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So recently I was playing some iccup and she decided that she wanted to play too. At first she wanted to play on iccup too but I recommended against it. So she played a few games on my old bnet account and went 0-14 and got discouraged and wanted to play me.
So then I played her. First game was ZvT on Python, me Z at 6, her T at 12. I didn't want to beat up on her too bad so I went for 3 hatch no pool into double expo at corner and other main after pool, then made 36 speedlings and went for dual evo triple gas hive rush, and took another main/nat and both islands after hive and took my hatch count up to 25 at 12 minutes. She said that I was "qi fu ren" (or being mean to her).
So then next game was on othello and I was P, and she was T, and I went trip nexus before gate into 9 base carrier into 9 base mass gate + arb. She said that again and now refuses to play with me.
Do you think I was too mean to her?
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it was mean not to show her how to play the game.
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There's a thread where you can post a picture of your girlfriend in the General forums.
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haha i could see that from her point of view, you should have just had fun with her, sent a few marines in when you knew she could take care of them etc
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No, not really but maybe you should teach her.
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On May 13 2009 06:52 Ack1027 wrote:
There's a thread where you can post a picture of your girlfriend in the General forums.
hahaha that made me laugh
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yes, u sabotaged yourself to make her feel good and she took that as an insult
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Calgary25981 Posts
You sound like a terrible teacher. You're basically going "ahahahaha look how good I am"
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show her progaming to give her an idea of wtf terran shud do aginst zerg. dont show her recent games. show her old boxer games with highlights that will keep her hooked.
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lol schooling her =/= teaching her starcraft XD
maybe start with micro battles? :0
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On May 13 2009 06:52 Ack1027 wrote:
There's a thread where you can post a picture of your girlfriend in the General forums.
rofl
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On May 13 2009 06:54 Chill wrote:
You sound like a terrible teacher. You're basically going "ahahahaha look how good I am"
It's difficult imo, you don't wanna beat them really, but they still wanna play you. But I agree.
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I had the EXACT same reaction from my sister a few years ago when I tired to teach her. She'd say, "I'm not going to be your practice. You're just being mean." This was after she insisted I teach her... I just gave up. In hindsight I was being a jerk. Playing a 1v1 versus someone who just picked up the game is ridiculous.
I really don't know how to induce a different reaction by doing this. This isn't just a hard game it is totally unforgiving. A better player is obviously better than a worse one and you can't do anything about that. It's hard for a new player to start up, even harder if you're being destroyed by someone you have an attachment to while they don't even need to try.
So in my opinion DO NOT PLAY VERSUS HER!
You could 2v2 versus comps. If she doesn't know all the units yet you might even want to try playing together switching off and explaining what you do as you do it. (Team melee even)
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roflthread.
Yeah, you're pretty much a jackass. You could have played a 2v1 with her against computers to get her started and interested in the game. Aid her, I dunno, to victory or something? But no, you chose to humiliate your girlfriend.
Once again: roflthread.
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Calgary25981 Posts
It's not that hard to teach people without steamrolling them, come on. Teach her the fundamentals and explain why she should do certain things. Don't even tell her which units are good at the start, just explain where they come from and how they operate. Play 2v1 comp to start.
Of course this is all assuming you actually have an interest in getting her into starcraft.
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You have to teach how to play before you play her lol
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yeah you were being pretty mean imo
she was just curious about the game and you roflstomped her
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Did you call her a skilless fucking newbie during the games as well?
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