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Thanks.

Except, I seem to skip bits of words recently. Mostly stuff after the apostrophe, and the apostrophe itself.




It would appear my keyboard is rebelling against me. That not very nice of it.

It's only 7:40 PM here. I don't bother getting my buzz on this late.

I think all this writing in English is having a negative effect on my... well, English writing skills. I'm turning into a stupid more and more as days go by. Soon my posts will looks (seriously, NOW the 's' returns? ed.) like this:

hai gusy so i wuz liek out dis nite ryte n ma m8 sed 2 me dat he wuz liek rly in2 gaemin rite n so dat i stabs him!11!!!1 /tooflessgrin

Edited, Mar 4th 2011 7:36pm by Mazra

I've got a mate who lives in (on?) New Zealand and I swear to god, I sometimes cannot interpret his Facebook messages.

Example:



Considering most of his friends from over there seem to write identical stuff, I'm guessing it's some kind of weird written NZ dialect.

I like NZ accents. I had a dream of going to NZ last night (I was technically going to Singapore via Australia and NZ, but whatever).

The best accents ever still have got to be Edinburgh and ... eh... probably Galway.

I want to be **** van ****.

1 day with no new posts in the Druid forum? FOR SHAME.

Gah, that really sucks. :(

Yeah, well, you don't pay 50% in taxes, do you?

Yeah, it is stupid. Double the work for no reason.

Government dude: Here's some money for your study.
Mazra: Thanks!
Government dude: By the way, we're going to keep half of it.
Mazra: Uh, okay...
Government dude: Also, we weren't able to successfully calculate what half of what we originally gave you was, so we'll be taking some more.

And that's why we are in the middle of the worst recession we've seen in a century. :3

Wait, I thought we borrowed money from China... Oh and whoever tells you that the government here doesn't tax government aid is full of ****. All of my boyfriend's income this year was unemployment benefits, and he didn't get a full refund. He got most of it back, but there was still about 25% that was kept.

I SUCK at RTS games. I'm the guy who tries to turtle as he builds up a massive base. And that just doesn't work. :(

Everyone else always seems to be able to move 50x faster than me--it's like the whole match is pure muscle memory for them...

And that makes me wonder what the fun part is.

Edit: Dammit, Rio. Below is a response to idiggory.

Yeah, I don't get why, though. I've got pretty good multitasking skills in general, and I'm fairly fast on the trigger in FPS and games like World of Warcraft (PvP), but in RTS games, I suck. Like a vacuum.

Sure, I can drill myself into making buildings and units at specific times, but once the game changes, ie. if the opponent does something unexpected, it's just game over. And once I reach the point where I've gotten a bit of an army, I completely forget about macro and just focus entirely on microing what I've got.

And I also seem to be unable to learn what I experience in that game. For instance, I just played some practice matches against a medium AI and got roflstomped by an 8-minute Marauder/Marine push while I was trying to build Banshees. Next game, I tweaked my build a bit and easily deflected that push while getting Banshees in the opponent's base, raping his economy. However, if I did another game then the opponent could kill me with an identical push.

It just won't goddamn stick. And it frustrates me. Perhaps because I rushed into the game. I went from playing the single player campaign on easy with cheats (no kidding) to 2v2's with Delinja who is like Diamond league or something now. I basically did no research, still have next to no experience compared to the veterans out there, and my entire career in that game has been all about getting told what I'm doing wrong and what I'm doing right in a given moment, so there's been no gaining of knowledge, really.

In WoW, I've got years of experience, I know every class pretty well (even if it's just the basics, it still allows me to find weaknesses and exploit them) and I know my own class to the bone (despite being changed pretty drastically lately). It allows for a freedom, or a feeling of being on top, that I don't get in RTS games. If I encounter a Rogue on my Druid, I'm pretty confident that I know what I could do to attempt to win against him, using the knowledge I've gained over the years. Makes it all much more relaxed and fun, actually. In RTS games, or SC2 specifically, the thoughts going through my head when I'm playing against someone are:

Okay, build workers
Okay, get supply
Okay, woops, minimap
Okay, build some men
Crap, build more workers
Crap, supply blocked, get some supply
Crap, minimap again
Crap, more men

I'm constantly behind and it culminates when my opponent shows up and is like "Lol hai :DD" while I'm screaming "OMFG BUILD MORE WORKERS AND SUPPLY OMFG MOVE MEN MINIMAP WORKERS MINIMAP MICRO MUST... GET... MORE... STUFF!" in my head.

I guess it'll change in a couple of years, if I stick to the guns. Once I learn how to counter certain strategies, not to mention learn how to spot strategies, it'll probably get easier. And more fun.

Just wish I was in Bronze instead of Gold league, though. It's bad for the morale that I'm getting roflstomped 8 minutes into every fight and lose 0 points on it.

Edited, Mar 9th 2011 3:01am by Mazra