August 25: Just a Lazy Day
Today I woke up at around 11 and voice chatted with Jiuna over a breakfast of carrots and bananas. After I was done talking to her, I went out to the Yokosan to pick up some milk, a grapefruit and a couple of korokke to top off my brunch. After eating, I played StarCraft with Kevin for a while and then with my dormmate Kusano-san. Kusano-san was really good for someone who's only been playing for 2.5 weeks! He says he played a lot of PvP Age of Empires II, which is a rather different game from StarCraft, but apparently there is at least some transfer of skill since he was able to get into respectable StarCraft-shape in rather short order!
I was pleasantly surprised when I scouted his base in the first game to find that he actually was building multiple barracks, had a refinery up, and was walling his ramp and everything! :D He's still got a ways to go, because he attacked me rather early and it did almost nothing even though I expanded off of one gate (a comparatively greedy, punishable opening gambit), which means that there are certainly some kinks to work out, but it's a good start.
Since he played so well in the first game, I decided that I didn't need to use the kid gloves quite so much, and I applied early pressure with some units in the second game we played. We found out that he needs improvement on the defensive aspects of the game haha. He died pretty quickly to some rather non-committal pressure from a zealot, a stalker and a sentry. I started apologizing for attacking him so early, and explained that I did it because he seemed so together in the first game, but he wasn't mad or anything. He actually seemed to be extremely excited that early attacking is possible and useful in StarCraft (it's largely pointless in Age of Empires, as far as I know), and actually asked me to rush him again in the second game because he wanted "experience". O_O Okay... I used the double chronoboosted stalker build from like, a year ago, since it's the only true rush build I know, and he died pretty easily and was again very excited about it haha. He said he needed to "study and practice more", which has me worried that I may have created a monster hahaha. "Feed me, Seymo- I mean Sumi!"
Three games was enough for him, so we stopped, but then Kevin appeared back online and we had a nice chat. After the 8th time telling Kevin to go to bed (OK, maybe that's a bit of a stretch), he actually did so, and I was left to my own devices. I ended up watching professional StarCraft matches from 6pm until after 10 haha. Today was apparently a very StarCraft-ey day... The matches were alright, but only one of the two teams I wanted to win actually did so. Oh well. The team that lost was a bit of an outside shot anyways.
I looked through my Etrian Odyssey artbooks, and then played Etrian Odyssey for the rest of the night. The background art in that game is really nice, and it's making me want to improve my art, but it's hard to know where to begin. >_< I need to though, because a rash of crayon-card-requiring birthdays are coming up rather soon, and I can't draw chimaeric duck-monsters for those cards (don't ask). ;D
Anyways, it's a workday tomorrow (and paper-reading to start the day off, no less), so I'd best get to bed now. Night!
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