Nina's SC Blog, yeah

I love StarCraft, so I've decided to set some goals. And why not? From all the popular lore I half-listen to, the act of setting goals only helps you reach happiness, nirvana and fulfills all your dreams.

My first goal is to get to the A/B Ladder on ICCup, without any sort of cheating or massive amounts of fluke wins.

There's a few reasons I want this: Because it'd be soooooooo cool and I'd be all the rage at parties. Next, I've never really been challenged with something like this before. Sure, I've played in Ze Chess Club when I was 12, but since then, I've been so super-lazy intellectually, that now I feel like my concentration may not allow me to be good at StarCraft, and I want to prove myself wrong about that. I want to know for sure that I can still set a goal, and apply the kind of critical thinking and discipline to get that goal.


My second goal is to be a total nerd and buy a cute item of StarCraft clothing.

Like a t-shirt maybe? Yeah.


My third goal is to win a StarCraft tournament.

I want to win a big tournament with some awesome people in it. Sure, I could go get a 40% B- rank on ICCup, but that's not enough win consistency to win a tournament, so if someone hosts a tournament, and it has some good people and I win it, I will be very very happy, and will celebrate ala Firebathero.


My current rank on ICCup is D+

Oh wow, a blogging section... just what I've always wanted.

Since this is my first post, I guess I will write a little bit about myself. My name is Nina. I have dark brown hair and I love long walks on the beach.

I also love StarCraft so so so so much. I love it more than Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, if you believe that, and you probably can't. I was just bored one day, so I borrowed a StarCraft CD from my brother and started playing it online, then became hooked... it became my heroin... it was very dark.

I went into rehab to get off StarCraft. At first, it was really bad. I had cold sweats and was throwing up all day. I didn't even sleep because the withdraws were just so bad. Once I got de-tox'd, I was brought into group therapy, where I shared by StarCraft addiction. It was very emotional, and as those tragic words came from my mouth, tears welled up in my eyes. I couldn't talk anymore. I just cried and cried, because of the shame and embarrassment. My life had been destroyed, and I was starting all over again. I was so overwhelmed by the prospect of going home and trying to live a normal life when all I had known was self-destruction.

After six weeks, I was ready to move into a house where we took a pledge to stay clean and read books. We were allowed to leave the hours during the day if we brought a buddy with us, to keep us straight, in case we ended up wandering into an internet cafe or something. Before I went home, I called my mom and dad and promised that I would be a whole new person. Things would be different this time.

THEN I GOT HOME AND PLAYED STARCRAFT FOR 98 HOURS STRAIGHT. Oh it felt so good! I LOVE STARCRAFT! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA.