I nearly died laughing when that Ali dived the turret down bot lane against all three enemy players at half health.

I sitting there thinking to myself how it was a really dumb play and how if I was playing I'd have been demoralized. Then you just gave a dirty look and say ".... k." which then triggered me to have a Day9 style fit of laughter.

The more I think about it, the more I really like that mentality. Instead of getting caught up in how bad/stupid a play is, just accept it and move forward because dwelling on it just going to distract you.

Mogwai

United States13274 Posts

March 13 2012 14:49 GMT

#586

that's just how I try to approach the game, but it's also why I can't stand playing top lane in solo atm. I just feel like I have no early damage control in bad lanes and I feel like these giant blowouts in lane are pretty frequent at my current elo. just need to get jungle j4 every game and hope that gragas doesn't fail at his "counterpick" and then fail to follow Kennen down for a dragon fight.

Slayer91

Ireland23382 Posts

March 13 2012 15:39 GMT

#587

Here I am thinking smash rages way too hard at that kind of stuff and you guys think it's unusually calm?

Mogwai

United States13274 Posts

March 13 2012 15:45 GMT

#588

On March 14 2012 00:39 Slayer91 wrote:
Here I am thinking smash rages way too hard at that kind of stuff and you guys think it's unusually calm?

you have unreasonably high standards for me

but I hope someday I'm calm enough for you...

Slayer91

Ireland23382 Posts

March 13 2012 15:54 GMT

#589

Haha, sometimes I just turn off stream cause you're tilting so hard and falling further behind and it's just painful to watch. Then you just start like reading stream chat or something and stop paying attention. Some of it's probably to due with the streaming factor, like you're getting vlad picked against your wukong, and you tell the stream "I'm going to destroy this vlad" and you end up trying too hard to kill him sometimes when you should be farming and it ends up back firing a bit.

I lose most of my games for being generally stupid rather than tiliting, haha.

Alaric

France45622 Posts

March 13 2012 16:02 GMT

#590

Bleh. I find Smash rather calm, at worst mildly annoyed, as long as his griefs aren't with his own play/mistakes. So I may be too ragey to realize.

Mogwai

United States13274 Posts

March 13 2012 16:05 GMT

#591

lol, I just botched early ignites vs. that Vlad, should've been really easy

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do I lose a ton of games from tilting still? I've been trying to stay more level headed and I thought I was making progress, but I do fail at being self aware from time to time.

EDIT: and really I should just play with dphat all the time cause we always have a good time and having a good time = no tilting.

HazMat

United States17077 Posts

March 13 2012 16:14 GMT

#592

Dphat reminds me of lil Kev from that one It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode

Also, when I stream I make so many mistakes while reading stream questions lol. Like I'll explain to a viewer why I did something for 4 minutes and facecheck into baron cave. Streaming hella hurts Elo but it's worth it.

Mogwai

United States13274 Posts

March 13 2012 16:19 GMT

#593

yea, sometimes the distraction hurts your focus, but trying to commentate on stuff or answer questions keeps your brain thinking about the game. I dunno, I think it's a good exercise to stream, but I do sometimes wonder if I'd be climbing faster if I weren't.

Mogwai

United States13274 Posts

March 14 2012 02:16 GMT

#594

stream up: http://www.justin.tv/smashgizmo

Glaceau

Wales333 Posts

March 14 2012 04:03 GMT

#595

yea smash definitely gets visibly annoyed haha i dont know where people get the unusually calm thing

he explodes sometimes, good guy tho

I literally sit there emotionless when I play or sometimes start laughing if something funny happens. we've lanned together so he can vouch for dat!

iCanada

Canada10660 Posts

March 14 2012 04:07 GMT

#596

On March 14 2012 13:03 Glaceau wrote:
yea smash definitely gets visibly annoyed haha i dont know where people get the unusually calm thing

he explodes sometimes, good guy tho

I literally sit there emotionless when I play or sometimes start laughing if something funny happens. we've lanned together so he can vouch for dat!

I dunno, I think in terms of teammate errors he stupidly calm. Only times I seen him tilt it because he made a mistake/is losing his lane hard.

LoL/competitive games just frustrating sometimes.

/shrug