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GhoSt[shield]
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada2131 Posts
April 19 2012 10:45 GMT
#241
Great writing as always and hilariouness. Gheed you have such an enjoyalbe blog series you write. Thank you.

DAT cc by the Ramp almost choked me XD
radscorpion9
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Canada2252 Posts
April 20 2012 21:31 GMT
#242
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.
Synwave
Profile Joined July 2009
United States2803 Posts
April 21 2012 09:02 GMT
#243
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-
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States972 Posts
April 21 2012 09:14 GMT
#244
Good effort as far as blogs go but..hmm seems kind of.. hypocritical.. for a platinum player to shit on a bronze player and act elitist when talking about WoW players. I was once plat...in beta with no RTS experience pre-sc2.. hit masters more than a year ago.. but that doesn't mean I make threads about how stupid platinum players are.
Salazarz
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Korea (South)2591 Posts
April 21 2012 11:27 GMT
#245
Being bad at a video game doesn't make a person dense, and writing this really serves no purpose but to laugh at other's expense. Sure this blog is a little funny, but also very mean and stupid - just like someone else said above, it's just a mockery of, not even 'dumb' people, but just people who aren't good at this game. And as for, "BUT I TOLD THEM WHAT TO DO TO WIN, WHY CANT THEY JUST FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS!!!"... Would you seriously listen to someone saying, "do X to beat me" at the start of a match in SC2? I know I wouldn't. Maybe I'm stupid, but then again I did manage to get into Masters so I must be doing something right.
Blazinghand *
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States25551 Posts
April 21 2012 11:28 GMT
#246
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.
When you stare into the iCCup, the iCCup stares back.
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JWBS
Profile Joined July 2012
England24 Posts
July 12 2012 12:40 GMT
#247
I've read all these threads up to this one now and I gotta say I laughed so hard at the idiot ninja waiting to ambush in the smoke clouds. Literally tears. I hope an old post bump isn't too egregious in the case of this thread.
Ansinjunger
Profile Joined November 2010
United States2451 Posts
July 13 2012 17:26 GMT
#248
I'm not familiar with that breed.


This just killed me.
iSometric
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
2221 Posts
July 13 2012 19:04 GMT
#249
Tried this on my friend's account. 5-2 in Bronze lol.
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