Apparently, a bunch of people are bashing SC2 or something. To be honest, I can't join either side, as both of my computers are too awful to run the SC2 beta (my desktop is ancient and just won't run it. My laptop has a horrible graphics card, and won't render the stalker projectiles even on the lowest graphics setting, so it looks like they just kind of wiggle back and forth when they're attacking).
But I do have strong opinions, which must be voiced in my blog no matter what! So listen to me people! MY OPINION MATTERS!
So on to my main topic: what is up with charge upgrade in SC2? Was leg speed not good enough?
Now mind you, my issue isn't with the actual upgrade. Both makes the zealots faster, and I guess they serve similar purposes (I'm speaking completely theoretically now). The issue comes from their respective nomenclatures. Consider the following, in order from most wordy to most succinct:
Seriously guys, are we going to go call them Chlots or something? Splot is such a great word. It just rolls off the tongue.
"He did a very cheesy build." "Oh yeah? What was it?" "3 gate splot."
But we are forever doomed to refer to zealots with the charge upgrade in two syllables. Chlot (that is, pronounced like tch-lott, not klott) will simply not work. So sad.
Chillot does indeed sound like Shallot, but it also removes the possibility of using that name to refer to a zealot controlled by Chill. Only Chill should be able to go 3 gate chillot.
On May 28 2010 13:34 Plexa wrote: chlot, said "Chill-lot" or rather "chillots" rolls off the tongue quite nicely I find. Although it starts to sound a bit like some kind of vegetable
"he went 3gate chillots against me".
I read it a shallots when I first read it, the onions, makes zealots not so manly when I associate them with onions
chelot. Chee-lot. If there are multiples of them: cheelotto.
Or this could be a sign to people to learn to be more verbose. "Zealots who have achieved the Charge upgrade." "Stalkers, recently equipped with Blink drives (or whatever)" "Colossi, now using Extenze." The possibilities are endless.
On May 28 2010 13:43 intrudor wrote: bad blog title...
otherwise, great thread, would read again.
Hehe, I was aiming for something intentionally deceptive.
On May 28 2010 13:47 maareek wrote: chelot. Chee-lot. If there are multiples of them: cheelotto.
Or this could be a sign to people to learn to be more verbose. "Zealots who have achieved the Charge upgrade." "Stalkers, recently equipped with Blink drives (or whatever)" "Colossi, now using Extenze." The possibilities are endless.
I don't think it would hurt if some commentaries were a bit more poetic. "And then his army, having reached a critical mass, attempted the truly Herculean task of bypassing the breakable rocks, not unlike that of Sisyphean fame. Indeed..." And then at this point, the commentator could assign unique names to each of the units and begin an epic catalogue, as each unit "swung at the rock three and four times!" and "twice he raised their hands in attack; twice his hands fell."
Yeah, I finished AP Latin a couple weeks ago, but its effects still have not worn off. I had a pretty sweet use of Litotes up there, though...
EPT
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