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Don't worry though, my Starcraft tales and witty pictures shall keep thee entertained.Why was I discouraged? Well, to start, I play Terran. That means for my current D-level skills, I suffer a ton of losses, and forget something different every game cause there's just so much to multi-task. Now I don't want to turn this into a "race warz" blog, but after playing all 3 at my low level of skill, T is definitely the toughest, with Protoss being the easiest. But for some reason I choose to play Terran. I hope one day my multi-tasking gets up to par and I can roll over bitches with my ballin' ball of metal awesomeness.
![[image loading]](http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s116/II_roflmao_II/race_wars.jpg)
Moving on. Alright so I haven't played seriously for weeks, but guess what - apparently it's my birthday soon! I totally forget, end-of-year culminating school assignments have been the only thing on my mind. Anyways, as an early birthday present I get around $150 to go buy whatever.
So... do I order a hooker? Do I throw a party and invite half the school? Do I ask my significant other out on a date? FUCK NO! I go and buy a new mouse and keyboard for ub3r-l33t-gam1ng!!11!!!11!!!
Nothing at BestBuy really caught my eye, but then I saw this mouse made by a brand called "Razer". I thought to myself, "Hmmm, where the heck have I heard about these guys?" Then I remembered: they sponsored the TSL, and they specifically make gaming mice! Now I usually never buy something just because of the brand-name, but I just had to as seeing a legitimate English Starcraft broadcast was just so amazing, and couldn't have happened without that awesome company. Anyways, I picked up a sexy-looking mouse called the Razer Diamondback:
![[image loading]](http://gxelectronics.co.za/catalog/images/Razer%20Diamondback.jpg)
To be honest I wasn't expecting anything amazing, but this thing really blew me away once I started using it. It had to be the smoothest, most responsive piece of hardware I've ever used. I'm not writing this blog to promote Razer or anything, but holy crap talk about a good product. Anyways, since it's my (early) birthday, I figured I should go enjoy myself getting bashed on iccup (as you can see by now, I have very different interests from the average 17-year-old).
After about 5 quick games of getting raped early due to build order mistakes, I finally got a TvZ where I survived for quite a bit. My macro early on was terrible, but somehow I made it to the mid-game and got a ball rolling. I felt like after the beginning, I moved out all right with my boyz (M&M of course) and did some decent harassment. But of course, I had some mistakes that only someone as absentminded and rusty as me could have had:
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A medic-less army... Talk about a sausage fest.
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"Ah, fuck. I can't believe you've done this."
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GG yo.
So that was quite an entertaining game, you can DL the full thing here if you like:
http://rapidshare.com/files/121603166/vZloss1.rep.html target=
Yes, rapidshare, omfg. But don't worry, it's happy hour right now! For those wondering why rapidshare gets so much hate, please take a look:
![[image loading]](http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s116/II_roflmao_II/rapidshare_lol.jpg)
Anyways, the only other note-worthy game I had tonight with my new mouse was the one that I won, a tense TvP on python. The game lasted roughly 40 or so minutes, but don't worry, pictures are worth a thousand words/seconds:
![[image loading]](http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s116/II_roflmao_II/SC_dtdrop.jpg)
Well, at least the shuttle died. But unfortunately this little bad boy took out my turret exposing my supply depots to a slow, painful, invisible rape by sword.
![[image loading]](http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s116/II_roflmao_II/SC_pushfail.jpg)
Believe it or not, these vultures used to accompanied by 12 tanks!
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However, the next time I roll out I win the engagement, thus coming back from behind somewhat. While this happens I reclaim my third base and start a fourth.
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This is the turning point of the game, after which I try to plow his main base, only to be fended off by carriers! Now ensues a vicious battle between the flying behemoths and the retarded Goliaths.
![[image loading]](http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s116/II_roflmao_II/SC_pwnt.jpg)
yeeeeeeeeeeee boiiiiiiiiii
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Seriously, Goliaths are fucking retarded.
![[image loading]](http://content.ytmnd.com/content/a/f/c/afc75396148f72866be67602722a579e.jpg)
Alas, I went on to win this long game as I whittled his carrier force to nil and walked over him with my Goliaths (who walked like cripples).
Rep: http://rapidshare.com/files/121606655/vPwin1.rep.html target=
Anyways, to conclude, I just want to say that I had fun playing SC today. Even if I get whooped on iccup, I can have some fun with it. Overall I still feel that Terran has to do so much more to win games, but I'm hoping that eventually the hard work will pay off, and I'll reach my eventual goal of a C on iccup before SC2 comes out.
Thank you very much for reading!
