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[L/G]Using Pyschoanalysis in your games. - Page 3

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VelRa_G
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada304 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-30 15:41:25
June 30 2011 15:40 GMT
#41
When I saw the thread I was getting excited. Maybe collossi are the phallus, and corruptors have penis envy. That's what makes zerg so vaginal.

But seriously I'm not sure what's up with this thread. Like others have said, probably troll . . .
Nuda Veritas
aimless
Profile Joined January 2011
United States57 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-30 15:44:50
June 30 2011 15:43 GMT
#42
Edit: This isn't a troll thread, I think. Just not the most productive one.

You forgot the two common cases:

People who ask you what league you are in -- 87.2% chance they rush you, especially mass marines or proxy gates. The best people to play against.

People who cuss you out or bm from the start -- 54.0% chance they rush you, 100.0% chance they do a strategy that people find annoying (all-in, rush to cloaked unit x, turtle and deathball up).

All percentages made up on the spot. They may or may not be anywhere near the actual odds of occurence.

Also, I added up your probabilities of meeting each type. And came up with a range from 125% to 142%. Seems a little on the high side...
PsyChill
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia58 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-30 15:45:29
June 30 2011 15:44 GMT
#43
Scouting>Pyschoanalysis. Seeing what's actually happening > guessing due to how they poise themselves at the start of games. Also don't play when angry? If Artosis and Idra did that they would never play any games.

Edit: do you have any data to support your findings. 9-13% is very specific.
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” ~ Bruce Lee
aaycumi
Profile Joined March 2011
England265 Posts
June 30 2011 15:46 GMT
#44
I did have a tendancy to insult Zerg players by always saying: "Ah great another six-pool."
And then just quietly leave them to rage or careful explain that they could actually play the game.
Didn't cheese the opponent afterwards but definitely got them dialoguing about there day on the ladder. Actually I found the ones that calmly responded tended to not attack until after my first push and the raging ppl would just let their macro go down the plug hole.

So some of the ideas you've assumed have some basis, but even with a probability its more effective to just scout the opponent and look for tells in the build order; much better habit in my opinion.
PooNinja
Profile Joined November 2010
Australia46 Posts
June 30 2011 15:47 GMT
#45
On June 30 2011 23:19 k!llua wrote:
don't use words like psychoanalysis if you can't spell them correctly. it makes everything else you say that much harder to believe.


This.

Having missed the spelling mistake however, I came in this thread expecting someone who actually had some education on the subject, perhaps a psychology student at uni. And how does the thread go from analysing enemy behaviour into personal hygiene advice??
FoFo
Profile Joined April 2010
Netherlands207 Posts
June 30 2011 15:48 GMT
#46
On July 01 2011 00:43 aimless wrote:
Edit: This isn't a troll thread, I think. Just not the most productive one.

You forgot the two common cases:

People who ask you what league you are in -- 87.2% chance they rush you, especially mass marines or proxy gates. The best people to play against.

People who cuss you out or bm from the start -- 54.0% chance they rush you, 100.0% chance they do a strategy that people find annoying (all-in, rush to cloaked unit x, turtle and deathball up).

All percentages made up on the spot. They may or may not be anywhere near the actual odds of occurence.

Also, I added up your probabilities of meeting each type. And came up with a range from 125% to 142%. Seems a little on the high side...


ofcourse not, the possibility of an opponent doing a strategy in a game is about 132.3% to 140.9% so it only means there must be some inaccuracies in the OP, the question remains where??
"we must avoid balancing SC2 by making everything suck equally hard."
101toss
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
3232 Posts
June 30 2011 15:53 GMT
#47
Here's a tip: if your opponent talks a lot/attempts to initiate conversation in the first few moments of a game, odds are cheese is happening
Math doesn't kill champions and neither do wards
RobCorso
Profile Joined May 2011
United States111 Posts
June 30 2011 16:01 GMT
#48
Here's a tip, if they don't say gl hf back, scout
if they do say glhf, scout
if they bm you scout,
if they leave the game, you dont need to scout
if they ask what gl hf means, you dont need to scout.
glhf with your games :D
We make expand, then defense it-WhiteRa
Anomandaris
Profile Joined July 2010
Afghanistan440 Posts
June 30 2011 16:10 GMT
#49
Most useless thread ever. Probably troll.
We are trying too improve at this game. We don't need bullshit for that.
Taefox
Profile Joined March 2010
1533 Posts
June 30 2011 16:14 GMT
#50
This thread is bullsh!t

Close plz
@taefoxy
DavidMcF
Profile Joined August 2010
United Kingdom189 Posts
June 30 2011 16:19 GMT
#51
The op clearly has the Oedipus complex
Deleuze
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United Kingdom2102 Posts
June 30 2011 16:23 GMT
#52

Two things,

Firstly, the OP breaks rule number 1 from the Strategy Forum Guidelines:

"Everything you say must be supported by evidence"

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=113479

The OP has none, what remains is unsupported speculation - and is hence utterly worthless and has no place here.


Secondly:

On June 30 2011 15:34 drryworrx wrote:
And as far as my "Psychoanalysis" header goes, I did google it, but I only went with one part of the definition, so I'm right AND wrong in using it. For those of you whom feel dumber for having read it, I apologize.


The activity you are undertaking is not Psychoanalysis (it isn't even psychology); simply because you can google a term and pluck out a definition does guarrantee it's credibility. You ignorance astounds me.

The activity you are undertaking is called 'trolling'. If you do not know what this means I suggest you google it (do you see my irony?).

This thread is yet another example of the pointless rubbish that has reduced the strategy forum to what it is now.

I surely hope that the next purge is of truely Stalinist proportions.
“An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.” ― Gilles Deleuze, Dialogues II
CCalms
Profile Joined November 2010
United States341 Posts
June 30 2011 16:32 GMT
#53
I feel like I've been trolled by reading this thread...
Soma.bokforlag
Profile Joined February 2011
Sweden448 Posts
June 30 2011 16:35 GMT
#54


this thread makes me sad.. as one styddying to become a psychiatrist at the moment its sad that things like this is spread on the internet, giving psychology a bad name.

please ignore this thread, in most universities today we have a scientific and professional relation to matters like personality and this thread is far from that
zakmaa
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Canada525 Posts
June 30 2011 16:43 GMT
#55
I'm "silent", but it's not because I'm frustrated or have been on a losing streak, it's simply because I don't want my opponent to be lucky, and I couldn't care less whether or not they enjoy the game.
Animostas
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States568 Posts
June 30 2011 16:46 GMT
#56
I think this is something that is fun to have in the back of your mind, but you should absolutely not base your play off it, because it's completely case-by-case
Brotatolol
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States1742 Posts
June 30 2011 16:51 GMT
#57
I liked reading the replies more than I did the OP itself.
Schnullerbacke13
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany1199 Posts
June 30 2011 16:53 GMT
#58
i am silent, since i removed all the uneccessary keys from my keyboard, so i have to use another keyboard to chat (which will cost too much time at game start) :-)
21 is half the truth
sOm
Profile Joined January 2011
United States43 Posts
June 30 2011 16:54 GMT
#59
On June 30 2011 16:13 Ruscour wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 30 2011 16:02 AmericanUmlaut wrote:
Is this a troll?

Psychoanalysis refers to a type of therapy that was made popular (and invented, if I'm not mistaken) by Freud. If OP described how the manner in which a Toss spread his units reflected upon his subconscious lust for his mother, you'd be more on track.

Also: 12-13% silent, 34-36% self assured, 9-13% criers, 70-80% standard. You've got a minimum of 125% there, buddy.

My thoughts exactly.


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The_Templar
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
your Country52797 Posts
June 30 2011 16:55 GMT
#60
Apparenty I'm a crier for saying "Hi. How are you?" at the start of each game.
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