StarCraft: A marine walks into a bar and asks "where's the counter???"

3cl1ps3

He's an industry guy who's been around for a very long while. He has a reputation for being a bit of a dick but I hadn't heard he did anything worse.

...did he do something worst MMMig?

MMMig

No, he's just a real, real dick.

Oh I didn't post my DJWheat pic did I?
Now there's a REAL eSport journalist I enjoyed from way back. He's been working for Twitch for a while now.

MNC Dover

OK, this gave me a good laugh.

MMMig

That's going on the wall.

Ed: after I trick my wife into letting me have something like that on the wall.

"Trust me hon, it'll be tastefully cultural."

MNC Dover

Crossposting this from the HotS thread since it's sort of relevant here:

It's been a while, but the wife is back to the A-Z HotS art challenge. The next one up is hot!



She dropped this into Reddit and has been getting lots of upvotes and praise. Of course, the running joke is drawing Blaze in watercolors. :biggrin: Pretty good for someone who only started doing art a few years ago.

Enigmedic

Just the other day I reinstalled StarCraft after like a year and a half, and did some placement matches. Ended up still in plat 2. I'm garbage at the game but apparently I'm still better than at least a majority after not playing at all for a long time. I feel like I could push to diamond with just a little effort.

Invictus

tomorrow the out rounds at the world championships at Katowice start. The games have been fantastic last couple of days and the bracket is basically perfect. This is the first offline tournament held in years, and the players are living up to it. It starts at 6 am Eastern tomorrow, and the stream is:

MNC Dover

I never was that good at SC (I think I peaked at Plat in the early days?). The game requires so much macro and micro and I could never get it all down fast enough. Build orders helped a lot, but once things got off track, I was toast.

BUT! One of the biggest things I couldn't stand was damaged units. I don't know why, but I couldn't stand not sending out some SVCs to repair my mech units. Probably should just get used to units being disposable and create a bigger economy to simply replace them.

MMMig

BahamutZERO

That's neat but how is SK doing with covid

MMMig

I'm no official or doctor but their huge spike has started going down as fast as it went up (similar to other countries' trends).

Fully vaccination rate of 85% (boosters at 40%+) and they're opening up almost completely very soon.

I don't know how hospitalizations are doing but at this trend end of April looks like it should be alright?

BahamutZERO

Hmm well hope it works out for them, know I still wouldn't consider any sort of live crowd events.

kime

Yes. I'm pretty consistently of the opinion recently that planning for live events right now is a Bad Thing.

I'm kind of torn because I'd love more SC2 live content here and such. But like, also, it's not really responsible right now.

MNC Dover

Does anyone else remember how this song was played constantly during the Brood Wars days?

https://youtu.be/Gw4WhFeycCY

Or am I remembering wrong?

MMMig

That does sound familiar...

This one definitely made its mark tho
https://youtu.be/U7mPqycQ0tQ

el_vicio

MNC Dover wrote: »

Does anyone else remember how this song was played constantly during the Brood Wars days?

https://youtu.be/Gw4WhFeycCY

Or am I remembering wrong?

Possible. I remember them using music from the soundtrack of The Rock a lot, too. I may still have 2001 vods somewhere. God that was just the best

MMMig

Oh god SC64...

hiraeth

The ASL finals were great, totally not the typical TvT without being too spoilery

MMMig

A small glimpse from the Artosis life that a couple of friends and I were fortunate to share

We had been asked not to talk about it since Nal_Ra's reputation was important as a pro gamer, but I guess the cat's out now ^^'
This was a long, long time ago

kime

So, turns out Starcraft still has tournaments and gets patches and everything. Just, you know, if you wanted to compare to any other games *cough Heroes of the Storm cough*

Anyways, there's a tourney going on this past week or so (https://www.twitch.tv/esl_sc2), and the Grand Finals are going on now and it's pretty fun! Even if it's TvT.

First couple games spoilers:

Oliveira is the first Chinese player to make it to the Grand Finals here, winning upset after upset. Up against the well-known and favored player, Maru (who apparently was most worried about the TvT match-up ). Maru took the first game pretty convincingly, and you could hear the commentators worrying about how this would affect Oliveira, since it could be a really tilting match. And then Maru goes for a double proxy barracks in the second game, which let's be honest has been tilt-inducing for a decade or more . But Oliveira not only holds the rush, but pulls out a win! He looked so excited on that win, and probably feels like he's proven he can do this.

Game 3 is starting now, so we'll see how it goes, but whatever it ends up being it won't be a blow-out!

Edit: third game

Well Oliveira is showing that first game wasn't a fluke! Really his defense just seems so strong, he's winning these games by just shutting down Maru's attacks and then being ahead and taking advantage of that. (Or at least, that's how it looks to be, I'm really rusty at SC2 haha)

Edit2: fourth game and beyond, as saying whether there's a fifth game or not would spoiler stuff

Oliveira wins again by shutting down a strong attack and getting more damage done. Showing so strongly. Poor Maru!

And then the fifth game, the last game, soooo intense. I thought Maru had it! Classic Tank/Viking TvT play. I think Oliveira had a little lead in the end, but then Maru accidentally split his tanks away (they routed a different way it looks like), and Oliveira just jumped on them. And a huge final fight, and then Oliveira emerged victorious! 4-1, only losing that first fight, Oliveira beating some really big names in the tourney.

hiraeth

And ASL was supposed to start tomorrow but has been pushed back a week.

Invictus

kime wrote: »

So, turns out Starcraft still has tournaments and gets patches and everything. Just, you know, if you wanted to compare to any other games *cough Heroes of the Storm cough*

Anyways, there's a tourney going on this past week or so (https://www.twitch.tv/esl_sc2), and the Grand Finals are going on now and it's pretty fun! Even if it's TvT.

First couple games spoilers:

Oliveira is the first Chinese player to make it to the Grand Finals here, winning upset after upset. Up against the well-known and favored player, Maru (who apparently was most worried about the TvT match-up ). Maru took the first game pretty convincingly, and you could hear the commentators worrying about how this would affect Oliveira, since it could be a really tilting match. And then Maru goes for a double proxy barracks in the second game, which let's be honest has been tilt-inducing for a decade or more . But Oliveira not only holds the rush, but pulls out a win! He looked so excited on that win, and probably feels like he's proven he can do this.

Game 3 is starting now, so we'll see how it goes, but whatever it ends up being it won't be a blow-out!

Edit: third game

Well Oliveira is showing that first game wasn't a fluke! Really his defense just seems so strong, he's winning these games by just shutting down Maru's attacks and then being ahead and taking advantage of that. (Or at least, that's how it looks to be, I'm really rusty at SC2 haha)

Edit2: fourth game and beyond, as saying whether there's a fifth game or not would spoiler stuff

Oliveira wins again by shutting down a strong attack and getting more damage done. Showing so strongly. Poor Maru!

And then the fifth game, the last game, soooo intense. I thought Maru had it! Classic Tank/Viking TvT play. I think Oliveira had a little lead in the end, but then Maru accidentally split his tanks away (they routed a different way it looks like), and Oliveira just jumped on them. And a huge final fight, and then Oliveira emerged victorious! 4-1, only losing that first fight, Oliveira beating some really big names in the tourney.

I have still been following SC2 very closely, and I think Time beat in sequence, the best ZvT in the world, the best PvT in the world, and the best TvT in the world. One of the all-time performances.

MMMig

*cough*