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We have all heard the heroic tale of the blind SC player who gave Boxer (even if he was blind for the first few minutes) a legitimate run for his money. But, have you ever wondered just how hard it'd actually be to do?
...How about how fun? 
My brothers, a friend of mine, and myself got together over the course of a few nights for one of the funnest experiences of my SC gaming life. No visuals. Relying completely on sound and randomly shouted expletives, we attacked each other, attacked ourselves, attacked thin air...That is, of course, if we could find our units. XD
Retarded? A little. Slow paced? Possibly. But, I restate: With my friends and a thoroughly exercised freedom of speech, I had some of the most fun ever, mostly in the watching of replays after matches were had.
I encourage everyone to try it once, and, of course, commentate upon your own play. O, and shout things that make no sense. That's a must.
Here is a pack of five games we had over those nights: http://download.yousendit.com/FA8D7242365755E4
(If you're going to watch any of them, watch 4-Day When Buildings Float)
It's obvious who I am and yes, I was being extremely retarded on purpose. Things are much more fun that way! 
Thanks for reading. If you don't like the idea, eh. Just wanted to share and possibly get some others to experiment a little with the best game ever made. 
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GrandInquisitor
New York City13113 Posts
lmfao
that sounds hilarious
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United States20665 Posts
sounds quite fun, actually. I'll have to try it sometime.
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That was so funny. 'I EXPAND RIGHT HERE' *splat* hatchery in the middle of nowhere 'ZEALOTS?!'
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On February 21 2007 00:13 MTF wrote:
My brothers, a friend of mine, and myself got together over the course of a few nights for one of the funnest experiences of my SC gaming life. No visuals. Relying completely on sound and randomly shouted expletives, we attacked each other, attacked ourselves, attacked thin air...That is, of course, if we could find our units. XD
Retarded? A little. Slow paced? Possibly. But, I restate: With my friends and a thoroughly exercised freedom of speech, I had some of the most fun ever, mostly in the watching of replays after matches were had.
I encourage everyone to try it once, and, of course, commentate upon your own play. O, and shout things that make no sense. That's a must.
Well written and really funny. Art post.
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I'm happy I've gotten positive replies thus far.
Thank you for the compliment, Testie; you'd find, sadly (or maybe not), that my literacy did not transfer over to my games, though. ^_^
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I might give it a try, but Id probably start small, like with Blood Bath.
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On February 21 2007 01:45 useless wrote:
I might give it a try, but Id probably start small, like with Blood Bath.
That's the map we played for all of our games. :p
Believe me, we had a really hard time navigating ourselves around even such a simple place as that. Hell, we had a hard time finding out which corner our base was even in sometimes. >_<
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I have no idea how you'd manage to mine. Units make sounds when you select them so you can figure out where they are. How are you supposed to locate your gas and minerals?
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It's easy in theory and with some luckily placed misclicks. Find your workers and hotkey them. Then click around 'til you hit a patch, while hoping like hell that you aren't accidentally scrolling away from your main. Freeze your mouse there, select your hotkey, and right-click them to what you've selected. Hopefully you'll hear the sweet sound of light blue profit coming home. :p
Gas is a much more complicated issue, and is one boundary we haven't pushed. I mean, we've barely pushed the "half-assed noob" boundary here. Gas units (and almost any non-peon unit, really) are out of range for the moment. XD
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This sounds a little too frustrating for me. I prefer to play SC while blind drunk. I can still technically see, I'm just uncertain of whether or not my eyes/brain are lying to me.
Me and my two room-mates down a bottle of Jim Beam Black Label and then play 3 man FFA's on super old school maps. This is about the only SC I play these days, I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing .
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i played 2 games
i couldnt get my units to mine
i gave up
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On February 21 2007 04:25 travis wrote:
i played 2 games
i couldnt get my units to mine
i gave up
hahahahahahahahaa
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A Progamer could own you blind! :D
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GrandInquisitor
New York City13113 Posts
what if you play a UMS
where the whole map is permamently fog of war?
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On February 21 2007 07:20 thedeadhaji wrote:you cant build in fog of war! ha!  If someone sets the trigger where you hotkey your builder and then build, you can. ( One of MTF's brothers :D )
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Someone posted a guide on this some time last year.
I think this is what it said on mining (and on game play):
Don't move your mouse! If you do, you are a dead man. Use your arrow keys to scroll around and keep on left clicking. If you hear the sound that the mineral makes, stop and hotkey the location. Control+select the workers and mine the minerals by using the location hotkey.
Here are some ideas I just thought of.
How to find where you are on blood bath:
Choose one random intermediate direction to spam on your keyboard (up left, up right, down left, down right.) Keep on holding it down. If you can hear your workers mining, you are in that region of the map.
How to 5 pool:
Build one worker. Wait for a few seconds. Select a worker (preferably hotkey the one that you build) and then spam pool until it builds. Wait until it finishes. Morph three larvae into zergling, and attack a corner where you are not. Attack another corner if you do not find them first. (Just key scroll to that corner, and hit the hotkeys for lings _once_. When they get close by, you will be able to hear the sound they make.
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pft i'd beat anyone in blind craft t.t
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if we had any means to prove players dont cheat, i would pay money to play such a game over battle net :D
nice idea, have to try it out the next time me and my buddy decide to play SC lans piss drunk
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