Mental Strategy

Mental Strategy #10:

Title: Backstabbers. Why they backstab. Why it is all mental.

Strategist's note: I am going to do this one as well as professional as I think I can. I think I need to prove something to some people. Most people don't understand that I have a writing style that I really enjoy using. I am hoping that this will prove to the SC:M staff and the Starcraft Community that truly SpaceDominator ain't a bad professional writer? Understand? No jokes this time, time for Dr. SD to come on in. Also, what do you think of the Outline as a proposal to tell you what everything means? It helps me too. This one is NOT as professional, but it gets the point across.

Topics of discussion:

I. Introduction
   a. Introducing who backstabbers truly are and why they are part of the community.
    b. Describing a case of a Backstabber

II. Backstabbers:
a. Telling about my experiences with backstabbers.
b. Hypothetically speaking about them being good
c. Strong words against being a backstabber.
III. Community
      a. Describing how to mentally win against a Backstabber.
      b. Detailing on why you shouldn't be a backstabber.

IV. Community Reaction to Backstabbers-
    a. Look at SC:M
    b. Look at others.

V. Conclusion
    a. Concluding this paper with Agelmar quality

    Backstabbers are defined as people who kill a person after agreeing to friendly terms. Most people and I think that Backstabbers aren't good things. There is some problems though, in other games almost every single person actually is a backstabber. Just like Agelmar said "I backstabbed in Warcraft 2", and I did it too. I really enjoyed it but that's no reason to allow others to. I did it to a friend. Friends don't care as much as complete strangers.  To continue the story, he backstabbed me and I kicked him in the shin(so he claims). Well, I guess he deserved it. Someone that does something bad deserves punishment. =)

    Backstabbers are not usually mentally weak players, because they are trying to defeat you at the end of the game after you have defeated everything else. It requires some very good mental skills to be done, so you cannot show it to the other person. In other words a Backstabber is usually very intelligent. To defeat a Backstabber(or assume that he is a backstabber), you need to show your prowess in a game of Starcraft. If you are fearing destruction at the end of a game, never stop building stuff. Always assume that your allies will have a traitorous side to them. It's awful. You want to be known as the laughing stock of Starcraft by being the unsuccessful backstabber? Of course not. Being just a backstabber reduces your status to other people. So that's why you should NOT be a Backstabber.

    However there are some advantages to being a backstabber. First of all you are very used to playing FFA games and helping your partner become more successful. There is a better way then doing this. At the end game screen someone I know presses Continue Playing instead of end mission, and then continues to kill their opponent. Does that hurt the guy? Not At all. Also backstabbing I know is a ton of fun. You are making another person go insane playing a very simple game. Maybe it's not a hypothetical simple, but it is a defined scientific fact that Starcraft is a game full of plenty of diverse strategies.

    How would any community react to a Backstabber? Let's begin by looking at Starcraft Millenium(us). We had an interesting experience and we all discussed different things about it. That's exactly what you should do.. Though maybe not so personal, no need to humiliate a person in front of a few hundred people. The community usually reacts to things in that way(REVENGE is sweet). So was it a mistake by us? Not at all. The reason I think that is because this guy had the nerves of picking on Agelmar. A cruddy webpage? I don't think so. Maybe cruddy strategies? You'll be the judge of that.

    Backstabbing something we all did at a time. Now you understand why.

-SpaceDominator