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Why Your Ladder Blog is Bad (and nobody reads it) - Page 3

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Gamegene
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States8308 Posts
November 24 2011 13:13 GMT
#41
ladder blogs = overly dramatic 200% of the time.

On November 24 2011 20:25 TheKefka wrote:
I agree,TL needs more girl blogs instead.

blogs that get attention because there's a girl or blogs that frustrates everyone because the OP won't follow any of the advice (to man up)?

Throw on your favorite jacket and you're good to roll. Stroll through the trees and let your miseries go.
Urielnam
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Israel54 Posts
November 24 2011 13:42 GMT
#42
I follow you on twitter because of this awesome post.
And the fact that you don't post no tweets so I get no new spam on me twitter.
YAY!
Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment
Skeggaba
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Korea (South)1556 Posts
November 24 2011 13:55 GMT
#43
On November 24 2011 19:18 Manifesto7 wrote:
Spotlighted for the sole reason that I wanted the word "meta-blogging" to appear on the front page. Im expecting Chill to show up and punch me in the face at any moment.


I love that you are the #1 spotlighter even though you said you were gonna quit TL.
Great post, great spotlight. I love this feature!
Bisu[about JD]=I was scared (laughs). The force emanating from his facial expression was so manly that I was even a little jealous.
Bibbit
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada5377 Posts
November 24 2011 14:16 GMT
#44
On November 24 2011 22:55 Skeggaba wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 24 2011 19:18 Manifesto7 wrote:
Spotlighted for the sole reason that I wanted the word "meta-blogging" to appear on the front page. Im expecting Chill to show up and punch me in the face at any moment.


I love that you are the #1 spotlighter even though you said you were gonna quit TL.
Great post, great spotlight. I love this feature!

And I love how he freakin' spotlighted me ! <3 Manifesto, even if he did it mostly to spite Chill. : )

Also much thanks to the people who like this. And those who dont, well screw you anyway thats fine.
MasterZilla
Profile Blog Joined November 2003
Sweden234 Posts
November 24 2011 14:56 GMT
#45
Somehow, this blog made me want to write battle reports for my crappy ladder games..

Enjoyable read!
For Aiur! - If you reach for the stars and miss, you still might end up walking among the clouds.
marttorn
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Norway5211 Posts
November 24 2011 14:59 GMT
#46
While we're here, talking about bad blogs, I'm sick of blogs titled "Road to ___". Most commonly "Road to [LEAGUE]"

They're incredibly common, and not limited to blogs, and I don't even have a sensible reason to hate them, but whenever I see one of them in the blogs section of TL, I pause for a moment and shake my head while biting my lip in disbelieving anger.
memes are a dish best served dank
Manifesto7
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Osaka27156 Posts
November 24 2011 15:01 GMT
#47
Just to spite Bibbit Im going to make a road to Gold blog next week. Watch for it.
ModeratorGodfather
thesideshow
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
930 Posts
November 24 2011 15:16 GMT
#48
On November 24 2011 20:28 Felo wrote:
When a blog is written in the forest, but nobody around reads it, is there a blog?


I see what you did there :D
OGS:levelchange
StarStruck
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
25339 Posts
November 24 2011 15:34 GMT
#49
On November 24 2011 22:55 Skeggaba wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 24 2011 19:18 Manifesto7 wrote:
Spotlighted for the sole reason that I wanted the word "meta-blogging" to appear on the front page. Im expecting Chill to show up and punch me in the face at any moment.


I love that you are the #1 spotlighter even though you said you were gonna quit TL.
Great post, great spotlight. I love this feature!


Mani cannot stay away from the blog section.
blubbdavid
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Switzerland2412 Posts
November 24 2011 15:42 GMT
#50
You should have written this one year ago.
What do you desire? Money? Glory? Power? Revenge? Or something that surpasses all other? Whatever you desire - that is here. Tower of God ¦¦Nutella, drink of the Gods
Enki
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
United States2548 Posts
November 24 2011 15:45 GMT
#51
I would rather read 10 ladder blogs instead of one more "omg im so nervous i cant play sc2 ladder, what do I do gaiz?"

Luckily those seem to have died off. Hopefully it stays that way.
"Practice, practice, practice. And when you're not practicing you should be practicing. It's the only way to get better. The only way." I run the Smix Fanclub!
nRoot
Profile Joined February 2010
Germany928 Posts
November 24 2011 15:49 GMT
#52
Well there is one good thing about ladder blogs, they don't get highlighted unless they are somewhat interesting/insightfull

This blog however .. : (
RogerX
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
New Zealand3180 Posts
November 24 2011 15:57 GMT
#53
Heheh, pretty sure you made a lot of players upset though.
Stick it up. take it up. step aside and see the world
IrOnKaL
Profile Joined June 2011
United States340 Posts
November 24 2011 17:04 GMT
#54
Nice read, got me to laugh quite a few times Very much of what you say is true though.
Bibbit
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada5377 Posts
November 24 2011 17:10 GMT
#55
On November 25 2011 00:57 RogerX wrote:
Heheh, pretty sure you made a lot of players upset though.

Heh, ye. Look one post above yours. ^_^
StarStruck
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
25339 Posts
November 24 2011 17:11 GMT
#56
One word comes to mind, Eureka!
Vortigan
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Denmark306 Posts
November 24 2011 17:14 GMT
#57
hahahahah love it!! ..... btw I think I wanna go pro?!
Umpteen
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United Kingdom1570 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-24 17:20:07
November 24 2011 17:17 GMT
#58
As a (mostly) ex-ladder-blogger myself I'd venture to suggest another reason for lower-level players to kick the habit:

Nothing turns subjective impression into cold, hard fact quicker than sharing it with others.

I dodged this particular bullet a few weeks ago, when I started a blog post about my laddering experience this season. I was struggling greatly in ZvT and ZvP: it felt like my opponents always had a free choice of strategy and those strategies - regardless of how extreme or one-dimensional they might be - always had to be countered exactly and precisely just to prolong the game. The idea of actually going into a game with a plan seemed absurd. And because there were so many T/P strategies, and it seemed the range of Zerg counters to each was so narrow and predictable, I was only ever going to get a tiny amount of practice countering and following up compared to the practice my opponents were getting executing and following up.

I had this big, whiny post almost finished when, by chance, I was forced to set it aside over the weekend. When I returned to it on the Monday and read it through, it struck me as - not reasonable and sensible, as it had at the time, but biased and narrow-minded. Sure, some early aggression does mandate a very specific response, but the task of detecting and responding is not all that arduous, and deflection often pushes the odds of an eventual win far above 50%. Why was I not thinking, instead: "All I need to do to win 90% of those cannon rushes or proxy gates is send a drone around the edge of my base? Bargain!"

Only in a small subset of these builds is it genuinely tricky to come out ahead, but in my post I had generalised the worst case, the better to win sympathy from my readers. Nor is it even the case that every T/P strategy must be dealt with uniquely. The later the focus of their strategy, the more opportunities there are to impose myself upon the game. Again I was generalising the worst case, ignoring nuance and opportunities, casting myself as the perpetual victim.

Aside: Nor do I believe I am alone in this. Maybe the world is not a Zerg's oyster at the 0 minute mark in the same way it is for a Terran, but I think a lot of Zergs have allowed the claustrophobic early-game to colour their perception of the game as a whole.

What surprised me most, however, was how influential a post contrived to convince readers can be upon the writer during the process of creation. I almost bought into my own hyperbole, almost made it part of my online persona - and while I've trained myself not to invest too much ego in being right on the internet, attaching oneself to erroneous public proclamations is at best a desperately unproductive pastime.

The existence of a food chain is inescapable if we evolved unsupervised, and inexcusable otherwise.
soujiro_
Profile Joined June 2010
Uruguay5195 Posts
November 24 2011 17:34 GMT
#59
congrats on the spotlight, your blogs tend to be good
ace hwaiting!!
nRoot
Profile Joined February 2010
Germany928 Posts
November 24 2011 18:16 GMT
#60
On November 25 2011 02:10 Bibbit wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 25 2011 00:57 RogerX wrote:
Heheh, pretty sure you made a lot of players upset though.

Heh, ye. Look one post above yours. ^_^

I don't mind your blog, I was just sad it got spotlighted for no reason and i wasted my time reading through, waiting for something interesting to come up :/
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