Teamliquid - Behind the Scenes - Page 6

On February 25 2009 16:10 ShoCkeyy wrote:
Guy> Hi im XXX, im the senior associate and executive editor in chief from XXX.com. You may have heard of us


So the chief of XXX.com msged you guys?!

On February 25 2009 16:13 Manifesto7 wrote:
Well, that is what happens with all volunteers. While it is often needed, it is hard to give orders. Suggestions are sometimes fulfilled and sometimes aren't, but if everyone is doing it for free and joy, how can you say anything? In addition, because there is no real "ranking", just different areas of responsibilities, everyone's voice is equal.

Except for hot_bid. He just yells at people all day on msn.

One would wonder though, if people were being paid, would it be much more efficient? Would the quality of work refelect the volunteer mentality or the paycheck? These are things I wrestle with when thinking about dollars and cents.

On February 25 2009 16:13 Manifesto7 wrote:
Well, that is what happens with all volunteers. While it is often needed, it is hard to give orders. Suggestions are sometimes fulfilled and sometimes aren't, but if everyone is doing it for free and joy, how can you say anything?

One would wonder though, if people were being paid, would it be much more efficient? Would the quality of work refelect the volunteer mentality or the paycheck? These are things I wrestle with when thinking about dollars and cents.

On February 25 2009 16:04 SonuvBob wrote:
I am the anti-Kennigit.

On February 25 2009 16:29 Manifesto7 wrote:
(Or doing something while you are at your job when you should be working... *shifty eyes*)

On February 25 2009 16:30 thedeadhaji wrote:


this is true.

I msg kennigit to bitch and gripe about stuff, while I send bob amusing Japanese links

On February 25 2009 16:37 Last Romantic wrote:
I'm a gay skeletal dwarf.

On February 17 2009 15:08 Hot_Bid wrote:
The To-Do List found it's way to the unlikeliest of creatures...a writer, named Mensrea Baggins.

I think in this analogy Plexa would be Frodo, as he adds the most to the To-Do List hence hiding it from your power. His best friend is Daigomi, loyal and headstrong, who i salso from some weird country. Other than Plexodo and Samgomi are joined by GTR and pachi, both of whom are underrated in their impact on Middle-Earth (getting the Ents to fight = updating calendar and TLPD, because the work was slow, tedious, but ultimately critical in the war). I think this goes without saying but GTR is Pippin and pachi is Merry, lol.

R1CH is Gandalf, who we thought was dead (DotA) but will return when we need him the most. He was all like YOU SHALL NOT PASS to that shitty Bnet lag for 1.16. intrigue is Legolas, obsessed with being girly, cute, and having ridiculous ban / obs micro when its needed. Gimli (sp?) is Chill, who is ill-tempered and of course, literally a dwarf.

Manifesto7 is Aragorn, who is older than he looks, has a beard, and is married to a woman of a different race. Manigorn went into exile for a while and finally returned to lead his people to freedom. He has wisdom and his speeches inspire a lot of people so everyone kind of listens, even though his voice is way too nasally during that RotK speech, so he tries to speak as low as possible from now on like Christian Bale in Batman, what a faker. Pop is that elf guy who makes the sword (TLPD) with which Aragorn will call on the dead (progamers).

Saro would be Agent Smith Elf, who knew all in the beginning but retired to the immortal place after seeing the war coming. Emlary is that older elf chick who has a ring too (old school VOD updater) and that other elf dude with a ring is TopTalent or ilovecats (not the Agent Smith Elf, the other one). They gave Plexa, Samgomi, and the other hobbits writers the tools they need.

FrozenArbiter is that big burly guy whos the Rohan King's son, he rapes all the trolls in the SC2 forum and is from Sweden. Last Romantic is that dead skeletal dwarf they found writing that book "they are coming... they are coming..." about the dwarfs last stand. The dwarfs = YellOw, Reach, and the rest of the old guard, and LR is just sitting with them, clutching to his heart forever the hope that they will return. Instead they are raped by all those orcs and that huge flaming dude who of course is Incontrol.

Baezzi is Boromir, who started down the right path but the To-Do List's power corrupted him and he turned bad. He tried to take the List from Plexa and ended up dying. Corinthos is his brother Faramir (sp?), who told to hold the river outpost keep the streams going when Baezzoromir died, which he did valiantly and almost sacrificed himself to do it. We appreciate your effort Corinthos, you will eventually get to marry that cute Rohan chick who knows how to ride. Sure, she digs Mani more (who wouldn't), but hey, not bad right?

SonuvBob as already stated is Sauron, that big beastly neck snapping orc who rapes Boromir in Fellowship is Kennigit, that troll who rides that wofl thing who takes Aragorn over the cliff is Hot_Bid, and the Nazgul are led by Nazgul (lol). I guess any other Liquid` guys make up the rest of the Ringwraiths, who used to ride horses (see the banner above), an analogy for StarCraft, but now have much cooler rides (those flying thingys) which they bought with poker money. Rekrul isn't a Nazgul but is rather Shelob, bent on entrapping poor progamers in his web when they walk the path of night path of that tower thing (cirith-something?). He gives us gossip from Korea, he knows all this stuff nobody else does (hence Shelob, the spider, Varys, asoiaf reference for those in the know, George R.R. Martin Game of Thrones read it suckas). Lol Daigomi fucks you up Rek, owned.

That guy who whispered all the shit into Rohan's ear is of course Puertorican, who when discovered is kicked out of Men in Rohan. Puertorican digs that Rohan warrior girl really badly but she finds him disgusting and creepy, this is probably a pretty good microcosm of his entire life.

Lastly, Smeagol is Stimey, Gollum is mitsy, I don't think I have to explain this one.

On February 25 2009 16:13 Manifesto7 wrote:
One would wonder though, if people were being paid, would it be much more efficient? Would the quality of work refelect the volunteer mentality or the paycheck? These are things I wrestle with when thinking about dollars and cents.

On February 25 2009 17:07 anotak wrote:
Did you guys forget about TSL2? I want more foreigners events of that magnitude, that was amazing

and what happened to "ESPN WAS LOOKING INTO TSL"? Not just hype, right?

I guess I'm kind of a volunteer in a small way, I've reported 2 security holes to Bob that could've let someone "malicious" like worldcommunist to do bad things. Bob got them fixed EXTREMELY FAST (like within hours). I have got to commend him for that, all the sites i've reported holes in, Teamliquid by far has the fastest and most correct response, he knows his stuff. Good security work through and through. Other sites i've had to sit there and explain the problem and then see their "fix" that's not really a fix and just an idiotic non-fix etc.

The first kind are the ones who truly love the volunteer work they're doing. As a volunteer, they'll probably be less productive because maybe a new game came out that they're really excited about and so it consumes their mind for a while. Or maybe they're temporarily out of good ideas so they stop working for a while. As a paid worker in these situations, either they'll just take a break like they normally would, or they'll feel obligated to be productive and end up producing lower-quality work.

On February 25 2009 17:09 ZoW wrote:
I think Last Romantic is referring to this:
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~from the website feedback forum