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Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
November 26 2009 00:06 GMT
#1
If you haven't seen (Z)ggaemo vs (T)UpMaGiC on Heartbreak Ridge then this is how the following discussion came to be.
I nominate the new nickname for ggaemo to be 'gasp zerg'

All in favour?
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Poll: gasp Zerg?
(Vote): Yes
(Vote): No

^ from the post hite vs Khan discussion

The reasoning is pretty obvious if you've seen the game.
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How did most nicknames for players in the TLPD originate anyways? Some of them are obvious, but others are just because people started calling him that.

In this case, I think it's a pretty valid choice ^^

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If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
Ganfei
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Taiwan1439 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-11-26 00:08:55
November 26 2009 00:07 GMT
#2
I don't understand your question. Isn't it pretty obvious how they got the names? They did something iconic that has come to be associated with them. He's gasp zerg because he...gasped. Or other people gasped. Or whatever. There was gasping.
You are crushing me like a cheese sandwich
DoctorHelvetica
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States15034 Posts
November 26 2009 00:07 GMT
#3
The Minesweeper imo
RIP Aaliyah
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
November 26 2009 00:12 GMT
#4
On November 26 2009 09:07 Ganfei wrote:
I don't understand your question. Isn't it pretty obvious how they got the names? They did something iconic that has come to be associated with them. He's gasp zerg because he...gasped. Or other people gasped. Or whatever. There was gasping.

?

That's what I was getting at... Some of them are obvious like Yarnc being fake yellow, but then you'll find something random like "L'enfant Terrible", "Beserker", etc, where you have to actually know quite a bit of background on that player and how that name came to be assigned.
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
Ganfei
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Taiwan1439 Posts
November 26 2009 00:14 GMT
#5
You might want to list the names you're most interested in then I guess cause there's so many
You are crushing me like a cheese sandwich
Catch]22
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Sweden2683 Posts
November 26 2009 00:17 GMT
#6
Why is Light the Invisible Terran?
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17921 Posts
November 26 2009 00:20 GMT
#7
Minesweeper zerg is my favorite.
Artillery spawned from the forges of Hell
ShaLLoW[baY]
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Canada12499 Posts
November 26 2009 00:22 GMT
#8
On November 26 2009 09:12 Grobyc wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 26 2009 09:07 Ganfei wrote:
I don't understand your question. Isn't it pretty obvious how they got the names? They did something iconic that has come to be associated with them. He's gasp zerg because he...gasped. Or other people gasped. Or whatever. There was gasping.

?

That's what I was getting at... Some of them are obvious like Yarnc being fake yellow, but then you'll find something random like "L'enfant Terrible", "Beserker", etc, where you have to actually know quite a bit of background on that player and how that name came to be assigned.


Iris actually plays as Berzerker now, doesn't he?
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andiCR
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Costa Rica2273 Posts
November 26 2009 00:24 GMT
#9
haha minesweeper zerg is so good
Nightmare1795 wrote: I played a guy in bronze who said he was Japanese. That was the only game I ever dropped a nuke, which was purely coincidental.
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
November 26 2009 00:29 GMT
#10
Actually that's pretty good too lol. I guess a mod has to do whatever changes (if any) are going to be made. Waiting for one to give his thoughts.
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
tree.hugger
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Philadelphia, PA10406 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-11-26 00:34:42
November 26 2009 00:33 GMT
#11
Always thought (Z)ggaemo should be named the "creeper zerg" after the monster from scooby doo...

Consider:
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...

Trust me on this one.
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Niton
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States2395 Posts
November 26 2009 00:41 GMT
#12
On November 26 2009 09:17 Catch]22 wrote:
Why is Light the Invisible Terran?


If I remember the story right, it's because Light has never really been a 'superstar' name despite being one of the best Terran players, so they started calling him "Invisible Terran" because he's always off the radar.

Anyone know the origin of Yarnc's nickname "Kentucky Fried Chicken Zerg"?
tree.hugger: Coming off of [(T)fantasy v. (T)Really] into [(T)Barracks v. (T)MVP] is like coming out of Manhattan into New Jersey. You just have to speed up and ignore it.
Sadistx
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Zimbabwe5568 Posts
November 26 2009 00:49 GMT
#13
If ggaemo is the gasp zerg, wouldn't that make Bisu the gasp toss?
JohannesH
Profile Joined September 2009
Finland1364 Posts
November 26 2009 00:52 GMT
#14
On November 26 2009 09:41 Niton wrote:Anyone know the origin of Yarnc's nickname "Kentucky Fried Chicken Zerg"?

No.
If you have to ask, you don't know.
NeverGG *
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United Kingdom5399 Posts
November 26 2009 00:52 GMT
#15
On November 26 2009 09:07 DoctorHelvetica wrote:
The Minesweeper imo


So cruel and yet so completely apt after that game. I approve of this nickname. After Last from STX Soul dyed his hair blonde all the journalists/players/coaches and managers were calling him 'Kwon-Dragon.' it was a pretty cute reference.
우리 행운의 모양은 여러개지만 행복의 모양은 하나
Megalisk
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States6095 Posts
November 26 2009 00:55 GMT
#16
ROFL imagine Bisu vs. ggaemo

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VS.

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Tear stained american saints and dirty guitar dreams across a universe of desert and blue sky , gas station coffee love letters and two dollar pistol kisses from thirty five dollar hotel room stationary .
n.DieJokes
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States3443 Posts
November 26 2009 00:56 GMT
#17
You can't force a nickname by democratic vote.It just happens
MyLove + Your Love= Supa Love
nicoaldo
Profile Joined March 2009
Argentina939 Posts
November 26 2009 01:32 GMT
#18
Minesweeper Zerg ftw
pubbanana
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States3063 Posts
November 26 2009 01:46 GMT
#19
On November 26 2009 09:52 JohannesH wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 26 2009 09:41 Niton wrote:Anyone know the origin of Yarnc's nickname "Kentucky Fried Chicken Zerg"?

No.


His nickname is Kyochon Chicken Zerg, not Kentucky Fried Chicken Zerg. In Korea, there was a famous actor who has the same name as Yarnc (Park Myung Soo) and he owned a fried chicken franchise called Kyochon Chicken, thus that became Yarnc's nickname.
Wachet, stehet im Glauben, seid männlich und seid stark.
Mastermind
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada7096 Posts
November 26 2009 01:47 GMT
#20
On November 26 2009 09:56 n.DieJokes wrote:
You can't force a nickname by democratic vote.It just happens

This. Besides, 'gasp zerg' just sounds dumb.
Roffles *
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Pitcairn19291 Posts
November 26 2009 01:58 GMT
#21
Ggaemo is the new =O guy

Bisu move away. Ggaemo has taken your throne.
God Bless
Niton
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States2395 Posts
November 26 2009 02:12 GMT
#22
On November 26 2009 10:46 pubbanana wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 26 2009 09:52 JohannesH wrote:
On November 26 2009 09:41 Niton wrote:Anyone know the origin of Yarnc's nickname "Kentucky Fried Chicken Zerg"?

No.


His nickname is Kyochon Chicken Zerg, not Kentucky Fried Chicken Zerg. In Korea, there was a famous actor who has the same name as Yarnc (Park Myung Soo) and he owned a fried chicken franchise called Kyochon Chicken, thus that became Yarnc's nickname.


oh, that's pretty cool, thanks :D

someone needs to change his TLPD info, though.
tree.hugger: Coming off of [(T)fantasy v. (T)Really] into [(T)Barracks v. (T)MVP] is like coming out of Manhattan into New Jersey. You just have to speed up and ignore it.
anderoo
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada1876 Posts
November 26 2009 02:16 GMT
#23
Minesweeper Zerg is way better imo, i'm gonna start calling him that
ghostWriter
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States3302 Posts
November 26 2009 02:21 GMT
#24
minesweeper zerg LOL

I've never seen a progamer lose so many hydras to mines and throw away a game like that.
Sullifam
anderoo
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada1876 Posts
November 26 2009 02:32 GMT
#25
i love how the gasp picture is his new TLPD profile picture too!
DoX.)
Profile Joined December 2008
Singapore6164 Posts
November 26 2009 03:24 GMT
#26
definitely minesweeper zerg
rredtooth
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
5461 Posts
November 26 2009 03:28 GMT
#27
haha minesweeper zerg caught on pretty quick.
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deathgod6
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States5064 Posts
November 26 2009 04:03 GMT
#28
On November 26 2009 11:32 anderoo wrote:
i love how the gasp picture is his new TLPD profile picture too!

I just saw it. ROFLLL! :O
4.0 GPA = A rank 5.0 GPA = Olympic --------- Bisu, Best, Fantasy. i ♥ oov. They can get in my BoxeR anyday.
Bill Murray
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States9292 Posts
November 26 2009 04:35 GMT
#29
On November 26 2009 09:07 DoctorHelvetica wrote:
The Minesweeper imo



this


same thing with horang2 for me ...
he will always be the sweaty toss, or the second coming of rock
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DivinO
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States4796 Posts
November 26 2009 05:24 GMT
#30
That gasp was kind of funny, yeah. Gasp zerg indeed. Big fan of ggaemo myself, actually. But now a bigger one.
LiquipediaBrain in my filth.
konadora *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Singapore66358 Posts
November 26 2009 05:32 GMT
#31
Minesweeper Zerg
POGGERS
meeple
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada10211 Posts
November 26 2009 08:10 GMT
#32
Gasp zerg no, Minesweeper zerg yes
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
November 26 2009 08:22 GMT
#33
yeah I think Minesweeper zerg has a better ring to it. I wonder if a mod will approve and change it.
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33560 Posts
November 26 2009 08:30 GMT
#34
do we have to add race to the end? how about just "the minesweeper"
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Disregard
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
China10252 Posts
November 26 2009 08:46 GMT
#35
On November 26 2009 17:30 Waxangel wrote:
do we have to add race to the end? how about just "the minesweeper"


Adding "Zerg" has more depth and meaning though.
"If I had to take a drug in order to be free, I'm screwed. Freedom exists in the mind, otherwise it doesn't exist."
BookTwo
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
1985 Posts
November 26 2009 09:08 GMT
#36
On November 26 2009 09:55 Megalisk wrote:
ROFL imagine Bisu vs. ggaemo

[image loading]

VS.

[image loading]


HAHAHAHAHA

and yes, nicknames happen, they don't get contemplated and voted on.
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
November 26 2009 14:45 GMT
#37
On November 26 2009 17:46 Disregard wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 26 2009 17:30 Waxangel wrote:
do we have to add race to the end? how about just "the minesweeper"


Adding "Zerg" has more depth and meaning though.

+1
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
coltrane
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Chile988 Posts
November 26 2009 15:16 GMT
#38
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