The IdrA Fan Club - Page 41

On January 25 2012 22:39 -ForeverAlone- wrote:

That's the problem the OP wants to highlight. The infrastructure to get good in NA is not as good in Korea, and this creates a selection bias. There aren't too many 15+ year olds in NA that can just turn their life into full time gaming, unless they already have a lot of money or a very supportive family. The concept of B-teams here doesn't really exist.

I mean if we look at the top level pros on the scene today that support themselves only with SC2, a lot of them are there because they had the first mover advantage (HuK) or had the chance to develop before (you). This is made worse by the fact that a lot of tournaments are mostly invite-based.

On January 09 2012 11:19 Frozne wrote:
I don't know about most of you pissing into the wind saying I'm killing Esports but the internet has been around for quite some time now... and guess what, it didn't have ads in the start. You know why? People didn't have the bandwidth to spare.

I'll pass on ads, and I'll help E-sports flourish in the process. Things evolve with love and care, not money.

You are endorsing a money farming machine. Not Esports.

Wake up children. Block ads. They will continue to operate regardless.

On August 08 2010 11:52 nihlon wrote:

I mean give them a little credit...

On June 28 2010 17:15 machinehead.. wrote:
Plays in the first two while SC 2 beta is up. SC beta goes down and now he has more important things to do? I doubt it.

On August 26 2010 11:05 Kennigit wrote:

Most girls on this site that are interested in competitive SC play with guys. DrH nailed it and i really dont see this going any where.

On August 27 2010 13:48 StayPhrosty wrote:
the correct pronunciation is:
know-knee for Nony
tie-lur for Tyler
eye-draw for Idra

all of the other pronunciations are either people copying artosis (who just fails at saying it right) or people bugging Nony and Idra by mispronouncing it on purpose.

On August 03 2010 23:56 MythicalMage wrote:
But that's kinda the defensive advantage. I dunno. I feel that some spore crawlers and a queen do the same thing, but I'm not entirely sure.

On August 04 2010 01:15 MythicalMage wrote:
Name one thing I've done wrong and I'll apologize and correct it immediately. I've just put my thoughts into words in a public forum, the same as you.

On August 03 2010 01:38 Fayth wrote:
no u dont need zergling speed to kill scvs, sadly, even with perfect scv micro you lose it, slush always use his overlords to scout and does it very well and never has trouble figuring out how he has to react

also there has to be variance in SC2, asking for an easy way to scout every game is just dumb, you might as well maphack

In both of these games, there were plenty of ways to have spotted and reacted to the builds.

In response to Idra's BM despite mediocre and inconsistent play, I can't wait until the korean scene marginalizes him.

On July 30 2010 23:52 HuK wrote:
ok well i received another email saying it was broken, but is now fixed. i edited and it didnt work, then i canceled sign up again and resigned; still not working. any ideas?

On August 13 2010 16:23 GTR wrote:
lol everyone always bitter when terran wins

On June 29 2010 02:14 Plexa wrote:
rofl stars lineup is ridiculous. Could possibly legitimately pass that off as a PL lineup (for regular season, at least)

On December 27 2009 00:19 Keniji wrote:
There is no doubt that the story is a piece of crap. The usual american hero: a kindhearted, pure-good marine (lol) with a stroke of fate, and a whole race/culture who can't do anything, but eventually win the battle with the help of the american. Haha, the american is even able to unite all tribes (who else?). And of course good vs evil with totally clear frontiers. There is nothing(!) evil about the goods and nothing(!) good about the evils.

Since I did not expected anything from the story I still really enjoyed the movie just because of the environment (beautiful pictures - i don't know if you actually say that in english, but you probably know what i mean) and the awesome 3d. Definitely worth a watch.

On January 12 2010 19:01 Dave[9] wrote:
It would really suck if we were the only civilization in this universe, and if there is, then some part of every sensible human has to pray that they will be alive to see the day when we make contact..

On August 14 2010 19:22 decemvrie wrote:
I know I might sound like i'm a bit full of myself when i'm asking this but i'm gonna ask it anyway and please be honest.

That mass muta build you used to defeat Inca with... Were you by any chance watching my stream these past few days ? I did that build on my stream against some pretty good protoss players even though i didn't have the Ultralisk followthrough because normally i would just win with mass mutas.

I don't care one way or the other; you are clearly the best player in the world at the moment but it would be nice to know if you got the idea from me or not.

Thanks

On August 11 2010 01:06 IdrA wrote:
because its fucking awful

On August 16 2010 17:02 SlapMySalami wrote:
Are there lots of hot chicks!?!??

On July 19 2010 19:13 ChickenLips wrote:

i also think the games should be live casted (without a stream) and recorded and then streamed at a later date. With the HDH we could really see the commentators get excited whereas i found Day9 to be lacking in the enthusiasm department, merely describing what was going on.

Zarahtra wrote:
And that's why mech/bio mech > pure bio. Lz is playing pretty good though, just infestors/blings hurt to much(wondering why he ain't getting a few ghosts for the infestors tho :/)

On August 02 2010 02:31 Fayth wrote:
You know you can also respect other players even if you don't share the same views right?

On April 10 2010 15:28 Lz wrote:

zerg still strongest late game race post patch 8 --;

On April 12 2010 01:59 RogerChillingworth wrote:

It's the fact that he doesn't know as much about the game as some of the others that makes him interesting.

On April 23 2010 14:47 rauk wrote:
random isn't bullshit, you have to be proficient in 9 matchups.

i guess i don't have a huge issue with racepicking (i guess it isn't totally fair, but whatever), more that tasteless is apparently the only person who gets to do it for some arbitrary reason when HD says that every other player "needs" to pick random only?

On April 23 2010 19:44 -orb- wrote:


It's good that you banned this.

What sucks is that literally every single zerg on the ladder is doing this build.

I have some friends I practice with but damn it sure did narrow down the amount I can practice when ladder is now literally completely not an option

I have talked to 4 ther guys, tomorrow, 16 CAT, when the first match starts, we'll be there, on the last row, playing vuvuzelas...whos awesome? we're awesome

On July 09 2010 18:18 Plexa wrote:
movie can't pvz to save his life =/. I'm going to watch though, but I don't have high hopes haha

On June 09 2010 15:20 Taekwon wrote:
Pocari Sweat has a very unique taste - not fruity or inorganic. It's...enigmatically indescribable.

On June 14 2010 15:12 lolaloc wrote:

Yeah, I am excited what would the comments be if IdrA picked orb to be in his group.

On June 04 2010 14:03 iEchoic wrote:
I fail to see how mutas don't work vs terran mech. I think that a majority of Zerg players make the following mistakes with their mutas:

1) They directly engage multiple thors
2) They are afraid of killing missile turrets (more on this below)
3) When the opponent's army attacks, they run back and fight it

The conclusion I came to from testing was that Mutas are the answer to terran Mech. If the Terran player attacks, just have a base race. You will both end up losing your base, but the mutas can fly around the map preventing terran from expoing while zerg can continue to expo and stay alive while thors are too slow to prevent it.

Zerg players throw a panic fit when the Terran places missile turrets and then attacks. Once you get 6+ mutas, you can drop missile turrets without a scratch. Just drop the turrets. Zerg players are WAY too scared of missile turrets.

You can win a fight vs mutas with thors but if the fight doesn't occur that advantage is completely negated.

On June 04 2010 14:36 lord_0siris wrote:

Excuuusse me? "You people"? What do you mean "you people"?

On January 10 2010 20:07 Bill307 wrote:
Can you imagine, making a progamer cry?

On June 10 2010 10:25 sc4k wrote:


yes well we are good at cricket, football, rugby and darts :D. We have mad diversity too tbh.

And you also have to realise that practically none of the guys who play american football or basketball would be good for football, and not a huge amount of baseball players would necessarily be great at football.

On June 12 2010 12:37 kRow wrote:
no race takes skill in sc2, my 8 year old sister beat 3 ppl , when in sc1 i tried to teacher she couldnt even beat the computer....

On March 16 2010 13:22 Manifesto7 wrote:
Just understand that if you vote Smuft in, he will win and never leave the top of the hill.

On May 25 2010 10:47 Flames wrote:
Finally, nearly 500 years too late. Good to know the church isn't immediately dismissing any scientific achievement anymore. Those days of ignorance are hopefully over.

On May 25 2010 12:24 Dave[9] wrote:


Did they have any real evidence to support otherwise? It's a part of science to have a certain amount of doubt and uncertainty when making these kinds of observations. I can see you did a great amount of Wikipedia research. But really now, put yourself in their shoes? What kind of empirical data did they have? It's not like they could send up their own satellites or anything. The best they could do was Galileo's telescope, which could only see as far as Jupiter. How were they to really know? So maybe you should consider that before going trolling on people's posts. Copernicus was a stepping stone to achieving where we were today.

Is this op for or against the movement? Seems like the latter to me. Fucking retard.

On May 26 2010 17:45 ret wrote:
I've already lost games to friends who came over from MMO's and havent touched an rts in their life lol (this would not happen in SC1 even if they played for a year )

Idra: This can be said about any unit in the game, but in reality you need to flank alot to land blings+FG. Im not saying you need godlike micro to pull it off, all I say is that a-move doesn't work that well with a wall of Marauders protecting the Marines.

I don't like what you say about silver league players not having a say. The game is for everyone not for pros only and everybody has a righ.t to their opinion

On February 18 2010 12:26 cuteFayth wrote:
thing about idra being interesting cuz he's bm is dumb, I was very similar to that, I wasn't afraid to say what I thought, but it's just an ego problem, nothing else, it doesn't make him interesting or special for that matter -.-

On April 23 2010 17:38 e.soul[gm] wrote:
can someone upload a replay/tutorial of someone getting 10 lings at 1:55? im having difficulties actually using this. i think im a moron or something, possibly.

The amount complaints in this thread makes me wanna wish that there should be a Blizzard representative posting in TL.net

On April 19 2010 14:55 YunhOLee wrote:
we should definately start called him idraliska

On April 12 2010 15:09 Manifesto7 wrote:
It is just a matter of having honour and respecting intellect.

Guys who engage in gang warfare and get off by shooting people virtually are obviously the base element of the gaming community. See XBox Live Halo players for Exhibit A, or 1400 lb, 5 person CS teams at WCG for exhibit B.

RTS players, and particularily BW players, appreciate the fine art they are undertaking. They are exposing themselves in a battle of wills and mental strength. The willingness to engage in spirited competition, unprotected by teammates, should be celebrated. Even the worst player in BW deserves a GG for playing a man's game.

To not GG is to not respect the art.

On April 12 2010 21:47 jabberwokie wrote:


If you are such a child that you can't compose yourself or simply stay quite you don't deserve to compete. It's not like if you mutter something under your breath we hear it and call bad manners you have to actively send the comment on b.net with chat. It's fine to swear at the wall but raging online is just laughable it's akin to throwing a tantrum in public... hey if that's how you want to be seen it's fine with me.

On March 14 2010 16:58 Sadistx wrote:
+ Show Spoiler [We love idra] +
Idra's rep pack is as entertaining as I expected :D

In midgame PVZ, mind control lurkers and steal them. Get the lurkers and put them in ur 3rd/4th bases. In lategame, those bases will be zerg proof since defiler's swarm will be useless. Plus, killing overlords is easy for protoss.

Yes the phoenix lifts of sieged tanks. Doesnt make sense to me because the tanks are grabbed into the ground and gravitational beam should not work.

On March 02 2010 10:15 Liquid`NonY wrote:

I'd never sacrifice sleep, never have caffeine, always exercise daily... Skipping exercise or sleep, or loading up on caffeine, are short-term fixes to make up for a bad schedule. If you have the luxury of time, like if you're a full time progamer, then long term efficiency is the most important thing. Short term burnouts happen constantly to people who overwork and long term burnout is a constant threat as well. If your tiredness carries on from one day to the next, then you're overworking. There can't be any accumulation of fatigue or you're gonna crash at some point and that'll be worse in the long run. So every morning you gotta start at 100%.

On March 29 2010 17:05 Hot_Bid wrote:
yeah but practice to the point of instinct/second nature means less chance of choking, your hands and subconscious just do it all for you... that or excessive practice puts extra pressure on you causing you to choke

haha

On March 24 2010 10:02 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
he gets flamed because everytime he is asked anything about anyone he says the most negative thing he can think of while trying to be "funny."

On March 23 2010 22:39 IndecisivePenguin wrote:
True APM is irrelevent. It would just make people feel better by seeing bigger numbers haha.

On March 23 2010 22:44 lolaloc wrote:
0-50 : WC3 player
51-100 : Slow
101-150 : Normal
151-200 : Fast
200-300 : Very Fast
300+ : Gosu

On March 14 2010 16:38 Rothbardian wrote:
Stalkers also outrange Marines. Read that again: Stalkers outrange Marines.

On March 02 2010 09:03 unit wrote:

one problem with that statement idra...dts are hell to tech to in sc2 which means protoss doesnt have the imba unit 3-4 minutes into the game ^^

On March 12 2010 07:14 Archaic wrote:

This is a great analogy (albeit a bit unrealistic in this world, since everyone is more like buy as much as you can so we get rich) to represent this belief... I'm going to use this from now on, if you don't mind, when I'm trying to explain it to other people.

On March 12 2010 09:32 PH wrote:

I won't die, but may feel sick.

On March 05 2010 17:28 Kyuukyuu wrote:
whatevs some people are weird like that but none of what you listed was worth a "omfg i fucking hate him" rant blog o_O

On December 19 2009 22:28 MaGic~PhiL wrote:
lack of sleep or lack of brain ?

( i know u were sarcastic )

On January 17 2010 21:25 KwarK wrote:
Why must people on icc bm for no reason.

On February 02 2010 07:20 ZpuX wrote:


used to play != currently playing

common misunderstanding but you'll learn with time npnp

On March 03 2010 20:08 Pekkz wrote:



I can push out around 5.15 with 10+ marines , and reach enemy base 30 sec later usually. Then have 6marines or 4 marines/1marauder coming from my base every 20 sec. How long does it take to get one colossus out if u have to make sentry while doing it? None of those i have played yet have made it to colossus without making any cannons.

On February 21 2010 18:41 CaucasianAsian wrote:
i think if your SCV is building and then you right click it while it's building it stops building is soooo dumb. you don't have to click 'esc' for it to quit building whatever. it kept getting me supply blocked. Do you agree?

On September 09 2010 16:55 IdrA wrote:

oh and going nexus first without scouting on a 4 player map
astounding game sense

On January 13 2010 02:23 Trowabarton756 wrote:



Umm average? Even at those gatherings shes still dumber then dirt for being a head figure for a state.

On February 26 2010 12:38 Nal_rAwr wrote:
1. it's "useful skill toi have"

2. it's "won without doing a single thing"

get it right..

On February 06 2010 12:35 Re-Play- wrote:


and why u are terran and playing CJ entus? would be the same if u are toss?

On February 13 2010 22:54 Plexa wrote:

I'm predicting Nony 3-1 Idra and 3-2 to Idra in the event that it goes to game 5... however I don't think it will get there

On February 11 2010 12:59 Masamune wrote:
Idra, something special for your 10,000? plz??

On January 24 2010 14:46 Archerofaiur wrote:
Little known fact.


Feb 11th marks 1000 days since Starcraft 2 was announced.

On February 07 2010 13:20 iamtt1 wrote:
this feeling of dissapointment in my stomach is so sick and it wont go away lol, its been 12 hours since the match but i still feel depressed, the only thing that keeps going through my head is:

1)game 2 u had 7 goons vs 5goons and u attacked in a line like a fucking retard and got raped

2)game 3 u sent ur shuttle randomly in the middle of the map while u could have taken a safer route

3)game 5 - u loss the series because of 1 shuttle with 1 reav in it that kept harrasing 12oclock when u could have just kept 3 goons there.. instead of panicking and not thinking straight

once the games are done all you think about are the mistakes.. im hoping my brain resets after i go to sleep

had to get it off my chest, sorry for the emo post! : D

On February 03 2010 10:50 neVern wrote:
The law defines marriage to be between a man and a woman, seriously; if you are gay and want to marry, move. You are not superior to the law, or the Constitution.

On January 06 2010 22:50 Tenryu wrote:


There is no problem, people are just voicing their own opinions as to why they think its worthwhile for them or not worthwhile for them.

People are just taking it to literally and think they are flaming inc, when they are just stating why they disagree with this optional service in general.

Kids need to learn how to read or atleast read the whole blog before flaming an individuals opinions.

On September 13 2010 20:42 DoXa wrote:
1. make a million marines
2. ???
3. profit

but i have to say, gerrard didn't play his best by far...

On September 14 2010 10:22 MorroW wrote:

ah thank you, im happy i could find at least 1 comment like this on 14 pages its annoying me so much that everyone talk so much about imbalance

we have no zerg players in general. who used to win as zerg when zerg was OP? like dimaga, who else ? haypro and zpux? i cant even name any other zergs that were on top of their game... we simply have few zergs participating in each tour and i think thats a bigger factor than the actual imbalance

i almost wanna switch to zerg just to show it is possible, its not a coincidence dimaga is by far best zerg atm, he simply has alot more skills than the other zergs. i pity these lower level players that blame their losses on imbalance when dimaga still manages to win. we have 30 terrans who can fight nicely on the top in tvt but who can compete in zvz? the skill gap is huge there and so few players...

On September 16 2010 21:55 sadyque wrote:

And if he did and he would win the same amount of tournaments what would that prove?
Im betting the zerg whiners will still go "ooooooh but he is just one player with imbawtfpwnage 300000000 apm and skillz like god thats why he can win with Zerg...."

On January 13 2010 16:19 KwarK wrote:
I'm an athiest. I'm an athiest because I believe that things that happen have a rational cause and even when that cause is unknown there is no shame in admitting ignorance. Therefore I don't see any room for belief in a supernatural being because there's no evidence for one, nor any niche for it to fill. I can see why an ancient agricultural society would need a god to guarantee the rains and the harvest but we have weathermen for that now, the unknowns in my life (such as creation etc) aren't issues that hold any relevance to my life. Anyway, this is besides the point. Suffice to say I am a rational athiest.

However when I run out of alternatives I often pray. I wasn't brought up as a Christian (my school was an Anglican school but almost all British schools have some religious affiliation because they evolved out of a charitable system and the Government likes leeching money out of religion without actually giving them anything in return) and have never believed in God. He just never seemed particularly likely or relevant or whatever. So I don't pray out of habit or anything like that. Anyway, when I pray I generally get what I pray for. In fact, I very rarely don't.

I ought to clarify here. I don't pray for the big stuff, that'd be silly. That stuff bears almost no relation to my day to day life and would be hard to pray sincerely. I mean obviously I'd like world peace but I don't pray for it (although maybe I should). Rather, when there's a part of my life I really want specific localised help with and I've exhausted every option within my power I generally talk to God. I'm usually frank with him, explaining that I'm asking him because I might as well use his benevolence if it doesn't cost me anything, explaining that he won't get any belief out of it etc. I just talk about what I want, why I want it, what I've done to help myself out, what I'd appreciate him doing for me and then thank him and go on with my life.

The latest answered prayer set me musing on the subject and I figured I might as well blog it because I'm bored.
Also, if you're reading this, thanks God (whichever you are). If you ever want the favour repaid then feel free to materialise and present me with proof of your existence along with proof of my sanity and the reality of the experience. Then I'll be happy to help out.

Edit: Poll!

Poll: How successful are your prayers?
(Vote): Religious and God answers my prayers
(Vote): Religious and God doesn't answer my prayers
(Vote): Religious but I only ask God for unrealistic shit he'd never actually do so it doesn't count
(Vote): Athiest and God answers my prayers
(Vote): Athiest and God doesn't answer my prayers
(Vote): Athiest and don't pray

i realize that some priests used exclusivity for financial purposes, but that doesnt mean it is a defining characteristic of religion in general. you're arbitrarily extending it to find that exclusivity is religiously baseless, when in fact if could be just as important as honesty. my point is, honest or not, you have this "astronomical" chance of being boned.

On January 14 2010 14:05 duckett wrote:

a little bit of column a, a little bit of column b.

On January 14 2010 15:40 duckett wrote:

alright. my brother has a mental illness that ranges somewhere between bipolar and schizophrenia. the disease has caused him to act crazy and make too many connections. we put him on drugs but he stopped taking them multiple times. our family watched him carefully and made him take tranquilizers, and he was completely unable to think and function at times. it turned out that we just had to let psychiatry take its course over time, because after 5 violent incidents and 6 months of living with him while psychotic, he came around and started a successful career...now he's married and pursuing his masters' in statistics while working.

so here's the deal. over the course of dealing with this shit, you have to maintain a positive outlook or you get really depressed, because it is a really bleak situation. I knew I would have to deal with a lot of bullshit when talking/driving/interacting with someone who is clearly not sane but I stuck through it because I had the hope of eventually reclaiming a loved one. Every conversation when he was on excessive tranquilizers would tear me up because I saw what he was reduced to; but every conversation when he was manic was complete hell. Oh and btw, the system of mental hospitals in the united states is fucking horrible.

And the worst part was: you can't talk a manic out of his delusions. You can't explain things to them because they are making connections in their head at a rate much faster than you, and have memories that are just straight different from what happened. We were told by a social worker that we were supposed to become his "allies" in his illness and not reject his ideas outright but try to convince him of the truth slowly while overtly agreeing with him. So we worked through it, and we prayed in order to keep ourselves from crushing despair. We had to arbitrarily believe it would get better in the future, or it would feel a lot worse every time we tried to deal with it. Make sense?

for example i play starcraft with the deluded fantasy that i am on my way to becoming the next big terran with my awesome play and the experience is enriched by the fact that when i play or watch starcraft i entertain my dreams of becoming a pro. I know that this will not happen, but fantasizing about it is subjecting myself to that delusion from time to time and the utility i gain from these moments is greater than the utility lost in the disappointment of reminding myself that it is not possible.

on a related note, im a huge fan idra <3<3<3 and i think its pretty obvious that you're going to stomp everyone in tsl2

On January 12 2010 23:41 Roffles wrote:

Sure why not. On top of all that, her legs are like nasty as hell. Pasty complexion + nasty legs.

On January 31 2010 18:01 TeWy wrote:
This is what needs to be said to Idra, "practicing 12 hours a day and copying your teammates tactics is a useful talent toi have".

On February 02 2010 13:19 duckett wrote:

One should never aspire to be one of the most successful people in the world because they are blind; total success and total failure are the two sides of the coin that they flip in life, and the ones that you see are usually the ones that came up with the fun side.

Gandhi and Hitler had this in common: they truly believed in their cause, and were willing to do everything possible to bring about their perceived ideal realities in the world. Would you risk being Hitler for a shot at being Gandhi? This is the path of extremes that you're talking about.

On January 30 2010 13:59 Itachii wrote:
why does best crush t pushes like nothing
every damned time

On February 01 2010 12:34 kineSiS- wrote:


Haha, Idra, trust me. Depending on which kind of good koreans you play with you'll see different levels of creativity. Btw, my favorite TvT build is 1 Rax into Fast CC.

On January 27 2010 14:12 Roffles wrote:
Guemchi played like a complete baller that game. From that hero reaver to that sick recall.

On January 22 2010 17:24 iCCup.deL wrote:


With Leg winning because he's the only Aussie you know, I presume?

On January 19 2010 19:51 MaGic~PhiL wrote:

1) All the poeple who think Nony is the clear favourite and will destroy Tarson are wrong. Im not saying Tarson will beat Nony just that it will be much closer than some here seem to think. Just imo for sure..

On January 27 2010 18:18 EmeraldSparks wrote:
rape and murder are evolutionary strategies too

but we're mostly over that kind of stuff

On January 27 2010 14:33 johnnyspazz wrote:
isnt flying still on 3 base while xellos is on 4?

On January 20 2010 12:42 ejac wrote:

That's why you moved in with cj huh?

On December 29 2009 11:12 Raptor[eigen]. wrote:
Just remember... It could of been much worse...
+ Show Spoiler +
I hope everything works out.

On January 23 2010 03:24 DarthThienAn wrote:


It's cuz our departments are better than that. They include everything bwahah. No, I have no idea actually haha. There's Math =P.



Lucky Fool can sleep in my [real] bed =p if anything. It's pretty comfy and clean, and I rarely use it cuz I'm in other places ^^. Hopefully my roommate won't be gone for break yet so that I can piss him off... heheheh.



Actually I find that us playing Starcraft doesn't really hinder our sexual lives all that much, especially relative to any other activity that we could participate in instead. Although Starcraft has not been proven to have a positive effect in encounters with the other gender, I find that it does not have a negative effect either. According to recent studies, the average college student has sex on occasion, perhaps even leaning toward not having much sex at all. So, those involved with Princeton Starcraft can only be a bit below average (at minimum), or higher. Now considering that the majority of us are rather popular with women compared to your stereotypical nerd gamer, I find your conclusion to be a little ridiculous. Not to mention that Princeton is full of nerds, which helps the gamers at Princeton specifically even more. On what grounds do you make your claim?

And anyway, why does it matter if people are virgins or not? I'd say about half or more of college age people have had a chance to have sex, and some choose to do it, some choose not to. And those of us who do chose to have sex, more still refrain from bragging about it and making childish comments that reflect immaturity. Some people who haven't had sex also choose to pretend like they have, because, who can really verify whether or not someone has had sex or not except for the parties involved? And even if Person B denies having sex with Person A, Person B may just be embarrassed. So there's no easy way of proving or disproving whether or not even real-life friends have or have not had sex. And on the internet, well, that's even harder, isn't it?


I could tell you I'm not a virgin right now. How would you react? You probably wouldn't believe me, even if I was telling the truth. You wouldn't even know if I was telling the truth or not though. So it wouldn't matter whether or not you believed me, because you could never know.

So... why bring it up? Are you a virgin? Don't answer it though, because I don't care.

Now please, gtfo of* our thread.

On January 20 2010 02:05 Mortician wrote:


PHAHAHAHAHAHAH

GosI[Terran]:
Yes i would like to thank:
Idra(My Father) Artosis(My Mother) and KingDino(My Brother) for helping me out
Thx

On January 16 2010 23:00 LF9 wrote:
Or a woman. (It's in the bible, I swear. It's one of the fundamental prayers of the old testament, commonly uttered by Jewish people worldwide. So you can't ban me for it! :D)

On January 13 2010 08:59 aqui wrote:

It makes me so angry when people call the French surrenderers or use French as an equivalent for bad fighting spirit. I know this wasnt the case here but it triggered the rage anyway^^.( A remote connection suffices)
To anyone who thinks the french are wussies and makes french jokes: BEHOLD OF THE WARNERD:
http://exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=7061&IBLOCK_ID=35
thank you .
small excerpt:
"Anybody who knows anything about European military history knows damn well that over the past thousand years, the French have the most glorious military history in Europe, maybe the world."

On December 29 2009 20:55 Alur wrote:

To have the right mindset in the game doesn't require walking around being an angry ball of rage.

On January 16 2010 01:20 Chef wrote:
I think that if you're just a generally considerate person it's pretty hard to get banned. People only get banned for a few reasons on TL:

-They're assholes
-They're both stupid, and antagonistic (but not just stupid)
-FakeSteve see's someone post a 4chan meme
-They continually make posts no one would ever need to read

On January 13 2010 15:20 Artosis wrote:
medias will always be medias. dont need to wear the tag obv lmao.

On January 13 2010 16:57 {88}iNcontroL wrote:


If having a bad attitude is menstruating you should see a doctor about your menopause.

On January 08 2010 18:31 ShroomyD wrote:
Greg Fields - He showed me that with enough anger you can gain the skills to pay the bills.

On January 02 2010 05:35 Ideas wrote:
Seems like EVERY zerg just doesnt know how to deal with this mass siege tank in the game strategy that terrans are using lately.

On January 02 2010 21:49 rushz0rz wrote:


You really need to start reading something else.

On January 01 2010 11:44 Abyzou wrote:


This thread sure went as expected.

Can I have a good nuke mods? I love Boxer way too much to say no.

Also, in case I didn't mention it? Flash is cancer and TL is full of frothing fanboys who eat that shit up. Oh and people who like 'loli', aka cartoon child pornography, and think it should be legalized. Totally cool dudes, see the attached image for my reaction.

It's true Best's loss prompted me to write this - I couldn't sleep because it was nagging me, so I had to post it. I've felt this way for a fucking long ass time though. You're definitely correct in that JD is just as 'bad' as Flash is, however, he is at least somewhat charismatic, he has a much better understanding of how to communicate with fans and just plain being an ambassador of SC, just like Boxer was/is. That's why I like him. He has heart. And fuckin' sick dance moves.

Also lol'd at the PM I got from someone, I feel so offended that someone dares message me and call me a retard.

Happy new years, you delightful queers. I've had some good fucking food and wine. <:

Adios.

I mean, I think Dark Elf from CJ became a lawyer in about 4 years after quitting progaming.

On December 29 2009 21:50 ZERG_RUSSIAN wrote:

Please tell us how we are supposed to not lose any scvs to muta harass, oh enlightened one.

On December 31 2009 11:11 Archaic wrote:

What does it smell like?

oh then they must be banking

On December 27 2009 15:55 FireGuyX wrote:
Now all Violet needs to do is improve his PvP.

On December 25 2009 21:04 jalstar wrote:


i think some people see idra's name and assume troll

although idra's right in this case

On December 21 2009 14:42 jalstar wrote:


i agree though, the zerg race embodies feminine concepts and the terrans are masculine

protoss are androgynousgay though, not masculine.

On December 21 2009 01:52 MaGic~PhiL wrote:
u are such a douche..

not everyone can be as good as u ( training in korea for many months now )

On January 05 2010 08:22 Liquid`NonY wrote:
if idra was capable of any emotion other than anger, he'd be afraid

On January 05 2010 12:23 Pokebunny wrote:
IdrA really agreed to play this at 4 AM? :O

On January 04 2010 21:40 MaGic~PhiL wrote:


You probably never ever overlooked something in your life..

On January 08 2010 18:13 iG.ClouD wrote:

Maybe in your vocabulary, in the pre match interview I said I respect G5 skills and I still do. That doesn't change the fact he played these 2 games bad, not as bad as me but not worth of congratulation either.

On December 30 2009 16:55 EvilTeletubby wrote:


I know you have a lot of estro bias Dan, but... seriously??

Edit - Not trying to doubt you or take away anything from Really, he's actually been one of my favorite's to watch recently, but I just find that really hard to believe (no pun intended).

On September 30 2010 01:40 Meta wrote:


I don't understand how you could take offense to that. Joseph Smith was actually convicted of fraud.

The man was a fraud. It's a factual statement. How is that offensive?

On October 05 2010 09:54 crawlintik wrote:
@ chill

You prob shouldn't let your personal opinion decide who gets featured or not. Your not here to play favorites to be honest, your hear to expand E-sports and to help others enjoy it as well. You let your personal opinion decide weather or not BigT is featured or not. In my opion BigT has Great stream quality(one of the best), Awesome commentary, Great game play(talks about why or why he didn't do something, and discusses his BO) this i never see with half the featured streamer, and Bigt is one of the few that will sit and talk with the viewers. Heck none of the featured streamers talk with their viewers as much as BigT does(excluding Day9).

But again this is my opinion and shouldn't lead to him being featured.

What you should look at is Does BigT bring in viewers? Which he does, and i have notice that BigT has more viewers then most of the featured streamers that you have made featured. This is about expanding E-sports not deciding who is your best friend and who you do not like personally.

But again this is just me talking and hoping E-sports get big in NA. But it gets hard when people let their personal opinion speak for them.

On October 09 2010 09:00 _Darwin_ wrote:


did u hear that cool won the GSL?


did u?

On October 22 2010 18:32 Reesj wrote:


FYI :- Lets c how that 92% favored witera going to win was Ice .

On October 24 2010 13:57 ZlaSHeR wrote:
I predict the HDH will be announced 4 months in advanced, games will happen and take 2 weeks for the first game to be casted, at which point it will takes 6 hours for them to cast 2 series, twice a week, and the entirety of the tournament will take 8 months.

did I do it right?

in all honesty, the hype is just gone from HDH2. The first one worked cuz they did it in a sunday afternoon with no other events on and advert'd the hell out of it, then we realized then better commentators started casting games, and now we have gigantically large scale events like IEM, MLG, GSL, WCG, Blizzcon, etc. week after week.

The hype is gone.

On November 14 2010 16:45 ghostnuke1234 wrote:


We're repeating the same arguments in the "Boxer: might go random if Terran gets nerfed again" thread. No Terran has any plan past midgame because playing Terran past midgame is broken.

On November 24 2010 11:16 avilo wrote:


Hello, that's debateable, you lose to players you shouldn't because you're immature and stubborn, so what?

Put up some arguments, or do something more useful, like practice ZvZ for GSL.

On November 26 2010 04:28 Liquid`Drone wrote:
I think avilo's style of arguing invalidates his points. basically he writes some stuff that is correct but then as a direct consequence of blatant exaggeration it actually becomes incorrect. (as "zerg is advantaged if they reach the lategame unpunished" is a very different statement from "zerg is invincible unless they're killed early". )

and watching someone butcher their own valid arguement like this is to me quite saddening.

the fact is that the new special abilities of all the races (queen+ creep bonus for zerg, mule for terran and chrono boost for protoss) are all overpowered at certain stages of the game.
mules are ridiculously good in situations where both players are short on peons (meaning that terran players should inherently be aiming for a low-econ style of play.. this is something that has been mentioned many times, but apparently not sufficiently grasped by some - 50 peons vs 50 peons means that each mule is hardly of any importance, 6 peons vs 6 peons means one mule gives one player twice the income.)
creep suddenly being a resource means that zerg units have to be either too good on creep or not good enough away from creep - now that zergs are finally starting to do a good job creeping we see the consequences. additionally, this obviously is a lategame boost because more creep will normally be spread the further into the game we go.
queens being worth more than a hatchery in production capabilities, and being able to make infinite larvea in late game, is definitely overpowered in a situation where both players are at limit and where both players have a lot of resources saved up. there's no question about this.

as for protoss, chrono boost has left protoss fucked over because the one area where chrono boost really shines - allowing them to tech to something or attain a unit combination really really fast - has been nerfed through increased build time or nerfing of those units.. in late game it's practically worthless compared to what mules and queens can do.

but, this is nothing new to the starcraft franchise. for years of brood war the counter to mass carrier in tvp was "don't let him get there". a mere couple months ago the counter to a turtled 200 200 terran in zvt sc2 was "don't let him get there". on destination in bw the exact same scenario also had the same counter, "don't let him get there". prior to 3/3 200/200 mech becoming popular in bw, terrans on the other hand had to play a "don't let him get there" style of play with regard to zergs having 4+ gas mining with defiler tech.

so basically, deal with it. if you're unhappy with your chosen race happening to be one that needs to rely upon harassment and which thrives in low-econ style games, change race. the game is a couple months old and is aiming at a lifespan nearing eternity. when races are as different as they are in bw or sc2, they will be stronger in different scenarios. zerg's biggest singular advantage compared to terran or protoss is their ability to spend huge amounts of resources in a short amount of time, terran has the advantage that it's impossible to attack them cost-efficiently and that all of their crap can be healed or repaired quickly, protoss has the ability to warp units anywhere on the map.. avilo has a point but he's arguing it in such an off-putting way that he's actually de-convincing people and I can't say I'm very sympathetic towards him.

Not IdrA wrote:
I'm sorry but that's The pot calling the kettle black. However I have not met you or Carefoot and that's a personal opinion which may or may not upset some people.

On November 20 2010 01:05 bonedriven wrote:
XiaoT's comment on GSL: No need to hurry to GSL.

"You need luck to be qualified in GSL. I played MVP, oGsMC on BN. They were very strong players but still failed in qualifiers. Even SSKs and Nada got knocked out of GSL3. Loner and Luffy's failure in GSL3 is not a surprise to me, because there are too many players in the same level. Luck plays an important role on winning GSL. My recent games against NesTea are 2:0, and 4:4 against Foxer. I guess my win ratio against Top64 in GSL is 70%, 50% against Top16 at the moment. But I need to get a 50% win ratio in Ro4 or final game before I go to GSL. I just haven't reached my peak yet."

On November 30 2010 20:17 Dfgj wrote:
1 fungal

game over

pvz

On November 30 2010 09:07 Sadistx wrote:


Hilarious that you're actually accusing ME of starting shit when there are dozens of drone iconed posters blatantly bashing a top player.

On December 01 2010 17:25 Faraday wrote:


HA! I knew I was right(print screens don't lie )...But if you have time to answer this: why didn't you choose the XAI?

On December 10 2010 00:47 KimchiBreath wrote:
Hi Greg,

I'd like to give a brief introduction of myself. Without disclosing any personal details, I would like to point out that I'm a final year law student in one of the top Australian law schools. I have secured a few internships in the past two years and will be entering one the top firms in Australia in 2012.

The reason I point this out is to separate myself from the general demographic population on this site consisting of adolescents and teenagers who are both immature and quick to judge. I see myself as a well rounded individual.

Similarly to you, I find it unnecessary to moderate my language and my wording to attempt to be modest. The fact is that what you achieve means a lot more than how many faces you can make smile. As we both know, the truth can often hurt.

To give you a little perspective, I am not a good Starcraft II player. I've played a total of 200 games over the last few weeks. I have not learnt the proper hot keys or any strategies. I did however manage to get to platinum with about a 60% win ratio over a span of two days. The purpose of my communication with you is not to discuss aspects of the game but to give some constructive criticisms of your attitude and work ethic. What I say henceforth may not be useful but I hope it does give some further perspective to your current training regime.

First of all, I'd like to give my opinion in that I do not think that you should be coaching. This distracts from your training and will affect your time allocation for personal development. While there is some correlation between teaching others and self realization of mistakes, the benefit of doing so is greatly outweighed by the fact you are teaching material that you have already consolidated. This will subconsciously tend to prevent you from challenging your own build orders, and understanding of the game.

My train of thought derives from the fact that a good teacher generally must have a uncontested view that what he is teaching is correct. Given the perpetual changes in the dynamics of the game, I think having this view will tend to prevent you from improving. The extra time can be used for more useful things such as studying new concepts, replays and personal reflection. Keep in mind how none of the coaches of any proteams ever take dual roles and no coach is ever a good player. In my opinion, you should not be continuing coaching despite the monetary rewards involved.

I take the same view in terms of casting. I personally enjoy your commentary more than any other of your fans. I find them one of the most insightful things that I can learn other than playing the game. However, even more than hearing you commentate, I want to see you win the next GSL. Casting will give away your mentality of thinking, opening up the space for potential opponents with access to a translator to pick away at your tactics. I advise against it.

More importantly though Greg, I feel that you need a competent coach that can constantly discuss build orders and timings with you. Part of your failure in Starcraft 1, along with Ret and even Chinese players like Luo Xian (Legend), was that within the progaming houses, there were language barriers. However, that in itself would not have been bad, if not for the prejudicial views that Koreans hold of foreigners. This doesn't come as a surprise considering that Koreans are the most xenophobic people in the world. They are just very good at hiding it. To that extent, I can fully understand why you choose not to share tactics with other Korean gamers.

Many foreigners so far are too naive or are too insecure to accept this as a reality. I remember that when Luo Xian was playing for SKT T1, he often beat Stork, Bisu, Boxer in games. He had a particularly good in house win ratio against Fantasy in practice games. In an interview, he raised that he used to own Fantasy in almost every game. Despite this, the reason he gave of leaving the scene was that the Korean coaches helped players like Fantasy reach their potential by nurturing them, giving them consistent advice and pointing out tiny details and weaknesses in their game.

LX felt neglected and especially frustrated that, whether it was because he was a foreigner or whether it was because he couldn't speak the language, he received none of that treatment and in return found there to be no need to stay in the country.

Back to the point, I think the reason why Starcraft 1 progamers succeeded to some extent was due to the help of coaching staff. A person has only so much time to both practice and produce working build orders. Having a coach allowed the player to focus on executing the mechanics and the intricate timings that are necessary. The coach would then take on the role of pointing out the flaws of the player that may not be known to the player themselves. It was also for the coach to suggest possible new surprise builds and outstanding situations that may occur. Absent of a coach, a player needs to prorate their time more strictly. This detracts overall from the quality of the training.

If we look at what history has taught us, we will see that many of the greatest achievers thrive in specialisation. Those with gifts in the field of science, engineering, law and medicine, or sports like fencing, chess, badminton, often know very little other than what they do. Those at the very apex of their chosen profession, sacrifice a great deal of their personal or academic life in pursuit of specializing in their chosen fields. Geniuses are almost always obsessive, judges often have no life other than law, and scientists are often inarticulate in expressing thought coherently other than in mathematical algorithm. You need to ask yourself Greg, what you've done to reach the 'apex' of your profession. Also ask yourself whether coaching or making streams is really going to make you win the next GSL.

As much as you might hate it, perhaps it's time to force yourself to create an extremely strict practice schedule and employ someone who you think would qualify as a competent coach. Otherwise, allocate time in the week to make a particular schedule. As much as you hate training back in the CJ house, I believe there must be some merit in practicing relentlessly the same build over and over again. In one of Nestea's interview (yes I know you don't look fondly on Nestea), he said he practiced about a hundred over games of the same build to prepare. In many sports like badminton and snooker, the same stroke is often practiced hundreds of times to promote consistency.

I enjoy watching your games and I hope you get far Greg. I hope any of these criticisms with help with your development in the game. Perhaps you, Ret, Jinro and a Protoss of your choice can form a trust between yourselves so as to improve without holding anything back. Understandably, you enjoy the publicity you are now receiving. However try not to let that get to you too much. Think only of winning and reward the fans with lip service when you take home the GSL. Good luck Idra, and I'll be continuing to support you.

On December 13 2010 11:09 tocador wrote:
God, why cant the zerg community just be as P a bit? Just get over it.

On December 18 2010 12:13 Silidons wrote:

I don't understand why people think 2 pylons ever blocked ramps, they never did. You could always get through 2 pylons with 1 unit. it still takes 3 2x2 buildings to wall, the ONLY difference is that the cannon can get attacked by 2 melee units and not 1.

On December 18 2010 10:33 Gudeldar wrote:


Obviously some pro players care, why does he think Zenio did a ceremony after beating him?

On December 22 2010 21:21 ZeNd0kUn wrote:
Brilliant that he shows Hellions and the Zerg has to be wary of Banshees so proceeds to get gas and lair. Out of nowhere a bunch of Hellions and Marauders show up to kill everything up!

On December 22 2010 21:38 Killmouse wrote:


so u think Terra imba ? lol

On December 23 2010 21:31 ParasitJonte wrote:
Aight so I think we can be pretty sure genius would've won GSL like 30 times if he didn't have to play PvT

On December 24 2010 19:32 -orb- wrote:
You could say literally the exact same thing about protoss or terran...

It seems you're looking at this only from zerg's perspective.

Also it seems you're unfamiliar with the fact that zerglings are now faster than god and can counter attack extremely easily...

On some large maps speedlings can counterattack, kill all workers at one base and then be back to defend the attack before any damage was done (if they move out at the same time)

On December 22 2010 20:02 Frankon wrote:
You picking all the map for EG masters laptop series is any diffrent? ;-P

On December 27 2010 14:16 Alvas wrote:
I'm having a crisis of faith, and need the perspective of some higher level players (High level Gold and above only please).

Does it seem to anyone else that lowbie players always go for the easy win? 6pool, Void Ray rush, mass marines, it's just a strategy that low level players can't beat for the sake of getting out of bronze. Does it ever get better? Do you ever get past the easy win strategies to strats that feel like they take more than 1 neuron to pull off? Like a successful 3gate 1robo? Or a well played and executed 1-1-1? Instead of just this crap shoot where whoever has the sneakier strategy wins the game, but you know in the back of your mind that it would never make it past silver anyway.

I understand how people will get annoyed at this thread, but I am having a "should I even bother" moment, and I know A LOT of bronze and silver level players feel it too, where you just wonder if it's always going to be like that. Are you ALWAYS going to deal with the newbie strategies, usually executed by complete, bragging BMing jerks, and you just want to never play again after it. Or do you get to a point where people stop using that crap, because you are good enough that you need a multi-faceted strategy to win, because 1 or 2 units, or 1 concept strategies don't cut it anymore. Does it always happen, or should I just learn how to do mass reapers, or rush cloaked banshees and call it a day?

EDIT: I am going to add another note to this. What do you consider "cheap" or "lowbrow" strategies? Because of my RTS background (which is minuscule) and how I view the term "strategy", I see things like mass void rays, mass marines, anything less than 10 pool, cannon rushing, as cheesy low brow strategies. You should definitely have an early game, but I feel as though you should NEVER be able to get by with one unit. For instance, mass void rays will beat any T army if he hasn't massed either marines or vikings. In my opinion, this shouldn't be the case, but it is. How do you view it?

On January 03 2011 11:43 gamerkhang wrote:
It's not like you can just play forever and become pro eventually- people don't have time for that, they have jobs and stuff to do.

On December 25 2010 03:48 TT1 wrote:
idra sc2 zerg =/= sc1 terran

On December 31 2010 05:43 Liquid`HuK wrote:




always such a great manner bear^^. Although I agree with most of this I think its still a lot harder to win in some aspects as zerg compared to the other races, especially at lower levels. To early though to make such broad whine posts as many zergs have though as well.

On January 17 2011 18:22 thesmoosh wrote:
God I love it when these two declare a game's over only to watch it have the complete opposite outcome. This is like the 4th time they've prematurely called GG and have the other guy win.

Why do they keep doing that?

On January 13 2011 19:02 Liquid`HuK wrote:
well he didnt gg to me like a minute ago so there goes that

On December 15 2004 16:51 x2fst wrote:

ooooh do i see a challenge coming on?

On March 12 2011 14:53 IdrA wrote:
Greg Fields
EGIdrA.397
masters 2894
zerg

On March 20 2011 04:45 syllogism wrote:

Idra played really well, but I've no idea what cruncher was doing considering how late, if at all, he took his third

On March 26 2011 12:06 Swixi wrote:

Did you even watch those games?

On March 31 2011 06:26 HolyArrow wrote:


Look up "Sirlin play to win" on google. If WhiteRa was really complaining about 4gate, then he was simply being a "scrub" as defined by Sirlin's book (which is very well thought out and VERY well-written, I might add).

Don't mean to insult WhiteRa with the word "scrub", but, basically, Sirlin defines it as a player who kind of restricts himself to a certain playstyle because he thinks the game should be played a certain way, and when he loses to someone playing to win, he complains that the tactics that the winner used were "cheap". Obviously, it's not a perfect analogy since WhiteRa didn't complain by calling the 4gate "cheap" (I'm still on the fence about whether or not he was being sarcastic or actually complaining in the first place), but you can see where I'm coming from.

On April 16 2011 09:51 hugman wrote:

I guess he was afraid of spanish's lategame

On May 02 2011 10:49 Kyhol wrote:
I hope that one day we will be recognized as a top team and make it into a league such as this.
I suppose I can dream.

On May 03 2011 06:04 KawaiiRice wrote:
Wow I wish I was on the bottom half... lol

GL HF, grats in advance idra o/
so according to the brackets, 7 PM PST?

On May 03 2011 16:54 Holcan wrote:


a year of managing a sponorship seeking sc2 team
2 years of managing a sponsor seeking wc3 team
5 years of administrative work on the semi professional level in wc3, so I was in constant contact with players like Empire.Kas, Thorzain, etc.

I dont care if you believe me or not, but my numbers are the closest you are going to get in this thread.

On May 05 2011 12:29 KawaiiRice wrote:
axslav 3-2 me in an epic offrace/rvr series
GL coinflipping vs idra O_O!!!

On September 20 2011 08:36 AntiGrav1ty wrote:


When an athlete in any sports loses to someone who is considered a lot weaker or an underdog they certainly dont say that he is bad after they lose. Nobody ever does that in real sports...

Hi everyone!

As previously stated in a thread (I can't find it again sorry), Protoss are having a harder time setting up defense (mainly because to have static defense you are forced to build a forge, it is not direct like bunkers or spines). They mostly have to rely on sentries and narrow chock point, which cost a lost of gas. It does not even allow you to defend, but only to avoid the fight.
Due to warp mechanism and the power of tech units, I have the feeling that Protoss should always lead the aggression during games in a different way that a big death ball or timing attacks. I think that for a long game, a Protoss should have at least 2 branches of the tech tree developed to continue being strong (and maybe win some tournaments...).

The main problem is the gas. Every tech and every unit need a lot of gas and you are force to expand to get them, on at least 3 base without being a bit all-in. 3 bases is kind of hard to defend, since you cannot really split your army.

What I'd like to have is something like an auto extractor for gas. In this way you can have the extra gas you need without investing the 400 minerals that gas be used for Zealots harass and give a little bi of ease when it comes to defend your bases. It could be something you develop through an upgrade at the core for instance (that is only used for warpgate at the time). To avoid sneaking to much auto extractor everywhere we could imagine having different level of upgrades that could allow you to morph your extractors into 1 or 2 auto extractors at a time.
This mechanism could easily be counter by a gling or a marine scouting the map periodically. It will force everyone to gain a little bit more of map control and force fight in different places. But it will allow you to have some power units that can balance you smaller main army because of the harass investment that can often not be saved.

Another thing that bother me is that is hard to have a stargate and a robo at the same time, especially early game. It is mainly because your are forced to build the core and a forge if you want some cannon if your style is based on prism harass. If we consider strategy like zealots phoenix too, it could be far more viable if we could avoid the core at the start, that is only used for warp. Constructing it in a second time, could be great to have warp and air upgrade for instance.

In the end, I just liked to have more depth in the play of protoss.

My english is not very good, so I am having a hard time to make my ideas clear. Please let me know what are you opinions on this.

EDIT :
To make it clear :
- I would still want to have warp gate as a research of the core
- I would only want to have access to the stargate or robo sooner, and it to be an alternative to warp early on. That should be a good news for all I think...
- Since changing the core now is too late. The auto extractor wouldn't need any worker to mine gas, but we could only have 1 or 2 at a time. It is just and additional income (that could have to be teched) to allow Protoss to develop all their tech a little bit faster.

On October 31 2011 15:16 Rekrul wrote:


I'm not sure if you're qualified to say that or not LOL

On January 02 2012 16:33 MorroW wrote:

hey greg ur team sounds pretty sweet, ill join for 4k a month

Hello i am Skyrat, I am currently in masters hitting GM's on ladder so i was going to make a guide, this is my 1st guide so bear with me.

On January 10 2012 16:11 HuK wrote:


yea abusing twitter ! jessica tweeted taeja like 6 times by now. i want to play this showmatch but if every1 hates it then i will gladly step down.

On January 19 2012 01:12 Jimmeh wrote:
aLive should really read his contract, or hire an attorney to do it. Coach Lee reading his private Skype chats should surely violate some existing clause.

On January 22 2012 22:49 StreetSkillz wrote:
Crappy play, dimagas fear Kas late game.

On February 06 2012 16:43 NET wrote:


That's pretty funny, never thought of it that way.

They were fun games to watch! I'm happy for the winners though.

On February 03 2012 01:43 Alderan wrote:
So when idrA says it, he's whining about balance.

When DRG and Nestea say it, suddenly it is fact.

/sigh

On February 09 2012 18:03 m4inbrain wrote:


Well, ever heard about Hartz4? As a german, im sure you know that term. What do you think, its just a german problem? I have to work hard for my money, others just DONT HAVE IT. I dont know what you do for a living, but i have rent to pay, a car to insure, a family to feed. Maybe if you are some decadent child with absolutely no relationship to money, yeah, then its easy to take 25 bucks from somewhere and dump it into crap. I cant (and wont).

And yeah i have to pay GEZ from my own money, not the money from my parents (or pirated). Even more reason.

Actually, its really ridiculous how many people dont have any sense for money. Mindboggling.

On February 09 2012 20:18 Vindicare605 wrote:


This was one of MKP's joke builds that he does after he wins a set. It's an obnoxious habit of his to just take some games not seriously when he definitely should.

See his wins at MLG Orlando.

I don't think you can call him being outclassed when you're using such an unconventional strategy like this when MKP is entirely capable of playing top tier standard TvZ.

On February 09 2012 21:06 liberate71 wrote:


hahahahahaha amazing call 10/10 sir.

On April 25 2012 04:37 avilo wrote:
Another invite tourney for the same group of players....disappointed tournaments keep going this route. I don't know how e-sports is going to keep "getting bigger" when essentally the same 10-30 people are auto-invited to tourneys without having to "earn it."



E-sports is currently about marketing yourself as a player/tournament more than it is actually getting in new blood and having people actually qualify for things. It's short sighted, but tournaments want immediate views. It is a bit frustrating for the 100's of players that would want to attempt to qualify for these things and then it's like, "oh here they go again, handing out invites not allowing anyone new to even have a chance to break in." Yeah...

On May 01 2012 14:12 Naniwa wrote:
ahh.. they said i couldnt pick idra T_T

On May 03 2012 12:36 Liquid`Jinro wrote:
.........
I dont have words for how dumb this is.


Terran early game scouting fucking sucks so that's not much of an accomplishment.

On May 03 2012 13:03 DeMusliM wrote:
Dear David Kim,
Please stop listening to Mud Leaguers, Watch the game, especially TvP - Thanks in Advance.
P.S. Protoss is fucking good, this "protoss are good at pro level, but not top pro level" really is dumb, i'd almost guarantee a protoss will win GSL, and I would ALMOST be certain of a pvp final.

On May 03 2012 14:09 Ribbon wrote:
I don't know how Idra can see his screen behind the massive erection he must have. A buff to early game Zerg scouting is the buff he's wanted since beta.

Queens popping with transfuse might be even more impactful than extra tumors. There's a lot of stuff Zerg macro openings are a little bit safer against, now.

On May 03 2012 15:13 freetgy wrote:


they were lucky terrans took out the zerg players

On May 05 2012 05:52 teamhozac wrote:


No shit, theres literally no way you can punish a greedy zerg anymore, blindly making 3 queens and throwing down a spine pretty much covers any agression

On May 10 2012 18:27 sharky246 wrote:
thorzain's image of being a humble and immune-to-greed image has just been shattered.

On May 11 2012 18:00 Pandemona wrote:
Hope people like IdrA and NesTea are kicking themselves after hearing this xD Silly Zergs xD

On May 25 2012 10:40 Goldfish wrote:
To put this into another perspective:

Most of them have played SC2 for only a month.

That means the first week after, they'll get 25% better before (1 month and 1 week of practice).

The next week, they'll get 20% better than before (5 weeks > 6 weeks).

And the next week they'll get about 17% better than before.

In other words, by the time MLG comes, they'll be almost twice as better than their SPL debut.

(Motive had 4 months of SC2 practice and he is already approximately Code A level. Effort has had 1 month and is almost Code A level. I think an extra month will significantly help them.)

On May 28 2012 03:48 Lore-Fighting wrote:


Your frustrations would be better spent on practice instead of QQ on the forums. I'm not saying this to be mean, but there are plenty of ways to deal with that build, and there is no excuse to be losing that much to it. Get someone to help you out, there are plenty of protosses out there that would help you with that, maybe some on your own team.

You are one of the top players in the world and in my opnion, a top 3 zerg with a LOT of succes vs. protoss. It's okay to lose to players who are at the top of their game and their races, just hang in there and work it out.

To be honest, I really don't think spades would be one to be hacking. He has spent a large amount of his time in starcraft 2 trying to rid himself of that reputation. I would fine it very hard to think spades would be one to do so.

On June 13 2012 13:04 RaNgeD wrote:


I'm pissy because I specifically asked an admin what time I should show up for LR8 and I was told 11 am.

On June 19 2012 13:56 Drizzt3 wrote:
I don't think IdrA has done a whole lot of studying physics or excelling recently, so I'm not sure why he's your sparkling example

On June 27 2012 13:17 zhurai wrote:

... who's the mom and who's the dad in this case
._.

On July 01 2012 14:11 Duravi wrote:

If you are really unhappy, contact the sponsors. That appears to be the only thing that actually gets things done. As long as you contact sponsors when you see some good things too I don't believe there is anything wrong with it.

On June 28 2012 16:06 Gosi wrote:
I talked about BW and why they didn't have girlfriends. Tell me one top player in modern BW that won something while having a girlfriend. The reason DRG, NesTea and Mvp got away with it is because they are the very best in SC2 and no one comes close in skill and the game/metagame is a cluster fuck from times to times, no real consistency. You think these guys are gonna get away with living at home with their girlfriends and puppies in say 1-2 years with the BW teams in the competition? No, they will fade away hard. Just like the players in the EG house have faded away ever since they moved in there.

Passive-aggressive US_EG fans at the best hahaha. You showed me alright that I have no idea what I'm talking about when you have the fucking facts right before your eyes.

Not much, I didn’t know him for that long but I met him in sixjax and i just love him. xD Not gay.

On July 13 2012 03:06 Mirhi wrote:


Guys, signups have been open for 2 months now. I emailed every prominent team manager several times about every one of these. This is not short notice.

On July 21 2012 09:30 Flossy wrote:
I think a this point when asked to thank their sponsors they should only thank the important ones for times sake.

On July 23 2012 08:25 Rannasha wrote:


ST_Rainbow & ST_Aphrodite

On July 24 2012 02:55 Lunareste wrote:


In your quest to claim that ZvT early game isn't imbalanced, you forgot to ask yourself why MKP often goes for cc-first builds.

On July 30 2012 04:48 Type|NarutO wrote:
I really don't want to break down a balance discussion but its here anyways. I hope no one takes it as offensive, but lots of Protoss pros are tweeting towards Naniwa backing him up. I really think its time to put Zergs in place, because the time is here that Zerg has learned how to abuse their abilities that much, that it gets too hard if not impossible to fight them on even ground.

I'm not saying you cannot win, but as it once was that it was a lot more effort to win against Terran, now it takes a lot more effort to beat Zerg than to actually win as Zerg. I hope Blizzard steps in before HOTS, but I fear they won't.

Nani shouldn't leave the way he did, as he is a professional yet I can fully understand him. Generally speaking even though we had a PvP final in GSL, you can see Zergs rising left and right... and thats just not about good play. Hopefully next series will be better.

On August 07 2012 07:16 MrChupee wrote:


Do you have an optimal age to start out of curiousity??
Or optimal starting conditions??

On August 08 2012 23:44 aTnClouD wrote:

So it's ok for me to be twice as good as somebody and still lose cause the race at top foreign level is too easy, while I would have to move to korea and practice with the best players there just to be competitive and balance the win rates with my own race. Solid point bro, try again maybe.