Apparently this is a milestone... so I might as well write a semi-insightful blog on this occasion.
I've been around Teamliquid for the past 6 years, give or take. Excluding a large hiatus in 2006, I've closely followed e-Sports, ranging from SC, CS and WC3, initially working as a reporter and replay uploader for StarcraftGamers (GosuGamers now).
Many old school/veterans would know me as a twelve year old kid who made really awful posts and insights, just about to finish elementary school. Today, I'm eighteen, and I'm in the process of trying to get into university. Despite of this, as cliche as it may sound, my love and work for the community of Teamliquid will never disappear (although unfortunately I see that priorities will change in the future).
I guess I'll do the stereotypical thank you's. Most importantly, my fellow staff workmates, both past and present. Although they sometimes give me crap for what I do at certain times (they know what I'm talking about), they are really hard workers and without them, Teamliquid would not be the massive entity it is today, so cheers to them.
Secondly, I'll thank the KPF Crew (KPopFlash) for being a fun group of people to hang with (funnily enough I came up with the name after looking at the TLPD... guess who's ID I stole). I'd never thought I'd be an avid listener of Korean music, and even then, an avid listener of Korean music who follows Starcraft intensely (I think my transition of music has been... rap -> metal -> k-pop past 6 years). Props to Solinren, Kentor and the rest of the people for being there on those nights where mediocre Korean musicians perform on live television.
And I guess I'll use KPF to transition into my last thanks, streamers. I remember watching really awful 320x240 250kbps streams on toptalent's website. I was super excited watching these, as live reporting and discussing games with other forum members was such a fun experience. Today, we have 640x480, 500kbps streams, even 1mbps streams for those who can access it with their bandwidth. The availability of watching e-Sports events has risen tenfold thanks to the advent of streaming technology, and without the development of this, I don't think we'll be here today.
Enough blabbering. I guess I'll post something worth while now. Korean girlzzzzzzzz
30k posts... O_O I've been registered for around a year and a half and I've got less than 400. Good luck with your university applications (where in the world do you have to apply in November?).
On November 30 2010 01:41 LosingID8 wrote: this blog needs the soundboard imo
Ahaahahahahahaha
Yeah, unfortunately I think you'll always be known as the 12 year old to vets but its kinda inevitable for someone like you to be 18 and going to university now [ fml ] since we all like to wave around how long we've been on TL. Anyway, grats on the posts and keep practicing your korean. Don't turn into one of those faggot korean-americans who don't speak/read/write and only know about kpop/starcraft/ and galbi.
On November 30 2010 00:09 Armathai wrote: Congrats GTR! 30k is huge Also, since I'm sure tis a question you've answered before, but, why do you have a combat knife symbol?
I'll field this one since GTR seems to be away for now.
Australia has some curious social traditions to say the least, but one of the strangest and most enduring is their culture of "knife battling". Counter-intuitively, this does not refer to actual knife fighting. The "knife battle" consists of one male of the species brandishing a knife, waving it around to both intimidate nearby males and attract any females present. Much like a peacock flaunts its plumage, the male uses the knife, or "knoife" in local parlance, as proof of virility and territorial domination.
The "battle" comes in to play when another alpha male is present during this event and, wanting to establish dominance or at least save face, he unsheathes a knife of his own and barks out the challenge, "That's not a knoife, this is a knoife." In the context of the knife battle, only one of the men can actually be holding a "knoife", with the other being made to look amateurish and foolish for his display of hubris over an inferior knife. The male with the larger, more impressive knife becomes the local stud de jure, and is then free to mate with whichever women he chooses.
This type of mating ritual gained some notoriety here in the US after it was satirized on an episode of "The Simpsons" and portrayed with stark realism in the documentary, "Crocodile Dundee". As you can guess, GTR's knife is not drawn to scale. It is actually much larger and has won him many knife battles at the local video arcade.
How do 12 year olds get into college wtf? You must have skipped a ton of grades. You asians always showing off and skipping grades and getting A's. It makes us white folk look bad. and god damn 30k posts? you're a sicko.
On November 30 2010 00:09 Armathai wrote: Congrats GTR! 30k is huge Also, since I'm sure tis a question you've answered before, but, why do you have a combat knife symbol?
I'll field this one since GTR seems to be away for now.
Australia has some curious social traditions to say the least, but one of the strangest and most enduring is their culture of "knife battling". Counter-intuitively, this does not refer to actual knife fighting. The "knife battle" consists of one male of the species brandishing a knife, waving it around to both intimidate nearby males and attract any females present. Much like a peacock flaunts its plumage, the male uses the knife, or "knoife" in local parlance, as proof of virility and territorial domination.
The "battle" comes in to play when another alpha male is present during this event and, wanting to establish dominance or at least save face, he unsheathes a knife of his own and barks out the challenge, "That's not a knoife, this is a knoife." In the context of the knife battle, only one of the men can actually be holding a "knoife", with the other being made to look amateurish and foolish for his display of hubris over an inferior knife. The male with the larger, more impressive knife becomes the local stud de jure, and is then free to mate with whichever women he chooses.
This type of mating ritual gained some notoriety here in the US after it was satirized on an episode of "The Simpsons" and portrayed with stark realism in the documentary, "Crocodile Dundee". As you can guess, GTR's knife is not drawn to scale. It is actually much larger and has won him many knife battles at the local video arcade.
You came a long way. I remember getting into the whole progaming scene and tl around the same time as you. Before you were always known as the 13 year old but hey you're staff/mod now and going to college soon. I think you're a good example that you don't have to have a specific skill to be on staff. While most staff got recruited really fast you because of their specific skill you just kept on helping out and eventually working your way up. Also enjoyed the games we played on bw. I remember we had some funny games like a tvz on Andromeda where I attacked your main, you lifted your buildings and started making random buildings while gettings bcs lol. Mad gay yo. Congratz on 30k.
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30 000 is a helluva number.
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