Watching State of Play, a StarCraft progamer documentary. Feeling a bit boring in the beginning. But since I’m such a Jaedong fangirl, I’ll probably like it anyway. After a match a bunch of girls come and gave him presents, food probably. I can’t imagine how that feels. Jaedong says in the film his house trains for 10-12 hours a day. That… seems quite tough. Makes me feel like a real wimp with my work intensity levels. I guess even normal schools in Korea are tough like that.

It seemed weird how the pro houses just picked the new “semi-pros” as they liked, without giving any say to the players. Or maybe we just didn’t see it.

Work and play are converging in this day and age. The ones who work more can also play better. And the ones who play better increase their productivity.

says some esports evangelist in the film. I kind of agree, with “play” encompassing things like programming and art. The way to the top is indeed still hard work, but work and the play are not that different things for a person who have what it takes to make it to the top. He (who?) does not work like most people work, and neither does he play like most people play. Hah, when he says that, all the new pro players are sleeping in the audience.

The players ripped out the Windows key from their keyboards. That makes sense. I enjoy when documentaries show details like this that make you think. I don’t really enjoy nature documentaries, but anything to do with human professionals has always small interesting stuff sprinkled around.

Wow, they are interviewing a fan girl. She says “I like Lee Jae Dong because of his eyes”. ;D It’s probably the same for me. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a focus, “death stare”, like that. I keep an article screencap with a picture of his eyes in my “inspiration” folder. Here it is:

Since I’m a pro, people have expectations of me. Sometimes that makes me very tired

— Jaedong after switching to StarCraft 2 and not doing so well. He adds he is still glad to have fans.

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There was footage of a four ball billiards game on a table with no pockets. Never saw that game before, now read up on Four-ball billiards.