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EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
May 30 2008 20:29 GMT
#1
I swear it just absolutely impossible for me to improve in SC past D rank. Occasionally I go to D+ near C-, but then I inevitably regress like mad and drop all the way down to low D-, and the cycle continues. -_-

So obscenely gay. In other news, I am in the middle of one such regression, and a friend of mine who just started playing SC a week ago raped me 3-1 while playing with touchpad.

Is there any hope at all of meaningful improvement with those damn regressions (anyone else have any of those?). This is over the course of 3.5 years btw. It's like I'll just suddenly become noob and can't micro or macro (can't do either even if ignore the other completely).

tiffany
Profile Joined November 2003
3664 Posts
May 30 2008 20:32 GMT
#2
"So obscenely gay. In other news, I am in the middle of one such regression, and a friend of mine who just started playing SC a week ago raped me 3-1 while playing with touchpad."

how is that possible. replays
IntoTheWow
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
is awesome32277 Posts
May 30 2008 20:35 GMT
#3
touch pad, ouch
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ShaLLoW[baY]
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Canada12499 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-05-30 20:36:21
May 30 2008 20:36 GMT
#4
Herro, want to pray game?
ALEXISONFIRE ARE FUCKING BACK (sAviOr for life)
HamerD
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United Kingdom1922 Posts
May 30 2008 20:36 GMT
#5
lol with a touch pad? Lemme guess...protoss user?

srsly how can people be proud of themselves for winning with protoss. It's like feeling a sense of accomplishment for beating your children ¬¬
"Oh no, we've drawn Judge Schneider" "Is that bad?" "Well, he's had it in for me ever since I kinda ran over his dog" "You did?" "Yeah...if you replace the word *kinda* with *repeatedly*...and the word *dog* with son"
Jathin
Profile Blog Joined February 2005
United States3505 Posts
May 30 2008 20:36 GMT
#6
--- Nuked ---
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
May 30 2008 20:37 GMT
#7
On May 31 2008 05:32 tiffany wrote:
"So obscenely gay. In other news, I am in the middle of one such regression, and a friend of mine who just started playing SC a week ago raped me 3-1 while playing with touchpad."

how is that possible. replays



As you wish

Game 1: http://www.2shared.com/file/3365051/2e7a9655/0339_NubZergT_PurringRaccoZ.html
Game 2: http://www.2shared.com/file/3365054/5e1062da/0340_PurringRacZ_NubZergT.html
Game 3: http://www.2shared.com/file/3365057/c7193360/0341_PurringRacZ_NubZergT.html
Game 4: http://www.2shared.com/file/3365059/20a11e67/0342_PurringRacZ_NubZergT.html

So yea, there you have it.
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
May 30 2008 20:37 GMT
#8
On May 31 2008 05:36 Jathin wrote:
Stop clicking. Start thinking. I bet you're so fixated on maintaining high APM that you aren't able to think clearly. I used to have like 180 apm, I didn't get better til my APM dropped to 150.



actually i did stop clicking lol. I am playing at 90 below what it used to be.

Oh, and he was playing zerg -_-
BuGzlToOnl
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
United States5918 Posts
May 30 2008 20:38 GMT
#9
You have to clear your mind and let it all go, learn and get beaten again and again, only to loose some more and only after that can you win. I'm at an all time high of C- almost got to C and this is after coming back to play after about an 8 month break. I was like you always around the D/D+ mark, but it can be broken don't newbie bash play whoever you can you learn a lot more by loosing than you do by winning. Take a break if you have to your limit of D+ can be overcome easily.

I played 3 games vs a A+ player I played a like 3 years ago he remembered me so he let me re him 3 times. By the third game I had him on the run almost won, but my macro cost me the game.
If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.
UmmTheHobo
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States650 Posts
May 30 2008 20:38 GMT
#10
On May 31 2008 05:36 HamerD wrote:
lol with a touch pad? Lemme guess...protoss user?

srsly how can people be proud of themselves for winning with protoss. It's like feeling a sense of accomplishment for beating your children ¬¬


Wow...

You actually just said that. If protoss are so damn overpowered why don't we see the professional players using them all the time.
...
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
May 30 2008 20:42 GMT
#11
On May 31 2008 05:38 BuGzlToOnl wrote:
You have to clear your mind and let it all go, learn and get beaten again and again, only to loose some more and only after that can you win. I'm at an all time high of C- almost got to C and this is after coming back to play after about an 8 month break. I was like you always around the D/D+ mark, but it can be broken don't newbie bash play whoever you can you learn a lot more by loosing than you do by winning. Take a break if you have to your limit of D+ can be overcome easily.

I played 3 games vs a A+ player I played a like 3 years ago he remembered me so he let me re him 3 times. By the third game I had him on the run almost won, but my macro cost me the game.



Lol i am fine with losing, I was 3rd from bottom in TSL :-P it doesn't bother me too much. It's just my mechanics simply don't improve, and I always forget important things in games (build obs, get gas, etc) even when I keep reminding myself to before game. I just somehow forget everything in game.
Daigomi
Profile Blog Joined May 2006
South Africa4316 Posts
May 30 2008 20:53 GMT
#12
Make a list and stick it next to your screen, so that you can periodically check it to make sure you've got everything covered? Haha, I don't know, I'd say just keep on playing. C is actually a quite decent rank, so it's not easy to get there
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Freaky[x]
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
Canada995 Posts
May 30 2008 20:53 GMT
#13
make yourself a tick list where you just tick off what you did and you'll know what you should get after, I know this sounds lame, but it will help you to remember
ilovezil
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States4143 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-05-30 21:14:57
May 30 2008 20:57 GMT
#14
Rofl @ above two

<3 samicakes~

EDIT: I meant the similarity of the two being posted within probabyl seconds of each other, not the idea.
nortydog
Profile Joined December 2003
Australia3067 Posts
May 30 2008 21:07 GMT
#15
rofl as funny as it is it's still a good idea, you could have tech paths laid out so you don't have to think anymore
NoCleanFeed.com
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
May 30 2008 21:08 GMT
#16
On May 31 2008 05:53 Freaky[x] wrote:
make yourself a tick list where you just tick off what you did and you'll know what you should get after, I know this sounds lame, but it will help you to remember


lol only problem is I am on a laptop, so I would no longer be able to see the screen if i stuck it onto screen :-(
paper
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
13196 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-05-30 21:18:31
May 30 2008 21:18 GMT
#17
"next to the screen"
Hates Fun🤔
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17921 Posts
May 30 2008 21:44 GMT
#18
Did you see him playing on a touchpad or did he just tell you was?
Artillery spawned from the forges of Hell
klizzer
Profile Joined March 2008
517 Posts
May 30 2008 21:56 GMT
#19
zomg, 130+ apm on a touchpad ~~
I'm so noob I can't get as much with a mouse~~!
That reminds me of the old days when my friend used to pwn me at quake 3 with a trackball. So it happens. Maybe he's just a pro at it.

And, surprisingly, no one was playing protoss! [irony]
NatsuTerran
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States364 Posts
May 30 2008 22:07 GMT
#20
On May 31 2008 05:38 UmmTheHobo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 31 2008 05:36 HamerD wrote:
lol with a touch pad? Lemme guess...protoss user?

srsly how can people be proud of themselves for winning with protoss. It's like feeling a sense of accomplishment for beating your children ¬¬


Wow...

You actually just said that. If protoss are so damn overpowered why don't we see the professional players using them all the time.


Obviously at that level the players have the mechanics to play whatever race they want...
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