EPTSO! I thought I'd make a little video showcasing the idea and maybe some others will think it's neat, too.
Minimap Movie: The Purple Mile
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Zerokaiser
Canada885 Posts
SO! I thought I'd make a little video showcasing the idea and maybe some others will think it's neat, too. | ||
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Looky
United States1608 Posts
 . i know i know im good. | ||
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SmoKim
Denmark10305 Posts
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GWash
United States153 Posts
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navara
France95 Posts
Cool concept. thanks for sharing | ||
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Kerm
France467 Posts
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piloe
Netherlands287 Posts
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Mikkerthebhu
Denmark154 Posts
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risk.nuke
Sweden2825 Posts
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Snowfield
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hellsan631
United States695 Posts
I actually really like the concept. If someone where so inclined and talented, as to compose some music for certain replays, then this could be a smashing hit. | ||
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MasterZilla
Sweden234 Posts
On October 27 2010 18:53 Zerokaiser wrote: I've always had a certain affection for putting replays on 8x speed and just watching the minimap and the little squares doing battle. I enjoyed this in BW as well. If you held down the TAB-key, you could force the minimap to refresh several times per second, which made the movements really smooth and fluid. Nice movie! | ||
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Floydian
United Kingdom374 Posts
Reminds me of when I was watching one of the Flash vs Jaedong finals, was a long epic game, and just looking at the minimap was amazing, so many movements back and forth across the whole map. Was amazing to think it was just two people controlling it all. | ||
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Fluffy1
United States322 Posts
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Jibba
United States22883 Posts
Who knew watching workers on minimaps could be that interesting. I'll probably start doing it during games.  | ||
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Zerokaiser
Canada885 Posts
On October 27 2010 20:02 Jibba wrote: That is actually pretty awesome. Who knew watching workers on minimaps could be that interesting. I'll probably start doing it during games. I've done that more than once x.x If you like that "rapid movement" type of thing with a bunch of units, you should check out "Conway's Game of Life", a cellular automata based off of a few simple life-or-death rules. You can run simulations and get a really similar, more interesting effect (both scientifically and just "Cooooooool...") | ||
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RainPTR
Australia8 Posts
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Zerokaiser
Canada885 Posts
On October 27 2010 20:08 RainPTR wrote: pretty nice, paired with good music. Would be fun to watch some carriers too Maybe I'll try some carriers if people subscribe and tell me nice things :3 Of course, you don't need to make a video to watch the minimap. Simple complexity is beautiful. | ||
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Raislin
United States144 Posts
Do more! | ||
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Snowfield
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BaltA
Norway849 Posts
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Unhinged
United States15 Posts
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Zerokaiser
Canada885 Posts
On October 27 2010 20:16 Snowfield wrote: Wonder if we could make the minimap bigger / clearer somehow.... Well, I think you'd have to modify the game files somehow and risk being banned. I'm sure it's possible to refine the quality of the raw video a bit, but you're still looking at big coloured squares so I didn't worry too much about it. | ||
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desRow
Canada2654 Posts
On October 27 2010 18:55 Looky wrote: idra vs huk game 2 . i know i know im good.guessed it without reading ur comment haha and yes very entertaining hope u make more videos | ||
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heir apparent
United States4 Posts
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guitarizt
United States1492 Posts
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REM.ca
Canada354 Posts
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Superouman
France2195 Posts
Keep up the good work | ||
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
On October 27 2010 18:57 SmoKim wrote: the simplicity and music made it wonderful to watch ^_____^ +1 good op, thanks for that Zerg lost his drone scout too early though . | ||
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Qzy
Denmark1121 Posts
It's HuK vs. IdrA from MLG DC.What do i win? Crap, it had been mentioned . | ||
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MavercK
Australia2181 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/906/rovjulyrockay4.gif) a worthy 500th post. | ||
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Wolf
Korea (South)3290 Posts
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Ancient.eu
Romania621 Posts
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Wargizmo
Australia1237 Posts
It's almost hypnotic, like watching those time lapse videos you see in nature documentaries. | ||
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number1gog
United States1081 Posts
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aeoliant
Canada361 Posts
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Mob
Austria152 Posts
this reminds me of a really old game. where you had a little army of pixels fighting against other pixels. | ||
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burningDog
Netherlands59 Posts
Now just sell it to a museum for $10.000,- and you're an accomplished artist! (or you could stay indie and just make a youtube channel for it) | ||
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de1irium
United States121 Posts
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fabiano
Brazil4644 Posts
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Weavel
Finland9221 Posts
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ELA
Denmark4608 Posts
Thanks for posting dude | ||
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Rahlekk
United States107 Posts
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xccam
Great Britain1150 Posts
was great. | ||
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okuraku
United States210 Posts
link: http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/riptide/liquidweekly/LW8LiquidFFA.sc2replay | ||
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Gridlock
United Kingdom517 Posts
I'm now hoping for a small app that can open replay files into full screen minimap replays. Especially one that would run on my Blackberry... | ||
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Alzadar
Canada5009 Posts
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megagoten
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i'm gonna facebook it edit: i was cheering for the loser... :'( | ||
Kiante
Australia7069 Posts
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naveedx983
United States58 Posts
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Ferrose
United States11378 Posts
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Hesmyrr
Canada5776 Posts
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Imhotep
Sweden267 Posts
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SmoKim
Denmark10305 Posts
On October 27 2010 21:40 MavercK wrote: my favorite is julyzerg sauron zerg minimap.... + Show Spoiler + a worthy 500th post. i would pay big money to see him do that again Sauron Zerg = the only real kind of Zerg | ||
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Deckkie
Netherlands1595 Posts
when can I expect the next awesome game?? :p | ||
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Gingerninja
United Kingdom1339 Posts
On October 28 2010 00:57 SmoKim wrote: i would pay big money to see him do that again Sauron Zerg = the only real kind of Zerg Idra could have done that a few days ago at GSL.. had his opp, pinned in the base had 4/5 bases taken.. he easily could have taken the others seeing as his muta ball had the opp pressed back and then let the siege begin. Shame he didn't, I've been waiting to see someone do it. Fruitdealer could have maybe tried against boxer at Blizzcon too, he had 5/6 hatches vs boxers 2 base. | ||
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killerkoala
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TheGrimace
United States929 Posts
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Qzy
Denmark1121 Posts
No I'm kidding!... or am I! . Love the pixel fights. | ||
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Speight
Australia152 Posts
Cool concept OP, thanks for sharing. | ||
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Flaunt
New Zealand784 Posts
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Typho0n
Canada276 Posts
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ThE.SparkZ
United States381 Posts
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AirbladeOrange
United States2573 Posts
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tw!tch
United States563 Posts
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TymerA
Netherlands759 Posts
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Zerokaiser
Canada885 Posts
On October 28 2010 02:26 ThE.SparkZ wrote: Well done sir, i'd watch again. The music fit it so well and it was really pretty. Do you know what song that is? To be honest, I was intending to put Tubular Bells from Mike Oldfield on there (AKA, the Excorsist theme) but for some reason the audio file wasn't working. So...I searched "mp3" on my newely reformatted computer and picked the most soothing sample music I could find, which ended up being a song called "Maid with Flaxen Hair". | ||
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Ygz
England370 Posts
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lowlypawn
United States241 Posts
Watching only the mini map reminds me of a scientists try to figure out what it going on with very limited information, similar to quantum physics, astronomy, biology ETC. I imagine what if aliens came across an archive of millions of SC2 games but the only thing they could see was the mini map. What could they learn about SC2? Could they identify the different units? I'm sure they could easily tell there are 3 races and all the races mine/eat/use the minerals, except that wouldn't know they are called minerals. I think the gas extractors would seem more mysterious but I think they could figure them out as well. Anyway I could go on and on about the mini map and what could be learned but even if the aliens had millions or mini-map replays I doubt the aliens could ever draw what the units look like. They could probably figure out everything else, attack strength, movement speed, cost, build time ETC but I doubt they could ever draw a Zergling. It makes me wonder if that is the same hurtle we are facing in trying to picture a quark or some other subatomic particle... | ||
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Chairman Ray
United States11903 Posts
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Chronopolis
Canada1484 Posts
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BluFenix
United States32 Posts
1. Worker saturation looks really pretty, with all those dots moving very fast between mins and base. 2. The power of the swarm in master macro Idra's hand is very intriguing to watch, seeing almost no units then a dot KERPLOSION right before he heads out. Very nicely done, loved the music too! | ||
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Talin
Montenegro10532 Posts
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sylph_uscm
United Kingdom7 Posts
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qualiA
Canada39 Posts
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MangoTango
United States3670 Posts
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MisterD
Germany1338 Posts
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JWD
United States12607 Posts
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Skygrinder
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yoplate
United States332 Posts
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1Eris1
United States5797 Posts
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.ImpacT.
United States390 Posts
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Merikh
United States918 Posts
On October 27 2010 18:55 Looky wrote: idra vs huk game 2 . i know i know im good.XD I was thinking this too! nice | ||
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HuK
Canada1591 Posts
sike, very nice and the music fits perfectly ^^; i can identify with every moment of that game of what i actually saw on screen and what iw as thinking | ||
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Mikilatov
United States3897 Posts
Watching the zerg reinforcements is totally awesome. | ||
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loving it
Canada271 Posts
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gundream
United States229 Posts
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MrShank
Canada144 Posts
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coddan
Estonia890 Posts
On October 28 2010 08:24 Liquid`HuK wrote: THIS SUCKS DONT EVER SHOW THIS AGAIN!! sike, very nice and the music fits perfectly ^^; i can identify with every moment of that game of what i actually saw on screen and what iw as thinking OP: now make mothership rush dot wars | ||
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Percutio
United States1672 Posts
You should do more in the future! | ||
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.Aar
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ShaperofDreams
Canada2492 Posts
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Musketeer
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I'm also happy that so many people liked the music. It's a clarinet arrangement of Debussy's "La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin". | ||
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MandoRelease
France374 Posts
I can only imagine what it'd be like with a nydus, like a blue square that pops out of nowhere, and lots of tiny blue squarre come out of it. Anyway, awesome concept, would love to see more | ||
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Zerokaiser
Canada885 Posts
Everybody should PM me suggestions for replays/songs to use! | ||
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johanngrunt
Hong Kong1555 Posts
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Ichabod
United States1659 Posts
Glad to see that you're doing another! | ||
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-{Cake}-
United States217 Posts
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flodeskum
Iceland1267 Posts
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GGTeMpLaR
United States7226 Posts
you should make more of these, it was beautiful and I didn't even see the game | ||
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xfyre
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PaPoolee
Netherlands660 Posts
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Marl
United States694 Posts
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RHMVNovus
United States738 Posts
On October 28 2010 14:17 Teogamer wrote: Man if someone made a mod so that you could somehow distinguish what buildings were what and maybe even units, watching the minimap all throughout a game would be awesome. But the beauty is that it's up to your own personal interpretation. "That dot looks like a Zealot!" "I don't see it! It looks like an observer to me." I love that. Subbed. | ||
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thinkzerg
Canada162 Posts
Excellent work. | ||
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SpiDaH
France198 Posts
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Le BucheRON
Canada619 Posts
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echobong
Canada92 Posts
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awha
Denmark1358 Posts
I would watch a second movie anytime | ||
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Darkalbino
Australia410 Posts
I can see everything going on in my head perfectly lol | ||
Heyoka
Katowice25012 Posts
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KingRajesh
United States927 Posts
Something about watching all the purple expand all over the map... :D | ||
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Tuneful
United States327 Posts
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Sealteam
Australia296 Posts
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osten
Sweden316 Posts
On October 28 2010 04:42 lowlypawn wrote: Ha, I'm glad I'm not the only person to be memorized by the mini map. I will sometimes re-watch a replay at the fastest speed only watching the mini map to see what kind of clues can be gained and used to my advantage for future games. Watching only the mini map reminds me of a scientists try to figure out what it going on with very limited information, similar to quantum physics, astronomy, biology ETC. I imagine what if aliens came across an archive of millions of SC2 games but the only thing they could see was the mini map. What could they learn about SC2? Could they identify the different units? I'm sure they could easily tell there are 3 races and all the races mine/eat/use the minerals, except that wouldn't know they are called minerals. I think the gas extractors would seem more mysterious but I think they could figure them out as well. Anyway I could go on and on about the mini map and what could be learned but even if the aliens had millions or mini-map replays I doubt the aliens could ever draw what the units look like. They could probably figure out everything else, attack strength, movement speed, cost, build time ETC but I doubt they could ever draw a Zergling. It makes me wonder if that is the same hurtle we are facing in trying to picture a quark or some other subatomic particle... Haha so sexy, you sound like you're on weed pure truth. I love minimap games, there should be an animation with every replay on the replay sites! Someone get coding! | ||
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Valckrie
United Kingdom533 Posts
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gm.tOSS
Germany898 Posts
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Superouman
France2195 Posts
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lowlypawn
United States241 Posts
On October 28 2010 19:00 osten wrote: Haha so sexy, you sound like you're on weed pure truth. I love minimap games, there should be an animation with every replay on the replay sites! Someone get coding!Haha, no drugs for me I'm fucked up enough without em. I'm a bit of a video maker myself so I thought I would try my hand at this. | ||
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Combine
United States812 Posts
Really did feel like you were watching the back and forth of living things in speed ^^ | ||
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ReketSomething
United States6012 Posts
(zerg is obvious but I mean protoss and terran) | ||
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tw!tch
United States563 Posts
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On_Slaught
United States12190 Posts
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