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On June 20 2013 19:30 Locke- wrote:Show nested quote +On May 31 2013 03:53 Juice! wrote:
If you need to motivate yourself for a game .. stop playing that game.
Seriously tho, if you need the motivation, you somewhere deep inside not like the game. Basically this. I don't understand why people make such a big deal about "oh my god guys I don't feel like playing Starcraft, what do I do?". If you don't feel like playing just don't play...
This is pretty simply actually. You value some things, you want them - still, you know you need to put in effort to achieve them.
You want to run a marathon - you need to motivate yourself to wake up earlier and run on a regular basis for a couple of months.
You want to be a good guitar player - you need to motivate yourself to practice scales, timing, precision picking instead of just fooling around and rockin' your heart out.
You want to improve/maintain your SC2 skills - you need to play to the best of your abilities. And if you do so - bad things will happen. You will be matched vs better opponents and lose. Even worse, you should look at the replay and see the guy stomp you once again, relive your own failures.
"Playing the game" is not the goal - at least not for me. Playing a good game - well, that is something else. In order to play a good game I need to be matched with a better player, I need the game to be close, I need to feel that I'm playing well and I need to win.
To play a good game I need to go through some bad ones and some mediocre ones. This is where some motivation comes in handy.
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Having an interesting idea and then putting it to the test motivates me the most. It doesn´t even have to be ridiculous cheese but can be even the slightest bit of micro/ building placement etc adjustment.
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I find that ladder only takes me so far. I lack motivation to ladder 4+ hours a day. I prefer to have practice partners and I try to dissect my matchups on paper. This has been a huge motivator for me. Especialy when I find a good practice partner that I can compete with on a regular basis.
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On May 09 2013 00:32 partydude89 wrote:
I play unranked now. i really does help
Really? I don't even see the point of that excisting I haven't used it once. If you have ladder anxiety just realise that your ladder rank is completly meaningless. I get myself to play by having the desire to improve and generally enjoying the game itself (or atleast focusing on the aspects of the game I don't find to be really poorly designed).
Also practicing for something (like an online cup, or a small tournament you do with your friends or just finally beating that one dude you always lost against) or just running more customs to focus on individual matchups helps as well.
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On June 20 2013 22:32 TXRaunchy wrote:
get stoned and play.
and lose every game when you forget what build you were doing, forget what you scouted, get supply blocked constantly, and think that really bad strats sound really cool and viable
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On June 20 2013 22:34 JSK wrote:and lose every game when you forget what build you were doing, forget what you scouted, get supply blocked constantly, and think that really bad strats sound really cool and viable
I totally agree :D
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On June 20 2013 22:34 JSK wrote:and lose every game when you forget what build you were doing, forget what you scouted, get supply blocked constantly, and think that really bad strats sound really cool and viable
Thats more drunk play, not stoned play. Stoned is pretty much: Feels like playing slow-motion, IRL you are really slow.
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It is really hard to find motivation to play the game. I played WoL for about 3000 games. I got to diamond I got the nova icon. I was so happy. Then HOTS came out and I was diamond again, for awhile flirting with master level, but then I quit because I wanted to play other games on my PS3. SC II isn't a game that is easy. It is hard. And when you come home do you want another challenge? or do you want to relax. Lately I just want to relax haha. But one way I manage to get excited to play is by watching streams or events that have my favorite players in them, it gets me excited to try to play like them. I also recently demoted myself from diamond to gold to learn another race, debating on which one though.
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I motivate myself with a music list, but gets tired of bullshit when I lose 7/10 ladder games to drop because my internet is so fucking bad. :D
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If you have to motive yourself to play ... stop playing and do something you enjoy!
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On June 20 2013 22:35 FetTerBender wrote:Show nested quote +On June 20 2013 22:34 JSK wrote:On June 20 2013 22:32 TXRaunchy wrote:
get stoned and play. and lose every game when you forget what build you were doing, forget what you scouted, get supply blocked constantly, and think that really bad strats sound really cool and viable Thats more drunk play, not stoned play. Stoned is pretty much: Feels like playing slow-motion, IRL you are really slow.
Oh man im so focused when im drunk. It's just I always feel I'm in a position I can all in and win
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On June 20 2013 23:09 Douillos wrote:Show nested quote +On June 20 2013 22:35 FetTerBender wrote:On June 20 2013 22:34 JSK wrote:On June 20 2013 22:32 TXRaunchy wrote:
get stoned and play. and lose every game when you forget what build you were doing, forget what you scouted, get supply blocked constantly, and think that really bad strats sound really cool and viable Thats more drunk play, not stoned play. Stoned is pretty much: Feels like playing slow-motion, IRL you are really slow. Oh man im so focused when im drunk. It's just I always feel I'm in a position I can all in and win
TBH, i focus much better stoned. I got promoted from plat to diamond while high, haha.
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Motivation gets you started, discipline actually makes you practice.
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I stop play because wasn't funny anymore ... :/
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Recently I get my motivation from Select. Seeing him put so much effort into becoming a better player and improving so fast is really pushing me to play some more too.
However it's hard to enjoy SC2 when you play Dota2 and it's much easier (not skill-wise) to enjoy.
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pretty easy to motivate...try to get more ladder games than Empire.Kas ;-) even if you loose you get one game near your goal.
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I have only fun at non-tournament maps. Because nobody can see how the pros play on these maps, so they what they think/like. A lot more diversity strategies than on tournaments maps.
I really hate that everyone are trying to steal strageties of pros and play this against me an then asking me what they did wrong at end of the game. Ofc waay too predicable adn very easy to win against these people if they steal strats of pros.
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On May 09 2013 00:30 Mortal wrote:
What's your why? If you don't have one, you won't play. If you do, you will.
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