Just to start off, i'm a crappy terran sometimes protoss if it's pvt player, probaby in the high d+ iccup ranking. I'm a 'feel' type of player. I don't follow any build orders and pretty much make shit up as i go along. The only build order I do is maybe 11/rax/12gas/16 factory and then it's pretty much whatever i feel like.
I have no early, mid, or late game strategy, just get expansion, make tons of shit and harass where i can.
But i came across some fantasy replays a couple of months ago and one in particular really stood out. It is clan.by vs [s.g]brave on python where Fantasy goes 2 fact>starport and then harasses like mad. I've seen him do several variations of this on different maps. Sometimes he'll port after 2 facs, sometimes 4 facts.
Anyway I'm in love with Fantasy's TvP style because it's so much fun to watch. And having read how strict progamers are with their build orders and strategies, I decided maybe to have a plan during an actual game.
I didn't practice the build order, just watched it a few times and got the generalities of it. The first P I played was kind of newbie, so even though I was really sloppy I rolled over him. But I can tell that Fantasy's build really focused my strategy, helping me to build more units and to harass just as the strategy was intended.
The second P I played was way way better. I think in 10 games we would probably go 5/5. Anyway he opens with templar rush which i neutralized with 1 fact(mines)>CC. 2 factories and then a starport. From here Fantasy just harassed, macroed, and took third base.
I was surprised by how well Fantasy's strategy worked. My dropship+2tanks managed 31 kills before they were killed, having lasted about 6-7 minutes of life. I was ALWAYS ahead in supply count, usually ahead of my opponent by about 20 supplies. We had several battles, almost all of them won by him, but even when he decimated my army I was still ahead in supply. Eventually my dropship harass and vulture harass pulled me ahead macroed wise and I won.
I think if I play another 100 games I could refine my play where I can be really efficient with it. Right now it's very sloppy because I'm not use to this strategy.
But it has occured to me that following a very strict strategy/build order is completely more efficient than just playing by feel. What I'm saying is obvious to many of you, but I bet there are countless players who are just winging and think that it makes no difference. I beg to differ.
I really suggest what everyone like Artosis and Idra have suggested, and that is to follow one strict strategy over time. I can't believe how much of a difference it is.
first i saw it i thought okay, some weird spelling mistake, but then i saw it twice today and since those letters are not even close to each other on the keyboard this cannot be a coincidence.
Okay, so I need some advice on a good alcoholic beveraqe. I'm not looking for beer brands as beer is just beer. But helpful advice on wine, or spirits would be nice. I'll be going out to buy a couple of bottles so if you can help me with this.
is absolutely fucking beautiful. There are a few skills that I see in others that I really admire, and by that virtue, also envy. In truth there's a TON of things I can't do, athletic wise, intelligence wise, and so on, but there's but a handful of those that I actually really want to be able to do.
In particular, Flash's macro is just jaw droppingly good. I never use to appreciate the macro side of things, but after comparing my games, and the games of very good foreigners, and then to compare us against the progamers. It feels like I've stepped off the cliff of a mountain and fallen. It's so hard to explain.
I've watch a ton of replays, fpvods, and I even analyzed via bwchart and eapm but it's unexplainable. It's perfection. You swear someone would need 2 additional hands to pull off the things he pulls off but nope, he's got as much as us to work with but can do twice as much.
recently i re-watched the shawshank redemption in the comfort of my room. it's amazing that this movie was made in 1994 and yet 14 years later remains one of my favorites. It holds up so well. the first time I saw it was around 2000 or so when my English teacher showed it to the class.
I went on wikipedia to find more information about the movie and this is some interesting stuff that I found:
>Brad Pitt was considered for the role of the guy who was shot after saying that he talked to the guy who killed Andy Dufresne' wife and her lover.
>Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Nicholas Cage, and Charlie Sheen were all considered for Andy Dufresne! Can you imagine that?? How different the movie would have been.
>Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford, are among a few who were considered for the role of "Red"! Again, WTF. I'm so happy Morgan Freeman got the role.
>The director also directed the Green Mile, both movies about prison and of course both written by Stephen King. He also directed The Mist. Also a King book.
>In the year that it came out, two other movies came out: Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction. Both movies completely overshadowed SR, winning all the Oscars. But 2008, most people rank Shawshank above Forrest and Fiction on Best Movies of All Time lists.
>In the movie, when Red is approved parole, the young man in the picture of his ID is that off his son Alfonso. He also plays the guy at the beginning of the movie when the new arrivals appear and he's calling out 'fishy fishy' holding an imaginary rod.
That's it. I'll probably see this movie again soon.
I don't know i qualify as one but carrying over from the president's election I've been following the news alot. I followed CNN almost religiously, and on the New York Times site I'll make several visits a day. The two sections that I keep up with the most are Sprorts and U.S.>Education.
One of the reasons that I read the news is that I'm afraid I'll miss something important or something that will change my life for the better. I think it's paranoia to a certain degree. I keep thinking there's this one magical article that's either written and published or will be published soon that will give me an epiphany that will solve all my problems( i have a few). It's sort of similar to guys who post on Teamliquid asking for a magic pill that will make them pro gamers. I'm sorta like that but on a larger scale.
i feel like i'm suffering from information overload or something. i know a little too much about things i'd rather forget about. mostly it's about people, alittle about history, and alittle about myself.
sometimes i think about what it would be like to be someone else, living in almost destitution. like mongolian nomads, who live in the harsh mountains, gather food, hunting animals, raising kids, and tending to the land. simple.
sure there would be no starcraft, no television, no fast food. but i wouldn't even know about these things to miss them much.
the world is getting way too complicated. we, as in people who live in the industrialized world, depend on material possession for happiness. but that's only because we've been taught at a young age that the accumulation of material goods is the key to being happy. i don't think that's true.
i don't think being poor and homeless is that great either. but poor and homeless people in my society no that they're at bottom of the totem. they live without. they don't have material possessions and they are not plugged into the mainstream.
but how is that different from inuit people who live and hunt in near artic weather. i think an inuit hunter can be happier than an investment banker if he never has to believe that money and items are everything.
i worked as a migrant farmer in the summer. woke up at 5 am, rode in a 14 seat filled broken down van for 2 hours to and fro. got home 7:30 pm everyday. i picked weeds, fruits, sorted fruits, packed grapes. i worked on my hands and knees, muddied, aching, sometimes feeling like giving up, sometimes itching so bad i wanted to quit, other times i would feel fire in the throat for not packing enough water to drink. I'd get bug bites, injured, scratched, yelled at, cursed at, disrespected. all for 7 dollars an hour.
i worked like that for 10 hours each day, 6 days a week. and i loved it. if i could have done that for the rest of my life and have enough to pay rent and food and never have to go back to urbanized society i would have been elated. maybe one day.
i played a pvt on temple, with some harass at the beginning. watch what happens when he takes .1 seconds too long to complete a wall in. it costed him the game.
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