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So there I was, stumbling through TL late at night, reluctant to get off as always. Late may be a relative term, it was only twelve but I had a midterm the next day so I guess we can say I was up “late.”
I had wandered off on some tangentential path through the annals of TL, and somehow I came to a thread asking why there was no easy feature that allowed you to see posts which you had been quoted in. I had always wondered about this as well, as sometimes I’d find myself tabbing through thread pages “command-f” + Show Spoiler +(ya not ctrl-f. I use a mac. Fight me!)
Turns out, there was an easy way. By searching your own name under the TL search feature as “content only” you could find posts in which people quoted you. Shocking, I know.
“Yippee!” was I excited. And lo and behold, when I searched my name I found plenty of posters that had quoted me in threads. I was delighted by the prospects, and at the same time a little sad to see all the potential conversation and banter I had missed out on. Sometimes, I felt like I was in a room full of shouting people with little chance of having my own voice heard or noticed, so seeing people actually recognize my posts was kind of a neat feeling.
Anyways, so I looked down the lists of threads in which I had been quoted in and I saw I had been quoted a few times in the thread “1.4.2 Patch Live”. Great, I thought, probably some protoss trying to engage in a balance discussion with me about ghosts. Enthralling. I clicked anyway.
I saw someone poking fun at my comment and my name. I smiled to myself, as his accusations made sense. I had complained about how my weak TvP was going to be even weaker with the patch. Yet my namesake, the character “Itkovian” in the Malazan Book of the Fallen Series, was known for being determined and relentless. Someone that never complained and did the impossible. So the guy had a point.
Then I looked a little closer.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/VjXrj.png)
And then my head exploded.
For those that have a hard time imagining things, here is a visual representation:
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/QfFJi.png)
That’s right. The great, benevolent Liquid’Tyler had quoted one of my posts. This was a guy I worshipped and respected. A guy I rooted for in all tournaments situations. And here he was, acknowledging little ol’ me: some forum scrub. And even better, he knew the character my name was in reference too!
I was so surprised by all of this that once my head had rematerialized all I was able to do was stand up and look around my room aimlessly. I went out to tell my roommates, but I realized none of them were big enough starcraft nerds to realize the gravity of the situation, so I returned back to my chair and thought. I thought about how cool Team Liquid is. How awesome this site is, in the fact that it can unite the lowliest scrub with the most bad ass professional starcraft players on the scene. A place where anybody can talk about starcraft without limitations and borders. Pro-players don’t get special posting rights, or special “elite” forums where they can talk away from all the noobs. No, everything is there for anyone to post on.
I can think of nothing else that can compare. I try to think of a scenario where professional basketball players are discussing basketball in an open room with regular people, each regular player getting their own say in turn with the professionals, and such a thing doesn’t exist. You don’t see any panels or round tables where my grandma could be potentially sitting next to LeBron James. And on TL you don’t see any bodyguards or strong-arms pushing around casual posters so that the professional players can have their say uninterrupted.
Ultimately, what I’m trying to do here is thank TL for providing this open medium for discussion, where everyone has an equal voice and everyone has a fair shot to say whatever they want, no matter who they are. It’s just an awesome feeling to know that I am reading and participating in the same discussions that thousands of other players, and dozens of professional caliber competitors are participating in at the same time. I think TL is one of the main reasons starcraft community is thriving so vibrantly right now. Players feel like they can achieve anything when they are talking along side the same people they watch play on their screens.
So once again, thanks TL for this wonderful opportunity <3
P.S. Tyler if you read this, I’ll try and live up to my name a little better. : )
 
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If this isn't motivation for every person that has ever dreamed of becoming a pro, I don't know what is. You're a pretty good fan :D
Good luck with your new efforts and I'm glad you were inspired 
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Jealous T__T One day I will get quoted by someone as awesome as NonY!!!!
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I got quoted by Day9 once, and also got a shoutout from Gretorp while he was commentating that Jinro - IdrA showmatch. It's awesome how we are so close with the pros. In no other sport could you even hope to talk directly with a player. Though i do wish they'd be more active on the forums.
So congratulations! :D
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I had a similar instance, where i was playing in a cup, and i lost to strelok, and after the game he said something along the lines of: wow, that was better than i thought for a diamond player. Don't get me wrong, i lost, but still, gave me the motivation to play harder. since then i have met up against a few other grandmaster players/pros, my favourite of whom was good, because he was really manner, despite me being a complete scrub.
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HAHA I want Tyler to comment on this blog. That would be hilarious.
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Hellloooo.
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No mention of me! Just NonY grrrr
I shall change that!
On November 17 2011 18:26 itkovian wrote:So there I was, stumbling through TL late at night, reluctant to get off as always. Late may be a relative term, it was only twelve but I had a midterm the next day so I guess we can say I was up “late.” I had wandered off on some tangentential path through the annals of TL, and somehow I came to a thread asking why there was no easy feature that allowed you to see posts which you had been quoted in. I had always wondered about this as well, as sometimes I’d find myself tabbing through thread pages “command-f” + Show Spoiler +(ya not ctrl-f. I use a mac. Fight me!) searching my name to find if people had responded to anything I had said. Turns out, there was an easy way. By searching your own name under the TL search feature as “content only” you could find posts in which people quoted you. Shocking, I know. “Yippee!” was I excited. And lo and behold, when I searched my name I found plenty of posters that had quoted me in threads. I was delighted by the prospects, and at the same time a little sad to see all the potential conversation and banter I had missed out on. Sometimes, I felt like I was in a room full of shouting people with little chance of having my own voice heard or noticed, so seeing people actually recognize my posts was kind of a neat feeling. Anyways, so I looked down the lists of threads in which I had been quoted in and I saw I had been quoted a few times in the thread “1.4.2 Patch Live”. Great, I thought, probably some protoss trying to engage in a balance discussion with me about ghosts. Enthralling. I clicked anyway. I saw someone poking fun at my comment and my name. I smiled to myself, as his accusations made sense. I had complained about how my weak TvP was going to be even weaker with the patch. Yet my namesake, the character “Itkovian” in the Malazan Book of the Fallen Series, was known for being determined and relentless. Someone that never complained and did the impossible. So the guy had a point. And then my head exploded. That’s right. The great, benevolent StarStruck had quoted one of my posts. This was a guy I worshipped and respected. A guy I rooted for in all tournaments situations. And here he was, acknowledging little ol’ me: some forum scrub. And even better, he knew the character my name was in reference too! I was so surprised by all of this that once my head had rematerialized all I was able to do was stand up and look around my room aimlessly. I went out to tell my roommates, but I realized none of them were big enough starcraft nerds to realize the gravity of the situation, so I returned back to my chair and thought. I thought about how cool Team Liquid is. How awesome this site is, in the fact that it can unite the lowliest scrub with the most bad ass professional starcraft players on the scene. A place where anybody can talk about starcraft without limitations and borders. Pro-players don’t get special posting rights, or special “elite” forums where they can talk away from all the noobs. No, everything is there for anyone to post on. I can think of nothing else that can compare. I try to think of a scenario where professional basketball players are discussing basketball in an open room with regular people, each regular player getting their own say in turn with the professionals, and such a thing doesn’t exist. You don’t see any panels or round tables where my grandma could be potentially sitting next to StarStruck. And on TL you don’t see any bodyguards or strong-arms pushing around casual posters so that the professional players can have their say uninterrupted. Ultimately, what I’m trying to do here is thank TL for providing this open medium for discussion, where everyone has an equal voice and everyone has a fair shot to say whatever they want, no matter who they are. It’s just an awesome feeling to know that I am reading and participating in the same discussions that thousands of other players, and dozens of professional caliber competitors are participating in at the same time. I think TL is one of the main reasons starcraft community is thriving so vibrantly right now. Players feel like they can achieve anything when they are talking along side the same people they watch play on their screens. So once again, thanks TL for this wonderful opportunity <3 P.S. StarStruck if you read this, I’ll try and live up to my name a little better. No more weak attitude from here on out : )
=D
Okay, I had my fun.
You've been Thunderstruck!
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That made me smile....now off to see if anyone has quoted me that I am unaware of...
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and then I realized my name is "how" 
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On November 17 2011 19:52 SigmaoctanusIV wrote:
Jealous T__T One day I will get quoted by someone as awesome as NonY!!!!
done. i hope you're happy now <3
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Lol this reminds me of when HuK replied to a blog entry I wrote a few months ago. I've also had frequent conversations with the likes of Chef and Cambria and Hot_Bid, and I suppose Riku has made herself a minor celebrity on the forums with whom I have had many lighthearted exchanges. And she goes to school with qxc!
That's what I love about TL. We - from scrubby Bronze-leaguers to average Platinums to the pros themselves - all have this place to chat and hang out as well as the game(s) with which we have our fun together. The Starcraft community is awesome this way.
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Cool stuff, it's one of those moments that prove how special TL is.
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Hah, funny story. I've gotten the opportunity to ask dimaga and whitera questions one time when they were in Korea =P It was a blast for me too, I know how you felt man, pretty awesome place to be.
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I once get a shoutout from Day[9] for this picture (picture drawn by a progamer from bw days).
My highlight of TL days t.t
![[image loading]](http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii4/martinsslisans/untitled-3.jpg)
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I had a similar situation with MrBitters on one of my blog posts, and than when tasteless gave me a twitter shoutout for my Starcraft Dubstep Mix and destiny came into the channel at the same time!
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Oh lol and as I post in this blog LaLuSh replies in my blog (I know some of you may not call him a star, but its there is a starcraft player out there that when I here the name I know exactly who they are, they are a star to me)
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Calgary26003 Posts
Haha it's fun to remember how doing something so little can mean so much to somebody.
Conversely, I remember that I sent a PM to Day[9] in 2006 that he never replied to that made me bitter towards him for a little bit - it makes me wonder how many people I've unknowingly made bitter towards me.
Edit: Searching, I found this PM LOL
To: Day[9] [ Profile | Buddy | User Info ]
Subject: Re: SHOUTCAST
Date: 6/26/09 09:20
lol me too i need you at your peak
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Original Message:
FUCK YES!!!
my mom is actually purchasing a high quality microphone for my b-day! (saturday). I sure hope it'll arrive by the 1st WOOWOO ^_^_^_^
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Original Message:
Day[9]. I know you have been training for this day all your life.
I would not trust the cast to anyone. But I will trust it to you.
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Original Message:
can i shoutcast you vs combat ex PLEASE PLEASE LOL OMG!
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On November 18 2011 02:23 Chill wrote:
Haha it's fun to remember how doing something so little can mean so much to somebody.
Conversely, I remember that I sent a PM to Day[9] in 2006 that he never replied to that made me bitter towards him for a little bit - it makes me wonder how many people I've unknowingly made bitter towards me.
Chill, GET OUT!
Lol I kid, your awesome ♥
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I can imagine quite a few bitter thread-makers and PBU's giving you tantalizing, evil looks through the internet, Chill. And CombatEx.
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United Kingdom14464 Posts
Its one of the reasons I love TL, the pros are directly linked to the community. For some reason whenever I see someone stream with TL up in the back ground I get a faint pleasure. It's good to know that they know basically have the same resources as us.
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On November 18 2011 00:27 how wrote:That made me smile....now off to see if anyone has quoted me that I am unaware of... EDIT and then I realized my name is "how"
hahaha, this made me lol. But yeah, as someone mentioned you can just search "how wrote:" and it will show where you've been quoted.
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On November 18 2011 03:45 MCDayC wrote:
Its one of the reasons I love TL, the pros are directly linked to the community. For some reason whenever I see someone stream with TL up in the back ground I get a faint pleasure. It's good to know that they know basically have the same resources as us.
Ya, exactly. Its not like a professional sports athlete where they have an athletic trainer, specialized coaches, etc. We have access to most everything they use, the difference is only in how they put it to use and how much time they put into it. I remember growing up in sports, and seeing how the more affluent kids would tend to more skilled at the sports they did because there parents could pay for special lessons and training programs or what have you. The thing I love about starcraft is that if you have the game, and you have time, you can potentially improve to the same level as anyone else without any kind of extra cost or privilege.
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On November 18 2011 00:56 TheGiz wrote:Lol this reminds me of when HuK replied to a blog entry I wrote a few months ago. I've also had frequent conversations with the likes of Chef and Cambria and Hot_Bid, and I suppose Riku has made herself a minor celebrity on the forums with whom I have had many lighthearted exchanges. And she goes to school with qxc! That's what I love about TL. We - from scrubby Bronze-leaguers to average Platinums to the pros themselves - all have this place to chat and hang out as well as the game(s) with which we have our fun together. The Starcraft community is awesome this way.
I totally don't search my name on a bi-weekly basis. Nope, not me, just found this post by shear luck.
Actually, I really appreciate that about Team Liquid, too. It's also really nice to see that mods and celebs of sorts are just as active on the forums as most posters. It really helps build the community and makes it a true TEAM forum and not a fan forum.
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It's always been that way though. TL hasn't changed all that much. Sure, some guys don't always post as much anymore and they have their reasons. We just have a butt-load of more people now and it's still growing.
I don't get the whole pride someone gets from someone who is well-known quoting you. Well, I guess its because I treat everyone the same. That and I played with and against lots of the major personalities for almost a decade. They're pretty much my peers. Only difference is they continued to pursue their e-Sports dream and I didn't.
There are a lot of prominent people who post here. Some of which are celebrities in their own right and we'll never know all their identities. We've got people from Pixar to NBA players to Blizzard employees... yadda yadda yadda the list goes on.
One thing is for sure. It's a ridiculously good community and it always has been. It starts with the major players as well. This includes everyone from Liquid`Cobalt to Liquid`Zephyr. The laws of attraction. If you have good synergy going it will only attract more.
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