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neshima
Profile Joined December 2007
37 Posts
February 13 2009 21:56 GMT
#121
rofl.. i was reading this thread and laughing my ass off at work, when the poll came up, and i KNEW it was like facebook#2, but my name wasn't showing up.

then i realized i wasn't logged in.

self-deceptionfail
oov.bisu.haran.leta
Cheerio
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Ukraine3178 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-13 22:23:37
February 13 2009 22:23 GMT
#122
This thread made me log out for the first time.

GJ Hotbird
Hot_Bid
Profile Blog Joined October 2003
Braavos36402 Posts
February 13 2009 22:30 GMT
#123
all credit goes to sonuvbob
@Hot_Bid on Twitter - ESPORTS life since 2010 - http://i.imgur.com/U2psw.png
Carefree
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States1571 Posts
February 13 2009 23:12 GMT
#124
Best. Troll. Ever.
DebOnAire - 「 Bisu[Shield] 」
Thavg
Profile Joined July 2008
United States35 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-13 23:36:47
February 13 2009 23:34 GMT
#125
On February 13 2009 21:56 Hot_Bid wrote:
[image loading]

Poll: Ban?
(Vote): Yes
(Vote): No


Edit: I am a fool. Nothing to see here.
LonelyMargarita
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
1845 Posts
February 13 2009 23:38 GMT
#126
Wouldn't this be because of the global recession? More people out of work means more people with time to play starcraft. It's how sc got big in the first place. Maybe we could have timed it with the sc2 release for better results.
I <3 서지훈
Fontong
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States6454 Posts
February 14 2009 00:37 GMT
#127
It's kind of funny how inReach accuses HotBid of trolling while he isn't trolling, then HotBid procedes to do an epic troll.
[SECRET FONT] "Dragoon bunker"
Ozarugold
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
2716 Posts
February 14 2009 00:57 GMT
#128
Hehehe...that almost got me there~
this is my quote.
T.O.P. *
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Hong Kong4685 Posts
February 14 2009 01:14 GMT
#129
Oh no, I'm gonna have to pm Manifesto to close this thread. All you people voting to ban me makes me feel sad.
Oracle comes in, Scvs go down, never a miscommunication.
EvilTeletubby
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
Baltimore, USA22259 Posts
February 14 2009 01:17 GMT
#130
Haha, oh wow...

Ken I love you.
Moderatorhttp://carbonleaf.yuku.com/topic/408/t/So-I-proposed-at-a-Carbon-Leaf-concert.html ***** RIP Geoff
NonFactor
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Sweden698 Posts
February 14 2009 01:30 GMT
#131
Ok wtf, I register on the forums not too long ago, and I'm like browsing this random thread, and what do I see.

Anyways, the majority has spoken, cya.
Sanity.
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States704 Posts
February 14 2009 01:51 GMT
#132
On February 14 2009 10:30 NonFactor wrote:
Ok wtf, I register on the forums not too long ago, and I'm like browsing this random thread, and what do I see.

Anyways, the majority has spoken, cya.
savor your last moments at tl
xmShake
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
United States1100 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-14 02:09:39
February 14 2009 02:04 GMT
#133
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lol got me..
fanatacist
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
10319 Posts
February 14 2009 02:07 GMT
#134
I hope inReach quits because of this. As well as all the other people who were voted for in the poll LOL.
Peace~
Drium
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States888 Posts
February 14 2009 02:09 GMT
#135
On February 14 2009 10:30 NonFactor wrote:
Ok wtf, I register on the forums not too long ago, and I'm like browsing this random thread, and what do I see.

Anyways, the majority has spoken, cya.

Best post in the thread imo.
KwanROLLLLLLLED
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
February 14 2009 02:16 GMT
#136
On February 13 2009 21:31 Hot_Bid wrote:
do you know anything? 1.4% population increase is in babies, anytime a population increases its because of new children. those new children can't play on battle.net yet because they are newborns and don't have the proper motor skills.


sure they do

You never wondered why there are so many protoss?
SKT_Best: "I actually chose Protoss because it was so hard for me to defeat Protoss as a Terran. When I first started Brood War, my main race was Terran."
IntoTheWow
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
is awesome32280 Posts
February 14 2009 02:37 GMT
#137
On February 14 2009 10:30 NonFactor wrote:
Ok wtf, I register on the forums not too long ago, and I'm like browsing this random thread, and what do I see.

Anyways, the majority has spoken, cya.


looool
Moderator<:3-/-<
hazz
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United Kingdom570 Posts
February 14 2009 02:42 GMT
#138
On February 14 2009 10:30 NonFactor wrote:
Ok wtf, I register on the forums not too long ago, and I'm like browsing this random thread, and what do I see.

Anyways, the majority has spoken, cya.

ahaha
Pyro]v[aniac
Profile Joined October 2008
United States147 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-14 04:29:06
February 14 2009 03:56 GMT
#139
On February 13 2009 20:08 Hot_Bid wrote:
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On February 13 2009 19:50 inReacH wrote:
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On February 13 2009 19:19 Hot_Bid wrote:
On February 13 2009 18:25 MuR)Ernu wrote:
...
and i don't understand that inflation thingy...
More players are more players... I don't know how you can say that it is the "same" if there are more players :o

the concept is quite simple, players nowadays are not worth as much as players several years ago. there are more people on the earth so more computer gamers and thus more people playing starcraft and before there were less, that's how inflation works.

Holy fuck this is like a new level of dumb, how has noone called you out on this yet.

probably because they realize i am truly relying on lowly legal inferences, now go into dictionary, it oughtta teachya

So according to your logic, more people on earth = more people doing any given thing?

obviously more people on earth = more people doing any given thing. let me give you an example, if there are 10 people on earth breathing, and instead there are 15 people, that's 5 more people breathing. another example would be if there are 15 people, and then there are 20 people, that's another 5 more people breathing, or 10 more than 10 people breathing.

Do you actually think this subject is so cut and dry?

So why aren't there more people playing ps1 games than there were when ps1 was the current generation console?

because there's a PS2 and PS3?

Could it possibly be because as games age, people look for newer sources of entertainment and move on from games that are say.. 10 years old?

I can think of a few examples, there are more people playing Chess now than the 1800s. And there are more people in the 1800s playing chess than in the 400s. And more people playing in the 400s than in 65million BC, because there were no people back then, only dinosaurs.
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Inflation, that's your answer. I literally am right now discovering that I don't want to click post until I have fully expressed my awe that someone could be so absurd. But also I am discovering that I can't, with all the words in the dictionary(inflation being one of them), there isn't one for the way I feel about your posts.

Your posts seem to have inflation too, every one of them is worth less as you continue on this site.

And the condescending way you linked me to that wikepedia page that is about economic inflation as confident as could be...

Let's just look at this quote by itself for a moment:
"there are more people on the earth so more computer gamers and thus more people playing starcraft"

Wow.

So to break it down, more people = more people playing starcraft

And this can be explained by 'inflation', which is a generic term that I'm gathering you think means, as the worlds population grows, everything grows.

I think you need to re-read the wikipedia definition of inflation.

Not only is this not what inflation means, it's not even true.

There are more people on battle.net for a ton of reasons, most prominent of course is starcraft2's imminent release.

If blizzard had announced they were never making a sequel every year would be a record low SCbnet users.

EDIT:
This is at the top of the article you linked me:
"This article is about a general rise in the level of prices."

Yeah that has a lot to do with the number of people playing on battle.net I'm sure.

Let me spell it out for you. If you replace "prices" with "people playing on bnet" then what does it read? "This article is about a general rise in the people playing on bnet." Case closed.

its funny sometimes how people challenge an argument and get shut down so badly ^^

after reading this thread alittle further and see'ing this
On February 14 2009 10:30 NonFactor wrote:
Ok wtf, I register on the forums not too long ago, and I'm like browsing this random thread, and what do I see.

Anyways, the majority has spoken, cya.

LOL
Jonoman92
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States9110 Posts
February 14 2009 05:20 GMT
#140
Oh my god... this thread was awesome.
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