EPThttp://blogs.scientificamerican.com/overthinking-it/2013/07/08/what-starcraft-can-teach-gamers-about-fighting-cancer/
Scientific American on Similarities Between Zerg and Cancer
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BrevitySC2
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http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/overthinking-it/2013/07/08/what-starcraft-can-teach-gamers-about-fighting-cancer/ | ||
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Torvaltz
United States188 Posts
That's actually a really cool article. Thanks for sharing! | ||
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MstrJinbo
United States1251 Posts
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Cokefreak
Finland8096 Posts
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blade55555
United States17423 Posts
On July 10 2013 04:57 Torvaltz wrote: That was unexpected, I thought this was going to be a balance or game design whine XD That's actually a really cool article. Thanks for sharing! I thought the same thing as well rofl. Was getting ready to laugh at it  | ||
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_SpiRaL_
Afghanistan1636 Posts
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BrevitySC2
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D4V3Z02
Germany693 Posts
On July 10 2013 05:00 _SpiRaL_ wrote: Terran is the cure for cancer? No they get infected by it. | ||
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Fusilero
United Kingdom50293 Posts
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. | ||
Shellshock
United States97276 Posts
On July 10 2013 05:01 Fusilero wrote: 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? | ||
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figq
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msistema
8 Posts
Anyway nice read, and it's always good that SC gets some recognition from the "real" world. thx for posting | ||
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vrok
Sweden2541 Posts
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arterian
Canada1157 Posts
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BurningSera
Ireland19621 Posts
anyway, interesting read xD | ||
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KaienFEMC
Canada127 Posts
On July 10 2013 05:01 Fusilero wrote: What it's saying is that hellbats kill zerg, therefore to cure cancer we must set it on fire. That's Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy for you. Destroying them the hard way. Speaking of Radiotherapy... once upon a time, there was Science Vessel and irradiate lolol | ||
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Mauzel
United States421 Posts
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
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? | ||
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MrMedic
Canada452 Posts
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HeeroFX
United States2704 Posts
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DeepElemBlues
United States5079 Posts
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. | ||
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Kenny_oro
Germany368 Posts
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tili
United States1332 Posts
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Rinny
United States616 Posts
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. | ||
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namste
Finland2292 Posts
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Thieving Magpie
United States6752 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/ L2Play stupid noo- Oh, nevermind, was going on autopilot there. Fun read. | ||
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LighT.
Canada4501 Posts
Protoss must be Scorpio (kudos if you get the reference) Wonder what terran is.. | ||
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FinestHour
United States18466 Posts
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MrBrunk
Canada428 Posts
Interesting read. | ||
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Marcinko
South Africa1014 Posts
Nice read, thanks for the link. | ||
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FallDownMarigold
United States3710 Posts
On July 10 2013 05:09 Plansix wrote: 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 | ||
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Night Eyes
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Atlasy
Hungary229 Posts
On July 10 2013 05:02 Shellshock1122 wrote: 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  (( | ||
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Clazziquai10
Singapore1949 Posts
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Marcinko
South Africa1014 Posts
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? | ||
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i zig zag around you
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Yorbon
Netherlands4272 Posts
Hm, cancer would indeed be scary. | ||
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Kleinmuuhg
Vanuatu4091 Posts
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mechengineer123
Ukraine711 Posts
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Extenz
Italy822 Posts
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Wintex
Norway16848 Posts
On July 10 2013 05:02 Shellshock1122 wrote: 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 | ||
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packrat386
United States5077 Posts
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HardlyNever
United States1258 Posts
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Larkin
United Kingdom7161 Posts
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Teoita
Italy12247 Posts
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Kleinmuuhg
Vanuatu4091 Posts
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iNsaNe-
Finland5201 Posts
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Yorbon
Netherlands4272 Posts
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ArcticRaven
France1406 Posts
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trifecta
United States6795 Posts
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
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
United States1537 Posts
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Dreamer.T
United States3584 Posts
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Archas
United States6531 Posts
So. Humanity, the culmination of the universe's quest for purity of form, is infested by the collective entity representing purity of essence. Shit. | ||
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NEEDZMOAR
Sweden1277 Posts
expecting some serious banworthy balance whine from op, but this is so much better! | ||
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CecilSunkure
United States2829 Posts
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Pokebunny
United States10654 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. Except lore and single player is far more relevant to the vast majority of the population. | ||
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canikizu
4860 Posts
Damn. Can we say stimpack + medivac is the only way to win against zerg | ||
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AnachronisticAnarchy
United States2957 Posts
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[]Phase[]
Belgium927 Posts
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TheRealArtemis
687 Posts
![[image loading]](http://image.spreadshirt.com/image-server/v1/compositions/103818760/views/1,width=190,height=190,appearanceId=1.png/happy-zergling_design.png) 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 States97276 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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