EPTSo the title is the deal. Ask me anything and I'll answer honestly. I'd prefer if you keep it SC related (since my general life is the equivalent of a 12 year old), but whatever.
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Skew
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So the title is the deal. Ask me anything and I'll answer honestly. I'd prefer if you keep it SC related (since my general life is the equivalent of a 12 year old), but whatever. Go. | ||
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decafchicken
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4 sentences at least please. | ||
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ilbh
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do you always FE in a TvZ game ? what makes you decide to Fe or not ? | ||
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Kennigit
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Also, describe everything you remember from the moment you heard about it till the moment it ended - Playing KTFYellow | ||
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On December 24 2007 16:10 decafchicken wrote: how's your life going 4 sentences at least please. It's going. I just found out my brother is taking a vacation to Seattle since he's off work (he's a systems administrator for Bank Of America, so he gets little time off), but he said he won't go unless I do because it'd be too boring. Well, I'm working on a few projects right now (web development) and I'm enjoying it, so I don't really want to go. Unfortunately I know he'd feel like I'm fun-blocking his ass by dodging it, so I'm gonna tough it out and go, even though I hate trains (yep, he's taking a fucking train there because he's never been on one... sigh) and Seattle is way too cold for my skinny ass, but I decided that since he lets me stay in his huge house in Phoenix for free, it'd probably be worth it to sacrifice some time and entertain his ass up north. There... that was like, uhhhh, 7 sentences. | ||
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On December 24 2007 16:43 ilbh wrote: what are you most afraid of in TvZ games ? i.e. Lurker drops, muta harass, any specific Z build, etc. do you always FE in a TvZ game ? what makes you decide to Fe or not ? I always FE. There's absolutely no reason to not FE. If you micro and scout correctly, there's nothing a zerg can do to kill you because of it. I always send out an SCV with my CC building SCV to build a bunker, depending on what my scout sees. Usually I don't need it since you can get around 6 marines by the time 9 or so lings hits, and in most cases the zerg won't try to do anything. As far as fears go... With foreigners, lurker drops are my biggest fear in the MU. It's extremely hard to tell if a zerg is dropping, but if you sacrifice too much to defend, you won't have enough at your front and hunting expansions. Obviously there are signs if you scout flawlessly, such as no early #3 gas being taken somewhere, or straight lurkers without muta harassment, but it's still really tough to see coming. With Koreans, the fear turns to mutalisk micro. There's a Korean zerg on CJ (edit: I'm thinking it might not be CJ, can't remember now) -- PRADA[S.G] -- that plays with me from time to time (he knows English perfectly; shhhh)... I'm about 1-30 vs him (never done anything to directly counter it, but I've built fuckloads of turrets/4 rax -- doesn't work), and I've never gotten past 10 minutes. He obliterates everything I have. He takes down up to 9 turrets at ONE expansion and never stops building mutas with +1. The counter is in super-fine marine micro, but I never practiced it enough to get it down correctly. | ||
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On December 24 2007 17:35 BrutalMenace wrote: what is your main iccup id? FlagShip | ||
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On December 24 2007 16:18 tec27 wrote: Self-identity and personal expression take many forms. Tastes in music, food and clothing can make a statement while politics, religion and ethnicity often act as defining attributes. Buttons on your backpack; a tattoo; the blogs you read and the web sites you visit; the minutia on your refrigerator or the doodles on your notebook are clues to your passions and viewpoints. Are you a vegetarian? Do you prefer YouTube or test tubes? Are you the drummer in an all-girl rock band? Do you like to tinker? Are you the umpire or the pitcher? Use the richness of your identity to give us insight: Who are you? (200 word response preferred) I don't wanna go to Tufts. | ||
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ps. not in a gay way pps. private server sux, lvl 80 devianne gowoo ~ | ||
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On December 24 2007 16:43 yubee wrote: most embarrassing high school memory!!!! I was a freshman. Some girl was talking shit to a distant friend, so I figured I'd have a little fun and cuss her out for it. Turns out she was the head cheerleader and her boyfriend was the biggest guy in the highschool (fucking illegally huge for age 18 -- I had never even see him before since it was my first year). Later that day I got bitch slapped in front of my entire grade by him, but most importantly my massive crush saw me take it and do nothing back. That was the worst, lmao. | ||
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ilbh
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 how was your games against him(yellow) ? the rep pack does not have it...  | ||
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On December 24 2007 17:43 kNyTTyM wrote: why terran? Protoss is too easy and zerg has a unit that can make lurkers _invincible_, which isn't very challenging. | ||
Plexa
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Next big terran Next big zerg Next big protoss + Your most idolized play outside of korea and why | ||
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On December 24 2007 16:45 Kennigit wrote: Who is #1 poster? vGl-CoW or some other looser. Also, describe everything you remember from the moment you heard about it till the moment it ended - Playing KTFYellow #1 poster is obviously Rekrul (the biggest attention whore loser of all ^_^)... what the FUCK? About Yellow, I guess you mean at BlizzCon... well I never really thought about it until the game. In fact I didn't even know I was vs him until the same day (if I can recall). I was making an attempt to get to know Tasteless and Testie better the night before the matches (which went decently well -- awesome guys), so I wasn't thinking about the games at all. When I was finally in the game, I said "hyung nim ~ gosu!" and he typed lol or something, and I think someone else was laughing trying to see who typed it from my side (I was trying to get comfortable). I made fun of Rekrul since I know they knew eachother, and we talked a little about him... then the game started, everything was going fine, and as soon as I saw his mutalisks I had a total breakdown, confidence went out the window and I just fell apart. | ||
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On December 24 2007 18:11 Plexa wrote: your pick for; Next big terran Next big zerg Next big protoss + Your most idolized play outside of korea and why I don't really play a whole lot of people I don't know, but I'd imagine the next >> big terran might be Casper or... this guy from South America that was in Media but got kicked, and I'll type his ID if I can remember it later. big zerg might be Maix or Machine. There's others, but none of them are really active, so I'm not sure. big protoss... god who knows. There's really just too many foreigner protoss so I can't answer this, because I haven't a clue. Most idolized player outside of Korea would have to be Advokate. I hate saying this because I know it's somehow going to get back to him, but his TvP/TvT were always, in my mind, the best outside of Korea. I don't know how this image of him evolved in my mind, but I guess I saw replays of him when I was a newbie back in 2005 or something and was very impressed, which I rarely am. Luckily I've had the chance to play him a few times, won a couple, lost more, even cussed him out and called him a newbie a few times, lmao. | ||
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On December 24 2007 18:21 Skew wrote: I don't really play a whole lot of people I don't know, but I'd imagine the next >> big terran might be Casper or... this guy from South America that was in Media but got kicked, and I'll type his ID if I can remember it later. big zerg might be Maix or Machine. There's others, but none of them are really active, so I'm not sure. big protoss... god who knows. There's really just too many foreigner protoss so I can't answer this, because I haven't a clue. Most idolized player outside of Korea would have to be Advokate. I hate saying this because I know it's somehow going to get back to him, but his TvP/TvT were always, in my mind, the best outside of Korea. I don't know how this image of him evolved in my mind, but I guess I saw replays of him when I was a newbie back in 2005 or something and was very impressed, which I rarely am. Luckily I've had the chance to play him a few times, won a couple, lost more, even cussed him out and called him a newbie a few times, lmao. Next big protoss is cloud! Its true there are alot of others but none are really showing as much potential as cloud. And being picked for ToT will only help. Another might be drieven if you dont consider him big already. | ||
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On December 24 2007 18:17 jimminy_kriket wrote: Do you think IdrA will ever achieve the same or higher level of play testie accomplished in his career? Or do you perhaps think he already has? Testie achieved a lot, but he started negative because of the shit he did when he was younger (to be fair). But I would say he's still at a far higher lvl than IdrA right now because IdrA hasn't done any LANs successfully. However, IdrA is VERY CLOSE to the skill level of Testie, if not the same level, so it's really up to him to get out of his shell and become what he wants to become. I think going to Korea is his first big step, and I do think he could make it in Korea, at least as much as a foreigner can without speaking Korean and being able to form necessary relationships, etc. He's extremely strong minded and if he wants it bad enough and eStro gives him the opportunities, he'll make all he can of them. | ||
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On December 24 2007 18:30 {88}iNcontroL wrote: going to seattle and you dont even think to contact me? COOL BEANS Oh, I forgot. You'll have to come hang out lmao. | ||
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On December 24 2007 18:20 Zeller wrote: Is micromedia ever going to be a true competitive team in the leagues or is the inactivity of some of the players and loss of idra affected media too much ? Yes to the first question -- just give us a year to organize and get everything ready. What you see now is nothing... it's 10 minutes of effort spent a month (edit: except for Ascension -- GeNThO/Artosis spend a good amount on that). Everything that's being done isn't public yet -- well, except Ascension, which is also a very small piece, but a great one. Losing IdrA wasn't even a scratch... everyone on the team could quit and none of us would blink twice. I've always told him he's welcome to leave at any time if he's offered money. I would have laughed at him for being stupid if he didn't go for how much he was offered. What you think about this situation isn't actually what is, but that's for later. | ||
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On December 24 2007 18:31 Zeller wrote: your top 3 american players of all time ? I shouldn't say this because I only started BW in early 04 and I don't know the players from before then, but if we keep it in that context, Assem, IdrA and Froz. | ||
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On December 24 2007 17:56 ilbh wrote: can you, please(i beg), release your replays against this guy, PRADA[SG] and the replays against Yellow_KTF ? im only asking it because i know you are a good T and i want to improve my ZvT. how was your games against him(yellow) ? the rep pack does not have it... I don't save replays ever... I couldn't tell you how many tournaments I've been kicked from for not having replays. There's no replays of me vs YellOw (horrible games -- died to muta after I fell apart with marine micro), we agreed not to save any before the games; I got the better side of that deal, as I knew I would. LOL. | ||
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On December 24 2007 18:25 jimminy_kriket wrote: Next big protoss is cloud! Its true there are alot of others but none are really showing as much potential as cloud. And being picked for ToT will only help. Another might be drieven if you dont consider him big already. I don't know, I consider Cloud and Drieven top guys already, as far as active people go. | ||
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MaRiNe23
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Anyway my question is u played since 04 meaning you've only been playing for about 3 years. How did u get so good in such a short amount of time? I just need some sort of idea as to how top forgienrs did to become top foreigners becuz they wre all noobs like us at one point and hopefully i can use your answer as a guide to hopefully become decent. And did u ever at any time jsut mass game from the moment u woke up all day over and over even when u were tired at the ladders like pgt or wgt? | ||
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On December 24 2007 19:07 Bond(i2) wrote: who are the top 5 americans at the moment in your oppinion? idra, incontrol, myself, nyoken, last is up in the air between artosis/g5/nony. | ||
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On December 24 2007 19:07 MaRiNe23 wrote: Anyway my question is u played since 04 meaning you've only been playing for about 3 years. How did u get so good in such a short amount of time? I just need some sort of idea as to how top forgienrs did to become top foreigners becuz they wre all noobs like us at one point and hopefully i can use your answer as a guide to hopefully become decent. And did u ever at any time jsut mass game from the moment u woke up all day over and over even when u were tired at the ladders like pgt or wgt? I couldn't explain all the things I'd like to in a single post (hopefully I'll get to write more about certain aspects that most don't understand/apply later on), but the main thing is to try harder than you've ever tried; When you've played 10 games, your stress level is about to knock you out, your hands hurt horribly from trying so hard to do everything and not quite doing it (or not even coming close), that you simply want to sleep, but you feel satisfied you gave it your fucking all -- I think in that situation you're on track to improve fast. But even with the above, there's a ton of other shit you have to make sure you're doing correctly before you start training, or you'll learn bad ways and have to work out of them which will waste time (hotkeys are a big one). The other most important thing I can say without writing a novel is to watch progamer replays of your race in fastest, and go play right after when you feel like you can play like that pro just did. It will get you to copy what you just saw, and in copying you'll learn great amounts. Anything above fastest isn't good enough. You just have to bear through the normal speed, and THINK about it, don't just watch it. Write things down that are important to you so you remember (there's science to this -- school teachers weren't lying..... entirely). And I never mass gamed at any time except for 06 when I was high up in some PGTour season. Only time I've ever played more than 20 games a week, but honestly it's not so bad because even if I had played 100 a week like some, most of the games are vs players below you, which isn't half as helpful. | ||
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On December 24 2007 19:39 Skew wrote: idra, incontrol, myself, nyoken, last is up in the air between artosis/g5/nony. i beat incontrol 10-3 in bet games (pvz twice) (LOL BRINGING UP RECORDS IS FUN) | ||
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On December 24 2007 20:44 Plexa wrote: Natural Talent or Hard Work? Talent is meaningless without hard work, but of course it would be nice to be born with a mind that can learn faster than your competition. | ||
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On December 24 2007 20:56 Rekrul wrote: i beat incontrol 10-3 in bet games (pvz twice) (LOL BRINGING UP RECORDS IS FUN) FUCK YOU, GET OUT OF MY BLOG POST? Oh you said something with a point. OK, iNcontrol out, Rekrul in. | ||
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ScoutWBF
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TvT, FE every game or sometimes go 1fac tank, 1fac vult? TvZ, what's more important: Micro or Macro? | ||
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On December 24 2007 21:28 ScoutWBF wrote: TvP, I do my standart push and it fails a bit, expand once or twice? TvT, FE every game or sometimes go 1fac tank, 1fac vult? TvZ, what's more important: Micro or Macro? TvP: If your push fails, you can never expand twice usually. But there's no rule to this, you just have to play off how you feel; If you want to push him harder and earlier, go for more facs -- if you think you're better than him in a long game, siege up and make him play your game. Just have to go with what you're more comfortable with. Again, there's no rules to anything, so don't get trapped in this kind of thinking... it's pointless. TvT: Scout and respond. If you scout and they have a fac going up, marines building and 1 or no scvs on gas, you know they're 1 fac FE, so throw up another fac yourself (as long as they can't scout it), or throw up an expand quicker than them. Just make sure to scout and play off what you see. If you scout 1 fac plus full scvs on gas, you might consider bunkering with only 2 marines (same cost as 4, but safer vs vult rushes since you can't scout, as mentioned) and get an addon > tank, etc. So again, counter what you see, and if you see nothing just go with what you feel is best. There's some luck involved in all mirror matchup beginnings, but knowing how to scout can take part of it out of the mixture. TvZ: More situations require macro over micro with terran, so macro (goes for tvt/tvp too). A good thing to remember in all is to never be afraid to try new things. I know I used to get in ruts and just do the same shit 50 times in a row... it doesn't help at all. And most importantly, like I said in some other post above, try your fucking ass off everytime you play. Stuff will start to click eventually, sooner or later, but you have to push yourself or it will stay in the same state (this goes for speed, memorizing everything going on, etc). | ||
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On December 24 2007 22:06 asel wrote: How do you keep cool when some Protoss uses 2offgates cannon rush? T_T Post a replay or something and I'll take a look, but I can't imagine how that'd work if you play normally with a block. Zealot rushes in general (if you can't block) just require that you run and then attack when they try to kill SCVs, until you can get vultures out and use the patrol trick (while running the marines away). I've never had anyone cannon rush me in fucking ages... not really useful if the terran plays normally I think. I'd have to see the game. | ||
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MaRiNe23
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On December 24 2007 20:21 Skew wrote: I couldn't explain all the things I'd like to in a single post (hopefully I'll get to write more about certain aspects that most don't understand/apply later on), but the main thing is to try harder than you've ever tried; When you've played 10 games, your stress level is about to knock you out, your hands hurt horribly from trying so hard to do everything and not quite doing it (or not even coming close), that you simply want to sleep, but you feel satisfied you gave it your fucking all -- I think in that situation you're on track to improve fast. But even with the above, there's a ton of other shit you have to make sure you're doing correctly before you start training, or you'll learn bad ways and have to work out of them which will waste time (hotkeys are a big one). The other most important thing I can say without writing a novel is to watch progamer replays of your race in fastest, and go play right after when you feel like you can play like that pro just did. It will get you to copy what you just saw, and in copying you'll learn great amounts. Anything above fastest isn't good enough. You just have to bear through the normal speed, and THINK about it, don't just watch it. Write things down that are important to you so you remember (there's science to this -- school teachers weren't lying..... entirely). And I never mass gamed at any time except for 06 when I was high up in some PGTour season. Only time I've ever played more than 20 games a week, but honestly it's not so bad because even if I had played 100 a week like some, most of the games are vs players below you, which isn't half as helpful. Thank you for that Skew but on this last paragraph u say u've never mass gamed except for that one incident. So bascially what ur saying is giving it ur ALL 100% every single game rather than mass gaming and continue going even when ur tired and NOT at 100% is the better method right? And that last sentence where u say(im using dashes for quotation marks becuz my quotation marks aren't working at the moment for some reason) -Only time I've ever played more than 20 games a week, but honestly it's not so bad because even if I had played 100 a week like some, most of the games are vs players below you, which isn't half as helpful- ur basically saying that it was better for u to play fewer people than just go all-in mass game becuz in the end most of them would've been very low skilled players. But what i ask is what if those 20 that u played were also lower skilled and had u played 100 the LATER onces are the onces that could've been the gosus. You knwo what im saying? Then that brings to the final question in that how did u find the good players to play u? | ||
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Also, what did you mean by wasting time and hotkeys? | ||
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On December 25 2007 01:42 SonuvBob wrote: Did you ever get your mouse problems sorted out? I'm not sure, but I turned acceleration off... that's why I've been so fucking inactive. I'm still getting used to it. I think that different versions of windows (or hardware) interpret acceleration different, and so maybe that was the problem. Hopefully without it, everything will be the same no matter where I go. | ||
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On December 25 2007 02:58 Rekrul wrote: why do you look like JT? I'm lucky. | ||
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On December 25 2007 03:25 MaRiNe23 wrote: Thank you for that Skew but on this last paragraph u say u've never mass gamed except for that one incident. So bascially what ur saying is giving it ur ALL 100% every single game rather than mass gaming and continue going even when ur tired and NOT at 100% is the better method right? And that last sentence where u say(im using dashes for quotation marks becuz my quotation marks aren't working at the moment for some reason) -Only time I've ever played more than 20 games a week, but honestly it's not so bad because even if I had played 100 a week like some, most of the games are vs players below you, which isn't half as helpful- ur basically saying that it was better for u to play fewer people than just go all-in mass game becuz in the end most of them would've been very low skilled players. But what i ask is what if those 20 that u played were also lower skilled and had u played 100 the LATER onces are the onces that could've been the gosus. You knwo what im saying? Then that brings to the final question in that how did u find the good players to play u? Quality over quantity is really everything. Fewer games with max effort is far better. And of course playing people better than you is all you should ever be doing... if you aren't challenged and forced to adapt to different things, you never will. There are shitloads of "top foreigners" who have played a trillion games, but still can't even make unit rounds correctly, don't hotkey correctly and have no idea how to scout... this is just a result of playing a million 0-quality games and not pushing themself hard enough to learn in every game. I don't know what you're asking in the last paragraph... you mean if you could play 100 games a day vs gosus, would it be helpful? It would be really good for muscle memory, but if you give it your absolute all in 10-15 games, I think it's good for a day. Really, anymore is just going to cause you to become really tired, probably irritated and not remember as well, but we all have differnet endurance levels so I don't really know. The important thing is, as always, that you are stressing yourself to do more and do it faster (and think about everything objectively while doing so) than you are currently capable. | ||
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On December 25 2007 04:13 Seraphim wrote: You say you only watch pro replays - are top foreigner replays ok, or do the replays need to be top-notch for learning? Also, what did you mean by wasting time and hotkeys? No, don't watch foreign replays for this purpose, always use progamer reps. Foreigners do shit without knowing why (me too)... so you might end up learning shit that is pointless or stupid. Progamers do everything for a reason, and in that respect you can copy without fear that you're doing something that has no point. I dunno where I said anything about wasting time and hotkeys... and I type way too much shit to re-read it all. Give me the context please ;p | ||
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On December 25 2007 04:37 IdrA wrote: how do you beat 14 cc tvt? Uhhhhhhhh, #1 you're XellOs and 8 rax, #2 you don't. | ||
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On December 25 2007 06:12 YanGpaN wrote: How do you buy a life when starcraft is in your house, and you can't burn it? REINCARNATE | ||
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On December 25 2007 06:21 mikeymoo wrote: If you were gay, which TL member would you be gay for? O_O Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm -_- Probably ret. | ||
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On December 25 2007 07:41 G5 wrote: why did i see a pic of your giant 500$ wcg us finals 3rd place check in water? The USA champion asked me to... obviously? | ||
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On December 25 2007 12:13 ilj.psa wrote: who do you think is the most overrated foreigner? Definitely Sen. | ||
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On December 25 2007 12:42 ilj.psa wrote: who do you think its the most underrated foreigner? ;o Before the eStro tourney I would have said IdrA, but now I honestly can't think of anyone. | ||
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On December 25 2007 14:57 ilbh wrote: why sen ? he won 5x1 testie and has beat savior once... All top foreigners have beaten progamers at least once, if not a lot more. It doesn't mean anything. And Sen has lost to everyone -- the games you see are just the good ones (but this is the case with most). I'm not saying he's bad, he's good, but some think he could be a progamer, when he's not even close to a top Korean amateur. Not close. And I've played better ZvTs. | ||
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On December 25 2007 13:44 MesAiur wrote: Why Skew ? Why did you pick that handle ? I suffer from something called derealization, which I used to describe to folks as a "skewed perception of reality". | ||
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MERRY XMAS! | ||
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Merry Christmas | ||
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On December 26 2007 02:17 YanGpaN wrote: What are 5 things you hate about TvP? (CHRISTMAS SUCKED) Ok, well... I don't really hate anything about TvP, but I'd have to say Dark Templars are a pretty retarded unit which I'd definitely put at the top. Terran has absolutely no unit like this that can just straight up win games 50% of the time vs anyone non-pro. It's the main reason you always see foreign toss at the top of ladders (well, 50% of them map hack, but the other half)... they usually go all-in with DTs most games, and half the time they win. Second would be probes. Probes are the imbalance of PvT. First off, they have fucking range (lawl?), they can warp in an _infinite amount of shit_, they have shields, AND they accelerate faster than SCVs so they mine quicker. Third would be arbiters. There's no fucking counter to a protoss with over 4 arbiters with stasis, and if you say science vessels, you apparently haven't tried to use them as one or you wouldn't be saying it. Carriers would have to take up the fourth and fifth slot. Proper carrier micro on a map with cliffs is invincible, TOTALLY. Another unit that terran has nothing like, where if properly micro'd it becomes 5x as powerful. | ||
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On December 25 2007 04:14 Seraphim wrote: Also, how do you analyze your own replays? I don't. Never analyze your own replays... just watch progamer replays in fastest, then go and play a game and copy things you learned from it, and then rinse and repeat. Time spent watching a pro rep on fastest or playing a really hard game is far more productive than watching a replay of yourself... which really isn't going to do anything at all. I never made any use of seeing my own mistakes. They all get fixed in the long run as long as you are copying/learning useful skills. (I already answered your other question before this) | ||
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Skew
United States1019 Posts
On December 26 2007 23:51 ret wrote: and btw who the fuck would watch reps in fastest and try and 'learn' from them? People who are good ? L OOL | ||
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Skew
United States1019 Posts
On December 26 2007 23:50 ret wrote: Do you feel bad about bad mannering me everytime I owned you? BO5 $200? | ||
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ironmanx
Malaysia3 Posts
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SuperJongMan
Jamaica11586 Posts
AMIRITE? | ||
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ilj.psa
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littlechava
United States7218 Posts
do you think playing ladders is better for building skill than practicing with people you know? why/why not? (sorry if those have been answered already) | ||
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Skew
United States1019 Posts
On December 27 2007 00:29 ironmanx wrote: Skew,, i remember your match agaisnt xellos on Blitz X 2.0 it only last "2.11 mins",, it was a disgrace. stop watching replays at fastest and try to learn from the pros because pros will not give up without giving a fight. do you agree skew? lol You don't understand TvT enough to know what happened I guess. | ||
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Skew
United States1019 Posts
On December 27 2007 03:14 ilj.psa wrote: CAn you speak any other languages fluently besides English? ;] No, the only other language I know at all is basic Korean (the alphabet/pronunciations/some words/little grammar). | ||
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Skew
United States1019 Posts
On December 27 2007 05:30 littlechava wrote: would you mind making a reppack of your iccup games? do you think playing ladders is better for building skill than practicing with people you know? why/why not? (sorry if those have been answered already) No reps, but I was thinking of making FPVods of every game one season.. won't be this one though because I don't have enough time to play :/ The only reason playing ladders would be better is because you have to go fully off of what you scout... where as playing a friend is kind of a comfort zone and both of you might play differently than normal since you know eachother's styles. But otherwise there's no difference. | ||
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ilj.psa
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What was the most embarrasing experience/situation you have been in? | ||
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Skew
United States1019 Posts
On December 27 2007 10:27 ilj.psa wrote: hm kinda personal question, but What was the most embarrasing experience/situation you have been in? I honestly can't think of jack shit that embarassed me the most. Just a lot of small stupid daily stuff. =/ | ||
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JensOfSweden
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Also, are you the same badass I-dont-care-if-I-play-Yellow kinda guy irl? | ||
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Skew
United States1019 Posts
On December 29 2007 01:41 JensOfSweden wrote: do you have a girlfriend? if so pics pls Also, are you the same badass I-dont-care-if-I-play-Yellow kinda guy irl? Uhhhh nope no girlfriend. In Arizona no body goes outside, so even if I wasn't a big SC nerd I probably couldn't get one unless I hung around in a mall all day or something boring like that? Maybe I should ask Rekrul on tips, lmao. And ROFL, why do you have to be a badass to not care about playing Yellow? | ||
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Skew
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On December 29 2007 01:43 BluzMan wrote: What's your gender? JT | ||
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JensOfSweden
Cameroon1767 Posts
On December 29 2007 02:38 Skew wrote: Uhhhh nope no girlfriend. In Arizona no body goes outside, so even if I wasn't a big SC nerd I probably couldn't get one unless I hung around in a mall all day or something boring like that? Maybe I should ask Rekrul on tips, lmao. And ROFL, why do you have to be a badass to not care about playing Yellow? lol ok, I guess the distances are too big over thurr that's pretty self-explanatory obviously | ||
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Last Romantic
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Diggity
United States806 Posts
You don't understand TvT enough to know what happened I guess. Yea honestly it was fast but it was also understandable. Skew went ubar risky fast expand Xellos went ubar risky proxy rush. Xellos got lucky, Skew got unlucky. Still would have been nice to see you fight it out even though you were screwed. | ||
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Skew
United States1019 Posts
On December 29 2007 10:38 freedom yay wrote: WHat was the most embarrassing game of your life? Back in 2005, frozean and casy ([name] members then) used to play TvT with me a lot... they were horribly bad and I guess I used to win a few times TvT (just to keep it in perspective, iloveoov used to play with a foreigner friend, iamazerguser, back then and lose, so no body was good at all). Well long story short, they ended up getting me a [name] tryout thinking I was good and I had to beat yellow in a BO3 (yellow[name], not the real one). Well, I was just off vanilla SC -- I was a huge LC battle fag -- and I didn't know how to deal with lurkers at all. So I ended up getting about 48 marines like I'd do off 6 rax pump on vanilla, walked up to his front and he unleashed 4 lurkers... I've never seen so much shit die at once. Now normally that wouldn't of been embarrassing, but it was a packed full game with the two [Name] leaders at the time (West, Hirai and some other guy), frozean, casy and one of frozean's friends, and I REALLY wanted to join. After the game there was the worst awkward silence in the channel for 5 minutes before frozean logged off and they didn't continue the games. After that, none of them talked to me anymore either, even though we used to have a good time before it, lmao. Good ol' Koreans. | ||
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United States1019 Posts
On December 29 2007 12:30 Last Romantic wrote: Do you have the replays of the games against YellOw, and if so, could you upload them somewhere? [because Blizzcon site fails.] They weren't saved, so... no -_- | ||
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Tadzio
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Will you write a guide in the strategy forum on the proper mindset and habits needed to develop good hotkey usage? I think it would help people, especially since you believe its very important. I know my own hotkey usage is bad and could use a pep-talk. Large portions of my armies usually don't even get hotkeyed, especially after the 12 minute mark when I start up hive tech and most of my hotkeys are dedicated to hatcheries. I recently started playing random more often, and my old zerg hotkey bad habits are just horrible for the other two races. I mean, for zerg they're probably bad, but they're even worse for terran and protoss. Of course, no one would ever make the mistake of thinking I'm a good player... but I figure every little thing helps. So if you could share your wisdom, it'd be appreciated. Thanks. + Show Spoiler + To give an idea where I'm coming from: Early game (zerg) 1: Hatching Drone/scout drone/lings 2: Overlord 3: Overlord 4: Hatchery 5: Hatchery Mid-Late game (zerg) 1: Muta/mixed units 2-3: mixed units 4-0: Hatcheries Early game (protoss) 0: Nexus 9: Scout/Nexus 7-8: Gateways 1: Units Mid-Late game (protoss) 1-5: Units 6-8: Gateways 9-0: Nexuses Early game (terran) 1: Scout 3: CC 4: Barracks 5: Barracks/factory Mid-Late game (terran) 123: MnM/tanks/gols/vultures 4: Tanks 5: Sci vessels/factory 6-8: Barracks/factory 9-0: CCs I have a really bad habit of not hotkeying new units as my old units die. And as much as I keep telling myself I should, I rarely ever use f2-f4. Have a happy new year! | ||
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Skew
United States1019 Posts
On December 31 2007 05:00 Harem wrote: Do you actually enjoy TvT? I enjoy late game TvT, but early game is just luck of builds and scan, so I don't like it for those reasons. | ||
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Skew
United States1019 Posts
On December 31 2007 09:20 MesAiur wrote: How did you get to join sasin) ? When Assem lived in Korea, he made many, many, many friends. The leaders of SaSin happened to be one of the groups he'd go to drink with (he was dating one of the co-leader girls at the time too), so he talked to them for me, I got a tryout and went like 9-2. They let me play in BABA Starleague and some other team leagues on Afreeca which ended leading to me beating a few progamers, so it was REALLY good, but I eventually left because none of their members were any good (same reason Reason left and joined [saM]). | ||
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Skew
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On January 01 2008 04:43 Tadzio00 wrote: Hey Skew-- Will you write a guide in the strategy forum on the proper mindset and habits needed to develop good hotkey usage? I think it would help people, especially since you believe its very important. I know my own hotkey usage is bad and could use a pep-talk. Large portions of my armies usually don't even get hotkeyed, especially after the 12 minute mark when I start up hive tech and most of my hotkeys are dedicated to hatcheries. I recently started playing random more often, and my old zerg hotkey bad habits are just horrible for the other two races. I mean, for zerg they're probably bad, but they're even worse for terran and protoss. Of course, no one would ever make the mistake of thinking I'm a good player... but I figure every little thing helps. So if you could share your wisdom, it'd be appreciated. Thanks. + Show Spoiler + To give an idea where I'm coming from: Early game (zerg) 1: Hatching Drone/scout drone/lings 2: Overlord 3: Overlord 4: Hatchery 5: Hatchery Mid-Late game (zerg) 1: Muta/mixed units 2-3: mixed units 4-0: Hatcheries Early game (protoss) 0: Nexus 9: Scout/Nexus 7-8: Gateways 1: Units Mid-Late game (protoss) 1-5: Units 6-8: Gateways 9-0: Nexuses Early game (terran) 1: Scout 3: CC 4: Barracks 5: Barracks/factory Mid-Late game (terran) 123: MnM/tanks/gols/vultures 4: Tanks 5: Sci vessels/factory 6-8: Barracks/factory 9-0: CCs I have a really bad habit of not hotkeying new units as my old units die. And as much as I keep telling myself I should, I rarely ever use f2-f4. Have a happy new year! We'll (Micro Media) be doing some articles and other editorial on all of this later on, so I'd like to save huge portions for a proper writeup. But if you have individual questions that take a lot to explain, welcome to post on our forums (mediaesports.com/forums/) and me, assem, artosis or other competitive gamers that view there will help you out. | ||
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Skew
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TY for all the questions TL has an insane community. | ||
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Buddhalol
Canada109 Posts
hey SKU, grats on ur success in such a low ammount of time, would you be interested in posting a replay pack anytime soon? you say that you play the "macro" style of play, which is personally really really enjoy as most terrans are playing arnt really playing in the way you do. i try and copy alot of Jinro's macro play but there are also not many replays available, so my question again: Would you be interested in releasing a replay pack to show us Terrans how to play this game? | ||
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xxSK8rGUy277xx
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What is your sexual preference. If you're gay, you got a bf? SC related : Do you give lessons? | ||
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Skew
United States1019 Posts
@Buddhalol yes i will be releasing a replay pack once a site i'm a part of goes live as a way to get it some views. i also plan to start streaming pretty soon so hopefully that works out--can follow me on justin.tv/skewedlife if you want for whenever i do start. @xxSK8rGUy277xx i'm straight but my bro is gay and single! i'd do coaching if the hourly was right, sure. i've done sc2/bw/poker coaching in the past so i have experience, but i haven't had time to advertise myself much yet with r/l and trying to get up to speed. | ||
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BLinD-RawR
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You still play BW or have you moved to SC2...I need some BW help,my play(Terran) is horribad. | ||
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dere
United States153 Posts
On March 23 2011 15:00 Buddhalol wrote: so my question again: Would you be interested in releasing a replay pack to show us Terrans how to play this game? I second this. edit: NM i see that you will be releasing reps soon on a new site. Any clues to what the new site is? | ||
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.gypsy
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I always wanted to ask though, how did it feel to lose to Xellos in under two minutes? EDIT: On December 27 2007 00:29 ironmanx wrote: Skew,, i remember your match agaisnt xellos on Blitz X 2.0 it only last "2.11 mins",, it was a disgrace. stop watching replays at fastest and try to learn from the pros because pros will not give up without giving a fight. do you agree skew? lol Cheers! | ||
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