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Turk February posted:lol runnin' and gunnin' cod style. Thanks Valve. Watching Dignitas vs. Na'Vi, and the announcer said "Run n gun" right at the moment I read this post. Tripped me out a bit.
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Apr 11, 2015 16:11
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Looking at the ESL stream, how loving close do these people play to their monitors?? Looks like a couple inches away, it's crazy.
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Apr 11, 2015 18:02
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I've played my fair share of CS over the years. Is there a group of SomethingAwful members (or just bearable players) that play in the competitive mode regularly? I don't like playing with children, but I also don't want to play with people who take the game too seriously.
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Apr 11, 2015 18:05
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Mandator posted:I've played my fair share of CS over the years. Is there a group of SomethingAwful members (or just bearable players) that play in the competitive mode regularly? I don't like playing with children, but I also don't want to play with people who take the game too seriously. Add me on steam my steam name is same as my SA username. I'm silver 5
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Apr 11, 2015 18:19
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Mandator posted:I don't like playing with children, but I also don't want to play with people who take the game too seriously. We are exclusively a community of players who either are grown children or take the game too seriously(or both).
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Apr 11, 2015 18:20
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Apogee15 posted:We are exclusively a community of players who either are grown children or take the game too seriously(or both). Well I guess that's fine as long as there's not a 4chan-esque atmosphere. Mandator fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Apr 11, 2015 |
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Apr 11, 2015 18:52
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Mandator posted:I've played my fair share of CS over the years. Is there a group of SomethingAwful members (or just bearable players) that play in the competitive mode regularly? I don't like playing with children, but I also don't want to play with people who take the game too seriously. Jump into the chat room in the Steam group and I'm sure you can find plenty of people who will either MM or play on one of the two goon servers.
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Apr 11, 2015 19:03
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Awesome Welles posted:Jump into the chat room in the Steam group and I'm sure you can find plenty of people who will either MM or play on one of the two goon servers. 
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Apr 11, 2015 19:17
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UltraVariant posted:Chatroom's been dead for like three weeks so I mean ...Has it? I was just saying from memory that there were always people in there haha, didn't realize it just straight up died off 
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Apr 11, 2015 19:19
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Awesome Welles posted:...Has it? I was just saying from memory that there were always people in there haha, didn't realize it just straight up died off
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Apr 11, 2015 19:20
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Carol Pizzamom posted:Play at whatever age IMO. The age thing is talked about too much and it's kind of gay. Are we going to put people's weight and height in there too? I think we should replace 'age' with '3x powerlift total' in all the esports poo poo where they give player stats. well age has a direct correlation with hand eye coordination and weight/height doesn't maybe sorry you're 40 and still playing csgo
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Apr 11, 2015 19:34
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Apparition posted:well age has a direct correlation with hand eye coordination and weight/height doesn't maybe Do you have a study you could link regarding this?
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Apr 11, 2015 19:39
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Magnus Gallant posted:Do you have a study you could link regarding this?
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Apr 11, 2015 19:42
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Magnus Gallant posted:Do you have a study you could link regarding this? http://psychsocgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/55/3/P151.full
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Apr 11, 2015 19:52
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Apparition posted:well age has a direct correlation with hand eye coordination and weight/height doesn't maybe It does but we're playing a video game. Younger people are generally better at everything, but depending on what you're doing it might be more or less significant. I'm not old I just think it's silly
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Apr 11, 2015 20:08
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Also I bet weight (or at least bodyfat %) probably does have an effect and fitter people are probably more coordinated and in better mental condition
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Apr 11, 2015 20:10
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Carol Pizzamom posted:Also I bet weight (or at least bodyfat %) probably does have an effect and fitter people are probably more coordinated and in better mental condition I always wondered that, but many of the best players of whatever videogame you choose are just as fat/unfit as you might imagine.
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Apr 11, 2015 20:12
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Jeza posted:I always wondered that, but many of the best players of whatever videogame you choose are just as fat/unfit as you might imagine. That's because the best players in games are the ones who can spend the most time genuinely trying to get better at the game This means younger people who can live on nothing and sit at the PC, and also younger people can stay more mentally acute with less exercise because their bodies are better. Fatties will make it into the mix because they're clearly not doing anything else. Older people, to feel good mentally, need more exercise I think (Source: I'm talking out my rear end but I'm pretty sure this is true) A lot of European players are in fairly good shape and most out of shape players are twinks, I'd say the pro scene is probably less than 15% fat dudes ARMCHIR ESPORTSCHAT FUCKYEAH
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Apr 11, 2015 20:16
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Yesterday I was on fire and couldn't miss a shot if I tried, now I am unable to hit a barn door, much less a moving head. RIP my skills overnight.
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Apr 11, 2015 20:36
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Carol Pizzamom posted:That's because the best players in games are the ones who can spend the most time genuinely trying to get better at the game EU is about 15% obese, and that is disproportionately the middle-aged so that sounds about right. I honestly do think there is a fairly stark drop off in terms of skill as you get older. All the best aimers seem to be young, and experience counter-balances that up until about mid 20s. Then really only very few players seem to stick around. Obviously a lot of people grow up and do real jobs etc. but a lot of players do seem to just 'lose it' past a certain point. Hard to tell if that's just a question of how much time they dedicate to playing or a physical thing. Pretty sure anybody aged over 30 has never won anything in any videogame. You can still be better than 99% of other players, but you'll never be at the very cutting edge.
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Apr 11, 2015 20:40
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Carol Pizzamom posted:That's because the best players in games are the ones who can spend the most time genuinely trying to get better at the game One of the pro Dota players was actually talking about how building muscle made his mouse coordination worse, so he stopped going to the gym because of it. That might have been just a personal issue, though, and that dude isn't particularly unfit in the first place (or at least he doesn't look like it).
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Apr 11, 2015 20:42
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I really don't follow it closely enough to know for sure, but I think a lot of pro fighting game duders are on the "old" side. Like Justin Wong and Daigo are both 30+, at least.
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Apr 11, 2015 20:45
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Mechanics and reaction times are important (see: KennyS) but Counter-Strike is a game where it matters less than say, Starcraft or something. The mental game doesn't go away as you get older. And yeah Bohemian nailed it, some genres you can still win as an oldie, fighting games case in point.
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Apr 11, 2015 21:00
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Jeza posted:EU is about 15% obese, and that is disproportionately the middle-aged so that sounds about right. I agree that you'll fall off in a lot of things but I think a lot of that has to do with where people's priorities start lying. Do something for 12 years of your life, then you might start to get bored of it and start to want a long term career, maybe some other hobbies, like something where you see sunshine Also Taz was stated as being one of the oldest players and when his aim is on point it's unbelievable. I doubt your aim falls off so much as your reaction time (Until you're like, 35 or whatever), but I remember nothing tested his reaction time and said it was totally normal to the point of mediocrity Also remember that of the generations that did a lot of competitive counter strike seriously, anyone who is 30 or older would've been on the generation where the game wasn't even really fleshed out/the scene wasn't as well developed Broken Cog posted:One of the pro Dota players was actually talking about how building muscle made his mouse coordination worse, so he stopped going to the gym because of it. That might have been just a personal issue, though, and that dude isn't particularly unfit in the first place (or at least he doesn't look like it).
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Apr 11, 2015 21:29
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Bohemian Nights posted:Yesterday I was on fire and couldn't miss a shot if I tried, now I am unable to hit a barn door, much less a moving head. RIP my skills overnight. Everyone has good and bad days, usually but not always correlated with how good a night's sleep you got.
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Apr 11, 2015 21:32
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I have a bad day every time I comp without deathmatching first. If you're good and experienced you probably don't need this but if you've been playing less than half a year you probably benefit from it every single time
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Apr 11, 2015 21:36
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Carol Pizzamom posted:It does but we're playing a video game. Younger people are generally better at everything, but depending on what you're doing it might be more or less significant. I'm not old I just think it's silly Are you seriously arguing that getting older doesn't affect reaction times?
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afkmacro posted:Are you seriously arguing that getting older doesn't affect reaction times? Not at the rate some people make it out to be. Like aren't there very very very miniscule differences between reaction times of thirty year olds and twenty somethings. I can definitely see a slowdown come forties
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Apr 11, 2015 22:53
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Apr 11, 2015 23:07
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Phosphia posted:Does the ranking system take scores into account or is it purely win/lose ratio?
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Apr 11, 2015 23:10
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Phosphia posted:Does the ranking system take scores into account or is it purely win/lose ratio? (^^^^^) no one actually knows but broadly it seems to be weighted by how many rounds the ELO system expected you to take vs. actual, whether or not you win/lose/draw
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Apr 11, 2015 23:11
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afkmacro posted:Are you seriously arguing that getting older doesn't affect reaction times? When did I say it didn't. I said in the post you quoted that young people are better at nearly everything. Young people are even better at stuff like math
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Apr 11, 2015 23:21
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Bohemian Nights posted:I really don't follow it closely enough to know for sure, but I think a lot of pro fighting game duders are on the "old" side. Like Justin Wong and Daigo are both 30+, at least. Fighting games depend much more on knowledge and mind games as opposed to twitch reactions. Also, isn't there something about fast muscle fibers decaying in your late 30s or something?
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Apr 11, 2015 23:21
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I'm 33......... I should stop playing.
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Apr 11, 2015 23:37
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I'm not great at the game but I'm playing with people who get their first and only kill in the 17th round. Is that just how Silver 4 is?
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Apr 11, 2015 23:38
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^^ Yeah, they're new, why should they be good?Ephedra posted:I'm 33......... I should stop playing. You could become a weird old gun nut and play pretend counter strike in your house
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Apr 11, 2015 23:45
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Carol Pizzamom posted:When did I say it didn't. I said in the post you quoted that young people are better at nearly everything. Young people are even better at stuff like math It's definitely the impression i got from your posts. Personally I remember 150-200ms reaction times using the dumb click tests 10 or 15 years ago, now I average around 300.
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Carol Pizzamom posted:You could become a weird old gun nut and play pretend counter strike in your house What makes you think that Ephedra doesn't already do this?
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afkmacro posted:It's definitely the impression i got from your posts. Personally I remember 150-200ms reaction times using the dumb click tests 10 or 15 years ago, now I average around 300. I'm not implying that there isn't a difference at all, more that in a game where a huge variety of things can make you good or suck, the pure focus on age is a bit silly, especially since almost all the players are under 30 Also, that there's better explanations for why young people are professional counter strike players than fast twitch muscle/brain fiber
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