Quote (ComicsMan @ Mar 5 2013 03:06am)

Erm... everyone uses the same baseball and the same playing field...

Quote (OtterJethro @ Mar 5 2013 06:25pm)

Not a single major league baseball stadium as the exact same outfield dimensions as ONE other team...

Quote (x]FoRsaKeN[x @ Mar 5 2013 02:10pm)

If you knew anything about sports you would know that the rules change ALL the time, and have done so a myriad of times throughout history.

I do personally think that no one can lose a game of starcraft due to anything other than their own fault, though.

If you genuinely think you're losing because of balance then you just suck, too bad. Get over it.

You can blame all the outside forces that you'd like, but in the end you are just trying to reduce your own cognitive dissonance because you can't overcome the strategic use of pixels

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Quote (eyewuvd2 @ Mar 5 2013 08:16pm)

this is the most ignorant opinion in the world


if you played in such a way that you never lost to any random build - you'd be behind economically every game ????


you'd never try any cheese builds like DT all-in or proxy plays


so maybe its POSSIBLE, but you'd have to play from an economic deficit every game, and allow people to meta-game you like crazy.  You'd have to be significantly better than everyone you play.  And if you need to be 25% better than player X, and player X is at 81% of the skill ceiling than you can't win :)  As an example


ofc some matchups are more forgiving than others ... like zvt for instance.  If you never made mistakes you'd probably never lose that (or you'd rarely lose)

Quote (x]FoRsaKeN[x @ Mar 5 2013 10:26pm)

I'm speaking more toward people who are consistently losing and blaming balance nearly every time, as opposed to someone who is accepting what their shortcomings and mistakes were in the last game and moving on. Build order losses are different.

It seems like you think i'm saying that one should be able to win every game. That's absurd. What i'm getting at are people who aren't owning up to their own faults and are blaming the game.

I'm pretty sure you misinterpreted my post entirely.

Quote (eyewuvd2 @ Mar 5 2013 10:14pm)

well .. anyone who's below GM level is probably fucking up enough where they shouldn't be blaming losses solely on one single thing

Quote (Minigun007 @ 5 Mar 2013 20:41)

yea the game has a few faults such as rock paper scissors even being possible ;/

Quote (Cpt_Ghost @ Mar 6 2013 06:17am)

I was kinda implying that.

Quote (Minigun007 @ Mar 5 2013 08:33pm)

yeah I can agree with that, if you are below gm shouldn't be balance whining regardless.  The game shouldn't be catered to the lower leagues anyway.