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I became practice partners with a Chinese player

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Golgotha
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Korea (South)8418 Posts
October 22 2020 15:06 GMT
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I love how this game brings people together. I've seen it happen multiple times and I'd like to share an unlikely friendship I formed while playing Brood War.

I'm currently working in China and playing on the China servers to get good ping. There's actually tons of games on this server (not nearly as much as KR, but easy enough to find games quickly). I wanted to practice my PvZ so I joined a custom match against a fellow noob.

I always say Ni Hao and nearly all Chinese players say hi back. Well this dude kept writing to me in Chinese and I of course couldn't understand a lick of what he was typing. So I Google translated a message telling him to add me on a Chinese messaging app. He befriended me right away and we started talking about the game and how it influenced our life (this app translates all languages to whatever you want).

Turned out the dude is born in the same year I am, and has been following Brood War as long as I have! He knows about Boxer, Savior, July, and all the other old school BW players! We started talking about Zero's 9734 build because he couldn't beat my Protoss. I sent him jinjin's translated video that was retranslated into Chinese. He loved that. Once he learned the build, he tried it and then sent me a screen shot of him winning with it!

He also follows ASL like a true fan! He kept calling Flash a bug. I asked him to explain and he said it was because Flash is unkillable. Like bugs that you kill and kill but there's always another one. Hahaha. So true. We've been watching ASL together and basking in awe of the Flash.

It's awesome that a game like this can connect us to people from all over the world and even people who don't speak our language. And with the tech we have now, language ain't a barrier anymore. He lives in in a remote place in China and his English is primary level, I would never have met him if it wasn't for BW.

We've been playing together for over a month now, nearly every day. He's such a good and funny dude. Incredibly helpful and always making jokes when I send DTs to his base. I really like spending time with him because he is highly competitive and always seeks to improve himself. We always ask each other when we're getting home and if we can play a game. We're also teaching each other our native language.

I guess it's because there's not a lot of BW fans left or they're hard to find nowadays, it just feels damn good to have a friend who loves BW and plays it with you. I'd like to meet him one day. That would be swell~



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XenOsky
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Chile2260 Posts
October 22 2020 20:56 GMT
#2
practicing like this >>>>>>>>>>>>> ladder
StarCraft & Audax Italiano.
Starlightsun
Profile Blog Joined June 2016
United States1405 Posts
October 22 2020 22:14 GMT
#3
This brightened my day
art_of_turtle
Profile Blog Joined September 2012
United States1183 Posts
October 22 2020 23:39 GMT
#4
This is the kind of practice we need as players to improve. We need to learn from these 2 and adapt it in our lives!
Flash should fear Sacsri
Nixer
Profile Joined July 2011
2774 Posts
October 23 2020 06:52 GMT
#5
That's cool! Even though Korean servers are definitely playable (with 'game VPNs' and sometimes without), you miss out on potential connections you could make in the country. It's nice how games lets people come together.
Graphics
Psyonic_Reaver
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States4336 Posts
October 24 2020 04:49 GMT
#6
Finding a few players around your skill level that you can play with day in and day out over and over, watching replays, talking about your games is one of the best ways to increase your skill, I can personally attest to that and it's amazing to watch all of you grow together.
So wait? I'm bad? =(
Snorkels
Profile Joined May 2011
United States1015 Posts
October 24 2020 22:38 GMT
#7
I thought it was going to be Flash is a bug in the game and needs to be nerfed/patched xD
TelecoM
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States10668 Posts
October 27 2020 01:27 GMT
#8
It is always much more inspirational to have people like this on your side, especially when you can improve when playing with them. After awhile it will become a lot of mind games. Have fun!
AKA: TelecoM[WHITE] Protoss fighting
ffswowsucks
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
Greece2294 Posts
October 29 2020 18:18 GMT
#9
Really happy to see people being connected through gaming. Many times you will hear people saying gaming is not good, its unsocial and usually these people have no clue of what they are talking about, like my dad.
Terran in particular is a notoriously strong race for a no brain skillhand bot style.
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland25029 Posts
October 31 2020 06:11 GMT
#10
That’s cool, who’s trading better in your practice games?

I reckon ‘ni hao ya doing?’ should become the world’s universal greeting in the next 10 years, East meets West and all that
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
JieXian
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Malaysia4677 Posts
October 31 2020 17:28 GMT
#11
nice glhf
BigFan I'm still waiting for a photo of your forehead haha
Please send me a PM of any song you like that I most probably never heard of! I am looking for people to chat about writing and producing music | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noD-bsOcxuU |
Rovant1c
Profile Joined October 2014
China71 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-11-01 05:33:52
November 01 2020 05:28 GMT
#12
Really cool! You can share this on“百度贴吧 星际争霸吧”,there are a lot of sc fans( https://tieba.baidu.com/f?kw=星际争霸)

Tips:In China,we call Zergling as "small dog"

Ultralisk "big cattle",Medic "nurse" , Goliath "big foot", Archon"white ball", Reaver"golden beetle"




Rovant1c
Profile Joined October 2014
China71 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-11-01 05:35:09
November 01 2020 05:31 GMT
#13
and a lot of chinese streamers on douyu and douyin ( the Chinese version of tiktok).
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