EPTTeam EG mystery announcement in 1 day 19 hours? - Page 543
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bgx
Poland6595 Posts
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Bippzy
United States1466 Posts
On August 16 2011 23:38 ReboundEU wrote: EG is killing esports with this countdown Actually, EG is killing my ability to look at other things than this thread. I always look for threads to look at from http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/hot.php but for the past two days this thread has been popular and the threads below it have stayed the same. It sucks. | ||
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SnowFantasy
4173 Posts
Come stay at the EG House for an extended coaching session. | ||
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KristianJS
2107 Posts
On August 16 2011 23:41 Lohse wrote: way too much hype if it's "just" huk joining EG tbh Yeah I kinda agree. Seems like this will be something even bigger. | ||
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SolHeiM
Sweden1264 Posts
On August 16 2011 23:34 Bippzy wrote: Actually the fact that your life isn't off to the greatest start is the problem with progaming. It doesn't seem realistic to say that you'll have a lot of savings, and if you don't want to be lonely for the rest of your life you'll want to have children, and children cost tons of money, which shouldn't be a problem if you're working your way up the work ladder, but oh wait "you're just a progamer, yeah my super important company wants you...not. You'll probably just game on the job." You have such a twisted view of what a pro gamer's life is like I literally can't understand how your brain works. What is the problem really? That you spent a few years having a blast, doing what you love doing and earning money doing it? Is that somehow a problem? I don't understand. Who has lots of savings going straight in to university? Not many. There are things called student loans and scholarships or stipends that anyone can get if they look hard enough. Most people aren't willing to look farther out than their bedroom window though, so I understand how it may seem impossible to you. Who says you'll be alone your entire life? Being 25 is young, really fucking young. I'm not planning on having kids until I'm at least 28. If I'm a sad loner for my entire life up until 25, I have three years I can learn mad social skills, and at 28 I can find a girl I like and start a family with. Forever alone? Doesn't look like it to me. Children cost money, yeah. But if you live an average persons life, you have two people making the income. Guess what? Women are allowed to get jobs now. Did you know that? Let's pull a number. 40,000 USD a year as a University graduate, maybe? Not that unreasonable if you work hard in school and find a good job. You're 29-30 now maybe, and you want to start a family with a girl. She has a job as well. If she hasn't, what the fuck are you doing with her? She'll probably earn the same amount you do, so that's 80k a year you're earning together. You share everything, because that's what you do when you're a family. 80k is a fucking lot of money. Children are expensive, sure. But you are the parent, so you can set the limitations. Just because they want shit doesn't mean you have to give it to them. Teach them the value of money, make them work for their toys. Just because they want the newest video game console, doesn't mean you have to give them what they want. All you have to do is feed them and buy them clothes. No boss is going to think you'll spend all your time playing video games. What ever made you think that, I have no idea. | ||
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FreedonNadd
Austria573 Posts
On August 16 2011 23:35 StimMarine wrote: lol guys.... thousands of PhD students survive on USD 15-20k per year stipends. And this includes payment for rent, food, and bills. Now imagine if you are a pro-gamer on a 15k-20k salary BUT rent, food, and bills are paid for. I have 2 friends surviving on 10k€ a year for their PHDs. They work on their thesis, breath, sleep, eat, and live in the apartment of their parents. They survive. No vacations, no invest in anything more then 50€ a month and no food outside, that means cocking at home noodles and rice. Some people are happy to survive, but you cant live from it. After many years of surviving my friends have a light depression. | ||
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TheAmazombie
United States3714 Posts
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Elasticity
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PigglyWinks
364 Posts
On August 16 2011 23:31 Grimsong wrote: Being 25 and not having a foundation besides "I have very good APM and special tactics" is pretty detrimental for life overall. How were those APM obtained? Perhaps through hard work, determination and self discipline. Special tactics? Maybe creativity and analysis. Those abilities aren't typical for someone who will clean toilets or sell hamburgers the rest of his life. If you have what it takes you can find a way even if your resume looks poor to most employers. | ||
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Goibon
New Zealand8185 Posts
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51481 Posts
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ReboundEU
508 Posts
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youngminii
Australia7514 Posts
On August 16 2011 23:42 Bippzy wrote: Actually, EG is killing my ability to look at other things than this thread. I always look for threads to look at from http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/hot.php but for the past two days this thread has been popular and the threads below it have stayed the same. It sucks. 6000 posts and I never knew this existed... | ||
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Hammer442
Australia749 Posts
On August 16 2011 23:43 Knightess wrote: I wonder if the announcement is actually as big as the hype here :D Only EGobama could do that now. | ||
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nekoconeco
Australia359 Posts
On August 16 2011 23:36 Grimsong wrote: Thats assuming you win a substantial amount of prize mone and just tuck it away in your little squirrel hole. And regardless its still a pretty bad spot to be in. 25 with no education, apartment of your own, car of your own, life(?) of your own because you've spent 60-70 hrs a week playing SC for the last 5 years? 4-5 years before education will be even close to being completely done, most likely, 29-30. Yeah you can pay tuition, books, things like that with the money that is "saved", but that money will dry up soon. And when it does? Whats that resume looking like? SC2 pro gamer for 5 years, just finished up a bachelors degree and still have a ways to go on the masters, and trying to support myself as a 27-29 year old man who hopefully budgeted my prize money from finishing in the ro16 in Code A (lets be realistic how many "pro gamers" will be in Korea, let alone qualifying for Code S). Not sure I'd be comfortable with my future. Still that is even more reason to respect these guys for doing what they do. Not every one can just rationalize their dreams away like that. Although in the words of DJ Wheat: Better have a backup plan. I'm fortunate enough that before I began casting (when I was first playing Quake Professionally) I put alot of time and effort into schooling and specifically Information Technology. While it's great to be working in gaming full-time, you have to remember that we're still a fairly unstable and fragile industry. One day you could have a job doing this or that, and 2 years later everything could change. For your own sanity, safety, and future... you should be able to answer the question: "What would I do in life if I wasn't working in gaming full-time?" | ||
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51481 Posts
Zomg!! But if he is Protos, does he automatically gets MCs title of Protos President? xD | ||
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Benjef
United Kingdom6921 Posts
On August 16 2011 23:44 youngminii wrote: 6000 posts and I never knew this existed... Nearly 3000 here... How do you even access that without the link? | ||
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Grimsong
United States252 Posts
On August 16 2011 23:44 PigglyWinks wrote: How were those APM obtained? Perhaps through hard work, determination and self discipline. Special tactics? Maybe creativity and analysis. Those abilities aren't typical for someone who will clean toilets or sell hamburgers the rest of his life. If you have what it takes you can find a way even if your resume looks poor to most employees. I understand. But you're assuming companies will give the time of a day for a very incomplete resume lacking solid work history and a masters level education of some sort. Im assuming that it's less likely a company will look at a resume in that regard. I agree it takes a great deal of ability to play SC2, more than what an average job entails, but that isn't always going to get through to people who literally have -no- idea on what a star craft is. | ||
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Sbrubbles
Brazil5776 Posts
On August 16 2011 23:44 ReboundEU wrote: Gosh..i really hope they announce their new "Release the Graken" mug set..i always wanted that Ooooh nice. As long as it doesn't have Idra's face on it (I mean, if they just drew a monster and called it Graken I'd be much happier) | ||
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Hammer442
Australia749 Posts
On August 16 2011 23:45 Pandemona wrote: Zomg!! But if he is Protos, does he automatically gets MCs title of Protos President? xD True presidents play zerg  | ||
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