EPTI study Psychology myself, and I'm very interested in the research fields of cognitive neuro psychology. This means that I just want to understand how the brain works. Nice and easy!
According to a lot of theories, it's not just genes that decide who and what we are, but it's also our environments. The interaction between genes and environments can explain why identical twins are still not exactly the same!
Anyway, for any being with a conscious mind, I expect them to also have individual differences. And if there's individual differences, it means that some have it better, and some have it worse! Anyone of you ever wanted to be famous? Well some Protoss(ses?) are very famous!
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I mean even we know the likes of Zeratul. He's like the stealth Batman of protoss land. Super rich, he knows how to fight evil, and he can blink around! Then we got Artanis. He's the President! But then of the protosses. He flew a Jet Airplane in starcraft Broodwar! Then we also have Tassadar. He also had an aircraft of his own, and he crashed it. But that wasnt enough to kill him, cuz apparently he can still give wise advise from the great beyond! The most famous of all however is Selendis. She did... something... and... is good for marketing sales. Many a people have 1000 protoss team wins because of her! Just to get that picture that even Playboy could not have!
And then there's... Bob... noone knows him, and he dies 46 times every game. Poor Bob... I always wonder what the small grunts are thinking. I know that for zerg it doesnt really matter, but I bet that zerglings just want a hug. They got big claws however, so whenever they hug someoneone it's going to hurt! They're just misunderstood. Protoss however are supposed to be able to think by themselves.
And there's my question: Why are they so angry! Protoss units never look like they're happy, not even the ones playing Aiur Chef! That's why I started to think up some reasons, and came to some conclusions.
First of all, Protoss have psy-blades attached to their arms. They never wanted this, because it's very annoying to have light sabers attached to your arms all the time. They're cumbersome, and if you move your arms in the wrong way, you're going to chop off some bodyparts that you'd rather keep!
In the past, when Protoss still had mouths, They also had Psy-Blades. Protoss had the best food recipies in the world, and they were just cooking all day long. Stick your psyblade in a bowl of butter and drag it across the toast! And they were so good at chopping vegetables! But then it happened. They wanted to eat their food, which resulted in half of the protoss accidentially sticking a blade through their own head! This was so horrible that all remaining Protoss decided to sow their mouths shut. So they could never accidentially stick food and psy-blades up their mouth!
But here the problems began. All protoss got so hungry. They could look at food all day long, but if you can't eat, you get grumpy! Aiur Chef suddenly became a violent game, but this was not enough to satiate the empty stomachs of Protoss. They distracted themselves with burning other planets, and killing everything that could be food. If they'd destroy all the food in the world, noone would remember that there was food, and then hunger might be forgotten as well!
This however did not work. It simply resulted in some protoss being very good at teleportation and blink, and thus being able to put their stomachs around food. These protoss became very happy again, but not the ones without blinking abilities! Bob and all other zealots know that someday all blinkers might die, because they'll accidentially blink themselves into a psy-blade. They all hope for that day, because they are an angry lot. And who wouldnt agree! I'd be angry if I couldnt eat!
Not every protoss is angry though, some are just depressed. And that I can understand as well. Because they can't eat food, and there's always the chance that they accidentially psy-blade themselves, some protossses just get on with it and desert. On the way they found a xel-naga who didnt mind to merge them with zerg. And zerg CAN eat! However, not every protoss has the cunning to leave the ranks of Aiur, so they are also jealeous all day long...
But dear protoss, you shouldnt be angry all the time! I bet that some day you can find a loving wife who will cook you the most amazing dinner! Then you can remove the stiches that closed your mouth, and she can feed you! But to find a loving wife. you have to be yourself. Because if you zealots can't love yourself, how can the world love you?
I wish you good luck in the future, and please stop burning worlds!
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This zealot is thinking: "I can't eat food, and I can't play starcraft either... My life sucks!"
There's also the fact that most of them got wiped out and goodbye homeworld and whatnot but that's clearly not as interesting as your points OP XD
Their quality of life is even worse than I initially anticipated..
