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DeepElemBlues
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States5079 Posts
July 09 2013 20:11 GMT
#21
Thread title is awesome, article is awesome.

Really captures how in both gameplay and in the philosophy of the Zerg (or whatever mumbo-jumbo Kerrigan is always telling us in cutscenes or the Overmind told us 100000x more awesomely in vanilla SC) are like... the cansker.

I always thought of them as like a radiation leak spewing over everything but that causes cancer too. So, still cancer.
no place i'd rather be than the satellite of love
Kenny_oro
Profile Joined September 2011
Germany368 Posts
July 09 2013 20:12 GMT
#22
This title is actually soooo good! :D Got me here to read what's up - The other suggested one ... nope whouldnt click that.
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tili
Profile Joined July 2012
United States1332 Posts
July 09 2013 20:13 GMT
#23
That is, assuming cancer's macro doesn't slip....
Rinny
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States616 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-09 20:17:42
July 09 2013 20:14 GMT
#24
The author tries to make the case that players using zerg to play matches are learning about cancer, but goes on to support that not by discussing high level multiplayer starcraft, but by taking about single player lore. It seems like the author came up with the idea "Video games are good for you, starcraft fights cancer because you kill zerg, which are like cancer!" then couldn't really come up with anything to support it.

Similarly, a solitary Zerg drone can become a whole hive if left unchecked. The best StarCraft players fight the Zerg like surgeons: If you see a tumor, you have to get it all to survive.


Stupid stuff like this, all the races are capable of rebuilding from a single worker, and i dont know whats surgical about 200 supply of protoss a-moving into a zerg. Very flawed thesis from the author.
Where my swarm at? Ye Yeee
namste
Profile Joined October 2010
Finland2292 Posts
July 09 2013 20:15 GMT
#25
Haha, thought to myself "Oh great one of these shitty threads". Pretty cool stuff that article
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Thieving Magpie
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
United States6752 Posts
July 09 2013 20:15 GMT
#26
On July 10 2013 04:55 BrevitySC2 wrote:
Scientific American posted an article on the similarities between the zerg race and cancer. I thought it was cool to see Starcraft used as an analogy to educate people on cancer. The full article is linked below.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/overthinking-it/2013/07/08/what-starcraft-can-teach-gamers-about-fighting-cancer/


L2Play stupid noo-

Oh, nevermind, was going on autopilot there.

Fun read.
Hark, what baseball through yonder window breaks?
LighT.
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada4501 Posts
July 09 2013 20:17 GMT
#27
So zerg is cancer..
Protoss must be Scorpio (kudos if you get the reference)
Wonder what terran is..
FinestHour
Profile Joined August 2010
United States18466 Posts
July 09 2013 20:17 GMT
#28
rofl i thought that was hilarious
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MrBrunk
Profile Joined September 2011
Canada428 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-09 20:27:08
July 09 2013 20:19 GMT
#29
You sir, know how to get peoples attention :p

Interesting read.
Marcinko
Profile Joined May 2013
South Africa1014 Posts
July 09 2013 20:19 GMT
#30
I was getting my internet boxing gloves on and bam, not what I thought it would be.

Nice read, thanks for the link.
....
FallDownMarigold
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States3710 Posts
July 09 2013 20:19 GMT
#31
On July 10 2013 05:09 Plansix wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 10 2013 05:07 Mauzel wrote:
Like cancer, Zerg is the most vulnerable early in the game

Are you saying that proxy 2 rax is good for your health? Or cannon rushing?


You could go with the 2rax, but that is such an aggressive procedure it may actually result in higher morbidity and mortality. The 2rax treatment is a gamble. Sometimes it works by nipping the cancer in the butt, but other times it simply causes too much damage to the other tissue, which taxes the body and results in death
Night Eyes
Profile Joined January 2011
433 Posts
July 09 2013 20:21 GMT
#32
This will stay on TL forever and be the place to whine on Zerg for all ages to come and get away with it on the base of saying it was a health discussion.
excellent!
Atlasy
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Hungary229 Posts
July 09 2013 20:22 GMT
#33
On July 10 2013 05:02 Shellshock1122 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 10 2013 05:01 Fusilero wrote:
On July 10 2013 05:00 _SpiRaL_ wrote:
Terran is the cure for cancer?

What it's saying is that hellbats kill zerg, therefore to cure cancer we must set it on fire.

Do the protoss from the original campaign represent chemotherapy when they destroy planets?


Well they do kill the overmind by crushing a carrier into it. It's a pity that there is no chance for actual use since the carrier is horrible in sc2 ((
Clazziquai10
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Singapore1949 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-09 20:25:16
July 09 2013 20:23 GMT
#34
That's why cancer needs some AOE damage like radiotherapy, but your cells get splash-damaged as well
Marcinko
Profile Joined May 2013
South Africa1014 Posts
July 09 2013 20:24 GMT
#35
On July 10 2013 05:17 LighT. wrote:
So zerg is cancer..
Protoss must be Scorpio (kudos if you get the reference)
Wonder what terran is..


Probably virgo?
....
i zig zag around you
Profile Joined July 2013
70 Posts
July 09 2013 20:25 GMT
#36
the title is fine, ppl just need to stop complain about everything for the sake of complaining about something. great find!
Yorbon
Profile Joined December 2011
Netherlands4272 Posts
July 09 2013 20:26 GMT
#37
Awaken my child, and embrace the glory that is your birthright. Know that I am the overmind, the eternal will of the swarm, and that you have been created to serve me.

Hm, cancer would indeed be scary.
Kleinmuuhg
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Vanuatu4091 Posts
July 09 2013 20:26 GMT
#38
Perfect title, please dont change it.
This is our town, scrub
mechengineer123
Profile Joined March 2013
Ukraine711 Posts
July 09 2013 20:27 GMT
#39
title 10/10
Extenz
Profile Joined October 2011
Italy822 Posts
July 09 2013 20:32 GMT
#40
I like the part where he said you have to keep pressure to win because if you let a zerg macro you lose (yea didn't like the nuclear example but you get the point...)
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