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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I go to an art school, but have no artistic talent. I'm actually majoring in video game design and development, yet the school wanted me to take a bunch of drawing classes. On the plus side, I did get to dabble in Photoshop and Illustrator.

    For laughs, you can check out my final project for a digital design class:

    The Sad Story of Metamorphosis

    As you can see my skills are weak, but my story telling isn't half bad. :D

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  • rehtonAesoohCrehtonAesoohC Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    By the way, if anyone is curious as to what kind of TvZ I keep talking about that I like to do - here is a replay of it:

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    Me vs an 1850 diamond zerg.

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    Was wowed by Rift so I'm trying that now.
  • PantsBPantsB Fake Thomas Jefferson Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Stasis wrote: »
    I was just thinking about the 5rr and 7rr and I wondered, if Protoss just teched straight to Robotics (1 Gate, Cybernetics Core, Robo) could you possibly get an Immortal out in time for the rush?

    In all probability, if getting the Immortal out that fast is even possible, you wouldn't have anything else and the Immortal would just get slaughtered, but I want to test this.

    It is possible yes, its what I do when 5rr/7rr is being telegraphed (zero or 2 lings, no expansion, 1 gas). This is with Gold Zerg so its possible it can be done faster, but I usually have 1-2 stalkers, 1 zealot, a sentry and an Immortal off 2 gate+robo (gate,core,robo,gate). If it comes and I hold it off, one or two production cycles later I counter usually

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  • rehtonAesoohCrehtonAesoohC Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Are there really only 50,000 players in north america? Or is that 50k DIAMOND players in NA? (According to sc2ranks.com)

    (http://www.sc2ranks.com/team/5717124)

    (Just curious)

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  • foursquaremanfoursquareman Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Joe K wrote: »
    you're right, the suggestions to micro have nothing to do with macro. the fact that he's saying that "I still feel as if his units were way better than mine.", is an indication of a macro problem. He ran an MMM ball with 1 medivac into more than one sieged tanks. Yep, yer gonna lose that one.... And why didnt you produce anything out of the factory on the way to medivacs? Macro again. He pushes back with Thors and tanks and you feel like your units are weaker? Hrm, I wonder why that could be.

    The only exception to the "don't attack sieged tanks on higher ground with ground units" is "take a handful of immortals, and an observer to spot and blow the effing tanks away".

    But somehow, I have doubts that he would have had the money to pull off that protoss strat, either.

    The reason I ran my marines up the ramp and into tanks is because I'm an idiot, and I have gotten used to winning matches without having to scout. Starting to learn that.

    I should have upgraded my factory when I saw tanks, but instead I kept building helions.

    And I need to learn to continue macroing while attacking. I have all unti producing buildings hotkeyed, and generally build while attacking, but sometimes I will get supply blocked as I'm sending my guys in.

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  • DangeriskDangerisk Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Are there really only 50,000 players in north america? Or is that 50k DIAMOND players in NA? (According to sc2ranks.com)

    (http://www.sc2ranks.com/team/5717124)

    (Just curious)

    (parantheses)

    ()

    Sc2ranks breaks everything down into league Bronze/Silver/Gold/etc.

    So yeah, 50k diamonds in NA.

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    If what you say is true, the Shaolin and the Wu-Tang could be DANGERISK.
  • Joe KJoe K Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Joe K wrote: »
    you're right, the suggestions to micro have nothing to do with macro. the fact that he's saying that "I still feel as if his units were way better than mine.", is an indication of a macro problem. He ran an MMM ball with 1 medivac into more than one sieged tanks. Yep, yer gonna lose that one.... And why didnt you produce anything out of the factory on the way to medivacs? Macro again. He pushes back with Thors and tanks and you feel like your units are weaker? Hrm, I wonder why that could be.

    The only exception to the "don't attack sieged tanks on higher ground with ground units" is "take a handful of immortals, and an observer to spot and blow the effing tanks away".

    But somehow, I have doubts that he would have had the money to pull off that protoss strat, either.

    The reason I ran my marines up the ramp and into tanks is because I'm an idiot, and I have gotten used to winning matches without having to scout. Starting to learn that.

    I should have upgraded my factory when I saw tanks, but instead I kept building helions.

    And I need to learn to continue macroing while attacking. I have all unti producing buildings hotkeyed, and generally build while attacking, but sometimes I will get supply blocked as I'm sending my guys in.

    well, you sound like you are looking at your own play in a critical light. good job. go grab sc2gears, and start looking at your replays in a cold numeric setting. Do you produce as many peons's as your opponent? Do you put as much money/gas on the ground in the form of an army? Does your opponent generally put more units and upgrades in play?

    Reviewing the actual games helps a lot, reviewing them in a different format i.e. I built 23 probes, and he built 70 drones, no shit i lost.... helps.

    Also, the "zerg timer" program helps on reminding when to build another scv

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  • KamiKami Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Dangerisk wrote: »
    Are there really only 50,000 players in north america? Or is that 50k DIAMOND players in NA? (According to sc2ranks.com)

    (http://www.sc2ranks.com/team/5717124)

    (Just curious)

    (parantheses)

    ()

    Sc2ranks breaks everything down into league Bronze/Silver/Gold/etc.

    So yeah, 50k diamonds in NA.

    And for the fun of it, this is the full tally it shows me

    Total: 2,165,198
    Russia: 74,753
    Taiwan: 123,855
    SE Asia: 103,086
    Europe: 621,991
    Korea: 372,825
    NA: 833,153
    Latin America: 35,535

    I'm not found anywhere, though. :cry:

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  • kedinikkedinik Captain of Industry Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I believe you can manually add yourself if their servers haven't detected your profile yet.

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  • TheCrumblyCrackerTheCrumblyCracker Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I am so confused as to what this does!

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  • KamiKami Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    kedinik wrote: »
    I believe you can manually add yourself if their servers haven't detected your profile yet.

    I found myself by doing the 'Battle.net URL' portion

    I'm relieved, as even with my horrid 16% win ratio, I'm still in the top 58% somehow D:

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  • GraviijaGraviija Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I just played SC1 for the first time since first playing SC2. God damn, the pathfinding in that game is comparatively atrocious. Also, a lot of other things.

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  • ChenChen Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    lurkers am i rite

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  • Joe KJoe K Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Graviija wrote: »
    I just played SC1 for the first time since first playing SC2. God damn, the pathfinding in that game is comparatively atrocious. Also, a lot of other things.

    well, at least they kept with tradition and made immortal, ultra and archons pathing shitty in SC2/

    (I swear that there is one old drunk guy in charge of all pathing at Blizzard, as they have had pathing problems with certain unit sizes in EVERY game)

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  • zerg rushzerg rush Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Mostly just puttin this up to show I'm not dead, as that's always a legitimate worry to have when collaborating on forums. It's not a full revision, because eventually we'll be doing "Hospital1 vs Hospital2" with Joe K and Helpermnky as an undercard.
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    As always, criticism is very appreciated. I'm most concerned if the font and fontcolor on the added text at the bottom looks nice. I didn't ignore the last batch of criticism because again this is mostly a not-dead check. It'll get done when I change the matchup text (once we know which hospitals it will be).

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  • undeinPiratundeinPirat Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    seems good to me

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  • His CorkinessHis Corkiness Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Decemeber :P

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  • TrusTrus Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I would make it "EG.Incontrol shoutcasting"

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  • Feels Good ManFeels Good Man Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    oh I guess I read the schedule wrong, 4 protoss potentially going down today

    you know I'm ready for it!! GSL in 18 minutes

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  • ChenChen Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Who's cheering for Ret?!

    (I am)

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  • Joe KJoe K Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    zerg rush wrote: »
    Mostly just puttin this up to show I'm not dead, as that's always a legitimate worry to have when collaborating on forums. It's not a full revision, because eventually we'll be doing "Hospital1 vs Hospital2" with Joe K and Helpermnky as an undercard.
    joevshlprmnky2.jpg

    As always, criticism is very appreciated. I'm most concerned if the font and fontcolor on the added text at the bottom looks nice. I didn't ignore the last batch of criticism because again this is mostly a not-dead check. It'll get done when I change the matchup text (once we know which hospitals it will be).

    Thanks dude.

    Hospitals are set.

    JoeK - Abington Memorial Hospital, Abington, PA
    hlprmnky - University of Iowa Children's Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa.

    Now, if only I can get him to say his name backwards.

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  • kedinikkedinik Captain of Industry Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Trus wrote: »
    I would make it "EG.Incontrol shoutcasting"

    The self deprecatometer is off the charts!

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  • Joe KJoe K Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    kedinik wrote: »
    Trus wrote: »
    I would make it "EG.Incontrol shoutcasting"

    The self deprecatometer is off the charts!

    Yeh, Trus, you deserve to be on the card and get yer name out. If you want to be modest about it make it "EGiNcontrol Along side Trus", but your name should appear on the card.

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  • VicktorVicktor Infidel Castro Rancho ChupacabraRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    kedinik wrote: »
    Trus wrote: »
    I would make it "EG.Incontrol shoutcasting"

    The self deprecatometer is off the charts!
    ...you mean Trus didn't actually just reveal that he's Incontrol's secret identity?

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  • Feels Good ManFeels Good Man Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Chen wrote: »
    Who's cheering for Ret?!

    (I am)

    I am

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  • KlykaKlyka DO you have any SPARE BATTERIES?Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    ok here is a super rough draft of what I have in mind for the trailer.

    Super early alpha status,with placeholders basically everywhere. Still,it shows the concept.

    Rough draft trailer

    Also,fuck youtube for not showing my video after uploading it like 10 times.

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  • KamiKami Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Yyyessssss

    yyyesssssss

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  • tehmarkentehmarken BrooklynRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Klyka wrote: »
    ok here is a super rough draft of what I have in mind for the trailer.

    Super early alpha status,with placeholders basically everywhere. Still,it shows the concept.

    Rough draft trailer

    Also,fuck youtube for not showing my video after uploading it like 10 times.

    Pretty nice :)

    It's be good to have some crowd noise maybe in there. And it's "inexperienced" not "unexperienced"

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  • Joe KJoe K Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Klyka wrote: »
    ok here is a super rough draft of what I have in mind for the trailer.

    Super early alpha status,with placeholders basically everywhere. Still,it shows the concept.

    Rough draft trailer

    Also,fuck youtube for not showing my video after uploading it like 10 times.

    I LOVE IT!

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  • DangeriskDangerisk Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Anyone got a GSL stream?

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  • Feels Good ManFeels Good Man Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    go ret

    GO RET

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  • Salid SnakeSalid Snake Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Can anyone link a restream? i can never get in to watch it through GOM tv

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  • KlykaKlyka DO you have any SPARE BATTERIES?Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Ok Youtube came through,here's a better link to super rough draft trailer!

    So rough it drafts!

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  • DangeriskDangerisk Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
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  • tehmarkentehmarken BrooklynRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Check teamliquid, they usually know restreams.

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  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Do you use Gomplayer + click the SQ Live Test button? That one always works for me

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  • DangeriskDangerisk Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Artosis's side bangs are going to the left today instead of the right.

    Woohoo

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  • tehmarkentehmarken BrooklynRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Ret vs protoss. I'm not sure if I should be conflicted, or happy that either way I win.

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  • His CorkinessHis Corkiness Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Klyka wrote: »
    Ok Youtube came through,here's a better link to super rough draft trailer!

    snip
    Looks great. Minor nitpick, but it's "inexperienced".

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  • PantsBPantsB Fake Thomas Jefferson Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Are the GSL brackets seeded or random?

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