The Letting Off Steam Thread - Page 252

I agree. I think deep down we Protoss players all know we play a bullshit race so we just enjoy it. Although Zerg does have a lot of way to be cheeky in SC2 with the latest expansion. But I agree that every race attracts a certain mentality for better or for worse.

I think Zerg is a more "feminine" race because in ZvT and ZvP it's up to the other player to take the initiative and dictate the pace of the matchup, or else Zerg macros on like 7 hatcheries, switches to army units and a-moves to victory. That's just my theory on why most of my IRL zerg friends are either women or effeminate men.

Girls do play Z more though - a plurality of listed players in all but 2 female-only tournaments between 2014 and 2018 are zerg. Of course the "why" is up for debate.

great - I thought. I found a good ebay offer for a "merely" used mouse. shortly after I found an even cheaper offer on amazon (a not used mouse).

FYI I'm new to ebay, so I registered there today. (found this by search engine for the mouse in question)

I thought - this dude sells his used mouse for the same price the new one can be gotten on amazon, let's write him a price-suggestion (an option I found after browsing through the website...)
I included a formal, nice hint, that he could suggest a cheaper price without any force (one of my 3 arguments was, the missing 2 year warranty), and followed it up with my source where I saw it cheaper or rather: totally new for the same price.

Duuuuuuup. A few minutes (or was it even a minute? could be seconds, I didn't check) later I was banned on ebay.
Apparently their automated system finds someone writing a link via private massage & being a new account, must be a bad guy. Remind you it was only a source for my information, and not any hint for having to buy anything from the link I gave.

Needless to say I am amazed, the second accusation (in form of quick-ban) this month. Lots of internet meta (kinda starcraft-unit composition~way to treat customers who are not behaving "normally") you are not aware off because you are not using it. Feels a bit like early-rushing in starcraft 2 and then getting flamed - I am not supposed to do that? (not meta) Another case I need to address/write to/ask for.../we. Sigh.

I am so frustrated with dating and women I just need to vent it out for a second, sorry if it's incoherent. The few dates I've landed have been a disaster and and I can never meet someone who shares any level of understanding or similarity to me.

I was not born not very attractive, but I'm not ugly and I take good care myself. I have a good paying job and stable life at 24, love the outdoors and workout, am fit and 5'11. I do volunteer work, and do work with kids. Grew up Catholic and follow it decently well, though not strictly. The point is I don't feel like there is a huge amount I can do to improve myself to look more marketable to getting first dates, as shallow as that sounds.

I won't settle for someone obese or someone who is only interested in hookups. I want someone who can share a similar lifestyle to me (which includes a lot of hiking, cycling, outdoors), and someone with similar values. Part of my difficulty is I don't watch television so if I do land a date, they just want to talk about this or that TV show which I find incredibility dull.

Now with COVID it feels like the only way to meet someone is online dating. I read that with online dating, 80% of women choose 20% of men, making it extremely difficult for guys. I'm not a 10/10 looking guy. It's all incredibility horrible situation on these apps for men and it's bad for my mental health. I don't want to sound like an incel or anything, it's not women's fault our society is like this now. I feel like it's very difficult to meet people these days, for men and women. Do men and women have crazy expectations for love because of movies/tv? And when I flop with a girl I feel like a loser.

I'm just so lost with it. I've even considered moving away once to a place with a better outlook.

The thing is on one hand I tell myself that it isn't a big deal. I shouldn't be so down about it. But on the other hand I do get lonely and want a close relationship with a girl.

i'm miserable sorry for wasting your time

Been getting vexed playing SC2 and watching GSL recently.

Zerg gets a million safe places to put overlords and early speed for overlord scouting but protoss gets nothing for scouting that can't be easily denied early on and every other means of scouting requires delaying tech. Pool first is basically a macro build at this point since protoss has to play so paranoid because of ling floods. Watching GSL-level protoss players get leveled by ling floods is quite frustrating. Defending ling floods is so much harder than executing them and they're impossible to scout in time since they hit so fast and zerg can deny almost all scouting for the first few minutes with a couple lings and then it's too late. These ling flood builds honestly feel borderline broken at times because they're hard to scout, are incredibly difficult to defend even if scouted, and to play safe against them requires either you to play so safe as to be behind against standard play or for the zerg to screw up and not deny scouting. When defended, ling floods rarely result in the zerg being behind since there's a certain amount of damage almost guaranteed to be done so there isn't any real disadvantage to doing so, and if warp gate is denied the protoss is suddenly irreparably behind.

It honestly feels like PvZ is about to be at a breaking point where it might completely break in favour of zerg soon. We just watched nearly every protoss in GSL get steamrolled in the matchup. The adept pressure stuff is figured out and there's nothing for protoss to replace it with because everything good has been nerfed. This new two stargate phoenix build we saw also seems horrible and seems like it won't be viable. The PvZ win tally this GSL RO24 was 7-14 in favour of zerg and most zerg series wins were 2-0s with no close games. Stats got through because his opponent messed up and was much rustier. 4 of the protoss wins were Stats versus a noticeably off-form Impact. Trap barely got through 2-0 against a player he is much better than. Other than that there was one win from Prince against Scarlett (that more came down to a big mistake from Scarlett than Prince winning). Every other PvZ was a protoss loss and most of them were one-sided.

I dunno what protoss does from here. Adepts clearly don't work. Charge is worse than adepts. Blink takes too long so zerg easily defends it. Zergs remembered ravagers exist so immortal/sentry doesn't work anymore. Blink DTs only work if the zerg massively messes up and doesn't scout. Queen/spore shuts down anything in the air. Prism/Archon is completely mapped out and is useless now. There's no pressure builds left to keep zerg honest so every game is going to turn into the steamrolling we saw over and over.

RIP Michael Brooks,

fuck everything

Fuckkkk.
I just want to go back to school without having to live like a monk for a fucking year. Why is it so fucking difficult?

For reference I have a 10 hour basic contract, which I was happy to keep because the hours work for when I do transition to full time education.

Corona hits and shit hits the fan. Suited me. Nothing else to do in lockdown and I was happy to plug all the holes. Having 70 hour weeks and a routine of doing 5pm-5am shifts and waking up and going straight back the next day was sweet for my purposes at the time.

Oh and I’m bipolar and under strong medical advisement to do night shifts and keep irregular hours. But hey it’s for a short period so I can stomach it for a long term goal.

Didn’t get to see kiddo as his mum was (correctly, given the public’s shit adherence to personal space) worried about me getting ye olde virus.

Then the hours dried up. First it was temp workers. Which was fine on night shifts. Most folks there were 35+ years old and had been laid off their jobs. I can take a solidarity hit for other people in shit situations in extraordinary circumstances.

On days it was another story. Mostly 16-18 year old students without the financial stresses of bills to be paying. The cynic in me, probably correctly surmised it was due to us paying them slightly less than us regulars.

Now they’ve fucked off I have fuck all hours either, for some reason they think it’s a good idea for morale to give hours in a haphazard ‘whoever is in at the time’ manner, so me working Thurs/Fri is missing out.

Having raised the issue that people who took voluntary time off from Covid for a month as opposed to me being happy to work all sorts of hours getting more hours than me as being BS I was apparently ‘being difficult’.

Sigh.