The Official Thread of Overused Terms for Casters - Page 3

On July 15 2010 20:36 Doctorasul wrote:
The most annoying caster is a caster that doesn't know what he's talking about. If you have no content, no amount of enthusiasm can compensate; in fact, it makes it even worse because you'll be excited about all the wrong things and you'll concentrate on what's obvious or uninteresting. Viewers will just wish they had the replay or will turn the sound off.

I'm not targeting anyone in particular here, but of the few casters I've seen, Day9 is the only one I could listen to for hours at a time. And that's not because he doesn't have weird expressions that he overuses, he does! But he has good content, he understands the game and when he's commenting he's actually trying to get a point across instead of just filling the silence with canned excitement.

So casters, please concentrate on content instead of worrying about this stuff. Tasteless likes to goof off, but he can only afford to do that and not be obnoxious because he has insighful commentary to wrap around the goofyness. Concentrate on the substance of your casts!

Edit: It wasn't fair to nominate Day9 as the only tolerable caster - Chill is also brilliant and I'm sure there are others. Artosis doesn't seem to put a lot of effort when commentating and is a bit too passive but he's still miles above the "all talk and no thought" crowd.

On July 15 2010 19:27 Nawyria wrote:
"(Not) gonna ..."

... be applying some pressure.
... add on a few raxxes.
... be getting the Xel'Naga Watchtower.
... be getting out a Bunker to to defend the expansion.
... be chrono-boosting that.
... push in to the natural.
... be adding on another expansion here.
... be getting that Khaydarian Amulat
... go ahead and take the rest of the map right now.
... be running for the Warp Prism.
... be warping in some more units.
... go ahead and make an Archon there.
... be getting that first Immortal.
... be going here on the cliff, possibly dropping off that two High Templar.
... be able to deal some damage here to that Planetary Fortress.
What he's ... try and do.
... be in a great position.
... wait until he has a large enough force until he has enough forces to steamroll that position.
Is he ... be using that?
... be taking out those tanks with the Mothership
... be able to get up here.
... be able to Psionic Storm immediately.
... be forced to macro up here and make a move.
... etc

(all from the first White-Ra versus CL from this night's cast, although I missed a few)

It's not that it's bothersome, it's just that the phrase stands out a lot.

On July 15 2010 17:38 itmeJP wrote:

• 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!

On July 15 2010 18:56 gaiyeam wrote:
h to the husky husky .