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Northern Ireland20509 Posts
Basically this is a thread for any of the (mainly undesirable) side-effects of playing this beautiful game far far too much.
I for one get many a strange look in my university library because I sit around boxing chunks of text for no apparent reason. Or spamming through my usual hotkeys in the correct order to "warm up for when I get home"
On a plus note though, I've noticed my guitar playing got a bit better due to the increased finger interdependence I got from playing a lot which was cool. My friends and I also can now speak exclusively using Starcraft analogies out when we're at bars, especially useful for pointing out hot chicks or particularly amusing looking fellows from afar without them realising. "She looks like you'll need a long-macro game to win" is a personal favourite of mine,
I'm sure some of you guys have tales that can easily trump my relatively poor anecdotes.
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What in the literal fuck..... I've never had any of that happen to me, ever.
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This reminds me of an old topic about how a guy thought playing brood war gave him better micro IRL, citing things like being able to close the refrigerator while simultaneously throwing an empty carton of milk in the garbage
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Reading through this, I realized I was boxing the text in your first paragraph.
Not a good way to get metagamed, my friend.
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Yeah I often find myself absently boxing random icons on my desktop at work when I am thinking about something... You are definitely not alone in that one..
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I feel you
Whenever I am on a computer and am not doing anything I will constantly select my desktop icons like units and press 5 and 7 like I am spamming my control groups...
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getting to masters league has given me an increased sense of undeserved self-importance that has seeped into my everyday life.
im also a lot more bm when i drive around bad drivers now.
sometimes I get up and shout "EZ!" when I've finished an exam
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Northern Ireland20509 Posts
Yeah well I cannot just grind out ladder game after ladder game, I need breaks to just chill, talk to my friends and stuff or I'll tilt horrifically. Think I just started boxing my Facebook to keep up the hand speed between games or something
How high is your IRL APM though man?
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i'd baneling bust all over her face
best bar line yes?
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School work suffers. I wish this wasn't so but starcraft seems so much more appealing most nights
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Northern Ireland20509 Posts
On October 20 2011 10:56 shawster wrote: i'd baneling bust all over her face
best bar line yes? That is a pretty good one man, but everybody over in Ireland is, if they are a gamer at all probably a CoD/Halo player so nobody gets the references
For a more general bar pickup/intro line I quite enjoy "Are you a poultry farmer by any chance?" "No, wtf?" "Well, you sure can raise a cock"....
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People do wonder why I am constantly highlighting and making boxes when I am reading on my computer.
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Edit: I thought you were doing these without a computer. jk you're normal.ish.
The only side effect I can think of is that I now browse windows for all the things I check (multiple news sites, 2 emails, tl forum topics) much faster because I'm using ctrl+12345 and ctrl+w actively instead of clicking with my mouse as a residual to using control groups... I'll stretch my wrist even when I'm not playing, but neither of these is as strange as boxing things..
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I definately feel like playing the piano comes easier when you know your way around the keyboard.
When I first played starcraft 2 it really felt like playing music to me and that is what hooked me.
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i do indeed box text all the time its a habit, my personal game is to try to box the text without boxing anything else but in a timely fashion. quite amusing during class.
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Playing starcraft can ruin your sleep cycle.
Personally, it doesn't drain my energy very much, almost the polar opposite; the games so stimulating it tends to keep me awake and alert until I force myself to stop. :S
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I do text-boxing too. But I'm not sure it's because of SC2. It helps me reading.
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I use ctrl +1,2,3etc to browse tabs, and box EVERYTHING on my computer. All think about in my spare time is like starcraft too p.p
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I double click+ highlight text and also box icons a lot too. D: Friends ask me why I do it, and I don't even notice I'm doing it since I'm so used to it.
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On October 20 2011 10:53 pieisamazing wrote: This reminds me of an old topic about how a guy thought playing brood war gave him better micro IRL, citing things like being able to close the refrigerator while simultaneously throwing an empty carton of milk in the garbage LOL
I remember that thread. Hilarious shit because he actually thought it was because of BW that he learned to multitask.
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