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Kasha_Not_Kesha
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States71 Posts
August 20 2012 16:58 GMT
#1
Back when I first made my TL account, I was somewhere around Bronze or Silver League. I sucked. Not just at Starcraft; I was generally pretty sucky as a person. Arrogant, prideful, I was a typical know-it-all. Granted, I'm fairly intelligent and in many cases my know-it-all attitude was justified by my actually being correct, but my habit of trying to rub my knowledge and experience in the faces of everyone around me was just...ugh.

Basically, if I could meet me a year ago, I'd probably punch me in the face.

So I came on TL, high from my string of victories against 10-APM, 6-gas 9-barracks bronze kids and felt like I was knowledgable about playing Zerg. It was so easy for me to win that clearly I must know some hidden secrets of Starcraft that had gone undiscovered before I came into the scene. I was going to write a blog about how good I was at Zerg, and everyone would see how good I was and how awesome my advice was, and BAM. I'd be a big name on TL, with more respect and more excuse to rub how awesome I was in peoples' faces.

A quick glance at any of my past blogs will tell you how that turned out. + Show Spoiler +
(Poorly)


My highest rated blog, and probably my only meaningful contribution thus far has been my musing on ladder anxiety; everything else has just been an attempt at proving my superiority to the raving masses and the 'noobs'.

Hell, I got to Platinum a while back and made a whine-blog about how kids were too easy to beat. It felt like the only thing preventing me from getting into GM was that I didn't play enough games to get my MMR that high. I look back and think "what the fuck was wrong with me?" and to be honest, I really don't know.

Then I started playing Diamond kids. That was a jarring transition, and I've gotta say I'm glad it happened. Losing as badly as I did has really kind of cemented in my mind the fact that I am a goddamn idiot.

My perspective has shifted, and I've realized that previously my opponents were just not as solid as I was in their mechanics or low-level decision making. I grasped the basics, and they did not. That was the sole reason I was able to win any games at all, nothing more. I wasn't some kind of starcraft genius, I was just somewhat competant at doing basic things and that was enough to win me games.

So I'm going to stop pretending I know what I'm talking about when it comes to strategy in this game and stop with my shitty "hao 2 play zerg liek a bawss" blogs. I'll come out with tiny blurbs or tricks I've started to use, maybe write about noteworthy games or noteworthy moments in games. You know, typical blog things.

But I'm going to try to cut out this arrogant horseshit and actually improve.

****
Human beings are literally made up of potential more than anything else.
Djzapz
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada10681 Posts
August 20 2012 17:23 GMT
#2
I know your kind, you obnoxious people! :D

That's funny because it happens to so many SC2 players. They get into gold, and gold's a precious metal so clearly they must be good! It reminds of this guy who met 2 low level players who thought they were awesome, and then he 1v2'd them.

Anyway, since the beta, despite the fact that I never played a lot, I've always been high Diamond and then high Masters pretty much as soon as it that league was patched in, and yet I always knew that i sucked terribly at the game. I got there solely by macroing hard. I had no build order, no strategies, poor scouting -just a lot of units. And yet even here on TL sometimes you'll read "I'm platinum so I know what I'm talking about"...

MFW I'm high master and I know damn well that I don't know what I'm talking about.
"My incompetence with power tools had been increasing exponentially over the course of 20 years spent inhaling experimental oven cleaners"
Bobo_XIII
Profile Blog Joined October 2003
United States429 Posts
August 20 2012 17:46 GMT
#3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

^ It's amusing how a lot of SC2 players fall under this phenomenon (like a silver player wondering why he lost even though his 'injects and macro were near perfect')
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit, and the vermin of the world inhabit it... and its morals aren't worth what a pig could spit, and it goes by the name of Reddit.
targ
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Malaysia445 Posts
August 20 2012 17:52 GMT
#4
LOL I had a hilarious conversation with this fellow a few months after SC2 came out. He was telling me "my friends were very good in BW, they went to competitions and all, now they are damn good in SC2 as well. I'm not so good because I practice less but still pretty good, so I'm in Gold. All of them are in Plat."

So I nodded politely and kept quiet...
http://billyfoong.blogspot.com/ my other opinions are here
Smoot
Profile Joined April 2011
United States128 Posts
August 20 2012 22:45 GMT
#5
The first step to improve is being honest with yourself.

It sort of goes without saying, but a lot of people get lost on this simple fact. Just remember, if you lose, it is 100% you. If you got cheesed... you didn't scout or react well enough, your fault. If you get beat in a late game, you didn't macro well enough. If they had a fast hidden expo, you didn't scout well enough.

When players realize wins and losses are 100% on their shoulders they start to realize how much they can improve.
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