Inside the mind of a professional gamer

[Pheer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdkDjsBiO58

A look into the mind of a professional quake player. Never let it be said that fps games are all aim and reflexes.

[Crover_CT99]

I scoffed when I saw professional gamer, but that honestly was pretty cool.

I wish I would have taken this stuff more seriously 10 years ago.

[Pheer]

Hes considered one of if not the best dueler currently. He had a medicocre showing at quakecon and got 2nd at gamescom 2010, but up until those he was the player to beat and had a streak of first places. Hes made somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 grand from tournaments so far.

Not sure what else to call that than professional heh.

[President]

Saw it on reddit a few weeks ago and was glad I clicked the link. Id say I was aware of 50-60% of what was going through his mind, but some of that was quite a bit ridiculous. Hearing/knowing what items his opponent picked up and then timing their respawn was something I had never even considered. Knowing or making a fairly accurate guess of his opponents health, or deciding pre/mid fight that his chance of survival(Leeroy?) was low and retreating is ridiculous.

[RKromwell]

Said the guy pimping rat meat tacos on an emulated server for a 11 year old game.

[fugazi]

Amazing stuff. I used to be a pretty good Counter-Strike player where when given an AK, i was a mobile railgun but my tactics were pretty subpar. When you see guys like him, you see where a less 'skilled' player can get on top by pure force of mind. As I said before, amazing stuff.

[Rellika]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdkDjsBiO58

Hes considered one of if not the best dueler currently. He had a medicocre showing at quakecon and got 2nd at gamescom 2010, but up until those he was the player to beat and had a streak of first places. Hes made somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 grand from tournaments so far.

Not sure what else to call that than professional heh.

Yah 50 grand...what do ya wanna bet he spend like 30 of that over the years on computers. And probably the rest on a new Kia Rio. Still an interesting vid tho.

[purist]

Any other good IEM vids dude?

[Pheer]

Yah 50 grand...what do ya wanna bet he spend like 30 of that over the years on computers. And probably the rest on a new Kia Rio. Still an interesting vid tho.

that 50 grand is over a period of just under 2 years


Any other good IED vids dude?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rAtlp2dDPU WoW nerds raging

[Rhalous]

Great vid, OP. I just finished it. I could only watch about 10seconds of the 2nd video, though.

[purist]

lmao I've seen that one, but I rewatched it 'cause it always makes me laugh.

I'm gonna try to start watching more IEM videos now, post them if you find more good ones!

[Pheer]

lmao I've seen that one, but I rewatched it 'cause it always makes me laugh.

I'm gonna try to start watching more IED videos now, post them if you find more good ones!

have you seen this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D70Hxro_agU

dude destroyed his headset and cracked the top of a laptop rofl

[purist]

LOLOL.. thanks, so funny. I wish their team mates would just turn to them and say "you mad brew? you mad?"

[Pheer]

LOLOL.. thanks, so funny. I wish their team mates would just turn to them and say "you mad brew? you mad?"

near the end check out fnatic just looking over their shoulders at him rofl

[warrioman]

Everquest in pictures....

http://media.arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.media/evercrack.jpg

http://blogs.smarter.com/blogs/Kids%20Playing%20Video%20Games.jpg

http://gaygamer.net/images/ea6e32f5ea4bfaf5_guys_playing_video_games.jpg

http://www.corbisimages.com/images/572/2040982A-34BB-4DDF-8550-5F246DC1EDDF/42-17419297.jpg




Why poopsocking/devoting life to P1999 is not cool:


http://dating.lovetoknow.com/images/Dating/thumb/1/1d/How_to_flirt.jpg/350px-How_to_flirt.jpg

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/8271/20051209004sm6.jpg

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Need I say more?

[Loke]

Garpy vs Lynx in HLDM is still the best FPS gaming I've ever seen. Remember when that match happened - I was a big TFC Mulcher and was just completely humbled seeing those guys play.

First half of that match:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYvOIqRmawI

[Pheer]

garpy still plays quake I believe, didnt know he played that

[Loke]

Yea, Garpy was sick at HLDM. I wasn't into the DM style games at that point - was too into games like CS and TFC which take so much less skill. Like Mulch was pretty intense but it was a dumbed down version of DM style 1v1. People don't realize how much goes into gaming at that level - movement, weapons choice / switching, resources... if you watch the video, Garpy is even using footsteps and sounds to judge where Lynx is and where he is going to be. Just ridiculous how much goes into that compared to games like COD or CS.

[purist]

Loke that video was pretty awesome dude, did you listen to the commentary in the OP's video?

[Pheer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6NuMyXw1Hs&feature=channel

Thats the full set of games between rapha and cooller btw