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Re: starcraft

Post by Khaos » Thu Apr 08, 2021 5:14 pm

when are we going to throw down some starcraft with hoshi

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Post by Bracketbot » Thu Apr 08, 2021 5:18 pm

Khaos wrote: Thu Apr 08, 2021 5:14 pm when are we going to throw down some starcraft with hoshi
yeah, we need to do the team melee

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Post by Khaos » Thu Apr 08, 2021 5:40 pm

i could also maybe rope in one of my buddies too. if hoshi is unavailable

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Post by Crunchums » Thu Apr 08, 2021 6:21 pm

Bracketbot wrote:
Khaos wrote: Thu Apr 08, 2021 5:14 pm when are we going to throw down some starcraft with hoshi
yeah, we need to do the team melee
and worms :P
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Re: starcraft

Post by Bracketbot » Thu Apr 15, 2021 12:44 am

People think that the term “turtle” comes from a player shelling up like the animal and making themselves difficult to attack, but it’s actually an acronym:
Terran’s
Unbelievably
Resilient
Turtle
Line of
Entrenchment

Or T.U.R.T.L.E.

The Turtle inside the acronym T.U.R.T.L.E. does refer to the animal though.

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Post by Crunchums » Thu Apr 15, 2021 12:49 am

that's good
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Post by Khaos » Thu Apr 15, 2021 1:34 am

lol

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Post by Bracketbot » Wed May 12, 2021 2:29 am

this is amazing even if you don't like artosis

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Post by Khaos » Wed May 12, 2021 7:39 pm

halfway through, some cool shit going on

sweet lockdowns at 26:30

and optical flare!

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Post by pterrus » Thu May 13, 2021 1:52 am

That was fun to watch as someone with basically no exposure to high level play. What exactly caused the game to play out so unusually, was the Protoss doing some weird gimmick?

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Post by Bracketbot » Thu May 13, 2021 2:28 am

pterrus wrote: Thu May 13, 2021 1:52 am That was fun to watch as someone with basically no exposure to high level play. What exactly caused the game to play out so unusually, was the Protoss doing some weird gimmick?
bio play is generally an all-in by terran. he tried to kill the protoss early, but it didn't work

he built starports & wraiths to counter the carriers, and basically once the late game hits, there is essentially no way to go bio, because it gets countered WAY too hard by storm

so i guess he went into battlecruisers because it's better than bio, and he had the starport production anyway. protoss should have went arbiter, because stasis is crazy vs BCs. nukes are basically anti-static D

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Re: starcraft

Post by Blissful » Thu May 13, 2021 2:27 pm

artosis is incredibly grumpy on-stream
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Post by Blissful » Thu May 13, 2021 2:27 pm

ghosts seem like they really nail those carriers
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Post by Khaos » Thu May 13, 2021 2:56 pm

Blissful wrote:artosis is incredibly grumpy on-stream
yeah luckily he stops talking relatively early

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Post by Bracketbot » Thu May 13, 2021 3:42 pm

Blissful wrote: Thu May 13, 2021 2:27 pm ghosts seem like they really nail those carriers
ghosts are actually a good unit versus protoss, but they are very difficult to use. there is no smart casting in this game, so if you have a group selected and click lockdown they'll all lockdown the same unit, so you have to "clone" the lockdown command, i.e. shift deselect the units after issuing the command, which artosis does in this game. you also have to be far away from the carriers to do it too because if you try it and they're within range, they'll all cast the spell immediately, which is why you see artosis scan & do the cloning from far away.

because they're so micro intensive and fragile, even the highest rank terran players often opt to skip them so that they don't fall behind in macro.

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Post by Bracketbot » Thu May 13, 2021 3:44 pm

i think battlecruisers are actually not a terrible unit versus protoss if you had infinite APM, but because protoss spells like storm and stasis punish clumped battlecruisers, it's very tough to do with normal, even high APM. terran does have science vessels that counter those units, but that's even MORE micro you have to think about.

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Post by Blissful » Thu May 13, 2021 4:21 pm

man looking at bracketbot's avatar is so great
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Post by Blissful » Thu May 13, 2021 4:22 pm

Khaos wrote: Thu May 13, 2021 2:56 pm
Blissful wrote:artosis is incredibly grumpy on-stream
yeah luckily he stops talking relatively early
the disjoint between him as a caster and him as a streaming personality remains really surprising to me
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Post by Bracketbot » Thu May 13, 2021 4:29 pm

i think he hams it up a bit to attract viewership, but the bitterness as a player is certainly coming from somewhere real

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Post by Khaos » Thu May 13, 2021 6:27 pm

Blissful wrote:
Khaos wrote: Thu May 13, 2021 2:56 pm
Blissful wrote:artosis is incredibly grumpy on-stream
yeah luckily he stops talking relatively early
the disjoint between him as a caster and him as a streaming personality remains really surprising to me
yeah i love him as a caster

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Post by Khaos » Thu May 20, 2021 4:37 pm

very good

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Re: starcraft

Post by Crunchums » Mon Jun 07, 2021 3:03 am

ASL finals was good
here is korean commentary https://vod.afreecatv.com/PLAYER/STATION/73482174
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Post by Bracketbot » Wed Jun 09, 2021 7:30 pm

artosis goes bio against a protoss that makes scouts (the unit)

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Post by Bracketbot » Thu Jun 10, 2021 2:19 pm

he actually gets some big names to do this

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Post by Bracketbot » Thu Jun 10, 2021 2:26 pm

Blissful wrote: Thu Jun 10, 2021 11:50 am
this is one of the funniest stories i've ever heard holy shit -- the ending!!!!

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Re: starcraft

Post by Ashenai » Thu Jun 10, 2021 3:15 pm

It's a funny story, although I think I don't fully get the punchline. Are Protoss players supposed to be dumb? (And if yes, why?) I only played a very little bit of Starcraft way back when, so I'm not really up on the memes.

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