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sc2 taught me how to control my emotions and make good decisions.
I remember the good old days of bronze when i first started playing last year. I would happily plod along building my workers and pylons/depots/lords. Then I would get reapered/bansheed/helipwnd/voidraped/cannoned/10pooled/dropped and I would get so angry and start breaking shit.
I punched a hole through my wall, destroyed both my keyboard and headset. And I would get noise complaints from neighbours over my screams of pain.
Incidentally I never really dealt with my emotions IRL well either. Failing at any menial task would make me rage and I couldn't deal with relationship trouble at all. Every time I broke up with my latest gf, it would send me into a reeling depression.
But gradually SC2 taught me to rein in my emotions. I didn't even have to try. It was just a matter of positive and negative reinforcement. Everytime I lost control of my emotions I would do stupid shit (eg base racing a terran) and die and feel horrible. But on those few occasions I controlled my temper I would make a better decision and with my better macro I would come out on top and win and feel great.
Nowadays when I play and fuck up or something wrong happens I just sort of disengage my emotions and let my hands and logic take over. I just ask myself, "What is the optimal logical decision right now?"
Funnily enough I have inadvertently applied that strat to real life now too. When shit goes bad, I just keep making good decision or at least OKAY decisions and just keep aiming to accumulate those marginal advantages.
Because Life is just like sc2. If you are too greedy (eg double fast expand in sc2, eg high risk investment irl) you take a huge risk and can lose it all, If you rush every game then you may lose a ton. But if you keep going for those marginal advantages; that extra chrono done on probes, that tiny bit of harassment you did on your enemy, that slightly earlier expansion you took, that losing battle that you never fought but delayed until your high templars had enough energy for storm... Then you end up winning
In life you make the tiny decision not to go to maccas but to cook yourself and it makes such a tiny marginal difference, but if you make that same decision every single night then you end up not having a heart attack in 10 years time. You put in that extra hour at work every day and in a years time you find that you actually do have just enough money to pay the downpayment for the house you want to buy.
The list goes on.
But I guess the point I'm trying to make is that sc2 is not a bad game. There are plenty of terrible games out there that genuinely do waste your time, but after playing a year of sc2 I find myself in a way better situation than I was before I started playing and I feel I am the master, commander and executor of my own life again.
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i've explained monopoly deal in sc2 terran terms
i also say glhf and gg way too much.
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It's a fairly obvious one, but I've found I'm becoming significantly faster and more dexterous with computers in general. I'm much more confident hitting keys at full extension or in odd places (eg. F-row) without having to stop and look. I've also become much faster at striking keys with my mouse hand hand and switching back blindly... which is actually odd because I never need to do that while playing SC2.
It's a really straightforward and expected outcome, but it's still kind of nice. Starcraft has made me a better and more time-efficient programmer in a few small ways.
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My mouse accuracy has gotten better since playing SC. I guess I also try to build order my life...
That's about it.
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Main side effect of Starcraft for me is that i often read TL on work or watch VODs at home and actually nobody realizes what i do and maybe they think that I'm mad man ;D
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having a gf it is just like having a flock of mutas swarming around ur base not letting u expand or move out
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other then constantly making boxes i haven't noticed anything
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Well other than the game-related dreams, my guitar playing has actually improved significantly. I'm not sure if this is because of the increase in APM and whatnot but I wouldn't be surprised.
The negative side-effect is procrastination through reading these forums and watching vods. xD
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I'm not sure if I have warned about RSI man, very dangerous and life threatening if not dealt with properly. Prevention is best cure.
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I also box text, but I can't recall exactly when I started, so I don't know if it's SC related or not. But I can't think of any others right off the top of my head, besides general speed and accuracy improvements (but not drastic, so.....)
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As a joke, "EZ EZ EZ" has became an inside joke inside my apartment of gamers, even for situations in which it doesn't apply. Other than that, not really.
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On October 20 2011 15:12 John Madden wrote: I'm not sure if I have warned about RSI man, very dangerous and life threatening if not dealt with properly. Prevention is best cure.
I'm assuming this is a troll post... RSI is not life threatening.
Also posting "prevention is the best cure" on TL is a little like going to a base-jumping convention and telling people that heights are dangerous and should be avoided. It's certainly something very important that people need to respect and take into account... but it's not cause to stop playing.
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i actually walk around with my middle finger and index finger apart, my index of course bring on V and my middle being on E, and its just a habit, only once has my friend commented and said wtf are you doing there man...
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I sometimes hit 1,s,d on my school laptop so i just stretch my fingers while my friend just pretends he is spamming 123 rofl.
I usually box my desktop if i have nothing to do.
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My real-life APM and overall micro has improved!
also, starcraft lingo with friends.
i'd totally nydus her back door
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On October 20 2011 14:44 SolidMoose wrote:I think the only thing I've ever done was try to scroll my screen by moving my pointer to the top/bottom
I do this one when I'm reading things online. I catch myself trying to scroll the screen up and down with my pointer from time to time :p Not always, since using my mouse-wheel is a much more ingrained reflex, but after a long playing session I'll do it.
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I box texts or icons during downtime and type "S" "D".
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On October 20 2011 15:33 EternalSC wrote: also, starcraft lingo with friends.
i'd totally nydus her back door hahahahahha. I like that one might try it...
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I always box when my desktop background first loads up so addicting
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I do some boxing as well lol
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