Day is the prettiest man

OnTheLastCastle

You know, Day [9]! He told you to stop worrying about APM, countering, or how you aren't Korean and just play Starcraft. He even has a fansite... kind of weird but okay! http://day9fan.com/



Let us say no more of our Sean Plott love. You can watch his super awesome live show or archives here. You can listen to the sweet music he plays here.

Know Thy Enemy
http://www.teamliquid.net/ -- A rad place for all things starcraft, including forums, news, strategy, and a wiki

Support the Troops
http://www.youtube.com/user/HDstarcraft -- HD Starcraft's channel. He is not nearly as cool or handsome as Day[9], but he and Husky have lots of tournaments and comment on a lot of videos

Starcraft II wiki:
http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/StarCraft_II -- Sometimes you need to know how fast a hydralisk moves or the history of Viking pilots!

s_86 wrote: »

I made a custom division for Penny-Arcade. I've added a bunch of people, but definitely not everyone. If you want to add yourself, click on [Manage Characters] on the right side.
http://www.sc2ranks.com/c/558/penny-arcade
DMR tops the list with 1000+ pts. Good job man.

ROLLCALL

ANIMAL COMPANION: animal.696
ARTREUS: Artreus.409
AS7: Vivus.971

BACKWARDSNAME: NameBack.962 *
BAHAMUTZERO: BahamutZERO.348
BAIDOL: Baidol.376
BEEF AVENGER: BeefAvenger.553
BRODO FAGGINS: GIChoe.989 *
BUTTERS: Butters.340

CORNELL: Cornell.931
CORPORATELOGO: CorpLogo.631
CRUNKMCGRUNK: Kancho.704 you are a very naughty boy, Crunk
CYMRIL: Cymril.381

DRAGONICITY: Dragonicity.275
DREAD PIRATE ARBUTHNOT: Requine.940
DRUHIM: Druhim.756

EDDIZHERE: plutonium.900
END : End.165

FALLOUT: Fallout.276
FIGHTINFILIPINO: flipspectre.444
FRYLOCKHOLMES: Bainn.534

GUMPY: Gumpy.951

HUNTER: Hunter.107

ISOLDAE: Isolate.252

JARS: jars.537
JOSIAH_9: Josiah.465

KHAVALL: EightyEight.517
KRUNKMCGRUNK: Kancho.704
KWOARU: Kwoaru.855

LORD DAVE: Monty.324
LORDAEN: Gillis.462

MEIZ: Meiz.152
MERE HAPPENSTANCE: Ramsey.257
MR FUZZBUTT: MrFuzzbutt.953 (currently stuck on South East Asian servers)
MRMONROE: MrMonroe.619 *

NAPHTALI: Naphtali.316
NeoToma: Tyberius.257
NEVILLE: Neville.137
NO GREAT NAME: SirToons.582
NOCTURNE: Nocturne.308

ONTHELASTCASTLE: OTLastCastle.341
OUT OF CONTEXT: TheHats.272

PIPTHEFAIR: Fert.533
PROJECK: Projeck.251

RANDALL_FLAGG: Kinch.621 *
REDFENIX: Redfenix.184
REDTIDE: RedTide.115
RHYLITH: Rhylith.485
ROCKMONKEY: rockmonkey 850
RUNAWAY_PANCAKE: Oracle.964

SABREMAU: SabreMau.467
SAINT JUSTICE: SaintJustice.891
SARKSUS: Sarksus.620
SARUKUN: sarukun.206
SCARLET ST.: pinkhotpants.492
SHABOOTY: Shabooty.973
SHAZKAR SHADOWSTORM: shazkar.320
SIRTOASTY: SirToasty.520
SLYM: SLyM.631
STALEGHOTI: Clintown.740

THELAWINATOR: TheLaw.603
THESTIG: Stiggy.886
TOSSROCK: Tossrock.164

UNDEINPIRAT: undeinpirat.705
URIEL: Jarofmayo.250
UBIK: ubik.795

VLADIMER: NMNFTU.941

WEBBER: Webber.566
WIMBLE: Wimble.835

The Europes:
AUTONO-WALLY, EROTIBOT300: Deno.762
BONGI: bonngi.640
COMPUTER GENERATED FAGGOTRY: CasinoGhost.890
HOA-PLAYER: Sadame.396 * (was listed on NA server)
ODIN: Odin.554

Asian Hax:
THE BOY SATELITE: Fourwinds.730
VIVIXENNE: vivixenne.293

PM me if you want to be on the list.


Stig's super good idea: Players added in this thread will be marked with a * so that you can all keep your lists current since b.net is stupid and doesn't notify you when people add you to their list!

TheStig

dang, that's a good idea.

Lordaen

Hello new StarCraft II thread!

OnTheLastCastle

I wonder if Tasteless, that's Day [9]'s brother right?, has a stream too. I'll look into it.

TheStig

Pretty sure if he did, everyone would know about it.

Tossrock

man, I wish I were friends with Day[9]

he seems like a cool guy to hang out with

have a brodown, you know

BahamutZERO

Tossrock wrote: »

man, I wish I were friends with Day[9]

he seems like a cool guy to hang out with

have a brodown, you know

me too

let's be bros with each other instead and lament the fact that day9 is too good for us

Lordaen

I really didn't know anything about Day9 until SCII was released. After watching his dailies I really wish I had gone to his KoTB/launch party. Dude just seems like he would be really fun to be around.

OnTheLastCastle

I can't wait for patch 1.1 so I can change the title to "Siege Tanks are dead! Long live Siege Tanks!" I want it nooooooooooow.

But anytime I fight a ZP team in 2v2 I feel overwhelming relief.

Lordaen

Boo SC has become corrupted. Luckily I was playing against a computer at the time.

Slym

Took you guys long enough to start this thread up. I should probably copy everything in the op somewhere so I can pick up the slack when you guys are lazy and I'm impatient and want to talk about STARCRRRRAAAAFFFFTTTT

:P

Tossrock

BahamutZERO wrote: »

Tossrock wrote: »

man, I wish I were friends with Day[9]

he seems like a cool guy to hang out with

have a brodown, you know

me too

let's be bros with each other instead and lament the fact that day9 is too good for us

k

do we... do we kiss now?

Wimble

I didn't like the GSL games today that much

the ones yesterday were neat-o though

gsl



gsl

BahamutZERO

Tossrock wrote: »

BahamutZERO wrote: »

Tossrock wrote: »

man, I wish I were friends with Day[9]

he seems like a cool guy to hang out with

have a brodown, you know

me too

let's be bros with each other instead and lament the fact that day9 is too good for us

k

do we... do we kiss now?

yeah

Tossrock

mwah mwah

BahamutZERO

use your tongue more

Lord Dave

I've been playing custom games against the AI
It is very confusing when I accidentally hit the regular "find match" button without realizing

Naphtali

Lord Dave wrote: »

I've been playing custom games against the AI
It is very confusing when I accidentally hit the regular "find match" button without realizing

why is the computer calling me names


edit: also we should play this sometime LD

OnTheLastCastle

I liked beating the AI in 8 person FFA and 4v4 insane AIs as all one race. The lower achievements unlock too!

Artreus

I finally finished the campaign! Now I can get into playing the multiplayer on occasion.

I'm still only even moderately confident with Terran though. I'd like to branch out at some point.

Lord Dave

Naphtali wrote: »

Lord Dave wrote: »

I've been playing custom games against the AI
It is very confusing when I accidentally hit the regular "find match" button without realizing

why is the computer calling me names


edit: also we should play this sometime LD

we should!
I think I'm in the people list
probably gonna be playing various betas this weekend though

Naphtali

Lord Dave wrote: »

Naphtali wrote: »

Lord Dave wrote: »

I've been playing custom games against the AI
It is very confusing when I accidentally hit the regular "find match" button without realizing

why is the computer calling me names


edit: also we should play this sometime LD

we should!
I think I'm in the people list
probably gonna be playing various betas this weekend though

I added you, just yell at me when I'm online. Lately I've just been getting on to play custom maps with friends.

Isoldae

I haven't crafted any stars in awhile.

NeoToma

I defended against Void rays with two queens, a spore, and transfusion today. It'probably not all that unusual, but i was the frist time I've done that so I felt like a boss.

Beef Avenger

Someone on TL had a neat idea for improving spawn larva. Basically, add a notifier on the side of the screen (like warpgates) that lets you know how many hatcheries are ready to have spawn larva cast on.

It would still require the same amount of actions to cast, it just wouldn't be so unforgiving for not having utterly perfect internal timing.

Considering how the other macro mechanics have elements of forgiveness, and they already do the exact same thing for warpgates, i think it's a really good, reasonable idea. Saru you should go crack some skulls until it's implemented

BahamutZERO

what they should really do is remove the notification and special hotkey for warpgates

and the idle worker icon while they're at it
also nexuses and orbital commands should have 50 max energy
also each resource collection cycle should have to be done manually, workers are too stupid to know to return their shit and go back to work

Beef Avenger

well i suppose that making the other macro mechanics way more frustrating would help balance it out. I'd prefer they make the zerg one less frustrating instead though

BahamutZERO

pfft sure if you like casuals who are little babies

TL DR

Guys I started using 'gosu' ironically and now it's worked it's way into my lexicon

TL DR

But man I was playing this ZvZ last night, and my opponent started his first push with like a dozen lings just after I dropped my expo.

My roommate was all, "you better cancel that!" and I'm all, nope.avi

Let me tell you, an extra queen to transfuse roaches and spine crawlers makes all the difference in the world. I wouldn't hesitate to describe it as gosu-times-two 8-)

BahamutZERO

You don't have to plant another hatchery to get another queen, you know. You can just build more from your original hatchery.

HoA-player

Oh god I got placed in Platinum for random 4v4.

I did that by building nothing but Zealots during my placement matches.

Just wave after wave of Zealots.

Isoldae

I think the point is he wouldn't of had two, yet, if he hadn't of made an expo.

Lordaen

I have been adding an extra queen early on and loving it to death. I've made it part of my 5 RR so once I hit about 32 supply I toss out an overlord then a queen. Pretty much use it to toss down 2-3 creep tumors, which spread so so soooo much quicker, and then keep it around for transfusion.

Artreus

HAVE

IT IS HAVE

NOT OF

BahamutZERO

if you want to be really crazy, you can try not making a queen at all until later. Day9 talked about his doing that somewhat recently.

Lordaen

What I'm saying here is I freaking love creep highways and queens are the way to go.

Isoldae

Poopin all da creep.

Lordaen

BahamutZERO wrote: »

if you want to be really crazy, you can try not making a queen at all until later. Day9 talked about his doing that somewhat recently.

The only problem I see with this is that you must either thrown down another hatchery quick or sacrifice worker production a ton. Surviving early pressure without a Queen and that extra larva just doesn't seem like it would work.

BahamutZERO

[strike]Well the idea is if you skip the queen-immediately-on-pool-finishing you have more resources that can go into powering out drones, giving you a big economy boost early on that balloons your later economy due to the whole exponential growth thing. If you scout that there will be or potentially could be early aggression that you think you'll need a queen to deal with rather than a few lings, you obviously don't skip the queen. Like if you see a walled off terran that might be going for fast banshees or cannon'd toss who might be rushing void rays.[/strike]
IGNORE ME!

Lordaen

I wonder if it depends on when you're throwing down the Spawning Pool. I usually toss mine down at 14 and I think that I have more than enough resources for both a Queen and continuing Drone production. I think I will go play around with this!