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SirJolt
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
the Dagon Knight4002 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-24 22:50:02
April 24 2011 22:45 GMT
#1
So I’ve been playing Brood War, on and off, since the game came out. At the time, I was only about twelve, so there are some things about Starcraft’s unit portraits that I’ve always just taken for granted that I thought I should probably ask about. As ever, I defer to TL’s collective wisdom on things like this.

SCVs:

Okay, the humble SCV is probably the one that struck me most because, as a child, I was never good enough to progress far beyond building SCVs and marines. This meant that these early-game unit portraits were core to my BW experience. Still, I’m sure there are better players out there than me who can’t help but have noticed that there’s something seriously wrong with the dude who pilots SCVs.

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There's an undeniable resonance there.


I mean… look at him. Tell me there isn’t something amiss there? Someone once told me that the confederacy was full of people who were basically mutants, and let’s face it; Edmund Duke alone provides some interesting evidence there… I mean, what’s up with that guy. Is he meant to be a hunchback? I always thought that was part of the character and why he was such a total jerk.

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If I don't presume him to be some kind of malformed unfortunate, raging against the world, I have to reconsider the guy and think, "Hey, he's kind of a douche."

The Adjutant:

Right, so I know now from looking it up that the lady you see when you click on a Terran building is an artificial intelligence called an Adjutant, but as far as I remember there wasn’t too much to prepare me for that when I was younger, so when I saw this robot chick every time I clicked on a building, I just kind of presumed she was some Terran lady who lived in my command centre.

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I used to look at that portrait and think to myself, “Gee, she must be really important, whoever she is. They’ve given her head a little robot body to live on after the rest of her has died.”

Of course, that led to me trying to picture what kind of robot body you could possibly build around that picture…

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Please, don’t judge me for the art here… I just kind of assumed she ran around on like, the desks or something in the command centre. I guess now that I put it into words it does seem kind of ridiculous.

Goliaths:

Alright, this one is less of a question than just me wondering what happened. I’m not sure how many of you have played BW recently, or even how many of you still hear it when a unit talks at you, but the Goliath voice was one that carried certain badass connotations. I mean, he had Worf’s voice, if you listened hard you could almost hear it say, “Goliath online, bitches.”

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Check that dude out, he doesn’t care who you are or what you’re doing, he’s got Charon and he knows how to use it. He’s wearing a gasmask indoors probably just because he’s not comfortable unless there’s something strangling him at all times.

Then, somehow, it’s like he got the call to tell him he wouldn’t be in SC2 and decided to drown himself in batter.

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That is a Ricky Lake degree of worrying weight gain. He's such a mess.

Edit: If anyone else has any totally messed up impressions of units in SC, do share, or I'll feel like I'm on my own here...


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RedLuck
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada253 Posts
April 24 2011 22:54 GMT
#2
lol nice writeup. so true too, wtf is up with that scv
If you say "plz" because it's shorter than "please," I'll say "no" because it's shorter than "yes."
Knap4life
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Slovenia333 Posts
April 24 2011 23:18 GMT
#3
The voulcher portrait reminds me of a French dude for some reason
GigaFlop
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States1146 Posts
April 24 2011 23:20 GMT
#4
On April 25 2011 08:18 Knap4life wrote:
The voulcher portrait reminds me of a French dude for some reason


The BW vulture always looked like a head on a spring to me, it was weird.
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ "Shift-Q oftentimes makes a capital Q" - Day[9] || iNcontrol - Alligator from heaven = ^
Xeofreestyler
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
Belgium6771 Posts
April 24 2011 23:29 GMT
#5
I only noticed this until someone on TL pointed this out

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if you turn down your screen's brightness (or just ignore the shadowy parts) the bc portrait looks REALLY retarded
(imagine the cheekbone bright spot is the eye, nose remains nose)
Graphics
SirJolt
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
the Dagon Knight4002 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-25 00:45:55
April 25 2011 00:15 GMT
#6
On April 25 2011 08:20 GigaFlop wrote:
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On April 25 2011 08:18 Knap4life wrote:
The voulcher portrait reminds me of a French dude for some reason


The BW vulture always looked like a head on a spring to me, it was weird.


This is exactly what I'm talking about! I knew something was up with that dude, but back in the nineties he was the "cool" one. No matter what way you look at it, the guy doesn't have a neck at all...

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I also can't unsee the battlecruiser one now.

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MOOG
Profile Joined October 2010
United States188 Posts
April 25 2011 01:38 GMT
#7
The guy in the scv would also pick his nose if you watched him long enough. Yuck.
To Do: 1. finish the rest of my practice league matches 2. win GSL
mizU
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States12125 Posts
April 25 2011 02:25 GMT
#8
MIND BLOWN.

Jinro = SCV
if happy ever afters did exist <3 @watamizu_
SirJolt
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
the Dagon Knight4002 Posts
April 25 2011 13:49 GMT
#9
On April 25 2011 11:25 mizU wrote:
MIND BLOWN.

Jinro = SCV


Welp, now I kind of wish I hadn't made the easter island head comparison... the SCV definitely looks more like Jinro, or does Jinro look like an SCV?
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fearus
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
China2164 Posts
April 25 2011 14:09 GMT
#10
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bisu fanboy
TheAwesomeAll
Profile Joined January 2011
Netherlands1609 Posts
April 25 2011 14:42 GMT
#11
On April 25 2011 23:09 fearus wrote:
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the borg have infiltrated, RUN!!!
dr Helvetica <3
SirJolt
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
the Dagon Knight4002 Posts
April 25 2011 20:13 GMT
#12
I have a friend who used always to tell me that Robocop gave him nightmares, because he remembered the scene where he was all damaged and not wearing his headphones and couldn't understand why anyone would want to hurt a robot policeman.

I wonder why the Adjutant looks so human; it seems so much more porcelain in SC2
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EsX_Raptor
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2801 Posts
April 25 2011 20:48 GMT
#13
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SirJolt
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
the Dagon Knight4002 Posts
April 25 2011 21:13 GMT
#14
Please don't laugh at me for this one...

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GigaFlop
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States1146 Posts
April 25 2011 22:53 GMT
#15
On April 26 2011 06:13 SirJolt wrote:
Please don't laugh at me for this one...

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So many of these are obvious when shown to you.. This is one of them, nice find :D

Also, i think the overlords in BW moved faster when moving on a diagonal?
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ "Shift-Q oftentimes makes a capital Q" - Day[9] || iNcontrol - Alligator from heaven = ^
SirJolt
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
the Dagon Knight4002 Posts
April 25 2011 23:58 GMT
#16
I'm about done here, but I've got to throw this one down before I forget to:

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On April 26 2011 07:53 GigaFlop wrote:

So many of these are obvious when shown to you.. This is one of them, nice find :D

Also, i think the overlords in BW moved faster when moving on a diagonal?


I also seem to remember that there's like, a single broken pixel on the animation of a Guardian as it flies in one particular direction. There's one white block that blinks in and out. My friend used to call that the Guardian Landing Light; it helped other guardians not run into it.
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.Aar
Profile Joined September 2010
2177 Posts
April 26 2011 01:01 GMT
#17
The SC2 Goliath is based on a Blizzard employee, and the Goliath hero is based on Dustin Browder himself, so.. the fat joke you made is directly towards those two employees, hahaha..
now run into the setting sun, and suffer, but don't mess up your hair.
SirJolt
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
the Dagon Knight4002 Posts
April 26 2011 14:27 GMT
#18
On April 26 2011 10:01 .Aar wrote:
The SC2 Goliath is based on a Blizzard employee, and the Goliath hero is based on Dustin Browder himself, so.. the fat joke you made is directly towards those two employees, hahaha..


Welp, there's not much I can say in my defense there. Strange how much more acceptable it is to say a fictional character is overweight...
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Kralic
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada2628 Posts
April 26 2011 15:07 GMT
#19
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=133215

A lot of other ones in this thread as well.
Brood War forever!
SirJolt
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
the Dagon Knight4002 Posts
April 26 2011 17:23 GMT
#20
Holy jesus, I feel like I've found so many kindred spirits :D That thread is amazing, and reminds me of one I've always wondered about (though nobody in that thread points it out).

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For the longest time, I always thought Aldaris had a rabbit-snout thing going on, with buck teeth.
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