Oh we can tell, because you failed it.

Tweed will chirp you, son.

I fully admit I play every ladder game like its the GSL finals. I play with prac partners a lot though and I generally dont tilt from that refining builds and such. In fact Ive played 3 ladder games this season because I dont want to be too serious atm.

thats awesome

i'd encourage you to play a lot though it never gets boring!

Whenever I'm playing 1s on the ladder and I've scouted an all-in coming or I'm trying to hold off cheese my heart rate will go up and my adrenaline gets pumping. The game is a rush.

And no one likes to lose but everyone does, very often. It's part of the game, look at it as a learning experience and focus on improving on the mistakes you made.

I watched half of the replay of my PvT on Scrap from last night, I had to go out so I couldn't finish it.

There were 3-4 windows where I could have just went and attacked him and won the game.

First, he tried to place a bunker at the bottom of my ramp, but I stopped that quickly.

Second, he broke my rocks to my expansion and saw him there so I went to attack him, did a lot of damage and he retreated.

Third, he tried doing a drop at that platform above the expansion with some tanks then he was moving into the choke, where I met him head on, and killed most of his army.

Fourth, he had a bad rally point after my third point above as he had a tank come alone and 2 medivacs floating on top of my army. I took them out easily.

At this point I had 1 zealot, 5 stalkers, and 3 immortals. He had something like 3 marines and 2 medivacs, and like 1 tank.

He was teching up pretty hard so my opportunity was right there, but I kept thinking that I would move out and he'd have banshees at my base or he would do a drop in my base. Or, I thought maybe I'd move out and be met by an army that I couldn't handle or retreat from and then he'd just come and kill me. So I took the safer route by building up my army and getting upgrades.

He did try to drop in my base with 2 medivacs, but I had a cannon there that took out one of his medivacs that had a marauder and 4 marines in it. His medivac had like 2 HP left in it. The other one got his units out, but didn't do any damage.

Him telling me I suck at this game is actually inaccurate because I could have easily won the game if it wasn't for my bad attack and/or indecision to just move out and kill him.

So two problems with that game.

1. The indecision to not move out and go kill him. This was really the deciding factor.

2. My mistake in attacking into his planetary fortress and bunkers. I could probably have went through the middle rocks and wiped him clean.

I wish I could make these quick decisions in real-time. FFS, I was in the military, I should know at least a little bit about being tactics and flanking, etc.

Which reminds me. I found this on YouTube a couple weeks ago, which I'm sure everyone is familiar with.

The Art of War by Sun Tzu. This was on the History Channel. It is 9 parts long, about 10 minutes each. If you think about how it applies to Starcraft, it's actually pretty cool.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/view...opic_id=210557


lol @ idra's post/ huk's response

haha, that was pretty good.

That randomly spurned me to look at past posts by IdrA on TL:

In a parody thread "IdrA announces he's becoming well-mannered"

Huk replies: IdrA responds: lolol

This image I think really sums up a Karak ladder game to the T. Huge lead followed by...

i think im just gunna start 6 pooling on all of the stupid maps i hate but cant veto

see: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/view...opic_id=211243

Yup losing at this game is still way more frustrating then losing 10 buy-ins.

my current ZvP winrate in the last week (a lot of ZvPs since everyone is Toss now) is 65%, including a good # of games against master's guys. my ZvP is really, really good. It's too bad my ZvT and ZvZ is so bad.

Although apparently my 35% winrate vs T is a fluke:

(plz note the xprt dual nyuds on both sides of the map... and don't make fun of my creep spread! from that tumor all the way on the right side you can see I had it all the way up there... he just killed it all :-( )



also watching the replay and switching to his POV when the nydus sound went off was HILARIOUS

If zergs didnt have their resident whiner idra complaining about protoss all the time I doubt we would hear a whole lot about an imbalanced matchup.

I know you're just generally trolling in good fun, but lately every time I beat a zerg its QQ to all hell about how ****ty zerg is and how Protoss is so easy.

Its quite hilarious though how one huge whiner, who also happens to be the zerg hero, can skew everyones thoughts on the whole match up.

/rant over

One other thing, line/bane/infestor/ultra that has been popping up a lot lately is insanely hard to stop.

fwiw both kiwi and niniwa were saying the other day they should never lose to a zerg unless they make a major mistake.
i dunno.

but i know i do really well against toss, but it's cause im exploiting meta constantly. i still struggle pretty bad with 1 base all ins and 2 gas tight 4gates, but against a 3 gate expo into standard play (for what they think will be roach corruptor) i feel so confident.

My rant was aimed at players who arent pros. As well as the fact that because idra whines 18 hours a day, that means that any zerg can whine all day as well.

My rant is coming from a string of customs where the zerg QQ'd every game for a string of 5 or 6 games...including some gold level schmuck that im not sure was even breathing. As well as a person I know IRL who QQs about zerg all the time and hes also not good.....if you arent pro dont bring up balance imo.

i'd agree in nearly all cases, but some close position maps simply can feel unwinnable even against your average player. i mean im pretty sure if i were playing T vs pwn on close position shattered temple after not having played terran for several months i'd win ~50% of the time all inning him. i nearly did when i accidentally picked T a few weeks ago lol.

brag: on megumi's stream <3<3<3<3<3333

i turned it on and i dont see or hear you. and i dont see why anyone watches that stream.

Haha, I saw em on there. Obv I turned it on b/c Raffy told me to.

karak:because its MEGUMI!

stun: help me get to masters//get back into laddering

Variance: attempting to download the chinese sc2 client
Beat: estimated download time: 30 hours

HOLY ****ING ****

I HAVE NEVER PLAYED SO BAD AND SO GOOD AT TH SAME TIME IN MY WHOLE LIFE

IM ON A TOTAL RUSH FROM THIS GAME. I MADE SO MANY AWFUL ERRORS AND HOLY **** I DONT EVEN WANT TO RUIN THE ENDING I DONT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED I DONT EVEN RECALL

WOWOWOWOW

http://topreplays.com/Replays/Detail...rk_vs_Badillac

I HAD MY SICK EPIC PLAYLIST ON AND THE THEMES FROM GLADIATOR, BATMAN, INCEPTION AND BRAVEHEART WERE PLAYING IN TH EBACKGROUND FOR LIKE THE LAST HALF OF THE GAME IM ON SUCH A RUSH

THE MUSIC HAS GOT ME PUMPED. I JSUT ****ING CHEERED FOR A VICTORY (diff game) WHEN VILLAIN QUIT.

close position shattered temple. i said im tired of cheesing cause i own toss souls it don't matta where from.

and i 13 hatched and he even managed to get a zealot and stalker in my base and do damage

IT

DONT

MATTA

did he show up with a void and 2 phoenxi when i had 2 queens and no evo yet?

IT

DONT

MATTA

did he hav a billion sentries and actually get down good fFS?

IT

DONT

MATTA

Did he have a third for about 5-6 minutes longer than I did and deny mine forever?

You guessed it:



He had a really cute wall preventing a ling runby while he lamed it up in the rocks section by my base.

Took a small piece of my army, baneling busted that **** and then killed all his probes. Some freaking expert infestor micro 2 mins later in the big battle and we get

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RAGGGEEEQUITTT