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Sudden micro lapse

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  micronesia   United States. March 29 2008 06:46. Posts 19309Profile Blog # 
Have you ever been playing a game, and suddenly your micro is terrible in some battle and pretty much every action you do does nothing except ensure that your army is annihilated with nearly zero damage to the enemy, only to stare at the game and be like "was that really me that just did that?" It just happened to me and I am still in disbelief. It's the feeling you get when you accidentally overwrite a very important file (yes I've done that)... except it must be worse this time since the game was like 10 minutes ago.

BTW this is by no means the first time I've made a micro mistake (some may recall my famous game-deciding storm my own army pvz). It's just that I was controlling units I'm most used to using (1 zealot and a few goons holding off a 2 fact after a 14 nexus) and every action made no sense whatsoever. I guess you can just chalk it up to heat of the moment, bad luck, rustiness, etc, but it still stands out as a statistical anomaly.

It will probably sink in in a few minutes and I'll start banging my head on something.
Last edit: 2008-03-29 06:47:11


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 GeneralStan   United States. March 29 2008 06:52. Posts 2889
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Ohh this happens to me. Usually for me its zergling control. I'll execute a PERFECT surround and forget to have them attack, so they fucking bumble around in a deadly circle before the marines mash them into angry puddles of blood.

Usually I get angry, want to throw my laptop, self, or puppy out the window. I usually end up banging my hand on my desk until its red and raw. My downstairs neighbors must get annoyed, but they probably know its just games again.
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 Kwidowmaker   Canada. March 29 2008 07:01. Posts 976
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More annoying is the lapses in macro. Watching a battle too hard to avoid at times. Especially when I'm tired.
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 Krohm   Canada. March 29 2008 07:01. Posts 1704
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Yeah that's happened to me. Usually when I walk a pack of 24 rines into some lurkers and don't notice for about 1 second. Then all your marines are dead. This also applies to when I try to attack a terran with a massive zergling/lurker army. But some how you manage to send your lurkers in to far ahead, and they all get raped by time the lings make it to the fray... Great stuff.
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  micronesia   United States. March 29 2008 07:12. Posts 19309Profile Blog # 

On March 29 2008 07:01 Kwidowmaker wrote:
More annoying is the lapses in macro. Watching a battle too hard to avoid at times. Especially when I'm tired.

I was thinking about it, and macro lapses don't bother me anywhere near as much. It just means my multitasking is a level below where I want it. Being tired definitely hurts you, but I think my display today goes beyond the fact that I am tired today ._.


On March 29 2008 07:01 Krohm wrote:
Yeah that's happened to me. Usually when I walk a pack of 24 rines into some lurkers and don't notice for about 1 second. Then all your marines are dead. This also applies to when I try to attack a terran with a massive zergling/lurker army. But some how you manage to send your lurkers in to far ahead, and they all get raped by time the lings make it to the fray... Great stuff.

Well being a couple of seconds too slow to respond to your marines walking over an invisible unit isn't really that bad, I mean, it can easily happen to anyone. You weren't doing ridiculous/useless action after ridiculous/useless action. If I was a zerg player I'd probably see poor ling/lurk control the same as what happened to me today.

It's interesting how all three races pretty much have the same problem where, and nobody has it easier.
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 evanthebouncy!   United States. March 29 2008 07:22. Posts 10736
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happens when I un-concentreate and get tired and eyes cross and throw games.
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