EPTOn November 15 2011 15:45 Amlitzer wrote:
I didn't think nudity was allowed on TL?
I didn't think nudity was allowed on TL?
are you serious? dont you know the picture from somewhere?
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TRAP[yoo]
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are you serious? dont you know the picture from somewhere? | ||
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cArn-
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scatmango2
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Roggay
Switzerland6320 Posts
On November 15 2011 15:45 Amlitzer wrote: I didn't think nudity was allowed on TL? Its not nudity, its just a man's chest! | ||
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ElusoryX
Singapore2047 Posts
and the last line makes so much sense too. 3 games, two players, one winner. | ||
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TRAP[yoo]
Hungary6026 Posts
On November 15 2011 15:54 Puph wrote: No offense to whoever made the drawing, but I...don't understand why Stephano's face is on the body of a naked woman :S (edit) holding a gun its a picture about the french revolution. time to attend your history lessons :D | ||
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Primadog
United States4411 Posts
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smr
Germany4808 Posts
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xxpack09
United States2160 Posts
Original for people who aren't familiar with the painting: + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix_-_La_libert%C3%A9_guidant_le_peuple.jpg/757px-Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix_-_La_libert%C3%A9_guidant_le_peuple.jpg) | ||
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Jaxtyk
United States600 Posts
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Amlitzer
United States471 Posts
Oh I see it's just man boobs, perfectly acceptable. Stephano getting fat from all that prize money. Now he needs to win MLG so he can afford liposuction. Also, apparently Idra and HuK are race switching to terran by the looks of it. On November 15 2011 15:55 TRAP[yoo] wrote: are you serious? dont you know the picture from somewhere? Are you serious? | ||
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Mrvoodoochild1
United States1439 Posts
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LostBLuE
Canada188 Posts
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lithiumdeuteride
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enigamI
Canada385 Posts
Far and away the most common explanation for why Koreans have outperformed foreigners has been that they have an edge in practice. They put in more time, more effectively, against better opponents. Yet that theory simply cannot hold water anymore I understand that October has been a marquee month for foreign players performing well; but I don't feel that the success of a handful (less than 10, we'll say?) foreign players clears the idea that Korea has a generally superior training environment and infrastruture. I think the idea of mentality and a Korean mindset having an impact on their success is a perfectly valid point, and perhaps quite a significant one. I just don't think that it accounts entirely for top koreans generally out performing top foreign players. I think having a superiour ladder (in terms of difficulty in opponents faced), long standing, experienced progamer houses and long, regular training hours has a significant impact on Koreans generally higher performance. In my opinion, this is much more likely to be the larger factor in their success. Summary: I love your point about the korean mindset being significant, and there being different roads to success at the highest level, but I disagree that the Korean environment doesn't play a very significant part as well. | ||
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rift
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Kinshuk
India116 Posts
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Arachne
South Africa426 Posts
P.S Great article btw. | ||
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Qaatar
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Might the future look different? We might have good reason to desperately wish it will. At the heart of 'balance' in starcraft is a belief that the better, harder working, smarter player will always win. In challenging the idea that practice is what matters most of all in Starcraft 2, we open up the argument that Starcraft 2 is simply not as balanced a game as we wish to believe. That players who have put in less time, in less rigorous conditions can win is a threat to the basic premise of Starcraft 2 competition. This argument seems like too dramatic an overall conclusion after just a month of foreigner success. But it might be that we all have a stake in rooting for Koreans in the future, if only because it'll mean that practice is slowly starting to make perfect. This is the only part of the article that I agree with. If practice doesn't make perfect in this game as it does in BW, then I might as well as stop watching. I can only hope that HoTS and LoTV bring more depth, both physical and mental, to this game. | ||
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Snijjer
United States989 Posts
On November 15 2011 16:04 enigamI wrote: Summary: I love your point about the korean mindset being significant, and there being different roads to success at the highest level, but I disagree that the Korean environment doesn't play a very significant part as well. I think the main point of the article is that it wasn't the it doesn't play a significant role, but that it is not the only way to go about playing Starcraft at the top level. Edit: BTW great article, really enjoyed reading it. | ||
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