"What I Miss About Counterstrike" - Blog authored by CSS legend JonMumm
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Re: "What I Miss About Counterstrike" - Blog authored by CSS legend JonMumm
#2Interesting. I thought this would be a critique of modern day first person shooters.
Re: "What I Miss About Counterstrike" - Blog authored by CSS legend JonMumm
#3To be the best at anything, means that you must live abnormally and do abnormal things. This is why being the best at everything is nearly impossible, since each thing to master would require different kinds of abnormalities and different ways of living abnormally.
This is why you find "geniuses" in a particular field, like math, or music, and they're usually not-so-genius in most other fields. "Genius" is attainable in my book, it's a matter of being focused and "putting your mind to it" as the article states, and this focus and "putting your mind to it" require being and doing abnormal things.
Re: "What I Miss About Counterstrike" - Blog authored by CSS legend JonMumm
#4CSS being counter strike: source, though he may be talented at using cascading style sheets as well.
Re: "What I Miss About Counterstrike" - Blog authored by CSS legend JonMumm
#5Thanks for the great article. Counter Strike was the game that really got me interested in programming. I got introduced to it in early 2000 and was blown away that this game was made by hobbyists who created a mod (expansion package) for Half Life which in itself was revolutionary at the time. Eventually Valve acquired Counter Strike and the rest is history. I still think fondly of the many hours spent on de_dust and cs_assault.
Re: "What I Miss About Counterstrike" - Blog authored by CSS legend JonMumm
#6CSS being counter strike: source, though he may be talented at using cascading style sheets as well.
confirmed jon is pretty awesome at cascading style sheets, also, yes.
Re: "What I Miss About Counterstrike" - Blog authored by CSS legend JonMumm
#7League of Legends has become my modern-day Counter-Strike. The buzz the author mentions is exactly the buzz I get playing the game over hundreds of hours. The rules of the game are fairly simple -- and inside of that simplicity a desire for perfection emerges. It's fun and challenging -- likely why I'm a programmer, too.
Re: "What I Miss About Counterstrike" - Blog authored by CSS legend JonMumm
#8CSS being counter strike: source, though he may be talented at using cascading style sheets as well.
Ahh. The whole time I was wondering: "How is this guy a legend at both counterstrike and cascading stylesheets?"
Re: "What I Miss About Counterstrike" - Blog authored by CSS legend JonMumm
#9Based on the title, I expected Jon to explain the things he missed about Counter-Strike, the game, with respect to Counter-Strike: Source (CSS), the sequel. That's not what this is about. It's a retrospective on his career as a professional CS player.
I then wondered why he didn't pick up another game or hobby. Turns out, he did. "Earlier this year I stumbled my way in to the world of tech startups."
Re: "What I Miss About Counterstrike" - Blog authored by CSS legend JonMumm
#10I played with and against him for years. His old teammate n0it was chatting with me on facebook for a while about my start-up-turned-company as he uses our software on his campus. I had not talked to either of them for a few years at minimum.
Jon's a great guy. Good read. Very surprised I saw something like this on HN. Small world, eh?