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S key on hatch means select larva, S key with workers selected means stop mining and sit there like a rock.
It is important not to mix these up, or else you will notice a horrendous drop in minerals per minute.
Haha! Explanation of how this happens to me--
I spam boxes over mining drones, and use hotkeys to select to my hatchery when I have 50 minerals. Then I proceed to hit "s" then "d" to make a drone.
Very often I misclick my hatchery and I press "s" to make a unit from my larvae, but instead stop all my drones from mining. Then I do the 3-3 split all over again.
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When I first got my beta key about halfway through (during the Gamestop offer), I signed up for the Novice league because I hadn't played an RTS since ROC came out. Well I went to scout with an SCV when I couldn't find my way out of my base (Kulas Ravine). Having watched a few VODs, I knew where the entrance was roughly supposed to be, but my little SCV couldn't find his way out. I tried clicking all over the minimap but he kept running into the edges of the base.
Then I realized there were destructible rocks at the entrance. 
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I always forget to make queens entirely because I'm so used to SC1 macro. In fact, the first few games I was plopping down extra hatcheries just like SC1 and not building queens at all lol.
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On July 04 2010 15 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 04 2010 15 end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 04 2010 15 end_of_the_skype_highlighting:55 vertigo5 wrote:
DT in mineral line!
45 Com energy...46..47..48..49..goddamn hurry up!...50..
MULE!
::facepalm::
ohhh man :D
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On July 04 2010 16 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 04 2010 16 end_of_the_skype_highlighting:21 vT.sOel wrote:
am I the only that finds it hilarious that everyone has started saying "blunder" to describe any mistake ever since they heard day[9] say that, and then HD and husky copy him?
Nope, not at all 
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On July 05 2010 00:44 TaaiJoeng wrote:Show nested quote +On July 04 2010 14:27 FabledIntegral wrote:I tend to forget if I built my first overlord or not and accidently build 2, a lot. Cancelling the second one always fucks my larvae count up . I can't even comprehend how that could possibly happen. o.o
I do that a lot while I'm overpooling, because right after I build an overlord I start saving up again, and if I get distracted for any reason before I get to 100 minerals, I can easily forget what I'm saving for and just assume it was an overlord and make one of those instead. I'm curious as to what it's best to do in this situation, take the larva loss, or early 2nd overlord?
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On July 04 2010 14:27 EliteAzn wrote:
Oh and I forgot...made a planetary fortress and expected it to liftoff....yeah big oops...
This a lot...turns our a planetary fortress in the back of your main is not all that useful...
The worst thing though had to be when I was playing a 2v2 with my friend and went for a quick banshee on twilight fortress. We got hit by the typical zergling zealot rush and I went to check on my banshee which I felt would save us, only to find it not even building.
Turns out banshees are 3 supply and not 2 like i thought. To this day whenever I or that friend make a stupid mistake playing together we shout "3 supply" haha.
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Oh also, did not hear the nuclear warning message in a hectic 4v4 game. Ooops.
They really should fix that, so Nydus worms / Nukes take priority over "Your allies are under attack" or other lesser priority messages [if they haven't already]
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I assumed for the longest amount of time that Cyber Core still required 200 minerals. I was always puzzled to find out why I had so much spare minerals even after plopping down the Core.
i am sad to say that i did not find out the cyber core didn't cost 200 minerals until after the beta went down. hehe
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I always find myself researching tunnelling claws for roaches. One game, just in the nick of time to defend against a terran mech army (mostly tanks, which is why i got it in the first place) to realise that I hadn't researched burrow yet.
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i always forget to upgrade in general, like +1 attack etc.
i can't macro as terran/protoss to save my life lol
oh and producing 200/200 hydras vs collosus...
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i beat off a guy's all-in rush, he gg-ed...didn't leave. me being stupid, stopped playing and waited for him to leave. he comes back with a ton of zealots and i lose. bad manner on his part, but also dumb as hell on mine.
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I too suffer from accidentally stopping my mining workers when hitting "S" for SCV or larva.
Another one I seem to do far too often is using warp prisms. I go to pylon mode and start warping in some units and then fly away before they're done, which cancels them.
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I was 10 gate forge FE on scrap and had most of my attention focused on enemy base for micro, macroing just with hotkeys. After about 2 minutes I was wondering why my income seemed so low -- I was pretty sure I should be expanding soon (only did the build 1-2 times), but I barely could keep up with zealot production.
Turns out I had rallied my nexus to one of my mining probes, so I had about 10 probes on follow, which meant that idle probe icon I kept checking for had never shown up because they were all following the mining probe.
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Pretty sure I lost that game.
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On July 04 2010 15:55 vertigo5 wrote:
DT in mineral line!
45 Com energy...46..47..48..49..goddamn hurry up!...50..
MULE!
::facepalm::
lol, I do this like every time
its a goddamn instinct!
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On July 04 2010 15:10 divinesage wrote:
I assumed for the longest amount of time that Cyber Core still required 200 minerals. I was always puzzled to find out why I had so much spare minerals even after plopping down the Core.
LOL me too! and i thought extractors were 50 and assimilator/refinery were 100 mins each.
I used to press P for probe and pylon, O for overlords and M for marines and mutas.
On my first week of beta i heard of planetary fortress rush so I decided to try it without watching any videos or read up on build orders. I built the fortress in my base thinking I could lift it into my opponent's base.
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Someone should start a sc2 blooper replay thread. Anyways my biggest blooper was when I was slightly tipsy. I microed my mutas into his main and picked off all his marines. Instead of picking off his SCVs I saw 2 missile turrets and decided that I needed to take out those turrets.
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When dabbling in FFA with friends and pretty much playing terran for the first time, made some banshees thinking they were like wraiths.
What do you mean, Banshees don't hit air?
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On July 04 2010 14:28 theburricane wrote:
At one point I thought it would be fun to mess around in the build order tester and try to get some ghosts for some 1 basing antics. Did a pretty standard opening, 10 depot 12 rax 13 gas adding raxes at necessary. When I got to 150 gas I was like "oh great, now I can throw down my Ghost Academy! Woah, why do I have so much gas left over? Doesn't it cost 150 gas?"
"NO," I thought, "it must only cost 100 gas!!!" -_-
Now I can barely stand to make ghosts because every time I'm reminded of those weeks I spent thinking it cost 100 gas.
WHAT?? THE F????
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Biggest blunder? I must've spent at least the first two weeks of beta thinking that the cybernetics core costs 200 minerals...and getting away with it :D
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