watched the second part. decent interview, qxc seems like a pretty intelligent guy.

BUT! around 10 mins into the interview (2nd part) he says that human brains are designed to do one thing at a time and that is it. he says this to justify that you can't really think while playing.

this is completely not true, the human brain is built to parallel process.

-Debaser-

United States329 Posts

March 04 2012 10:58 GMT

#102

Very good interviews - qxc has good insight into the game

Dyspathy

United States83 Posts

March 04 2012 11:02 GMT

#103

On March 04 2012 18:55 tronix wrote:
this is completely not true, the human brain is built to parallel process.

dont mean to be rude, but care to enlighten me as to why many human being utterly fail at this seemingly built in mechanic of the brain? Myself, included... I can't multitask to save my freakin life.

TORTOISE

United States515 Posts

March 04 2012 16:39 GMT

#104

QXC is such a godliek nerd baller. I respect his intelligence and his playskills.

mememolly

4765 Posts

March 04 2012 16:54 GMT

#105

On March 02 2012 07:30 sereniity wrote:

Show nested quote +

I'm interested in this... elaborate please :D.

idra always seems to have weird beef with any threat to his "best foreigner" tag, although for him that tag has totally diminished now, what with stephano/thorzain etc

StarStruck

25339 Posts

March 04 2012 17:05 GMT

#106

No one had it to begin with. -_-

Finally got around to listening this. Highly recommend everyone watch it to get rid of some of your preconceived notions. -.-

There are a few things I would like to touch base on in reply to qxc's thoughts.

10m-13m of the 2nd video: creativity versus playing by the book.

This ties into how new BW pro's enter the fray. You have one safe build to master. You don't deviate from the build until you master it as it is your foundation; there is no going against the grain. You only improvise and start building your star sense once you've mastered that build.

Star sense can come with time and patience. Players learn to adapt/improvise from this model.

That's but one principle of the BW regime.

Xirroh

Canada146 Posts

March 04 2012 18:05 GMT

#107

On March 04 2012 18:55 tronix wrote:
watched the second part. decent interview, qxc seems like a pretty intelligent guy.

BUT! around 10 mins into the interview (2nd part) he says that human brains are designed to do one thing at a time and that is it. he says this to justify that you can't really think while playing.

this is completely not true, the human brain is built to parallel process.

When you multitask one thing runs in the forward (conscious) brain, and others run in the background. In this way yes you can quickly switch between doing multiple things at once, and the unconscious does 'think' or at least process so you can run in parallel.

However, you are still only committing a part of your brain to task 1 as some of it is being used for task 2. Because of this the depth of thought / analysis that can be achieved while doing multiple tasks isn't as great as just focusing on one thing for hours.

For a pro trying to create new game knowledge, doing one thing at a time seems to be more efficient.

Thorin

601 Posts

March 05 2012 02:57 GMT

#108

Part three, the final part, added.

awwnuts07

United States621 Posts

March 05 2012 03:25 GMT

#109

Love qxc's timeline analogy. Hope he eventually has more time to practice. I really enjoy his playstyle.

VillageBC

322 Posts

March 05 2012 04:16 GMT

#110

Thanks for bringing that interview Thorin and thanks to QXC for giving it. It's nice to hear intelligent, deeper probing, non-pr laden interviews.

RezChi

Canada2368 Posts

March 05 2012 04:18 GMT

#111

HerO's in code S o_O

Nizzy

United States839 Posts

March 05 2012 04:33 GMT

#112

Really legit 3-part series. Can't wait til qxc can full time sc2!!! oh yeah!

DaemonX

545 Posts

March 05 2012 05:43 GMT

#113

On March 05 2012 13:18 RezChi wrote:
HerO's in code S o_O

He's getting better, but let's see if he stays there.

Fantastic series QXC, very insightful - self-assured yet humble, very rare combo.

gozima

Canada602 Posts

March 05 2012 05:45 GMT

#114

Like QXC mentioned, I think one of the largest hurdles facing NA players is access to decent practice partners. If a guy like QXC is having trouble finding top NA pros to practice with, for whatever reasons, something isn't right. Where's the sense of community? Korean's help each other out all the time, from what I can tell.

If you sift through some of the post win interviews from Koreans, they ALWAYS mention and thank players on other teams for helping with practice. This rarely, if ever, happens with foreigners.

woobsauce

United States491 Posts

March 05 2012 06:51 GMT

#115

Thorin, this interview was really amazing. However, I do think you should really, really brush up on sc2 knowledge. I can see why QXC was a little baffled/confused at some of your more nebulous or even outright strange questions (and his reactions in the interview reflect this). You will probably only go so far asking metaphorical questions regarding players, the game, etc.

PS. As far as networking and finding practice partners is concerned: it should be obvious to the community by now that the best players always find the best practice partners to help them. In post match interviews for gsl games, gsl finals, etc. in every interview the players list and thank their practice partners, and rarely are they only players from their own team.

jmbthirteen

United States10734 Posts

March 05 2012 07:17 GMT

#116

On March 05 2012 13:18 RezChi wrote:
HerO's in code S o_O

Hero just go into Code S. This interview was done awhile ago. Pretty sure it was done at IEM Kiev, which was in January.

FuRRyChoBo

United States218 Posts

March 05 2012 07:43 GMT

#117

He's definitely right about nobody being good at the game. I guarantee that (assuming SC2 lasts for several more years) when the game is a little more figured out, we'll look back on even the "best" of the Code S finals and cringe. It obviously won't take as long as Brood War given the wealth of information available to improve, but it'll be a while.

As for the the timeline analogy/associating a race's characteristics with a player, I agree 100% as well. I mean, think how at the beginning of the game, it was generally considered that 14/14 was the best opening for any ZvX matchup. Now if you early pool against a Terran, it's nearly suicide. Obviously some patches have changed the game very dramatically, but that's basically what it is. Looking back at Brood War again, think about the era of the 6 Dragons. There was a VERY long period where Bisu was nearly unbeatable, and then the other races adapted and then Protoss started slumping. QXC's description of the Terran Bio Ball being "you make Marines, Marauders, Medivacs, then hit T and everything dies" is the most straightforward way of saying that it's just innately easier to have that sort of unit composition at this current stage in the game's development.

ReketSomething

United States6012 Posts

March 05 2012 08:41 GMT

#118

awesome interview :D

Nile505

United States26 Posts

March 05 2012 08:58 GMT

#119

Some what heartbreaking. The most intresting point to me was that he thought none of the current forigner pros would at all have a future in playing pro starcraft. And QXC at the end of the interview still said he was going to try to do it. Hardcore. That's some serious starcraft passion!