[Interviews] ret & MaNa - Page 3

FragKrag

United States11567 Posts

January 21 2010 03:05 GMT

#41

If I was ret I would be disappointed as well...

If you get no respect/no attempts at communication from other members- what's the point of being a team at all?

Brett

Australia3822 Posts

January 21 2010 03:12 GMT

#42

On January 21 2010 09:53 Picture wrote:

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You are so ridiculous, lol. Even athletes traditionally hit their primes after 22. Musicians? Even later. Seriously, some people still grow in their 20's. And regardless, you honestly think that 1 or 2 years of aging will slow you down in any significant way? Yea, you must think that people are cripples when they reach their 30's.

Becoming adults + playing the same game for 5000 hours -> sick of sc. That's all there is to it.

This.

I'd say it's a combination of the excessive practice regimes and growing up and having your eyes open to the world of possibilities (let's not forget that you have to be some kind of special hardcore nerd to be up for a korean progamer's lifestyle... there's no doubt you're fucking sheltered as a result).

By all reports, this is not the life of a professional tennis player who travels the world with the adoration of millions, the glamour and glitz of all the media commitments/deals and yet retains the ability to have a reasonable social life.

Years of 13 hour practice days without the real promise of even a reasonable wage... plus the realisation that, once they reach the top, if they don't maintain that schedule they will fall tenfold faster than they rose... No fucking wonder all the top players discover girls, partying et al and stop performing. Why would they give a shit at that point?

13 hours a day for Jaedong's salary and no life? Give me a fucking break.

M-buster

Honduras8 Posts

January 21 2010 04:45 GMT

#43

i think the guys at estro might have seen ret as a threat, seeing he was about as good as them. he is also an older guy from a different race, culture, etc. that can't speak their language, the age difference alone, in the case of a korean would have been an issue. Ret's expectations were a bit high as well, perhaps thinking the koreans being surprised at how good he was and finding out that in korea he was just an average player that couldn't play zvz. the kids at estro are very young and play starcraft all day so they are probably very immature and might have tried to give ret a hard time. i speculate of course, but it wouldn't be too surprising. Anyway i hope ret does well in his next courage and gets some money back from what he spent in korea by going far in tsl.

NeCroPoTeNce

United States513 Posts

January 21 2010 05:06 GMT

#44

That's too bad for Ret. Never thought that Koreans would throw shit at him all day though, and let him practice all alone on iccup. Kinda takes out the whole point of being in a progaming house. Hope you win courage though! And good luck in the TSL man! : D