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I'm lonely, it's six am, I've been sick for a month.
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I wanna talk about what got me into SC2. During the Beta I was looking for videos on youtube to find information about sc2 and the units and graphics and that kind of thing and there had been a beta tournament or two, and people had been sending games to casters. I came across one by TheLittleOne. Husky or HD was casting it; it was against some terran. At the time TLO was playing either random or terran; it didn't really matter, he bounced between the two daily.
It struck me that he played so "standard" relative to his opponent, but found ways to be completely innovative and creative and silly and unique and dangerous. Same tank line, same expansion time, same units protecting the tanks and occasional pushes forward...but then there'd be a ghost. Or two. Or three. And they'd have nukes. Those nukes would pressure, and he'd bait you into them, or make you retreat with them, or back into them accidentally. It hadn't occurred to me until that point that you could play a strategy game and have fun at the same time.
I played a lot of chess growing up. You competed, you won or lost, you did your best to out-move and out-wit your opponent. I played Warcraft 2 with friends, always defending, always making towers, always hating the game. I played Broodwar through most of the campaign before throwing the CD at the wall; not because Broodwar was too hard or too complex, it just happened that if you threw the CD at the wall when it blew up it was awesome or it would stick in like a ninja star and that was extremely awesome and that was the CD because it was a boring-no-fun game that existed just for competing and I didn't have any desire to do so because there was no satisfaction in proper execution of something.
I didn't know at the time that competing could be fun. I didn't know that you could have fun while you were competing. Watching every video I could find of him, whether he was thor dropping, thor rushing, playing protoss and expanding when no one was fast expanding into warp prism when no one was going warp prism, into colossus drop when no one was doing that either, into getting absolutely bear-mauled when a guy on four gates just came and rolled him over after killing the colossus - anything, extremely out of the blue or just slight variations of style, helped me to see that you could be creative while you played. You could inject your personality into the way you competed.
I love it. I have since then. It isn't that you can do whatever you want regardless of your mechanics or skills, or if you have the mechanics you can get away with things you shouldn't, or that you don't have to follow the same build rules that everyone else does, or anything like that. There's a lot of tedium and mental demand to RTS gaming. My mindset changed though, and that allowed me to see and understand the ecstasy and thrill that is competitive gaming and the absolute beauty that's in Starcraft 2. So...it's a silly thing to say, but, Thank you. I wouldn't have fallen absolutely in love for this game if I hadn't found that, and it's entirely because of you.
I realize this should probably just be a PM, but, with all the negativity lately about how the game's dying and everyone using thier no evidence whatsoever argument for whatever it is that they have up their butt about what needs to be fixed - o god I'm turning this into an uplifting speech blog I'm going to bed.
Try to remember what it is that brought you here though, and why it is that you stay.
<3 Angel
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Im lonely and its 11:30 pm. I have my high school celebration day tomorrow, last day ever of school. Im gonna miss it all. I started at this school at kindergarten, all the way up to my final year.....
I just want to say I love you Angel_, you are fucking amazing dude, and I hope you get better with your sickness and all, great blog I rated it 3.5 
PS: if you want to go to sleep , just listen to this: just a random Kpop song released today.
See, that;s what I love about it; ofc they are high quality songs, but they are released every week, almost every day. Work so hard, very very hard
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Great post. I still remember how epic the game between TLO and Hyperdub was on Xel Naga in the first GSL, and when he launched those positional nukes...that's probably the first time my jaw dropped watching a game of SC2. And I remember how heartbroken I was two games later when he got knocked out by proxy rax, as if I were the one losing. He brought so much excitement to the early days of Starcraft. I know he's been up and down since, but he still has that aura about him. Hopefully he makes a big impact on HotS as well.
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On October 24 2012 23:49 DueleR wrote:
Great post. I still remember how epic the game between TLO and Hyperdub was on Xel Naga in the first GSL, and when he launched those positional nukes...that's probably the first time my jaw dropped watching a game of SC2. And I remember how heartbroken I was two games later when he got knocked out by proxy rax, as if I were the one losing. He brought so much excitement to the early days of Starcraft. I know he's been up and down since, but he still has that aura about him. Hopefully he makes a big impact on HotS as well.
I <3 positional nukes that kill things.
To me it isn't his success, though it'd be pretty cool if he did well, just that he showed me that you could put yourself into your play, and that opened me up to how awesome playing actually is (even when you're playing super standard) and how much I like RTS.
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Thanks a lot for this Blog. Really Heart warming  Wish you the best!
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As an avid fan sometimes I wonder, what does TLO have that people like him so much? Must be his charm dunno. I can say that I only have Terran as my favorite race because of a TLO game on his with awesome dropship micro picking and dropping a single tank to be extremely cost efficient in an all-in. Been cheering for Dario, still cheering for Dario.
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TLO is what brought both me and my roommate into SCII as well. We used to watch all his games we could find on Husky's youtube channel. Still remember his hellion into thor build in TvT against Boxer on Delta Quad. Or when he played zerg and was using that totally absurd 8 second fungel growth against marines and hellions all the way back in the beta (long before everyone else realized that it was like the greatest ability in the game, imagine if it was still 8 seconds lol). Thanks TLO, I would probably be a much more productive member of society if it weren't for you, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
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On October 26 2012 01:48 GeneralSnoop wrote:
TLO is what brought both me and my roommate into SCII as well. We used to watch all his games we could find on Husky's youtube channel. Still remember his hellion into thor build in TvT against Boxer on Delta Quad. Or when he played zerg and was using that totally absurd 8 second fungel growth against marines and hellions all the way back in the beta (long before everyone else realized that it was like the greatest ability in the game, imagine if it was still 8 seconds lol). Thanks TLO, I would probably be a much more productive member of society if it weren't for you, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
Same, I watched TLO for months in beta, but by far my favorite TLO moment has to be TLO vs Hyperdub Game 1 in the GSL Ro32 (I'm pretty sure it was Ro32, could have been Ro64).
Probably one of the greatest comebacks ever.
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