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Wintex
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Norway16849 Posts
July 09 2013 20:33 GMT
#41
On July 10 2013 05:02 Shellshock1122 wrote:
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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?

god damn it frickin well played!

laughed for a while while feeling bad
The Bomber boy
packrat386
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States5077 Posts
July 09 2013 20:37 GMT
#42
came for the balance whine, stayed for scientific american.
dreaming of a sunny day
HardlyNever
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States1258 Posts
July 09 2013 20:39 GMT
#43
I sorta had this revelation watching creep spread back in early WoL.
Out there, the Kid learned to fend for himself. Learned to build. Learned to break.
Larkin
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
United Kingdom7161 Posts
July 09 2013 20:43 GMT
#44
Man, people in this community are so cynical. Don't judge a book by its cover, etc.
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Teoita
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Italy12247 Posts
July 09 2013 20:44 GMT
#45
Thread renamed.
ModeratorProtoss all-ins are like a wok. You can throw whatever you want in there and it will turn out alright.
Kleinmuuhg
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Vanuatu4091 Posts
July 09 2013 20:45 GMT
#46
This is our town, scrub
iNsaNe-
Profile Joined January 2005
Finland5201 Posts
July 09 2013 20:46 GMT
#47
It takes a fool to remain sane.
Yorbon
Profile Joined December 2011
Netherlands4272 Posts
July 09 2013 20:47 GMT
#48
nooooh
ArcticRaven
Profile Joined August 2011
France1406 Posts
July 09 2013 20:48 GMT
#49
That golden moment when the thread changes names right when you click it :D
[Govie] Wierd shit, on a 6 game AP winning streak with KOTL in the trench. I searched gandalf quotes and spammed them all game long, trenchwarfare247, whateva it takes!
trifecta
Profile Joined April 2010
United States6795 Posts
July 09 2013 21:00 GMT
#50
so buff hellbats?
Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
July 09 2013 21:19 GMT
#51
On July 10 2013 05:44 Teoita wrote:
Thread renamed.

Lame. That's not nearly doesn't mock the community nearly enough.
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a9arnn
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States1537 Posts
July 09 2013 21:26 GMT
#52
That was a pretty good read :D!
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Dreamer.T
Profile Joined December 2009
United States3584 Posts
July 09 2013 21:28 GMT
#53
I wonder if it says that bad manner causes cancer to grow.
Forever the best, IMMvp <3
Archas
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6531 Posts
July 09 2013 21:32 GMT
#54
My children, the hour of our victory is at hand. For upon this world of Aiur Earth shall we incorporate the strongest known species into our fold. Then shall we be the greatest of creation's children. We shall be... perfect.

So. Humanity, the culmination of the universe's quest for purity of form, is infested by the collective entity representing purity of essence.

Shit.
The room is ripe with the stench of bitches!
NEEDZMOAR
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Sweden1277 Posts
July 09 2013 21:36 GMT
#55
I was
expecting some serious banworthy balance whine from op, but this is so much better!
CecilSunkure
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States2829 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-09 21:52:02
July 09 2013 21:51 GMT
#56
Clearly the author is unfamiliar with SC2 as they used the term "Zerg rush". Sigh. Fairly interesting otherwise. Just a pretty big buzzkill.
Pokebunny
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States10654 Posts
July 09 2013 21:55 GMT
#57
On July 10 2013 05:14 Rinny wrote:
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.

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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.

Except lore and single player is far more relevant to the vast majority of the population.
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canikizu
Profile Joined September 2010
4860 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-09 21:59:53
July 09 2013 21:55 GMT
#58
I doubt I'll ever say gg when I got swarmed with cancer.
Damn.

Can we say stimpack + medivac is the only way to win against zerg
AnachronisticAnarchy
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States2957 Posts
July 09 2013 22:07 GMT
#59
Surprisingly great article.
"How are you?" "I am fine, because it is not normal to scream in pain."
[]Phase[]
Profile Joined September 2010
Belgium927 Posts
July 09 2013 22:13 GMT
#60
at first I thought playing zerg would give me cancer T.T
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