The Side Effects of Starcraft - Page 3
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bovineblitz
United States314 Posts
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DeltruS
Canada2214 Posts
A strong obligation is the closest thing to addiction I get from SC. If I REALLY need to not watch it, I can, but I feel like I missed out. | ||
sjschmidt93
United States2518 Posts
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Rafael
Venezuela182 Posts
Now reading this I realize that a tend to box everything in my desktop, when Im doing nothing. SUPER LOL. A side effect of SC, haha. | ||
eviltomahawk
United States11132 Posts
Also, my mouse hand sometimes pretends to click an invisible mouse sometimes when I'm bored. My keyboard hand often accompanies that by motioning the (Z)Build (E)Depot or (A)Barracks hotkeys (I use grid). | ||
Lysergic
United States355 Posts
On October 20 2011 11:00 features wrote: 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 I think that's why it can ruin your sleep cycle... I do highlight/box text when reading, use Ctrl+W to close windows, Ctrl+T to open new tab, Ctrl+(Shift)+Tab to move through tabs, and a lot of other hotkeys similar to SC2 actions, but I did all those things before playing SC2. I tend to make a box (about the size you'd need to select workers at mineral line) and then right click and hit refresh on my desktop. I do it to warm-up or sort of test out my mouse precision. Also, I have shoulder and wrist tendonitis from playing too much SC2. | ||
T3tra
United States406 Posts
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Goldbullet
United States88 Posts
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AnachronisticAnarchy
United States2957 Posts
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Elem
Sweden4717 Posts
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Kalm
United States39 Posts
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lee365
United States448 Posts
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Meteora.GB
Canada2479 Posts
Playing BW occasionally apparently puts a lot of stress on my wrists. | ||
John Madden
American Samoa894 Posts
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Mobius_1
United Kingdom2763 Posts
Also, getting breaking news from TL. | ||
CrispyTender
Canada166 Posts
On October 20 2011 10:56 BeeNu wrote: 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 wow this is the best thing ever rofl | ||
AeonStrife
United States918 Posts
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Nemireck
Canada1875 Posts
On October 20 2011 11:12 Ryusei-R1 wrote: LOL I remember that thread. Hilarious shit because he actually thought it was because of BW that he learned to multitask. To be fair to him, it certainly COULD help your multitasking. But not in the sense that you could close a fridge while throwing out milk, more in the sense that you could carry out multiple tasks at once that you can start, and get back to later. A common analogy that I use is working in a busy kitchen (and not like, fries and burgers, but REAL cooking), where you need to have more than 10 things all going at the same time, and time everything properly so that you don't burn or ruin the food. So no, it won't help me close the oven door while I flip a steak, but it COULD help me keep track of the chicken I have in the oven, remember not to over-reduce the sauce on the back-burner, flip the steak on the grill at the correct time, pull down the plates I'll need to place all the food on, taste the sauce and season it properly, check the chicken before it burns, throw another steak on the grill and chicken in the oven because a new order just came in, pull the first steak off the grill at medium-rare, all while keeping the vegetables moving in the sautee pan so that they don't burn, yelling at the dumb fucks making appetizers because they just forgot an order of chicken wings and communicating with the rest of the line to make sure all the food hits the window at the same time. Much the same way I need to stay on top of the upgrades I have running, remember not to get supply blocked, constantly make probes/scvs/drones, scout, move my army into proper position, expand, tech up, spend my money, watch the minimap so I can keep my army properly positioned, all while finding ways to pressure my opponent and win the game. | ||
Jaxtyk
United States600 Posts
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States42216 Posts
But seriously, I also tend to box-highlight walls of my text. Also, I tend to StarCraft-ize any acronyms and letters and things I see everywhere. I also consider any fast-paced things I do "micro", and occasionally figure out my "build order" for the day. | ||
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