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Fecalfeast
Profile Joined January 2010
Canada11355 Posts
October 04 2014 03:12 GMT
#21
To the people who get really anxious playing ladder games: What league are you in when you do play? If you have never done placements, what is stopping you from at least getting placed?

In my experience everyone I tried to get to play SC2 with me that ended up having ladder anxiety placed so much arbitrary significance onto league placement. They were either terrified to be placed in bronze or ended up in bronze and got disheartened every time they lost. "Man I can't even beat people in bronze league there's no way I'll get any better"

People are weird.

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Gamegene
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States8308 Posts
October 04 2014 04:27 GMT
#22
Clicking the "Find Match" button is 80% of the battle fighting ladder anxiety. Once you click it the rest is simple.
Throw on your favorite jacket and you're good to roll. Stroll through the trees and let your miseries go.
The_Templar
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
your Country52798 Posts
October 04 2014 05:15 GMT
#23
On October 04 2014 13:27 Gamegene wrote:
Clicking the "Find Match" button is 80% of the battle fighting ladder anxiety. Once you click it the rest is simple.

Sure, but I kept finding myself stopping after 2-3 games only.
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lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
October 04 2014 05:28 GMT
#24
i just cheese so of course it's fun for me
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The_Templar
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
your Country52798 Posts
October 04 2014 05:32 GMT
#25
On October 04 2014 14:28 lichter wrote:
i just cheese so of course it's fun for me

What kind of cheese are we talking here?
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aike
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States1629 Posts
October 04 2014 05:41 GMT
#26
On October 04 2014 07:56 Big J wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 04 2014 07:46 aike wrote:
On October 04 2014 07:41 Big J wrote:
On October 04 2014 07:36 The_Templar wrote:
On October 04 2014 07:35 Big J wrote:
On October 04 2014 01:05 The_Templar wrote:
Yeah, I got a lot of motivation to play when I just treated it as a game.

I want to rate this response a 5 too.

(And then I want to slap its writer for pretending that SC2 is "just a game")

I didn't say it was just a game, I said I treated it at just a game when I played ;_;


Not sure if there is an exact equivalent, but in German we say that you should treat others exactly the way you want to be treated. So don't treat her like a game.
And yes, SC2 is a Lady.

It's a pretty old saying :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule

The German version is better. It rhymes.

What is it in German?
Wahaha
Gamegene
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States8308 Posts
October 04 2014 05:52 GMT
#27
On October 04 2014 14:15 The_Templar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 04 2014 13:27 Gamegene wrote:
Clicking the "Find Match" button is 80% of the battle fighting ladder anxiety. Once you click it the rest is simple.

Sure, but I kept finding myself stopping after 2-3 games only.


force yourself to click the button a fourth time then.
Throw on your favorite jacket and you're good to roll. Stroll through the trees and let your miseries go.
jubil
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States2602 Posts
October 04 2014 08:00 GMT
#28
I had a massive drop in ladder anxiety when I came back to SC2 after playing a ton of Dota2 and Hearthstone. I'm having more fun, and raging (at least somewhat) less. You realize that there's so much more out there in the gaming world (let alone life in general), so as long as you're not trying to make it as a pro, it really doesn't make sense to be concerned with what may or may not happen in any individual game of Starcraft.

In fact, the entire stigmatization of ladder anxiety is a little silly too imo. It's hardly a crime to simply enjoy playing 4v4s or Nexus Wars or something more than one enjoys ranked 1v1s. After all, plenty of people feel the same way; join just about any lobby in the arcade and you see plenty of people with really low character levels but super high stats in whatever that UMS is. It's pretty easy to lose sight of the super-casual community, especially on a site like this that focuses pretty much exclusively on the competitive 1v1 aspect.
Marineking-Polt-Maru-Fantasy-Solar-Xenocider-Suppy fighting!
virpi
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Germany3599 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-10-04 11:31:03
October 04 2014 11:30 GMT
#29
On October 04 2014 14:41 aike wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 04 2014 07:56 Big J wrote:
On October 04 2014 07:46 aike wrote:
On October 04 2014 07:41 Big J wrote:
On October 04 2014 07:36 The_Templar wrote:
On October 04 2014 07:35 Big J wrote:
On October 04 2014 01:05 The_Templar wrote:
Yeah, I got a lot of motivation to play when I just treated it as a game.

I want to rate this response a 5 too.

(And then I want to slap its writer for pretending that SC2 is "just a game")

I didn't say it was just a game, I said I treated it at just a game when I played ;_;


Not sure if there is an exact equivalent, but in German we say that you should treat others exactly the way you want to be treated. So don't treat her like a game.
And yes, SC2 is a Lady.

It's a pretty old saying :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule

The German version is better. It rhymes.

What is it in German?

Was du nicht willst, das man dir tu’, das füg auch keinem anderen zu.
first we make expand, then we defense it.
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