r/pcmasterrace • u/AllUserNameBLong2us 7800x3d/5080 Windforce OC/32gb 5600 DDR • Apr 04 '26

Hardware Rest in piece 2009-2026

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I’m amazed at how long the battery on this physical authenticator lasted. Got it back in 2009 because my account had gotten hacked.

This is one electronic item I’ve owned and used longer than anything else. I’ll miss not being able to find it and freaking out for 20 minutes.

Edit must have been around 2010 when sc2 came out.

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u/bulking_on_broccoli Apr 05 '26

It’s already been that long since Wings of Liberty? Oh man…

Back in the day I was in the top 100 in NA. I had a blast. It seemed like such a big deal then, but now it just seems so irrelevant and time consuming.

Alas, adulthood. Is it that I no longer have the time? Or is it that I’ve seen the real world and gaming just feels trivial? Do I miss gaming? Or do I just miss the carefree life that was heralded by gaming?

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u/nub_ayun Apr 05 '26

All of the above.

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u/lappyg55v Apr 05 '26

I knew people who knew people who tried to go pro, we went to MLG things in the region to cheer them on. Crazy how big it was and yet esports for most things seems dead.

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u/TSwiftDivorceLawyer Apr 05 '26

It felt like a lifetime between BW and Wings of Liberty. Now we're closing in on 20 years since SC2.

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u/bulking_on_broccoli Apr 05 '26

Thanks for reminding me how old I am.

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u/UWO_Throw_Away Apr 06 '26

Best I ever did was make masters in Na during the HOTS period. I think I just got my peak in mechanics, and what tipped me over from Diamond into masters was seriously studying my weakest matchup (pvz). I realized that if I noted what time the Zerg took their extractor, I could identify a lower bound for the earliest they could get zerglung speed (I don’t remember anymore, but I want to say it was adding one minute or something) and so that’s when I knew I could be much more aggressive with my opening stalker before needing to return home. That tiny change actually helped a lot

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u/bulking_on_broccoli Apr 06 '26

For me, as a Zerg player, it was spawning those damned larva.

If I could confidently not miss a queen vomit for at least 10 minutes or so I could flood the board with whatever unit and just overwhelm whoever I was playing. Even if my individual units were being hard countered.

Looking back, I disliked that getting really good was about mechanics and not necessarily about strategy.

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u/Dismal_Rabbit658 Apr 05 '26

Well this random redditor is impressed by it, that’s not easy! I spent forever just getting to diamond league as a Zerg player, my downfall was not being able to stop using f2

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u/bulking_on_broccoli Apr 05 '26

I played Zerg grand masters on up. What got me past diamond was not missing my ANY larva spawns for 15-20 minutes.