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Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United Kingdom276 Posts
February 06 2011 16:28 GMT
#1
*stretches box, hopes box will fit everything I need to say*

Hello my fine gentlemen and ladies!

I was wondering why on earth I cast (can I swear? can this please be marked PG or something?).

I love casting.
There! You have it! That's why I cast!
But why do I cast? (in that eerie "you just asked the same question only in a slightly different tone thing).
Well while I love casting and all I want is for my viewers to either

1. Actively hear and love what I say.
2. Not hear me at all and love the cast.

############ ONE ############
I'll start on 1, it's the most egotistical and self-fulfilling (what a tripe word that is) point.

I love hearing the comments of the form "What a great caster!" or "You did great!" -- You know the shit I mean, it happens in everything.

If you've ever saved a dinosaur from being boned to death from a blue whale with a raging hard on and the dinosaur was absolutely required to prevent an asteroid from annihilating humanity and got a "holy mother YOU ARE EPIC!" then you know what I mean, that kind of shit is awesome and I chase it more than I chase the dragon.

Right! So on with it! Lets see what feedback I have after ONE HUNDRRED AND SIXTY ONE casts
This guy casting is fucking awful. Who gives a fuck about how many pixles above the visable screen your monitor is. I can't even watch this shit

Your rage never fails to crack me up..
"This game was a CHEAT! Jesus Christ!"

* citations

CONCLUSION for part ONE.
You can not please everyone, every cast I do has a love/hate thing going on with it.

So I quit, I don't quit casting because I love it, I quit trying to please everyone. Will I be entertaining? Will I be analytical? Will I do all my casts drunk? Fuck no, I'll do them however the fuck I want and hope to god you wankers like them!


############ TWO ############
The first time I ever saw Catz throw down a hatchery inside a protoss players base when his opponent either successfully cannon rushed him or failed to cannon rush, I thought that it was just pure fluke and it wouldn't work on a regular basis. Catz explained that protoss players that go forge first have a really hard time stopping the hatchery from hatching and once you get some roaches in his mineral line you can slowly take his main as yours. I've tried this a couple times and its great to see the protoss's reaction when they find a base in their base.


I only think I need one example here, someone watched my cast and thought little enough of me to just ENJOY the cast, to just sit back and go "yeah, you know what, this is good shit, I like what CatZ is doing here, I haven't seen this before".

Replies like this are what I want from everyone.
You haven't displeased anyone, you haven't gotten in the way.

In my opinion a caster should be something that's there but that you're unaware of, like the wind, it's always there blowing shit about but you're rarely actively aware of it unless you concentrate on it.

Hurricanes are fucking cunts.

*
Hallowed are the Ori.
x89
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United Kingdom276 Posts
February 06 2011 16:32 GMT
#2
I don't want to edit that work of beauty, but do you mind if I link an example of my turmoil?
8 upvotes and 8 downvotes when I thought it was actually really funny (on rewatching).
There's also my cast page on TL but nobody even turns up :'(
Hallowed are the Ori.
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