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A comment on Ask HN: What are some things you learnt from a game that changed your life?.

Re:Ask HN: What are some things you learnt from a game that ... by cm2012 on Monday May 24, 2021 @10:21PM (#27271990)
In Starcraft it's the importance of humility and learning from others.

You have to learn the best build orders and practice them to a T if you want to do well. Millions of people around the world have honed these to a t.

It's only when you truly understand existing strategies and the meta that you can branch out successfully with your own strategies.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some things you learnt from a game that ... by Ratiofarmings on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @02:57AM (#27273728)
Honestly starcraft has taught me the opposite of that. It taught me that paying attention and making things up on the spot works well into 5k MMR (upper 90th percentile of performance).

It taught me that most people overthink. Then go and try to do fancy things without doing basic things correctly first.

I believe a fair amount of that translates into real life. People think too much about non important things and neglect the actually important stuff in the process.

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