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On April 08 2008 09:06 ScarFace wrote:
Edit: To be honest I hope they dont give tasteless a support caster.
the problem is, he really needs it. not to say he isnt good, and i understand his castings are done live so it is even more difficult, but it would really help if he had a co-commentator to help him out, and he was the strategic analysis guy. if you watch almost any sport or something where there are announcers there will usually be a team of two people, one who is very familiar with the topic and can provide in depth analysis, and one who is great at play by play, who has a lesser understanding of them game, but brings excitement
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On April 08 2008 07:04 perisie xx wrote:Show nested quote +On April 08 2008 06:59 Luddite wrote:
I disagree, I think Tasteless is waaaay better at commentating than anyone else I've heard. And as for the mixups, they don't really bother me too much because I always know what he means anyway. if you´ve ever held a proper job with a degree of responsibility then you should understand why "mix ups" are pretty bad, even tho they might not bother you so much if i made "mix ups" in my job i´d probably laugh about it with some coworkers but get shit from others and would be completely expected not to make that mistake again sorry don´t mean to sound harsh. this is just a generalisation
President Bush makes the same kind of verbal mixups... surely a game commentator can be given the same amount of slack as the leader of the free world?
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On April 08 2008 05:57 Goosey wrote:
Irregardless
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i was going to comment that irregardless is nonstandard, but someone already did it
so i dont know why i'm commenting
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Dude If you gave him 5-6 years like some of the korean commentators he would be so ace
Edit: he'll just get better, etc etc gogo tasteless
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On April 08 2008 09:14 Aux1 wrote:Show nested quote +On April 08 2008 09:06 ScarFace wrote:
Edit: To be honest I hope they dont give tasteless a support caster. the problem is, he really needs it. not to say he isnt good, and i understand his castings are done live so it is even more difficult, but it would really help if he had a co-commentator to help him out, and he was the strategic analysis guy. if you watch almost any sport or something where there are announcers there will usually be a team of two people, one who is very familiar with the topic and can provide in depth analysis, and one who is great at play by play, who has a lesser understanding of them game, but brings excitement You are right of course. I was being a bit hasty. Its just that I am worried about who they will bring in! I don't like many commentators outside of Tasteless and Diggity. I don't really know any who top Tasteless for excitement, though some rival him with strategic analysis. But all in all, Tasteless connects well with the audience, and hes a good all around commentator. They need to get someone who can do that as well, not even assign roles, just someone who can connect with the audience and understands the game. Of course, someone who also takes some of the pressure off tasteless! 
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I am not gosu, but I think the casting Tasteless has done is great. However, I was only able to watch a small part of the Intel Classic because of my "limited connectivity" problem with Windows (I wrote a blog about it, anyone? T_T). I think he can only get better and this surprise new partner will make it better also. Even I was aware of a few superficial errors in GSI, but the fact that I was aware of them shows they were so superficial that they didn't really matter that much.
And since casting is his job, I'm sure he'll get more professional in the future.
And I say irregardless in a satirical sense whenever I see fit ... all the Luxembourgers need to calm down... -_-
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President Bush makes the same kind of verbal mixups... surely a game commentator can be given the same amount of slack as the leader of the free world?
He gets no slack. 
@ All the people posting about 'irregardless': bite me. I don't care! But just to be clear, when i say Tasteless mixes up words, I am talking about the "Flashes Dragoons will have trouble dealing with Stork's tanks.. in SIEGE MODE!" style mistakes. Just flipping which words go where, such a 'small' thing that really bugs me. Honestly fixing this issue (which was almost non-existent in the Surprise Tourney) fixes my main complaints with this otherwise amazing caster.
Diggity would have to be my pick currently for favorite commentator. He brings a ton of energy, speaks very clearly, and probably has the most insights of any commentators I have watched. The thing I like a lot about Diggity is that he is not afraid to say that he thinks one of the pros is making a mistake here and there.
So many commentators (Tasteless sometimes falls into this) will see a strategy they don't agree with, but rather than say that they will say something along the lines of "well I don't see why so and so is doing such and such, but he is the master so we will see what he has planned". More useful and entertaining when they say "this strategy is non-standard and usually is countered by X" and if it really is an innovation later to say "such and such has really made a surprising move here that lead to Y". Not sure if I explained that very well, but hopefully you will get what I mean.
Anyways, I can see from these comments that the love for Tasteless is pretty sincere and not just a TL mob mentality, so I can appreciate that.
Tasteless + Diggity would be awesome. Diggity providing play by play, both of them jamming on strategy talk, and Tasteless busting jokes. Probably an impossible thing to wish for, but might be?
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You've gotta remember that casting a live game in front of a huge audience by yourself is much harder than commentating over Vent or something like that. There's much more stress involved in Tasteless' job than Gentho/Artosis and having a second person to ask/answer questions makes it much much easier as roles can be divided. Even still, I prefer Tasteless' commentating to Ascension's because he makes the games more entertaining and that's what matters to me. Secondly, Diggity doesn't have anywhere near the level of SC understanding that Tasteless, and Tasteless already does an excellent job at play-by-play so that would a no-no.
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