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Starcraft is a game that revealed the existence of flow to me.
It has only happened twice to me, the first time I had adrenaline rushing through my veins, the world became insubstantial, I couldn't hear my music any more, my hands were moving faster than ever, I was making positional tactics I didn't even think about, I was above normal reality. The first time it happened I could not tell you what I was feeling, reality was unreality.
The second time, same thing, adrenaline, complete and utter focus on the game. However this time I realized what was happening, and about 30 minutes into the game I had a big grin on my face as I had ultralisks demolishing my defenses and my drops were taking out all of his expansions while trying to relocate my own base.
Flow.
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some ppl say the had music to grow up with .. i had sc =/
i just cant quit D;
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because i like moving around the map and using my mouse. that is seriously the only reason
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I'm Korean American and sometimes knowing that I'm good at a RTS game relative to the masses of horrible players makes me experience some sort of reaction to my culture.
Thankfully it's not KPOP.
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Because it's fun. Honestly, if I wasn't having fun playing, I wouldn't play.
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Combination of fun and something to improve at, so much left to discover and dig up :D
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it's fun to improve myself, and it's even more fun when it's fun to improve myself
i probably would play less SC2 if i were placed in an hyperbolic gravity time chamber with gravity turned up to x10 and time dilation decreased to x.5 so that i couldn't move or think and had to struggle against all the forces of the universe at once
i might improve faster and then give up pretty quickly
i need the majority of my gaming to be positive reinforcement and then subtle queues (that i miss, for the most part), if i'm going to improve myself and not change my task
like imagine if 1A didn't work 10% of the time. probably about 20% of players would just overcome this by spamming 1A more, and 3 or 4 times when essential
80% of players would lose some frustrating games and then quit
also i think that hardcore SC players are a different breed than people who play other games, like the average MMO player, is highly intoxicated with alcohol when playing, while SC2 would be a pretty unsatisfactory experience for most alcoholics
so 'subtlety' or even not-so-subtlety, is lost on the average MMO player who is more likely to just rage quit when an obstacle presents itself
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I keep playing because I want to improve and get into GM. My goal after that is to mess with SlayerS Cella in 1v1s on ladder.
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cause it's fun of course. if you don't have fun playing you shouldn't play at all.
seriously, I try to go play other games now and I can't stomach it! they just aren't as fun / do not require the same amounts of brain power as SC (for example, MWF3, SWTOR, stuff like that)
and along that point, anything I think is legitimately fun i'll try to and be the best at it. just how i am :p
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On April 17 2012 07:00 Rekrul wrote:
Because they are all a bunch of bads.
Hey Rekrul; is there a thread or a blog where you explain why you don't like SC2 ? I can think of some, but I would love to read an indepth writing on why you detest it so much 
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I voted Mixed: Because it's fun, and Improving yourself(Myself)
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Monobattles!
Stopped laddering almost completely, only log in to play some monobattles and making broodlord,roach,colossus,marauder work against immortal,immortal,voidray,mothership 
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I started because my roommates played, so that was brilliant.
Then I kept playing because I watched GSL and it was still kinda fun, especially messing around in teams and stuff.
As of last couple of months the reason is mainly just because I have nothing better to do.
Then ME3 came around and I got a Dota 2 key. So see you in HotS, SC2.
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