EPTMade me really lol 2 times though: "HIGH HEMPlars"?, "pooing his marines back"?.
[GSL] Kellymilkies to cast Code A - Page 53
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r00ty
Germany1070 Posts
Made me really lol 2 times though: "HIGH HEMPlars"?, "pooing his marines back"?. | ||
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JoeAWESOME
Sweden1080 Posts
On February 22 2011 00:35 r00ty wrote: As many people pointed out: If a guy with overall casting skills like her would have sat there, he definately would have been torn apart by now. It was not the worst casting ever and for me better than expected, but remember she's getting money for it. First day, ok, but she should improve fast if she'll stay. Good looks (she's not that attractive to me, but nevermind) is something i don't care about when it comes to casting starcraft. When i want to see "milkies", there's other pages... Made me really lol 2 times though: "HIGH HEMPlars"?, "pooing his marines back"?. The reason why she's saying Race car instead of Hellion (Heiionng) | ||
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T0fuuu
Australia2275 Posts
She is not new to casting but still hasnt managed to develop a casting style that doesnt involve childish behaviour. Childish in the way that she cant connect her sentences without awkward breaks or uhhhs and that her thoughts and comments dont develop to anything more than 'ooh shiny' and are shallow. I guess that part of her act makes her popular compared to other similarily skilled male casters but shes a proffessional now and is way out of her depth. | ||
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PsYoniC.
Germany61 Posts
IMO she improved a lot between the video in the first post and the matches today and if this tendency continues it will be fine. Let's see how well she interacts with Artosis in the upcoming Code A matches. | ||
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Clicker
United States1012 Posts
kellyMILKIES planted to help NASL look more appealing compared to GSL?! jk | ||
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CmdrDashy
Australia62 Posts
On February 22 2011 01:10 T0fuuu wrote: I am really doubting we will see much improvement from her. Bear in mind that the only reason she was selected over others was because she has a resume of casting big events before. She is not new to casting but still hasnt managed to develop a casting style that doesnt involve childish behaviour. Childish in the way that she cant connect her sentences without awkward breaks or uhhhs and that her thoughts and comments dont develop to anything more than 'ooh shiny' and are shallow. I guess that part of her act makes her popular compared to other similarily skilled male casters but shes a proffessional now and is way out of her depth. There is really no doubt that she will improve in my mind the question is though how much? For me today really showed how skilled Tasteless is in incorporating her random ramblings and seemingly constant jokes about units talking the first person, "Oh no! Blue flame hellions they are like, going to burn me!" -marine#24. Though it wasn't as bad as i thought it was going to be from listening to the Dota cast that was linked earlier in the thread as well as the one with TotalBiscuit. The other thing that got me about her commentating was that her specialty topic seems to be stating the goddamn bleeding obvious. She said on multiple occasions "... as you can see", well yes your right i can, the roaches are indeed attacking the stalkers. As you said a Childish level of casting. Tasteless did mention towards the end of the cast (I tuned out after Huk's games until the interviews because i was so pumped and happy that he had made it through) that Artosis was sick and that was why Kelly was casting and then mentioned that he would be back to cast code A on Wednesday. Im not sure if that is exactly what was said though and i can't watch the vods any one able to confirm? | ||
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PsYoniC.
Germany61 Posts
On February 22 2011 01:31 CmdrDashy wrote: Tasteless did mention towards the end of the cast (I tuned out after Huk's games until the interviews because i was so pumped and happy that he had made it through) that Artosis was sick and that was why Kelly was casting and then mentioned that he would be back to cast code A on Wednesday. Im not sure if that is exactly what was said though and i can't watch the vods any one able to confirm? As far as I understood the concept, GOM is going to switch between Tasteless and Artosis plus Kelly to cast the Code A matches. | ||
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CNBalfA
Brazil11 Posts
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Lann555
Netherlands5173 Posts
My main problem is that her insight in the game just isn't all that high. Most of it seems about gold/plat level and every time she goes beyond stating the totally obvious she gets things wrong. Now I'm far from a good player myself (barely low diamond), but I constantly find myself having a much better grasp of what is going on then Kelly. By contrast, ,when I listen to a caster who is Master League and plays actively, they are often able to point out all sorts of small details that I completely missed myself and that greatly increases my appriciation for the game. At the higher levels, games are often decided by small mistakes and small adaptations in strategy and being aware of that makes it so much better. All of a sudden I understand why player A had so many more units or why he won that one battle convincingly. And I need a good caster for that, because I'm not actually good enough to see all those little things myself (and this probably goes for 95%+ of viewers). Listening to Artosis cast has greatly increased my understanding of all the ZvX matchups and also made them a ton more fun to watch as a result since I can now actually follow some of the decisionn making. I really don't see Kelly doing the same to be honest. Now maybe I'm being overly critical, but we are talking about the biggest SC2 tournament and probably one of the best paid casting jobs for non-koreans in E-sports, so is it really that strange to expect the casters to really know exactly what they are talking about? | ||
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CmdrDashy
Australia62 Posts
On February 22 2011 01:35 PsYoniC. wrote: As far as I understood the concept, GOM is going to switch between Tasteless and Artosis plus Kelly to cast the Code A matches. Ah i see. Seems like a reasonable enough way to break her in i suppose though just casting heaps and heaps of games would let her improve faster. | ||
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DaCheF
United States305 Posts
I love Kelly's casting. | ||
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MadPretty
United States101 Posts
On February 22 2011 01:46 CmdrDashy wrote: Ah i see. Seems like a reasonable enough way to break her in i suppose though just casting heaps and heaps of games would let her improve faster. The big problem is that she has already casted heaps and heaps of games at other big venues. They may be throwing her in a bunch of casts to improve chemistry, but I don't think there will be that much improvement beyond that. She is talking quite a bit during the game, which means she isn't shy or clamming up and is probably trying to cast the game as best as she can. The big factor here is her analytical grasp of the game. Artosis and Tasteless work so well together in a very Straight Man/Funny Man dynamic. Artosis brings a very high level of understanding that most mainstream viewers are going to need in order to understand the workings of the game, and not just what is happening on the screen. Tasteless has this to a certain extent, but his desire to be funny (which he does quite well) usually overrules this. Kelly's casting lacks depth. There were a couple of times where you could tell that Tasteless couldn't believe what she was saying because it was just kinda childish or silly. He would talk in the same voice that you do to children. Example: When she was talking about being a zergling and seeing a blue flame hellion on the street during TSL_Revival vs ZeNEXButterflyEffect game 1. A part of me hopes that she does much better casting with Artosis, but I don't think he has the handling skills that Tasteless showed today. He was able to convert a lot of drops from Kelly into something salvageable, and as talented as Artosis is, I don't think he has that same level of skill. It's going to be the difference of Tasteless repeating and rewording something she said, and Artosis ignoring it. I hope I am wrong on this though. All in all, her casting today was decent. I hope that they are able to sit down with her and help her improve and get her to the next level that she needs to be at. | ||
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aebriol
Norway2066 Posts
She did imho show pretty good game sense. She actually made quite a lot of correct calls I think. What she failed at, was knowing what some things were called. Which leads me to think she might not be playing the english version of SC2 all the time? Anyway, her accent is still annoying to me. But I got used to it. I think it's a thing about english not being my native language. Overall, I'd say she was quite decent, and if she improves a fair bit more, I think I will find it enjoyable - if not as enjoyable as day9 or the casting archon, still fine. Better than I feared to be honest. | ||
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justalex
United States122 Posts
On February 22 2011 02:01 DaCheF wrote: Anyone know kellymilkie's tumblr account. I tried to go to fuckslit but it doesn't work. And can anyone explain what fuckslit means? I thought it first said fuckslut and got offended but realized it said fuckslit. I love Kelly's casting. It appears someone finally told her that her tumblr account name isn't work appropriate. It's just kellymilkies.tumblr.com now, which is still inappropriate if you want any kind of career outside of porn. So you know, fuckslit is a crude name for the vagina, while milkies is a crude name for breasts. She appears to be desperate to let people know she's female. Most transsexuals/GID folks are less desperate to advertise their gender. | ||
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Asway
Canada37 Posts
On February 22 2011 02:01 DaCheF wrote: Anyone know kellymilkie's tumblr account. I tried to go to fuckslit but it doesn't work. And can anyone explain what fuckslit means? I thought it first said fuckslut and got offended but realized it said fuckslit. I love Kelly's casting. http://kellymilkies.tumblr.com/ She changed the name of her tumblr account. | ||
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DaCheF
United States305 Posts
On February 22 2011 02:52 Asway wrote: http://kellymilkies.tumblr.com/ She changed the name of her tumblr account. Btw I tried to google fuckslit. I recommend you don't do it at work. If anything add tumblr after fuckslit. Cool i'll check out her tumblr. | ||
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Froadac
United States6733 Posts
 I wanted her to be good so bad, but even in the intro it's somewhat painful | ||
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
Thankfully I have eyes, so I could see what was going on, not entirely needing a caster. | ||
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Farakes
34 Posts
mhhh, that grinds my gears a bit :/ | ||
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Ozzon
Poland110 Posts
It went better than i expected, but it was still a very poor show. | ||
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