[IEM] Gamescom Day 5 - Page 182

On August 22 2010 23:33 Squeegy wrote:


Gamer insulter? What's the story on this?

How were the finals boring? If anything reaper play is some of the most exciting play in sc2.

On August 22 2010 23:56 Angra wrote:
I just have a few statements that I want to leave here because I think all of this whining is getting ridiculous from both sides of the argument.


1) For the people blaming Morrow for his play, what the hell do you expect him to do? Go "oh well my race is imba so I'm going to not try hard to make it even" ? He's been playing Terran since the beta first started. He played Terran at an incredibly high level in SC1. Of course he's going to play as best he can to win. You think that he's going to gimp himself just because he doesn't want random people on the internet to call him out on his race he's been playing for years being OP just recently? Come on.

2) IdrA did NOT play well on some of the games, especially Blistering Sands. 1000 mins/1000 gas? Max energy on queens? Come on. You can't say that IdrA was the better player that game at all and that he got beat just because of a cheesy strategy.

3) The game is what like not even 2 months old? People arguing about racial imbalances really need to take a step back and stop jumping on bandwagons. It seems like every single Terran on TL is arguing that Terran isn't OP, and every single Zerg on TL is arguing that Terran is more OP than anything else on the planet. I'm not saying that SC2 is the most balanced thing ever, it's obviously not, but seriously just give it time and try your best to play well. I'm so sick of people blaming racial imbalances for every single match ever that's being played right now, but I'm also sick of people seeing like one match where a zerg beats a terran or protoss and goes SEE?? ZERG IS JUST FINE.

I've been lurking TL for a couple years now and started posting about a year ago, and I really can barely stand reading a lot of sections of this forum anymore. Nobody is willing to compromise, nobody is willing to take a neutral stance on anything it seems like anymore, especially involving SC2. There's ridiculous, wild calls for nerfs and people blaming PLAYERS for problems with SC2. Really? Come on.

Of course there's going to be problems with SC2. I'm not even going to get into my biggest problem with the game, being that it's actually just not fun at all to play or watch, but even beyond that I can't believe people are SO incendiary that they have to be like this about a game in its infant state. Instead of making ridiculous claims and just trying to get whatever race you play at the time to be easy for you, why not actually make logical, well thought out suggestions. Terran doesn't need to be nerfed. At all. Zerg needs to be buffed however. But there's so many people who just are so ANGRY that they are blaming players like Morrow for it. Jeez.

If anything, be mad at Blizzard for making the game not fun first of all, and not balanced second. But please, please, please, don't blame the players. That's just ridiculous.

Congratulations to Morrow for winning the tournament, and congrats to Idra, DImaga, Tarson, and everyone else for being really good players and playing some exciting games.

On August 22 2010 23:56 Angra wrote:
2) IdrA did NOT play well on some of the games, especially Blistering Sands. 1000 mins/1000 gas? Max energy on queens? Come on.

On August 22 2010 23:55 BlindDruid wrote:


If you play to be number one, you play to be number one.
And you are not satisfied finishing second.
At least not in the first minutes.
You feel like a loser, no matter which position you placed.
I bet tomorrow he will say "oh cool i won money" - but just after losing you can`t get exited over second place.

On August 23 2010 00:03 AntiGrav1ty wrote:
And yeah, Dimaga is the real winner of this tournament

On August 22 2010 23:42 Osmoses wrote:

You know, in that thread about gaming and the word rape I was actually against any form of moderation but to be perfectly honest hearing it said live by a caster in front of this many people was really... uncomfortable.

On August 22 2010 23:55 Rev0lution wrote:
You guy are morons, if all a player's goal was to win the game no matter what then Zerg would be 100% winners with 4 pool.

On August 23 2010 00:01 PulseSUI wrote:
can we please stop the commenting on how good/bad the play was from IdrA or MorroW.. at least until the replays are posted and we can actualy look at it our self?

while i have all the respect for Day9 and d.apollo, they are not allways right.
during the LuciferoN vs HasuObs game they commented on the bad macro from Hasu who was floating 1k minerals when at the same time LuciferoN was up to almost 2.5k minerals and 1k+ gas.

just saying, commenting on player skill based on a low quality stream is pointless.

On August 23 2010 00:06 Twist-O-Fate wrote:



That uncomfortableness is a product of your own biases, and lack of understanding of language. the word rape was not borrowed from the sexual realm and applied to other things....It is actually the opposite. Rape in its truest form means pillage, destroy, violent seizure, abuse. It was then imported to characterize the sexual act.

On August 22 2010 23:42 BlindDruid wrote:


Probably the best terran player, when it comes to timing pushes with excellent macro and micro AND mindgames wins.

On August 23 2010 00:10 BlindDruid wrote:


Furthermore ANY German shoutcaster is using this word. Just because it`s a part of the gaminglanguage.
So it`s not politically incorrect in the first place, it`s a word which have been brought to another level to descripe a totally different situation.
Or did you see some reapers behind IdrA trying to pull down his pants?
See - me neither!