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Pieguy314
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada262 Posts
March 14 2009 06:58 GMT
#61
On March 14 2009 15:08 IntoTheWow wrote:
sorry tasteless but VULTURES AND TURRETS, not bikes and towers.


Are vultures not bikes? Are turrets not towers? Just putting that out there.
asdfasdf
SpiritoftheTunA
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States20903 Posts
March 14 2009 07:00 GMT
#62
On March 14 2009 15:58 Pieguy314 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 14 2009 15:08 IntoTheWow wrote:
sorry tasteless but VULTURES AND TURRETS, not bikes and towers.


Are vultures not bikes? Are turrets not towers? Just putting that out there.

are zerglings not creatures? are ultralisk not bigger creatures? are high templar not psychics?

just putting that out there
posting on liquid sites in current year
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
March 14 2009 07:03 GMT
#63
On March 14 2009 15:58 Pieguy314 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 14 2009 15:08 IntoTheWow wrote:
sorry tasteless but VULTURES AND TURRETS, not bikes and towers.


Are vultures not bikes? Are turrets not towers? Just putting that out there.

What are you talking about? Of course they aren't.
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You honestly don't think there is a problem with units not being called by their actual name in commentating for professional Starcraft? Maybe it's just me... Seriously, it's not a long enough word where it needs to be abbreviated or anything. That's like called marines "gunners" and firebats "flamethrowers". Just doesn't work that well in the eyes of most people.
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
Vivi57
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States6599 Posts
March 14 2009 09:05 GMT
#64
maybe it was just in a liquibition...

but

psionic reaver: BRILLIANT STORMS!
Flash hwaiting! Nal_rA forever!
The_Australian
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Australia458 Posts
March 14 2009 10:26 GMT
#65
i don't like diggity's catchphrase; "wow", or how he says "micromanagement" and "macromanagement" instead of simple macro/micro. its not too bad but it comes off as trying hard to be technical and professional.
"Nothing should be unstoppable when you see it coming...." - Boxer
blapsd
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
England121 Posts
March 14 2009 13:04 GMT
#66
On March 14 2009 13:50 Frits wrote:
Is it me or do commentators often get certain phrases in their head which they really like to overuse?

YES!

"<player> got caught with his pants down"

LOL
BroOd
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Austin10833 Posts
March 14 2009 13:36 GMT
#67
People also need to learn how to use the word "literally."
ModeratorSIRL and JLIG.
Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-14 14:58:03
March 14 2009 14:57 GMT
#68
"Hydralisks"

They're called ACID SPITTERS, damn it.
LEGEND!! LEGEND!!
TryThis
Profile Joined February 2007
Canada1522 Posts
March 14 2009 15:14 GMT
#69
On March 14 2009 23:57 Chef wrote:
"Hydralisks"

They're called ACID SPITTERS, damn it.


really?
ive been lied too for the past 8 years....
Dwell
Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
March 14 2009 15:45 GMT
#70
psht. What kind of 10 year old were you when this game came out?
LEGEND!! LEGEND!!
meathook
Profile Joined December 2007
1289 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-14 15:58:57
March 14 2009 15:58 GMT
#71
Oh, I forgot the most annoying word ever coined in SC commentary - PANDABEARGUY ...!

Admittedly, it was funny the first couple of times:

"He is building a proxy in the middle, only the pandabear knows"

But now he is making that joke every time Andromeda is played. Just stop. And stop saying "pandabearguy" randomly when it appears on the screen.
An ugly planet. A bug planet.
Epicfailguy
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Norway893 Posts
March 14 2009 18:39 GMT
#72
Looking at the sc2gg commentarys, I've kinda figured it out.

The first attack with less than one controll group, but more than 2 units, in the early game, its a timing push, even if its 4 goons trying to wear down the first terran PUSH.
"Looks like bisu is doing a 4 goon with range timing attack, and at the SAAAAAAAAAME TIIIIME...AT THE SAAAAME --- TIIIIMMMEEEE, flash is doing a 4 marine, 2 tank-vulture timing attack"

The first attack with 1 controll group or more, its the <insert names of units>-timing attack.
"Bisu is doing a speedlot,goon,high templar-timing attack up saviors main now...AND AT THE SAMMMMMME TIIIIIIIME..etcetc"

As the game goes on, each opponent are "replenishing their armies".

It isnt that hard, guys!
erin[go]bragh
Profile Joined December 2008
United States815 Posts
March 14 2009 19:34 GMT
#73
Mana instead of energy always bothered me.

I disagree about the usage of the word push though. Push has a different meaning in Starcraft? If anything, using the term push for goon/zeals or hydras or whatever makes more sense than for tanks...

The Greek Phalanx is a good example of strategic pushing. Two phalanxes would go head to head and...push. Literally. You didn't charge for a bit... Stop... Shield up... Leapfrog ahead some more... Turtle up again. You pushed. You pushed until one of the lines faltered, thus breaking the formation, thus opening the path to victory.

Very similar to how a player will engage his opponents units and "push" them back into their main/expansion or what have you.

Granted its a pretty literal take on the word, but it just never bothered me personally.
JulyZerg! by.hero, effOrt, KTY.
Zortch
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Canada635 Posts
March 14 2009 21:51 GMT
#74
Technical
This is a very technical build/map/strategy/game/rush etcetc.
Apparently anything can be technical and I'm not even positive what it means other than very precise...
Respect is everything. ~ARchon
Kyo Yuy
Profile Joined January 2009
United States1286 Posts
March 14 2009 21:54 GMT
#75
I heard that Tasteless incorrectly labels a lot of things as "hold position micro" when the actual tactic does not involve the use of hold position. As in the case of Flash's tactic to have Goliaths take down Interceptors instead of Carriers.

Can someone with a better knowledge of the game confirm/deny this for me?
#1 KawaiiRice fan :D
OneOther
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States10774 Posts
March 14 2009 21:58 GMT
#76
I completely agree with the term "push" being misused. Commentaries should at least use correct StarCraft terms.
Zoler
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Sweden6339 Posts
March 14 2009 21:58 GMT
#77
On March 15 2009 06:54 Kyo Yuy wrote:
I heard that Tasteless incorrectly labels a lot of things as "hold position micro" when the actual tactic does not involve the use of hold position. As in the case of Flash's tactic to have Goliaths take down Interceptors instead of Carriers.

Can someone with a better knowledge of the game confirm/deny this for me?


I'm not sure but when you use hold position with goliaths often they will not attack at all. Attack moving is much more efficient against interceptors.
Lim Yo Hwan forever!
nofAcedAgent
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States952 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-15 02:23:30
March 15 2009 02:16 GMT
#78
I can certainly appreciate wanting to better your own commentary, but I think a lot of people in this thread have overly trivial/invalid complaints.

These people are doing something in their free time for themselves and others, if they pronounce something differently than you (perhaps cause its the 'proper' way in their language or other simmilar reasons) or call something by the wrong name in the midst of things I just really think its selfish to complain about this..

Now if they are getting paid for commentary or are doing it for major community events (tsl, ect) than I can understand holding people to a higher standard.

quit letting stupid little shit in life bother you or watch the god damn korean version.

/rant

*smile*
pandabearguy
Profile Joined June 2008
United States252 Posts
March 17 2009 09:39 GMT
#79
On March 15 2009 00:58 meathook wrote:
Oh, I forgot the most annoying word ever coined in SC commentary - PANDABEARGUY ...!

Admittedly, it was funny the first couple of times:

"He is building a proxy in the middle, only the pandabear knows"

But now he is making that joke every time Andromeda is played. Just stop. And stop saying "pandabearguy" randomly when it appears on the screen.


seriously this is one of those things that really ticks me off
aka [ucr]pandabearg. much <3
thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
March 17 2009 09:56 GMT
#80
That's all she wrote!

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