And as far as I'm aware liquidpoker was started some years after teamliquid.net because some creators of this site had gained a significant interest in poker.
Shortly after the website was launched, the admins were beset upon by Velociraptors. Through the use of wit and sheer awesome dexterity, they managed to trap every single one inside freezers, and there they remain until this day,
TL was created in response to a malaria outbreak caused by Bill Gates releasing mosquitoes at a anti malaria event. In order to compensate for the lost knowledge caused by the necessity for quarantine the computer elite TL serves as the real world's version of Issac Asimov's Foundation, a centralized repository of compy knowledge.
On February 06 2009 03:32 cgrinker wrote: TL was created in response to a malaria outbreak caused by Bill Gates releasing mosquitoes at a anti malaria event. In order to compensate for the lost knowledge caused by the necessity for quarantine the computer elite TL serves as the real world's version of Issac Asimov's Foundation, a centralized repository of compy knowledge.
I've always thought that the curious link between good SC players and good poker players would make for a great documentary or essay, since the two games are extremely different (mechanics-wise) but both really fascinating.
On February 06 2009 03:22 Osmoses wrote: Shortly after the website was launched, the admins were beset upon by Velociraptors. Through the use of wit and sheer awesome dexterity, they managed to trap every single one inside freezers, and there they remain until this day,
like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:
On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote: like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:
NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP, NEVER GONA FIND THE SECRET
I joined TL a couple of days after Nazgul himself did. I was following him after a big argument we had about the white shark mating. And what I can tell you about the origin of the liquid network is that it went bad when they changed the original website layout (pinky btw), and then came the crack of the 29' and the earthquake of the 32'. Good old cataclysms. They sure were aiming at world domination, but ended up just talking about card games and another computer game I can't remember.
If you want the truth, find out who mensrea really is.
You want to know the secret about liquid... well here it is: Liquid is one of the principal states of matter. A liquid is a fluid that has the particles loose and can freely form a distinct surface at the boundaries of its bulk material. The surface is a free surface where the liquid is not constrained by a container. A liquid's shape is confined to, not determined by, the container it fills. That is to say, liquid particles (normally molecules or clusters of molecules) are free to move about the volume, but they form a discrete surface that may not necessarily be the same as the vessel. The same cannot be said about a gas; it can also be considered a fluid, but it must conform to the shape of the container entirely.
I always wanted to know the story(ies) of tl's origins too, but I assumed that me not being able to find it was my stupidity and any thread I made about it would be closed for being too obvious of an answer tt
On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote: like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:
On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote: like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:
On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote: like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:
On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote: like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:
On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote: like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:
I did click it all! I wanted to know where it would end up
Anyway:
Liquid was originally (and still is somewhat) a Starcraft clan started by Nazgul, Meat, Drone and maybe a few more (Spy, Oaral come to mind) in 2000 or so if memory serves me correctly. They had a really simple website before this one and it had a small following (I checked it sometimes for the simple forum they had and for Eri's hilarious rants). After this they decided to create a new website and that's this website. It pretty much became this website but very plain without all the features you have now. A bunch of people joined because it ha(s)(d) a nice layout, replay uploading etc.
At the start they started covering Korean leagues with the help of Mensrea and Waxangel and from there on Teamliquid was the best non-Korean news portal for Korean leagues and it has expanded ever since to grow to what it is today.
In 2003~2004 poker became interesting for Starcraft players and there were a bunch of people that started to play poker. Considering these starcraft players didn't have a poker community to discuss their hands or strategy, they used Teamliquid to talk poker. Nazgul and Meat added some affiliates so they could maybe earn some money on people signing up through their links and seeing a golden business opportunity at the start of the hype, they created Liquidpoker. Backed by Teamliquid's community, a lot of people flocked to Liquidpoker and started posting about poker there which lead to Liquidpoker's success in poker affiliating by people signing up through their deals with leading pokersites like Partypoker. That's also the reason that whenever poker is mentioned in the forums here, they automatically link to Liquidpoker which leads more people to Liquidpoker to try out poker .
On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote: like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:
Loving the velociraptor and Hot_Bid's time travel machine. TeamLiquid has always been a completely mysterious place, with hidden connections, back alleyways, and secret entrances. Nobody knows completely of what TL is, except for maybe the founders.
On February 06 2009 03:22 Osmoses wrote: Shortly after the website was launched, the admins were beset upon by Velociraptors. Through the use of wit and sheer awesome dexterity, they managed to trap every single one inside freezers, and there they remain until this day,
On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote: like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:
On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote: like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:
On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote: like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:
God it took me like 10 minutes doing the treasure hunt not only checking each link for rickroll but also assuming that it had mouseover javascript to rickroll me too -_-.
On February 06 2009 07:13 Twisted wrote: I did click it all! I wanted to know where it would end up
Anyway:
Liquid was originally (and still is somewhat) a Starcraft clan started by Nazgul, Meat, Drone and maybe a few more (Spy, Oaral come to mind) in 2000 or so if memory serves me correctly. They had a really simple website before this one and it had a small following (I checked it sometimes for the simple forum they had and for Eri's hilarious rants). After this they decided to create a new website and that's this website. It pretty much became this website but very plain without all the features you have now. A bunch of people joined because it ha(s)(d) a nice layout, replay uploading etc.
At the start they started covering Korean leagues with the help of Mensrea and Waxangel and from there on Teamliquid was the best non-Korean news portal for Korean leagues and it has expanded ever since to grow to what it is today.
In 2003~2004 poker became interesting for Starcraft players and there were a bunch of people that started to play poker. Considering these starcraft players didn't have a poker community to discuss their hands or strategy, they used Teamliquid to talk poker. Nazgul and Meat added some affiliates so they could maybe earn some money on people signing up through their links and seeing a golden business opportunity at the start of the hype, they created Liquidpoker. Backed by Teamliquid's community, a lot of people flocked to Liquidpoker and started posting about poker there which lead to Liquidpoker's success in poker affiliating by people signing up through their deals with leading pokersites like Partypoker. That's also the reason that whenever poker is mentioned in the forums here, they automatically link to Liquidpoker which leads more people to Liquidpoker to try out poker .
That's pretty much everything about it.
Hmmmm, too simple, too clear cut. I don't like it, can't be true. I mean the velociraptor and divine intervention stories at least capture the imagination.
On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote: like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:
On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote: like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:
On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote: like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:
On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote: like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:
TL evolved from the retarded cesspool that Broodwar.com became if anyone remembers that far back.
As Twisted said, it was a small clan site until shit hit the fan at BW.com with the isZard saga and many prominent members including mensrea and sword_siege joined TL and a whole bunch of us came with them.
On February 06 2009 04:28 LosingID8 wrote: there's an official history in the super secret staff forum but we aren't allowed to tell anyone what it is.
I've heard of this secret forum while lurking this site before I made an account. I was told if I speak of can lead me to being banned.
Or the two people I know that can access this feature told me if they spoke of it to outsiders they would get banned. I can't remember atm.
On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote: like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:
On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote: like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:
On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote: like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:
I disagree. America did not lose the civil war even by technical terms since the south succeeded FROM the united states and became a distinct identity, and then LOST.
The war of 1812 ended when both sides wanted to stop fighting; the Treaty of Ghent resulted in "The terms stated that fighting between the United States and Britain would cease, all conquered territory was to be returned to the prewar claimant, the Americans were to gain fishing rights in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, and that both the United States and Britain agreed to recognize the prewar boundary between Canada and the United States"--if anything, America gained from the war of 1812 with fishing rights increase while everything else the same.
You are also wrong about the Korean War. America lost the war just as much as China did since territory remained unchanged since prewar boundaries (north invaded south, was expelled by americans, americans invaded and then were expelled by chinese). considering this is the definition of stalemate, there is absolutely no reasoning to call a defeat. If anything, America won since it had 36k casualties compared to China's 114k.
We lost the Vietnam War that's complete fact. But it doesn't matter if France helped America or not; it matters who WON. If we go by these criteria, Britain lost ww2, which is absurd.
yes the bay of pigs was a complete failure and a lot of other proxy wars failed as well. but these were not wars fought by americans for america; these were more america interfering with foreign affairs and pulling strings and seeing what happens. saying that america lost to nicaragua and haiti is absurd: yes, we failed to mess things to our advantage but america never lost to nicaragua.
Hotbid, the last comment got me thinking, is your name a reference to a much desired item at a bidding event? a bid that is "hot" aka very active, the price constantly rising?
On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote: like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:
On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote: like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:
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On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote: like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:
I disagree. America did not lose the civil war even by technical terms since the south succeeded FROM the united states and became a distinct identity, and then LOST.
The war of 1812 ended when both sides wanted to stop fighting; the Treaty of Ghent resulted in "The terms stated that fighting between the United States and Britain would cease, all conquered territory was to be returned to the prewar claimant, the Americans were to gain fishing rights in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, and that both the United States and Britain agreed to recognize the prewar boundary between Canada and the United States"--if anything, America gained from the war of 1812 with fishing rights increase while everything else the same.
You are also wrong about the Korean War. America lost the war just as much as China did since territory remained unchanged since prewar boundaries (north invaded south, was expelled by americans, americans invaded and then were expelled by chinese). considering this is the definition of stalemate, there is absolutely no reasoning to call a defeat. If anything, America won since it had 36k casualties compared to China's 114k.
We lost the Vietnam War that's complete fact. But it doesn't matter if France helped America or not; it matters who WON. If we go by these criteria, Britain lost ww2, which is absurd.
im in fucking awe of blizzard, and I am even willing to forgive them for delaying 1.08 like 18 months.
jesus. if the game is as good as that trailer, then the game will outclass every other game so hard that I doubt there will ever be a game close to it.
for those who have not yet seen the trailer I am referring to ;
I dont care if you have a 14.4 modem, download this plz.
and btw, I DID SEE THIS WHEN IT FIRST CAME OUT BUT I DIDNT CONSIDER THE FACT THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE LESS FORTUNATE THAN ME OUT THERE THNX GW GG NO RE
asdf
and the reason im posting links instead of some fancy "click here" thing is that me fucking up = much more likely then. I want everyone to download that trailer
On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote: like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:
I disagree. America did not lose the civil war even by technical terms since the south succeeded FROM the united states and became a distinct identity, and then LOST.
The war of 1812 ended when both sides wanted to stop fighting; the Treaty of Ghent resulted in "The terms stated that fighting between the United States and Britain would cease, all conquered territory was to be returned to the prewar claimant, the Americans were to gain fishing rights in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, and that both the United States and Britain agreed to recognize the prewar boundary between Canada and the United States"--if anything, America gained from the war of 1812 with fishing rights increase while everything else the same.
You are also wrong about the Korean War. America lost the war just as much as China did since territory remained unchanged since prewar boundaries (north invaded south, was expelled by americans, americans invaded and then were expelled by chinese). considering this is the definition of stalemate, there is absolutely no reasoning to call a defeat. If anything, America won since it had 36k casualties compared to China's 114k.
We lost the Vietnam War that's complete fact. But it doesn't matter if France helped America or not; it matters who WON. If we go by these criteria, Britain lost ww2, which is absurd.
what the hell
Interesting how in the end he says "we" when his country is Algeria.
On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote: like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:
On February 06 2009 05:08 Hot_Bid wrote: like the illuminati, the history of liquid is mysterious, mythical, and not easily described. i urge you to go on a national treasure hunt, starting here:
The path of successfully necromancing a thread unscathed is dangerous and exotic art. Even the summoning of the greatest beasts that may bring acclaims from forthcoming audiences will eagerly bring forth the hammer of damnation that brings mythical locale of Disneyland flirt between your eyes. Should you be aspiring pupil, daring to learn this sagacious skill, your spiritual journey toward that goal starts here: