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Rhakhar
Profile Joined October 2010
13 Posts
October 10 2010 17:56 GMT
#381
"H to the usky Husky" (makes me want to stab my ears with a rusted spoon)

"Looks like he may be going"

"X needs to watch out"

"That was amazing"
TedJustice
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Canada1324 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-10 17:57:54
October 10 2010 17:57 GMT
#382
I will admit that hearing "NICE FORCEFIELDS" all the time is a little annoying. To me, it seems like most casters say it as a reflex whenever they hear the forcefield sound. Even if they're terrible forcefields, they'll say "Nice forcefields! Wait, no those weren't very good at all." It takes away from when someone really did have really nice forcefield use. But then usually they can compensate by saying BEAUTIFUL FORCEFIELDS or EXCELLENT FORCEFIELDS for the really good ones, so it's not really that big of a deal.
mappiechampion
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden155 Posts
October 10 2010 18:04 GMT
#383
I think a big issue for casters is that they comment on what is happening visually, and not why it is happening. I get so frustrated when I watch TheGunRun cast, because he doesn't say anything except what all players can see, I don't need a caster to say "he is putting down a barracks there.. so yeah.. he is going 2 rax-play". I know that, because I do have eyes.
Also, stop using the word play after every single thing, Robo-play, 2gate-play, muta-play, drop-play, storm-play. It doesn't mean anything! It's just annoying. </rage>
Scorch
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Austria3371 Posts
October 10 2010 18:20 GMT
#384
I can't take it when casters misuse the word colossi. It is one colossus, multiple colossi. Being unable to remember this needlessly makes a caster look stupid.
An overused term I find annoying and unclear is to go down. It's used either for a building being constructed, or something being destroyed.
To combine the two: please, please, I don't ever want to hear "one colossi goes down, second colossi goes down..." during a protoss battle. Day[9] and TheGunRun said it on multiple occasions just yesterday.
floor exercise
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Canada5847 Posts
October 10 2010 18:30 GMT
#385
On October 11 2010 03:20 Scorch wrote:
I can't take it when casters misuse the word colossi. It is one colossus, multiple colossi. Being unable to remember this needlessly makes a caster look stupid.
An overused term I find annoying and unclear is to go down. It's used either for a building being constructed, or something being destroyed.
To combine the two: please, please, I don't ever want to hear "one colossi goes down, second colossi goes down..." during a protoss battle. Day[9] and TheGunRun said it on multiple occasions just yesterday.


The goes down thing I don't understand, I mean if it was just audio yes, but how can you not understand it or be left confused in the context of the video you are watching

The collosi thing I suppose comes from "I" being a personal pronoun, you think of it as singular in the heat of the moment. That's my theory anyway.
infinity2k9
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United Kingdom2397 Posts
October 10 2010 19:56 GMT
#386
When you start noticing these really overused things the commentary gets really grating in my opinion. I never notice such silly repetition when i'm watching say, Football, so why does it have to be done here? Feel's gimmicky.
Osmoses
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Sweden5302 Posts
October 10 2010 20:01 GMT
#387
The most overused single word I've noticed is "does".

"He does appear to be taking his third."
"He does go on the attack"
"He does make another colossus"

Doesn't really bother me, and I know how hard it is to think up intelligent things to say on the spot, so I can understand why a lot of casters would buy themselves a few extra seconds by using "does" in every sentence that describes a player action.
Excuse me hun, but what is your name? Vivian? I woke up next to you naked and, uh, did we, um?
Draz
Profile Joined April 2010
United States44 Posts
October 10 2010 20:03 GMT
#388
On July 15 2010 17:38 itmeJP wrote:
We've been doing a lot of casting over the past six days (around 9 or 10 hours I think?) since we've been doing a match a day at MLG -- no, I don't know when we're releasing them right now. With all this time casting, I've started to notice lines that myself, Diggity, iNcontrol, and Day[9] constantly repeat.

Since I'm always looking to improve my casting and I think the community in general wants the best casting possible, I decided a thread of 'overused' lines should be created!

THE LIST OF SILLY OVERUSED WORDS AND PHRASES :
  • It'll be interesting to see...
  • On the field...
  • Standard...
  • Deviation
  • Opting to...
  • What a blunder (thanks to Day[9] for making me do this, jerk!)
  • We are here on...
  • One thing to note...
  • It's the most normal thing in the world
  • Nothing out of the ordinary
  • This is awesome !
  • He really should have....
  • He really should be getting...
  • He'll know exaaactly what's coming/what's going on/what his opponent is up to
  • That was a cute/creative play...
  • terrible, terrible damage!
I think in one cast I said 'opt' about twenty times. Terrible!

Please help out all casters improve their skills and tell us what we overuse! I will add them to the above list if this thread becomes popular. If you can cite specific VODs or casters and phrases (without flaming) that would help too as I'm fairly certain everyone is open to criticism.

If this thread turns into 'Who is the better caster?' it will most likely be closed -- so don't!


How about "OHHHHHHHH GOSH" "OHHHHHHHHHH MAN" "OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" *SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH*

Can anyone guess who does this about 100 times per cast?!
infinity2k9
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United Kingdom2397 Posts
October 10 2010 20:12 GMT
#389
Oh also i think people are trying too hard to be constantly talking. It is a strategy game i don't think we have to have this one style of fake-overexcitement and non-stop talking for every caster, i'd like a caster who toned it down a bit... at a slower tempo this kind of overused catchphrases could be avoided too when people have more time to think about what they are saying.
insult
Profile Joined August 2008
59 Posts
October 10 2010 20:13 GMT
#390
"At this point in time" is used a lot by day9.
Xeris: "Think of Haypro for example (this is purely speculative about his actual mindset/decisionmaking): he could probably win a majority of the weekly cups on EU/NA"
aztrorisk
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States896 Posts
October 10 2010 20:15 GMT
#391
unorthodox build

man, HD says that all the time

Psystarcraft is the best caster
A lock that opens to many keys is a bad lock. A key that opens many locks is a master key.
bLuR
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Canada625 Posts
October 10 2010 20:20 GMT
#392
everything the gunrun says is overused because he's awful at casting in my opinion.. its definetely almost making me not watch the iem
Gann1
Profile Joined July 2009
United States1575 Posts
October 10 2010 20:28 GMT
#393
"exaaaaactly what his opponent is up to" makes me want to stab my ears until i can't hear anymore
I drop suckas like Plinko
Rejuvenation
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada128 Posts
October 10 2010 20:31 GMT
#394
"ladies and gentlemen"
Izzachar
Profile Joined February 2010
Sweden285 Posts
October 10 2010 20:42 GMT
#395
Has been said but this annoys me a lot.

"at this point in time"

also the word

"push"
latan
Profile Joined July 2010
740 Posts
October 10 2010 21:08 GMT
#396
HD says these waaay too much:

-somehow someway

-obliterate
OriX
Profile Joined April 2010
United Kingdom41 Posts
October 10 2010 21:13 GMT
#397
How about constantly saying "This is so high-level!" when you're casting the GSL Ro32? I thought that was a given!
vyyye
Profile Joined July 2010
Sweden3917 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-10 21:21:51
October 10 2010 21:18 GMT
#398
EG IdrA, who, by the way, happens to be my teammate.

..of team EG, a great team that I recently joined

Guess who?

But seriously, what bugs me is when casters blatantly copy other casters. Blunder isn't the standard term for any mistake ever made, but somehow it is these days. Also, everything isn't a 'sign of a good player' or 'what separates the good players from the great'.

Sometimes he just got the expansion because his macro was godawful and he was bathing in minerals. I kind of don't get how any micro at all is 'some fantastic micro by X'. I'm talking about stuff like moving one stalker who's low on shields to the back. Yeah, it's good but people do that in platinum. Hardly worth of any note when there is 2 stalkers, 1 marine and 1 marauder on the field.
drlame
Profile Joined February 2010
Sweden574 Posts
October 10 2010 21:24 GMT
#399
"That's so BM"

Really? No. It's not BM, stop saying that.
sjschmidt93
Profile Joined April 2010
United States2518 Posts
October 10 2010 21:29 GMT
#400
Artosis: Good moves here from ________
Tasteless: (Seriously) High level play

Both of them: Rush. No need to call every single build a rush.. because it's not.
My grandpa could've proxied better, and not only does he have arthritis, he's also dead. -Sean "Day[9]" Plott
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