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How dare he call zerg cancer...!!
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Scientific American on Similarities Between Zerg and Cance…
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TheRealArtemis
687 Posts
How dare he call zerg cancer...!! Cuteling i <3 U | ||
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tshi
United States2495 Posts
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ffadicted
United States3545 Posts
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. 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. You must be fun at parties lol Pretty cool article, and the ones it linked to were also fun reads. lmao @ the original title | ||
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Ordained
United States779 Posts
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29 fps
United States5725 Posts
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Shellshock
United States97277 Posts
On July 10 2013 12:23 29 fps wrote: what was the original title? "Zerg = Cancer" | ||
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00higgo
Australia119 Posts
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/ As someone who has been deeply affected by cancer i find this very offensive and utterly stupid, i undertstand my opinion is not the whole view on this but please dont post such belittling offensive horse shit. If i get banned so be it. User was temp banned for this post. | ||
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Xapti
Canada2473 Posts
Would have been much better to have an article/blog on the science of Starcraft, although I don't know what's really there—it's more like theory and maybe a bit of math or programming (build order calculators), but I guess that's sort-of science. | ||
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BirdKiller
United States428 Posts
*Reads thread title* "Oh this sounds neat" *Reads URL link* "Oh a blog, so not really a published article then" *Reads Article link* "So it's more of an article for gamers..." *Reads author's bio* "Freelance writer, well that fits the article's authenticity well" | ||
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Rassy
Netherlands2308 Posts
(yes i did read the article, wich was terrible.) People should not bring their hobby into science or into their work. The result is almost always terrible. I dont know the scientific american and what sort of paper it is, but articles like this belong into popular science magazines for people from say 12-16 | ||
Plexa
Aotearoa39261 Posts
On July 10 2013 19:25 BirdKiller wrote: Progression of my opinion on this: *Reads thread title* "Oh this sounds neat" *Reads URL link* "Oh a blog, so not really a published article then" *Reads Article link* "So it's more of an article for gamers..." *Reads author's bio* "Freelance writer, well that fits the article's authenticity well" Sums up why I'm closing this thread. Plus the lack of effort in the OP. | ||
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