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jtype
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
England2167 Posts
September 22 2009 05:57 GMT
#41
Excellent work, as usual, riptide.

To be honest, you'd have to either not speak English, or be a jealous member of one of TL's 'rival' community sites, to not have thoroughly enjoyed that article. But, then again, Google Translate is now an option, so, I guess that leaves only the latter..
SonuvBob
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Aiur21550 Posts
September 22 2009 06:31 GMT
#42
On September 22 2009 02:00 Lenwe wrote:
You probably would not mention yourself and perhaps you have not been writing long enough to be up there, but with the quality you have been delivering it won't take that much longer.

Yeah, riptide's amazing. Anyone who outnags Hot_Bid is ok in my book.
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Vivi57
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States6599 Posts
September 22 2009 07:52 GMT
#43
This is just an awesome post. Half the news posts mentioned are ones I've seen then completely forgot about.
Flash hwaiting! Nal_rA forever!
HonestTea *
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
5007 Posts
September 22 2009 08:33 GMT
#44
Hello, gfx? Where's my banner? What? No, today. Today, today, today


Yes, this is truth.


returns upon momentous occasions.
HonestTea *
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
5007 Posts
September 22 2009 08:36 GMT
#45
On September 22 2009 13:33 redtooth wrote:
where does honesttea fit into all of this?


Search for my old preview threads.
returns upon momentous occasions.
ReiKo
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Croatia1023 Posts
September 22 2009 12:50 GMT
#46
Great article! Keep up the good work!
thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
September 22 2009 14:03 GMT
#47
I'm flattered
Splunge
Profile Joined July 2008
Germany925 Posts
September 22 2009 15:11 GMT
#48
Great article! Happy Birthday TL!
ShaperofDreams
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada2492 Posts
September 22 2009 18:36 GMT
#49
Oh my God...I'm actually tearing up...
Bitches don't know about my overlord. FUCK OFF ALDARIS I HAVE ENOUGH PYLONS. My Balls are as smooth as Eggs.
foeffa
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Belgium2115 Posts
September 23 2009 00:22 GMT
#50
Respect.
觀過斯知仁矣.
hyst.eric.al
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States2332 Posts
September 23 2009 00:28 GMT
#51
great article. even though i am a tl noob, i have read some of those famous ballin' articles. appreciated.
Leta , BeSt, Calm fan forever! 김정우, I am sorry I ever lost faith in you.
MutaDoom
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1163 Posts
September 23 2009 02:50 GMT
#52
Hell of an article guys. Here here, cheers to the Giants of English speaking Starcraft!
cakemanofdoom
Profile Joined September 2009
336 Posts
September 23 2009 04:02 GMT
#53
Great article! Nice to know all this history so soon after signing up.

Oh, and a minor typo. You describe mensrea as Waxangel's "parter" in crime.
KOFgokuon
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States14899 Posts
September 23 2009 15:06 GMT
#54
<3 wax and mensrea
BachHo
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States170 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-09-23 15:49:58
September 23 2009 15:49 GMT
#55
Thanks for the great article. I can't wait for the next season to start off for the StarCraft community, it's only going to get better from here...
stenole
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
Norway869 Posts
September 24 2009 22:14 GMT
#56
I still think plexa is not a person but a team of experts, all proficient in their own field. Real life plexa, commentator plexa, the writer department of plexa (consisting of 5 writers and 27 researchers) and there is travel plexa who goes to blizzard events to report.
Arbiter[frolix]
Profile Joined January 2004
United Kingdom2674 Posts
September 25 2009 15:28 GMT
#57
A very interesting and well-written piece, riptide. Thank you for your kind words.

Looking at some of those old battle reports brings back a lot of memories. I suppose most of the newer members of this site have little idea of what it was like back before our community had easy access to VODs of every game. Of course, at that time I actually lived in Korea and would sit and watch the games live on television, making copious notes about what happened in each game in order to provide an accurate picture of events and the ebbs and flows of the games and tournaments for the people here at TeamLiquid. To be honest, I look back with no little amazement at the amount of time each week that I invested in covering pro-gaming for TeamLiquid.net.

Putting modesty aside for a moment, I am proud of what I did here. Unless my recollection is seriously defective, I think I was the first person to use images in news posts, among other things. Such things might seem relatively trivial now but they were significant leaps forward at the time and I can recall the considerable work I put in, taking fiddly screenshots directly from streams on the Ongamenet and MBC websites and then taxing my limited computing and graphical capabilities to get them onto this site and make everything look right.

Of course, things are very different now. Easy access to VODs has made game reports pretty much obsolete, for example. The staff here have continually adapted and innovated to keep the site fresh and vibrant in light of technological developments and I do not think it is incorrect to say that TeamLiquid.net is better today than it has ever been.
We are vigilant.
Manifesto7
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Osaka27156 Posts
September 28 2009 13:01 GMT
#58
To: Arbiter[frolix]
Subject: Your reports....
Date: 6/20/04 16:21
are unbelievable. Maybe I missed a post but do you have experience in journalism? Anyways, I didn't want to ask this publically, but I just thought I would tell you that your reports are really dynamic. Keep up the good work.

Mani
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Zato-1
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Chile4253 Posts
October 01 2009 00:17 GMT
#59
Damn, but the man can write. Thanks for this, riptide.
Go here http://vina.biobiochile.cl/ and input the Konami Code (up up down down left right left right B A)
evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12796 Posts
October 02 2009 11:21 GMT
#60
PoP
Life is run, it is dance, it is fast, passionate and BAM!, you dance and sing and booze while you can for now is the time and time is mine. Smile and laugh when still can for now is the time and soon you die!
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