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On January 04 2011 21:12 chessiecat wrote:
3.Become a sado-masochist. Take the death of each of your units with a smile and the death of each of his with a giggling grin. Imagine their deaths and enjoy the spectacle. If you are a nasty bastard killer, those deaths mean nothing. Win or lose, know your opponent would fear you if he could see into your head at this moment.
I don't get how you're supposed to do this and focus on the game at the same time. It sounds like you're trying a little too hard to be a badass or whatever. Anyway, you kinda need to keep your units alive, especially if they cost gas.
I know you're going to say you didn't mean this literally, but I guess I just don't understand the, uh, metaphorical application, either.
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Great post, I totally agree. Learning to lose is essential if you want to become a better player. If you're not afraid to play ladder, you can try new strategies whenever you want and just play to be a better gamer, not to beat your annoying opponent who said "fuck you" instead of "gl hf". Watching replays of lost games will be easier too if you don't get too emotional about losing. A great way to learn to lose is doing stupid things and laughing about them, or surrendering if you get supply blocked under 30 food.
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Well thanks very much OP.
Do you mind if I take the blue ball of emotions and imagine myself smashing the opponent with them?
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This is well intentioned, but a few of those points are simply silly.
Become a sado-masochist, really? You need to think logically and with reason to be good at this game, this is just ridiculous.
Think of your units as overpowered? How will that help a Protoss who needs to keep his first few vulnerable stalkers alive at all costs, or one trying to keep a Void Ray from being killed. Sure, don't moan about them being unfairly weak, but this is going a bit far.
There are a good few points I agree with, and one or two more I don't. You have the right idea, but honestly, it need not be taken to such a strange extreme.
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On January 05 2011 02:08 adius wrote:Show nested quote +On January 04 2011 21:12 chessiecat wrote:
3.Become a sado-masochist. Take the death of each of your units with a smile and the death of each of his with a giggling grin. Imagine their deaths and enjoy the spectacle. If you are a nasty bastard killer, those deaths mean nothing. Win or lose, know your opponent would fear you if he could see into your head at this moment. I don't get how you're supposed to do this and focus on the game at the same time. It sounds like you're trying a little too hard to be a badass or whatever. Anyway, you kinda need to keep your units alive, especially if they cost gas. I know you're going to say you didn't mean this literally, but I guess I just don't understand the, uh, metaphorical application, either.
This is an internal confidence building exercise. You focus first on yourself and then on your opponent. You believing you can win is more important than your actual play. The belief that winning is possible will keep you from losing in situations where someone who believes they've already lost would crumble and gg even if they could hold off this push and then counter.
If you laugh at your losses and shut out all thought of failure you put yourself in mental condition (The 'I can win this' condition) to take advantage of holes in an opponent's strategy without mercy and then should you be rebuffed to come back and strike again. Even if you should lose a single game or a succession, maintaining this mind-set will bring you back. The best isn't the person who wins a single battle.
They are those people who lose, lose again, get set on fire, get filled full of buckshot and buried alive...and then still keep going. If you can see yourself as that, you will never have lost completely.
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A friend of mine suggested I might want to re-write parts of this. Anyone got any thoughts or additions?
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Something tells me the OP has been reading a lot of "The Wheel of Time", and Deepak Chopra / Ekhart Tolle.
Right on brother
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On January 08 2011 17:18 chessiecat wrote:
A friend of mine suggested I might want to re-write parts of this. Anyone got any thoughts or additions?
More details about how you apply auto hypnosis, NLP, whatever, to improve your mindset !
I personnaly use anchors a lot to help me get in the zone, but sometimes it's not enough.
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I'll make a note about that. Self hypnosis is a powerful way of relaxing before a battle and a player should relax far more than they should 'amp themselves up'. Starcraft is best played as a game of quiet contemplation and less as an adrenaline trip, at least if you want to get the best play out of it.
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Grat post, I know i'm guilty to at least 3 of those traps. I admit that when I play Nerve Issues are one of the biggest factors into why I lose.
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Lmao.
Eye of the tiger? "Think of crushing your opponent. THEN CRUSH HIM! Rawr!"
Starcraft 2 is exactly that easy.
I did laugh at the lose games on purpose thing. I actually did that recently before i switched from terran to protoss. I wanted to start protoss fighting noobs, so i threw 20 or so games in a row as terran doing ridiculous strategies. One barracks into four planetary fortresses in front of your natural = doesn't turn out as good as it sounds. But it really was an effort to make myself lose games. I'm so competitive.
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I actually did Trap 3. I hate losing, and purposely lost 10 games in a row.
It put me back into platinum league.
But incredibly, I don't feel as pressured to win anymore.
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I like this post! Definetely will help me overcome my fear of laddering. $:
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Trap 3:
I CANT DO IT!
but obviously i need to. Thank you, mystery psyche masseuse
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