On March 10 2017 00:46 Jae Zedong wrote:
Even if they don't explain them, there's just nothing to them.

I was a huge fan of the original british version of The Office. Surprisingly layered with ingenious dialogue. When a friend heard I was a fan, he said "omg you gotta check out this clip of the funniest moment ever in the American version, it's so funny!!!".

So I watch the clip, and it's literally just a fat guy spilling chili on the carpet. That was supposed to be one of the funniest moments in the entire show.

Yeah, not really a fan of The Office, either version. But there's plenty of good comedies on US television... Modern Family, Archer, Rick and Morty, Veep, Silicon Valley, Orange is the New Black, American Dad, Another Period, Better Call Saul (dark comedy), etc. etc.

But again, most of them aren't on regular network television.

[[Starlight]]

United States1578 Posts

March 10 2017 10:31 GMT

#3504

On March 10 2017 11:15 tofucake wrote:
turned on flash for a minute to check out BD and FFTW. Talking about Beastmaster and USD/Euro parity.

At least Wolf+Rapid are talking about the games :\

The vast majority of the time, BD and FFTW are talking about the games, too. And at a consistently deeper level than Rapid + Wolf are, from what I've seen... not that R+W can't improve.

BD & FFTW do tend to be a bit punchy during the first couple of minutes of a game, though. I've mentioned that to them before. It's fine, within limits. Casters are allowed to have a little bit of fun.

Jae Zedong

407 Posts

March 10 2017 11:06 GMT

#3505

It's hard to be legitimately funny though. If you're just making a joke for the sake of making a joke, consider not doing that.

Day9 touched upon this in one of his dailies. He said that the two kinds of people he most enjoys spending time with are either people who are actually funny, or people who don't even try to be. It's the people in the middle thinking they're funny but aren't who are just cringy and annoying.

[[Starlight]]

United States1578 Posts

March 10 2017 11:23 GMT

#3506

On March 10 2017 20:06 Jae Zedong wrote:
It's hard to be legitimately funny though. If you're just making a joke for the sake of making a joke, consider not doing that.

Day9 touched upon this in one of his dailies. He said that the two kinds of people he most enjoys spending time with are either people who are actually funny, or people who don't even try to be. It's the people in the middle thinking they're funny but aren't who are just cringy and annoying.

Day9 isn't funny and isn't trying to be... yet I could see how he could still be annoying.

Jae Zedong

407 Posts

March 10 2017 11:31 GMT

#3507

His cast of CombatEX vs Chill was pretty funny

SchAmToo

United States1141 Posts

March 10 2017 19:29 GMT

#3508

On March 10 2017 20:06 Jae Zedong wrote:
Day9 touched upon this in one of his dailies. He said that the two kinds of people he most enjoys spending time with are either people who are actually funny, or people who don't even try to be. It's the people in the middle thinking they're funny but aren't who are just cringy and annoying.

That feels really vague, and easily agreed with but doesn't mean anything. Funny is generally relative, jokes with one crowd don't work somewhere else. Joking while commentating is very difficult to do too. If the co-commentator doesn't move into the joke and lets it sit, then it feels very awkward. A commentator who jokes and the co-commentator joins in, now feels like a cohesive experience. A lot of joking while commentating is knowing what will make your co-commentator laugh, because it feels like a genuine moment and the crowd shares it.

There are people who try too hard to be funny while commentating because they misunderstand what "color" commentating is, but I only see that at the very beginning levels of commentating.

RoomOfMush

1296 Posts

March 10 2017 20:00 GMT

#3509

I have no problem with them being funny or not always focusing on the games, etc. The only thing I really have a problem with is when they get something about the game horrendously wrong. And I am astonished to hear how often that still happens now in 2017. This game is soon going to be 20 years old and professional commentators (I assume they are paid) still spread falsehoods about how the game works.

I can understand if they dont know (and tell us!) and I can understand if they are not sure. BW is complicated. But when they try to feed the audience "alternative BW facts" and they do it in a way that suggests its absolutely true and proven, that really makes me mad.

Everything else is acceptable but please get your facts right or at least admit that you dont know for sure.

Edit: Here is a suggestion:
When Sayle was casting he was always looking at his chat where the viewers were giving him live feedback, pointing out important moments in the game he missed or things he got wrong. Some experienced players also gave live analysis of the games and tried to predict future plays.
I know this is impossible for large scale tournaments with many thousands of viewers and the chat probably being spammed all the time but perhaps you can get like a private chatroom for a select few experienced "quality assurance" viewers. I can imagine that might help the casters quite a bit when they are not sure about something.

Lorch

Germany3694 Posts

April 02 2017 16:09 GMT

#3510

I hope this is the correct thread to ask this:

I only learned about BW quiet late (2010 through sc2 being at mlg) so I only know it as the game you play on private servers. Since playing on the official servers will at least be a viable option with 1.18 I was wondering what sort of ranking those used to have. Is it like iccup/fish? Is it completely unranked lik the ptr?

mOnion

United States5657 Posts

April 02 2017 16:25 GMT

#3511

On April 03 2017 01:09 Lorch wrote:
I hope this is the correct thread to ask this:

I only learned about BW quiet late (2010 through sc2 being at mlg) so I only know it as the game you play on private servers. Since playing on the official servers will at least be a viable option with 1.18 I was wondering what sort of ranking those used to have. Is it like iccup/fish? Is it completely unranked lik the ptr?

its hard to say since we dont know much about the matchmaking yet. we know that Fish server is getting integrated, so if the official b.net matchmaking is terrible or there's still lag or w/e then people will probably default to Fish. Iccup admins are showing no interest in 1.18 ( I believe), so iccup probably wont be a thing as far as remastered is concerned

that said, if the official matchmaking plans on being any good, they'll have to have some sort of a ranking/elo system otherwise the games will be terrible and mismatched.

I personally think the official matchmaking will probably be prioritized and most used unless its just really terrible

Headshot

United States1656 Posts

April 04 2017 01:10 GMT

#3512

I wasn't sure where to ask this question, but I'll ask it here. I'm trying to download Brood War from iCCup's website and it downloads it as a 7z file, but I'm unsure how to actually install it from there since my computer doesn't recognize the extension.

lestye

United States4209 Posts

April 04 2017 01:19 GMT

#3513

Download 7zip, you'll be able to right click and extract

Peeano

Netherlands5628 Posts

April 04 2017 01:20 GMT

#3514

On April 04 2017 10:10 Headshot wrote:
I wasn't sure where to ask this question, but I'll ask it here. I'm trying to download Brood War from iCCup's website and it downloads it as a 7z file, but I'm unsure how to actually install it from there since my computer doesn't recognize the extension.

http://www.7-zip.org/

Drake

Germany6146 Posts

April 04 2017 08:25 GMT

#3515

On March 10 2017 20:23 [[Starlight]] wrote:

Show nested quote +

Day9 isn't funny and isn't trying to be... yet I could see how he could still be annoying.

sure day9 is funny ... not the annoying kind of funny but an adult way of funny
and 24/7 he wouldnt annoy me xD

B-royal

Belgium1330 Posts

April 04 2017 20:21 GMT

#3516

Effort's playing a game right now, using only his mouse haha.

http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/momo130

FFGenerations

7088 Posts

April 05 2017 11:39 GMT

#3517

i dont understand how to install broodwar remastered

there's no link on google

there's no link on starcraft.com

there's no link on battlenet

how the fuck do i play the game?

Puosu

7023 Posts

April 05 2017 11:46 GMT

#3518

On April 05 2017 20:39 FFGenerations wrote:
i dont understand how to install broodwar remastered

there's no link on google

there's no link on starcraft.com

there's no link on battlenet

how the fuck do i play the game?

Not released

FFGenerations

7088 Posts

April 05 2017 11:48 GMT

#3519

ok thanks -_-

Mizconout

52 Posts

April 05 2017 12:50 GMT

#3520

I just hopped onto the PTR and omg being a nub apparently means obs and your opponent all flame you. Played three games until I couldn't deal with the harassment.