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On January 15 2010 16:37 Mora wrote:Show nested quote +On January 15 2010 13:35 Faronel wrote:On January 15 2010 11:52 Mora wrote:
i dropped out of highschool and only spent my time playing starcraft.
i got decent at it and was hired as a game design critic because of it.
after 4 years i've had ~6 promotions and am [depending on the market] going to put down a down-payment on a house next year.
instead of
being a useless, uneducated bum turned alcoholic living pay check to pay check. omg... lucky. Although there seems to be a step b/w getting decent at SC and getting hired as a game design critic. I'm curious to know what  the only other steps were just as lucky. At the time, I was doing drywall for a living with my father. Relic Entertainment had been hiring game design critics for about 6 months, specifically looking at expert players of Starcraft, Warcraft 3, and Dawn of War. I had performed in WCG for the previous 2 years, and had placed well each time. BC.Korn was first noticed by Relic - he was hired 4 months before myself. Samson Mow - the Balance Manager (game design critic) ended up coming across my alias one day when he was researching good players from Vancouver, B.C.. He asked the team if anyone knew who i was. Korn and myself had been on Team BC for a few years; as well, i had been on WGT's Canada team for about 4 years. I got a phone call from Sam asking me if i would be interested in critiquing video games for a living. After a skill assessment (where i had to play 9 games of Starcraft against numerous members of the balance team) and 3 interviews, Mora was hired on a 1-year contract. It also didn't hurt that i had won WGTour's map making contest with my map Imbroglio of Mishap; as well as had made 2 professional tournament maps for Blizzard: Coulee and Umbra Locus. I had also been selected as a judge for Blizzard's Blizzcon Map Making tournament. When Sam interviewed me, he was set on making me a designer from the get-go. After a year of being a balancer i was promoted to Design. And now i am in charge of post-product support for Company of Heroes, as well as one of two multiplayer designers for our RTS meets MMO hybrid, Company of Heroes Online. It's been a rad journey. I feel like i am the luckiest man alive.
Get someone to ban the top 2 PE players for stats abusing plz 
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4 chicks in one week. Two of which were in a threesome with me, one was some random from uni, and the fourth was my ex which I had broken up with the week beforehand.
That was a good week.
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I was born in the 21st century when there was an Earth into a well-off family as a human and I didn't die during infancy or anything
Seriously if you think about the chances of that happening it's actually ridiculously lucky
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On January 15 2010 16:37 Mora wrote:Show nested quote +On January 15 2010 13:35 Faronel wrote:On January 15 2010 11:52 Mora wrote:
i dropped out of highschool and only spent my time playing starcraft.
i got decent at it and was hired as a game design critic because of it.
after 4 years i've had ~6 promotions and am [depending on the market] going to put down a down-payment on a house next year.
instead of
being a useless, uneducated bum turned alcoholic living pay check to pay check. omg... lucky. Although there seems to be a step b/w getting decent at SC and getting hired as a game design critic. I'm curious to know what the only other steps were just as lucky. At the time, I was doing drywall for a living with my father. Relic Entertainment had been hiring game design critics for about 6 months, specifically looking at expert players of Starcraft, Warcraft 3, and Dawn of War. I had performed in WCG for the previous 2 years, and had placed well each time. BC.Korn was first noticed by Relic - he was hired 4 months before myself. Samson Mow - the Balance Manager (game design critic) ended up coming across my alias one day when he was researching good players from Vancouver, B.C.. He asked the team if anyone knew who i was. Korn and myself had been on Team BC for a few years; as well, i had been on WGT's Canada team for about 4 years. I got a phone call from Sam asking me if i would be interested in critiquing video games for a living. After a skill assessment (where i had to play 9 games of Starcraft against numerous members of the balance team) and 3 interviews, Mora was hired on a 1-year contract. It also didn't hurt that i had won WGTour's map making contest with my map Imbroglio of Mishap; as well as had made 2 professional tournament maps for Blizzard: Coulee and Umbra Locus. I had also been selected as a judge for Blizzard's Blizzcon Map Making tournament. When Sam interviewed me, he was set on making me a designer from the get-go. After a year of being a balancer i was promoted to Design. And now i am in charge of post-product support for Company of Heroes, as well as one of two multiplayer designers for our RTS meets MMO hybrid, Company of Heroes Online. It's been a rad journey. I feel like i am the luckiest man alive.
holy balls mora, that's pretty awsome. Still remember the good ole days of playing BW with you n steve.
As for me...probably being gifted with a smart brain, and surviving through a near-death(but they brought me back!) heart problem.
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as far as pure luck is concerned i would have have to name WoW oO (probably not interesting if you haven't played it)
two incidents which are together more than unlikely:
first i went to farm the eye of shadow for the priest epic staff [before the drop rate was increased!] in winterspring. i took some friends with me for fun (we didn't really think it would drop anyway) and i was joking: "ye it could just as well drop on the second mob we kill "... and what happened? you can guess (in that moment a fellow priest from my guild came by who had farmed for that shit ~3 months - i put it into the trade window and he was like "someone give me a rope").
second was when i started playing wow again like half a year ago with a new char (on horde) and i wanted to have this zul gurub tiger. so i went there with a friend, first run, didn't drop. i went there again 3 days later (also more or less without expecting anything and just cause i was bored) and shortly before we killed the boss i said "hey, could just as well drop on the second try "... and what happened?................ my friend had been there as well when the eye of shadow dropped on the second mob and this time it happened again with me calling it.. we were rolling on the floor laughing.
don't know how unlikely these two events combined are and then calling it two times... i found that kind of "lucky" 
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I bought my house after the first visit. it went like. I visit the house at 11h am, I give my proposal at 14h and at 17h, the house was "mine" (didn't sign but had a verbal acceptence with the owneer and agent).
That was really nice since it's the first house I buy
p.s.: i live in it since nearly 2 month :D
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Zurich15365 Posts
I once flew overseas with the idea that some people I had never seen or talked to before who I wanted to meet were somewhere among the 30 million resident in the general area. Didn't have any means to contact them but ran into them couple of hours later, that was lucky I guess.
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i won a big foot power wheels when i was 3. i was the coolest kid in the neighborhood after that.
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I've been REALLY close to crashing a bunch of times..
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Braavos36390 Posts
once back when i was playing poker i tilted hard after losing something like 20 buyins in a week at my normal limits, i moved to 2000nl and won $5000 in 15 hands and never played it again. my graph was hilarious, it was like a horrible drop then a straight line up rofl
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My foot got ran over by my grandmas car..
and nothing broke
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I won a ton of (fake but who cares) money the FIRST hand of the first time I had ever played Texas Hold'em at my friend's house, but besides that, I've been really unlucky, because I've been (literally) 1 number off on 3 raffles, out of like 500 tickets given out.
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On January 15 2010 14:34 Jyvblamo wrote:Show nested quote +On January 15 2010 12:22 thunk wrote:On January 15 2010 07:48 Boblion wrote:
I won a TL shirt with a spam contest. I remember that. That was pretty funny. Ditto, I won one too.
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Nothing happened when I drank bleach when I was like 3
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Before the age of 10 i was saved from drowning on three seperate occasions (i couldnt swim) ... twice by my brother and once by the sister of one of my good friends in elementary school
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I went to the local Gamestop to buy Street Fighter IV for PS3. It was the day after Christmas, and the line was about 35 minutes long. The game itself was previously owned, costing only 26.99. I was holding the box waiting in line, so with nothing else to do, I opened it up and took out the instruction manual with the intention of browsing through it while waiting in line. Tucked in behind the instruction manual was a receipt and a gift card. They were left in by the cashier who rung up the person who had sold the used game to the store; the person had apparently chosen store credit, which Gamestop gives in the form of a gift card, and the cashier had put the unfortunate seller's store credit gift card and receipt in the box of the game they sold to the store by accident. There was $32 on the gift card, just enough to cover the cost of the game and have a few dollars left. In essence, by being at the right place at the right time and picking the right game by chance, I got the game I wanted for free. Not much, but it was a nice post-Christmas present.
PS Mora was not good at Dawn of War, and didn't place well in WCG in the game either =p. He was like, what, 1500 level player at best?
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On January 15 2010 08:13 Xxio wrote:
In grade 5 me and my best friend didn't go out for recess and were in the classroom alone just throwing things around and going through other kid's desks and stuff. Anyways, at one point I took a pair of scissors, turned around and threw them as hard as I could.
I was at the far end of the classroom and as soon as I threw them I saw they were whirling dead on at this nerdy girl who had been sitting alone with her back to us at the other end of the classroom the entire time.
Time slowed down for me as I watched the scissors turn end over end going towards the back of her head. I could already see they were going to hit her and that I my fate was sealed.
The scissors bounced off top lip of the back of the chair and spun diagonally over her head, just missing her neck. My friend and I just looked at each other.
I think that was the luckiest thing to happen to me, even though it's in a preventative sort-of way. If I had killed her or almost killed her I'm sure my life would be much different.
... Wtf would posses you to hurl scissors without even looking where you threw them
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probably getting A- in algebraic geometry lol
that shit's hard!
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