had a female friend who was a gamer and shes the kinda girl that hangs around us (a bunch of guys) and acts kinda tomboyish. she normally plays mmorpgs but sometimes will play some rts. Then cuz we always talked about sc she asked for a copy and started playing it. We all gave her the benefit of the doubt and played online and we told her things like use hotkeys and dont wait till you have 300min to build a rax that costs 150 etc etc. then one day we're at a party and decide to play some lan and she sees us playing and she goes OMG WTF U GUYZ ARE SO FAST WHATS THE RUSH? tsk tsk tsk girls...

fanatacist

10319 Posts

March 01 2008 23:15 GMT

#12

On March 02 2008 08:08 pyrogenetix wrote:
had a female friend who was a gamer and shes the kinda girl that hangs around us (a bunch of guys) and acts kinda tomboyish. she normally plays mmorpgs but sometimes will play some rts. Then cuz we always talked about sc she asked for a copy and started playing it. We all gave her the benefit of the doubt and played online and we told her things like use hotkeys and dont wait till you have 300min to build a rax that costs 150 etc etc. then one day we're at a party and decide to play some lan and she sees us playing and she goes OMG WTF U GUYZ ARE SO FAST WHATS THE RUSH? tsk tsk tsk girls...

She doesn't realize that apm (read: spam) is proportional in size to your penis.

Vin{MBL}

5185 Posts

March 01 2008 23:55 GMT

#13

That's okay a GF that plays SC is awesome enough!

BluzMan

Russian Federation4235 Posts

March 02 2008 00:46 GMT

#14

Dump your girlfriend because she doesn't play SC at fastest, c'mon, do it.

Energies

Australia3225 Posts

March 02 2008 01:33 GMT

#15

Well.. one thing is now settled, we now know why Starcraft has a speed option slower than fastest.

rpf

United States2705 Posts

March 02 2008 01:36 GMT

#16

That's pretty funny. At least she can share your hobby with you, unlike the majority of people in Western society and culture who view video games as nothing more than an absolute waste of time.

Just ease her into the faster modes.

pyrogenetix

China5098 Posts

March 02 2008 01:37 GMT

#17

did you then whoop out your badass skillz and show her how it's supposed to be done?

Zherak

Norway256 Posts

March 02 2008 02:36 GMT

#18

That's actually a pretty impressive insight.

A lot of new players miss an x8 feature, so they can simply wait while their >1SCV/mineral harvests enough to get their 1Starport BC army going. At least she she seems to realize it is important to actually do things quickly.

Try playing somethins cooperative with her, I bet she would like that. Like: http://www.starcraft.org/maps/scums/MultiplayerUMS/MultiplayerRPG/Doomed Heroes RPG
The best RPG-UMS I have seen for StarCraft. Probably invested about 40 hours total into beating that goddamned map, but it is good fun, even for people who are not into StarCraft.

x89titan

Philippines1130 Posts

March 02 2008 03:32 GMT

#19

On March 02 2008 10:36 rpf wrote:
That's pretty funny. At least she can share your hobby with you, unlike the majority of people in Western society and culture who view video games as nothing more than an absolute waste of time.

Just ease her into the faster modes.

kekeke thats what she said. it's too fast and complex for her xD

Chill

Calgary26004 Posts

March 02 2008 03:57 GMT

#20

My dad played all Starcraft and Brood War campaigns on slowest, beating them all. Send out the army, repair everything, send it back out. He's destroys me at anything turn based, but real time just isn't for him I guess.

The final Brood War missions are pretty hard, I'm glad he beat them.