Official State of the Game Podcast Thread - Page 244

On November 18 2010 19:29 Defacer wrote:
I can't believe that, during the fantasy tournament discussion, no one brought up prize money.

I guess it's a natural assumption that there would be a shit load, but I think the prize money should be better distributed/spread, like in a 128-man tournament the top 32, at minimum, should get something.

On November 18 2010 16:54 iCanada wrote:
I mean, granted only 2 of the top twenty are Toss, but it is also true that 10 of the top 20 are protoss as well.

On November 18 2010 19:25 Defacer wrote:
It's a shame about the Select situation.

It's pretty clear from InControl that nothing personal was meant by his comments and that he was just busting another player's chops, but the topic of Select's one-dimensional play came up all MLG DC Weekend. And InControl's comments about Select's play on the MLG Dallas Live on 3 weren't exactly ... ummm ... diplomatic.

To be honest, the difference between InControl busting on Select versus, say, Artosis, is both social and cultural. Artosis and InControl actually have a friendship/relationship outside of the game or a tournament, so busting on his nose or Judaism is par for course. Select on the other hand, is just a peer/stranger to InControl, that is also a soft-spoken, unassuming Asian immigrant that has English as his second language. Talking shit is more of a North American/European past time, that goes over most ESL immigrant's heads. I have met and known a lot of young immigrants that are extremely self-conscious around non-Asians, and can't tell when people are laughing with them or at them.

Que sera, sera.

On November 18 2010 20:21 WhO wrote:
is there someplace where I can watch episode 20 without downloading?

On November 18 2010 20:28 Swede wrote:
Great cast for the most part, but allow me to submit a little criticism which may or may not be constructive (depends what you do with it):

The PvT discussion:

Painuser: "Armor and guardian shield allow zealots to absorb an extra 15 - 20 hits, and statistically speaking, they're a good unit"
iNcontroL and Tyler: Giant rant about something that Painuser never even said.
Painuser: "Thors absorb a tonne of front-loaded damage"
iNcontroL: Bunch of argumentative bullshit that has nothing to do with what Painuser said.

Etc etc etc.

Basically, it seemed like Painuser was just trying to share some interesting thoughts on the match-up/possible strategies and the other guys just instantly shit on anything he said. It's just disappointing to hear supposed 'pros' dismissing ideas out of hand based on red herring 'arguments' when there could have been something to gain from discussing those ideas.

Personally I can't understand why iNcontroL would be against his meatshield units being better meatshields (with +1 armor), because that's what it sounded like. All I heard was argument for the sake of argument, or at best argument for the sake of proving Protoss is worse off.

But truthfully the worst thing is that you didn't even give your guest the benefit of the doubt. We hear your thoughts every week, and although I can understand the arguing with guests like Artosis, it really shouldn't be that way with guests like Painuser (who was dam good, btw) whose thoughts we may not hear again (though I hope we do).

TL;DR: Let your guests talk a bit more before jumping all over them. We hear you guys every week, we may never hear them again.

(I'm aware that Painuser was remarkably good spirited about it all btw... But I'm saying this more for the sake of the content in the podcast rather than for the sake of your guests)

On November 18 2010 20:30 ulf5 wrote:

You could visit the place where the hosting server is located. If you mean you would like to listen to it while it's downloading you could just start the download and open the file in vlc and it will place while it's being downloaded.

On November 18 2010 20:38 WhO wrote:


oh wow im a nub huh... lol Thanks alot :D

On November 18 2010 20:36 shaunnn wrote:


Do you play terran by any chance?

On November 18 2010 20:28 Swede wrote:
Great cast for the most part, but allow me to submit a little criticism which may or may not be constructive (depends what you do with it):

The PvT discussion:

Painuser: "Armor and guardian shield allow zealots to absorb an extra 15 - 20 hits, and statistically speaking, they're a good unit"
iNcontroL and Tyler: Giant rant about something that Painuser never even said.
Painuser: "Thors absorb a tonne of front-loaded damage"
iNcontroL: Bunch of argumentative bullshit that has nothing to do with what Painuser said.

Etc etc etc.

Basically, it seemed like Painuser was just trying to share some interesting thoughts on the match-up/possible strategies and the other guys just instantly shit on anything he said. It's just disappointing to hear supposed 'pros' dismissing ideas out of hand based on red herring 'arguments' when there could have been something to gain from discussing those ideas.

Personally I can't understand why iNcontroL would be against his meatshield units being better meatshields (with +1 armor), because that's what it sounded like. All I heard was argument for the sake of argument, or at best argument for the sake of proving Protoss is worse off.

But truthfully the worst thing is that you didn't even give your guest the benefit of the doubt. We hear your thoughts every week, and although I can understand the arguing with guests like Artosis, it really shouldn't be that way with guests like Painuser (who was dam good, btw) whose thoughts we may not hear again (though I hope we do).

TL;DR: Let your guests talk a bit more before jumping all over them. We hear you guys every week, we may never hear them again.

(I'm aware that Painuser was remarkably good spirited about it all btw... But I'm saying this more for the sake of the content in the podcast rather than for the sake of your guests)