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United States17042 Posts
On May 31 2009 01:36 LaLuSh wrote:Show nested quote +On May 31 2009 00:43 furymonkey wrote:
TL is awesome.
One thing I don't like is the banner. Can someone explain why is the banner are made out of bunch of white horse? What are their meaning and how they came about?
Everytime when I surf at uni I always quickly scroll down to avoid other seening it. :p
Cheers! Always as hilarious everytime someone brings up the horses (and it's been done alot through the years). I honestly don't know about the horses. Just that it's been discussed and that by now they're considered an integral part of TL. Whatever you do though, don't try finding out how rank icons work! Attempting to unlock TLs secrets can lead you straight into some fucked up shit.
don't search and bump the thread either -_-;
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thedeadhaji
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konadora
Singapore66365 Posts
On May 31 2009 01:43 thedeadhaji wrote:
The People.
Well spoken.
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yeah, this forum is by far the best 
I think it was already very professional looking and awesome way back when I stopped playing in 2004 (now I'm playing again)
I can't believe how long it has been
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Basically, the site got started on the popularity of the founder and his team, Liquid Nazgul. As someone who's been a member of the site since literally the day it went online, I can tell you with 100% accuracy that's how it started Hard working and well connected staff over the years turned it into the best foreign site covering progaming, which has lead to a big explosion in popularity.
And of course, there's FakeSteve, who attracts homosexual males en masse, driving the sites daily traffic up into the billions!
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On May 31 2009 01:52 Louder wrote:
And of course, there's FakeSteve, who attracts homosexual males en masse, driving the sites daily traffic up into the billions!
Alright... I confess!
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On May 31 2009 01:52 Louder wrote:
And of course, there's Incontrol, who attracts homosexual males en masse, driving the sites daily traffic up into the billions!
I fixed that for you.
I can't really put my finger on what makes our community so special.
BUT I LOVE YOU ALL!!!
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On May 31 2009 00:43 furymonkey wrote:
TL is awesome.
One thing I don't like is the banner. Can someone explain why is the banner are made out of bunch of white horse? What are their meaning and how they came about?
Everytime when I surf at uni I always quickly scroll down to avoid other seening it. :p
Cheers!
If I remember correctly, those are the "horses" from Lord of the rings. They're actually the overflow of the river, caused by someone casting a spell to wash away the Nazgul and help some other people escape.
TL has a very clean design and loads fast, that, in my opinion is a big reason for it's popularity. (alongside all the others - great people, bans, atmosphere, staff, articles/news, etc.) Or it's just me appreciating the looks of the site.
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Aotearoa39261 Posts
TL is so awesome because there was once a time when we were the site with the most korean translations and best quality articles on the korean leagues. We then expanded into doing other things, like broadcasting shows and stuff...
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Canada7170 Posts
On May 31 2009 02:15 Plexa wrote:
TL is so awesome because there was once a time when we were the site with the most korean translations and best quality articles on the korean leagues. We then expanded into doing other things, like broadcasting shows and stuff...
^ Awesome because of this guy, imo. <3
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On May 31 2009 00:23 Garnet wrote:
No bigass avatars!.
This is important actually, having bigass avatars and half page signatures really ruin the forum experience, especially when every other guy have a girl avatar and a large girl signature and a lot of other crap in his signature.
This forum is really clean.
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United States20667 Posts
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SC edit- (and sc2)
Fans/Posters
Simplicity
Policies
Discussions
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I think it's really the people, at least from someone who wasn't into StarCraft for a few years. I first joined TL to download replays when I was first starting to learn StarCraft. The friend who was teaching me how to play a bit stopped playing, and at the time I was busy with school so I didn't really have the motivation to learn myself. It's something I regret giving up, because I was improving, had some of the basics down, and was increasing my APM.
So, I stopped playing StarCraft, but I continued to lurk/post on TL. Not really following any of the leagues, but reading all the articles/features/ITW ninja topics, and so on that TL had to offer. Fast forward a few years, I'm still a member, and I browse the site more than ever. And I'm getting back into StarCraft again. Granted right now I'm just playing the campaign to get a feel for all the units and watching the leagues, but who knows, maybe I'll try to play a bit competitively in SCII.
But as awesome as things like Liquibet, the Power Rank, TLPD, and the very well written SC articles are, it wasn't all that that kept me here for 4 years. It was the community. Yeah, some people are assholes, but you'll get that on pretty much every forum. The majority of the people here are intelligent, good people who really want to make TL a special place.
At least that's my view on the matter.
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United States3824 Posts
Check the Hall of Fame threads (all the way down on the forum page)
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Lurker speaking:
I think that without the mods and the rules that just don't allow retarded people to exist. On the other forums I go on, there are annoying random people that the mods just don't care about. I think this is like the only forum that isn't sometimes just retarded.
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All of the guys involved in teamliquid in the early stages were very smart guys. They created a home for alot of there friends and it quickly grew into a main hub.
Also alot of the best broodwar sites died when teamliquid was just getting good. I swear broodwar.de died like a month after I started posting here, same with broodwar.com.
Teamliquid now is nothing at all like teamliquid before.
For good comedy read hovzs posts, followed by ilnp and marshallfaulk. Then remember hovz beat up nextell in front of his mom, elky and smuft and ilnp scammed the entire broodwar scene for thousands of dollars and marshallfaulk ended up in jail or drugs & assault (so I heard).
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is awesome32282 Posts
On May 31 2009 06:33 0neheart wrote:
Lurker speaking:
I think that without the mods and the rules that just don't allow retarded people to exist. On the other forums I go on, there are annoying random people that the mods just don't care about. I think this is like the only forum that isn't sometimes just retarded.
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i'd chalk this one up to fakesteve
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Remember: we ban little girly-kids all the time because they sign on thinking they can say and do whatever they want to whomever they want right from the get-go - just like they're used to doing at other sites. That attitude won't work here. That's a promise.
From yet another lurker:
It's refreshing to have admins who don't put up with bullshit.
<3 to all the admins who make TL.Net the best!
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