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mOnion
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States5657 Posts
April 26 2010 20:51 GMT
#101
It will be interesting to see....
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condoriano
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States826 Posts
April 26 2010 20:59 GMT
#102
Timing Attack
Chances are it's not a timing attack, it's just an attack. There aren't 20 minute ZvT timing attacks, for example.


Proterg disagrees.
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Chill
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary25977 Posts
April 26 2010 21:11 GMT
#103
I know - he's wrong.
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zulu_nation8
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
China26351 Posts
April 26 2010 21:24 GMT
#104
I don't like when people use the word "hallmark"
EchOne
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States2906 Posts
April 26 2010 21:27 GMT
#105
Thanks for this thread. I honestly didn't know the correct pronunciation of Longinus before this.
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ketomai
Profile Joined June 2007
United States2789 Posts
April 26 2010 22:10 GMT
#106
On April 27 2010 06:11 Chill wrote:
I know - he's wrong.


Pretty sure he's joking when he talks about the 24 min. timing push or w/e. He just says that's approximately when Zerg runs out of gas in his nat/main and they can not be content on 4 base.
jalstar
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States8198 Posts
April 26 2010 22:46 GMT
#107
"Bisu beat Savior with the same build 3 times in a row"

I see this more in forum posts than from commentators, but it's a popular yet untrue myth. Bisu went Sair/Reaver on Reverse Temple.
Zapdos_Smithh
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Canada2620 Posts
April 26 2010 22:51 GMT
#108
Healthy bump and addition considering all the new sc2 commentators.
rbkl
Profile Joined March 2010
772 Posts
May 24 2010 15:03 GMT
#109
Difference between "cheese" and "rush"
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Xeris
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
Iran17695 Posts
May 24 2010 15:45 GMT
#110
On April 27 2010 07:10 ketomai wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 27 2010 06:11 Chill wrote:
I know - he's wrong.


Pretty sure he's joking when he talks about the 24 min. timing push or w/e. He just says that's approximately when Zerg runs out of gas in his nat/main and they can not be content on 4 base.


he's actually not joking at all. he measures the game to that degree of specificity.
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tYsopz
Profile Joined July 2009
Norway215 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-24 16:38:05
May 24 2010 16:32 GMT
#111
What really annoys me is commentators trying to stereotype every game and pretending to cleverly predict what is going to happen when they actually have no clue.

This doesn't apply to chill, artosis, day9 & tasteless. They usually know what is going on and certainly do not pretend to when they aren't sure.

EDIT:
Also as Chill wrote, a LOT of commentators like to throw around technical terms without knowing how to use them. (Push, rush, cheese does come to mind, or when I think about it, just about ANY technical term in SC.)
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FlopTurnReaver
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Switzerland1980 Posts
May 24 2010 17:42 GMT
#112
It bothers me when people call everything cute. Like when a player does some cool thing to just rip the opponents natural or uses some psionic ability to smash a whole army.

That's not cute!! It's baller!!
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Nytefish
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United Kingdom4282 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-24 17:54:51
May 24 2010 17:52 GMT
#113
I'm hearing too much "timing attack" nowadays. Although it's true when a player is being aggressive they sometimes happen to hit a good timing window where their opponent isn't ready. But "timing attack" suggests they planned it ahead when in reality they're just getting lucky.

Or they're responding to what they just saw, which is even less of a "timing" but more of a counter-attack.
No I'm never serious.
TheAntZ
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Israel6248 Posts
May 24 2010 18:37 GMT
#114
Flopturn and Nyte goddamn do i agree with you guys
+100
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Babel
Profile Joined April 2010
30 Posts
May 24 2010 22:19 GMT
#115
On March 14 2009 12:54 Grobyc wrote:
Also

Supply Depot
It's not fucking pronounced [Dee-pot] -_-


that's how it was pronounced in sc1 by the terran advisor when you needed more depots.
[UoN]Sentinel
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States11320 Posts
May 24 2010 22:37 GMT
#116
Let's see:

Jay Dong vs. Jaedong

I think someone already mentioned this, but Jay Dong is a pornstar. Jaedong is a progamer. Jaedong is not pronounced Jay Dong.

Stating the fucking obvious

Also, quit stating the fucking obvious. I hate it when someone gets a stargate and it starts flickering and the commentator says, "I think he's gonna build air units now."

Actually, I did make fun of that once by seeing my friend go 8 pylon and predicting "That Protoss will get 2 control groups of Zealots and Dragoons and hit him up here in the midgame, after which the Zerg will simulaneously go lurkerling, and the game should be won by the Zerg via ultralisks under dark swarm."
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jon arbuckle
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
Canada443 Posts
May 24 2010 23:02 GMT
#117
On April 27 2010 03:14 Chill wrote:
Do (verb); Is (verb)ing
I'm not sure why people do this, but it's so annoying.

Instead of saying the perfect sentence "We see that he is making many units", commentators recently are saying "We do see that he is making many units." I suppose this would make sense if the preceding thought was "Is he making a lot of units?" but it never is, that "do" just comes out of nowhere as if to confirm some imaginary suspicion.

Similarly, instead of "We see Nony is making quite a few phoenixes" we have "We are seeing that Nony is making quite a few phoenixes." This may be grammatically correct, but changing everything into the is/are ___ing form makes it sound really awkward.


"Do" and all conjugates is a complicated auxiliary because it doesn't necessarily specify a mode (i.e. "We saw Nony play SC2" implies that something took place in the past, whereas "We have seen Nony play SC2" implies the past-progressive tense, meaning as of this time of utterance "we have seen" Nony play, giving the statement greater connectivity to the present). Instead, "do" and all conjugates, in the construction you outline - "NP1 do V1 that NP2 V2" (where V2 is in in the present progressive) - acts as affirmative statement, encompassing imperative statements and emphasizing in varyinf degrees the subject of the sentence.

So, for example, in "Mondragon is 6 pooling, and we do see Nony warping in an early gateway," "do" affirms that Nony suspects something aggressive and is responding to it. But I agree it sounds really wordy; I don't think anyone who says that is seeing their words on paper.

For the latter, both statements are technically correct, but it's a matter of how much you want to emphasize the observer. Naturally, the former is a lot less wordy and awkward, making it the optimal statement for an observer to make (IMO IMO).
Mondays
iCCup.Nove
Profile Joined March 2010
United States260 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-24 23:43:30
May 24 2010 23:43 GMT
#118
The question isn't ____

The question is whether!

I actually only caught onto this because I used to watch diggity's youtube channel religiously and he caught himself saying it a lot but i've noticed many many commentators also use the phrase quite often. It doesn't bother me because I'd be SO much worse I think it's entertaining more than anything.

It's funny how I HATED commentary done by husky in sc1 but the HDH invitational totally reversed my opinion of him. I think they have a great synergy and rotate in and out smoothly.

I digress.
Raydog
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States632 Posts
May 25 2010 00:07 GMT
#119
Here is my list that I've heard more and more... and despise

"The Field" - A common term instead of using the map... this isn't football it's starcraft
"Throwing Down" - Instead of saying constructing or building, why say throwing down?
Mistaking probes, scvs, drones, CCs, Nexus, and Hatcheries all too often


In my opinion a good commentator is someone who keeps a solid flow while they talk (sorry attero), have a soft voice on the ears, and don't use this "commentary slang".
Shew
maga33
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States247 Posts
May 25 2010 00:13 GMT
#120
I really hate how people say throw down
reminds me of my brother watching yugioh
IMA THROW DOWN A FACE DOWN!!
Stop please.
The victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
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