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I saw it in the automated ban thread first, and I must say I lol'd heartily. Keep up the good work =D
Backseat Broodwar - Vol. I - Page 5
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Symmetry
Canada294 Posts
I saw it in the automated ban thread first, and I must say I lol'd heartily. Keep up the good work =D | ||
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SonuvBob
Aiur21550 Posts
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MountainDewJunkie
United States10344 Posts
The first part of this article seemed incredibly unnecessary. Some guy starts a thread about something he knows nothing about regarding TL, and it inspires you to rant about the "cardinal sin" of disrespecting the old progamers? Was it worth it? Look, we know Boxer, Savior, etc., are wonderful. We know because the staff takes every single opportunity to shout it from the mountaintops. Like this article, for example. It's a "weekly eSports article," but here we are, talking about about how great Boxer and Savior were... again. There's great Starcraft happening now, and if someone doesn't care what Boxer or Savior did for the game, who cares? Let it go. Anyone with a third of a brain knows you don't compare eras, anyway. I can't believe you let it bother you this much. EDIT: In your face, Luxury haters. | ||
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thopol
Japan4560 Posts
whew. Your article got nicer when you started talking about SC and not how cool you are. Really though, what's this about? What will this cover? Just a general overview of the world of ESPORTS? Ranting and whining? A distraction from the league-specific coverage that you write? An Artosis starcraft weekly roundup knockoff? I'm just a little confused. | ||
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eMbrace
United States1300 Posts
On October 18 2009 18:10 Loanshark wrote: I have to say I don't agree with some of the opinions in the article too, but overall it was still a good article. The frequency of the volumes is going to determine how much ass this kicks. Hey, if it's on the TL front page, it has to be an amazingly written article doesn't it?  | ||
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OpticalShot
Canada6330 Posts
E-sports is cool but you guys (TL) make it cooler! | ||
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103Smalls
United States13 Posts
On October 18 2009 15:34 QibingZero wrote: The only thing different about the bandwagon that followed Savior, and the ones of today, is that during Savior's time there really weren't any players good enough have a competing 'bandwagon' of their own. For a while I remember despising CJ fans even more than SKT fans (no small feat), and - like anyone at the time - I was well aware of how good Savior was. It's really cruel that we bash these new fans for the same thing we were guilty of in the past (and still are today) - liking a player. It doesn't make you any more of a starcraft fan if you like Calm rather than Jaedong. It really doesn't. If anything, I think TL is often stuck too far in the past. Obviously we're going to be more hyped when old pros play if we've been following the scene a long time (omg Midas plays this week!), but we're at the same time blind to the dominance of the players who are right before our eyes. There's a heavy level of bias preventing newer players from being mentioned in the same sentence as the old greats. Obviously long threads of Jaedong vs Bisu bonjwa discussion are more annoying than anything, but you can't tell me you didn't feel something akin to the old days when Jaedong came back from 0-2 in Batoo. You can't tell me you didn't think starcraft was still starcraft when he stopped fantasy's vulture, blind, with 2 lings and a drone. The motions are still there, maybe we're just too busy thinking about the past to see them. /Agree. p.s. very enjoyable article. | ||
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Kennigit
Canada19447 Posts
TL does this, TL does that.....TL is tens of thousands of users....how can you possible say "TL is stuck in the past"? | ||
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thunk
United States6233 Posts
Bisu/Best both made it into the MSL though, hopefully they'll make some noise there. I like this article. | ||
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Turbovolver
Australia2396 Posts
On October 18 2009 16:00 Plexa wrote: [Vod Removed] Even the most cold hearted anti-fan must concede that that is incredibly sexy play You sure are proving the older players are leagues apart, that's for sure. Backho's game was way cooler. | ||
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errol1001
454 Posts
Where will the cycle of hatred end? | ||
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DoctorHelvetica
United States15034 Posts
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errol1001
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ThanatosSyndrome
United States5 Posts
Take that as you will, but a front page article, in my humble opinion, needs to be a bit more professional than what the first half presented, whether you agree with its content or not. | ||
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pvzvt
Israel2097 Posts
the potential in new players on kt is much greater kt- stats , violet , luxury (we're not talking about new or old players but rather the potential a team may acheive) firefist and hoejja in comparison to oz- perfectman killer hiya (who is coming back to himself) and backho clearly without mentioning the ace players of both teams i think in potential and in depth kt will rock this season . | ||
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Ronald_McD
Canada807 Posts
I don't think you put enough emphasis on how awesome Classic's strategy really was. That game is probably my favourite this week. | ||
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synapse
China13814 Posts
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ryuu_
United States1266 Posts
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Hinanawi
United States2250 Posts
Bisu and Flash are both revolutionists (Bisu PvZ, Flash TvP) when it comes to how all players of their race play, Jaedong proved that ZvZ wasn't rock-paper-scissors, among other things. Innovations still happen even in this studied-to-death era of Starcraft. Now, I agree the B-word can't be used for any of them right now. But, from this article, it sounds to me like even if Jaedong suddenly shot a league above Bisu and Flash in skill and went on a 100% win-game streak and won every gold medal available until Starcraft 2 comes out, you would still refuse to acknowledge him, because only neckbeards who have been following the SC pro-scene for 5 years or more are allowed to have opinions. I agree that comparing them to the old titans is useless, but there's no reason a player from this generation can't become a hero in retrospect a few years down the line. It seems to me that a couple years ago, you'd be writing this article about savior, saying that anyone calling him a Bonjwa is a deluded fanboy and he'll never have respect like Boxer. I give it an 8/10 for trying to hide the trolling in the name of stopping flame wars, but it's a little too obvious. | ||
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