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Podiac
Profile Joined February 2011
Germany4 Posts
February 15 2014 21:24 GMT
#81
Thank u for this blog, Jinro. Reading this made me so happy
Seeker *
Profile Blog Joined April 2005
Where dat snitch at?37095 Posts
February 15 2014 21:26 GMT
#82
Omfg... This was an excellent blog. 5/5 Would read again.

Thank you for this Jinro :D
ModeratorPeople ask me, "Seeker, what are you seeking?" My answer? "Sleep, damn it! Always sleep!"
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oneill12
Profile Joined February 2012
Romania1222 Posts
February 15 2014 21:27 GMT
#83
Good point
cheerful
Profile Joined December 2012
78 Posts
February 15 2014 21:27 GMT
#84
Damnit Jinro come back already !!
sabas123
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Netherlands3122 Posts
February 15 2014 21:30 GMT
#85
so awesome reading stuff from you again

The harder it becomes, the more you should focus on the basics.
HeadlessWonder
Profile Joined January 2013
United States1096 Posts
February 15 2014 21:31 GMT
#86
Awesome Read :D
CIS Doto
Linwelin
Profile Joined March 2011
Ireland7554 Posts
February 15 2014 21:37 GMT
#87
Good blog Jinro, I mostly agree with you.

I started watching and playing sc2 from the beta and followed most tournaments in WoL. Now I mostly switched to Dota 2 but I still watch some HotS tournaments and keep up with the results (Thanks to TL and Liquipedia) and I agree that even though HotS is not perfect, it is quite enjoyable to watch and in most cases, better than WoL.


Even though I'm just a lazy student, I'd be really interested in reading a blog or two written by you about your MMA...adventures and experiences. Maybe some day :D

Cheers!
Fuck Razor and Death Prophet
Captain Peabody
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States3135 Posts
February 15 2014 21:40 GMT
#88
Jinro, to me you'll always be Frozen Arbiter the SC2 mod, keeping people from panicking about everything during pre-beta. Glad to see you've kept the same cool head.

I absolutely agree, by the way. It feels like SC2's community is always caught in one negative frenzy after another. It seems like SC2 fans have a perpetual inferiority complex about their game-- probably born of the constant, insecure, and undetailed comparisons to BW. It's about time, I think, that people got over that.
Dies Irae venit. youtube.com/SnobbinsFilms
Killmouse
Profile Joined August 2010
Austria5700 Posts
February 15 2014 21:52 GMT
#89
sc2 is still doing good but the moba twitch numbers are exploding so ppl compare sc2 viewership to LoL vship and the difference is pretty huge so they think sc2 = ded game, its like volleyball/golf/formular 1 is a dead sport cauz soccer is doing way better in viewership ~
yo
TaShadan
Profile Joined February 2010
Germany1981 Posts
February 15 2014 22:05 GMT
#90
Well if something was garbage before its not hard to be better :p Good news for the sc2 community!
Total Annihilation Zero
iNsaNe-
Profile Joined January 2005
Finland5201 Posts
February 15 2014 22:07 GMT
#91
Well summed up, it's good that a person with your status says something like this Tournaments are fun to watch but reading LR threads can be painful at times.

Reminiscing that it was all great in BW is pretty dumb, Luna was an epitome of a map reflecting stale game state and at one period it was played so much
It takes a fool to remain sane.
Khasidon
Profile Joined April 2011
Denmark29 Posts
February 15 2014 22:15 GMT
#92
Great blog Jinro, I enjoyed reading it and your new perspective of things. Maybe in 10 years LotV will be played still and as a competetive level as BW was in so many years later, but still on a different level.

I would like to say I have been a fan of you since I followed you in the GSL and at the time played Terran myself. I now play random.
Terran
VisonKai
Profile Joined May 2012
United States2203 Posts
February 15 2014 22:23 GMT
#93
3x proleague (?) viewership, this Jinro blog, awesome IEM games...

Guys, guys...

#ALIEVGAEM?
TheBloodyDwarf
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
Finland7524 Posts
February 15 2014 22:23 GMT
#94
On February 16 2014 07:23 VisonKai wrote:
3x proleague (?) viewership, this Jinro blog, awesome IEM games...

Guys, guys...

#ALIEVGAEM?

People are finaly realizing it?
Fusilero: "I still can't believe he did that, like dude what the fuck there's fandom and then there's what he did like holy shit. I still see it when I close my eyes." <- reaction to the original drunk santa post which later caught on
MarlieChurphy
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
United States2065 Posts
February 15 2014 22:24 GMT
#95
Not really all that relevant to the blog, but Honk Kong has a really big issue with surrounding area chinese coming in and litereally shitting on the streets in public. I was talking with a guy from HK about it.

Anyway, good luck with the MMA. I hope you don't get the califlauwer ears.
RIP SPOR 11/24/11 NEVAR FORGET
Heartland
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
Sweden24604 Posts
February 15 2014 22:25 GMT
#96
Glad to get some perspective on the negativity of the last few months. Thanks
Rustug
Profile Joined October 2010
1488 Posts
February 15 2014 22:29 GMT
#97
Inspiring words! Thank you!

Although I'm on the back benches of the community I've always tried to be a positive voice in StarCraft.
Cheering people on and giving zero f*cks about the negative Nancies. (Be they from BW or SC2).

(I told myself I would never use this, but just for once).
つ _ ༽つ The Power of Positve Thinking ༼ つ _ ༽つ

Back to the ladder I go!
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not. 파이팅! ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ"
Elitios
Profile Joined February 2012
France164 Posts
February 15 2014 22:32 GMT
#98
Yeah!!! Great post, I had the exact same thoughts for a while now!

Sc2 is great, and very fun to watch and play. Please be happy!
BadAim
Profile Joined September 2011
Norway879 Posts
February 15 2014 22:33 GMT
#99
If SCII is the best its ever been, then its in deep shit.

We've missed you Jinro, really good blog
My esports soul belongs to: Boxer | White-Ra | Daigo Umehara | Nazgul | IceFrog
baldgye
Profile Joined April 2011
United Kingdom1108 Posts
February 15 2014 22:41 GMT
#100
<3 Jinro!

Pretty great blog, nice to have someone put things in perspective once in a while. Seems with everything it's so easy to start the hate train that once you do everything gets pushed aside.
There was an interview done with MC that was translated and put on Reddit and he really basically agrees with you but puts more emphasis on map design really changing the way the game is played, and like you said now that is becoming a thing for sc2... its pretty great!

Actually in the last few months I feel like HotS has gotten alot more interesting thanks to the use of SH's watching games with players trying to puzzle out how to make the most of them, or abuse them is super interesting.

I might be the only one but actually one of my favorite (I think it was WoL) games was a ZvZ from a GSL were both players went BL and in the middle of the map there was this massive BL vs BL war going on and at the same time as making sure that they both had = numbers of BL they were both using other units to snipe bases etc... make one game seem like a war with multiple fronts, was pretty fun really even if Tasteless and Artosis hated on it at the time....
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