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Northern Ireland26763 Posts
On January 15 2012 03:41 superLanboy wrote:
We can talk about all drugs, right?
About three years ago I'd abuse ecstasy and play counter-strike. I could think so fast and clearly, and my reaction speed and hand precision was so much greater than normal. From a spectator's perspective, I was so fast and precise that it looked like i was aimbotting. Great times. Unfortunately, I haven't used ecstasy while playing Starcraft 2. I would love to experiment with that.
I have used cannabis while playing starcraft. A low dose. The most significant effect was that thoughts flowed more freely, and I was more creative in my strategies. I was playing terran at the time.
That makes sense to me for an FPS game, you could see how stimulants like that would benefit you. However from personal experience the lack of focus and scattered thoughts you tend to get on ecstasy and similar jobs makes your gameplay woeful when it comes to a game that is based more on conscious decision making, such as Starcraft.
Incidentally, as a cultural question, if indeed I'm correct in thinking so, why exactly are prescription medications used so much more in NA than over in Europe and elsewhere it seems?
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Sorry for going slightly offtopic, but does anyone else get a weird feeling in their back when they've had both caffeine and alchohol?
On topic: I used to only play when i had energy drinks (specifically Monster), but i've stopped because even though i probably played better when stoked up with sugar and caffeine it sucked to have to rely on it.
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sc2+Shrooms=hahahahahahahha the stalkers looked so craaazy. No real playing to be had at that point, just fun.
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Did a planned ladder session on speed once. Game after game for 16 hours with only small breaks. Was pretty good for my ingame mechanics, micro and overall awareness. Strategy wise it sucked though. Terrible timings and constantly misjudging the opponent, switching own strategies way too often. No motivation and rage issues though. Just glad having somthing to do all the time...
It did not improve my game overall. I only really improved my mechanics again after not playing for 6 months and never having played really hardcore. Some games spread over a couple of days would have been better for training i guess.
Don't try this at home kids. I'm not proud of this and no one should do it! Stuff like this takes its toll and i agree on it beeing illegal.
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A couple of days ago I read a nice article in a newspaper which, in its essence, said that serious gaming produces the same amounts of adrenaline in your body as any other physical sport that involves winning and loosing (or any result that matters to you).
The problem with this is that playing starcraft unlike real sports, leaves your body unable to metabolise the adrenaline due to the lack of muscle activity. The consequences are manifold and range from shaky hands up the risk of getting a heart attack.
So, I figured that I need to keep my adrenaline levels down while not loosing my edge in play. I guess I could take regular pushup brakes to keep my heart pumping but i am kind of a lazy dude so no thx... now does anyone have a nice drug to solve the problem with?
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On January 15 2012 04:05 Treziel wrote:
I don't understand people who say they play better on weed. Sure I can mess around and have fun playing custom 1v1's or team games after a smoke, but for laddering, my execution and micro are much worse when I'm stoned, so is my multitask, like I'll be micro'ing a banshee and realise I haven't built any units or scv's for a minute because I was so focused on the banshee micro. I hate playing SC under the influence of any drugs, except caffeine (coffee). I don't think caffeine affects my play that much, just a little more alertness.
QFT.
As someone who used to smoke pot all day every day throughout university, my skill level has sharply increased since i lowered my pot habit. Exactly like the quote, you just miss things that you do naturally when your sober, like macroing and watching the minimap. You play like absolute crap when absolutely stoned, and if you really think you can play better in this state frankly you are just making excuses to make your addiction to pot seem justified.
Weed is great when playing casual teams or customs but for serious ladder its putting a skill ceiling on yourself mechanically and mentally. You might be more "calm" but you could attain this same calmness by doing deep-breathing exercises and relaxing before you play, personally playing in a relaxed state of mind usually ends up with me losing because you need to be alert and active throughout the whole game to have victory.
The most weed I will smoke before a 1v1 session is 1 joint and I will allow myself to become "stoned" while watching GSL, reps or team games, and when I feel ready for 1s a sharp coffee or Coke to wake up, even then I find I burn out quicker because you need to re-ignite your high at some point or you fall off the cliff of mental energy.
Also never try to play while on Salvia, I took a hit, came out of my trip with my keyboard and mouse unplugged and neatly tied up...on the floor with my monitor, with a "defeat" window waiting for me. Watching the replay showed I built 7 scvs before spamming rally points and shouting jibberish at my opponent...
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I've been playing SC2 while waiting for sleep medication to kick in. Usually takes around 30mins to kick in... Ended up in an extreme macro game... Turns out adrenaline and other hormones you get from playing SC are stronger than my medication... Couldn't fall asleep and I'm not allowed to take more medication/day
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The year was 2009, it was a warm winter evening in Austin, Texas. I had recently been dumped by by girlfriend Katrina in addition to failing to meet my daily ladder goal, which I hadn't had started yet. One day, I come across Jimmy, the brother of my ex-wife, Angelina. Jimmy is a drug dealer, and he offers me a sample of a new nootropic drug, NZT-48, claiming it allows humans to access 100% of the brain's power, as opposed to the "normal" 20%. I accept, and, much to my surprise, the drug does indeed work, putting me into a manic state, and enabling me to play 47 ladder games, winning almost an entire third of them.
The next day I ask for more of the drug, but when Jimmy asks me to go pick up his dry cleaning, I return to find Jimmy murdered and his apartment ransacked. I call the police and deduce that Jimmy was probably killed by someone who wanted his stash of NZT. I find the drugs, his address book, and a wad of cash just before the police arrive. Regularly taking NZT, and using Jimmies cash, I turn my life around. I had done it, I had reached the top 8 of my bronze division.
I get back together with Katrina. After hovering at position 7 in my ladder i decide to increase the dose of NZT while i ladder over 670 games in just a few days. My fame hits Reddit, but I notice they were simply mocking me.
I quickly jump back into Startcraft 2 but the higher dose of NZT is causing side effects like lost time, poorly split drones and hallucinations. Depressed at my inability to focus, i go on a drinking and partying binge, and end up in a hotel room with a striking blond whos name i cannot recall. I am followed there by a man in a tan coat.
I wake up and realize I have no more NZT at my house. I hadnt laddered, but there goes my chances of winning and games anyway.
I was feeling sick after my binge, and getting sicker. My ex-wife calls me and tells me she suspects I am on NZT. I plead for a face-to-face meeting, but Angelina is reluctant. I want to learn more about the side effects of the drug, so I start calling the names in Jimmy's address book. I discover that everyone listed is either dead, or in the hospital sick. While calling one of the names, I hear a phone ring, and a person sitting close by answering. It is the man in the tan coat. He chases me, and i escape and meet with Angelina.
Angelina explains that the drug makes you very sick, especially if you try to go off it cold turkey. She quit 2 years earlier, and felt she was lucky to be alive, but has lost her ability to concentrate, and has become lazy. She tells me the best way is to ease off gradually, reducing the dosage over time.
I find a pill in my pocket, and head home to take it, but am apprehended by Blizzard Support, who had suspected me of purposefully losing thousands of games in order to help get that one achievement that doesn't really look as cool as it probably should. looking for my mobile authenticator, they notice the pill, and take it.
I am getting sicker as I go through withdrawal, and stumble into Katrina's office. I tell her about the drug, and that I have hidden my stash at her apartment. Seeing how sick I am, she agrees to retrieve my stash and return it to me at her office.
On her way back to me, She is intercepted en route by Blizzard Support. It becomes obvious that while high, Blizzard is very dangerous. They chase Katrina, killing two men trying to help her as she flees. By phone, I convince her to take a pill as it will enable her to know what to do to survive. Doing so, she makes a bold escape. Though I am saved, Katrina is convinced that I will destroy myself because of NZT and breaks up with me again.
Blizzard realizes the effects the drug has and threatens me until I agree to give them more NZT. Because of Angelina's warnings, I manage my consumption of the drug down to an acceptable level, and hire bodyguards, and recruit a scientist to work on reverse engineering NZT.
Blizzard breaks down the door to my apartment, looking for the NZT. Blizzard explains that they are no longer ingesting the pills, but instead dissolving them in water, and injecting them. The effects hit faster, longer and improve your fire rate. While Blizzard's searching my apartment, I am shot while managing to successfully stab one of them. I am desperate for a hit as I lay beside the bleeding man. All I can do is drink the blood that is pooling beside him. Revitalized, I stab one of the psychotic blizzard employees in the eye, and trick them into shooting the other.
One year later, I had done it. Silver league mother-fucker.
Blizzard offers me an unlimited supply of NZT (admitting that they both know I was headed for GM); I refuse, I no longer needed the drug. Having had the foresight to have multiple labs working on the NZT, I had refinined it so that I could quit it without experiencing side effects, while permanently retaining its mental enhancements.
Blizzard however was not so lucky, plagued by mass numbers of employees suffering from withdrawal , patch 1.4.2 is released.
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When I want to play serious and win I do take some vyvanse 50mg, it is like adderall but better at least it is for me. When I play the game high on pot I get to scared and scream. When I play multiplayer I either can't play high or mute my mic because I get super loud and scream for help. Watching your base slowly die when you are high is not fun. I have played while on other things but I wont get into that.
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+ Show Spoiler +On January 15 2012 05:51 SnowSC2 wrote:
The year was 2009, it was a warm winter evening in Austin, Texas. I had recently been dumped by by girlfriend Katrina in addition to failing to meet my daily ladder goal, which I hadn't had started yet. One day, I come across Jimmy, the brother of my ex-wife, Angelina. Jimmy is a drug dealer, and he offers me a sample of a new nootropic drug, NZT-48, claiming it allows humans to access 100% of the brain's power, as opposed to the "normal" 20%. I accept, and, much to my surprise, the drug does indeed work, putting me into a manic state, and enabling me to play 47 ladder games, winning almost an entire third of them.
The next day I ask for more of the drug, but when Jimmy asks me to go pick up his dry cleaning, I return to find Jimmy murdered and his apartment ransacked. I call the police and deduce that Jimmy was probably killed by someone who wanted his stash of NZT. I find the drugs, his address book, and a wad of cash just before the police arrive. Regularly taking NZT, and using Jimmies cash, I turn my life around. I had done it, I had reached the top 8 of my bronze division.
I get back together with Katrina. After hovering at position 7 in my ladder i decide to increase the dose of NZT while i ladder over 670 games in just a few days. My fame hits Reddit, but I notice they were simply mocking me.
I quickly jump back into Startcraft 2 but the higher dose of NZT is causing side effects like lost time, poorly split drones and hallucinations. Depressed at my inability to focus, i go on a drinking and partying binge, and end up in a hotel room with a striking blond whos name i cannot recall. I am followed there by the man in the a coat.
I wake up and realize I have no more NZT at my house. I hadnt laddered, but there goes my chances anyway.
I was feeling sick after my binge, and getting sicker. My ex-wife calls me and tells me she suspects I am on NZT. I plead for a face-to-face meeting, but Angelina is reluctant. I want to learn more about the side effects of the drug, so I start calling the names in Jimmy's address book. I discover that everyone listed is either dead, or in the hospital sick. While calling one of the names, I hear a phone ring, and a person sitting close by answering. It is the man in the tan coat. He chases me, and i escape and meet with Angelina.
Angelina explains that the drug makes you very sick, especially if you try to go off it cold turkey. She quit 2 years earlier, and felt she was lucky to be alive, but has lost her ability to concentrate, and has become lazy. She tells me the best way is to ease off gradually, reducing the dosage over time.
I find a pill in my pocket, and head home to take it, but am apprehended by Blizzard Support, who had suspected me of purposefully losing thousands of games in order to help get that one achievement that doesn't really look as cool as it probably should. looking for my mobile authenticator, they notice the pill, and take it.
I am getting sicker as I go through withdrawal, and stumble into Katrina's office. I tell her about the drug, and that I have hidden my stash at her apartment. Seeing how sick I am, she agrees to retrieve my stash and return it to me at her office.
On her way back to me, She is intercepted en route by Blizzard Support. It becomes obvious that while high, Blizzard is very dangerous. They chase Katrina, killing two men trying to help her as she flees. By phone, I convince her to take a pill as it will enable her to know what to do to survive. Doing so, she makes a bold escape. Though I am saved, Katrina is convinced that I will destroy myself because of NZT and breaks up with me again.
Blizzard realizes the effects the drug has and threatens me until I agree to give them more NZT. Because of Angelina's warnings, I manage my consumption of the drug down to an acceptable level, and hire bodyguards, and recruit a scientist to work on reverse engineering NZT.
Blizzard breaks down the door to my apartment, looking for the NZT. Blizzard explains that they are no longer ingesting the pills, but instead dissolving them in water, and injecting them. The effects hit faster, longer and improve your fire rate. While Blizzard's searching my apartment, I am shot while managing to successfully stab one of them. I am desperate for a hit as I lay beside the bleeding man. All I can do is drink the blood that is pooling beside him. Revitalized, I stab one of the psychotic blizzard employees in the eye, and trick them into shooting the other.
One year later, I had done it. Silver league mother-fucker.
Blizzard offers me an unlimited supply of NZT (admitting that they both know I was headed for GM); I refuse, I no longer needed the drug. Having had the foresight to have multiple labs working on the NZT, I had refinined it so that I could quit it without experiencing side effects, while permanently retaining its mental enhancements.
Blizzard however was not so lucky, plagued by mass numbers of employees suffering from withdrawal , patch 1.4.2 is released.
You should've taken some more NZT, maybe you'd gain psychic powers!
On Topic: I think I ladder a lot better when I drink caffine. I usually don't drink any coffee so for me it's easy to see how it effects how I do things, but my dad for example drinks so much coffee that if I drank that much it probably wouldn't help me.
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Playing at high masters/ GM level high on weed is proof that every little things matter at highest level of play.
PPl i normally roll over will make me look terrible if im stoned(weed), that 1 second extra reaction time, and the tunneling really hurts... You can play for fun stoned, but no way can you compete. Going 3minutes without larva inject busy harassing microing, beeing like hell yea im schooling this dude. Then you realize you only have 6 larvas sitting when he moves out, facepalm.
Overall, drugs are not good and will do nothing but cripple you.
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Alright, I will go into other drugs I have done while playing starcraft 2.
Ketamine: Do not play starcraft 2 on 'K' I was useless and could not function on it or play.
Acid: I played SC2 on acid and I got super sad while I was killing the terran units and I felt like a murderer and the screen was swirling all over.
Shrooms: I played for 4 games won 2 and then went outside to play.
2CI: My game was horrible and off in so many ways.
2CE: I did so so I went 3 games with winning and then went on a major lose cycle.
Speed: I have played SC2 on speed multiple times and I did do well. I currently do not do speed and you shouldn't either.
Molly: Loved playing on molly but I found myself talking to much in the game on mic and with players on the other teams having heart to hearts with them.
Adderall: I love playing on adderall and I always do.
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It would be interesting to see how many pro players are on adderall, ritalin, and the like. It's pretty likely that some of them are on those drugs and that their performance gets busted as a result. At some point mayor tournaments should take seriously the possibility of submitting their players to drug tests. It's not obvious that they should, but the possibility is worth considering.
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+ Show Spoiler + SnowSC2 United States. January 15 2012 05:51. Posts 568 PM Profile Blog Report Quote #
The year was 2009, it was a warm winter evening in Austin, Texas. I had recently been dumped by by girlfriend Katrina in addition to failing to meet my daily ladder goal, which I hadn't had started yet. One day, I come across Jimmy, the brother of my ex-wife, Angelina. Jimmy is a drug dealer, and he offers me a sample of a new nootropic drug, NZT-48, claiming it allows humans to access 100% of the brain's power, as opposed to the "normal" 20%. I accept, and, much to my surprise, the drug does indeed work, putting me into a manic state, and enabling me to play 47 ladder games, winning almost an entire third of them.
The next day I ask for more of the drug, but when Jimmy asks me to go pick up his dry cleaning, I return to find Jimmy murdered and his apartment ransacked. I call the police and deduce that Jimmy was probably killed by someone who wanted his stash of NZT. I find the drugs, his address book, and a wad of cash just before the police arrive. Regularly taking NZT, and using Jimmies cash, I turn my life around. I had done it, I had reached the top 8 of my bronze division.
I get back together with Katrina. After hovering at position 7 in my ladder i decide to increase the dose of NZT while i ladder over 670 games in just a few days. My fame hits Reddit, but I notice they were simply mocking me.
I quickly jump back into Startcraft 2 but the higher dose of NZT is causing side effects like lost time, poorly split drones and hallucinations. Depressed at my inability to focus, i go on a drinking and partying binge, and end up in a hotel room with a striking blond whos name i cannot recall. I am followed there by the man in the a coat.
I wake up and realize I have no more NZT at my house. I hadnt laddered, but there goes my chances anyway.
I was feeling sick after my binge, and getting sicker. My ex-wife calls me and tells me she suspects I am on NZT. I plead for a face-to-face meeting, but Angelina is reluctant. I want to learn more about the side effects of the drug, so I start calling the names in Jimmy's address book. I discover that everyone listed is either dead, or in the hospital sick. While calling one of the names, I hear a phone ring, and a person sitting close by answering. It is the man in the tan coat. He chases me, and i escape and meet with Angelina.
Angelina explains that the drug makes you very sick, especially if you try to go off it cold turkey. She quit 2 years earlier, and felt she was lucky to be alive, but has lost her ability to concentrate, and has become lazy. She tells me the best way is to ease off gradually, reducing the dosage over time.
I find a pill in my pocket, and head home to take it, but am apprehended by Blizzard Support, who had suspected me of purposefully losing thousands of games in order to help get that one achievement that doesn't really look as cool as it probably should. looking for my mobile authenticator, they notice the pill, and take it.
I am getting sicker as I go through withdrawal, and stumble into Katrina's office. I tell her about the drug, and that I have hidden my stash at her apartment. Seeing how sick I am, she agrees to retrieve my stash and return it to me at her office.
On her way back to me, She is intercepted en route by Blizzard Support. It becomes obvious that while high, Blizzard is very dangerous. They chase Katrina, killing two men trying to help her as she flees. By phone, I convince her to take a pill as it will enable her to know what to do to survive. Doing so, she makes a bold escape. Though I am saved, Katrina is convinced that I will destroy myself because of NZT and breaks up with me again.
Blizzard realizes the effects the drug has and threatens me until I agree to give them more NZT. Because of Angelina's warnings, I manage my consumption of the drug down to an acceptable level, and hire bodyguards, and recruit a scientist to work on reverse engineering NZT.
Blizzard breaks down the door to my apartment, looking for the NZT. Blizzard explains that they are no longer ingesting the pills, but instead dissolving them in water, and injecting them. The effects hit faster, longer and improve your fire rate. While Blizzard's searching my apartment, I am shot while managing to successfully stab one of them. I am desperate for a hit as I lay beside the bleeding man. All I can do is drink the blood that is pooling beside him. Revitalized, I stab one of the psychotic blizzard employees in the eye, and trick them into shooting the other.
One year later, I had done it. Silver league mother-fucker.
Blizzard offers me an unlimited supply of NZT (admitting that they both know I was headed for GM); I refuse, I no longer needed the drug. Having had the foresight to have multiple labs working on the NZT, I had refinined it so that I could quit it without experiencing side effects, while permanently retaining its mental enhancements.
Blizzard however was not so lucky, plagued by mass numbers of employees suffering from withdrawal , patch 1.4.2 is released.
i forgot the movie's name but i remember it being awesome 
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Also i really dislike the idea of taking drugs to try to improve performance in game. If your regularly taking medication or maybe you have certain caffeine habits etc. I think thats fine, but things like taking adderall specifically to perform better is just an appalling concept to me. I hate the idea of relying on or contributing your success to something you've taken to be "better" at sc2. It's more of the idea that thats not quite you that is playing better. Its an altered you. I understand why people do it at a high level, i don't agree with it but i get that your perception of such things can more easily swing in one direction or the other when your stressed or at a hard block or things like that but i would always disagree with the abuse of such things.
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On January 15 2012 06:26 alpenrahm wrote:+ Show Spoiler + SnowSC2 United States. January 15 2012 05:51. Posts 568 PM Profile Blog Report Quote #
The year was 2009, it was a warm winter evening in Austin, Texas. I had recently been dumped by by girlfriend Katrina in addition to failing to meet my daily ladder goal, which I hadn't had started yet. One day, I come across Jimmy, the brother of my ex-wife, Angelina. Jimmy is a drug dealer, and he offers me a sample of a new nootropic drug, NZT-48, claiming it allows humans to access 100% of the brain's power, as opposed to the "normal" 20%. I accept, and, much to my surprise, the drug does indeed work, putting me into a manic state, and enabling me to play 47 ladder games, winning almost an entire third of them.
The next day I ask for more of the drug, but when Jimmy asks me to go pick up his dry cleaning, I return to find Jimmy murdered and his apartment ransacked. I call the police and deduce that Jimmy was probably killed by someone who wanted his stash of NZT. I find the drugs, his address book, and a wad of cash just before the police arrive. Regularly taking NZT, and using Jimmies cash, I turn my life around. I had done it, I had reached the top 8 of my bronze division.
I get back together with Katrina. After hovering at position 7 in my ladder i decide to increase the dose of NZT while i ladder over 670 games in just a few days. My fame hits Reddit, but I notice they were simply mocking me.
I quickly jump back into Startcraft 2 but the higher dose of NZT is causing side effects like lost time, poorly split drones and hallucinations. Depressed at my inability to focus, i go on a drinking and partying binge, and end up in a hotel room with a striking blond whos name i cannot recall. I am followed there by the man in the a coat.
I wake up and realize I have no more NZT at my house. I hadnt laddered, but there goes my chances anyway.
I was feeling sick after my binge, and getting sicker. My ex-wife calls me and tells me she suspects I am on NZT. I plead for a face-to-face meeting, but Angelina is reluctant. I want to learn more about the side effects of the drug, so I start calling the names in Jimmy's address book. I discover that everyone listed is either dead, or in the hospital sick. While calling one of the names, I hear a phone ring, and a person sitting close by answering. It is the man in the tan coat. He chases me, and i escape and meet with Angelina.
Angelina explains that the drug makes you very sick, especially if you try to go off it cold turkey. She quit 2 years earlier, and felt she was lucky to be alive, but has lost her ability to concentrate, and has become lazy. She tells me the best way is to ease off gradually, reducing the dosage over time.
I find a pill in my pocket, and head home to take it, but am apprehended by Blizzard Support, who had suspected me of purposefully losing thousands of games in order to help get that one achievement that doesn't really look as cool as it probably should. looking for my mobile authenticator, they notice the pill, and take it.
I am getting sicker as I go through withdrawal, and stumble into Katrina's office. I tell her about the drug, and that I have hidden my stash at her apartment. Seeing how sick I am, she agrees to retrieve my stash and return it to me at her office.
On her way back to me, She is intercepted en route by Blizzard Support. It becomes obvious that while high, Blizzard is very dangerous. They chase Katrina, killing two men trying to help her as she flees. By phone, I convince her to take a pill as it will enable her to know what to do to survive. Doing so, she makes a bold escape. Though I am saved, Katrina is convinced that I will destroy myself because of NZT and breaks up with me again.
Blizzard realizes the effects the drug has and threatens me until I agree to give them more NZT. Because of Angelina's warnings, I manage my consumption of the drug down to an acceptable level, and hire bodyguards, and recruit a scientist to work on reverse engineering NZT.
Blizzard breaks down the door to my apartment, looking for the NZT. Blizzard explains that they are no longer ingesting the pills, but instead dissolving them in water, and injecting them. The effects hit faster, longer and improve your fire rate. While Blizzard's searching my apartment, I am shot while managing to successfully stab one of them. I am desperate for a hit as I lay beside the bleeding man. All I can do is drink the blood that is pooling beside him. Revitalized, I stab one of the psychotic blizzard employees in the eye, and trick them into shooting the other.
One year later, I had done it. Silver league mother-fucker.
Blizzard offers me an unlimited supply of NZT (admitting that they both know I was headed for GM); I refuse, I no longer needed the drug. Having had the foresight to have multiple labs working on the NZT, I had refinined it so that I could quit it without experiencing side effects, while permanently retaining its mental enhancements.
Blizzard however was not so lucky, plagued by mass numbers of employees suffering from withdrawal , patch 1.4.2 is released. i forgot the movie's name but i remember it being awesome
Limitless.
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On January 14 2012 14:19 Vei wrote:
edit: k so, alcohol sc2 can really prove to you how good you are because you rely a lot more on muscle memory and how comfortable you are with the game. I'm mid master basically and I can wreck any diamond while fairly buzzed and probably beat low masters as long as they didn't do anything too fucking meta (you sort of play more mechanically/thoughtless on alcohol).
k that's all.
This is super true for me as well. I honestly prefer playing sc2 while drinking because it takes all of the stress out of the game for me Though I'm only diamond XD
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+1 for the hippy speedball. I don't even know how to log into bnet w/o a cup and a bowl.
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I'm frequently in the top 300 of master league for reference;
alcohol: 1-3 drinks has virtually no effect. 3-5 drinks and I start noticing the game "speeding up". 8+ drinks and I'm toast. I play at a diamond level.
weed: I don't really smoke that much... I got a free eighth of some Blue Dream about 8 months ago and I still have a solid sized nugget left. Needless to say, it doesn't take much smoke to get me really high. I find myself playing at a mid-low masters level depending on how high I am. Noticeably more supply blocked.
caffeine: Whenever I drank coffee or Red Bull while playing, I would go on these 10-2 streaks, 8-1, those type of streaks... and start playing players like EGStrifeCro and puCK, DaisyPrime, ThisIsJimmy, etc. My MMR shoots up when I'm on caffeine. I am generally more alert, my game sense is heightened, and my mechanics and APM are notably more concise.
It sucks though, because after I go on one of those runs, the next session I play (not jacked of coffee) I get demolished.
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Northern Ireland26763 Posts
On January 15 2012 09:22 ButtCraft wrote:
I'm frequently in the top 300 of master league for reference;
alcohol: 1-3 drinks has virtually no effect. 3-5 drinks and I start noticing the game "speeding up". 8+ drinks and I'm toast. I play at a diamond level.
weed: I don't really smoke that much... I got a free eighth of some Blue Dream about 8 months ago and I still have a solid sized nugget left. Needless to say, it doesn't take much smoke to get me really high. I find myself playing at a mid-low masters level depending on how high I am. Noticeably more supply blocked.
caffeine: Whenever I drank coffee or Red Bull while playing, I would go on these 10-2 streaks, 8-1, those type of streaks... and start playing players like EGStrifeCro and puCK, DaisyPrime, ThisIsJimmy, etc. My MMR shoots up when I'm on caffeine. I am generally more alert, my game sense is heightened, and my mechanics and APM are notably more concise.
It sucks though, because after I go on one of those runs, the next session I play (not jacked of coffee) I get demolished.
Sadly caffeine doesn't give me such performance-enhancing effects, given I was 10+ cups of coffee a day for years I feel my body just requires caffeine to reach normal levels of alertness.
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