EPTUnfinished Business - Page 2
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SEA KarMa
Australia452 Posts
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Scarecrow
Korea (South)9172 Posts
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Sated
England4983 Posts
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Gaius Baltar
United States449 Posts
On September 30 2012 07:46 Gheed wrote: For them, losing to a worker rush is not something to be ashamed of, but instead just… something. I saw the sea of madness. When the demented winds howl, take down thy trusted mast. But jump thee not into the water. | ||
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EatThePath
United States3943 Posts
On September 30 2012 22:40 SEA KarMa wrote: well, there has to be 20% of people in Bronze regardless if everyone was pro or not, right? Careful, you will hurt yourself if you continue to try and grapple with bronze using rationality. | ||
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Weebem-Na
United States221 Posts
"For them, losing to a worker rush is not something to be ashamed of, but instead just… something. For them, it is standard procedure to cease entirely the production of workers after a mere dozen. For them, their possession of an irrational, childlike fear of all things outside their own base is wholly unremarkable. All precepts of generally accepted Starcraft reason are completely foreign and totally unknown in this deep, forgotten, hole." | ||
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snively
United States1159 Posts
when i read your other blogs, i was struck by your word choice and sentence construction. your style of writing was fascinating. you talk with the attitude of a surly teenager and use sentences that wouldnt be out of place coming from an english professor. it was awesome. i loved it but this blog takes all that to the next level, and then some. im completely blown away by the way you wrote this blog. the vocabulary and sentence structure you use is incredible. it screams intelligence and sophistication... in a blog about n00bs who suck at a particular video game. you weild the english language like a god, and you use that power not for good or evil, but for giving teamliquid an in depth analysis of the one place none of us want to be. i am in awe. | ||
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Drowsy
United States4876 Posts
On October 01 2012 03:31 EatThePath wrote: Careful, you will hurt yourself if you continue to try and grapple with bronze using rationality. hahaha Yeah I think the question isn't necessarily "why is there still bronze?" but "why is bronze THIS bad?". I mean D/D- ICCUP had players who were mostly functional and knew lots of basic things about starcraft and made rational decisions. Bronze is just a stochastic abyss of complete disregard for reason or intelligence. | ||
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Dfgj
Singapore5922 Posts
On October 01 2012 00:42 Sated wrote: Ke$ha's music is on purpose. It does not mean that it is good. Are you calling Lovecraft's work bad? I just want to know where you stand on this. | ||
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Battleaxe
United States843 Posts
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sanddbox_sc2
United States173 Posts
On October 01 2012 09:59 snively wrote: but this blog takes all that to the next level, and then some. im completely blown away by the way you wrote this blog. the vocabulary and sentence structure you use is incredible. it screams intelligence and sophistication... in a blog about n00bs who suck at a particular video game. you weild the english language like a god, and you use that power not for good or evil, but for giving teamliquid an in depth analysis of the one place none of us want to be. i am in awe. No offense but it seems like you're impressed by the fact that he uses a lot of big words. That's great, but the verbosity was pretty unwarranted and just detracted from the writing in general. It's the same kind of writing you see from kids who spent all summer doing SAT prep - essentially a regurgitation of every possible big word out there. Still, though, Gheed was clearly doing it intentionally, so I guess that somewhat justifies it, but I found it more tedious than anything else. | ||
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DKR
United Kingdom622 Posts
On September 30 2012 16:11 EatThePath wrote: You don't have to have read lovecraft to appreciate gheeds writing. You just have to have taste. Most presumptuous thing I've read in a long while. You mean "You have to have MY taste." On the subject of the blog, I don't agree with a lot of your conclusions but you do make me read to the end which is always a sign of good writing. Some lines were funny, only complimented by their needless complexities. EDIT: too harsh | ||
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tehemperorer
United States2183 Posts
EDIT: It's intentionally written that way peeps, get out more, go to library, leave your town for a while. | ||
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snively
United States1159 Posts
On October 01 2012 15:27 sanddbox_sc2 wrote: No offense but it seems like you're impressed by the fact that he uses a lot of big words. That's great, but the verbosity was pretty unwarranted and just detracted from the writing in general. It's the same kind of writing you see from kids who spent all summer doing SAT prep - essentially a regurgitation of every possible big word out there. Still, though, Gheed was clearly doing it intentionally, so I guess that somewhat justifies it, but I found it more tedious than anything else. its ok, im not insulted by the fact taht you told me im only impressed by big words. and since im not insulted i wont reply with something offensive about your mother and/or your sexual preferences | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26337 Posts
Wish I could write like yourself Gheed, wp sir, wp. | ||
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phiinix
United States1169 Posts
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Antiochus
Canada548 Posts
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HarbingerOfDoom
United States508 Posts
Loved the blog as usual, I haven't read any Lovecraft, but I certainly enjoyed the writing style regardless. | ||
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Zzzapper
1797 Posts
 Edit: For those of you who still haven't noticed, this is basically what it would look like if H.P. Lovecraft wrote a blog about starcraft. Anyone who has ever read the works of Lovecraft will know that he liked to use these "big" - and often somewhat archaic - words (according to Lovecraft himself, he would fit better into colonial-age America than the early 20th century he lived in). If you want to get into Lovecraft (which i highly recommend), I suggest you start with the short story Dagon, as it is very typical for his writing style - and really good as well  | ||
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mordek
United States12705 Posts
The thing that got tedious for me was not the words but the abundance of commas. And appositives? Anyways, I loved all the uncommon and/or archaic words. | ||
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