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  • KambingKambing Registered User regular
    Variable wrote: »
    wow so what I really didn't need was to get 2 raxed in a tvt right now

    it broke me, lost my mind. but somehow this dude was just awesome and told me what I should do, insisted against me being a little fucking baby. and eventually I calmed down (I 2 raxed because I hit a tvt next and met proxy marauder which I feel like 2 rax should beat but I managed to lose that too, and in a weird way it relaxed me)

    and now I have a masters level tvt practice partner.

    maybe I can learn SOMETHING about how to play it. I don't even understand what the issue is to be honest so I just need to play like 20 games against someone and see what it is that's happening.

    it is ruining my ladder. I think I'm 50/50 or so in other matchups but I've literally not won a tvt. and all season til today they were just mid game losses. some really disheartening because I had a lead, some where I expected it or knew the exact mistake I made. then today I try to switch it up. I cc first and get hit with proxy maruader. I tech off 1 marine with a quick gas and I get 2 raxed. I try to 2 rax and I get proxy maraudered and manage to blow it. It's inconceivable that as a follow up to being this bad I could have this bad of luck.

    thank god for Random Internet Person fighting through my complete asshole mode that I was in and talking to me until I calmed down and then being friendly and offering to help.

    I'm fucking on edge. I gotta stop playing at night, middle of the night. It's so so so dumb... and then I get where I don't want to go to bed while I'm pissed so I keep wanting one more. that on top of being tired, it's just asking for issues.

    so anyway, this is a rant but unlike most of my rants that I type in the heat of the moment, I don't have to erase this because of extreme negativity. so there you go.

    I'm going to bed now. I'll probably be too tired to play tomorrow afternoon but if not I'll be back at it with a single build I'm doing it every tvt until it's fucking perfect. then I'll ad another for map flexibility. (thanks to @dhalphir for just saying, get back to basics. gotta do it, gotta do it)

    If it makes you feel better, I went like 5-15 in beta leveling up my Terran. That shit's pretty hard!

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    One of my fondest desires is to experience playing Terran with NA->NA latency

    bio micro must be fucking fun as SHIT

  • hlprmnkyhlprmnky Registered User regular
    My first three (?) games after my placement match were TvT, on recently-un-vetoed maps I had never actually played on before. I swear the MMR bot is like Obi-Wan, trying to teach me to feel the Force by blindfolding me and shooting me in the ass repeatedly.

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  • MMMigMMMig Registered User regular
    edited November 2012
    hlprmnky wrote: »
    My first three (?) games after my placement match were TvT, on recently-un-vetoed maps I had never actually played on before. I swear the MMR bot is like Obi-Wan, trying to teach me to feel the Force by blindfolding me and shooting me in the ass repeatedly.

    Better than his apprentice's method of teaching...

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  • chuckleberryfinnchuckleberryfinn Ireland Registered User regular
    Thinking of switching to zerg on my NA account, just because I hate TvT so very much.

    I had a 48 minute game on NA recently, i eventually got so bored of the positioning play that I made 4 3/3 cattlebruisers and A move into his siege lines.
    The BCs killed fucking everything, but I felt dirty for using them.

    UNCLEAN!

    But from what I see most zergs seem to hate ZvZ so I guess mirror matches are just always shit?

    No Protoss players were underpowered during this post.
  • hlprmnkyhlprmnky Registered User regular
    You felt dirty for using GIANT SPACE WARSHIPS? I ...don't understand.

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  • chuckleberryfinnchuckleberryfinn Ireland Registered User regular
    I never make them, they're so expensive and take so much food. They feel like a false economy, the Diamond player I was playing was not impressed either..

    No Protoss players were underpowered during this post.
  • InvictusInvictus Registered User regular
    I have no idea what you mean. You had gotten to the TvT late game that locks up in tank lines, so you made the standard transition to air, and you...feel like you did something bad? That is literally how the matchup works.

    With the major exception of the big period when PvP was just 4gate, I've always really enjoyed the knife-edge style of play it requires.

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  • MMMigMMMig Registered User regular
    The late-game tank lock up TvT is normally solved with grand drops all over that tank line.

    Took Brood War about 5 years to figure it out.

    Just waiting for WoL to figure it out.
    (granted, goliaths helped clear up the wraiths afterwards, which made it a wee easier)

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  • chuckleberryfinnchuckleberryfinn Ireland Registered User regular
    I know all this guys, like I said I just really hate the matchup. Especially the ~10 min siege tank push, can be quite hard to hold off if the other player is 1 basing it.
    Feels like if you're not on siege tech by that ten mins you'll lose and if you are then you know the game will stretch to a very long game.

    I like playing T really dynamically, drops and running small teams of bio all over the map. That's why I want to give Zerg a try, they're much more counter attacky. :twisted:

    No Protoss players were underpowered during this post.
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  • YiliasYilias Registered User regular
    You can defend one base tank pushes with literally nothing but marines and flanking/splitting.

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  • chuckleberryfinnchuckleberryfinn Ireland Registered User regular
    I am able to defend it, but on certain maps (Ohana) with tiny ramps and backdoor rocks it can be simple to make a game losing mistake.

    No Protoss players were underpowered during this post.
  • narwhalnarwhal monodon monoceros Registered User regular
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    Nothing is more frustrating than whiffing forcefields due to latency

    Fucking nothing.

    Maybe ill move somewhere else. What country is most like Australia culturally? Canada?

    New Zealand?

    Narwhal#1834
  • narwhalnarwhal monodon monoceros Registered User regular
    Frozenzen wrote: »
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    I am actually looking at real estate in Canada.

    These prices are pretty great. Big 5 bedroom dream house for under 600k - depending on the kind of jobs we found, that's an attainable dream.

    Sweden!

    That is an expensive house unless you want to live in an expensive area around here!

    There is the language problem though.

    I was just in Sweden. Compared to Hungarian, the language is a piece of cake since I could actually read signs there.
    Then again, I don't blame Dhal for wanting to move to Canada. Someday I'll get there and stay long enough to get citizenship. That way I can finally stop feeling bad for lying to strangers when I tell them I'm Canadian.

    Narwhal#1834
  • fatalspoonsfatalspoons Registered User regular
    edited November 2012
    I would never lie about where I'm from. If people are going to make unfair judgements about me because I'm American, then fuck them. It would simply prove that they are hypocritical and as flawed as the stereotypical American that they claim to despise.

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  • shwaipshwaip Registered User regular
    ZvZ is fine. It just seems like it's the majority of what I play on ladder so it gets tiresome.

  • KambingKambing Registered User regular
    I would never lie about where I'm from. If people are going to make unfair judgements about me because I'm American, then fuck them. It would simply prove that they are hypocritical and as flawed as the stereotypical American that they claim to despise.

    I'm so confused.

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  • Joe KJoe K Registered User regular
    i think that you end up seeing a lot of mirror matchups because most people who main a race will ban out the same maps, giving you a higher chance of hitting the same race.

  • kedinikkedinik Captain of Industry Registered User regular
    I love playing every mirror.

    It's just nice to be absolutely certain balance has nothing to do with losing.

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  • KambingKambing Registered User regular
    Joe K wrote: »
    i think that you end up seeing a lot of mirror matchups because most people who main a race will ban out the same maps, giving you a higher chance of hitting the same race.

    Map bans don't factor into whom you play. You are matched up first, and then the map is chosen based off of maps bans of both players.

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  • MMMigMMMig Registered User regular
    I would never lie about where I'm from. If people are going to make unfair judgements about me because I'm American, then fuck them. It would simply prove that they are hypocritical and as flawed as the stereotypical American that they claim to despise.

    High-five bro!

    But yeah, I'm with you.

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  • TannerMSTannerMS "I'm confidence cause I'm zerg!" Registered User regular
    edited November 2012
    This game makes me feel like shit every time I play

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  • fatalspoonsfatalspoons Registered User regular
    Kambing wrote: »
    I would never lie about where I'm from. If people are going to make unfair judgements about me because I'm American, then fuck them. It would simply prove that they are hypocritical and as flawed as the stereotypical American that they claim to despise.

    I'm so confused.

    Confused about what?

  • SaarutoSaaruto Registered User regular
    TannerMS wrote: »
    This game makes me feel like shit every time I play

    God that was depressing to read

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  • KambingKambing Registered User regular
    Kambing wrote: »
    I would never lie about where I'm from. If people are going to make unfair judgements about me because I'm American, then fuck them. It would simply prove that they are hypocritical and as flawed as the stereotypical American that they claim to despise.

    I'm so confused.

    Confused about what?

    I couldn't tie your post content to any of the previously said things in the thread. Thought it was a mispost.

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  • chuckleberryfinnchuckleberryfinn Ireland Registered User regular
    Right, time to see if I can break this losing streak.

    No Protoss players were underpowered during this post.
  • 3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    It was a response to Narwhal saying she lies and says she's Canadian so Europeans don't hate her.

  • KambingKambing Registered User regular
    3clipse wrote: »
    It was a response to Narwhal saying she lies and says she's Canadian so Europeans don't hate her.

    Ahh. Makes more sense now!

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  • MMMigMMMig Registered User regular
    Canadians... ruining things for everyone (again).

    Never should've left Afghanifstan up to them...
    Worst macro ever.

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  • fatalspoonsfatalspoons Registered User regular
    TannerMS wrote: »
    This game makes me feel like shit every time I play

    I also feel like shit every time you play.

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  • chuckleberryfinnchuckleberryfinn Ireland Registered User regular
    edited November 2012
    Irish people don't hate Americans; we modeled our entire democracy on the American system and our first president was born in the US (after we drove out the hated British, screw you @Biosys). :D

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  • chuckleberryfinnchuckleberryfinn Ireland Registered User regular
    Apart from the electoral colleges

    No Protoss players were underpowered during this post.
  • YiliasYilias Registered User regular
    I was under the impression that Europeans dislike American politics and pop culture more so than the American people.

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  • FrozenzenFrozenzen Registered User regular
    Dunno, for most people here american people we actually meet are generally cool, and politics are kinda funny until you realise about half the nation has views we find absurd.

    And well, american pop culture is basically pop culture period, so I'd say most people like it.

  • CantidoCantido Registered User regular
    Frozenzen wrote: »
    And well, american pop culture is basically pop culture period, so I'd say most people like it.

    Nobody here listens to Iron Maiden and Blind Guardian :(

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  • SaarutoSaaruto Registered User regular
    To date, I don't think I've ever lied about being American throughout my travels. I joke about being other nationalities, but I don't really advertise my American-ness, it's usually pretty obvious once I open my mouth and speak. Imagine if Starcraft's culture had been birthed in the U.S.?

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  • 3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    Yilias wrote: »
    I was under the impression that Europeans dislike American politics and pop culture more so than the American people.

    Iunno, I never had problems either time I traveled to Europe (France and Italy) and I never lied about being American, who knows.

  • FrozenzenFrozenzen Registered User regular
    Cantido wrote: »
    Frozenzen wrote: »
    And well, american pop culture is basically pop culture period, so I'd say most people like it.

    Nobody here listens to Iron Maiden and Blind Guardian :(

    I fucking love blind guardian. But I am in the minority.

    And uh, this is getting a tad too offtopic so lets bring it back. Is there a releasedate for hots yet? Or are we still expecting huge changes to any of the races in removed/heavily changed units?

  • MMMigMMMig Registered User regular
    Well, it's gotten better in recent years.

    Back during the start / early stages of the 'axis of evil' stupidity though...

    yeah...

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  • Duke 2.0Duke 2.0 Time Trash Cat Registered User regular
    Currently there is gonna be a cooldown period in the beta so players can actually figure out a metagame. After a few weeks of figuring stuff out they will probably start on their plans to mess with the funky units like Void Rays.

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