Tunneling; Sky

http://www.youtube.com/user/day9tv

Never thought that somebody could draw such an incredible amount of philosophical insight from Starcraft. It's pretty amazing to hear how this game has been the center of Day9's life, how it's taught him life lessons and even how it brought his family closer together.

It's been 9 days since my last post, and the competition is over. The past month has been a blur. I think I can say that the time has been well spent, but I really do wish that I had kept calm at times instead of freaking out. The story I produced was really... just passable, ultimately, more easily identifiable by its weaknesses rather than its strengths... That got me down for a while, given how badly I wanted to have a good shot at winning this competition, and given that I'd seen God (and my proofreading friends) encouraging me throughout the process.

Today though, I watched Day9's reflections on the impact of Starcraft in his life, and it really struck me how he persevered throughout the years even though success didn't come instantly. In eight years, he only won two out of the many tournaments that he'd played, and it was through those defeats that he learned things that improved his game and his personal life years down the road. I guess it isn't healthy to be too hard on yourself, even if you know you're the one who let things slip. If I don't win this year, it's fine. I'll just come back two years from now with something that can clean out all these punks with their deliberately pandering, nationalistic, identity-questioning, postmodern plotless pieces of junk (Damn you Trondheim). No dark wizard or older-woman-loving telepath of mine is going to lose out to these punks.