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writer22816
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States5775 Posts
July 31 2012 05:34 GMT
#1
Why is everyone saying this? At first I thought this was just a typo or a curious misspelling, but lately it seems to be said a lot more frequently. In fact I did a TL content search of it and it's everywhere! What's the reasoning behind this spelling of SC2? Is it to imply that SC2 is an inferior version of BW? If that's the case, even as a BW fan I think it's a bit immature. I don't want to start a flamewar; I'm just really curious about the origin of this phrase.

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Jumbled
Profile Joined September 2010
1543 Posts
July 31 2012 05:39 GMT
#2
Seems to be something that's developed in the BW forums recently among some of the more vitriolic fans. I don't really see it as a big deal, it's just an easy way to spot bad posters.
L_Master
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States8017 Posts
July 31 2012 05:40 GMT
#3
I was curious about this as well.
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sour_eraser
Profile Joined March 2011
Canada932 Posts
July 31 2012 05:51 GMT
#4
I remember someone first said this in Flash meme thread o.o
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docvoc
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States5491 Posts
July 31 2012 05:54 GMT
#5
On July 31 2012 14:39 Jumbled wrote:
Seems to be something that's developed in the BW forums recently among some of the more vitriolic fans. I don't really see it as a big deal, it's just an easy way to spot bad posters.


In general, seeing something a lot of people (using that liberally here) die is never fun. Many of these guys saw the rise and fall of savior some saw the rise and fall of NaDa way far back. I saw neither but I enjoy BW, I don't love it like I love SC2. I could play SC2 every day if I had no other game, I am currently in a streak of work but when I have time off I play multiple games and SC2 is always top on my list for best made game. The BW guys feel that way about BW and having if die on them is like, for some, having a relative that they used to cope with and confide in when times got tough, die. That is very dramatic way of putting it, but yeah there are quite a few of them out there like that. The vitriolicism (idk if that counts as a word, but now it does) that comes from some of them is just shitty coping mechanisms that hell any one of us has. I know my coping isn't perfect, I blame myslef for everything that goes wrong and get depressed, of course that doesn't apply to BW, but you see my point. Don't let the hate ever make you curious it can only lead to die and kill standards instead of the normal live and let live that the SC2 community has adopted.
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Heyoka
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Katowice25012 Posts
July 31 2012 06:10 GMT
#6
It's because people are hilariously stupid and think they're being clever. Your analysis is correct, there nothing more going on here. It's particularly sad because it gives a really awful image of the BW fans completely unnecessarily.
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BreakfastBurrito
Profile Joined November 2011
United States893 Posts
July 31 2012 06:18 GMT
#7
Kinda looks like a subtle passive-aggressive gesture but really i don't think it's anything~
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L_Master
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States8017 Posts
July 31 2012 06:43 GMT
#8
On July 31 2012 15:10 heyoka wrote:
It's because people are hilariously stupid and think they're being clever. Your analysis is correct, there nothing more going on here. It's particularly sad because it gives a really awful image of the BW fans completely unnecessarily.


While I agree it's really dumb and immature, I'm still lost on how it is supposed to be insulting.
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sluggaslamoo
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
Australia4494 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-07-31 06:45:56
July 31 2012 06:43 GMT
#9
It originated as a misspelling and caught on. Kinda like saying teh instead of the.

I still sometimes use the phrase ScToo for fun, people are making a big deal out of nothing.

ScToo
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StateofReverie
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
United States633 Posts
July 31 2012 06:59 GMT
#10
Interesting I have never seen this before
Lucumo
Profile Joined January 2010
6850 Posts
July 31 2012 07:11 GMT
#11
On July 31 2012 15:10 heyoka wrote:
It's because people are hilariously stupid and think they're being clever. Your analysis is correct, there nothing more going on here. It's particularly sad because it gives a really awful image of the BW fans completely unnecessarily.

Heh, reading that from someone who writes "ESPORTS" instead of e-sports, this is certainly funny.
ninazerg
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States7291 Posts
July 31 2012 07:13 GMT
#12
On July 31 2012 15:10 heyoka wrote:
It's because people are hilariously stupid and think they're being clever. Your analysis is correct, there nothing more going on here. It's particularly sad because it gives a really awful image of the BW fans completely unnecessarily.


I think you might be taking this a little bit too personally. o.o
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SnowFantasy
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
4173 Posts
July 31 2012 09:11 GMT
#13
On July 31 2012 15:10 heyoka wrote:
It's because people are hilariously stupid and think they're being clever. Your analysis is correct, there nothing more going on here. It's particularly sad because it gives a really awful image of the BW fans completely unnecessarily.


Yep. As a bw fan I think it is incredibly stupid as well.
krndandaman
Profile Joined August 2009
Mozambique16569 Posts
July 31 2012 09:46 GMT
#14
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corumjhaelen
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
France6884 Posts
July 31 2012 09:47 GMT
#15
I think it was a mispelling in a lr thread that caught on. After all, it's called Starcraft too =)
Not much more stupid than half the meme on team liquid, but it does seem to get people mad (hi heyoka !)
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BLinD-RawR
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
ALLEYCAT BLUES51296 Posts
July 31 2012 10:02 GMT
#16
origins of ScToo..

I only use it when I'm trying to be funny, of course I bail when people take it seriously.
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Fishgle
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States2174 Posts
July 31 2012 10:09 GMT
#17
i thought the go-to passive aggressive term for sc2 was star2?
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Aerisky
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States12129 Posts
July 31 2012 10:34 GMT
#18
Yeah it's not really suppsed to be raucously mocking or anything. Just a mild, unserious little saying. I like to say it [sc]too ^^
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Djagulingu
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Germany3605 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-07-31 11:17:14
July 31 2012 11:11 GMT
#19
On July 31 2012 14:40 L_Master wrote:
I was curious about this as well.

All I remember is, some notoriously diehard SC2 fanboy, who probably spent negative amount of time trying to at least have an idea what BW is*, used it on "Unimpressed Flash Meme" thread, BW forumgoers found it funny and started using it as an insult to SC2 (like white people using the N-Word for black people).

* Considering how much of a place BW had in Korean culture and the e-sports phenomenon and how highly ex-BW current SC2 progamers speak about BW, what the guy said was blatantly stupid and had no other purpose than launching a direct attack on something he doesn't know and want to spend time knowing about.

On July 31 2012 19:09 Fishgle wrote:
i thought the go-to passive aggressive term for sc2 was star2?

The term Star2 has been around since the open season 1. After the release of WoL, the term "BW" has been replaced by "SC1" and then "Star1" and Starcraft 2 is shortened into Star 2. The first time I heard that term was in the championship ceremony of either open season 1 or 2. The champion and Mr.Chae were refered as "Jeon Star1 Hyeon Star2 progamer" which is translated into "Former Star1, current Star2 progamer" (It is my translation and John actually translated it as "Former Starcraft 1 and now Starcraft 2 progamer"). Then, I heard that term a lot during OGN's WCG casts. That term was used a lot back then, probably for explaining SC2-specific stuff.
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Stancel
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Singapore15360 Posts
July 31 2012 11:24 GMT
#20
On July 31 2012 19:09 Fishgle wrote:
i thought the go-to passive aggressive term for sc2 was star2?


... no, I don't get how that's supposed to be insulting either.
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