Official State of the Game Podcast Thread - Page 596

On March 13 2011 13:25 Consolidate wrote:


Everyone just wants to be heard - don't act as if you're above it all, Mr. Counter-Counter-Counter-Reactionary.

On March 13 2011 14:08 urashimakt wrote:

This stuff is getting too real for me. Someone's going to write a book on this, and that book is going to be made into a movie. We should get Charlie Sheen on the phone. Working title could be "Reception".

On March 13 2011 14:42 Sylvr wrote:
We must remember that the people that listen to the podcast and come here to complain are a vast vast minority. There are probably several hundreds of people that listen to the podcast and check this thread, but never say anything. On top of that, there are likely thousands that listen to the podcast who don't come to this thread at all.

When you think of it that way, it really makes the whole situation quite comical- that all the drama in this thread should be fueled and perpetuated by such a tiny tiny portion of the fan-base.

It's just the nature of the internet that the more populated a forum gets, the more it becomes dominated by a very polarized vocal minority.

On March 13 2011 22:32 busbarn wrote:
Hey guys, will the PAX sotg be uploaded? Crossing my fingers here

On March 13 2011 22:32 busbarn wrote:
Hey guys, will the PAX sotg be uploaded? Crossing my fingers here

On March 13 2011 14:42 Sylvr wrote:
We must remember that the people that listen to the podcast and come here to complain are a vast vast minority.

It's just the nature of the internet that the more populated a forum gets, the more it becomes dominated by a very polarized vocal minority.

On March 14 2011 06:31 ptrpb wrote:

This, I want to see someone call iNcontroL a dork.

On March 10 2011 13:26 Liquid`Tyler wrote:

is this irony or are you really being serious? you are doing to me exactly what i do to the players haha.

i've already put my knowledge into practice in sc1. everyone had access to all the broadcasts of pro games. i privately studied them and critiqued them the same way i did the IEM reps on my stream. then i practiced a shitload and put my knowledge into play. then i became the best non-korean sc player in the world.

"he doesn't practice what he preaches" means you don't believe in the advice you're giving. it doesn't mean you have knowledge but not the ability to use it. if you want to critique my sc2 career, there's honestly only one way to do it: i dont practice enough. i lack discipline. i've said many times that i dont practice in custom games. all of the custom games in my match history are from tournaments. so if you take 60 seconds to look up all my accounts on sc2ranks (NA, EU and KR), you'll find i've played just a bit over 700 ladder games, and that's all the games i've played. i dont even 2v2/3v3/4v4 at all. and a large chunk of those games aren't real practice. i brush up for a tournament and then get out of shape. then i gotta take 30-50 games to brush up again. it's honestly fucking pathetic.

and i know the obvious response to all this is "either start practicing and prove that you're so good or shut up." yeah, well, i havent been saying that im a better player. i might say that i know better. hell, even then, im not that strong about it. i often say things like "it seems to me" or "it feels like" or "i wish i could see them do this other thing and see if it would have been better" or "i didnt really like that, i'd rather try this other way first." and when i do have a strong opinion, i can say from experience that 99% of the time, if the player was sitting next to me, he'd agree with me. so i dont really feel the need to shut up. i have useful things toi say!

but anyway, yeah, bottom line is you gotta demonstrate your knowledge. there's no way around it. and not just in custom and ladder games that no one sees, or even in small tournaments. you gotta do it at big fucking tournaments. and you cant rely on having demonstrated it in SC1, hoping that everyone will just take your word for it that you're not feeding them bullshit about SC2. no way that would ever fly. OH WAIT!! Day[9]. mind fucking blown