SFG wrote:I would be honored if you would hydra-mentor me. It might take a bit to get started though, because I don't play in more than one game at once and I'm currently in an ongoing mini at Day 3 (
/in 7).
I only play in one game at a time
now
, but I credit immersion with my early burst of learning. I believe that I was up to 8 games at one time. I don't recommend that many for most people unless you get the addiction and are online 12 hours a day, waiting like a vulture over those games to pounce on the next post
Still, I think that two would be a healthy number to work with. It also helps you contrast in real time the reactions of people to you. Vi as a mentor should be a positive step. I don't know how he is as a teacher, but if you can adopt even a part of his method you should improve.
Something else I did early on, and later on as well, is decide beforehand how I intend to play a given game. Are you going to be aggressive? passive? make charts? do meta look ups on people? play as if everyone is scum until proven otherwise? play as though everyone is town until proven otherwise?
Stick with the style you chose and see how it works. If it doesn't turn out well, don't get depressed, select a different style and apply it to the next game and see how it does. Keep doing that and along the way you'll get the learning the only real way you can get it. You'll have experience.
I have a degree in bullshit. I have patents on entire lines of bullshit. So don't sit here and feed me a line of bullshit and think that I'm not going to recognize it as one.
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