My beautiful experience as a Progamer - Page 7

On January 19 2013 07:30 JustPassingBy wrote:
Glad to hear you're doing well, ClouD.

One question: what was the first that you ate after returning to Italy?

edit: I miss Italy.

On January 18 2013 09:42 aTnClouD wrote:
- People change when they become famous, often for the worse, up to the point you don't recognize them anymore;
- being a Starcraft 2 progamer makes you able to handle stress better than anything else;
- some of the very best players have extremely egocentric, socially unstable personalities;
- most progamers are actors in front of people, they will act nice, helpful and politically correct in public and once they are in a private environment they will be selfish, unapologetic and arrogant. By contrast, some of the nicest people in the scene are barely known and recognized by fans;
- progamers' and casters' ego are directly proportional to the amount of fans they have;
- no matter what you do, somebody will hate, and their opinion will be meaningless. Receiving real constructive feedback is rare and treasuring it is necessary in succeeding in your short and long term goals;
- confidence is the most important trait for anything a person can do;
- selfish people are better at faking a nice personality. This happens because otherwise people would never accept them for who they are;

On January 19 2013 07:08 Ilvy wrote:



Dear god, how can you put all "germans" in one pot, TaKe is TaKe and the players are single persons for themselves, no matter what nationality they have. He was living here 2 years, and lets go for 2 years to italy and then cast for the guys down there in italian gogo, show me your skill .... The sad problem is that the fail is not at him, it´s the german community since at least 70% of them suck at english, a language they learn in school and still fail at it . ClouD said nothing about hate, i guess he never would say that, you either like or dislike ppl for some reasons.
As he said, he had a great time in Germany with ups and downs and believe me he is a really grateful guy and knows what TaKe did for him.
Carlo

On January 18 2013 20:21 aTnClouD wrote:

In general I have to say the german top players didn't leave me a good impression. It felt like whenever you give them advice they will try to capitalize on it without giving much back and some of them are very sneaky and untrustworthy. One I really respect and stands out from others is Darkforce. That guy is so honest that I can't help but feel appreciation towards him. Xlord is really funny, but even though I met him a lot I can't say I know much of him, he seems a really reserved person when it comes to private matters.

I will switch to Protoss for two reasons. First I think Protoss is extremely easy to play in WoL and this won't change in HotS. Second is the distorted way David Kim talks about balance when he releases interviews. He said that it was ok for Zerg to be dominant for some months since Terran was the best in Korea at the beginning, and now that we had a complete Zerg dominance in the past year they will most likely focus on Protoss more.

On January 19 2013 07:30 JustPassingBy wrote:
One question: what was the first that you ate after returning to Italy?

On January 19 2013 20:06 WetSocks wrote:
all of your writings are good. and do you really want Flash's baby??

On January 19 2013 20:40 yaxv wrote:
Hi Cloud, never really followed you but I like this thread very much!

I'm wondering if being a SC2-progamer also makes you more cynical and susceptible to other people. The progame environment sounds cold and unpleasant, not to say the Internet haters will always flame the players which must make you feel the world is against you. What do you do to keep yourself "human" and how do you ignore those comments?

Also, one question unrelated to the former two ones: What skills or competences do you think you can bring with you to any non-eSports career should you ever decide to retire?

Thanks!

On January 20 2013 00:05 aTnClouD wrote:

This

I loved the game at first and even though I played Protoss in SCBW I switched to Terran in SC2 because I thought it was by far the most challenging and fun to play.

I will switch to Protoss for two reasons. First I think Protoss is extremely easy to play in WoL and this won't change in HotS. Second is the distorted way David Kim talks about balance when he releases interviews. He said that it was ok for Zerg to be dominant for some months since Terran was the best in Korea at the beginning, and now that we had a complete Zerg dominance in the past year they will most likely focus on Protoss more.

On January 19 2013 21:23 ChaosArcher wrote:






Once again read the freaking thread before posting bullshit.
What the fuck happened to TL people were smart here once...
This post was directed to Cloud and he knows what he said and what he didn't say so i would be extremly happy if you just shut your mouth.



User was warned for this post

On January 20 2013 03:55 KingAlphard wrote:
What I didn't understand.
At first you said this:


then



So it doesn't matter anymore to you to have fun playing or being challenged? Do you only play to win now?