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followZeRoX
Profile Joined March 2011
Serbia1451 Posts
November 15 2011 19:05 GMT
#501
On November 16 2011 03:15 Bad_Habit wrote:
no


Nice respond indeed
followZeRoX
Profile Joined March 2011
Serbia1451 Posts
November 15 2011 19:08 GMT
#502
On November 16 2011 03:38 bmn wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 16 2011 02:16 Nawe wrote:
Like 4gate is stupid and sucessful, like mass hellions is stupid and sucessful and so on. When this game is finally cleaned off cheese and when the skill is only what it matters then threads like this will not exist. Since this is supposed to be multitasking rewarding game, not microing 12 drones to highest league.


Who says it's supposed to be what you think it is supposed to be?

Is BW free of cheese? What makes you think SC2 ever will be?


Well do you know some person who is competitive player and who want to execute cheese every single game? Do you know any progamer who actually won a tournament with cheese? It's not what I think, it's purpouse of game. Sc2 is created with many tools to beat your opponent and everyone who trully love this game want to see various things. Not 6pool,4gate,3rax and other brain hurting stuff. This is only one of exploits nobody will respect you for. Therefore it's sad you guys respect 6pooling to GM.
kiLen
Profile Joined April 2011
Finland97 Posts
November 15 2011 19:11 GMT
#503
I returend after one week to see the same flamewar raging on, fuck this, going back to 10 pooling!
LotV HyPe
Bad_Habit
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany243 Posts
November 15 2011 19:23 GMT
#504
On November 16 2011 03:54 Plansix wrote:
.

Now, the question if Bad_Habit is equal in skill to the other players in GM? The answer is that he is not. Because if you took away this one abusive build, he would not be able compete with them.


based on facts?
I only gg vs protoss when I'm winning
Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-15 19:34:07
November 15 2011 19:32 GMT
#505
On November 16 2011 04:23 Bad_Habit wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 16 2011 03:54 Plansix wrote:
.

Now, the question if Bad_Habit is equal in skill to the other players in GM? The answer is that he is not. Because if you took away this one abusive build, he would not be able compete with them.


based on facts?


Were you previously grandmaster? Can you provide replays of you beating GM players without using the 6 pool build you featured in this thread? If you have them and can beat any player using other builds, I will admit you are a talented player with some real depth. But without those, I don't think anyone will believe you are doing anything but using a build that many would consider abusive.
I have the Honor to be your Obedient Servant, P.6
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Bad_Habit
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany243 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-15 19:38:41
November 15 2011 19:37 GMT
#506
can you provide replays of me losing to copper player, without using 6pool build?
unguilty until proven guilty

shouldnt have posted just get tired of you special kind of ppl^^
I only gg vs protoss when I'm winning
Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-15 19:57:18
November 15 2011 19:54 GMT
#507
On November 16 2011 04:37 Bad_Habit wrote:
can you provide replays of me losing to copper player, without using 6pool build?
unguilty until proven guilty


The phrase is: Innocent until proven guilty. The problem is that you are not guilty of anything. You assert that you are GM level player by using this build. And I responded that many people consider this build to be abusive and that it is likely the sole reason for your success on the ladder.

We do not need to provide replays of your losses, because we cannot force you to use a build. That is also a strawman argument, by placing the burden on me to prove you are not able to win in the GM league without go 6 pool. You know full well that no one has any ability to provide those replays. Even if someone had some aged replay of you losing, you could simply say "that was a while ago and I am better now".

Demanding someone produce something that you knew they cannot find or provide does not strenghten your argument.

I have the Honor to be your Obedient Servant, P.6
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Bad_Habit
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany243 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-15 20:01:22
November 15 2011 20:01 GMT
#508
yeah i just got tired of it, nvm im bronze. im out
I only gg vs protoss when I'm winning
Kommatiazo
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States579 Posts
November 15 2011 20:29 GMT
#509
Bad_Habit, you may be part of the reason some ladder heroes QQ, but man... You are epic. An epic troll, maybe. An epic strategist, definitely. An epic human being, indubitably.

I feel like the individual builds that you listed in the OP aren't necessarily abusive (it is a legitimate argument to say so, however, IMO), but that the theme of all the builds is just the ultimate form of aggression. And depending on how your opponent reacts in game and in meta will result in the abusiveness/trolling/griefing of this play. The fact that you've made it so far with this build doesn't make me rage, it makes me laugh, but only because I realize that in caring too much about things that are out of my control, I become the helpless victim of your phenomenal griefing. Thank you for the laughs good sir, now it will be my goal to make GM not ONLY using hyper-hyper-ultra-aggressive zerg strategies, but to never ever lose to one.

I tip my hat to you sir!

P.S. the BeastyQT rage made my ribs hurt after an already comedic gold laden OP. So much lulz

"You must enemy don't know, and very good micro" - Bosstoss #Wet4Ret
lSasquatchl
Profile Joined February 2011
United States309 Posts
November 15 2011 21:27 GMT
#510
Inspired :D
cosineInfinity
Profile Joined April 2011
United States178 Posts
November 15 2011 22:13 GMT
#511
On November 16 2011 05:01 Bad_Habit wrote:
yeah i just got tired of it, nvm im bronze. im out


...oh dear.

Well. That about wraps things up...
followZeRoX
Profile Joined March 2011
Serbia1451 Posts
November 15 2011 22:27 GMT
#512
I'm glad everyone opened their eyes about this one
Sanhadrian
Profile Joined September 2010
Poland33 Posts
November 15 2011 22:46 GMT
#513
This is really impressive, but I would probably rage so hard if it happened to me on the ladder ^.^
"Inked ravens of despair claw holes in the arse of the worlds mind."
TheDougler
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada8323 Posts
November 15 2011 23:00 GMT
#514
Man, if you don't look at the manner and focus on the pure skill involved her eholy shit I am impressed. You're amazing Bad_Habit
I root for Euro Zergs, NA Protoss* and Korean Terrans. (Any North American who has beat a Korean Pro as Protoss counts as NA Toss)
Ripps
Profile Joined April 2011
Canada97 Posts
November 16 2011 01:12 GMT
#515
On November 16 2011 04:32 Plansix wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 16 2011 04:23 Bad_Habit wrote:
On November 16 2011 03:54 Plansix wrote:
.

Now, the question if Bad_Habit is equal in skill to the other players in GM? The answer is that he is not. Because if you took away this one abusive build, he would not be able compete with them.


based on facts?


Were you previously grandmaster? Can you provide replays of you beating GM players without using the 6 pool build you featured in this thread? If you have them and can beat any player using other builds, I will admit you are a talented player with some real depth. But without those, I don't think anyone will believe you are doing anything but using a build that many would consider abusive.


This pretty much sums up the thread. If he can play the game outside this build we'll all be wrong, but he's said himself that this is all he does. As for "innocent until proven guilty"... the burden of proof is on him to show why he is good. These replays don't show much. Besides, this isn't a courtroom. This is TL.
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock and roll." -Shigeru Miyamoto
MrAverage
Profile Joined June 2011
19 Posts
November 16 2011 02:48 GMT
#516
These threads are always great for bringing out the nerd rage.

"He wins using a strategy that violates my personal set of ethics! What a noob!"

SC2 provides a ladder system to help us decide who are the good players and who are the bad ones. Bad_Habit is in GM. If you are not, then he is better than you. (i.e. he wins more games against better opponents than you do.)

If a particular strategy really is abusive then you are a dumb ass for not using it yourself.
Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
November 16 2011 03:11 GMT
#517
On November 16 2011 11:48 MrAverage wrote:
These threads are always great for bringing out the nerd rage.

"He wins using a strategy that violates my personal set of ethics! What a noob!"

SC2 provides a ladder system to help us decide who are the good players and who are the bad ones. Bad_Habit is in GM. If you are not, then he is better than you. (i.e. he wins more games against better opponents than you do.)

If a particular strategy really is abusive then you are a dumb ass for not using it yourself.




If you assume that being GM is a measure of how good you are at starcraft as a whole, then yes. However, if you take it as a measure of your ability to earn ladder points, it is not as good of a measure of skill. Remember, for every 45 minute marco game that is played, Bad_Habit can get in 5-10 games where he 6 pools. A single win nets you the same amount of ladder points, regardless of how long you play.

I have the Honor to be your Obedient Servant, P.6
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UpooPoo
Profile Joined November 2010
United States25 Posts
November 16 2011 03:24 GMT
#518
I was reading this thread right after I had just finished bathing the kids and was just about to start my getting ready for work routine (all thoroughly disheartening) so I decided to try out a few quick six-seven pools and see how I would do. Stuck my girls in front of the space heater to dry off, fired up sc2, chose Zerg and started looking for a match. Immediately got this game on Antiga Shipyard vs Protoss. Funny thing is I meant to six pool but I slipped into habit and immediately made my first drone.

You can see several mistakes that I made in this game:

-Forgot to set drone rally point
-Forgot to send 2 zerglings that I made to join the fight
-Wasted time attacking things that didn't matter


Luckily my opponent also had several mistakes. It leads to what was a very entertaining game for me. I ROFLd when the game was over, immediately wrote this post, now I am headed to work :-). Thanks for the inspiration OP!!

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MrAverage
Profile Joined June 2011
19 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-16 03:34:49
November 16 2011 03:26 GMT
#519
On November 16 2011 12:11 Plansix wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 16 2011 11:48 MrAverage wrote:
These threads are always great for bringing out the nerd rage.

"He wins using a strategy that violates my personal set of ethics! What a noob!"

SC2 provides a ladder system to help us decide who are the good players and who are the bad ones. Bad_Habit is in GM. If you are not, then he is better than you. (i.e. he wins more games against better opponents than you do.)

If a particular strategy really is abusive then you are a dumb ass for not using it yourself.




If you assume that being GM is a measure of how good you are at starcraft as a whole, then yes. However, if you take it as a measure of your ability to earn ladder points, it is not as good of a measure of skill. Remember, for every 45 minute marco game that is played, Bad_Habit can get in 5-10 games where he 6 pools. A single win nets you the same amount of ladder points, regardless of how long you play.



Because there is no real significance in how long it takes to win the game. If I play a game and it takes 7 hours to finish does that mean I must have more skill than the puny humans that finish the game in a mere 45 minutes?

A longer game indicates that both players are of roughly equal skill (or possibly both suffer from an aversion to early aggression.), not that they are highly skilled.

You earn ladder points for winning games and you lose ladder points for losing games. If player A consistently wins a higher percentage of games than player B then player A is better.
Ruin
Profile Joined July 2011
United States271 Posts
November 16 2011 05:58 GMT
#520
Hey guys :D Habit let me cast some of his games a while back on youtube so if you guys are too lazy to download the replays you can head on right over here www.youtube.com/aqwaunchie some notable games include 6 pooling tlo! This guy OWNS the six pool lol.
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