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the Dagon Knight4003 Posts
What if I told you that the world you inhabit is not nearly as lonely as it might seem.
What if I told you that there were an infinite number of parallel earths, each subtly different from the last.
What if I told you that there were places in which the membrane between those worlds had drawn so thin that events on their side could influence events on ours, places where their world bleeds into ours.
What if I told you that you could do more than just look on the effects of this strange pairing, but you could actually go there. Well, that's stretching the truth slightly. Of course you can't go there, that would be preposterous. There's no knowing if their air is even breathable to us. No, you'd probably be wrenched inside out by the new gravity alone...
However, thanks to new scientific developments, you can post on their internet.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/LKXGQk3.png) It’s Liquid, but not as we know it...
Under the alien sun of the place that I will refer to from now on as Earth B, you will find LiquidPoker, a website from another time and another place. When you look on it, you will notice your eyes begin to hurt; don’t look away. You might think that this pain is because of the harsh glare and bright colours, but you would be mistaken. That stinging sensation is your eyes attempting to adjust to light from another earth. For those of you sensitive to its strange emanations, protective eyewear might be necessary.
Your brain will try constantly to wrest your eyes away from the display, to force your mouse to click elsewhere and stop you from your researches into this strange place. If you can force yourself to ignore that compulsion, you’ll find that there is just as much history and treasure in their strange mirror world as we have to ours. Their lives are every bit as real as our own, but they have their own Earth B twists.
I don’t doubt at all that it’s possible to dig in and find these gems for yourself, but to do so would take months, maybe years. For residents of Earth A, the mind cannot adapt easily to this foreign place. Your fragile, human eyes weren’t made for prolonged exposure. Instead, you must seek out those strange, liminal beings who are equally capable of navigating both worlds. If you knew the signs, you could find them easily; they have been marked by their existence between the worlds.
I have to thank Rekrul and Hurricane for helping me when I felt as though I could proceed no further, when I was lost in the tangled knots of topics I couldn’t understand and endless lists of pokey hands. It is a harrowing experience, to see that every username is accompanied by an icon you cannot decipher. The normal rules do not apply, but it’s more than that.
Thanks to my guides, my adventures were not the aimless rambling they might otherwise have been. I was directed to visit some of LiquidPoker’s strangest blogs and topics. These posts give some insight into the logic of another world, a forbidden place where men fear to tread.
There are even occasional steps into the profoundly insightful. Of all the LiquidPoker users I was directed to pay attention to, the enigmatic ByrneSam is among the most interesting. You’ve already seen the first sample of his work above, but his sharp mind has applied itself to many problems:
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/ZdpzodN.png) Just as we ruminate on the nuances of Starcraft, so does he on the oddities of poker...
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/dbL0JW4.png) Are we really so different, underneath it all?
Strangest still is that moment when, amid all the weirdness, you find something you recognise. After so long away from the shores of our own reality, my mind seizes on the slightest hint of familiarity. I am unable to look away. I feel at home for the first time since all of this began. All there is left to me is Rekrul's face, bobbling on top of Rick Astley's body...
This one is a quote, so that it would animate:
On October 09 2007 07:04 byrnesam wrote:hes no stranger to love ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/YB2MUGn.gif)
It’s not all blithe nonsense though. There are some very serious considerations of life on Earth B and how to engage with a world fraught by cataclysms. When faced with the injustices of war, famine, and pestilence, most of us just try to ignore the worst things about life on earth. There are a precious few who have found someone to blame though, and if there’s one thing we can learn from LiquidPoker it’s the depths to which those filthy lizardmen (homo sapiens saurus):
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/arUBbCd.png) Now that I think about it, there is a very real possibility that their earth was conquered by a race of malignant reptilemen...
Continuing the Research:
If you notice that my posting has fallen off, assume that I am to be found there. Indeed, I encourage everyone to sign up and enjoy the site for themselves. I haven’t yet received any PMs to my Liquid Poker inbox, so if anyone wants to make me feel more comfortable then a message or two would be very much appreciated.
To those of you intrepid few who dare to venture forth... godspeed.
 
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I regularly read liquid poker blogs.
Its like almost the same community but everyone has way more money then me.
Floofy blogs are usually pretty funny.
Lots of pics of semi-nude women too.
Its kind of like bizzaro-teamliquid.
5stars ofc love your writing sirjolt 
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United Kingdom3685 Posts
Do not linger there too long Jolt, lest you never return.
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Germany2687 Posts
I wonder if their admins look like ours, but with evil mustaches.
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Woah, what a weird world. Strange that they never bothered to change the background color to something quieter, especially considering the now trademark Liquid Blue. Yellow is a...different kind of liquid.
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I miss the time I spent on Earth A with my good pal SirJolt.
It's hard being seperated for so long, while he visits Earth B....I fear our relationship may never be the same.
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I think I've just discovered a comedy goldmine.
Thanks!
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http://totmidian.liquidpoker.net/
this is really funny in a way. in the first blog I click i see some familiar faces. this is a blog of one of the poker players. and just look under the april section and you see ... dApollo! and then other players: sea, huk, haypro and others. example:
+ Show Spoiler +
pretty awesome beans
i guess these parallel universes are quite connected too by the power of nerd-ballers or something.
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I've been to that site a few times, the only issue is I'm afraid of being as chobo at poker as I am at sc ;_;.
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Strange parallel world.
Are grrr and elky in there?
My eyes can't adjust.
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floofy.. ohman oh man.
bringin me back
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Read the first post and immediately went to google.
Now, 5 minutes later, I am here to comment on this post.
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Hong Kong9154 Posts
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Liquid poker is great,best thread I read was this thing like you have a certain amount of points and you need to decide what to spend it on for being locked in the basement or something like that for a certain amount of years,at the end you get like 10 milion or something and you can halve the prize to be able to get more points for stuff.God damn it I cant find it now but if someone digs hard enough im sure you can find it
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Read the first few lines in my head with Manifesto narrating
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I never knew LiquidPoker existed until now. And now I'm hooked. 
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On June 07 2013 02:21 itsjustatank wrote:LOL
ahahahahaha
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And not a single poker hand was played that day
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Is there a compilation of best threads? I think we have something like that over here..
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On June 07 2013 00:14 shz wrote:
I wonder if their admins look like ours, but with evil mustaches.
there's one mod there who's a huge conspiracy theorist, it was somewhat bizarre.
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whats the highest number of active users on that world? right now its like 200.....
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I've always wondered just WTH is up with liquidpoker. Like how are they related to our regular ol' TL? Do the 2 sites share the same server, host, owner, ISP? Are our admins admins there as well? So many questions...
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I miss playing online poker so much. There were times when I visited liquidpoker 100% of the time and stopped coming here. Damn you FBI, I wanna play stars
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I'm just a livegame noob but I have a game in Hawaii with a bunch of Japanese businessmen that I rake moneys at
I met rekrul in a casino in Korea once and watched him crush a $10/20
Been posting on LP for a while but the hand discussions really died down and I don't think there's much to be learned from the PLO discussions because it always comes down to "your hand selection sux play tighter n00b"
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whoa shit PuertoRican still visits liquidpoker? I was unaware of this.
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United States10328 Posts
aw man, just posting "poker" used to autolink to liquidpoker
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This reading was wonderful. I particularly loved that little snippet about byrnesam sighting his porn star idol.
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On June 07 2013 13:41 ]343[ wrote:
aw man, just posting "poker" used to autolink to liquidpoker
posting "starcraft" on LP still links to TL.
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On June 07 2013 02:30 TheKefka wrote:
Liquid poker is great,best thread I read was this thing like you have a certain amount of points and you need to decide what to spend it on for being locked in the basement or something like that for a certain amount of years,at the end you get like 10 milion or something and you can halve the prize to be able to get more points for stuff.God damn it I cant find it now but if someone digs hard enough im sure you can find it
I remember it, there it is : http://www.liquidpoker.net/poker-forum/1073528/If_you_were_forced_to_live_in_a_basement_for_10yrs.html
Liquidpoker is a fun place. I love reading interesting hand discussions. I get way too bored when I play poker, as most hands you play are uninteresting and uneventful, so I prefer reading the hands there rather than playing.
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United States996 Posts
byrnesam...if you are out there - you are missed
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On June 07 2013 15:17 Denar wrote:Show nested quote +On June 07 2013 02:30 TheKefka wrote:
Liquid poker is great,best thread I read was this thing like you have a certain amount of points and you need to decide what to spend it on for being locked in the basement or something like that for a certain amount of years,at the end you get like 10 milion or something and you can halve the prize to be able to get more points for stuff.God damn it I cant find it now but if someone digs hard enough im sure you can find it I remember it, there it is : http://www.liquidpoker.net/poker-forum/1073528/If_you_were_forced_to_live_in_a_basement_for_10yrs.htmlLiquidpoker is a fun place. I love reading interesting hand discussions. I get way too bored when I play poker, as most hands you play are uninteresting and uneventful, so I prefer reading the hands there rather than playing.
I would spend my points like this:
4 - Library - learn about drug induced comas and how to make life support device.
6 - Workshop - make life support device.
6 - Computer - Runs life support device.
6 - Kitchen - Keep you alive while you make life support device.
5 - Drugs - To make the coma.
2 - Doctor - To make sure you don't die and to wake you up when the time comes.
30 points. Give me my 10m.
Also liquid poker needs an update.
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51484 Posts
Wow that guy knew his pornstar xD Fair play to him!
Seems weird place though ahaha!
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On June 07 2013 05:22 jalstar wrote:Show nested quote +On June 07 2013 00:14 shz wrote:
I wonder if their admins look like ours, but with evil mustaches. there's one mod there who's a huge conspiracy theorist, it was somewhat bizarre.
Well we had barrin, so it kind of balances out at least in terms of the alternate version of the site idea.
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I've been to the other site (hehe) before it was cool
I hope you can make these parallel excursions a regular thing, Sir :D
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The best and unbeatable classic floofy thread, Looks or Game is one of the best threads on the internet.It is the epic story about a boy on his quest to get laid, taking advice from a bunch of strangers on the internet. I remember when that thread was active I would read it everyday, hoping that floofy would provide an update.
Here it is: http://www.liquidpoker.net/poker-forum/410813/Looks_or_Game_.html , sadly floofy deleted most of his posts but if you go through everything and open every quote I think you can piece together a story.
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Liquid Poker is like Team Liquid with the moderation turned down 50% or so.
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On June 08 2013 04:42 tomatriedes wrote:
Liquid Poker is like Team Liquid with the moderation turned down 50% or so.
So it's like the big brother of the Dota 2 section here?
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It's Like TL 6-7 years ago but without fucked up streams
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LP is like 50% less retarded than TL is in terms of general poster IQ and that's why the moderation is 50% lower
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On June 08 2013 05:54 Kleinmuuhg wrote:
It's Like TL 6-7 years ago but without fucked up streams
wow shit.... i never knew tl was builded up from such a shitty place.
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Dan I never knew you were Rick Astley. All this time?
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TLADT24920 Posts
wow those colors lol. Well, at least they seem to have interesting contents
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looking at their rofl thread. Its amazing!!! Thank you for the link, this might replace "e-mails from an asshole" for comedy
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I read the blog a first time on my phone when I was in a cab and the .gif would not load.
I spent the next hour imagining "Rekrul's face, bobbling on top of Rick Astley's body..."
5/5
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I read this blog in Morpheous' voice. <3 SirJolt
And the LP forums are hands down more entertaining than TL's. I really think that it's because of overzealous moderation here, which for a "professional" progaming forum kinda makes sense, but reading LP really is almost like an alternate universe where the TL forums in the old day just took a name change. Don't know if I'm making sense and/or being an ass so I'll stop.
5/5!!
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Liquid Poker is so similar... and yet so different. It's actually pretty eerie.
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On June 08 2013 05:54 Kleinmuuhg wrote:
It's Like TL 6-7 years ago but without fucked up streams
What?
@ Sabas: LP spawned from TL.
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On June 08 2013 16:44 Brett wrote:Show nested quote +On June 08 2013 05:54 Kleinmuuhg wrote:
It's Like TL 6-7 years ago but without fucked up streams What? @ Sabas: LP spawned from TL.
yea i know, but if the state of tl was so bad 6-7 years ago.
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I don't think it's bad at all. Depends on your point of view.
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On June 08 2013 19:48 sabas123 wrote:Show nested quote +On June 08 2013 16:44 Brett wrote:On June 08 2013 05:54 Kleinmuuhg wrote:
It's Like TL 6-7 years ago but without fucked up streams What? @ Sabas: LP spawned from TL. yea i know, but if the state of tl was so bad 6-7 years ago.
I don't think it was.
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That rekrul gif is amazing lol.
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On June 08 2013 19:48 sabas123 wrote:Show nested quote +On June 08 2013 16:44 Brett wrote:On June 08 2013 05:54 Kleinmuuhg wrote:
It's Like TL 6-7 years ago but without fucked up streams What? @ Sabas: LP spawned from TL. yea i know, but if the state of tl was so bad 6-7 years ago.
what about that website is bad?
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On June 08 2013 14:44 AnachronisticAnarchy wrote:
Liquid Poker is so similar... and yet so different. It's actually pretty eerie.
Jolt's opener was spot on. The yellow destroys my eyes and that's why I never post there.
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On June 07 2013 15:46 Liquid`Zephyr wrote:
byrnesam...if you are out there - you are missed
i have him on skype :O. he still browses lp but doesn't log in anymore. he tells me to post funny pics for him sometimes
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I have to rewrite so many posts on team liquid because I remember this isn't LP and I really need to tone things down. 
Time to find out just how many people use both forums. Your 17 posts don't count Stroggoz.
Also you guys don't know what you're missing out on without Spets blogs.
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Norway25712 Posts
Only visited liquud poker a few times. The color scheme hurts my eyes, and some ofbthe people legit scare me.
Good for an occasinal wtf-laugh though.
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Sick OP!
Lol haven't visited LiquidPoker for a long time now... opened a few blogs, and as SirJolt promised, semi-naked women! I guess that helps after a day of playing poker... hell that helps after anything.
lol at the Rekroll gif
On June 07 2013 01:15 hyunGGe wrote:http://totmidian.liquidpoker.net/this is really funny in a way. in the first blog I click i see some familiar faces. this is a blog of one of the poker players. and just look under the april section and you see ... dApollo! and then other players: sea, huk, haypro and others. example: + Show Spoiler +pretty awesome beans i guess these parallel universes are quite connected too by the power of nerd-ballers or something.
ToT)Midian( was a well known good zerg player in BW (obviously since he was a member of ToT).
Hayder aka ToT)HayprO( = Liquid`HayprO
Sea[Shield] (PoS, MBC, Team 8) = ToT)Sea( (honorary member I think?) = Liquid`Sea
I believe Midian (he visits korea), Rekrul and Grrr... are living in Korea, so Rekrul/Grrr... should know a lot of the foreigners and koreans there, since Rek and Grrr played BW/poker with a lot of them and hung out with the rest. They're like a welcome party when foreigners come to Korea, so they probably know every SC2 player that came there. xD
There's a lot of good oldschool BW players that play poker now, Elky is probably the most well known on a global scale, and then RaiNKhaN?
Also, Midian is from UK and dApollo is also from there.
On June 07 2013 17:15 iTzSnypah wrote:Show nested quote +On June 07 2013 15:17 Denar wrote:On June 07 2013 02:30 TheKefka wrote:
Liquid poker is great,best thread I read was this thing like you have a certain amount of points and you need to decide what to spend it on for being locked in the basement or something like that for a certain amount of years,at the end you get like 10 milion or something and you can halve the prize to be able to get more points for stuff.God damn it I cant find it now but if someone digs hard enough im sure you can find it I remember it, there it is : http://www.liquidpoker.net/poker-forum/1073528/If_you_were_forced_to_live_in_a_basement_for_10yrs.htmlLiquidpoker is a fun place. I love reading interesting hand discussions. I get way too bored when I play poker, as most hands you play are uninteresting and uneventful, so I prefer reading the hands there rather than playing. I would spend my points like this: 4 - Library - learn about drug induced comas and how to make life support device. 6 - Workshop - make life support device. 6 - Computer - Runs life support device. 6 - Kitchen - Keep you alive while you make life support device. 5 - Drugs - To make the coma. 2 - Doctor - To make sure you don't die and to wake you up when the time comes. 30 points. Give me my 10m. Also liquid poker needs an update.
18 girl
2+1 medical
2 garden
2 radio
4 library
1 pool table
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maybe for $5m, but doubt it (except if the food is atrocious)
-1 pool table
6 kitchen
* if the girl isn't trapped with me, I'd get world news, messages from friends/family from her and remove the radio, then probably add hygiene or maybe cellphone, but doubt it
* I assume the garden has sunlight/skylight, so I could just stay there and read books instead of the library/study
* I don't need a gym since I can work out in the garden, you don't need weights to keep your body fit. if you really want you can make pretty much any weight and work-out machine from the stuff in the garden (rocks, trees...) plus the girl can help you work out by holding parts of your body or pushing
* -2 radio, -1 pool table +7 stock market (with $5m upfront) might not be a bad idea as well, but I'd probably have to have some reliable world news source to do this, so it doesn't seem viable with this setup, unless I the girl can go out and fetch me some news
* you can get the internet instead of girl (if you don't have to get the computer first), it's a very hard choice since internet can replace library, radio, cell phone and give you contact to other people... then you can get more stuff
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Canada5155 Posts
North of the wall is no place for men
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On June 09 2013 21:37 TheLink wrote:I have to rewrite so many posts on team liquid because I remember this isn't LP and I really need to tone things down. Time to find out just how many people use both forums. Your 17 posts don't count Stroggoz. Also you guys don't know what you're missing out on without Spets blogs. Reportin' for duty!
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ryan daut's dad subs at my old high school and he always used to tell us about him so i poked in there one time to say hi
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I read this blog, then I went to liquid poker, then I started thinking how in haven't played poker for a few years. Then I reactivated my account on pokerstars. Found out I have $18 left in the account. Started playing microstakes immediately. New account balance: $23. Most likely outcome: reading this blog ends up costing me $1000
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^if you stop now then this thread gave you 5 bucks :p
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You don't stop when you're on a winning streak.
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Netherlands13554 Posts
On June 12 2013 16:07 Alejandrisha wrote:ryan daut's dad subs at my old high school and he always used to tell us about him so i poked in there one time to say hi
BIGBALLS!
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