time. Not necessarily to watch your stream (which is second best) but to watch you win the GSL. I really hope that you win and make all your fans including me, proud.
Work hand and achieve results! You haven't won anything until you've won the championship. There may be a lot of people out there praising you now but if you celebrate too quickly, you definitely will not win the tournament.
Have the mindset that nothing is for certain and that winning the next round is the only goal in this stage of your life and the past means nothing without absolute victory.
My mind is boggled, so to speak.
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