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Bronze Part 3: Casually Cruel - Page 13
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GhoSt[shield]
Canada2131 Posts
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radscorpion9
Canada2252 Posts
On March 23 2012 08:20 Hulavuta wrote: Yes, I have to agree with Wolf. He's not doing this just to say that they're bad, he's wondering why they can't realize they're bad, and why they seem unable to learn. If he was just playing against bronze players and saying things like "lol ur so bad you can't even beat a worker rush" then I would agree with you. However he's not. He's telling them how to defend it, then questioning why they couldn't even take his advice. And why they don't even know why they didn't do it. I guess another way to put it is if he was playing against other platinum players. Let's just say someone who was just as skilled as he was lost to something completely different, like a fourgate perhaps. And Gheed told him "I'm going to fourgate you. To beat this, do exactly X" (Let's just pretend for a second that beating a fourgate requires only instructions, like the worker rush does) And then the guy has the same response and everything, yelling "Fuck you" to Gheed and being, when asked why he didn't follow the instructions, unable to articulate or even conceive his reasons in any meaningful way. And as far as I can see, when he talked to the players he never used any condescending or insulting language to them. The only thing he did was question what they were doing using appropriate language, and telling them what to do in a polite manner. Yeah, in the blog itself he sometimes says shit like "Dogs are smarter than bronze players", but everyone has to use some exaggeration to make a point here and there. The purpose of the blog is to inform, not to attack. I can understand why people find this blog offensive. What Gheed is basically doing is trying to logically analyze stupid decisions. That's what he's doing when he repeatedly asks people why they chose not to make the simplest decision, over and over again. He must realize, at some point (certainly by now at least) that its pointless to ask such questions...that certain people simply aren't that bright, or that they get confused and panic easily by worker rushes, at which point all their thought processes fail and they do random things. Yet he continues to try to analyze stupidity...and one is forced to ask, why? The only conceivable answer I can find is because he finds it fun to do so, and incidentally, so do many other people judging from the responses on this blog. Analyzing how far stupidity can go with regard to in-game decisions, and how stupid people respond to logical, intelligent questions, only heightens how amusing the experience is for him and those who read the blog. That's why many have concluded that this blog is just thinly veiled mockery, and that its truly helpful to no one. I'm sure Gheed does genuinely try to help some people. But at the same time, what exactly is gained by posting screenshots of people's highly illogical thought processes for everyone to see, embarrassing the players further in front of the thousands who may read this blog? Is this meant to be a learning experience, that bronze players make poor choices? That there may be some dumb people in bronze? Is that supposed to be some sort of epiphany? Or are we all here to amuse ourselves by treating bronze players as lab rats, and watching all the funny things the particularly dumb bronze leaguers do when confronted with simple obstacles? Tell me, what do you think the realistic answer is to that question. Seriously, would *you* post this kind of blog? Would you demote yourself to bronze, do worker rushes, then logically pick apart every decision they make in chat and ask them why they made such poor decisions while repeatedly telling them that there was an obvious answer? And then, would you post screenshots of the baffling conversations you had to team liquid, complete with a picture comparing certain bronze league players to dogs, and then suggesting dogs are superior to them? And then ending it with the *ingenious* conclusion that (and I quote) "It's not that they are casual. It's not that they are bad. It's that they are bafflingly, unexplainably dense"? Tell me that he's being "helpful" or "informative". This is thinly veiled mockery of dumb people, nothing more nothing less. | ||
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Synwave
United States2803 Posts
Seriously, would *you* post this kind of blog? Would you demote yourself to bronze, do worker rushes, then logically pick apart every decision they make in chat and ask them why they made such poor decisions while repeatedly telling them that there was an obvious answer? If I could be as remotely amusing as him then yes, yes I would. I find it also highly amusing that you analyze the blog so in depth while completely missing the point. It is in fact responses to Gheed's blogs that are in many ways more hilarious than his actual content. It is why the blog is pure genius, pure unadulterated genius! | ||
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-Exalt-
United States972 Posts
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Salazarz
Korea (South)2591 Posts
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Blazinghand
United States25550 Posts
On April 21 2012 20:27 Salazarz wrote: Maybe I'm stupid, but then again I did manage to get into Masters so I must be doing something right. Indeed, but that something wasn't "humor"-- it was playing Starcraft II very well. | ||
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JWBS
England24 Posts
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Ansinjunger
United States2451 Posts
I'm not familiar with that breed. This just killed me. | ||
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iSometric
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