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UGC4
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Peru532 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-10 10:49:18
December 10 2009 10:18 GMT
#1
Before I talk about the game, let me tell you guys a parable that very much applies to this game.

One day, a scorpion got tired of living in the deserts/mountains and decided to move to the forest. So there he was, enjoying his new habitat, when suddenly he encounters a river. He is frustrated at his inability to cross it, and is afraid that he may have to abandon his efforts of traveling and return to his origins. But before giving up, he approaches the river one more time and after a sigh, he spots a frog along, and decides to ask it for help getting accross the river:

"Hellooo Mr. Frog!" called the scorpion across the water, "Would you be so kind as to give me a ride on your back across the river?"

"Well now, Mr. Scorpion! How do I know that if I try to help you, you wont try to kill me?" asked the frog hesitantly.

"Because," the scorpion replied, "If I try to kill you, then I would die too, for you see I cannot swim!"

Now this seemed to make sense to the frog. But he asked. "What about when I get close to the bank? You could still try to kill me and get back to the shore!"

"This is true," agreed the scorpion, "But then I wouldn't be able to get to the other side of the river!"

"Alright then...how do I know you wont just wait till we get to the other side and THEN kill me?" said the frog.

"Ahh...," crooned the scorpion, "Because you see, once you've taken me to the other side of this river, I will be so grateful for your help, that it would hardly be fair to reward you with death, now would it?!"

So the frog agreed to take the scorpion across the river. He swam over to the bank and settled himself near the mud to pick up his passenger. The scorpion crawled onto the frog's back, his sharp claws prickling into the frog's soft hide, and the frog slid into the river.

Halfway across the river, the frog suddenly felt a sharp sting in his back and, out of the corner of his eye, saw the scorpion remove his stinger from the frog's back. A deadening numbness began to creep into his limbs.

"You fool!" croaked the frog, "Now we shall both die! Why on earth did you do that?"

The scorpion shrugged, and did a little jig on the drownings frog's back.

"I could not help myself. It is my nature."

Then they both sank into the muddy waters of the swiftly flowing river.


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Hyuk is the scorpion. It is in his nature to throw un-losable (fuck yeah i just created a word) games. It is his nature to lose focus in his games. He tricked us for a while, we are the frog. The Hyuk we knew is back. Today he choked like only he knows--indeed, he Hyuked himself. Why, how, and when, you ask? I will tell you.
1- he should have destroyed the Templar Archives and/or the main Nexus instead of flying around trying to be cute by sniping probes here and there. Jesus, leaving his mutas A-moved in the main would have given him an even bigger advantage but no, he's hyuk.
2- after his mutas got raped, he got overconfident with his advantage and didn't even tech switch to lurkers until quite later, even though Kal's army was basically all zealots.
3- he was so negligent with his expansions, he had no overlords to be found anywhere.
4- his reaction time was NON-EXISTANT. the kid just didn't react!
5- he gets hive tech but no defiler den or anything.
6- lastly, he rolls over and dies. hyuk style.

Damn it. I am by no means a hyuk hater, I actually enjoy seeing him do well. I get a sense of "i'm glad his efforts are paying off after he's been so beaten down upon for so long" when he wins. HYUK DOES NOT SUCK. He just...I don't know man, he just gets nervous I guess. And, though I may have been rooting for Kal this game cuz i like him, I didn't want hyuk to get raped. But that's the problem. Hyuk either rapes or gets raped. There is no in between with this kid. I'm sad he's showing us the old self again.


*****
#1 Movie fan~ he's got so much skill it oozes out of his skin in the form of acne. ~family comes first~
UGC4
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Peru532 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-10 10:27:55
December 10 2009 10:27 GMT
#2
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and go figure. he fxd up against zero too lol
#1 Movie fan~ he's got so much skill it oozes out of his skin in the form of acne. ~family comes first~
TheAntZ
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Israel6248 Posts
December 10 2009 10:32 GMT
#3
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welcome back, T1 zerg.
43084 | Honeybadger: "So july, you're in the GSL finals. How do you feel?!" ~ July: "HUNGRY."
Aesop
Profile Joined October 2007
Hungary11305 Posts
December 10 2009 10:33 GMT
#4
Oh, nice fable!

And so accurate.
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meeple
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada10211 Posts
December 10 2009 10:47 GMT
#5
I love these fables... and so applicable to sc too.
Niton
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States2395 Posts
December 10 2009 10:53 GMT
#6
On December 10 2009 19:33 Aesop wrote:
Oh, nice fable!

And so accurate.


Your name is so amazing for this blog. I have to 5/5 now.
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.
prototype.
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Canada4215 Posts
December 10 2009 10:56 GMT
#7
that's the hyuk i know (^ - ^)b
( ・´ー・`)
meegrean
Profile Joined May 2008
Thailand7699 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-10 11:05:38
December 10 2009 11:02 GMT
#8
You are wrong about Hyuk.

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HYUK DOES SUCK. He just stopped sucking for a brief moment.
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roronoe
Profile Joined May 2009
Canada1527 Posts
December 10 2009 11:24 GMT
#9
I didn't like that story. Why would the frog risk helping the scorpion when there is nothing to gain from it, stupid frog.
The Purgatory of Endless Depths
29 fps
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States5725 Posts
December 10 2009 11:25 GMT
#10
On December 10 2009 20:02 meegrean wrote:
You are wrong about Hyuk.

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HYUK DOES SUCK. He just stopped sucking for a brief moment.


i agree 100%
4v4 is a battle of who has the better computer.
HwangjaeTerran
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Finland5967 Posts
December 10 2009 11:35 GMT
#11
On December 10 2009 20:02 meegrean wrote:
You are wrong about Hyuk.


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HE IS NOT A SCORPION Also he can´t play.

https://steamcommunity.com/id/*tlusernamehere*/
seRapH
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States9808 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-10 15:07:06
December 10 2009 15:06 GMT
#12
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I lost hope for him way before today. And I wanted him to do well too...
boomer hands
JohnBall
Profile Joined December 2008
Brazil1272 Posts
December 10 2009 15:08 GMT
#13
Loved this blog.
5/5 would read again.
perfecting the art of five pool forever
BanZu
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States3329 Posts
December 10 2009 15:13 GMT
#14
+ Show Spoiler +
HE DIDN'T EVEN GET THAT MANY UPGRADES FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
Sun Tzu once said, "Defiler becomes useless at the presences of a vessel."
QuickStriker
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States3694 Posts
December 10 2009 16:02 GMT
#15
5/5, such a great morale lesson I've learned today...
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