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tsarnicky
Profile Joined May 2011
104 Posts
August 17 2011 22:52 GMT
#541
IMO the phrases listed in the OP are exactly the phrases which should be used... they precede actual analysis。 as opposed to phrases like line em up (lame old jokes=no value) and "amazing play" (why not comment on the play instead of just screaming) (another ex: this is huge)

Side note: many of the day 9 phrases are supposed to be funny.... so don't expect them to be analytical....
good macro... all is good... perfect -oGsMC
Itsmedudeman
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States19229 Posts
August 17 2011 22:53 GMT
#542
the word meticulous
psteeleneg
Profile Joined June 2011
48 Posts
August 17 2011 22:55 GMT
#543
I seriously can't believe anyone hasn't mentioned the phrase "but at what cost?" Just about EVERY caster says it like 3 times per game.

"He may have sniped the nexus there, but at what cost?"
Coal
Profile Joined July 2011
Sweden1535 Posts
August 19 2011 07:49 GMT
#544
HERE WE GO!!!!!!
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
KARnyge
Profile Joined October 2010
United States132 Posts
August 19 2011 07:56 GMT
#545
Wow those were some great forcefields
Spectorials
Profile Joined October 2010
558 Posts
August 19 2011 08:00 GMT
#546
Every second cast ending "wowwwwwwww"

even if there was nothing good that actually happened the entire game. PainUser I am looking at you the most >_<
TumbaSC
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States78 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-19 08:05:43
August 19 2011 08:05 GMT
#547
I overuse "absolutely" A TON! I'm certain others do as well.
LoOny
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Germany22 Posts
August 19 2011 08:09 GMT
#548
"he's soooooo good"

"...i dont' know though..."

"expect gg any second"
"...don't worry, it is dead already..."
Schelim
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Austria11528 Posts
August 19 2011 08:10 GMT
#549
"that was a small blunder" - wtf do you even know what blunder means
Rotterdam has a few but i love him for it, for example:
"any time soon" (this is used as pure filler with absolutely no meaning attached to it)
day9 likes to repeat himself like 3 times, especially in his dailies
TY <3 Cure <3 Inno <3 Special <3
acrimoneyius
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States983 Posts
August 19 2011 08:11 GMT
#550
hahaha people complaining about "HERE come the banelings" and "so many banelings"? You can never have enough of that.
Phyrful
Profile Joined July 2011
United States248 Posts
August 19 2011 08:13 GMT
#551
"here comes the timing push" - any time an army leaves the door of the natural
"It's a choose, not a perfumation"-Lina
rawrjaaaaay
Profile Joined March 2011
United States426 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-19 08:19:07
August 19 2011 08:18 GMT
#552
"I cannot believe it!"

It's used soo much these days. Even during standard play.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
schaf
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany1326 Posts
August 19 2011 08:19 GMT
#553
His play is impeccable!

Best force fields ever!

every so slightly - I HATE THAT!!!
Axiom wins more than it loses. Most viewers don't. - <3 TB
blDraX
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany39 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-19 08:23:15
August 19 2011 08:19 GMT
#554
I actually don't know if it belongs here, but this came to my mind and I want to state that here.

Personally I think that not the phrases themselves are the problem. Of course there are things that you hear over and over again until the point where it gets a little annoying. I mostly realize this in the casting of Day[9] to be honest, but I don't watch a lot of the lesser known casters.

The thing is, that most casters seem to feel like they always have to say something and seem not to realize, that short times of silence are not bad. If I watch German soccer (which I hardly do but anyway) and listen to the commentator(s), they stop every now and then, just letting the viewers relax a little, because it's veeeery exhausting to listen to a voice for a long time, especially is it talks very fast (e.g. Day[9] tends to do that but almost every other caster does it too).

I think it has a reason why Tastosis are considered the best casting duo at the moment. Have you paid attention to how they cast and how different their style is actually from EVERY other caster in Starcraft II? They do not talk all the time and don't feel like they always have to comment on everything and fill every gap of silence. If there is nothing so say or if there's nothing that comes to their minds, they just don't say anything for a few seconds, instead of filling the time with some of the (sometimes annoying) standard phrases. This is very nice to listen to, I have no problems to watch GSL for some hours, while I always need a break every now and then at other events because the caster are aaalways talking and always so fast.

The calm way of casting that Tastosis show is really something, other casters should try to aim for. There are casters, who do it already also quite well (for example djWheat has such a calm style but of course he's always casting together with Day[9], who starts talking as soon as he stops; also Rotterdam has not that kind of "in your face"-style of casting).

If casters stop their way of "talking in turns as fast and as much as they can", this will be a huge improvement and the amount of those standard phrases will reduce automatically. Of course I don't want to say that everyone has to cast the same way but there are a lot of variations that do not include "talking all the time and comment on every little unimportant thing".
sodapop
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden189 Posts
August 19 2011 08:20 GMT
#555
On August 19 2011 17:10 Schelim wrote:
"that was a small blunder" - wtf do you even know what blunder means
Rotterdam has a few but i love him for it, for example:
"any time soon" (this is used as pure filler with absolutely no meaning attached to it)
day9 likes to repeat himself like 3 times, especially in his dailies


Haha, Rotterdams "any time soon"! Most of the time it ends up making what he tries to say sound like it means the complete opposite!
Immersion_
Profile Joined May 2010
United Kingdom794 Posts
August 19 2011 08:24 GMT
#556
From JP, that's QUITE A BIT OF banelings, he has QUITE A BIT of marines here!! I'm not anal about my grammar but if ur gonna use a phrase so much! Great other than that though!
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ogawdlulz
Profile Joined March 2011
Bangladesh61 Posts
August 19 2011 08:36 GMT
#557
I feel like some casters are too quick to point out the player's mistakes and they do it too often, especially when the action that seemed as a mistake to the caster was actually intentional. Also, starcraft is a game with imperfect information and there is no perfect and mistakeless way to play.
Happystreet
Profile Joined January 2011
550 Posts
August 19 2011 08:42 GMT
#558
Day[9] "Uncharacteristic mistake" Hope i spelled that one right though i doubt it.
MKP | Jinro | Thorzain | Flash | Bomber | Amaz
Crushgroove
Profile Joined July 2010
United States793 Posts
August 19 2011 08:44 GMT
#559
IMO, should add "official thread" to the list of over-used expressions. Is this thread endorsed or started by TL?  Blizzard?  What makes it official?  Is there anything separating it from the hundreds of other threads started by other users and moderated by the same folks?  

I realize that this is sort of unrelated to the discussion, but since you, a caster, made the OP and title, it also sort of fits. I whole-heartedly support the formation of the thread, and your motivations for doing so, but I also feel too many people think their threads are official when by definition, they aren't. 
[In Korea on Vaca] "Why would I go to the park and climb a mountain? There are video games on f*cking TV!" - Kazuke
Siphyo
Profile Joined April 2011
Netherlands121 Posts
August 19 2011 08:54 GMT
#560
Moletrap: "High yield" (it's a fucking gold base), everything that dies seems to be "for free"
Tasteless: "Here's the thing about ..." (he can't say that often enough though <3)
Rotterdam: seems to think "nexi", "collossi", "feni" are all singular form
Wolf: "UH UH UH UH"
JP: "LETS TALK ABOUT MLG"
HSY - KMK - Hyomin - Yoona - Sojin | NesTea - DRG - Puzzle - Bomber - NANIWA
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