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EsX_Raptor
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2802 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-11 20:19:46
February 11 2009 20:14 GMT
#1
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I'm making this blog to try to put some of my writing skills into practice and to make up for the crap I've been posting lately.


ICCup: What Is Your Goal?

How many times have I just logged on to ICCup to just go to my channel and sit there browsing through my friend's list and trying to get in contact with somebody. How many times have I just spent entire evenings on pure chatcraft when I could've used that time to get at least just a little better. Those are the things that come to my mind everytime I think about what am I doing there, what is my purpose on being there, what is my goal, what am I trying to accomplish? I always see the high ranked players and just stare at their icons and think on how awesome they must be for achieving that. I've been playing on ICCup for a whole year now and here I am, still sitting on this ladder watching the same colors over and over again while my comrades who once were in my level are now gone and high up there in the ladder. This place has gotten so repetitive that I consider it my home:

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Ladder D
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EsX_Raptor
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PeDriTo
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IPostShitBlogs
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wtfulookinat
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savior[gm]
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sealovestl
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FlashLyh
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Scorpion
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ashdjkahnkasc


I'm just so used to looking at that image that I think I'm starting to like blood, hearts, roses, and this upcoming Valentines day... fucking red is all I see all the time.

1v1 motw D+ come! has been my trademark game-name for a while now and I'm starting to wonder whether it'll stay like that forever or not. The thing is, I don't want that to happen, and I want to break out of it as soon as I can but no matter how hard I try it's just simply too hard, or maybe I don't have the right intentions/motivation.

About three seasons ago I hit C- for the first time, it was the best feeling I've ever felt in my entire SC career. And as I left the game smiling happy as a clam, I suddenly appeared in this world; this foreign and completely different world compared to where I lived prior to that victory; it didn't feel like home at all, I felt more exposed and totally foreign from the rest of the people in there; lots of new faces, faces I've never seen before in my life, and others that went past my home rather quickly but still recognized them when I first got here like: "Hey, I've seen that guy before". The place was so different that my eyes were hurting from the glare at the amazing super-sayan colored ranks, and as I lay there dying, I found a new type of monster, one that I had soon to be fighting if I was to keep on pressing my goal, and as they stood there, I got chills by just looking at them; C+ ranks.

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EsX_Raptor
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ImRaptorsOldFriend
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SexOfTerranS
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newbie
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FlashLyh
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kalsjdklacn
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myass
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ISuckBalls
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But I got stuck there, I was afraid that if I played another game I would be returning home pretty much the same way NonY did. And I liked it so much in that new mansion that I just didn't want to risk another game to further secure my stay in there or to get kicked back down to grandma's house; I had the perfect balance of stats: No Games.

Season ended and it showed in my profile, like a little badge, that I had securely made it to C- (with like 3001 pts...) but still I had made it.

But now that some time has gone by, I don't want to stay there forever, nor I want to go back down to grandpa's. I want to move up to the diamonds, dollars and donuts ranks though I find that it will be practically impossible for me... but I do not want to stay, with all my heart I just can't stand too much damn yellow ffs!

I've been only once to the Ladder A-B, and damn, I literally can't make a simple move. It's just too... perfect (for my standards) that I simply want to stay in there and live in that place forever. I feel it pretty much like:

D Ranks: Dark, red, death, below hell, dirty soil type of home in which grandpa lives and slaps my ass around every now and then. Everyone in there is either a corpse, zombie or a baby demon.

C Ranks: Fiery hell, lots of new monsters that can stomp me in the blink of an eye, it's gunna be a fucking sayian battle to get out of there, I don't care where. Everyone in there is either a demon, dragon or a fuckass devil lord.

A-B Ranks: Fucking heaven, calm, peace, palce where you rejoice in your SC life's accomplishments and share with others. You have to set /dnd on so that demons below you don't encourage you to go down to their pits or praise you for your rank. Everyone in there is either an angel, centurion, archangel, or greek god.

So yeah, that's my goal my friends. Once I hit B- I'm out of StarCraft forever to go and rest in peace and have in mind that the reams of time I spent on this game weren't in vain and that I accomplished something many (outside of Korea) can't. But the last thing I want to have in mind when I leave that Abyss, is this:

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EsX_Raptor (I wish)
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imafkingkoreanpro
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asxcnasd
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D-Noob
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choiddong
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youllneverbemelol
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FlashLyh
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ArtOf[putshithere]


Well, that's about it, I need some motivational comments to at least help me make it to C this season. Thank you!

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Salv
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Canada3083 Posts
February 11 2009 20:26 GMT
#2
I'll give you my account at the end of the season if you want? lol

Nice writing though.
Zoler
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Sweden6339 Posts
February 11 2009 20:28 GMT
#3
Yesyes I'm A no problem!

Really nice writing, gogo C Raptor! I know you can do it!
Lim Yo Hwan forever!
Zapdos_Smithh
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Canada2620 Posts
February 11 2009 20:31 GMT
#4
You do a lot of blogs lol. Still nice write-up.
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17921 Posts
February 11 2009 20:38 GMT
#5
youllneverbemelol LOL
Artillery spawned from the forges of Hell
fonger
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United Kingdom1218 Posts
February 11 2009 20:54 GMT
#6
Haha fun read I'm shooting for my first ever B- this season too; GL!
minus_human
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
4784 Posts
February 11 2009 21:03 GMT
#7
What's funny that if you actually make it through the colossal amount of effort and time B ranks require to obtain you'll most likely never quit SC
Megalisk
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States6095 Posts
February 11 2009 21:06 GMT
#8
Maybe your giant dick is getting in the way, reducing efficiency.
Tear stained american saints and dirty guitar dreams across a universe of desert and blue sky , gas station coffee love letters and two dollar pistol kisses from thirty five dollar hotel room stationary .
Divinek
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Canada4045 Posts
February 11 2009 21:14 GMT
#9
This seems very unlikely to happen, which is good. Means you'll be with bw forever.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Oh goodness me, FOX tv where do you get your sight? Can't you keep track, the puck is black. That's why the ice is white.
[DUF]MethodMan
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Germany1716 Posts
February 11 2009 21:19 GMT
#10
you already could have made one rank up while posting that D:
Yaqoob
Profile Blog Joined March 2005
Canada3341 Posts
February 11 2009 21:33 GMT
#11
I wanna get B- this season or the next.
김택용 Fighting!
Boblion
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
France8043 Posts
February 11 2009 21:38 GMT
#12
ArtOf[putshithere]

LOL
fuck all those elitists brb watching streams of elite players.
morfyy
Profile Joined May 2007
Romania593 Posts
February 11 2009 21:48 GMT
#13
'Once I hit B- I'm out of StarCraft forever to go and rest in peace ' - same here this is my goal in life
DreaM)XeRO
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Korea (South)4667 Posts
February 11 2009 21:58 GMT
#14
ahahahahahahhaha
:D
GOOD LUCK

whenver you need a partner to play or practice with

ICCUP : DreaM)BrYaS(
USEAST: DreaM)XeRO
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minus_human
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
4784 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-11 22:10:27
February 11 2009 22:10 GMT
#15
On February 12 2009 06:48 morfyy wrote:
'Once I hit B- I'm out of StarCraft forever to go and rest in peace ' - same here this is my goal in life



You, of all people, will NEVER quit if you get to the blue ranks.

I was actually thinking of you when I said 'if you get to B you won't quit' LOL
hooktits
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States972 Posts
February 11 2009 22:25 GMT
#16
my goal make C+ or at veryleast make C again this season glgl
Hooktits of Tits gaming @hooktits twit
ThE_OsToJiY
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Canada1167 Posts
February 11 2009 23:55 GMT
#17
LOL EPIC BLOG
@ostojiy
DanceCommander
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States1808 Posts
February 12 2009 00:11 GMT
#18
I seriously have the exact same situation as you do

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I achieved this rank 2-3 seasons back and I stopped playing. I am in a huge rut of inactivity, and I'm purely living in starcraft through VODs. I just want you to know that this has motivated me to install brood war and get right back in it!
Mutalisk
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
288 Posts
February 12 2009 00:35 GMT
#19
I got to B- this season playing only in korean timezone and I'm fucking happy about it. I will never stop to play this game, I just love it.
Ellis
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
247 Posts
February 12 2009 02:57 GMT
#20
On February 12 2009 06:06 AlphaxOmega wrote:
Maybe your giant dick is getting in the way, reducing efficiency.

Oh, so that's why I suck...
Megalisk
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States6095 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-12 03:16:35
February 12 2009 03:14 GMT
#21
On February 12 2009 11:57 Ellis wrote:
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On February 12 2009 06:06 AlphaxOmega wrote:
Maybe your giant dick is getting in the way, reducing efficiency.

Oh, so that's why I suck...


Unless it goes all the way into the toilet water when you take a dump, no, you just suck.
Tear stained american saints and dirty guitar dreams across a universe of desert and blue sky , gas station coffee love letters and two dollar pistol kisses from thirty five dollar hotel room stationary .
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