So, a lot of times i've tried to encourage some friends to watch Sean Plott's Day[9] Daily #100 because it's great to show another perspective about videogames in our lifes, and i've find that its hard for "normal" people (not into computers, not nerds/geeks/whatever) to watch a video of an american man talking in english without subtitles. Even if they would understand a lot of things, a lot of people is not into watching a 2-hour video in english without subtitles.
To solve this problem last week i started translating it to spanish, i know it's not gonna be quick and i dont have a lot of spare time, but i'll put some time in it every day and i'll finish in some weeks (i think).
Some questions came to my mind:
- Will i be able to upload it to my youtube account? or should i contact Sean and ask him if he would upload it to his channel?
-Will this encourage other people to translate Day9 Daily #100 to other languages and help spread Day9's awesomeness around the world?
- Could (the community/Sean) start a Youtube channel with translated Day9 dailies?
Thanks for reading and please tell me your thoughts about it.
PS. I want to make clear that i will not use any online translator so it will not be a "robotic" translation or anything like that.
EDIT Videos to see the subtitles we've done. Click on the little arrow looking up and then on CC (only appears when you have clicked on the play button) and select the language to see the subtitles on Youtube. On Blip.tv, just click CC and then select the language.
English: Current status:Completed Note: The transcript is done. Thanks to Rampager, elladan, Tschis and escruting. Thanks to WHiT3R4bBiT from Day[9]TV for the subtitling/timings on the videos! Users involved: Rampager, elladan, Tschis Text:English transcript on Google Docs (Only View and without subtitle timings, please do NOT use it to translate, use the subtitled text with timings below) Link to download the subtitle file--> Here
Portuguese-Brazilian: Current status:Completed Note: User Tschis was helping with the english transcription and simultaneously doing fragments of the Portuguese-Brazilian translation. Thanks. Users involved: Tschis Text: On Google Docs Link to download the subtitle file--> Here
Spanish: Current status:Working Note:Now that the english transcript is done I will translate this a lot faster. Users involved: escruting Some text done:+ Show Spoiler +
00:00 - Hola, señoras y señores, hoy es 13 de abril del 2010, y esto es el Day9 Daily nº100,mientras mi cámara autoajusta la luz, la he reposicionado a aquel antiguo ángulo que tenia, hize el nº99 con la cámara encima del ordenador, pero seguía mirando hacia aquí sin querer… y seguro que os suena el poster de Diablo3 y ahora como tengo una cámara HD podéis ver el poster de Starcraft 2 de ahí, es la caña. Así que, hoy tenemos un Day9 daily muy especial, para empezar, he llegado a los 3 digitos por primera vez, y tres dígitos son…guays, ahm además, hoy no vamos a hacer ningún análisis de juegos, ninguno, simplemente va a ser mi vida jugando a Starcraft, porque, creo que la gente no aprecia lo suficiente a los videojuegos que juegan, yo he crecido jugando a Starcraft, las cosas que he aprendido jugando a Starcraft me han ayudado tanto a crecer… Y solo quiero decir una cosa a la comunidad, que sean orgullosos de ser jugadores de Starcraft, no hay nada mejor que estar orgulloso de las cosas que amas, y, hoy ha sido muy emocional revisando todas las memorias que tengo de Starcraft, he tratado de resumirlo en algo que, ya sabéis, sea entretenido…Como veis he tomado notas de todo para asegurarme que no me olvido cosas. Así que vamos a hablar de Starcraft, vamos a empezar por el principio de todo, cuando compré el Stacraft, aún me acuerdo, crecí en una pequeña ciudad, en Leawood, Kansas, está en medio de la nada, así es Kansas verdad? Bueno, es parte de la ciudad de Kansas pero, igualmente, soy de Leawood, Kansas, donde la tierra es plana y la evolución aún es una teoría , esa es una frase que siempre utilizo. Vivíamos en una bonita casa pequeña, que estaba al lado de un centro comercial al que Nick (hermano) íbamos cada día, por supuesto había una tienda de software donde comprábamos nuestros aparatos electrónicos y estábamos muy emocionados por Starcraft, porque, nosotros jugábamos a Warcraft 2 nena! Si, es cierto, éramos jugadores de Warcraft 2, y como todos los niños, tu simplemente vas a tu madre y le dices “Mama, mama” y le cuentas unas cosas geniales como “Mama, sabes que en Warcraft 2, una catapulta tiene mas rango que una torre?” “Oww, ahora de repente no puedo perder la torre” o alguna tontería por el estilo, éramos los típicos pequeños “noobies” mi hermano y yo. Mi hermano Nick, probablemente mas conocido como “Tasteless” en la comunidad de Starcraft, pero será “Nick” en ésta historia. Así que mi hermano y yo caminábamos hasta el centro comercial pagamos 52,36 o algo asi por nuestro primer juego de Starcraft y fue muy gracioso porque el hombre de la tienda también era un gran nerd y él estaba igual de emocionado que nosotros por Starcraft, y nosotros incluso sabíamos el precio antes que él, ya veis, las típicas cosas nerds, Así que Nick y yo lo compramos por primera vez, y sólo teníamos un ordenador en la familia, porque ya sabéis, ahora somos tíos guays con nuestro propio ordenador, pero en aquél tiempo nos partíamos el tiempo y nos peleábamos por tener el máximo tiempo de juego posible “construye zerglings son la caña, créeme!”, no sabíamos de lo que hablábamos[risas]. Jugué mucho a Starcraft, esto era cuando yo, dios, debió ser cuando estaba en 5º o 6º grado cuando compré Starcraft, estoy seguro que fue en 6º grado y, después de un tiempo, a medida que jugaba mas y mas, rápidamente se convirtió en algo que YO hacia, era conocido por ser “ese” tío, porque traía la guía de estrategia Prima de Starcraft a clase y la leía en voz alta, era como “uh oh sé que unidad gana a cada unidad según Prima” “ uhm mira ésta es forma más fácil de pasarse la segunda misión de la campaña Terran”. Era el amo en 6º grado! Y empecé a jugar con mis buenos amigos Sean y Charlie y íbamos a casa de cada uno a jugar, fue mi primera experiencia de juego en red, nunca había jugado contra otro ser humano, quiero decir, había jugado partidas personalizadas, cosa que me llevaba 2 o…3 días ganar esas partidas, porque, ya sabéis, me aseguraba de que todas las unidades tuvieran nombre…de que si eran deshonradas serian ejecutadas….hablaba con ellas…ya sabéis…uhm tengo que estar seguro de que el Soldado Martin…tenemos que darle algo especial, porque tiene 4 muertes... Claro, porque sólo atacaba con 3 o 4 unidades a la vez. Pero bueno, la primera vez que jugué contra gente real, nosotros éramos malísimos y la red al final se estropeó, así que volvimos a jugar partidas de un jugador, por supuesto a “Big Game Hunters” porque ese era nuestro mapa favorito en 7º grado - 4:59
German: Current status:Working Note: Users niTsEn and Robqxz have started translating a lot faster now that the english transcript is done. Users involved: Triarier, Robqxz, Ojahh, cip. niTsEn Some text done:+ Show Spoiler +
[0:00:00] Hallo meine Damen und Herren. Heute ist der 13.te April 2010… und es ist Day[9] Daily Nummer 100. Seht wie meine Kamera sich ans Licht automatisch anpasst. Ich hab sie zurück an ihren alten Platz gestellt…Bei Daily 99 hab ich sie auf meinen Monitor gestellt aber hab einfach aus Gewohnheit weiter nach hier unten geschaut. Und ich bin sicher viele von euch kennen das Diablo 3 Poster. Und jetzt da ich eine HD-Kamera hab könnt ihr sogar das Starcraft 2 Poster sehen, das ist ziemlich genial. ..
Also heute… Heute ist ein unglaublich besonderes Day[9] Daily denn zu allererst, die Dailies ab jetzt sind dreistellig. Und dreistellig ist cool! Außerdem werden wir keine Analyse von einem Spiel heute machen: kein Spiel in keinster Weise. Es wird nur um mein Leben um und mit Starcraft gehen. Denn ich glaube Leute können gar nicht abschätzen wie sehr ein Spiel ein Leben beeinflussen kann[?]. Ich bin mit Starcraft aufgewachsen. Die Dinge, dich ich beim Spielen von Starcraft gelernt habe, haben mich zu der Person gemacht, die ich heute bin. Ich möchte den Leuten aus der Community eine Widmung geben, sagt einfach „Leute seid stolz darauf Starcraft Spieler zu sein“. Denn es gibt nichts Cooleres als auf das stolz zu sein dass man liebt. Und es war wirklich…es war nahezu richtig emotional, als ich heute durch die ganzen Erinnerungen gegangen bin, die ich durch Starcraft habe und ich versuche… sie zu zusammenfassen zu etwas, dass ansatzweise unterhaltend ist. Also, wie ihr bemerkt habt, habe ich hier Notizen gemacht, damit ich auch ja nichts auslasse.
So lasst uns über Starcraft reden. Lasst uns ganz am Anfang starten, als ich Starcraft das erste Mal gekauft habe. Ich kann mich immer noch daran erinnern. Ich bin in einer kleinen Stadt in Kansas aufgewachsen, Leawood. Das ist mitten im Nirgendwo. Aber es ist doch in Kansas? Ja es ist ein Teil von Kansas City aber trotzdem ich bin aus Leawood, Kansas, wo das Land flach ist und Evolution immer noch eine Theorie ist. Das sag ich immer wenn mich jemand auf meinen Heimatort anspricht. Wir lebten in einem tollen, kleinen Haus, das gleich neben einem Einkaufszentrum war zu dem Nick und Ich jeden Tag rübergehen könnten. Und natürlich war da ein Computerladen in dem wir all unsere Elektronikartikel gekauft haben. Und wir waren total aufgeregt für Starcraft, denn WIR spielten Warcraft 2 Baby… Ja wir sind wirklich Warcraft 2 Spieler! Und wie jedes Kind geht man zu seiner Mutter und sagt: „Mama! Mama!“ und du erzählst ihr all den genialen Blödsinn, der dir grad durch den Kopf geht. „ Mama, wusstest du dass in Warcraft 2 Katapulte weiter schießen können als Türme?“ Oh Baby Baby! Jetzt… Jetzt auf einmal kann ich nicht mehr gegen Türme verlieren. Ihr wisst schon, diese einfachen Sachen wie das grad. Wir waren diese normalen kleinen Anfänger, mein Bruder und ich…
Also mein Bruder Nick, der wahrscheinlich bekannter als Tasteless ist in der Starcraft Szene, aber in dieser Geschichte soll er Nick sein… Also mein Bruder Nick und ich, wir gingen rüber zum Einkaufszentrum und wir zahlten ungefähr 52,36 für unser erstes Exemplar von Starcraft. Und es war so lustig, denn der Typ hinter dem Tresen war auch so ein Riesennerd wie wir. Darum war er genauso aufgeregt für Starcraft wie wir. Daher wusste er den genauen Preis ohne nachschauen zu müssen. Ich glaube, das ist sehr typisches Zeichen für Nerdheit… Also Nick und ich kauften unser allererstes Exemplar und wir besaßen nur einen Computer in der Familie. Denn heutzutage sind wir reiche Prolls [?] und jeder hat seinen eigenen PC. Aber damals mussten wir uns die Zeit am PC aufteilen, also haben wir versucht uns vorzudrängeln, damit wir mehr Spielzeit hatten, oder zumindest mehr Rücksitzspielzeit. Ihr wisst schon: „Bau Zerglinge! Die sind genial! Glaub mir!”. Wir wussten nicht worüber wir redeten..
Also, ihr wisst ja, ich habe sehr viel Starcraft gespielt. Das war damals als ich in der, verdammt… ich muss in der fünften oder sechsten Klasse gewesen sein als ich Starcraft das erste Mal gekauft hab. Ich bin mir sicher dass ich in der 6ten Klasse war! Und… Und mit der Zeit, während ich immer mehr und mehr spielte, es, es ,es bekam immer mehr zu dem was ich tat: Ihr wisst schon als der Typ erkannt zu werden. Denn ich würde das Prisma Starcraft Strategieheft mit in die Schule bringen und würd es lesen. Ich war einfach, ähmm… Ich weiß welche Einheit gegen diese Einheit stark ist, laut Prisma, ihr wisst schon… „ Oh schaut her! Das ist der einfachste Weg die zweite Terranermission zu erledigen“, stimmts? Ich war derjenige, um den es sich in der 6ten Klasse gedreht hat! Ich hatte es! Hmm, und dann habe ich angefangen mit meinen, mit meinen großartigen Freunden Shawn und Charlie zu spielen. Und wir sind zu unseren Zuhauses gegangen und wir haben gespielt. Und das war meine erste, man kann es LAN-Erfahrung nennen. Ich hatte nie zuvor gegen einen Menschen gespielt. Ich meine, ich hab eigene Spiele gemacht, die normalerweise 2 bis 3 Tage dauerten bis diese beendet waren. Denn, wisst ihr, ich wollte sicher gehen, dass jede Einheit einen Namen hatte, Und falls sie unehrenhaft handelten wurden sie exekutiert. Und ich würde mit ihnen reden. Ihr wisst schon, so ungefähr: „Hmm. Oh ja. Ich muss sichergehen, dass Martin der Marin… ihr wisst schon, wir müssen ihm irgendetwas Besonderes geben, denn er hat schon 4 Gegner erledigt.” Wisst ihr, denn ich würde nur mit 3 bis 4 Einheiten gleichzeitig angreifen. Jedenfalls, Erstes Spiel jemals gegen echte Menschen. Und wir waren halt super schlecht und so. Und dann würd das Netzwerk ausfallen. Wir sind also zurück zu Einzelspieler Spielen natürlich auf der Karte Big Game Hunters. Denn das war unsere beliebteste Karte in der 7ten Klasse. Und… Oh verdammt, Brood War war damals schon draußen? Ich schätze mal dann haben wir auf der normalen Hunters
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Karte gespielt. Und, damit es auch fair ist, gegen den Computer haben wir nur eine Cheat benutzt. Das war die Regel, die wir aufgestellt haben. Nur einen. Man konnte machen, was man wollte, aber nur einen Cheat benutzen. Und es konnte nicht der Unverwundbarkeit Cheat sein. Man konnte einstellen, dass man die komplette Karte sieht, dass man die Sicht des Gegners sieht, dass man Geld bekommt. Aus einem unersichtlichen Grund, hab ich immer das Level 1 Upgrade für alle meine Einheiten genommen. Das ist ein Cheat den man einfach eingeben konnte. Ich war ungefähr so: „ Yeah, ich will, dass meine Arbeiter mit 1-1-1 starten. Das wird genial.“ So wisst ihr
Die Sache hat sich von da an zu Entwickeln begonnen und bald darauf haben mein Bruder und ich herausgefunden wie man 2 Computer miteinander verbinden konnte. Denn wir hatten diesen einen wirklich schlechten, alten PC und wir hatten auch noch diesen Netzwerk Laptop. Und wir würden dann halt einfach gegeneinander spielen. Für Stunden! Hm, aber ich denke, dass vielleicht wichtigste über unsere Spielzeit war… war das… wir hatten eine Sperrstunde. Wir durften bis 15 Uhr nicht am PC spielen. Denn eines Tages, Nick und ich spielten gerade Syndicate Wars! Erinnert ihr Leute euch an das Spiel? Unglaublich, das Spiel ist so Oldschool… Öffnet euren Web Browser und schaut nach Syndicate Wars, denn ich schwöre zu Gott, ich dachte das Spiel hatte die beste Grafik von allem was bis dato existiert hat, stimmts? Und ihr werdet nachschauen und es hat diese 320x240 Grafik und alles ist verpixelt. Man dreht den Bildschirm und der PC stürzt dadurch fast ab, weil es zu schwer zu verarbeiten für ihn ist. Hmm. Aber eines Tages, Nick und Ich stritten uns. Wir beide wollten wirklich, ihr wisst schon, spielen. Und unsere Mama war ungefähr so: „Da schaut her! Ihr streitet euch über den Computer. Ihr solltet eh nicht am Computer sein. Keine Video Spiele bis 15 Uhr!”. Und wir waren “Ohh, warum streiten wir uns darum? Hätten wir das nur nie getan…“ Meine Mutter hat uns immer um ungefähr 8, 9 Uhr aufgeweckt morgens, in den Sommerferien, damit wir Hausarbeiten machen, also Rasen mähen usw. Denn In Kansas hat man tatsächlich noch Rasen. In LA, es ist nahezu alles Beton, wisst ihr Betonwüste, und verdammt hoho Benzinpreise. Also nicht viel Mähen, das hier erledigt werden müsste. Und darum hatten wir nicht Zeit zum richtigen Spielen. Wir wären zwar wach, und wir hätten einfach nichts zu tun! Und es ist irgendwie komisch denn unsere Mutter war eine alleinerziehende arbeitende Mutter, die ihr eigenes Geschäft führt. Also war sie gar nicht in der Lage zu schauen, ob wir beide nicht schon vor 15 Uhr am Computer spielten, aber Nick und ich, ehrenhafte Gentleman wie wir immer noch sind, haben nie vor 15 Uhr am Computer gespielt… Und was wir stattdessen gemacht haben ist, dass wir zum Einkaufszentrum gegangen sind, jeden Tag. Das gleiche Einkaufszentrum in dem wir Star… Starcraft kauften. Wir schauten uns all die Spiele an. Wir hatten nicht wirklich viel Geld also würden wir das Cover der Spiele nur anschauen und nur lesen was auf den Rückseiten geschrieben stand. Und manchmal hatten wir genug Geld um uns ein Orangenhühnchen zu kaufen und wir setzten uns mit unserem Orangenhühnchen von der Essensausgabe hinter den Aufzug, und wir redeten einfach über Starcraft und wir würden einfach über Video Spiele reden.
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Und das ist glaub ich der Start dazu gewesen, dass mein Bruder und ich es liebten über Spiele zu diskutieren. Denn ich glaube fest, dass wahrscheinlich die Mehrheit der Leute, die jetzt gerade zuhören keine Geschwister haben, basierend auf ein paar Umfragen auf TeamLiquid und ähnlichem. Und dich denke es war so hilfreich für mich einen Bruder zu haben der einfach nur über Starcraft den ganzen Tag reden wollte. Wir wollten über Strategien und einfach alles reden. Und einfach über unsere verrückten Ideen und alles…Hm. Und das was so genial ist an Nick, wie… Ich meine, viele Leute haben gefragt, wie: „ Wie ist es o mit Tasteless aufzuwachsen?“ Es war genial! Schaut ihr GomTV? Wie könnte das schlecht sein? Mein Bruder ist super witzig! Ich meine… Was das das tatsächlich lustige ist, dass Nick einfach so lustig und so gut sein kann, ich war tatsächlich der ruhigere, jüngere, heranwachsende Bruder. Hm. Und es war, es war so cool! Ich würde einfach da sitzen und Nick würde einfach weiter und weiter machen und würde immer lustig dabei bleiben und immer lustiger und lustiger. Es war ein Heidenspaß, wisst ihr, für meinen Bruder, meine Mama und ich. Das waren wir drei, die zusammen miteinander aufgewachsen sind. Also, ungefähr, ja verdammt… Und wir spielten 1v1, als ginge es um alles! Ihr nennt das Spiel, Nick und Ich treten in ihm gegeneinander an. Mein Bruder war halt, mein härtester Gegner. Wir spielten GoldenEye 1v1, Lizenz zum Töten mit den Pistolen in der Spielhalle… Ja, danke! Wir spielten Soul Calibur. I spielte Maxi und Ivy und Nick spielte Mitsurugi, denn sie ist einfach stimmts? Er war unfair! Er würde einfach nur, nur di… Was ist es? Halt den tiefen Tritt hmm… Es war ungefähr Tritt-A. Er benutze verschieden Kombinationen: Zurück-Tritt-A, Unten-Tritt-A...und hat dies nur verändert. Und ich konnte ihn nie besiegen. Was sonst noch haben wir gemacht? Sogar Sega Saturn Spiele wie Last Bronx oder Sonic Racing… alle möglichen Dinge. Also ich meine, ich bin damit aufgewachsen, ohh, Street Fighter Alpha! Oh ja. Wir sind einfach damit aufgewachsen gegeneinander anzutreten, und wollten einfach besser sein als der andere und so sind wir in den letzen Tagen von Starcraft, Nick und ich sind endlich online gegangen, es war komisch.
Denn wir spielten nur gegeneinander und plötzlich waren wir… im Internet! Wo die dicken Fische schwimmen, stimmts? Und ich kann mich immer noch an mein allererstes Spiel erinnern. Es war…ok, es war ein 1v1 Jeder-gegen-Jeder. Ok? Und ich dachte mir nur „ Alles klar… Das wird mir genügend Zeit geben um meine Basis aufzubauen, so dass ich auf diese gewinnen kann! Im Endeffekt…ich muss nur ihnen aus dem Weg gehen.“ Ihr wisst die typisch Jeder-gegen-Jeden Spielweise und, und dann verbündeten sich die beiden Gegner und 4-poolten mich!
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So ich bin in dem Spiel und ungefähr so: „ Ok. Alles klar. Cool“. Wisst ihr. Ich baute gerade meinen Kybernetik-Kern. Ich wollte wahrscheinlich einen Arbiter-Rush machen, eine Strategie die ich oft in meinen 3 Tage dauernden, eigenen Spielen geübt habe. Und, hm, plötzlich rannten 12 Zerglinge in meine Basis und ich war ungefähr: „ Häää…“ Und sie haben sich nicht gegenseitig angegriffen und ich dachte nur: „ Leute…Leute… Es ist ein Jeder-gegen-Jeden!“ Und ich schreibe und natürlich schaff ich nur ungefähr 30 Wörter die Minute, also behindert mich das total am Spielen. Ungefähr so“ y o u G u y s“ Für jeden Buchstaben ein individuelles Tippen. Schweiß rennt mein Gesicht runter und ich halt „ Ihr seid…. Ihr seid verbündet…Hört… Hört einfach damit auf….es ist ein Jeder-gegen-Jeden!“ Das steht in der Spielbeschreibung. Wie könnt ihr gegen das verstoßen was in der Spielbeschreibung steht? Hmm. Also hab ich das Spiel verloren, und ich musste mich fast übergeben. Ich schwöre bei Gott. Ich hab mich so aufgeregt. Ich fühlte mich so elend betrügt zu werden bei diesen zwei zufälligen Fremden, so dass ich weinend zu meiner Mama gelaufen bin und sie sagte nur: „ Spiel nie wieder im Internet!“ Und ich sagte nur: „Ich werde niemals wieder ins Internet gehen. Ich werde nur noch Sonic Racing mit meinem Bruder spielen.“ Aber letztendlich würd ich drüber hinwegkommen. Ich tat was jeder neuer Spieler macht: Ich fing an Team Spiele zu spielen. Ich dachte: „ Naja, ich brauch anscheinend einen guten Verbündeten, jemanden der meine Fähigkeit schnell Arbiter zu kriegen respektiert.“ Stimmts? Ich und mein [?] werden definitiv einen guten Verbündeten brauchen.“
Also machte ich eine ganze Menge an Teamspielen und letztendlich BGH! Oh, ich lernte darüber. „Wartet mal. Ihr sagt ich muss nie expandieren, niemals? Und ich hab unendlich viel Geld? Das scheint eine vernünftige Art und Weise meine Zeit zu verbringen? Ich mache das und ich würde 3v3 spielen“ Okay! Ich weiß nicht, ob euch das je passiert ist, aber wenn man an sich selbst zurückerinnert…Besonders für mich als Starcraft Spieler; Ich war ein Arschloch! Ich habe die Internetverbindung getrennt, wenn ich verloren hatte? Ich hab den Stecker rausgezogen. Ich wäre in einem BGH-Spiel und würde mir denken, Massen an Hydralisken. Das reicht. Kein großes Problem. Alles was ich machen muss ist… Nicht die H taste drücke, denn wisst ihr, wer braucht schon die Tastatur? Diese Hand war damit beschäftigt an meiner Lippe rumzuspielen und sich zu kratzen, während ich nachdachte, wisst ihr, vielleicht ein wenig am Kinn, denn ich war ein ziemlich intellektueller Nerd. Hmm. Und ich würde Massen an Hydralisken bauen. Und dann würd ich alles verlieren. Und ich würde ungefähr so sein „ Hmm. Tja. Gutes Spiel“. Und ich würde tatsächlich Good Game schreiben. Und weil ich am Laptop am Spielen war würde ich hinter dieses greifen und das Modem Kabel rausziehen. Und bedenkt: „ Ich habe hier wirklich eine Wählleitun, so dass es mich ungefähr 2 Minuten gekostet hat AOL anzurufen und mich wieder zu verbinden. Aber, wisst ihr, es war gerechtfertigt, es war einfach nicht fair… Mir ist das so peinlich dass ich das getan habe. Ich kann es nicht glauben. Und es war wirklich lustig denn ich würde Spielen beitreten...Und, hmm.
Ich hatte Nicknamen die aus der Fallout Serie gestohlen waren. Mein Bruder und ich erstellten einen Clan, der Clan hieß Tang. Tang? Ha, er bedeutet etwas neuartiges! Also ich war Tang Kamakazi, wiederum ein Name aus Fallout. Tang Finesse. Denn wiederum, falls man zu viele Niederlagen auf einem Account hatte, musste man einen Neuen erstellen, der deine tatsächlichen Fähigkeiten wiederspiegelt. Und dann hatte man diese Statistiken mit 10 Siegen, 3 Niederlagen und 20 Verbindungsabbrüchen. Und, und ich hab wirklich nicht verstanden, dass das was Schlechtes war. Ich würde diesen Spielen beitreten und ich wäre halt „ Hey Leute was los? Bereit ein wenig zu chatten bevor das Starcraft Spiel anfängt. Und sie würden fragen „ Dude, discst du? (Anmerkung: Disc kann einerseits eine CD bedeuten, aber in diesem Fall war dies eine Abkürzung für disconnecten bedeutet, was eben das Abbrechen der Spiele via Internetverbindung bedeutet) Und natürlich meinen sie, brichst du die Verbindung ab? Aber ich hab das nicht miteinander verknüpft. Und ich halt „ Natürlich hab ich eine Starcraft CD… Wie glaubt ihr Idioten spiel ich denn sonst?“ Und ich hab meinen Bruder nur so angestupst „Na,na“. Und er so: „Denen hast du es voll gegeben!“ ohh. Unglaublich ich war so ein Nerd. Aber letztendlich bin ich von diesen "unendliches Geld" Karten abgekommen. Und ich startete 1v1 zu spielen. Denn ich dachte, dass jeder total schlecht spielen würde und nur mit einer Hand spielen würde, also nur mit Maus… Das war normal, stimmts? Das war damals nicht so als Anfängerverhalten gesehen wie es heutzutage wird. Das war normal. Also sagte ich „Wer sind diese schlechten Verbündeten mit denen ich, der 7t-Klässler Tang Kamakazi, mich abgeben muss? Wisst ihr. Ich werde jetzt 1v1 spielen bei dem ich auch ein gutes Gefühl dabei habe.“ Also spielte ich nur noch 1v1 auf „Small Divide“. Und manche von euch haben die Geschichte vielleicht schon gehört wenn ihr die Sendung vom ZOTAC-Turnier 1 gesehen habt. Hmm. Denn ich würde nur auf „Small Divide“ spielen, eine 64x64 Karte, bei der beide Spieler auf einer Insel starten. Und ich würde halt bei allen Spielen auf Mutalisken rushen. Und zu dem Zeitpunkt hat sich mein Nickname weiterentwickelt. Ich war nicht mehr Tang Kamikazi, ich war Sean P! Mein Name ist Sean Plott… Clever oder nicht ?
Bevor ich die Geschichte über das 1v1 Spielen auf „Small Divide“ weiterführe, will ich ein Bild vor die Augen führen, wie ich damals aussah. Also, ich war klein, ok? Am Anfang der 7ten Klasse war ich gerade einmal ca. 1m 60 groß. Am Ende der achten Klasse, war ich ca. 1m 85 groß. Diese Phase war hart. Es war ungefähr so wie die Leute in Willy Wonka Schokoladen Fabrik gewachsen sind.
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Hm. Worüber war ich grad am Reden? Was war mein Gedankengang? Oh ja! Also ich war wirklich klein aber meine Mom hat gesehen wie stark mein Bruder gewachsen ist und deshalb kaufte sie für mich diese extra großen T-Shirts. Hm. Und ich mochte wirklich meine Jogginghosen aber ich konnte diese extra großen T-Shirts, die viel zu lang waren, nicht ausstehen. Also hab ich das Shirt immer in meine Jogginghosen gestopft. Daher war da dieser Ring aus gestopftem T-Shirt und der Hose, die ich auch noch in meine fluoreszierenden lila Schneestiefel mit Klettverschluss gesteckt habe. Also, ich habe wirklich mit diesen Klettverschlüssen in der Schule gespielt, so etwa …. Und es hat mich entspannt das zu tun. Denn ich hatte als Kind diese nervösen Angewohnheiten. Hm, ich hatte außerdem diese dicke riesige Brille die ich getragen hab und die ich dazu benutzt hab um halt Insekten zu schmelzen und so Zeugs, und diese Brille war gigantisch. Und meine Sehkraft war wirklich schlecht, so dass die Gläser meine Augen verkleinerten. Ich sah also komplett blöd aus usw. . Und dann [?] ich mein Haar. Kein Gel, sondern ich würd es [?]. Ich würd es komplett auf die linke Seite [?], stimmts? Es war wie ein großes Laken aus Haaren. Und es würd sich während des Tages auflösen und meine Augen waren allergisch dagegen. Also hatte ich immer diese roten Augen, die auch noch dazu tränten und wisst ihr wie ich neue Leute so kennengelernt habe? Ich wär auf sie zugegangen und hätte ihnen ein paar willkürliche Fakten erzählt, die ich dachte, die sie nicht wissen würden. Oh Baby, ja, ich weiß natürlich wie man mit den Damen umgeht…Ich bin zu Ihnen gegangen und wär ungefähr so „Wusstest du, dass die [?] sich mit einer Geschwindigkeit von 1,8m pro Sekunde bewegt?“ Und hm, ich war wirklich überrascht, dass ich tatsächlich verprügelt wurde nach der Schule. Verdammt, Ich würde mich auch verprügeln. Das war ein guter prägender Moment für mich als junger Nerd. Aber wisst ihr, zurück zu den Starcraft Spielen. Ich meine das war ungefähr 2 Jahre nach dem wie ich mich beschrieben hab. Ich war nicht wirklich besser, stimmts? Ich war immer noch ziemlich gleich. Ich mochte, Ich hatte die Idee, dass ich intellektuell, deswegen hab ich mir die Protoss Starcraft Box gekauft, denn Protoss sind schlau. Terraner sind rauflustig und Zergs sind Käfer und uhh ich hasse Käfer! Uh Uhh! Ich will gar nicht darauf zu sprechen kommen. Aber, aber ich war ein Genie. Ich spielte nur 1v1 auf „Small Divide“. Ich hatte das Gewisse! Alles was ich tun musste war ein Pool auf 12 zu bauen, einen Extraktor auf 12 zu bauen und dann würde ich einen Bau erstellen, sobald mein Pool fertig war und dann würde ich eine weitere Brutstätte bauen, sobald ich konnte. Das war ziemlich nah am Optimum, stimmts? Mit der Ausnahme, dass ich die auf einer Insel machen musste, damit ich mir keinen Kopf um Rushes machen musste und ich habe wirklich Leuten an meiner Schule erzählt warum gerade das so gut war! Ich wär zu Ihnen gegangen, Ich bin tatsächlich zu Mädchen gegangen auf die ich zu der Zeit stand und hätte ungefähr so „Hey! Hast du jemals von Starcraft gehört?“ Und sie halt „Nein.“ Anscheinend hatten sie sehr tiefe Stimmen ungefähr so „Nein. Nein. Auf keinen Fall.“ Also wär ich halt so “Naja, es ist ein Strategie Spiel und ich habe diesen Account Sean Strich P, ich habe 13 Siege und nur eine Niederlage auf dem. Ich hab einen weiteren Account Sean Schlange P. Ich benutz einfach verschieden Trennzeichen. Ich bin auch Sean Apostroph P, auf dem hab ich 15 Siege und 2 Niederlagen. Und schau, schau, schau... Du wirst dich wahrscheinlich fragen, wie kann er nur so gut in diesem Spiel sein? Naja ich habe einen Trick herausgefunden. Falls man sehr schnell Lufteinheiten hat, kann an gewinnen falls er keine Einheiten hat, die etwas gegen Luft machen können.“ Naja, eine Menge Annahmen stecken darin. Und ich hab tatsächlich angefangen viele Spiele zu verlieren. Ich hab das tatsächlich für ungefähr 3 bis 4 Monate gemacht. Halt, nur auf Small Divide, mehrere Spiele in Folge, mit meiner 56k Modem Verbindung, mit nur einer Hand, und ich verlor zu Leuten die auch Lufteinheiten bauten, und ich war halt so „Wie konnte er wissen, dass ich auf Lufteinheiten gehe? Er muss doch cheaten…“ Ich war einer von diesen Leuten! Unglaublich, das ist so was von peinlich. „Er muss doch betrügen. Wie kann er wissen, dass auf einer Insel-Karte, ich auf Lufteinheiten gehe?“ Also, letztendlich, hab ich herausgefunden, wo die guten Leute rumgehangen haben? Rumhängten? Rumhungen? Naja da wo die Leute waren. Und diese Orte waren bekannt damals als Clan X17 auf dem Ost-Server. Das war der Ort an dem die Besten der Besten der Besten den ganzen Tag zu finden waren. Falls man ein Spiel mit guten Leuten wollte, versuchte man beizutreten, aber man konnte normalerweise nicht, denn normalerweise war er voll. 40 Menschen! Uh! Der Kanal ist an seiner maximalen Kapazität. Konnte nicht beitreten. Ich bin manchmal in einem leeren Kanal gesessen, nur um zu versuchen X17 beizutreten, denn, falls ich da rein kommen würde und ein 1v1 gegen jemanden spielen sollte, dann wüsste ich dass ich gegen einen der Besten der Besten der besten Starcraft Spieler spielen würde. Hm, letztendlich schaffte ich es X17 beizutreten, die ganzen Spiele zu spielen und ich begann tatsächlich mit der Tastatur zu spielen. Und das war zu der Zeit, hm, also ich ungefähr in die achte Klasse gegangen bin, auf dem Weg ins Einstiegsjahr an der High-School. Ich habe tatsächlich die Tastatur jetzt benutzt. Keine Hotkeys. Ich benutze keine Sachen wie Steuerung-1, Steuerung-3, Ich benutzte S-H, um meine Massen Hydralisken Strategie, die ich vorher erklärt habe zu unterstützen. Ich benutzte nicht S-M denn, verdammt, M ist ganz schön weit rechts auf der Tastatur. Pff, ich wird wohl keine davon haben. Hm. Glücklich bin ich bei S-H geblieben und S-Z und S-D,
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denn, wisst ihr, zu dem Zeitpunkt hatte ich mich ganz schön auf Zerg fokussiert. Und jetzt, komm ich tatsächlich zu dem Punkt, wo die wirklich guten 1v1 Spieler waren. Wisst ihr, Spieler wie FirstTsunami, falls ihr euch an ihn erinnert. Rekrul gab es damals, außer dass er unter dem Alias 88lurker spielte. Incontrol war da. Da gab es starke Spieler wie Pillars, hm, verdammt, was waren mehr Namen? [?] Agent 911, hm, Jolly, wer waren noch gute Spieler. Oh verdammt, da war einer, es liegt mir auf der Zunge. Wer war der Spieler? BlackishRed! Ja! BlackishRed! Das erste große Turnier für das mein Bruder und ich uns für qualifizieren versuchten war die World Cyber Games Challenge, nicht die ersten World Cyber Games 2001, sondern irgendwann 1999-2000 als die KBK Turniere am Laufen waren, als Spieler wie, hm, GG99Slayer und LG extreme starke nicht-koreanische Spieler waren. Und, hm, ich erinnre mich, dass mein Bruder in den Blackish Clan eingeladen wurde. Er war BlackishGold, er kam richtig weit in diesem Turnier, und er verlor, und er war total verärgert und so weiter. Und es ist so lustig darüber nachzudenken, wie die Strategien damals aussahen. Hm, ihr wisst ich war…ganz nebenbei, ich will nur kurz unterbrechen und anmerken, dass meine Kamera komische Dinge mit den Farben macht. Also ich werde tatsächlich schnell, hm, schauen ob ich das richten kann. Ok. Sieht so aus als wäre alles etwas stabiler jetzt. Also, wirklich Entschuldigung dafür. Aber das, das waren die Strategien, denen wir damals entgegengetreten sind. Das war eine Standard Zerg Strategie gegen Terraner. Ich würde einen Pool auf 9 bauen, und dann eine Brutstätte in deiner Basis bauen und belagere dich dann mit Sunken Colonies. Denn, denkt darüber nach… Terraner haben zu dem Zeitpunkt nur Marines, und niemand achtet auf seine Rampen. Nein! Man muss eine Angriffstruppe aufstellen und sich dann rausbewegen um seine Rampe zu sichern. Natürlich jetzt spielt jeder auf „Lost Temple“ in diesen Tagen. Also, hm. Man tat dies oft. Was waren andere komische, Strategien, wie zum Beispiel Corsair und Reaver von einer Basis aus zu produzieren gegen Zerg war nahezu nicht zu stoppen. Nick und ich verbesserten die Strategie zu der, man baut von einer Bass aus nur Scout und Reaver, denn Scouts verursachen so viel mehr Schaden als Corsairs, warum würde man etwas anderes als einen Scout bauen? Hm, also spielten wir Corsair, Scout sehr oft. Das war zu der Zeit als mein Alias SleepingDrone war, falls sich manche von euch daran erinnern.
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Und mit der Zeit bekamen Nick und ich, verglichen mit den anderen Spielern zu der Zeit, ganz ok. Ich meine damit, meine Strategien waren immer noch, von-einer-Basis-aus Lurker bauen gegen Terraner, was nebenbei angemerkt Standard zu der Zeit war und…Ich denke es ist wichtig kurz innezuhalten und zu bemerken welche Gedankengänge ich zu dieser Phase hatte. Denn Spieler erleben diese Erfahrung immer noch, wisst ihr, wenn sie einer Starcraft Gemeinschaft beitreten. Also denkt an meine Mutalisken Strategie, das war mein Trick! Ich hatte einfach einen Trick! Und wenn jemand es geschafft hat meinen Trick zu besiegen, wurde ich wütend und hätte es wieder versucht und wäre „Ohh, ich hoffe dass es immer noch klappt…“ Und als ich dann mehr verschiedene Strategien benutzte, wär ich halt so „ Pff! Ich hab mal einen Mutalisken Rush gemacht, aber jetzt weiß ich alles besser.“ Ich bin immer noch nicht von diesem Trick Gedankengang abgekommen.
Meine Frage war immer “ Was ist an dieser Stelle hier die richtige Strategie?”. Und ich hätte nichts in Betracht gezogen, was ich bis dato wusste. Der Plan war weg, nichts… Wie zum Beispiel „Hm, was glaube ich erwartet er jetzt am wenigsten von mir?“ Also zum Beispiel, ich fing an mit…diesem Mutalisken Rush, aber dann hab ich ihn erweitert mit Sachen wie: Landen von Lurkern in der gegnerischen Basis. Ich würde von einer Basis aus auf Lurker gehen und sobald man genug Gas hatte um das…das…Transport Upgrade für Overlords und 2 Lurker bekommen, und dann hättest du sie eingeladen und sie rüber geflogen in seine Basis, und hättest sie direkt in seine Mineralienlinie laufen lassen. Das war meine ganze Strategie. Was hatte ich noch? Ich hatte in Terraner vs. Terraner: Ich baue eine Fabrik und fliege sie in deine Basis und mache ohne dass man es erwartet Adler daraus um dich zu vernichten. Ich würde auf Dunkle Templer rushen. Ich würde jede Art von komischen Rushes machen, jede trickreiche Strategie, die vorstellbar ist, und ich dachte dass würde mich zu einem guten Spieler machen, denn ich machte ja all diese verrückten Dinge.
Und dann letztendlich bin ich dazu übergegangen in jedem Spiel meinen Pool auf 9 zu bauen gegen jede andere Rasse. Den Pool auf 9 bauen mit Metabolismus Schub. Und wisst ihr, dass hört sich wieder trickreich an, aber was ich daran so gut fand war, dass ich einen nächsten Schritt in meinem Spiel haben konnte. Ich hatte Strategien, die ich darauf aufbauen konnte, ich konnte danach immer noch sehr schnell auf Mutalisken gehen, ich könnte expandieren, ich könnte einzelne Arbeiter des Gegners gezielt töten, ich könnte sie einfach verwirren und all diese Dinge. Und ich erinnere mich für…für die ersten World Cyber Games, die im Jahr 2001´stattfanden, hab ich tatsächlich all das gebraucht und auch getan? Ich habe im Clan X17 trainierte, wo die besten der besten zu finden waren. Und ich…ich arbeitete an meiner „Pool auf 9 bauen“-Strategie, ich hab mich manchmal sogar mit diesem angsteinflößenden europäischen Server verbunden, um Kanälen beizutreten an deren Namen ich mich heutzutage nicht mehr erinnern kann. Man wusste nur irgendwie von diesen Kanälen, dass diese existieren. Und das was ich machen würde war…
Als 2001 die World Cyber Games verkündet wurden, gab es dieses online Turnier mit diesem Turnierbaum, und die besten 3 aus der Qualifikation wären nach Los Angeles geflogen worden, um im Finale anzutreten. Und vergesst dabei nicht ich lebte in Kansas. Und…
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jeder der teilnehmen wollte konnte dies bei der Qualifikation auch tun. Alles was man machen musste war anwesend sein. Aber man konnte [?]. Also Nick und ich trainierten und trainierten für dieses Turnier. Und ich erinnre mich daran ich spielte 3 Spiele. Ich musste zum Haus eines Freundes gehen, denn…Nick und ich hatten keine 2 Computer, die funktionierten. Wir hatten halt anderthalb funktionierende. Es war nahezu nur der Laptop, den ich vorher schon erwähnt habe, und andererseits, wisst ihr mein…mein…unser Hauptcomputer war schon etwas altbacken.
Also musste ich zu einem Haus von einem Freund fahren und ich erinnre mich daran gegen 3 Protosse in Folge spielen zu müssen. Ich, ich… Der erste Spiele, ich kann mich gar nicht mehr an seinen Namen erinnern, jedenfalls ich baute meinen Pool auf 9 und gewann direkt mit den ersten 6 Zerglingen. Der zweite Spieler gegen den ich dann tatsächlich gespielt habe war BlueWolf, einer der Namen, die immer irgendwie mit Starcraft verbunden wurde, hm…in der gesamten auf Wettbewerben beruhenden Echtzeit-Strategie-Spiel Szene für Jahre. Ich glaube, er spielte auch Dawn of War und Age of Empires und all das Zeug, er ist jetzt sogar in Starcraft 2 wieder aufgetaucht. Aber ich erinnre mich ich hab BlueWolf mit der „Pool auf 9“-Strategie besiegt und fühlte mich richtig gut. Und dann musste ich gegen Jolly spielen, der ist einer der Spieler, den man in den alten Turnierzusammenfassungen im BattleNet findet, er war damals schon da! In diesen ersten Turnieren bei denen Leute wie XDSGrrr und BeeBladeLeader mitspielten, diese legendären Namen. In all diesen Turnieren war er dabei und ich musste gegen ihn spielen.
Und ich kann mich daran erinnre, ich war so fokussiert auf meine „Pool auf 9“-Strategie, mein blöder kleiner Trick, und ich bewegte die Zerglinge in seiner Basis und zählte, Ich tötete…Ich tötete ungefähr 16 Arbeiter mit den ersten 6 Lingen… und natürlich hab ich die Zerglinge am Leben erhalten für eine Ewigkeit. Und dann hatte ich meine Mutalisken und tötete mit diesen weitere 12-13 Arbeite, einfach immer wieder rein und rausfliegen in seine Basis. Und dann, wenn ich meinen finalen Angriff ansetzte, bewegte ich all meine Lurker in die Mineralienlinie an seiner 2ten Basis und vernichtete auf einen Schlag 25 Arbeiter. Ich hab das Spiel tatsächlich gewonnen dadurch, dass ich ihn zu Tode genervt habe, und ich hab mich dabei so schlau gefühlt, und ich hab mich damit für den 2ten Tag des Turniers qualifiziert. Und natürlich spielte ich dann gegen einen Typen namens Wizard, der einfach echt gut war und der mich einfach zerstört hat. Es war nicht mal ansatzweise ein gleichwertiges Spiel. Aber, wisst ihr. Es…es war eine wirklich gute Erfahrung für mich…diese…diese Aufregung zu spüren, wisst ihr? Das Adrenalin schießt durch deine Adern „Oh mein Gott!“ Ich hatte diese Strategie, ich habe sie ausgeführt und sie hat geklappt. Denn sie war nicht wirklich ausgereift, es war so in der Art „ Uhh, ich hoffe ich komme seine Rampe hoch, denn falls nicht…Hm, ich denke dann hab ich verloren und muss mir meinen nächsten Gegner suchen“.
Aber zu dem Zeitpunkt begann ich etwas, dass immer ein Teil von mir geblieben ist, ein Herzstück meiner ganzen Gedanken um das Spiel, das wäre: es gab diesen Spieler JelloOne und es gab diesen Jello Clan, mit Spielern wie JelloPud. Und dieser komplette Jello Clan bestand aus Leuten, die immer und überall gehackt haben, verdammt! Die haben IMMER gehackt! Manche von ihnen sind wahrscheinlich immer noch da draußen, hacken natürlich. Aber sie haben diese Art von…heute, wisst ihr, sieht man das die ganze Zeit, aber es war wie…eine neue Ära des Trollens. Denn, wisst ihr, man wusste offensichtlich, dass sie hacken, wie zum Beispiel: man bewegt einen Transporter am Rand der Karte entlang und er hat keinen Beobachter, nimmt 12 Dragoner, geht direkt zum Transporter, vernichtet ihn und geht zurück. Man wär halt dann so „Wie hast du das gesehen?“ Er halt „Ich hab mir gedacht das würde kommen“ Wisst ihr, einfach niemals zugeben zu niemanden, dass sie hacken, einfach immer halt „Nein Mann! Ich bin total unschuldig!“, wisst ihr.
Und, damals, falls man einen Maphack benutzte, ich meine ihr habt ja gerade die Beschreibung meiner Strategie gehört, „Pool auf 9 bauen“ um darauf eine Brutstätte in seiner Basis zu bauen, falls man einen Maphack benutzt, bei dem man sehen kann was der andere gerade macht, hat man einen unglaublich große Vorteil. Das ist ja offensichtlich die größte Hilfe, die man haben kann. Aber ich erinnre mich, ich spielte gegen ihn, und ich weiß, dass war ein wenig naiv von mir. Ich erinnre mich zu sagen: „Naja, weißt du was? Wenn er sagt, dass er nicht hack, dann will ich ihm mal glauben, dass er nicht hackt.“ Und…es lief darauf hinaus, dass viel viele Spiele miteinander gemacht haben. Eine Menge, eine schiere Masse an Spielen. Und obwohl er ein Menge an verdächtigen Sachen gemacht hat, ich wollte ihn immer noch besiegen. Denn ich war schon immer sehr ehrgeizig, wisst ihr? Ich hab all diese Spiele mit meinem Bruder nur auf den Wettbewerb ausgerichtet gespielt. Ich mochte es gegen jemanden anzutreten, wie gegen einen Freund. Warum also nicht gegen diesen JelloOne Spieler?
Und das war so hilfreich für mich, die Idee, das seine gute Strategie und solides Spielen, sich nicht um irgendwelche tricks entwickelt. Es geht nicht um irgendwelche Überraschungen, es geht nicht um irgendwelche versteckten Informationen. Es geht um grundsolides, gutes Timing und um perfekte Ausführung. Und das war so eine wertvolle Lektion, dass ich eben nicht eine kleine Armee in seiner Basis landen konnte. Mein Trick mit dem Reinschleichen von Lurkern in seine Basis per Overlord hat nie geklappt! Ich musste einfach mehr Einheiten haben und ein besseres Timing haben. Und…Ich war nicht dazu fähig dahin zu gehen…Also, gerade, Ich war ein…Oh mein Gott, ich bin mit der Geschichte noch nicht mal fertig.
Ja, also das ist, Ich bin, Ich bin im zweiten Jahr an der High School, es ist 2001, und ich konnte mich nicht qualifizieren und ich bin total niedergeschlagen, aber meine Mom…Ich will kurz ein bisschen mehr Zeit damit verbringen über sie zu Reden…hier, denn eine Familie zu haben, die einen so unterstützt, eine Starcraft Familie zu haben, war der Grundbestandteil von allem. Meine…Meine Mom sah wie niedergeschlagen Nick und ich waren, sie hatte uns über Boxer unterhalten hören, sie hatte beobachtete, dass Starcraft nicht einfach so ein Spiel war, dass wir gekauft hatten und für einen Monat gespielt haben, und dann nie wieder angerührt haben. Wir haben selbst nach Jahren uns immer noch darüber unterhalten. Sie sagte: „Wisst ihr was? Wir haben nicht viel Geld,
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Aber wir werden diese Tickets kaufen, wir werden nach Los Angeles fliegen und ihr werdet in diesem Turnier spielen.” Das war halt so super, so eine Mom zu haben, die einen so unterstützt. Und…das Problem war das wenn wir da auftauchten und wir waren halt 2 Kinder die mit ihrer Mutter kamen. Verdammt! Oh! Wie sehr wollte man in dem Alter cool sein, wisst ihr? Die Mom soll der Chauffeur sein, wisst ihr, die Begleitperson für den Event. Aber wisst ihr, sie war echt höflich, sie hat sich nicht versucht einzumischen, und halt „ Ich bin, ich bin…“ Nick war damals als Tasteless bekannt, ich war immer noch SleepingDrone. Sie halt „Ich bin SleepingDrone und Tasteless Mom!“ Nein! Sie hat sich sehr zurückgehalten und ging beiseite, wisst ihr, um ein Buch zu lesen oder so.
Und ich kann mich erinnern Nick wurde in der ersten Runde eliminiert. Er musste in den Loser Bracket nach der ersten Runde und, wisst ihr, er kam noch 4 Runden weiter aber dann verlor er, und es war einfach so „Arr“, es war so schmerzhaft. Denn ich kann mich dran erinnern, in seinem ersten Spiel, er spielte gegen jemand an dessen Namen ich mich nicht mehr erinnern kann. Er baute halt 4 oder 5 Creep Kolonien und hatte einen Overlord außerhalb der Basis des Gegners, so dass er diese in Sunken Kolonien morphen kann, falls der Kerl aus seiner Basis kommt. Aber Nick hat genau in dem Moment nicht auf die Minimap geschaut, also kam der Typ einfach in seine Basis mit halt den 5 Creep Kolonien, so hat er halt verloren. Aber ich war halt in dem Teil von dem Turnierbaum in dem, ich würde sie jetzt nicht einfache Gegner nennen, aber ich würd sei Leute nennen gegen die ich meine „Pool auf 9“-Strategie anwendete…Ich hab gegen jeden die Strategie benutzt? Ich hab das in 7 aufeinander folgenden Spielen gemacht, bis irgendwie… ich ziemlich weit gekommen bin in dem Turnier.
Und da viele berühmte Spieler waren da. Maynard war da, er war, wisst ihr, der beste amerikanisch Spieler zu der Zeit. Whear war da, Wizard war da, BlueWolf war da, Fr0z war da. Dort hat er sich zum ersten Mal auf einem Turnier blicken lassen. Ein wirklich starker Protoss Spieler namens Requiem war da. Ich glaube ich hab gesagt, dass Dream auch da war, Dream war ein Zerg Spieler, der halt sich wirklich in das Spiel vertieft hat. Wisst ihr, er spielte auf dem Game I Server, mit den Koreanern, wisst ihr, und da gab es diese epische Serie zwischen Requiem, den keiner bis dato kannte, und Dream. Und ich meine, halt es war… es war dieses 20 Minuten lange Spiel, aber die Spiele aller anderen im Turnier waren fertig, also haben sie den Turnierbaum im Endeffekt aufgehalten? Also hat sich jeder um sie herum versammelt und hat ihre Spiele angeschaut. Also dann spielten sie dieses 45 Minuten lange Spiel auf „Lost Temple“ bei dem Dream eine Brutstätte außerhalb der Basis von Requiem baut. Heutzutage habt ihr Leute diese Spiele auf Medusa gesehen, wisst ihr, die Great gespielt hat und all das Zeug, aber damals „ Verdammte Scheiße! Er spielt wirklich auf dem koreanischen Server! Schaut auf seine geniale Spielweise!“ Er baute halt eine Tonne an Sunken Kolonien und Massen an Zerglingen, oh mein Gott, und Requiem baut halt 10 Shuttle und versucht halt überall zu expandieren. Und sie spielen dieses dramatische Spiel, in dem einfach alles vorkam Stasis, Storms, Malstrom, Guardians, Defilers und jede Einheit die man sich vorstellen kann, und, und Dream verliert, dieses unbekannte Kind Requiem gewinnt.
Und dann kam es zum nächsten Spiel und sie spielten auf „Lost Temple“ und sie spawnten auf den 12 und 3 Uhr Positionen, und wie ihr wisst, als Zerg hasst man diese Positionen. Requiem schickt zwei Proben früh los um zu nerven, sie töten eine Drohne und Dream vergisst seinen ersten Overlord, weil er versucht mit dem Proben klar zu kommen. Als kommt es halt zu diesem riesigen Aufreger und jeder halt „ OH MEIN GOTT“, und ich wird ganz aufgeregt denn, ich wusste wenn ich gegen Dream spielen würde, würde ich verlieren. Aber mein Zerg gegen Protoss war mein starkes Matchup, denn ich wusste wie man einen Pool auf 9 baut. Also, musste ich letztendlich gegen diesen Requiem Typen spielen und ich hab tatsächlich gewonnen, und ich bin total ausgeflippt und so. Und dann musste ich gegen Maynard spielen, aber wir mussten einen Tag warten bis wir spielten. Und der Gewinner von dem Spiel war im Halbfinale. Der Gewinner von dem Spiel zwischen mir und Maynard würde zu den WCG Grand Finals nach Korea gehen. Und… ich, ich spielte gegen ihn, und ich war so nervös, und meine Mom versuchte rauszufinden, wisst ihr, so zwischendurch „ Also falls du letztendlich dass hier gewinnen solltest und wir nach…wir nach Korea fliegen, ich will, ich will da mit hin fliegen, ich will, ich denke, weißt du, als Familie das machen“. Und ich hab es einfach verkackt und verlor das erste Spiel. Und das zweite Spiel hab ich mit „Position halten“-Lurkern innerhalb von 2 Minuten gewonnen, und dann hab ich das dritte Spiel verloren, und ich war total „Uhh!“ und dann war ich im Losers Bracket und wurde letztendlich eliminiert. Und wisst ihr, ich war wirklich schlecht drauf und traurig, aber, wisst ihr, ich konnte Leute erzählen, dass ich wirklich bei einem Starcraft Turnier war.
Also die Geschichte, wisst ihr, war jetzt vielleicht etwas länger, aber es war cool. Ich konnte all die Leute treffen, die bis dahin nur Namen waren. Ich konnte tatsächlich die Gesichter der Leute sehen. Ich meine, heutzutage, haben wir halt Facebook, und Leute sind froh darüber ihre Fotos mit Skype herumzuschicken und alle das Zeug, diese Foren, aber damals gab es halt keine Möglichkeit die Leute mit denen man spielt tatsächlich zu treffen. Und ich habe wirklich die Chance bekommen das zu tun. Und Fr0z hat jedem dann den Verstand geraubt. Fr0z, mit dem ich später gut befreundet war…Bei diesem Turnier, dem in 2001, als Leute zurückschauten und die Replays von damals angeschaut haben, hatte Fr0z 300 Aktionen pro Minute. Niemand konnte glauben wie schnell Fr0z spielte. Und halt, das zweit höchste war halt 140 oder so ähnlich. Ich meine Fr0z war blitzschnell.
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und hat jeden in diesem Turnier besiegt und es war nicht mal knapp in den Spielen. Es war halt so cool jemanden zu sehen, der halt einfach so gut war. Dann kam WCG 2002, Nick und ich konnten nicht zu den Qualifikations Turnieren, wisst ihr, den die waren übers ganze Land verteilt, und keins war in der Nähe von Kansas, den dort gab es keine wirklich aktive Esport-Szene. Also warteten wir bis…wir warteten bis 2003 bevor wir tatsächlich wieder die Möglichkeit hatten, wisst ihr, in anderen, anderen Turnieren mitzuspielen. Oh Mann, ist das das Jahr? Ja, ich checke wirklich meine Notizen, damit ich auch sicher bin, dass das stimmt und ich auch nichts vergesse. Aber, wisst ihr, während dieser ganzen Phase, ich war immer noch der Typ der Starcraft spielt. Und, wisst ihr, damals in diesen ersten High School Tagen, gab es eine Menge an Spannung in der Familie. Denn, wie ihr seht, Nick und ich haben eine Art von, wisst ihr, gesprächigen, großen Persönlichkeit. Wir wollten wirklich, wisst ihr, Platz für uns selbst haben, und unabhängig sein. Und es war wirklich schwer, denn wir wohnten…wir mussten einen Raum zusammen teilen. Und wir, wisst ihr, wir stritten viel, denn wir hatten immer noch einen Computer. Also gab es diese ganze Debatte, und wisst ihr, Mom, so unterstützend wie sie war, da waren wir die ganze Zeit nur dieses eine Spiel spielend und das war damals so komisch, also gab es einfach diese ganze Spannung in der Familie, aber ich war damals immer noch als das bekannt, und ich war immer noch dabei. Und ich erinnre mich sogar halt dass ich beim Daten von Mädchen in der High School ihnen erzählte, dass ich Starcraft spiele und hab es versucht ihnen zu erklären. Denn, ich hab mich einfach darüber so gefreut. Ich hab einfach gedacht, dass es total cool war, dass ich das Spiel spiele. Dieses eine Mädchen , dass ich gedatet habe, ha t mich so aufgeregt, denn ich hab ihr erklärt was „gg“ bedeutet, dass man halt „Good Game“ sagt, und sie würd mir das in AIM schreiben aber sie würde „g.g.“ schreiben. Und ich halt „ Das ist nicht wie man das abkürzt, es ist „gg“ und nicht anders“. Darum hat sie das weitergemacht nur um mich zu ärgern. Uhhh. Ich bin so froh, so froh dass das endete. Anscheinend, hat sie nicht genügend Respekt für die wichtigen Dinge im Leben. Also…wir waren 2003, als das ganze coole Zeug anfing zu starten. Als, als Nick und ich…Als WCG immer noch wichtiger war als alle anderen großen Turniere. Für WCG 2003, gab es diese 20 Qualifikationsturnieren überall in den ganzen Vereinigten Staaten. Und die Gewinner in diesem Qualifikations Prozess würden ins Finale vorrücken UND einen krassen Gaming Computer gewinnen. Der krasseste Gaming PC, den man sich vorstellen kann, der halt XP hatte und er leuchtete! Es war unglaublich, es war ein so geiles Angebot. Man hat sogar Reisestipendien bekommen, um zum Turnier zu fliegen. Nein, tatsächlich haben sie direkt das Ticket bezahlt. Das Turnier war organisiert bei Joe Moss. Und ich sage diesen Namen, denn falls du zuhörst Joe Moss, du bist der Mann! Das Turnier war so genial! Aber jedenfalls, also mein Bruder und ich, wir mussten nach Saint Louis fahren. Aber wir hatten kein Auto in der Familie. Ich meine halt, meine Mom besaß ein Auto, aber sie halt „Ich brauch es immer noch. Also damit könnt ihr nicht nach Saint Louis fahren.“ Also, unser Freund Dane, der sehr berühmt ist, mit dem ich sehr gut befreundet war. Für die Leute, die Dane nicht kennen, bitte schaut euch Day[9] Daily Nummer 50 und 65 an für epische 2v2v2v2 BGH Schlachten. Gott, Dane ist so lustig. Aber jedenfalls…wir mussten also ihn überzeugen, dass er uns nach Saint Louis fährt…Oh nein! Das war nicht damals. Nein, Nein! Das war was passiert ist. Also, das Quali…Qualifikationsturnier für Saint Louis geschah in 2 Phasen. Man musste für die erste Phase auftauchen, und falls man in die Top 8 kam, qualifizierte man sich fürs Finale. Und dann musste man wieder dahin fahren zum Finale und der Gewinner des Finale geht zu, wisst ihr, geht zu dem nationalen Finale. Also wir hatten keine Möglichkeit dahin zu kommen. Also was haben wir gemacht? Wir dachten an jeden in unserer Schule, der ein Auto besaß. Und wir haben über diesen Kerl namens Clint erfahren mit dem wir zu der Zeit befreundet waren. Wir versuchten ihn zu überzeugen, um halt zu diesem Turnier zu fahren, halt „ Ja Mann, komm schon, lass uns dahin fahren“. Und wir überredeten ihn „ Ja Mann, bau deinen Pool einfach immer auf 4, du schaffst das, du qualifizierst dich total einfach. Ich bin sicher, da tauchen nicht so viele Leute auf!“ Also mussten wir halt dahin fahren und es ist halt eine 4 Stunden Fahrt von unserem Haus aus und wir wurden halt von der Polizei rausgezogen, also wir versucht haben an dieser einen Stelle die Straße zu verlassen und dann haben sie uns halt raus gezogen. Sie öffneten halt unseren Kofferraum und sie bemerkten, dass da halt lauter Computerausrüstung drin war, Mäuse und Tastaturen halt. Wir halt „Nein, nein, wir sind auf dem Weg zu einem Video Spiel Turnier!“. Er halt „ Ich rieche Marihuana hier drinnen!“ Und wir „ Nein, wir fahren WIRKLICH einfach zu einem Video Spiel Turnier. Wir sind Nerds. Wir machen so was nicht. Wir wollen nur Video Spiele spielen.” Also kommen wir da an und unser Hotelzimmer wurde halt annulliert, also haben wir halt versucht uns in ein Hotelzimmer zu schleichen, aber wir wurden erwischt und sie waren wirklich nett. Mein Bruder war so Taktvoll, er halt „Schaut her, wir sind hier für ein Video Spiel Turnier. Wir sind die ganze Nacht mit dem Auto gefahren. Wir sind wirklich müde. Können wir bitte schlafen?“ Und sie „ Video Spiel Turnier?“ und dann haben wir eine wirklich lange Zeit gebraucht ihnen das zu erklären. Aber letztendlich, haben wir es geschafft, wisst ihr, bei dem Turnier aufzukreuzen. Und Clint macht die „Pool auf 4“-Strategie gegen jeden, aber verkackt es und verliert. Also von den neun Leuten die auftauchen, und die Top 8 qualifizieren sich, Clint wird 9ter. Ok? Er hat wirklich kein bisschen Starcraft gespielt, aber er hat sich aufgeregt, Mann. Und auf der Fahrt nach Hause, hat er die ganzen 4 Stunden diese unglaublichen Possen gerissen. Und wir halt „ Clint, kannst du nicht ein bisschen weniger Possen reißen, damit wir nicht den Verstand verlieren.“
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Und er “ Dude, schau, Ich bin den ganzen Weg hierher gefahren, ich wollte einfach in die Top 8 in diesem Turnier kommen und ich will nur rein bisschen Musik hören. Ich hatte keinen gute Fahrt, Mann. Ich wurde aus dem Turnier eliminiert.“ Wir „Du spielst doch nicht mal das Spiel, Mann! Wir haben nur gehofft du hast einen gute Zeit!“ Also mussten wir das aushalten, aber letztendlich sind wir daheim angekommen. Da sich nur einer qualifizieren konnte, musste ich meinen Bruder in dem Turnier eliminieren, also bin ich Erster dort geworden. Und dann bin ich ausgeflogen worden. Und das war eins der schlimmsten Dinge denen ich entgegen getreten bin in halt, meinen Leben in Starcraft. Einfach…ich hasse es wenn es ein Qualifikationsturnier gibt, mein Bruder und ich dahin gehen und sich halt nur einer qualifizieren kann. Und nur einer von uns kann dann dahin gehen. Denn, verdammt damals gab es nicht viele Turniere, wie halt WCGS, die World Cyber Games Challenge, dass er halt derjenige war, der sich qualifiziert hat, denn ich…er würd mich eliminieren Also. Weiter im Text…2003 war ein wirklich gutes Finalturnier für mich. Ich war im Seniorjahr in der High School. Ich hab mich im Sommer qualifiziert, ich war wirklich gespannt auf das Finale. Ich bin sogar eine Woche früher zur Schule gegangen. Sogar…All das begann wirklich wichtig in meinem Leben zu werden, dass ich halt tatsächlich eine Menge Starcraft gespielt habe. Ich meine, es war zwar ein bisschen spät, aber selbst die Lehrer wussten, dass ich halt bei diesem Turnier 2001 mitgespielt habe. Und ich bin in das Büro des Direktors gegangen und ich halt „Ich werde für die erste Woche in diesem Schuljahr fehlen, denn ich werde zu einem Video Spiel Turnier fahren.“ Er einfach „Nein, wirst du nicht. Ich werde dich das nicht machen lassen.“ Und ich „Nein, nein, bitte! Darf ich, darf ich? Ich… das ist wirklich wirklich wichtig für mich!“ Er „ Nein, absolut nicht.“ Und ich war immer noch dabei mich damit abzufinden, dass ich ein wenig komisch und seltsam war, damals, darum konnte ich mich nicht so gut ausdrücken, und ich kann mich nur daran erinnern, dass ich das Büro verlassen hab und wirklich schlecht drauf war. Ich meine, wisst ihr, es war einfach… ich war immer noch diese ruhige, sehr ruhige Person, ich war halt einfach „owwww“ ich war wirklich schlecht drauf und habe meine Mom angerufen und ich „ Mann, Mom, weißt du. Die lassen mich nicht dahin gehen.“ Und sie „WAS?!“ Sie begann sich wirklich aufzuregen, sie „ SIE MACHEN WAS?!“ Und ich „Ich meine…Sie lassen es mich einfach nicht machen. Sie haben gesagt sie lassen mich es mich nicht machen. Sie haben gesagt, dass das ein Videospiel ist und dass sie mich nicht lassen, weißt du, erlaubte Absenz aus dem Unterricht für ein Videospiel.“ Und meine Mom sagt „Sean, das ist nicht irgendein Spiel, dass du spielst. Du wirst nicht Mario Kart in L.A. zum Spaß eine Woche lang spielen. Das ist etwas auf das du hin gearbeitet hast! Ich mach das schon!“ Zuallererst, meine Mom hat Mario Kart erwähnt, ich wusste nicht, dass sie den Scheiß kannte! Cool! Mom! Ok! Ok? Also, sie… sie war für 15 Minuten weg. Ich hab sie in der Arbeit angerufen, um sie das wissen zu lassen, aber sie kam nach den 15 Minuten zurück, und als sie zurückkam „Du gehst dahin Sean! Ich hab mich darum gekümmert, sorg dich nicht darum, ich hab das geregelt!“ Und ich halt „Ooookay!“ Ich halt „ Ok Mann!“ Und dass… es sind Dinge wie das, die einfach, halt „Wooow…Danke Mom!“. Und ich meine, ein Teil was geholfen hat, um zu dieser Akzeptanz zu kommen, war dass ich Starcraft nicht als dieses komische Hobby angesehen habe, wisst ihr, es war nicht einfach eine Art meine Zeit zu verbringen und nicht erwähnenswert war. Ich dachte es war so cool, dass ich das Spiel gespielt hab und ich würde auch immer runter zu meiner Mom gehen und halt so „ Mom, das ist so cool was ich da mache.“ Und ich würde sie halt total überreden, dass das wirklich cool war. Und das war, wisst ihr, genauso wie die Gespräche mit meinem Bruder unter der Rolltreppe als Kinder in dem Einkaufzentrum, dieses meine Mom verstehen lassen, denn ich freute mich so darüber, dass ich die Freude mit meiner Mutter teilen wollte. Dieser Versuch dies zu artikulieren, in einer eindeutigen Weise, hat mir so geholfen, denn, wisst ihr, viele der Arten wie ich das versucht habe meiner Mutter zu erklären damals, hab ich mein ganzes Leben benutzt. Wenn ich versucht habe, wisst ihr, Leuten meine Sichtweise auf Starcraft zu erklären und dass sie damit klar kommen. 2003 war nicht…das Turnier lief nicht gut für mich. Ich wurde eliminiert. Ich würde euch die ganze Geschichte des Turnieres erzählen, aber die wäre sehr traurig und ich rede nun schon 43 Minuten und bin erst im Jahr 2003, also kommen noch 7 Jahre. Aber ich wurde von einem Kerl namens Pyrrhus, den keiner damals kannte, eliminiert. Ich spielte wie ein Idiot, und ich war halt, komplett beschämt darüber, aber ich konnte eine Menge coole Leute treffen wie jedes Mal. Und der beste Teil des Turniers ist ja auch, dass man die Leute sieht mit denen man sonst nur chattet. Also…2004 ist im Anmarsch. Das war als ich im Freshmanjahr im College war. Es ist tatsächlich der Sommer zwischen den Qualifikationsturnieren und, und… es war komisch den…es war um die Zeit herum als ich zu dem Namen Day[9] kam. Ich wollte einen coolen Ein-Wort-Namen. Denn es gab diese Spieler wie Reach, Yellow, Boxer! Und es war halt „Ein Wort“! Und ich halt „ Ich mache das…Day!!!! Also das war schon mal entschieden, also musste ich noch irgendwas cooles mir ausdenken, und ich dachte immer der 9 Clan war cool, 9Everlast, 9Kane, und da das nicht wirklich bekannt war, ich halt „ Ich schätze dann bin ich jetzt 9“ Also hab ich einfach Day[9] und es in Klammern gesetzt. So einfach, Yeah!
Und irgendwie hat dieser Typ Paul unseren AIM Namen bekommen und er hat halt einfach…Und mit unseren mein ich den AIM Namen von meinem Bruder und meinen und er würde uns halt einfach die ganze Zeit anschreiben, vor allem wegen WCG 2004. Und es war so komisch denn er würde einfach halt lügen…halt ununterbrochen. Er würde all die Geschichten erfinden was er schon alles in Starcraft gemacht hat und all das Zeug, das halt, halt…Mir hat er erzählt das er ein
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22 Jahre alter 125 kg schwerer Football Spieler ist, der ein Football Stipendium hat. Und dann hat er meinem Bruder erzählt, dass er ein 16 Jahre alter High School Student ist, der sehr oft an Debatten teilnahm. Einfach total unlogisch halt. Und das lustig war halt, dass wir zu den WCG 2004 Qualifikationsturnier gefahren sind, das in Chicago war…er wollte, dass wir ihn mitnehmen, denn er wollte ja auch zu dem Turnier.
[0:50:18] Also, wisst ihr, die hatten ein zufälliges Seeding. Und in dem einen Bracket waren so, Artosis und … so die untere Hälfte bezüglich der Spielstärke. Und in meinem Bracket waren all die furchteinflößenden Namen, bei denen ich gebetet habe, nicht gegen sie antreten zu müssen, wisst ihr, da waren: Evade war da, ich habe die Liste sogar hier, Skew, Rekrul, Fr0z… Satist. So richtig gute Spieler zu der Zeit, und ich erinnere mich, das erste Spiel habe ich einfach vergeigt, und ich habe ganz knapp 2-1 gegen Evade gewonnen. Und wisst ihr, es war… es war… dieses Turnier… Ich rief meinen Bruder so oft an in diesem Turnier. Er hatte sich nicht dafür qualifiziert, aber ich rief ihn zwischen allen Spielen an und er rief mich ständig an um sich nach mir zu erkundigen. Oh, Gott. Es ist so, es macht mich sogar emotional. So wie sehr er mich immer unterstützt hat, meine ganze Familie. Und ich weiß noch wie ich ihn vor Spielen anrief und ich so „Dude, ich muss gegen Evade spielen“ und er so „Dude, du hast trainiert, du packst das! Du… du weißt du bist besser. Bleib bei dem, was du trainiert hast. Du verstehst dieses Spiel, Mann. Du kapierst es! Er ist nur zum Spaß hier aber du bist hier um zu gewinnen“, und ich hab gespielt und gewonnen und dann musste ich gegen Fr0z und ich hatte total Angst, aber ich durfte als erster meine Karte wählen. Ich wählte meine beste Karte, Korhal of Ceres. Ich habe eine gut trainierte Strategie, Fr0z nimmt mich da AUSEINANDER. Das Spiel ist nicht mal knapp, Ich rief meinen Bruder an zwischen diesen beiden Spielen und ich sag so „Mann, ich bin in diesem Todes-Bracket, Mann. Keine Chance, dass ich’s schaffe, ich liege 0-1 gegen Fr0z zurück.“ und Nick sagte „Nein Sean! Das ist ein Todes-Bracket weil da Leute wie du drin sind. Online hast du Fr0z ständig besiegt, du packst das, Mann.“ und die nächste Karte ist Gorky Island. Und wenn sich jemand von euch die Karte anguckt, die ist FÜRCHTERLICH für Zerg gegen Terraner. Guckt sie euch nur an und ihr werdet „Urghhhh“ machen. Wisst ihr, es ist eine Inselkarte, mit sehr komischen Positionen. Aber ich habe sie echt hart trainiert, ich ließ nicht locker und spielte ein dramatisches Spiel und gewann am Ende. Und dann fühlte ich mich sehr konzentriert, ich war ruhig, ich hörte auf zu schwitzen und war voll im Tunnel (?). Und in dem dritten Spiel, das war auf Martian Cross, scoutete ich mit meinem ersten Overlord und er tötete ihn mit Marines. Und ich nur „Ohhh Gott.“ und dann schickte ich eine Drone zum Scouten rein, nur so „Ich weiß nicht was er vorhat“ und ich kam in die Basis und ich sah, dass er früh expandierte. Und zu dem Zeitpunkt, früh expandieren gegen Zerg war da noch sehr unüblich. Hauptsächlich machten die Spieler one-base als Terraner gegen Zerg, aber er expandierte früh und plötzlich dachte ich „ich weiß genau was ich machen muss, um zu gewinnen.“ und ich hab einfach. Ich… Ich machte Übergänge (?), die ich noch heute benutze. Ich expandierte ein paar Mal, eröffnete mit Mutalisken zum Harassen, ging über zu Lurkern, holte den Hive, ging dann über zu Guardians, gefolgt von Ultralisken. Als sein erster Push kam, hatte ich 12 Guardians die alles zerstörten und schickte dann so lange Ultralisken, bis ich 2-1 gewann. Und es war irre, denn ich gewann und als ich hochschaute wurden keine anderen Spiele gespielt in dem Turnier. Es waren nur Fr0z und ich, gegenüber an Computern und alle anderen standen darum, und ich nur „Ohhhh mein Gott!“ Ich wusste nicht, dass da so viele Leute waren. Und es war so viel los, und Fr0z schüttelte meine Hand, so, gesittet. Und ich rief meinen Bruder an und ich so „Nick! Nick! Ich hab Fr0z geschlagen“ und er so „Dude, ich wusste du schaffst es! Jetzt spielst du gegen Satist, und der Typ macht sich wahrscheinlich in die Hose weil du gerade den besten Terraner Amerikas rausgeworfen hast!“ und ich nur so „Oh mein Gott!“ und ich… ich schlug Satist 2-0 und ich war in den Top 3. Was hieß ich qualifizierte mich für mein erstes Grand Final überhaupt. Und, ich erinnere mich, ich spielte gegen Artosis in dem Winner’s Bracket Finale, also er war auch Top 3 und man sah noch keinen glücklicheren Menschen als Artosis. Ernsthaft … so… Ich hab mich hingesetzt und er so „Hey, Mann!“ er sagte „Willst du ein Best of One spielen? Mir ist egal ob ich erster oder zweiter werde, wir fahren alle, Mann!“ und ich so „Nee! Lass uns einfach Best of Three spielen, ich fühle mich gut“ und er so „Cool, Mann! Oh Gott, das fühlt sich so gut an!“ und ich weiß noch in den Spielen saß ich da und spielte und ich lehnte mich rüber, weil wir gegenüber saßen, unsere Monitore waren gegenüber, also konnte ich ihn sehen wenn ich mich rüber lehnte. Und mitten in dem Spiel sah ich rüber und er war nur am strahlen. Er war nur am strahlen! Es war… Und es war so cool, denn es war so ein Moment, wisst ihr, wo es nur… Ich wusste genau, denn ich wusste Artosis hatte geübt, also wusste ich genau wie hart der Typ trainiert hatte für dieses Turnier und ich wusste wie hart ich trainiert hatte für das Turnier, Mann. Und es hat sich ausgezahlt. [0:54:42] Also Fr0z kam zurück durch das Winners Bracket, er hat… Er hat das ganze Turnier gewonnen, er musste nur… er musste mich in zwei Best of Threes schlagen, and tat das problemlos, er schlug mich so 5-1 und wie viele Spiele ich danach auch immer noch spielte. Also… Fr0z gewann das ganze Turnier. Aber wisst ihr, es waren ich, Artosis und Fr0z die fuhren, und es war mein allererstes WCG USA Turnier, bei dem ich mich für das Grand Final qualifizierte. Und ich nur so „Oh mein Gott“ und ich rief meine Mutter an und das ist… das ist… Ich muss sagen das ist was passiert, wenn man eine Mom hat die Starcraft-Spieler kennt, aber noch wichtiger wenn du eine wirklich liebe Mom hast, die dich unterstützt. Denn ich hab sie angerufen und gesagt „Mom, Mom ich habs geschafft! Ich bin unter den Top 3, und ich hab dabei Fr0z geschlagen“ und sie sagte „Sean, du hast Fr0z geschlagen?! Oh mein Gott!“ Denn Fr0z war, wisst ihr, schon zu den Grand Finals gefahren, er hatte Boxer ZWEI MAL geschlagen. 2002, in der Todesgruppe, ich meine, einfach ein klasse, klasse Spieler. Und es war einfach so schön. Und dann, wisst ihr, fuhr ich zu den Grand Finals und trainiert noch mehr dafür. Und, wisst ihr, in der Zeit lernte ich etwas Zentrales in Bezug auf meine Einstellung als ein Spieler, dass ich… Zerg gegen Terraner war mein gutes Match Up und wie ihr hören werdet war mein Zerg gegen Protoss sogar ziemlich schwach bis etwa 2007, ich denke das war das erste Jahr in dem ich dachte „Hey! Ich fühle mich hier drin sicher.“ aber es war nur Zerg gegen Terraner, was ich wirklich verstand und, wisst ihr, so zu der Zeit dieser Finals, besonders als es auf die Grand Finals zuging, ging mir auf… Dass… ich mich wirklich nicht darum sorgen sollte um den Spieler, oder wer der Spieler ist oder was er drauf hat, oder wen er in der Vergangenheit geschlagen hat, oder welchen Rang er hat oder was auch immer. Wenn er Terraner ist, Terraner haben Beschränkungen, die kein Terraner brechen kann und das bedeutet, dass wenn ich gegen Terraner übe, es egal ist was für ein Name dahinter steckt... wie der Spieler heißt oder wer der Spieler ist, weil ich weiß wie man Terraner schlägt und ich habe studiert wie Terraner funktionieren und… ich stieß auf ein Schlüssel-Timing, bei dem man als Zerg Lurker holt, und man dann eine Menge Drohnen machen kann, weil der Terraner nicht ausrücken kann, bis er Science Vessel hat. Es scheint… es scheint heute total intuitiv, weil man die Profi Spiele sieht und die das dauernd machen. Da ist nichts Neues dran… Aber zu der Zeit, war es einfach, komisch! Weil die Spieler einfach nur Einheiten angehäuft haben, bis sie einen bestimmten Punkt erreichten, einfach anfingen Einheiten zu bauen und nie aufgehört haben Einheiten zu bauen. Aber es war einfach diese Alternation (?) und… als ich… Zeit für die WCG Grand Finals, ich war in Gruppe E… Yeah! Wobei, moment! Bleibt wo ihr seid! So, ich gehe, gehe jetzt rüber zu meinem Schrank, denn ich glaube ich habe sogar noch diese kleinen Dinge… Ja! Ja! Leute! Bewahrt alles auf! Bewahrt jedes einzelne Ding auf, das ihr kriegt, seht hier ist mein Leibchen (?), ich war in der Gruppe E der WCG Grand Finals. Und in meiner Gruppe, es war die Todesgruppe, schon wieder! Es war MethosPG, der berühmte deutsche Zerg Spieler, es war HellGhost, der berühmte brasilianische Terraner Spieler, der auch sehr stark Random spielte, und Liquid`Drone, der Random spiele, aber in Turnieren einfach die Rasse nahm, die zu der Zeit die beste auf der Karte war. Ich musste gegen diese Spieler und ich nur „Ahhh, GOTT!“, wisst ihr. Mein Bruder… Mein Bruder, das Spiel war in San Francisco, also hatte ich Handy Verbindung, mein Bruder rief mich jeden Tag an und vor jedem Spiel rief ich ihn an und sagte „Nick, ich muss gegen Methos spielen.“ und Nick sagte „Keine Sorge, Mann, du hast das im Sack!“ und ich glaube das generelle Muster in all meinen Turnieren ist dass ich zuerst sehr durcheinander bin in so den ersten… Spielen des Turniers. Oder in den ersten… sogar in einem Best of Three, ich verliere generell das erste Spiel. Entschuldigung, wenn ich ein Best of Three gewinne, verliere ich das erste Match und gewinne die nächsten zwei, das ist so irgendwie meine Lebensgeschichte. Also, ich spielte gegen MethosPG und aus irgendeinem Grund war ich so aufgewühlt, dass ich in diesem riesigen Feld voller Computer war, jeder berühmte Spieler den ich je getroffen habe, Entschuldigung, jeder berühmte Spieler von dem ich je gehört habe, aus der ganzen WELT, war da! Es war nicht nur Amerika! Es war die ganze Welt! Mandragon, Deathshaman aus Rumänien, den ihr kennen solltet, denn er ist ziemlich großartig. Ich meine Liquid`Drone… Der berühmte kanadische Spieler Testie, war da. Die Koreaner waren da, XellOs, mein Held, war da. Ich war so aufgewühlt… dass ich gegen Methos meinen Plan abgebrochen habe. Ohne Grund. Ich habe einfach komplett meinen Plan über Bord geworfen. Ich ging auf Hydralisken in Zerg gegen Zerg. Heutzutage, wisst ihr, liebe ich Hydras in Zerg gegen Zerg, aber damals, ich hatte es nie geübt, und ich hab einfach blockiert. Und ich rief meinen Bruder an und ich so „Okay Nick, ich liege schon 0-1 hinten. Ich muss noch zwei Spiele spielen gegen HellGhost und Ariador“ Entschuldigung Ariador ist Liquid`Drone, dieselbe Person. Und ich nur so „Oh Gott“ und er so „Nein Mann! Erinner dich, dude, du hast Fr0z in den Finals geschlagen. Du hast Satist geschlagen. Du hast Artosis geschlafen, Mann, du packst das!“ Unendliche Unterstützung, und weil er ein Starcraft Spieler war und weil wir so viel geredet haben, konnte er mich einfach beruhigen und mich fokussieren und mich in den Tunnel (?) bringen.
und ich sagte nur.. "Oh Gott! Ja Junge, gutes Spiel!" Ich wusste nicht, was ich tun soll, wie ich feiern sollte, denn ich mache keine Partys, sondern spiele Videospiele! Wie sähe ein guter Freitagabend für mich aus? Wie wäre es mit einer Runde Siedler von Catan oder dem Kartenspiel Dominion? So, also, ich war in Cancún und habe gerade das größte Starcraft-Turnier gewonnen bei dem ich je war, und dann ging ich einfach zurück in mein Hotelzimmer und setzte mich auf's Bett und wusste nicht, was ich tun sollte. Ich war einfach da und dachte mir, "Oh mein Gott... Das wars.. das ist cool!", schaute irgendeinen blöden Johnny Depp Film und ich aß die gefrorenen M&Ms aus dem Eisschrank. Und, ich erinnere mich, ich spazierte einfach am Strand entlang, ganz allein und saß einfach dort herum und dachte "Mann, ich habe wirklich, wirklich hart an etwas gearbeitet... und es hat sich bezahlt gemacht. Und die einzige Person die verantwortlich ist, bin ich." Und ich erinnere mich, ich... meine Mutter hat mir vorher eine Nachricht geschickt auf Facebook, sogar bevor ich dann zuhause war, aber auf Facebook schrieb sie "Oh mein Gott, Sean, herzlichen Glückwunsch! Ich bin so stolz auf dich, ich weiß wie hart du dafür gearbeitet hast und ich habe das Ergebnis gesehen. Ich habe gehört, dass du Testie gleich zwei mal ausgeknockt hast!" Wie cool kann eine Mutter sein, hm? Wie oft sagt deine Mutter "Yeah, du hast Testie zwei mal in einem Turnier besiegt" und versteht es? Stimmts? Welche Mutter weiß von den berühmten kanadischen Starcraft Spielern, außer meiner Mutter, und meiner Familie, die mich von Anfang bis Ende unendlich viel unterstützt hat.
Und... was so lustig an dem Turnier war, ist, wie ich sagte ich bin ein sehr zurückhaltender Spieler, ich veröffentliche nicht gern meine eigenen Replays, vor allem keine Replays von mir, wie ich gewinne, denn das fühlt sich irgendwie... großspurig an. Wie "Hey, ich habe ein Spiel gewonnen, hurrr", und dann lad' ich es da hoch... aber wenn der andere Typ nicht möchte, dass ich es hochlade; ich will ihn ja nicht in Verlegenheit bringen, vielleicht hatte er einen schlechten Tag. Also veröffentliche ich sehr selten Replays von mir bei der PGTour oder dem iCCup. Und für dieses Turnier, das Pan American, sind alle Replays verloren gegangen. Somit hatte ich nie eine Chance, mir auch nur eines dieser Spiele noch einmal anzusehen. Aber das ist in Ordnung, denn es ist immer noch eine wirklich schöne Erinnerung. Ich habe tatsächlich diese kleine Medaille hier oben, ach, warum hole ich sie nicht einfach kurz, ich habe doch überall in meinem Zimmer Starcraft Zubehör rumliegen. Ja, hier ist sie. Hier ist meine tolle kleine Goldmedaille, die einzige Goldmedaille die ich jemals aus einem Starcraft Turnier bekommen habe. Ich brauchte sechs Jahre der WCGs um das zu erreichen, und acht Jahre lang Spielen. Einfach Einsatz zeigen, einfach hart arbeiten und nur, wie mein Bruder sagte, nur an sich selbst glauben.
Und danach war in der Schule einfach zu viel los. Ich meine, 2008 habe ich in einem Qualifier gespielt und habe mich nicht qualifiziert und konnte nicht zu den Finals. Und 2009 habe ich mich zwar qualifiziert, aber konnte wieder nicht gehen, wegen der Schule. Aber wisst ihr was, in dieser Periode brauchte ich immer meine Dosis Starcraft. Ich habe immer noch all die Pro Matches verfolgt, ich habe sogar bis vor kurzem, vor 3-4 Wochen, jedes einzelne professionelle Starcraft Match seit 2003 gesehen. Jedes einzelne, und.. ich liebe einfach die Szene. Ich liebe Teamliquid, wo man einfach mal vorbeischauen und mit einer Gruppe von Leuten chatten kann, mal ein Replay postet, denn wisst ihr was? Wenn du ein Spiel hast mit wahnsinnig gutem Mutalisk Micro, ist es manchmal so schwer, in der Lage zu sein sich zum Mitbewohner umzudrehen und zu sagen "Alter, hier ist diese schwierige Sache die ich geschafft habe, und... ich bin wirklich glücklich." Aber wenn du dich in MSN einloggen kannst und einen Kumpel findest und sagst "Mann, guck dir das Replay an!" und er sagt "Oh Mann, gute Arbeit!" - diese Art von Unterstützung und Ermutigung ist es, die die Starcraft Community so, so wunderbar macht und warum ich so hocherfreut bin, schon so lange ein Teil davon zu sein.
Und ich erinnere mich sogar, wo ich die ganze Zeit von meinem Leben als Spieler gesprochen habe, im College habe ich mir regelmäßig die Matches angeschaut und ich habe immer so viele Leute wie möglich dazu eingeladen und habe versucht, ihnen zu erklären was in diesen Spielen vor sich geht, denn ich.. ich dachte, die waren so cool. Und ich fand, dass diese professionellen Spieler so talentiert waren und ich war entschlossen, es ihnen allen verständlich zu machen, und kam zu dem Punkt an dem sie es tatsächlich verstanden haben. Und am Harvey Mudd, einer Schule mit jetzt gut 900 Leuten, ich glaube damals waren es 850, habe ich angefangen eine Art von Ausstrahlung der MSL/OSL Finals zu hosten. Ich ging zum akademischen Ende, ins Auditorium, und mietete es von etwa Mitternacht bis drei Uhr morgens, und ich schickte eine E-Mail an die ganze Schule mit der Absicht jeden; so viele wie möglich dort reinzubekommen, und es zog tatsächlich von gut 800 Leuten 350 an, die es sich anschauen wollten. Und es war GROSSARTIG! Ich hatte das Mikrofon, und ich half jedem, zu verstehen, warum dieses Spiel so cool war. Ich meine, Spielen ist super - ich liebe Spielen und zu Turnieren zu gehen, dafür zu trainieren, aber es gibt nichts erfüllenderes als in eine Menschenmenge zu blicken und ihnen verständlich zu machen, was ich liebe. Und für jeden von euch Zuschauern:
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Wenn ihr Freunde und Familie habt, ist das definitiv etwas, das ihr tun solltet. Ich meine, das ist der Grund, dass in den letzten.. im letzten Jahr, naja, ich hatte nicht mehr die Gelegenheit so viel zu spielen, aber ich brauchte immer noch meine Dosis, und ich möchte einfach so viele Spiele wie möglich kommentieren und alles aus 12 Jahren Starcraft teilen, all meine Gedanken und alles, und, wisst ihr, einfach mit dieser unfassbar tollen Community interagieren.
Ein paar der Dinge, die Leute gefragt haben, waren "Wie schaffst du es, Schule und Arbeit und das ganze Starcraftzeug unter einen Hut zu bringen?" und die Antwort lautet: Ich liebe Starcraft einfach so sehr, und ich liebe, dass ich es liebe. Ich gehe also zur Schule, hänge mit meinen Freunden rum, aber ich schäme mich auch nicht dafür, wenn es Freitagabend ist und ich einfach zuhause bleiben und Starcraft spielen möchte. In der Highschool ging ich non-stop auf LAN-Partys. Und jetzt im College habe ich nach heute Abend nicht mehr so viel Arbeit zu erledigen, und wisst ihr was, ich spiele jetzt Starcraft 2. Ich muss nicht rausgehen und irgendeiner sozialen Norm gerecht werden, etwa "Oh, du bist im College und gehst nicht auf Partys?" "Nun, dieses Wochenende nicht. Ich will Starcraft spielen!" und ich denke, das ist super.
Und wisst ihr, was? Ich werde eine Veranstaltung hosten am Wochenende und hole alle Leute dazu. Ich hoste die OSL im Auditorium, auf einem 15inch Projektor, und jeder kommt und versteht, warum es so cool ist.
So, wisst ihr, ich glaube, ich habe jetzt so ziemlich alles angesprochen, was es heißt, ein Starcraft Spieler zu sein. Es gibt so viele Lektionen die ich gelernt habe, die so wertvoll für mich waren. Zum Beispiel: verlieren. Eine Niederlage ist keine schlimme Sache. Misserfolg ist nichts, was man verachten oder vermeiden sollte, und auch nichts wo man jemandem versichern sollte "Nein nein, ist schon in Ordnung, der russische Preisrichter war nur in einer schlechten Stimmung." Diese Niederlagen, diese Spiele, in denen du nicht gut gespielt hast, die du verloren hast, die sind nicht du. Das ist auch keine reflexion von dir; das Spiel ist absolut extern von dir. Und wenn du es dir einfach anschaust, alles was diese Niederlage ist, ist ein Pfeil der dich in die falsche Richtung schickt.
Im schlimmsten Falle, wenn ich hundert Spiele verliere, dann habe ich hundert verschiedene Informationsquellen die ich mir anschauen kann, um ein besserer Spieler zu werden. Und jetzt habe ich wirklich nur sehr wenig Angst vor Misserfolg. Denn wenn ich ein Turnier in den 2005 Finals gegen einen Spieler komplett verbocke, weil ich viel zu nervös war, was macht das schon? Ich werde nächstes Jahr zurück sein und werde aus diesem Fehler gelernt haben, und in der Zukunft werde ich mich im Griff haben.
Es hat mir sehr geholfen mit Dingen umzugehen. Etwa, wenn ich eine Hausaufgabe vermasselt habe, ist es gar nicht so eine große Sache, wenn ich am Ende einer Beziehung bin, weil es letztlich irgendwie nicht gepasst hat... ich kann damit jetzt viel besser umgehen. Ich weiß dass, weil man in Starcraft so schnell Entscheidungen treffen muss, ich jetzt sehr wenige Probleme damit habe, Entscheidungen zu treffen, und ich erkenne, wie wichtig es ist, in der Lage zu sein, jetzt zu entscheiden und sich erst später zu fragen, ob das besser ist. Zu oft, glaube ich, verschwenden die Leute ihre Zeit mit diesen Problemen, und sagen "Soll ich A oder B tun?", und sie sind zu verängstigt sich zu entscheiden. Starcraft macht dich stolz, jemand zu sein, der Entscheidungen trifft, und es lässt es dich lieben, so jemand zu sein. All diese Situationen in denen du dich wiederfinden kannst, sind so viel einfacher, wenn man diese Erfahrungen hat.
Und die letzte Sache die ich sagen möchte ist, dass man versteht, wie wichtig die Community ist. Niemand in Starcraft ist isoliert und spielt immer nur allein, kommt wieder und ist besser als alle anderen. Spieler spielen miteinander, sie diskutieren miteinander und entwickeln wirklich enge Freundschaften nach Übersee. Einige meiner besten Freunde leben in Europa, Starcraft sei dank. Diesen Community Aspekt habe ich einfach so gern.
Ich schließe ab mit dieser letzten Frage die jemand stellte: "Was möchtest du tun mit Starcraft 2? Willst du ein professioneller Spieler werden? Willst du ein Kommentator sein?" Mein Lebenstraum ist es, dass eSports in der westlichen Welt groß wird. Ich will, dass es eine riesige Angelegenheit ist. Also wäre ich sehr gern der Botschafter der eSports. Ich will die Person sein, die du deiner Mutter zeigen kannst und sagen kannst: "Schau dir diesen Typ an, er ist nicht Obdachlos! Er ist nicht schrecklich schlimm geraten, stimmts? Er spielte dieses Spiel und es hat ihn weit gebracht im Leben. Und hör dir an, wie er das Spiel beschreibt. Dieses großartige Gefühl, über das er reden kann, das ist, was ich empfinde." Das ist etwas, was ich für so wichtig halte. Einfach in der Lage zu sein, so vielen Leuten wie möglich eSports zu vermitteln und ich wünsche mir, dass die Liebe und die Leidenschaft für eSports einfach niemals aufhören. Und.. es wäre ein gut verbrachtes Leben, wenn ich das tun könnte.
So, das waren jetzt gut zwei Stunden. Vielen Dank an jeden, der reingeschaut hat. Und für alle von euch, die ein Getränk haben, ich würde gern einen Trinkspruch sagen für zwölf Jahre, für meinen liebsten Freund, die Starcraft Community, die mit mir durch dick und dünn gegangen ist. Glaubt immer an euch selbst und habt große Träume. Prost. -
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1:45:00 - Si vous avez des amis ou de la famille c’est quelque chose que vous devriez absolument faire. C’est pourquoi durant cette dernière année je n’ai pas eu l’opportunité de jouer autant mais j’ai toujours besoin de ce fix et je veux simplement commenter autant de games, tout partager de ces 12 années de Starcraft à propos de mes réflections et tout et intéragir avec cette communauté incroyablement géniale.
Parmis les choses que les gens demandent, “Comment tu arrives à jongler entre l’école, le travail et tout ce que tu fais avec Starcraft ?” et la réponse est que j’aime tellement Starcraft et j’aime que j’aime tellement Starcraft. Alors j’irai à l’école et sortirai avec des amis, mais je n’ai aucune honte s’il y a une soirée un vendredi et j’ai simplement envie de rester chez moi et jouer à Starcraft. Je suis allé en LAN non-stop pendant le lycée et aujourd’hui en FAC. Je n’ai pas tellement de travail à faire ce soir, et vous savez quoi, j’vais jouer à Starcraft 2. Je n’ai pas besoin de sortir, je ne dois pas suivre une quelconque norme sociale, genre “Oh, t’es en FAC, tu ne va pas faire de soirée ?”. Et ben, pas ce week-end parce que je veux jouer à Starcraft, et je pense que c’est génial.
Et vous savez quoi, je vais organiser quelque chose ce week-end et y amener tout le monde. Je vais organiser une diffusion de l’OSL sur le grand écran de la salle de conférence, c’est un projecteur 15pouces et tout le monde va se pointer et réaliser pourquoi c’est tellement cool.
Alors, vous savez quoi, je... je pense que j’ai touché en grande partie ce que c’est qu’être un joueur de Starcraft. Il y a tant de leçons que j’ai apprises qui ont été tellement utiles pour moi, par exemple : perdre. Une défaite n’est pas une mauvaise chose, l’échec n’est pas à mépriser ou à éviter, ou quelque chose sur quoi il faut rassurer quelqu’un “non non non c’est bon, le juge russe était simplement de mauvaise humeur”. Ces défaites, ces matchs que vous n’avez pas bien joué, que vous avez perdu. Ce n’est pas vous, ce n’est pas une image de vous, cette game vous est complètement externe. Et si vous la regardez simplement, tout ce qu’est cette défaite c’est une flêche qui vous montre la mauvaise direction.
Dans le pire des cas, si je pers 100 matchs j’ai 100 différentes sources d’information à revoir pour devenir meilleur, et j’ai maintenant une si minuscule peur de l’échec parce que vous savez quoi, si j’ai complètement gâché une finale de tournoi en 2005 contre un joueur parce j’ai eu un blocage, c’est pas grave car je serai de retour l’année prochaine et j’y serai à fond. - 1:50:00
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Hola damas y caballeros. Hoy es 13 de Abril del 2010... y es el Day[9] Daily número 100. Vean mientras mi cámara auto ajusta la luz. La reposicioné de vuelta a ese viejo ángulo... Hice el número 99 con la cámara arriba de mi computadora preo seguía mirando hacia aquí abajo. Y estoy seguro que muchos de ustedes están familiarizados con con el poster de Diablo III, y ahora como tengo una cámara HD pueden incluso ver el poster de Starcraft II ahí, impresionante.
Así que hoy... hoy es un increíblemente espcial Day[9] Daily porque primero que nada, acabo de alcanzar los 3 dígitos, y tres dígitos es cool. También, hoy no vamos a analizar ninguna partida, ninguna partida en absoluto. Solo va a ser mi vida jugando Starcraft. Porque, creo que la gente simplemente no llegan a... apreciar cuan comprometidos están con los juegos que practican. He crecido jugando Starcraft. Las cosas que he aprendido jugando Starcraft me han ayudado tanto. Solo quiero hacen una gran dedicatoria a la comunidad para tan solo decir: "hombre, solo ten orgullo de ser un jugador de Starcraft" No hay nada más cool que estar orgulloso de las cosas que amas. I por cierto, hoy fue casi demasiado emocional mientras trataba de ordenar todas las memorias que tengo de Starcraft y tratar de... resumirlas a algo que sea, ya saben, razonablemente entretenido. Así que como notarán, Incluso tomé notas de todo para estar seguro de no saltearme nada.
Hablemos de Starcraft. Empecemos por el mismísimo comienzo, cuando compré Starcraft. Todavía puedo recordarlo. Crecí en un pequeño pueblo en Leawood, Kansas. El cual está en el medio de la nada. Es Kansas verdad? Quiero decir, es parte de la ciudad de Kansas pero aún así. soy de Leawood Kansas, donde la tierra es plana y la evolución aún es una teoría, esa es a frase que siempre uso. Vivíamos en esta impresionante pequeña casa que estaba inmediatamente al lado de este centro comercial al que Nick y yo podíamos cruzar la calle todos los días. Y por su puesto, había una tienda de software de computadoras allí, donde solíamos comprar nuestra variada electrónica. Y estábamos super emocionados por Starcraft, porque nosotros jugabamos Warcraft II nena... Si! Éramos jugadores de Warcraft II! y como cualquier niño, tu tan solo vas hasta tu madre: "Mamá! Mamá!" y le dices acerca de las cosas geniales que has maquinado en tu cabeza. "Mamá, sabias que en Warcraft II, una catapulta tiene más rango que una torre?" Oh, nena, nena! Ahora... Ahora de repente nunca perderé contra las torres. Ya saben, cosas normales como esas. Éramos los típicos pequeños newbies my hermano y yo. Así que mi hermano Nick, quien es probablemente más conocido como Tasteless en la comunidad de Starcraft, pero el será Nick en esta historia... Entonces mi hermano Nick y yo, caminamos al centro comercial y pagamos, como 52,36 o algo por nuestro primer juego de Starcraft. Y fue muy gracioso porque el tipo en el mostrador era un gran nerd también, Así que estaba emocionado por el Starcraft. Incluso sabía el precio de memoria. Quiero decir, las cosas nerds de todos los dias, ya saben... Así que Nick y yo lo compramos por primera vez y solo teníamos una computadora en la familia. Porque ya saben, ahora somos unos lujosos grosos y tenemos nuestras propias computadoras. Pero en aquel entonces teníamos que dividirnos el tiempo, por lo que solíamos empujarnos uno al otro, tratando de jugar el mayor tiempo posible, o al menos mirar al otro jugar: "Haz Zerglings! Son increíbles! Créeme!" No sabíamos de lo que hablábamos. Así que ya saben, Jugaba mucho Starcraft. Esto era cuando estaba en... Dios, debe haber sido quinto o sexto grado, cuando compré Starcraft. Estoy seguro de que estaba en sexto grado! Y.. y después de un tiempo, mientras jugaba más y más y más... Rápidamente se convirtió en algo que yo hacía, me entienden? Era conocido por ser ese tipo. Porque llevaba la guía "Prima" de Starcraft a la escuela, y como que, la leía. Era como: "Er hum... Sé que unidad vence a cual, según Prima" Ya saben, El "Oh miren! Aquí está la forma más sencilla de completa la segunda misión de la campaña Terran" Estaba en la última en sexto grado! Tenía la posta! Y empezamos a jugar con mis grandes amigos Shawn y Charlie.
Y solíamos visitarnos unos a otros y jugar. Esta fue mi primera experiencia en red. Nunca había jugado contra otro ser humano. Quiero decir, jugaba partidas personalizadas, las cuales, en general para mi, duraban como… Dos? Tres días? Para terminar una partida personalizada? Porque, ya saben, Me aseguraba que todas las unidades tuvieran nombres, si eran deshonorables en alguna forma debían ser ejecutadas. Solía hablarles, decía:”Oh si, tengo que asegurarme que Martin el marine… ya saben, tenemos que darle algo especial, porque tiene 4 muertes.” Porque yo solo, atacaba con solo 3-4 unidades por vez. Pero de todas formas, primer juego que jugué contra gente real, y éramos horribles y eso, y la red eventualmente se calló. Entonces volvimos a jugar single player en, por supuesto, “Big Game Hunters” porque ese era nuestro mapa favorito en séptimo grado, y… Oh dios, había salido Brood War ya? Supongo que era el “hunters” regular el que jugábamos. [0:05:00]
Y, para hacerlo justo, contra la computadora, solo podíamos usar un cheat code. Esa era la regla que creamos, solo uno. Puedes hacer todo lo que quieras pero solo se te permite un cheat code. Y no puede ser el de invulnerabilidad. Podías revelar el mapa entero, podías darte visión, conseguir dinero. Por alguna razón, yo opté por las mejoras de ataque y defensa nivel uno. Ese cheat que puedes escribir. Yo decía: “Si hombre, quiero que estos trabajadores empiecen con 1-1-1, Va a ser lo mejor” Así que ya saben… Las cosas progresaron de allí y pronto mi hermano y yo empezamos a aprender a conectar nuestras dos computadoras en una lan. Porque teníamos una realmente horrible vieja computadora y una laptop. Y solíamos jugar uno contra el otro. Por horas! Pero pienso que, quizás lo más significativo a notar, sobre nuestro tiempo de juego, era que… teníamos toque de queda. No se nos permitía jugar a la computadora hasta las 3 pm. Porque un día, Nick y yo estábamos jugando “Syndicate Wars”! Recuerdan ese juego? Oh mi dios eso es vieja escuela! Abran el navegador y busquen “Syndicate Wars”! Porque juro por dios que pensé que ese juego tenía los mejores gráficos de todo lo que haya existido. Y si lo buscan es como… 320x240 y todo pixelado. Rotas la cámara y casi te apaga la computadora porque es muy exigente. Pero un día, Nick y yo estábamos peleando uno con otro, realmente queriendo, ya saben, pegarnos. Y mi madre dijo: “Bueno miren, están peleando por la computadora? Ni siquiera deberían estar en la computadora de todos modos. Nada de video juegos hasta las 3!!” Y nosotros: “Ohh, Porque peleamos? Si tan solo no hubiéramos hecho eso!” Pero mi madre también nos hacía levantarnos como a las 8 o 9 de la mañana, en el verano para hacer, a saben, las tareas, cortar el pasto, porque en Kansas, de hecho tienes pasto. En Los Ángeles es prácticamente todo concreto y desierto, y gasolina muy cara. Entonces no se corta mucho el pasto allí. Y, entonces no teníamos tiempo de jugar. Podíamos estar despiertos, y no teníamos nada que hacer!
Y es extraño porque mi madre era una madre soltera que trabajaba, tenía su propio negocio. Entonces no era que ella estuviera en casa para ver si jugábamos antes de las 3, pero aún así Nick y yo, como los honorables caballeros que éramos, no jugábamos nada de Starcraft antes de las 3, y lo que solíamos hacer era caminar hasta el centro comercial, todos los días. El mismo centro comercial donde compramos Starcraft. Solíamos mirar los juegos. Realmente no teníamos mucho dinero así que solo mirábamos los juegos y leíamos todas las tapas y contratapas. Y ocasionalmente, teníamos suficiente dinero para Orange Chicken y nos sentábamos con nuestro pollo de.. de “Food Court”, detrás de la escalera mecánica, y tan solo hablábamos sobre Starcraft y sobre video juegos. Y realmente creo que ese fue el comienzo de mi hermano y yo, tan solo, amando discutir videojuegos. Porque definitivamente pienso, probablemente la mayoría de la gente que está escuchando esto, ya saben, no tiene hermanos, basándome en algunas encuestas que he visto en TeamLiquid y eso. Y pienso que me ayudó tener un hermano ahí que tan solo quería hablar de Starcraft todo el día. Queríamos hablar de estrategias y todo… Y lo que es genial acerca de Nick es que… Como… quiero decir, mucha gente me ha preguntado cosas como “Como ha sido crecer con Tasteless?” Fue increíble! Ven GomTV? Como podría ser malo? Mi hermano es DIVERTIDÍSIMO! Lo que es gracioso es que Nick es tan gracioso y tan bueno en… **being on** Y yo era el tranquilo hermano menor cuando crecimos. I fue… fue cool! Yo solo me sentaba ahí y mi hermano seguía y seguía y seguía, seguía siendo gracioso, y más gracioso, más gracioso, y… Fue.. Fue muy divertido, para, ya saben, para mi hermano, mi madre y yo. Porque éramos nosotros 3 los que crecimos juntos. Así que… Dios, y jugábamos 1v1 (uno contra uno), en todo! Nombra el juego, Nick y yo nos retamos uno al otro en él. Hombre, mi hermano era como, mi más grande competidor. Jugábamos Goldeneye 1v1, License to Kill pistols in the Archives… Gracias! Si, jugábamos Soul Calibur. Yo jugaba con Maxi e Ivy, y Nick jugaba con Mitsurugi, porque es bajo, verdad? Es injusto! El hacía el, como era? El abajo patada erm… Era como patada + A. Usaba varias combinaciones: Atrás + Patada + A, Abajo + Patada + A… y solo las alternaba. Y nunca lo podía vencer! Que más hacíamos? Incluso juegos de Sega Saturn, como Last Bronx o Sonic Racing… Toda clase de cosas, Así que quiero decir, solo crecí… oh!, Street Fighter Alpha! Oh sí! Solo Crecimos compitiendo uno con otro, y solo queriendo superarnos uno al otro, y… En los viejos días de Starcraft, Nick y yo finalmente nos conectamos, fue extraño. Porque solo habíamos jugado uno contra otro, y de repente, estábamos en… La internet! Donde los grandes peces nadan, no? Y, aún recuerdo, mi primera partida de Starcraft. Fue… fue un 1v1v1 Free-For-All (todos contra todos). Okay? I yo pensaba: “Ok… esto me dará abundante tiempo para construir, de esa manera, puedo ganar! Eventualmente… Solo tengo que alejarme de sus caminos.” Ya saben, típico asunto del Free For All y, y estos dos tipos… [0:10:00] Se aliaron y me 4-Poolearon! Ok? Entonces, estoy en este juego, como:”Bien, ok, cool!” ya saben. Estaba construyendo mi Cybernetics Core. Probablemente iba a hacer un Arbiter rush, que es una estrategia que había practicado muchas veces en mis partidas personalizadas de 3 días. Y… de repente, 12 Zerglings entran en mi base, y yo: “Oohhhh!!” Y no se atacaban entre ellos, y dije: “Chicos, chicos! Es un Free-For-All! Es un Free-For-All!” Y escribía, y obviamente tenía como, 30 palabras por minuto, así que eso estaba realmente metiéndose en medio de mi habilidad de jugar. Como: “C-h-i-c-o-s!” Solo individualmente golpeando cada letra. Sudor corriendo por mi cara, Y estaba como: “ Ustedes… ustedes se aliaron.. solo…. Solo paren! Es un Free-For-All!! Eso era lo que decía en el título de la partida!!” Como pueden violar lo que decía el título de la partida?
Así que perdí esa partida, I casi vomito. Lo juro por dios! Estaba tan alterado! Se sentía tan vil, el ser traicionado por estos dos completos extraños, que yo, fui con mi madre y lloré, y ella dijo: “ Nunca más vuelvas a jugar en la internet!” Y yo: “ Nunca más voy a entrar a internet, Solo voy a jugar Sonic Racing con mi hermano” Pero eventualmente, ya sabe. Lo superé. Hice lo mismo que cualquier jugador nuevo hace: Solo me pegue a las partidas en equipo. Pensaba “Bueno, es obviamente porque necesito tener un buen aliado, alguien que respete mi habilidad de conseguir esos Arbiters realmente rápido, no? Yo y mi marine Martin definitivamente apreciaríamos el uso de un buen aliado.” Así que hice un montón de partidas en equipo, y eventualmente, BGH! Oh, aprendí sobre esto: “Espera un minuto, estás diciendo que no necesito expandirme… ¿jamás? Y tengo dinero infinito?” Esto parece como una forma razonable de pasar mi tiempo, ¿no? “Voy a hacer esto” Y solía jugar 3v3 y… Okay, no se cuan a menudo esto les pasa a ustedes, en tu historia como persona… Pero especialmente para mí, mirando hacia atrás en mi vida como un jugador de Starcraft, era un imbécil! Me desconectaba cuando perdía, Desconectaba el cable. Estaba en un juego de BGH, y hacía solo Hydralisk. No, ¿no hay problema, no? Todo lo que tengo que hacer es, ya saben, NO apretar la tecla “H”, porque ya saben, ¿quién usa el teclado? Esta mano estaba ocupada levantando mi labio, doblándolo y rascándome mientras pensaba, ya saben, reflexionando con mi mentón un poco, porque era un nerd bastante intelectual.
Y… Hacía muchas Hydralisks, y perdía todo, y solo decía “Bueno. Err… Buen juego hombre” E incluso escribía “Buen Juego” y porque estaba jugando en una laptop, Solo alcanzaba el cable del modem y lo desconectaba. I recuerdo que estaba en Dial-up, así que me tomaba como dos minutos llamar a AOL de nuevo y reconectarme. Pero ya saben, lo valía porque, no era justo… Estoy tan avergonzado de que hice eso, no lo puedo creer. I era realmente gracioso porque me unía a las partidas…
Y… Tenía nicks que eran robados de los Fallout. Yo era… Entonces mi hermano y yo hicimos un clan, nuestro clan era Tang, ok? Tang? Ya saben, “Oh significa algo fresco!” Entonces yo era Tang Kamazaki, que de nuevo es un nombre de Fallout, o Tang Finesse. Porque de nuevo, si acumulabas muchas derrotas en una de estas cuentas, tenías que crear una nueva que representara tu verdadera habilidad. Y yo tenía estos registros que se veían como: 10 victorias, 3 derrotas y 20 desconexiones. Y, y literalmente, no entendía que eso era malo, ok? Me unía a las partidas y decía “Hey, como andan chicos” Ya saben, listo para chatear antes de una partida de Starcraft. Y ellos decían: “Dude, do you disc?” Y obviamente querían decir “Te desconectas?” Pero yo no hacía la conexión y pensaba: “Por supuesto que tengo el disco de Starfcraft… Como voy a estar jugando si no, idiota?” Y codeaba a mi hermano, como “Uh Uh” Y el decía “Loco, se la diste!” Ooh. Hombre, era un gran nerd. Pero... eventualmente dejé estos mapas de dinero infinito. Y comencé a jugar 1v1. Porque aún cuando todos eran terribles y solo jugaban con una mano, solo con el mouse… Eso era lo normal, ok? Eso no era considerado newbie como lo es ahora, eso era, la norma. Así que dije “ Quienes son estos aliados de porquería que yo, Tank Kamazaki de séptimo grado, tengo que compensar?” Voy a jugar juegos de uno contra uno donde realmente pueda agarrarle la mano” Así que solo jugaba 1v1s en Small Divide. Y estoy seguro de que algunos de ustedes ya han oído la historia en el cast de la Zotac Cup que hice. Pero solo jugaba small divide, que es un mapa de cómo 64x64, en el que ambos empiezan en islas. Y solía ir Mutalisks rush el 100% de las partidas. Y ahora, mi alias había evolucionado. Ya no era Tank Kamazuki. Era Sean-P! Mi nombre es Sean Plott… Que listo eh? Antes de que continúe con esta historia de, 1v1 en Small Divide, solo quiero darles una imagen de cómo me veía en esta edad. Era… bajo, ok? Al comienzo del séptimo grado. Medía 1.58 metros. Al final del octavo grado, medía 1.86 metros. Eso dolió, ése período. Yo solo “Urrrghhh!!” Crecimiento estilo fábrica de chocolate Willy Wonka, no?
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Dutch: Current status:Working Note: Users involved: Palandiell Some text done:Document on Google Docs
Japanese: Current status:Working Note: Users involved: god_forbids, illKarasu, meeyoop
Slovenian: Current status: Standing by Note: Waiting for the english transcript Users involved: AgentSmax
Chinese: Current status: Standing by Note: Waiting for the english transcript Users involved: hmsrenown
Polish: Current status: Standing by Note: Waiting for the english transcript Users involved: Perfi
First of all, using SubtitleWorkshop I convert the subtitles into a format that makes sense. To do this load the English subtitles into SubtitleWorkshop and go to File > Save As > Choose .stl from the list. Then open the file you just saved with notepad++, it should look like this:
This is good because all the timings are in a box that we can rip using Notepad++'s box selection (like normal text selection but holding the Alt key)
Now lets get rid of all those headers and make another 2 files: TimingsOnly and TextOnly. Which should look like this:
This is all you need to start making the translated subtitles from your translated text, to do it open up your translated text (for this guide it will be spanish) and the TextOnly file we just created, just like this:
Now start separating the translated text into lines that correspond to those of the english TextOnly file, using the Enter Key, like this:
(And so on...)[Silly me, enter missing on line 4 ]
When you finish close the English TextOnly file and open up the TimingsOnly file you'll have something like this:
Now you can just box select all the timings until the line you need and copy paste them into your file:
And there you have it, once you are done with subtitling the whole thing you'll need to go back to the original .stl and copy paste those headers back in, save the file and convert it to whichever format you like.
It's more complicated than just copy pasting but it's much more efficient for large amounts of text imo.
Edit: The images weren't in the right places, sorry about that.
EDIT2: Here's a software i think is useful to make the subtitles,timings,etc.
Youtube has a tool which allows you too insert a subtitle in a video after it has been uploaded. So you can make the subtitle and send it to Sean, who would insert it in the video.
On February 05 2011 20:23 debasers wrote: Youtube has a tool which allows you too insert a subtitle in a video after it has been uploaded. So you can make the subtitle and send it to Sean, who would insert it in the video.
Wow, i didnt knew that, that's the best way to do it. I'll make an .srt file then....
You could send Sean the translation and upload them youself, as translator, you deserve some credit too. From what I've seen, I think he is pretty fine with people distributing his work, as a long as he us attributed as the content creator, which is kinda difficult not too, since he does to the camera bits. Eg. he lets people upload large groups of the episodes onto torrents to aid distribution.
Anyway, the first thing to do would be to contact him personally.
On February 05 2011 20:38 distant_voice wrote: do you have a transcript of what Day9 said or are you going to do the translation while you're listening?
I'm doing the translation while i'm listening to it (with some pausing, of course).
On February 05 2011 20:38 Kerotan wrote: You could send Sean the translation and upload them youself, as translator, you deserve some credit too. From what I've seen, I think he is pretty fine with people distributing his work, as a long as he us attributed as the content creator, which is kinda difficult not too, since he does to the camera bits. Eg. he lets people upload large groups of the episodes onto torrents to aid distribution.
Anyway, the first thing to do would be to contact him personally.
Ok, thanks, i'll think about that.
Doeas anyone know where to contact Sean? teamliquid PM? email?
I actually do live English subtitles for the hearing impaired for television as a job, focussing mostly on current affairs and live sport.
I've often wondered if there's a hidden niche out there of Deaf SC2 fans who are missing out on Day9. Or if it'd be worth trying to live caption streamed events.
English subtitles for Day9 would not only help the deaf SC2 fans, SunriseSEA, it would also greatly help non-English speakers understand better.
I personnally don't need it anymore, but that's how I learned and perfected my English : by watching tons and tons of movies and tv shows in English, with English subtitles.
On February 05 2011 21:28 SunriseSEA wrote: I actually do live English subtitles for the hearing impaired for television as a job, focussing mostly on current affairs and live sport.
I've often wondered if there's a hidden niche out there of Deaf SC2 fans who are missing out on Day9. Or if it'd be worth trying to live caption streamed events.
I think that's an excellent idea. You should give it a try! I know there are plenty of non-english speakers out there who find it a lot easier to understand when they can both read and hear it.
On February 05 2011 22:18 Husnan wrote: English subtitles for Day9 would not only help the deaf SC2 fans, SunriseSEA, it would also greatly help non-English speakers understand better.
I personnally don't need it anymore, but that's how I learned and perfected my English : by watching tons and tons of movies and tv shows in English, with English subtitles.
This is pretty much true across the board. Watching Japanese movies/TV with Japanese subtitles helped me process the language alot easier.
I think this is a great idea, and it'd surprise me if Day9 didn't think so too. I don't think anyone would turn down the opportunity to make their content more global.
Nice! So we've got spanish (by me), portuguese-brazilian (by Tschis) and then english if someone makes the english transcription.
If we got people willing to make the italian, german and french versions we would have a lot of subtitles choices for the viewers to choose. And then if we add more and more languages it would be great!
I coul try to transcript the audio, but I don't have a lot of free time, and I'm sure there would be stuff like nicknames, or some words that I wouldn't understand, so I rather leave it to people who are sure would understand 100%
If I have the time, I might translate it into Slovenian. But it's just a little hectic for me right now... It would make it easier with English transcription though.
So now we need someone to make the english transcription, i could do it at the same time i do the spanish version but...i think it would be better if someone british,american or from an english speaker country to do it....
I'll work out if I have time to do it, you guys. It's a long piece of audio to transcribe - at work, our expected output is one hour's worth of text for every 4 hours worked. I can go quite a bit faster than that, but it gives you an idea of how long this will take.
It'd also be a lot easier if I got a hold of it as an mpeg, then I could throw it into the software at work.
On February 06 2011 08:30 SunriseSEA wrote: I'll work out if I have time to do it, you guys. It's a long piece of audio to transcribe - at work, our expected output is one hour's worth of text for every 4 hours worked. I can go quite a bit faster than that, but it gives you an idea of how long this will take.
It'd also be a lot easier if I got a hold of it as an mpeg, then I could throw it into the software at work.
You can download the video from day 9's blip.tv page. Goto the episode at http://day9tv.blip.tv/file/3486428/ and go to the bottom of the page and there should be a "Download" link.
Formats for the downloaded video are either .flv or .m4v though, not sure if that still works for you
Thanks, Thetan. I'll definitely give it a go on my work software within the next week or so. Even if it doesn't work with it, I could just transcribe it the old-fashioned way.
If it'll help all the translators out there, that's definitely more motivation for me to get it done. I could even release the text in one-hour blocks to allow you guys to get started on translations.
Tbh I wouldn't mind translating it into danish. But we're only 5,6k ppl in Denmark. I guess only a few thousand playing StarCraft - even less wanting to see Day[J]. And those who'd like to see him are all capable of understanding english perfectly. So I see no reason to do this. For neither part of Scandinavia really.
I've just done a bit of fucking around with my subtitling software, I actually think I can do this quicker than I thought using live transcribing instead of typing. I'd just have to build a 'SC2 profile' so it recognises and spits out the correct SC2 terms, ie: marauder, Day[9], WCG, etc. I can live voice caption at about 97% accuracy.
Hmmm. I think this just might work
Once I've built the profile, it'd only take 1.5 hours to caption a normal daily. *ponder*
On February 06 2011 11:25 SunriseSEA wrote: I've just done a bit of fucking around with my subtitling software, I actually think I can do this quicker than I thought using live transcribing instead of typing. I'd just have to build a 'SC2 profile' so it recognises and spits out the correct SC2 terms, ie: marauder, Day[9], WCG, etc. I can live voice caption at about 97% accuracy.
Hmmm. I think this just might work
Once I've built the profile, it'd only take 1.5 hours to caption a normal daily. *ponder*
You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. On top of the fact that you do an impressive thing for your job in general, I'm glad that you're taking this on. I'm sure there are quite a few people who could use some transcribing/subtitling. Who knows, maybe if you get there first you can even help some of the major tournament organizers either personally or with your profile and get paid for it.
This is great! what about subtitle timings? I bet there's a lot of people out there willing to translate the daily to their languages.
If you get a properly timed .srt in english, it would be awesome to find a way to automatically make a .srt file from a raw .txt translation, using the already known timings from the english subtitles. It would certainly not be perfect, but it would save a lot of work, only leaving some minor editing to do. That way you don't have to bother translators with timings too much, making it easier for people to contribute.
Btw, if you need help with the spanish translation I would be glad to help.
OK guys, today I will beg and plead with my workplace to allow me to use my transcribing software outside my actual shift to start transcribing the Day[9] Daily #100.
I work evenings for the news and live sport, so I could start hanging back for an hour every couple of shifts. I estimate I could get about 15 minutes worth of audio done per hour, just because of specialised terms. This will decrease the more material I cover.
If anyone would like to help, I need to create a list of non-standard English terms to train into my voice recognition profile. For example, tournaments mentioned, any names, units, etc.
To give you an idea, for the recent cyclone emergency in Queensland, I had to train in about 50 suburb names, cyclone/weather-specific terms, reporter names, etc. For football matches, I train in player names, umpire names, football-specific terms, the stadiums, and so on.
Does that make sense?
I will start on this list myself, but if anyone could help with listing those words, do PM me!
You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.
Madam -_- but thank you! It's a pretty thankless job, for the most part. We can't even gauge how many people use English subtitles on the evening news or sport or whatever. It's estimated at around 1 million in Australia, but we'll never know. But I do feel that, at least, I'm doing something worthwhile. Plus the pay's good, and they're really good with fitting my work around university ^^
I was thinking of doing this by hand, but I've never had time, so great props to whoever is doing this. I was thinking of doing it, because I know I've heard of people who are deaf and would love to be able to watch the dailies. Just recently even:
On January 26 2011 13:09 audist wrote: I'm a lurker on TL, and I have been playing SC2 since November. I'm currently #4 in my Platinum division, and I am also deaf. I've often wished that I could watch Day9's dailies, but I can't because of the lack of subtitles.
Is there anyone out there who is willing to subtitle a Day9 daily? The #100 one is the one I'm most interested in. I am willing to donate money, because I think this video will help inspire me to push to Diamond and get more deaf people into SC2. While I realize this post is a long shot in the dark, it's still worth making. And it'll be cool if you guys could give me your thoughts on this!
So great thanks to whoever is doing this, and you should spread the word, this will not only help foreign audiences, but also people who cannot hear Sean and require subtitles. Good on you!
I would happily volunteer to translate daily #100 into german, if anyone's interested. However, as I lack the technical competence, I have no idea how to put it onto the video as subtitles. So if someone was ready to do that part for me, I could create a German transcription. If anyone already has made an English one, I'd gladly take it to have an easier time translating.
On February 07 2011 06:38 SunriseSEA wrote: OK guys, today I will beg and plead with my workplace to allow me to use my transcribing software outside my actual shift to start transcribing the Day[9] Daily #100.
I work evenings for the news and live sport, so I could start hanging back for an hour every couple of shifts. I estimate I could get about 15 minutes worth of audio done per hour, just because of specialised terms. This will decrease the more material I cover.
If anyone would like to help, I need to create a list of non-standard English terms to train into my voice recognition profile. For example, tournaments mentioned, any names, units, etc.
To give you an idea, for the recent cyclone emergency in Queensland, I had to train in about 50 suburb names, cyclone/weather-specific terms, reporter names, etc. For football matches, I train in player names, umpire names, football-specific terms, the stadiums, and so on.
Does that make sense?
I will start on this list myself, but if anyone could help with listing those words, do PM me!
Madam -_- but thank you! It's a pretty thankless job, for the most part. We can't even gauge how many people use English subtitles on the evening news or sport or whatever. It's estimated at around 1 million in Australia, but we'll never know. But I do feel that, at least, I'm doing something worthwhile. Plus the pay's good, and they're really good with fitting my work around university ^^
so do you need a list of terms spoken on a sound file? I am just not getting it, I will gladly help you, but my brain cant process your request right, now
could you explain what you need excatly?
also as soon as we have the transcript, I will gladly translate with the other 2 guys into German
What's wrong with being a scholar and a gentlewoman?
I was literally just thinking about this - there's a lot of casts out there but I can't think of any which actually have any subtitling, putting e-sports pretty far behind regular TV even. And just thinking about how fast day9 and other casters talk when it gets down to the nitty-gritty (always wanted to write that )....
I'm willing to help if I can, but since I have nothing but my hands and a keybaord I was just thinking of typing things up as I listen to it. Any use for me?
This is so weird. I actually finished watching that episode about 15 minutes ago, and even wierder I thought about posting something similar to the OP about it. o_O
Basically, what Sunrise is looking for is a list of all the words Day[9] says that aren't in the dictionary. For instance, I imagine Sunrise's software would have no idea what do with the word "kiwikaki", and might transcribe it as "kiwi khaki".
We could easily do an english transcription with enough man power, for instance I'll happily transcribe the last 5 minutes of the video, and if we partition it like that we could be done pretty quickly.
On February 08 2011 11:07 Rampager wrote: Basically, what Sunrise is looking for is a list of all the words Day[9] says that aren't in the dictionary. For instance, I imagine Sunrise's software would have no idea what do with the word "kiwikaki", and might transcribe it as "kiwi khaki".
We could easily do an english transcription with enough man power, for instance I'll happily transcribe the last 5 minutes of the video, and if we partition it like that we could be done pretty quickly.
I have started and have the first 20 minutes done so far, will work on it more tonight.
1:45:00 If you have any friends or any family that is absolutely something you should do. That's why in this last year, I haven't gotten the chance to play as much but I still need that fix and I just want to do as much commentary on the games and share everything of 12 years of playing Starcraft, about all my thoughts and everything and interact with this unbelievably kickass community.
Some of things people were asking, "How do you deal with juggling school, work and all these things with Starcraft?" and the answer is I love Starcraft so much and I love that I love Starcraft so much. So I'll go to school and hang out with friends, but I have no shame if there's a Friday night and I just want to stay in and play Starcraft. I went to LAN parties non-stop in highschool and now in college I don't have that much work I have to do after tonight, and you know what, I'm gonna play Starcraft 2. I don't need to go out, I don't have to follow any weird social norm, like "Oh, you're at College, you don't go to parties?" Well, not this weekend because I want to play Starcraft, and I think that's awesome.
And you know what, I'm going to host an event this weekend and bring everyone in. I'm going to host the OSL down on the mainscreen auditorium, it's a 15inch projector and everyone's gonna show up and realise why that's so cool.
So, you know what, I... I think I've just about hit most of what's it like being a starcraft player. There's so many lessons that I've learned that have been so valuable to me, for instance: losing. A loss in not a bad thing, Failure is not something to be scorned or avoided, or something to reassure someone on "no no no it's okay the russian judge was just in a bad mood" those losses, those games you did not play well, that you lost. That is not you, that is not a reflection of you, that game is completely external to you. And if you just look at it, all that loss is, is an arrow that points to you in the wrong direction.
In the worst case scenario, If I loss 100 games I have 100 different sources of information to review to become a better player, and now I have such a small fear of failure because you know what, If i completely botch a tournament in the 2005 finals against a player because I choked, no big deal because I'll be back again next year and I will be clutch in the future.
It's helped me realise if I screw up an assignment it's not a big deal, if I end up losing a relationship, ya'know, it doesn't end up working out I can deal with it a lot better now. I know that, because you have to make decisions so quickly in Starcraft I now have very little issue just making decisions and I realise the importance of being able to decide now and figure out if it's better later. Too often I think people spend too much time waffling on various issues, they say should I do A or should I do B and they're too scared to make a decision. Starcraft makes you proud to be a decision maker and make you love being a decision maker, all these situations you can end up in are so much easier if you have that experience.
The last thing I want to say is that you learn the importance of community. No one in Starcraft holes themselves up, played by themselves up, and came back and played better than everyone. Players played with each other, discussed with each other, and formed really tight friendships overseas. Some of my best friends live in Europe thanks to Starcraft. That community aspect is so dear to me.
So I'll finish with this last question someone sent to me "What do you want to do with Starcraft 2? Do you want to be a player or commentator?" My dream is for eSports to be big in the west. I want it to be huge, so I would so dearly want to be the ambassador for eSports. I want to be someone you can show your Mum too and say look at this guy, this guy isn't homeless! He didn't turn out horrifically awful, right, he played this game and it has brought him far in life. Listen to how he describes this game, that great feeling that he's able to talk about, that is what I feel. That is what I think is so important, just to be able to spread it to as many people as possible and I just want people's love for eSports to never die and it would be a life well spent if I could do that. It's been about two hours so thank you to anyone who tuned in live, and for any of you who have a drink I'd like to make a toast to 12 years to my dearest friend, the Starcraft community. It's been with me through everything, always remember to believe in yourself and dream big. Cheers.
1:45:00 If you have any friends or any family that is absolutely something you should do. That's why in this last year, I haven't gotten the chance to play as much but I still need that fix and I just want to do as much commentary on the games and share everything of 12 years of playing Starcraft, about all my thoughts and everything and interact with this unbelievably kickass community.
Some of things people were asking, "How do you deal with juggling school, work and all these things with Starcraft?" and the answer is I love Starcraft so much and I love that I love Starcraft so much. So I'll go to school and hang out with friends, but I have no shame if there's a Friday night and I just want to stay in and play Starcraft. I went to LAN parties non-stop in highschool and now in college I don't have that much work I have to do after tonight, and you know what, I'm gonna play Starcraft 2. I don't need to go out, I don't have to follow any weird social norm, like "Oh, you're at College, you don't go to parties?" Well, not this weekend because I want to play Starcraft, and I think that's awesome.
And you know what, I'm going to host an event this weekend and bring everyone in. I'm going to host the OSL down on the mainscreen auditorium, it's a 15inch projector and everyone's gonna show up and realise why that's so cool.
So, you know what, I... I think I've just about hit most of what's it like being a starcraft player. There's so many lessons that I've learned that have been so valuable to me, for instance: losing. A loss in not a bad thing, Failure is not something to be scorned or avoided, or something to reassure someone on "no no no it's okay the russian judge was just in a bad mood" those losses, those games you did not play well, that you lost. That is not you, that is not a reflection of you, that game is completely external to you. And if you just look at it, all that loss is, is an arrow that points to you in the wrong direction.
In the worst case scenario, If I loss 100 games I have 100 different sources of information to review to become a better player, and now I have such a small fear of failure because you know what, If i completely botch a tournament in the 2005 finals against a player because I choked, no big deal because I'll be back again next year and I will be clutch in the future.
It's helped me realise if I screw up an assignment it's not a big deal, if I end up losing a relationship, ya'know, it doesn't end up working out I can deal with it a lot better now. I know that, because you have to make decisions so quickly in Starcraft I now have very little issue just making decisions and I realise the importance of being able to decide now and figure out if it's better later. Too often I think people spend too much time waffling on various issues, they say should I do A or should I do B and they're too scared to make a decision. Starcraft makes you proud to be a decision maker and make you love being a decision maker, all these situations you can end up in are so much easier if you have that experience.
The last thing I want to say is that you learn the importance of community. No one in Starcraft holes themselves up, played by themselves up, and came back and played better than everyone. Players played with each other, discussed with each other, and formed really tight friendships overseas. Some of my best friends live in Europe thanks to Starcraft. That community aspect is so dear to me.
So I'll finish with this last question someone sent to me "What do you want to do with Starcraft 2? Do you want to be a player or commentator?" My dream is for eSports to be big in the west. I want it to be huge, so I would so dearly want to be the ambassador for eSports. I want to be someone you can show your Mum too and say look at this guy, this guy isn't homeless! He didn't turn out horrifically awful, right, he played this game and it has brought him far in life. Listen to how he describes this game, that great feeling that he's able to talk about, that is what I feel. That is what I think is so important, just to be able to spread it to as many people as possible and I just want people's love for eSports to never die and it would be a life well spent if I could do that. It's been about two hours so thank you to anyone who tuned in live, and for any of you who have a drink I'd like to make a toast to 12 years to my dearest friend, the Starcraft community. It's been with me through everything, always remember to believe in yourself and dream big. Cheers.
Oh wow, i meant i started mapping out the non normal words like zergling hydra and such, somebody earlier in the thread said they may be able to do the rest with a program.
Thanks though! and I am sure you efforts will not be in vain.
Thanks guys! Due to Perth's bushfires, I was at work yesterday for about 12 hours all up, until around 2:30am, so I didn't get a chance to begin my SC2 profile.
Rampager's explanation of what I'm looking for is exactly correct :D I've already had a lot of very helpful people PM me with some lists, which I will collate. I'll begin working on my profile on the weekend.
And again, once the Day9 Daily #100 is complete, I'm quite happy to transcribe any particular dailies. Perhaps the meme-generating ones would be the best ones to work on first (UNIDEN FIGHTIIIING), so that any deaf players can get back into the loop, where they most definitely deserve to be
The more I do, the quicker it will become to transcribe
Maybe the OP needs to be updated with what ulfsark is doing, so people don't decide to start translating it by themselves only to find out it will be done automatically within a couple of weeks.
On February 08 2011 18:47 Wesso wrote: Maybe the OP needs to be updated with what ulfsark is doing, so people don't decide to start translating it by themselves only to find out it will be done automatically within the following couple of weeks.
Actually Sunrise has a program that can do it, i forgot to edit my post, so I not typing it out anymore. Though it should be updated with what Sunrise is doing.
On February 08 2011 18:47 Wesso wrote: Maybe the OP needs to be updated with what ulfsark is doing, so people don't decide to start translating it by themselves only to find out it will be done automatically within the following couple of weeks.
Actually Sunrise has a program that can do it, i forgot to edit my post, so I not typing it out anymore. Though it should be updated with what Sunrise is doing.
if you need any help about the french translation, please pm me or send me an email at eartznoob[at]gmail[dot]com .
I don't speak a perfect english at all as you can see, but I understand it quite well and I'm proud of my "almost perfect" french.
@OP : great work, I want eSport to be known everywhere in the world. Though I can't make it as a player (lack of skill), I'd like to help in other ways, such as French Day9 translations.
BTW : French casters are ridiculous so a high level cast available for people who don't understand English would be greately appreciated
OP updated with all the languages, current status, users involved, pieces of text,etc. If something is wrong or you want to update something send me a PM or post in this thread.
I actually work self-employed as a freelance translator (Japanese->English), and I wouldn't mind volunteering to do a translation into Japanese for Sean & and the community. I haven't done video subtitling in a while, but to get started I'd just need a transcript of his speech (or not, I guess, but it'd be very helpful).
On February 08 2011 23:19 Deyster wrote: This is a great initiative. If I was fast at typing in Arabic I would have offered translating to Arabic from English transcript.
Keep up the good work!
You can do the Arabic translation if you want, maybe someone will offer to help you.
On February 08 2011 23:23 Truenappa wrote: I actually work self-employed as a freelance translator (Japanese->English), and I wouldn't mind volunteering to do a translation into Japanese for Sean & and the community. I haven't done video subtitling in a while, but to get started I'd just need a transcript of his speech (or not, I guess, but it'd be very helpful).
Great! I'll add you in the OP, thanks
PS. you need the english transcript or you can do it without it?
After someone provide the Enlish transcription, if I translate it to Portuguese, how's it going to be timed into the SRT? Because I don't know if would be able to do the timings.
Any chance to get this in Chinese? I mean, the playerbase in China is massive and with the added influence of Day9 over there, I think SC2 is just going to explode and grow even more
On February 09 2011 02:46 Tschis wrote: After someone provide the Enlish transcription, if I translate it to Portuguese, how's it going to be timed into the SRT? Because I don't know if would be able to do the timings.
//tx
the english transcription will probably be timed already, so you can use those timings
hey, can i translate it into pig latin? just kidding, nice to see someone doing this! its quite helpful because as you said, that daily really can make people understand why we love competitive gaming so much, and how important it is.
On February 09 2011 02:46 Tschis wrote: After someone provide the Enlish transcription, if I translate it to Portuguese, how's it going to be timed into the SRT? Because I don't know if would be able to do the timings.
//tx
the english transcription will probably be timed already, so you can use those timings
Great, I thought the transcription would contain only the English speech.
On February 09 2011 02:46 Tschis wrote: After someone provide the Enlish transcription, if I translate it to Portuguese, how's it going to be timed into the SRT? Because I don't know if would be able to do the timings.
//tx
the english transcription will probably be timed already, so you can use those timings
Great, I thought the transcription would contain only the English speech.
//tx
I don't know how the youtube STR is constructed, but if it is any similar to how Video games load subtitles and or text fields in the engine, you can just take that file, leave the commands untouched and replace the English terminology.The only problem might be with the "long ass drawn out" German and Spanish way of speech, to check for overlaps and time differentials, but I am reading up on the subject right now, so I should be able to make adjustments to the final File if it becomes a mess when watching it.
subtitle workshop is the (there are some others ofcourse) tool to use for straight on-video translating and outputing a subtitle (have done it a few times for movies), but that can be too time consuming; it is, however, the only proper way i know of working a reliable transcript from a video/audio file (auto-anything-software, when it comes to words, sucks in my experience). hence why i for one am waiting on a timed transcript of the show prior to translation.
sunrise, could you please pm us when it's done so we can get it, review, then translate. and i guess we can work out centralising the work and getting it to sean afterwards
I'll be willing to translate this into Chinese once Sunrise finishes his work with subtitling. I'm not the best at translation however I'd give it a REAL good try.
On February 09 2011 06:28 hmsrenown wrote: I'll be willing to translate this into Chinese once Sunrise finishes his work with subtitling. I'm not the best at translation however I'd give it a REAL good try.
On February 09 2011 06:28 hmsrenown wrote: I'll be willing to translate this into Chinese once Sunrise finishes his work with subtitling. I'm not the best at translation however I'd give it a REAL good try.
you could probably get some help from the TL translate department for the chinese one.
Oh my god, we can arrange for daylies with korean subtitles, there are lots of good translators for that on TL.
If you have any friends or any family that's absolutely something that you should do. I mean that's why in this last few... in this last year... You know, I haven't got the chance to play as much but I still need that fixed, and I just want to do as much commentary on the games and just share everything of 12 years of playing Starcraft, about all my thoughts and everything and, and you know, just interact with this unbelievably kickass community.
I mean, some of the things that, that people were asking is, you know, "How do you deal with juggling school and work and all this stuff with Starcraft?" and the answer is that: I just... love Starcraft so much... and I love that I love Starcraft so much. So I'll go to school, I'll hang out with friends, but I have no shame if there's a Friday night and I just want to hang in and play Starcraft. I went to LAN parties non-stop in highschool. And now in college, you know, I don't have that much work I have to do after tonight, and you know what, I'm gonna play Starcraft 2. I don't need to go out, I don't need to follow any sort of weird social norm, like: "Oh, you're at College, you don't go to parties?" You know? Like: "Well, not this weekend. I wanna play Starcraft!" and I think that's awesome.
And you know what? I'm gonna host an event on the weekend and bring everyone in. I'm gonna host an OSL down on the mainscreen auditorium, that's a 15inch projector and everyone's gonna show up and realise why that's so cool.
So, you know what, I... I think I... I think I've just about hit most of what it's like been a starcraft player. I've learn... There's so many lessons that I've learned that have been so valuable to me, for instance: losing. A loss in not a bad thing. Failure is not something to be scorned or avoided, or something you should reassure someone on and say: "No, no, no! It's okay. The russian judge was just in a bad mood". Those losses, those games that you did not play well... that you lost, that is not you, that is not a reflection of you, that game is completely external to you. And if you just look at it, all that loss is, is an arrow that points you in the wrong direction.
In the worst case scenario, if I lose a hundred games, I have a hundred different sources of information I can review in order to become a better player. So now I have such a small fear of failure, because you know what? If I completely botch a tournament in the 2005 finals against a player, because I choked, no big deal. I'll be back again next year and I will learn from that mistake, and I will be clutch in the future.
You know it's helped me realise, you know like getting... If I screw up an assignment it's not that big a deal, if I end losing up a relationship, you know, it doesn't end up working out... I can deal with it a lot better now. I know that, because you have to make decisions so quickly in Starcraft, I now have very little issue just making decisions. and I realise the importance of being able to decide now and figure out if that's better later. Too often I think people spend all this time waffling on various issues, they say "Should I do A or should I do B?" and they're too scared to make a decision. Starcraft makes you proud to be a decision maker and makes you love being a decision maker, all these situations you can end up in... are so much easier if you have that experience.
And I mean, the last thing I wanna say is that... I mean, you learn the importance of community. No one in Starcraft hold themselves up, played by themselves, and then came back and was better than everyone. Players played with each other, and discussed with each other, and formed really tight friendships overseas. Some of my best friends just live in Europe, thanks to Starcraft. That community aspect is just so dear to me.
So I'll finish with this last question that someone said "What do you wanna do with Starcraft 2? Do you want to become a professional player? Do you want to become a commentator?" My life dream is for eSports to be big in the west. I want it to be huge. So I would so dearly want to be the ambassador to eSports. I wanna be the person who you can show your mom to, and say "Look at this guy! This guy isn't homeless! He didn't turn out horrifically awful, right? He played this game and it has brought him far in life. And listen to how he describes this game. That great feeling that he's able to talk about, that is what I feel. That is, you know, something that I think is so important, just to be able to spread it to as many people as possible and I just want the love and the passion for eSports to just, never die. And, and it would be... It would be a life well spent if I could do that.
So... It's been about two hours! Thank you so much to everyone who tuned in live, and for any of you who have a drink, I'd like to make a toast to 12 years, to my dearest friend, the Starcraft community. It's been with me with ups and downs, through everything, always remember to believe in yourself and dream big. Cheers. - 1:50:00
If you have any friends or any family that's absolutely something that you should do. I mean that's why in this last few... in this last year... You know, I haven't got the chance to play as much but I still need that fixed, and I just want to do as much commentary on the games and just share everything of 12 years of playing Starcraft, about all my thoughts and everything and, and you know, just interact with this unbelievably kickass community.
I mean, some of the things that, that people were asking is, you know, "How do you deal with juggling school and work and all this stuff with Starcraft?" and the answer is that: I just... love Starcraft so much... and I love that I love Starcraft so much. So I'll go to school, I'll hang out with friends, but I have no shame if there's a Friday night and I just want to hang in and play Starcraft. I went to LAN parties non-stop in highschool. And now in college, you know, I don't have that much work I have to do after tonight, and you know what, I'm gonna play Starcraft 2. I don't need to go out, I don't need to follow any sort of weird social norm, like: "Oh, you're at College, you don't go to parties?" You know? Like: "Well, not this weekend. I wanna play Starcraft!" and I think that's awesome.
And you know what? I'm gonna host an event on the weekend and bring everyone in. I'm gonna host an OSL down on the mainscreen auditorium, that's a 15inch projector and everyone's gonna show up and realise why that's so cool.
So, you know what, I... I think I... I think I've just about hit most of what it's like been a starcraft player. I've learn... There's so many lessons that I've learned that have been so valuable to me, for instance: losing. A loss in not a bad thing. Failure is not something to be scorned or avoided, or something you should reassure someone on and say: "No, no, no! It's okay. The russian judge was just in a bad mood". Those losses, those games that you did not play well... that you lost, that is not you, that is not a reflection of you, that game is completely external to you. And if you just look at it, all that loss is, is an arrow that points you in the wrong direction.
In the worst case scenario, if I lose a hundred games, I have a hundred different sources of information I can review in order to become a better player. So now I have such a small fear of failure, because you know what? If I completely botch a tournament in the 2005 finals against a player, because I choked, no big deal. I'll be back again next year and I will learn from that mistake, and I will be clutch in the future.
You know it's helped me realise, you know like getting... If I screw up an assignment it's not that big a deal, if I end losing up a relationship, you know, it doesn't end up working out... I can deal with it a lot better now. I know that, because you have to make decisions so quickly in Starcraft, I now have very little issue just making decisions. and I realise the importance of being able to decide now and figure out if that's better later. Too often I think people spend all this time waffling on various issues, they say "Should I do A or should I do B?" and they're too scared to make a decision. Starcraft makes you proud to be a decision maker and makes you love being a decision maker, all these situations you can end up in... are so much easier if you have that experience.
And I mean, the last thing I wanna say is that... I mean, you learn the importance of community. No one in Starcraft hold themselves up, played by themselves, and then came back and was better than everyone. Players played with each other, and discussed with each other, and formed really tight friendships overseas. Some of my best friends just live in Europe, thanks to Starcraft. That community aspect is just so dear to me.
So I'll finish with this last question that someone said "What do you wanna do with Starcraft 2? Do you want to become a professional player? Do you want to become a commentator?" My life dream is for eSports to be big in the west. I want it to be huge. So I would so dearly want to be the ambassador to eSports. I wanna be the person who you can show your mom to, and say "Look at this guy! This guy isn't homeless! He didn't turn out horrifically awful, right? He played this game and it has brought him far in life. And listen to how he describes this game. That great feeling that he's able to talk about, that is what I feel. That is, you know, something that I think is so important, just to be able to spread it to as many people as possible and I just want the love and the passion for eSports to just, never die. And, and it would be... It would be a life well spent if I could do that.
So... It's been about two hours! Thank you so much to everyone who tuned in live, and for any of you who have a drink, I'd like to make a toast to 12 years, to my dearest friend, the Starcraft community. It's been with me with ups and downs, through everything, always remember to believe in yourself and dream big. Cheers. - 1:50:00
//tx
Ok, i'll update the text. If Rampager (the original poster of that text) has something to say about it we'll have to listen to him xD.
On February 09 2011 17:01 Eartz wrote: I've sent my work on the french translation (5 last minutes of #100) to escruting.
Mr_Tolkien, if you have a gmail adress, please pm it to me : We could use google documents.
Ok, i'll add this to the OP, thanks!
PS: why do you start translating the last 5 minutes first?
I think they wanted to make sure they wouldn't be doing the work someone else was doing, so they started with the final 5, since probably noone would be transcripting that =P
Btw, my updates were most like just adding a couple of "you know" and "I mean", stuff like that, nothing big =P
You can add me to the English part also, I'll try to make revisions on what is already transcripted to make sure this kind of stuff doesn't slip by! Specially because we'll be working with the software that sunrise is working with, so it might let go of a few words xD
Could do it in Dutch. If anyone wants that... Dutchies are usually pretty ok at english, but let me know via PM if theres anyone needing this translated to Dutch
Haha, that's fine. Day9 just has some strange moments (it was a 2hour speech, essentially, so this isn't criticism) where the grammar of his sentence and the word choice used (it's a 'I know what he meant to say' thing) makes it seem like I should just transcribe 90% true to form, and the other 10% to keep it coherent and flowing
Good revision nonetheless, I'm waiting for SunriseSEA to maybe let us know how much of the video and it's "unknown" words have been submitted, so I can do alittle more
Edit: Like the poster above said, I did the last 5 minutes to avoid collisions. Just like if I was someone else willing to contribute I'd start in the middle (at the 1 hour mark) to more avoid collisions, etc.
On February 08 2011 19:37 Eartz wrote: BTW : French casters are ridiculous so a high level cast available for people who don't understand English would be greately appreciated
lol, I hadn't seen that part, I second that 250%.
I've done 14 minutes worth of translation so far, took me 2 hours! Thank god we're 3 on the job :D
Friendly reminder to go vote day9 for a shorty. This thing is closer than ever. Day[9] is in front of Adam Montoya, but by 15 votes!!!! Adam is gaining on him; i think Day[9] still needs some help
I see you guys are already working on the french subtitles, so i will change the current status to "Working", and i added Husnan to the "french team" xDD
We started working on the translation this afternoon, but a few things are bothering me, becaue essentially, I'm quite lacking regarding Broodwar culture :p
1) Please help me make sure I spelled those players' names correctly : (Day9 is talking about his first tournament ever, the WCG 2001 finals, and he mentions these players)
Maynard Froz Weer Wizard Bluewolf Requiem Dream
2) He also mentions the name of the guy who organized WCG 2003, I think he says Joe Moss, but I have no idea who it is or how to spell the name. (I'm guessing he is a radio show host, cuz Sean says "if you listen to Joe Moss, you're the man!")
3) He mentions the fact that Dream, the Zerg player, had a big reputation back then because he used to play on a server where Korean players played, called Game-i ? Does anyone know how to spell "game-i"?
Thanks in advance!
(All of this is between 29 minutes and 42 minutes)
On February 10 2011 06:32 Husnan wrote: We started working on the translation this afternoon, but a few things are bothering me, becaue essentially, I'm quite lacking regarding Broodwar culture :p
1) Please help me make sure I spelled those players' names correctly : (Day9 is talking about his first tournament ever, the WCG 2001 finals, and he mentions these players)
Maynard Froz Weer Wizard Bluewolf Requiem Dream
2) He also mentions the name of the guy who organized WCG 2003, I think he says Joe Moss, but I have no idea who it is or how to spell the name. (I'm guessing he is a radio show host, cuz Sean says "if you listen to Joe Moss, you're the man!")
Checking this link I found only Maynard (GGO_Maynard_us), unless the others have another nicknames.
And at this link you can see Joe Moss being mentioned, so I guess it's the right spelling!
Yeah, transcript of the entire daily#100 would be incredibly helpful. I don't know how helpful timings would be for this kind of project because of the different languages involved. I would imagine that different languages require different amounts of space, which would make the incredible amount of work necessary to time the daily kind of useless, unfortunately.
Also, I don't know how helpful this will be, but I used a program called "Aegisub" when I was doing subtitles. I just needed something quick and dirty to do the job, though. I'm sure there are great programs out there that cost a fuckton of $$.
On February 10 2011 06:32 Husnan wrote: We started working on the translation this afternoon, but a few things are bothering me, becaue essentially, I'm quite lacking regarding Broodwar culture :p
1) Please help me make sure I spelled those players' names correctly : (Day9 is talking about his first tournament ever, the WCG 2001 finals, and he mentions these players)
Maynard Froz Weer Wizard Bluewolf Requiem Dream
2) He also mentions the name of the guy who organized WCG 2003, I think he says Joe Moss, but I have no idea who it is or how to spell the name. (I'm guessing he is a radio show host, cuz Sean says "if you listen to Joe Moss, you're the man!")
3) He mentions the fact that Dream, the Zerg player, had a big reputation back then because he used to play on a server where Korean players played, called Game-i ? Does anyone know how to spell "game-i"?
Thanks in advance!
(All of this is between 29 minutes and 42 minutes)
from the ones i know they all look right except weer is whear Also I've always seen Game-i written as gamei but I dunno whats correct.
Not to be a troll or anything, but I would really like to have a Korean subtitles too because I'm trying to convince my family to love and support e-sports too but sadly, they don't know english very well Just a suggestion. Thank you so much for this and I support you wholeheartedly.
Hi, I want make translation to russian. I've started this at dotsub.com http://dotsub.com/view/6acab63c-f085-4585-935a-b11bff5c0f75 . I'm sure I made mistakes in transcription, so someone can fix its. At that site anyone can contribute to translate the video. I think overall work will go faster by translating daily piece by piece with several translators.
On February 10 2011 06:32 Husnan wrote: We started working on the translation this afternoon, but a few things are bothering me, becaue essentially, I'm quite lacking regarding Broodwar culture :p
1) Please help me make sure I spelled those players' names correctly : (Day9 is talking about his first tournament ever, the WCG 2001 finals, and he mentions these players)
Maynard Froz Weer Wizard Bluewolf Requiem Dream
2) He also mentions the name of the guy who organized WCG 2003, I think he says Joe Moss, but I have no idea who it is or how to spell the name. (I'm guessing he is a radio show host, cuz Sean says "if you listen to Joe Moss, you're the man!")
3) He mentions the fact that Dream, the Zerg player, had a big reputation back then because he used to play on a server where Korean players played, called Game-i ? Does anyone know how to spell "game-i"?
Thanks in advance!
(All of this is between 29 minutes and 42 minutes)
It's Fr0z, if I rememebered correctly, aka HerO[pG] All the other ones are correct to my knowledge
1:45:00 - Se você tem amigos, ou família, isso é absolutamente algo que você deveria fazer. Quero dizer, é por isso que nesses últimos... nesse último ano... Sabe, eu não tive a chance de jogar muito mas eu ainda tenho que resolver isso, e eu só quero fazer o máximo de comentários possível sobre as partidas e compartilhar tudo dos meus 12 anos de Starcraft, meus pensamentos e, sabe, apenas interagir com essa comunidade incrível!
Quero dizer, algumas das coisas que algumas pessoas perguntam, sabe é tipo: "Como você consegue se organizar na escola e no trabalho com todas essas coisas envolvendo Starcraft?" e a resposta é: simplesmente... eu amo tanto o Starcraft... e eu AMO amar tanto o Starcraft. Então eu vou pra escola, me divirto com meus amigos, mas eu não tenho nenhuma vergonha se chegar uma Sexta à noite e eu simplesmente quiser jogar Starcraft. Eu ia para LAN-parties sem parar durante o ensino médio. E agora estou na faculdade, sabe, eu não tenho tanto trabalho pra fazer à noite, e querem saber de uma coisa? Eu vou jogar Starcraft 2. Eu não preciso sair, eu não preciso seguir nenhum tipo de norma social estranha, tipo: "Oh, você está na faculdade e não vai para as festas?" Sabe? Daí eu respondo: "Bem, não nesse fim de semana. Eu quero jogar Starcraft!" E eu acho isso maravilhoso.
E querem saber de uma coisa? Eu vou ser o anfitrião de um evento no fim de semana e vou levar todo mundo pra lá. Vou ser anfitrião de um campeonato OSL na tela principal do auditório, que tem um projetor de 15 polegadas e todo mundo vai aparecer lá e entender por que isso é tão legal.
Então, tipo... eu... eu acho que... Eu acho que eu já passei por quase tudo que uma jogador de Starcraft pode passar. Eu aprendi... há tantas lições que eu aprendi que têm sido tão importantes para mim, por exemplo: perder. Uma derrota não é algo ruim. Perder não é algo para ser desprezado ou evitado, ou algo que você deva chegar para alguém que conhece e dizer: "Não, não, não! Está tudo bem. O árbitro russo não estava de bom humor." Essas derrotas, essas partidas que você não jogou bem... e que perdeu, isso não é você, não é um reflexo seu, aquela partida é completamente externa à você. E se você apenas prestar atenção, tudo que uma derrota é, é uma seta que te aponta para a direção errada.
No pior dos casos, se eu perder uma centena de partidas, eu terei uma centena de diferentes fontes de informação para poder revisar de maneira a me tornar um jogador melhor. Então agora eu tenho um medo tão pequeno de errar, porque quer saber de uma coisa? Se eu estraguei completamente um torneio nas finais de 2005 contra um jogador, porque me engasguei... não tem problema. Eu voltarei no próximo ano e aprenderei com o meu erro, e estarei preparado no futuro.
Tipo, isso me ajudou a perceber, sabe, se eu tiver... Se eu estragar uma tarefa, não é algo muito importante, se eu acabar perdendo um relacionamento, sabe, se acabou por não dar certo... Eu posso lidar com isso muito melhor hoje. Eu sei disso agora, porque você tem que tomar decisões tão rápido no Starcraft, que agora eu tenho muito pouco problema para tomar decisões. E eu percebo a importância de ser capaz de decidir agora e descobrir mais tarde se essa foi a melhor escolha. Muitas vezes eu acho que as pessoas gastam muito tempo pensando sobre vários problemas, elas dizem "Será que eu faço isso, ou será que eu faço aquilo?" e eles têm medo de tomar decisões. Starcraft o deixa orgulhoso por ser um tomador de decisões e faz você amar ser um tomador de decisões, todas essas situações pelas quais você pode passar... são muito mais fáceis se você já tem essa experiência.
E a última coisa que eu gostaria de dizer é que... sabe, você descobre a importância da comunidade. Ninguém no Starcraft se manteve sozinho, jogou sozinho e então chegou e era melhor que todos os outros. Os jogadores jogaram entre si, discutiram entre si, e formaram amizades muito fortes até no exterior. Alguns dos meus melhores amigos moram na Europa, graças ao Starcraft. Esse aspecto da comunidade é muito especial para mim.
Então eu vou terminar com essa pergunta que alguém fez: "O que você quer fazer com Starcraft 2? Você quer se tornar um jogador profissional? Você quer se tornar um comentarista?" Meu sonho de vida é que o E-sports cresça no ocidente. Eu quero que ele seja gigantesco. Então eu realmente adoraria ser o embaixador para o E-sports. Eu quero ser a pessoa que você pode mostrar pra sua mãe, e dizer: "Olhe pra esse cara! Esse cara não é um vagabundo! Ele não virou algo terrivelmente ruim, certo? Ele jogou esse jogo e isso o levou muito longe na vida. E escute como ele descreve esse jogo. Esse grande sentimento sobre o qual ele consegue falar, é isso que eu sinto!" Isso é, sabe, algo que eu penso que é tão importante, apenas conseguir espalhar para tantas pessoas quanto for possível e eu só quero que o amor e a paixão pelos E-sports nunca morra. E isso seria... Seria uma vida bem vivida se eu conseguisse fazer isso.
Então... já se foram quase duas horas! Obrigado a todo mundo que está assistindo ao vivo, e para quem tiver um drink, eu gostaria de fazer um brinde pelos 12 anos, para a minha amiga mais querida, a comunidade de Starcraft. Que esteve comigo nos altos e baixos, todo esse tempo, lembre-se sempre de acreditar em você mesmo e de sonhar alto. Saúde! -1:50:00
Hello. Since I saw no one else took the position, I would like to translate this into Italian. I'm currently a student at college studying Latin, Greek, and Italian. Although I'm only a first year Italian student, I feel I have a strong grasp of the language because of my study of Latin (6 years so far).
I'm currently very busy, and I will continue to be during the semester, but I hope to do this piecemeal over the next few months.
I feel like starting to translate some text but I don't wanna do the transcripting work, which takes a loooooot of time, and that a software might do in a couple minutes =[
This is the coolest project I've read about in a while. I like to think of us SC fans as one giant team. Being able to get our media across language barriers is awesome! I'm totally looking forward to the Spanish one to show some RL friends who's gasp of English isn't quite robust enough to handle some things. Awesome awesome idea.
May I suggest www.viki.com it's a video streaming website that let community (users) input subtitle translations to hosted video sites like(youtube, dailymoition, and others.) the video can have many language subtitles. It's similar to wikipedia in a way that users contribute input and contents but for Videos and subtitle translation.
Project manager should create channel under others and gaming (I don't if it allow). and link day9 daily#100 http://www.youtube.com/user/day9tv#p/u/0/NJztfsXKcPQ to the video url and start segmenting video so subtitle input and users can start translating.
I guess Sunrise could not get the permission to use her software for an online side-project Ah well.
Here's 1:40:00 onwards. I definitely found an easier way to transcribe so I'll do more while I'm here. Just open the .flv into any media player and slow it down to about 0.5x speed, I managed to transcribe this 5 minutes incredibly quickly compared to my previous.
I plan to 1:30:00 -> 1:40:00 now, I have the time and I would like to make sure the translators have something to work on.
and I was just like... "Oh my god, dude, yea, good game!" I don't know what to do, I don't know how to party, I don't party, I play video games! What's a good friday night for me? How about some Settlers of Catan or the card game Dominion, ya know, so I'm in Cancún and I just won the biggest Starcraft tournament I've ever been to, and I just went back to my hotel room and I just like sat on the bed and I didn't know what to do. I was just there and I was like "Oh my god, thats it... Cool..." and I watched some stupid Johnny Depp movie and I ate the frozen M&Ms in the fridge and I remeber I just walked along the beach, just by myself just sitting there and I was like "Man, I worked really really hard at something... and it paid off. And the only person whose to blame is me" and I remember I... My mum actually messaged me on facebook beforehand before I even got home, but she messaged me on facebook she said "Oh my god Sean, congratulations! I am so proud of you, I know how hard you've been working on this and I saw the results. I heard that you knocked out Testie, twice!" How cool of a mum is that, huh? How often does your mum say "Yea, you beat Testie twice in a tournament" and get that, right! What mum knows about the Canadian famous Starcraft players but my mum, right! And my family, who just have been infinitely supportive from start to finish.
And... what was so funny about that tournament is that, like I said I'm a very private player, I don't like posting my own replays especially not replays of me winning, because it feels kind of... ya know... snarky. Like "Hey, I won a game, hurr" ya'know, just put it up here, 'cause you know the other guy didn't want me to put it up I don't wanna embarrass him maybe he was having an off day. So I very rarely release replays of myself playing on PGTour or iCCup. So for that tournament -- for the Pan American -- all the replays were lost. So I've never gotten a chance to rewatch any of those games. But that's okay, because it's always just been a really nice memory. I have this, I actually have this little medal up here, umm, hell I can get it I have Starcraft paraphernalia all around my room. Yep, here it is. Here's my awesome little gold medal, the only gold medal I've ever gotten from a Starcraft tournament. Took me 6 years of WCGs to do that, and 8 years of playing. Just commitment, just hard work and just, as my brother said, just ya'know, believing in yourself.
And after that, school was just too much. I mean, 2008: I played in one qualifer and didn't qualify and couldn't go to the finals. 2009: I qualified for the finals but couldn't go again because of school. But you know what, in that period I've always needed that Starcraft fix. I still watched all the pro matches, I actually umm... Up until recently, actually, this hasn't been true for the last 3-4 weeks but up until 3-4 weeks ago I watched every single professional Starcraft match since 2003. Every single one, and... I just love the scene. I love TeamLiquid, being able to log on there and just chat with a whole bunch of people and post a replay, 'cause you know what if you have a game with amazing mutalisk micro, it's so hard sometimes to turn to your roommate and say "Dude, there's this hard thing that I pulled off and... I'm really happy." but if you can log on to MSN and find a buddy and say "Check out this replay!" and he goes "Oh man, nice work!" that sort of support and encouragement is just what makes the Starcraft community so, so amazing and why I've just been delighted to be a part of it for so long.
And I even remember, ya'know, since I focused so much on my life as a player, in college I used to watch the matches and I would always invite as many people as I could in, and I would try to explain to them everything that was going on in these matches because I... I... thought they were so cool. And I thought that these professional gamers were so talented and I was determined to make all of them get it, and it got to the point where people actually did get it, and at Harvey Mudd which is a school of about, umm, I think it's about 900 now it was about 850 when I was there as an undergraduate. I started hosting... umm... like broadcasts of the MSL/OSL finals, where we would... I would go down to the academic end of the audoriturum, I would rent it out starting at like midnight until three in the morning and I would send out an email to the entire school trying to get everyone, as many people as I could in there, and I drew of like, a school of 800, 350 people from the school showed up. And it was AWESOME. I got the mic, and I got to help everyone understand why this game was so cool. I mean, playing is great, ya'know, I love playing and I love going to tournaments and training for tournaments but there is nothing more satisfying then looking at a crowd of people and helping them get what I love. And for anyone watching [NOTE: goes into 1:45:00 here]
Just a quick note: It's amazingly hard and far too time consuming to do a word-to-word transcription. Sometimes I leave out a "ya'know" or "and" because Sean uses them quite extensively and it's hard to get every one
Wow this is amazing. That was by far the best Daily i have seen. In my opinion every nerd on the planet should watch it and you guys help making it possible.
1:30:00 That those are just loose benchmarks, the B- player could very well take out the C+ player. Excuse me, the C+ player could very easily take out the B- player and vice versa so there's no reason to claim that one is necessarrily better than one or the other so you know they are just these broad categories so you always have... It's always hard to tell if you have... improved. It's easy to say, well my rank is higher than yesterday but did you get better? And I recall in all my hours of just laddering like crazy on PGTour or iCCup, this thing would happen where you get up to someone, who would be, you'd get to like A- or A range and you'd play against some player who is just really good. Just, out of 10 games we'd play in a row I'd win 3, or maybe 4, and none of them felt good.
So what I'd do is create a new account, I would rework what I wanted to practice and I would start from the ground up. Okay, so let's see how it feels against these lower levels and let me adjust all the way up, 'cause I don't wanna do something nuts like completely change my playstyle and "Oh hey! Now I'm going to practice it against A or A+ level players" and I would just get demolished.
I'm not going to lie, it's not really being super smart or anything that gets you, like, high, man just for me I just played a lot and analyzed my games alot alot alot alot alot alot. So I just created a new account 'cause I just needed, I as a person needed, that many games to figure things out, to problem solve and to sort out what would work and what wouldn't. And, I remember I found that same guy again and he wanted to play another 10 games, and suddenly I won every single one of those games and... And his units felt predictable, and stupid. His play felt so flawed and it... it... and at no point during the game did I ever actually feel nervous or feel like I was at a loss or feel like I had to play intensely. And after all those hours of playing, I was like "Oh my god... I actually improved" and that in my eyes is why Starcraft is incredible as a game, just as a game, think about that. It is a game that requires as much mental strength as a chess grandmaster trying to figure out all the different strategies and ther ight way to respond and all the little adjusts you make in game for all the various possibilities.
On top of that, you need to have the dexterity of a musician, have your fingers be... umm, obey your brain. You want them to do what you tell them, right, hah, which is a surprisingly hard thing to do, like your brain can want it all you want but if you haven't trained your hands to do it, it's not gonna... it's not gonna come to together. So you need this brain dexterity and merge them together. That means, like, if you lose because it's a game. It's not because, ya'know, oh the russian judge was just feeling angry today or it's not because, umm... ya'know, there's this subjective rating system, it's not ya'know, this system where you agree to disagree you lost straight up purely, truly and only because you did something wrong and he had superior mental strength and defeated you that way. But that also means that when you win, it's not because you got, ya'know, some sort of cheap opportunity, it's not because your mummy and daddy had a lot of money and paid for you to do it. It's not because you had the right connections or because you were cheap or cheating or anything. It is your fault that you got that good at something that hard.
And that, I think, has been the most instrumental... uh, thing that just made me appreciate all Starcraft players as just incredible, incredible people and just that feeling of "Oh my god, I actually got better at something", that is sooooo, so important and so rewarding because that's really hard to do nowadays. Because in school, they're just like "all A's for everyone!" but in this harsh environment of Starcraft you get the chance to prove yourself to yourself.
And I continued to train as hard I could for that, ya'know, Pan-American championship tournament and I went out to Cancun and I didn't want to be there. It was wet everywhere and the humidity was high, it was so moist that the, the humidity would condense on the sheet. So I would get into a cold, damp bed at night and I had like food poisoning, ya'know, because of the water and Montezuma's revenge and whatever. And... I just felt "urgghhhh", and I went to the tournament and... I didn't... the best player at the tournament was the famous Canadian player Testie, Nick Perentesis, he is... like, a legend, he was unbelievably good with all three races he would practice regularly with all the top-named players like Stork and stuff, he was in the same clan with them. He would even show me these like private replays of him just demolishing, uhm... demolishing like Stork in these games on Gorky Island and all that stuff. Really scary player. And I thought he wasn't going to show, and he showed up so I was like "ugghhhh".
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But what ended up happening is that we get to the finals of the Winners Bracket... Actually I ended up winning 2-0. And... I had no idea that was even possible, 'cause Testie was really good, it didn't occur to me "Well, jee Sean you've basically been playing 14 hours a day for 2 months, hardcore non-stop for this tournament, ya'know so it's bound to help eventually", but... I, I, was just blown away and he just walked up to me and he was like "Dude, yea wow, really really nice! Really well played" and I was just like "Oh my god, Testie is saying nice things to me, oh my god!" and then ya'know, uhm, I remember it was the finals of the Winners Brackets I had a one game winners advantage and Game 1 was on Py-- Gaia, which was my second best map. Games 2 and 3 were on Paranoid Andriod and uhm... Azaleiah, which are my worst two maps. But then the last game was on Peaks of Beakdu, which was my best map.
So on game 1, I executed my strategy perfectly and believed in myself, 'cause thats the thing my brother always said "Dude Sean you got this man just believe in yourself" and I will always remember those words he says 'em constantly to me, he's just like believe in yourself and I did, and I pulled the build off and I won Game 1 and it was one-sided. Then he RAPED me in Game 2, and then RAPED me again in Game 3. So we're tied up 2-2 and it's in the finals. And... again, I've never had a big win, I've never, and I remember in my head I said to myself "Oh well, second place is good. Second place is fine, ya'know, whatever let's just get this over with it's been a long tournament you feel kinda sick" and then I just went "Why did I do that? Why did I just say that in my head? No! I'm going to focus, I'm not gonna 5-pool, I'm not gonna do anything cheesy like rush for mutalisks. I'm not going to resort back to my 2001 Floating Lurkers Into The Back of His Base strategy. I'm going to play the strategy I know and trust in what I've practiced.
And I opened up, it was on Peaks of Beakdu. I'm bottom left, he's in the top right. I do an overpool build, because I want to force any early expander to build those extra cannons so I can expand actually three times and I end up with a very fast four bases on Peaks of Beakdu because you can defend them very nicely. And I saw, with my overlord, that he was actually 2gate rushing me.
And I was like "ohhh, god, okay" because at the US Open in the 2007, the reason Nony got first and I got second was because Nony had a brutally good 2gate and I hadn't practiced against 2gate. I practiced alot more after that qualifer with FrozenArbiter, who plays around with the name of Jinro in SC2 as you may have heard in one of the Day9 dailies, but he uhm... but he did this 2gate opening and I remember like, time was... sooooo slow in that game 'cause I expanded and I was just waiting for my hatchery to finish. I was starting to get Zergling speed but I knew to hold off this 2gate rush, that hatch needs to finish, I need to throw down a sunken colony immediately. Because if that sunken colony doesn't get up in time... I'm done.
So I'm just staring at my expansion, all his units just seem like their moving at one pixel at a time, I feel like I can see every frame in there as I'm looking there it's at 900 hitpoints and there 950 hitpoints and then a 1000 hitpoints and then a 1050 hitpoints and I'm just like, getting my drone ready and it's bare and it's waiting. His zealots are coming in and I'm trying to push him forward and back because I just need to get this sunken colony done. So it finishes and it starts building it takes a few hits, I'm trying to position another Hatchery to get in the way I'm trying to control this but he just has so many zealots and then... The sunken finishes! And he has to back off, and I go "Oh my god, I held the two gate rush and I'm in a decent position!" and then I look at my Overlord that's up at his base that's been inspecting this 2gate opening and I see that he threw down an expansion at his natural.
And the weirdest thing that has ever happened to me in my entire life happened. My brain went "Oh my god, I won." and then... I literally stopped consciously playing. It was almost as though, I stepped out of my self and I was two feet to my right and I could feel myself... It felt like I was looking at myself from behind and I remember that my brain was totally clear and my hands were just doing everything and my eyes were just sort of going around and I thought "I know exactly how to crush this early expansion, right now. And I'm gonna do it. And it's gonna work." and my hands just did everything from then on. And then I actually won, and then that was it. That was it. That was the end of the tournament, it wasn't a qualifier, it wasn't the intermediate set between the world final, it was just the end of that tournament. And Nick comes over and is like "Hey man, good games well played" -> [TN: Goes into 1:40:00 here]
I would really appreciate if someone could just go over (like Tschis did) and revise it. But for the most part, it's solid.
So this marks the last 20 minutes of the video have been transcribed and I managed to do about 15 minutes of video in about 1.5 hours.
My hands need a break (keeping up with Sean even at 0.5x speed is incredibly difficult) but I feel like I could easily do more.
If anyone else is reading this and wants to start transcribing, I am doing 1:20:00 -> 1:30:00 when I come back :D
You guys remember how Day9 said that the community doesn't need to be told to do something, they just choose to do it on their own? This is a prime example.
I fucking love you guys so much. ^_^ I hope this turns out well.
Sucks that Sunrise couldn't do it. Guess we're just going to have to do it the hard way. I'll start translating the revised final 5 minutes, and I'll see if therr's anything to correct in those two chunks you transcribed, Rampager. Seems like a good job for now
Also, I guess this means that we'll have to split the translated text and adjust the timings ourselves.
"Day, I do not want you to feel bad. You are such good player, and good friend." And he was just so nice and I could tell he felt bad because he and I were the two players who were battling for the second place spot because Sen he had already gotten first, there was no chance he was getting eliminated. So Android, he still came up to me and just said "You know what man, like, good games. I... I feel bad." and that was so nice for me to hear, this player who people were like "Oh yea notoriously getting pissed off at people" but he came to me and he was like "Dude, I... I appreciate your skill and you, and I think you're a good guy and I'm sorry it had to turn out this way." So that, that's always been really nice to me because I always valued trying to be as just nice, pleasant and polite as possible.
It was so nice to hear him be able to say that, and around this time in 2005, I was like "You know what, I just want to be good at Starcraft" and afterwards I hated on myself for alittle bit but then I found out about Bunny I was so upset about it, I actually took a break from Starcraft I couldn't even handle it. And I ended up coming right back and started playing, and this is when I started going hardcore into PGTour, uhm, this is when I hit A+ over multiple seasons in PGTour just mass gaming, like 6-7 accounts a season. I would work an account up and I would just reset it and work it all the way back up again. Using that Fr0z style, ya'know, like increasing the temperature, dropping the temperature, shoes on, shoes off, chair up, chair down, every single thing I could because I just wanted to get good.
I didn't tell anyone about it, I think my brother is the only person who actually ever knew about it because ya'know throughout this whole time I'm talking to him like crazy. He's the only person who ever really knew because again I didn't want winning or any of this stuff getting in the way, I just wanted to focus purely on the game. I had such a useful discussion with my mum, one of the most...eye opening discussions in my entire life, 'cause I said "You know mum, I have been working... I just get so angry after some of my games and you know I'll... I'll... I broke, I've actrually broken my keyboard multiple times. I've broken mice. Uhm, and I just get really upset and shaken up" and my mum said "You know what Sean? That is totally normal. Don't you worry about it, don't worry about those feelings, you know Sean the thing that's so important to know is that all that feeling of tension and anxiety and adrenaline that goes into your system and more importantly the adrenaline that comes out of your system after you lose an intense match. That stuff is just chemicals. And that is so easy to get sucked in by that, and to believe it, and to direct that anger at yourself." and she's like "Which I can see is what you've been doing. But Sean remember, I could give you a pill that will make you feel the exact same way. It's just chemicals, just ignore it and wait for it to go out of your system, and don't believe it. Don't think anything, just be very calm and just deal with it." Oh excuse me, "Just deal with the emotion, don't think about anything else."
From that point on, I would go on losing streaks, of course I would get angry. If any of you get angry and think "Oh I shouldn't do that after some games." Don't worry about that. The important thing, as my mum said, just don't be hard on yourself. Do not hate on yourself. If you get that feeling of anger and feeling flushed just go sit down somewhere and just calmly wait for it to go away, and then you can go back and look at your game and start thinking and analysing, then you can start working all that good stuff out.
That has been like soooo valuable to me, that's just been like the biggest help out of all my practice so I don't just like flip out or anything, 'cause ya'know I'm very low on my teacups.
But yea, so the 2006 US Open happened, uhm... My brother and I both qualified for the finals, uhm, for that one and... uh... up to this point, I hadn't... I still hadn't had a win, I mean I won 2005 USA but I mean it's the qualifer for the tournament and I got that bittersweet feeling because I played so bad against Android and all that other stuff. Uhm... And... I lost my train of thought. Allow me to sip tea and muse to regain it.
At the 2006 Finals, that... that was... one of the most stressful tournament experiences of my life, so... They did some little interview thing beforehand, "Day who do you not want to play at the finals?" I was like "I do not want to play EchoOfThunder that guy--- uh excuse me, EchoOfTerran, that guy is really really really good." and uh, obviously he's in my round robin group first round, I'm up against EchoOfTerran and Slog, just a group of three.
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And so I lose my first game against EchoOfTerran but then I barely win the next two in order to come back. Uhm... So then I'm feeling like "Oh my god, I beat EchoOfTerran, oh my god, I... I can do this, I got this, I just gotta focus. I just gotta go through Slog and already the hardest person at the tournament is thrown out the window" Umm... and I... I... This is actually really funny, at WCG 2006 because they're on a tight schedule what they would do is cast the first game of every Best Of Three. Or, every notable Best of Three 'cause obviously they didn't have time to do all of them. So what happened is that it was me vs Slog, so Game 1 was up on stage and I lost to Slog4, the protoss player. And I was like "Oh my god" and he like crushed me it was not even close. And then, uhm, I barely barely barely barely won the next two games, but what was so funny is that everyone in the tournament was like "Oh yea, let's watch the Starcraft matches. Oh yea, that Day9 guy he lost, alright" and then uhm, then I had to play against uhm... LastGosu, who ended up beating me twice, sothat first game was shown and I lost that. So then I had to go to the Losers Bracket where I had to play Nony, and then first round game that gets broadcasted and I lose that, then I win the next two.
And then uhm, I had to play against Artosis and they didn't cast those games but then I had to be up against LastGosu in the finals. So every single game, uh, series I had played was me losing the first game and winning the next two with the exception of LastGosu who just beat me 2-0 straight up.
So in the final game, I was... I was just so tired... That in the last deciding match and this is the one that got cast... I 5-pooled. I've never 5-pooled in a practice game in my life. I just... I just 5-pooled. And... I lost because he 9-rax'd and I remember I got that same bitter feeling that I got after Android because I thought to myself "I designed my build to hold off 9-rax, and I abandoned all of that just for an easy win because I was too tired" and you know again, I was really bummed out about that. But you know, my brother, he was there and we went into a corner and I got really upset. He's... He's just been this fixture of support, that's why I think it's so important for people, ya'know, if you have siblings and parents who don't get Starcraft to just... get them into it. To just figure out ways to say these stories, to... to... umm... share your intense passion, all the amazing stuff that happens in Starcraft with them so that way you can... umm... so then they can just be supportive, because once they get it, they'll definitely just be there for you and be so nice. My mum felt horrible, I ended up, ya'know, it was just number one spot go to the grand finals so I didn't get to go so I was just like "urghhh".
And uhm... eventually LastGosu couldn't go but I had already scheduled stuff in with school so I couldn't go to the 2006 Finals. Uhm... but you know, I still just kept playing, ya'know, even though that hurt I just focused and kept playing and then 2007 came along. This is me now, I'm... still more WCGs,there was a WCG US Open and... Okay, for the US Open if you got in the top two spots you qualified for the WCG Pan-American championship which is just North and South American countries.
So I... I was invited to the open so it was top 4 from the previous year, so it was me, Artosis, Nony and LastGosu. And I trained harder for that then I ever have for anything in my entire life. I... So... There was a break at the end of school between when school finished and when my summer research began at Harvey Mudd. So, in that period of about a month, little over a month, I would wake up at 10am, I would play from 10 to Noon, take a break for lunch, play from 1 to 6pm, take a break for dinner, play from 7pm to 3 in the morning, then wake up on the next day at 10am again and just repeat.
I played countless games, like the three people I wanna personally thank right now are: FrozenArbiter, helped me with my Zerg vs Protoss, DeadMan from Croatia, for helping me with my Zerg vs Terran, and IVeeLove from Denmark I believe who also helped me with my Zerg vs Terran. And I just trained sooo much, holy cow I played a lot of games then, as you might imagine. And uhm... Nony got first at the, uhm, at the Open and I got second so Oh my god we're both going to the US Open [Pan-American?] and there's this weird thing this is perhaps the best feeling I've ever gotten in Starcraft, like far and away the best.
You'll end up in situations where... You wanna do some sort of skill measuring contest ya'know, where oh he's a C+ player and that guy got B- last season but most people know [TN: Goes to 1:30:00]
1:30:00 that those are just loose benchmarks, the B- player could very well take out the C+ player... umm, excuse me, the C+ player could very easily take out the B- player and vice versa. So there's no reason to claim that one is necessarrily better than one or the other. So, you know, they are just these broad categories, so you always have... It's always hard to tell if you have... improved. Umm, it's easy to say "Well my rank is higher than yesterday." but did you get better? And I recall in all my hours of just laddering like crazy on PGTour and iCCup, this thing would happen where you get up to someone, who would be, you'd get to like A- or A range and play against some player who is just really good. Just, out of 10 games we'd play in a row I'd win 3, or maybe 4, and none of them felt good.
So what I would do is I'd create a new account, I would rework what I wanted to practice and I would start from the ground up. You know, being like, okay, so let's see how it feels against these lower level players and let me adjust all the way up, 'cause I don't wanna do something nuts like... completely change my playstyle and then "Oh hey! Now I'm gonna practice it against A and A+ level players" I would just get demolished.
I mean, it's not like... I mean, I'm not gonna lie... It's not really being super smart or anything that gets you, like, high. Man, just for me, I just played a lot and analyzed my games a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot. So I created a new account because I just needed... I, as a person, needed that many games to just figure things out, and to problem solve and to sort out what was, umm, what would work and what wouldn't. And, I remember I found that same guy again, and he wanted to play another 10 games, and suddenly I won every single one of those games. And... his units felt predictable, and stupid. His play felt so flawed, and it... it... at no point during the game did I ever actually feel nervous or feel like I was at a loss or feel like I had to play intensely. That after all those hours of playing, I was like "Oh my God... I actually improved!" and that in my eyes is why Starcraft is incredible as a game.
Just as a game, think about that, it is a game that requires as much mental strength as a chess grandmaster, trying to figure out all the different strategies and the right way to respond and all these little adjustments you make, in game, to all the various possibilities and on top of that, you need to have the dexterity of a musician, to have your fingers be... umm, your fingers obey your brain. You want them to do what you tell them, right? Which is a surprisingly hard thing to do, your brain can want it all you want, but if you haven't trained your hands to do it, it's not gonna... it's not gonna come together. So you need this, like, brain and dexterity, and merge them together.
And that means that if you lose, because it's a game... that it's not because, you know, "Oh the Russian judge was just feeling, you know, angry today." it's not because, umm... you know, "Oh, there's this subjective rating system", it's not you know, agreed to disagree. You lost straight up purely, truly and only because you did something wrong and he had superior mental strength and defeated you that way. But that also means that when you win, it's not because you got, you know, some sort of cheap opportunity, it's not because your mommy and daddy had a lot of money and paid for you to do it. It's not because you had the right connections or because you were cheap or cheating or anything. It is your fault that you got that good at something that hard!
And that, I think, has been just the most instrumental... thing that just made me appreciate all Starcraft players as just incredible, incredible people. And just that feeling of "Oh my God, I actually got better at something!", that is so, so important and so rewarding, 'cause that's really hard to do nowadays. You know, 'cause in school the kids, they're just like "all A's for everyone!" but now in this harsh environment of Starcraft, you get the chance to prove yourself to yourself.
And I continued to train as hard as I could for that, you know, Pan-American championship tournament, and I went out to Cancun and I didn't wanna be there. It was wet everywhere and the humidity was high, it was so moist that the, the humidity would condense on the sheet. So I would get into a cold, damp bed at night, and I had like food poisoning, you know, because the water got Montezuma's revenge and whatever. And... I just felt "urgghhhh", and I went to the tournament and... I didn't... the best player at the tournament was the famous Canadian player Testie, Nick Perentesis. He is... like, a legend! He was unbelievably good with all three races, he would, like, practice regularly with all the top-named players, like Stork and stuff, he was in the same clan with them. I mean, he would even, like, show me these private replays of him just demolishing, uhm... demolishing, like, Stork in these games, on, like, Gorky Island and all that stuff. Really scary player, and I thought he wasn't gonna show, and he showed up, and I was just like "ugghhhh".
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But what ended up happening is that we got all the way to the finals of the Winners Bracket... Actually I ended up winning 2-0. And I had no idea, that that was even possible, 'cause Testie was really good. It didn't occur to me, like, "Oh gee, Sean! You've been basically playing 14 hours a day for 2 months, hardcore and non-stop for this tournament, ya'know, like... it's bound to help eventually!". But... I, I, just was, like, blown away... and he just walked up to me and he was like "Dude, yea wow! Really, really nice! Nice, well played!" and I was just like "Oh my God, Testie is saying nice things to me, oh my God!" you know, and then uhm... I remember, I was in the finals of the Winners Brackets, I had a one game win advantage. Game 1 was on... uhm, Gaia, which was my second best map. Game 2 and 3, were on Paranoid Android and uhm... Azaleiah, which are my worst two maps. But then the last game was on Peaks of Beakdu, which was my best map.
So, Game 1, I played... I executed my strategy perfectly, just believed in myself. 'Cause that's the thing that my brother always said, he's like: "Man, Sean, you got this, dude! Believe in yourself, dude!" I will always remember those words. He says them constantly to me. He's just, like, "Believe in yourself, man!" and I did, and I pulled the build off, and I won Game 1 and it was one-sided. And then he RAPED me in Game 2, and then RAPED me in Game 3. So we're tied up 2-2 and it's in the finals. And... again, I've never had a big win. I've never... and I remember, in my head I said to myself: "Oh well, second place is good. Second place is fine, you know, whatever! Let's just get this over with." You know, it's been a long tournament, you feel kinda sick. And then I just went "Why did I do that? Why did I just say that in my head? No! I'm gonna focus! I am not gonna 5-Pool! I am not gonna try to do anything cheesy, like rush for Mutalisks. I'm not gonna resort back to my 2001 'Floating Lurkers Into The Back of His Base'. I'm gonna play the strategy I know, and I'm gonna trust in what I've practiced.
And I opened up, it was on Peaks of Beakdu. I'm bottom left, he's in the top right. I do an Over-Pool build, because I wanna force any early expander to build those extra Cannons so I can expand actually three times and I end up with a very fast four bases on Peaks of Beakdu, because you can defend them very nicely. And I... I saw, with my Overlord, that he was actually 2 Gate rushing me.
And I was like "Uhhh, God! Okay!" because at the U.S. Open, in 2007, the reason Nony got 1st and I got 2nd is because Nony had a brutally good 2 Gate, and I just hadn't practiced against 2 Gate. I practiced a lot more after that qualifer, with FrozenArbiter, who plays with the name of Jinro now in StarCraft 2, as you may have heard in one of the Day[9] dailies. But he, uhm... but he did this 2 Gate opening, and I remember, like, time was SO SLOW in that game, because I had expanded, and I was just waiting for my Hatchery to finish. I was starting to get Zergling speed, but I knew: to hold off this 2 Gate rush, that Hatch needs to finish, I need to throw down a Sunken Colony immediately! Because if that Sunken Colony doesn't get up in time... I'm done!
So I'm just staring at my expansion. All his units seem like they're, just... moving one pixel at a time. I feel like I can see every frame in there, as I'm looking it, it's at 900 hitpoints, and then at 950 hitpoints, and then at 1000 hitpoints, and then at 1050 hitpoints, and I'm just, like, I'm getting my drone ready and it's there and it's waiting, and his Zealots are coming in and I'm trying to push him forward and back, because I just need to get this Sunken Colony done! So it finishes and it starts building it takes a few hits, I'm trying to position another Hatchery to get in the way I'm trying to control this but he just has so many Zealots and then... The Sunken finishes! And he has to back off, and I go "Oh my God! I held the 2 Gate rush and I'm in a decent position!" and then I look at my Overlord that's up at his base that's been inspecting this 2 Gate opening, and I see that he threw down an expansion at his natural.
And the weirdest thing that has ever happened to me in my entire life happened. My brain went "Oh my God, I won." and then... I literally stopped consciously playing. It was almost as though I stepped out of myself and I was two feet to my right. I could feel myself... It felt like I was looking at myself from behind. And I remember that my brain was totally clear, and my hands were just doing everything, and my eyes were just sort of going around and I thought "I know exactly how to crush this early expansion, right now. And I'm gonna do it. And it's gonna work." and my hands just did everything from then on. And then I actually won, and... that was it. That was it! That was the end of the tournament, it wasn't a qualifier. It wasn't, you know, the intermediate step between the world final. It was just the end of that tournament. And Nick comes over, he's like "Hey man, good games! Well played!" [NOTE: Goes into 1:40:00 here]
[1:30:00] and I was just like... "Oh my God! Dude, yeah, good game!" I don't know what to do, I don't know how to party, I don't party, I play video games! You know! What's a good friday night for me? How about some Settlers of Catan or the card game Dominion, ya know? So like, I'm in Cancún and I just won the biggest Starcraft tournament I've ever been to, and I just went back to my hotel room and I just like sat on the bed and I just didn't know what to do. I was just there and I was like "Oh my God! That's it...that's... cool!" and I watched some stupid Johnny Depp movie and I ate the frozen M&Ms in the fridge and I remember I just walked along the beach, just by myself and just sitting there and I was like "Man, I worked really, really hard at something... and it paid off. And the only person whose to blame is me." and I remember I... My mum actually messaged me on Facebook beforehand, before I even got home, but she messaged me on Facebook she said "Oh my God Sean, congratulations! I am so proud of you, I know how hard you've been working on this and I saw the results. I heard that you knocked out Testie, twice!" How cool of a mum is that, huh? How often does your mum say "Yea, you beat Testie twice in a tournament" and get that? Right? What mum knows about the Canadian famous Starcraft players but my mum, right? And my family? Who just have been infinitely supportive from start to finish.
And... what was so funny about that tournament is that, like I said I'm a very private player, I don't like posting my own replays, especially not replays of me winning, because it feels kind of... ya know... snarky. Like "Hey, I won a game, hurr" ya'know, and just like putting it up here, 'cause you know the other guy didn't want me to put it up I don't wanna embarrass him maybe he was on his off day. So I very rarely release replays of myself playing on PGTour or iCCup. So for that tournament, for the Pan American, all the replays were lost. So I've never gotten a chance to rewatch any of those games. But that's okay, because it's always just been a really nice memory. I have this, I actually have this little medal up here, umm, hell I can get it I have Starcraft paraphernalia all around my room. Yep, here it is. Here's my awesome little gold medal, the only gold medal I've ever gotten from a Starcraft tournament. Took me, took me 6 years of WCGs to do that, and 8 years of playing. Just commitment, just hard work and just, as my brother said, just ya'know, believing in yourself.
And after that, school was just too much. I mean, 2008: I played in one qualifer and didn't qualify and couldn't go to the finals. 2009: I qualified for the finals but couldn't go again because of school. But you know what, in that period I've always needed that Starcraft fix. I still watched all the pro matches, I actually umm... Up until recently, actually, this hasn't been true for the last 3-4 weeks but, up until 3-4 weeks ago I watched every single professional Starcraft match since 2003. Every single one, and... I just love the scene. I love TeamLiquid, being able to log on there and just chat with a whole bunch of people and post a replay, because you know what? If you have a game with amazing Mutalisk micro, it's so hard sometimes to be able to turn to your roommate and say "Dude, there's this hard thing that I pulled off and... I'm really happy." but if you can log on to MSN and find a buddy and say "Man, check out this replay!" and he goes "Oh man, nice work!" that sort of support and encouragement is just what makes the Starcraft community so, so amazing and why I've just been delighted to be a part of it for so long.
And I even remember, ya'know, since I was focused so much on my life as a player, in college I used to watch the matches and I would always invite as many people as I could in, and I would try to explain to them everything that was going on in these matches because I... I thought they were so cool! And I thought that these professional gamers were so talented and I was determined to make all of them get it, and it got to the point where people actually did get it, and at Harvey Mudd which is a school of about, umm, I think it's about 900 now, it was about 850 when I was there as an undergraduate. I started hosting... umm... like broadcasts of the MSL/OSL finals, where we would... I would go down to the academic end, to the auditorium, I would rent it out starting at like midnight until like three in the morning, and I would send out an email to the entire school trying to get everyone, as many people as I could in there, and I drew of like, a school of 800, 350 people from the school showed up. And it was AWESOME! I got the mic, and I got to help everyone understand why this game was so cool. I mean, playing is great, ya'know, I love playing and I love going to tournaments, I love training for tournaments, but there is nothing more satisfying than looking at a crowd of people and helping them get what I love. And for anyone watching [NOTE: goes into 1:45:00 here]
Rampager and Tschis: in the 1:45:00 part, I'm pretty sure this part: "You know, I haven't got the chance to play as much but I still need that fixed" is wrong. IIRC he meant "that fix", as in "that dose [of playing Starcraft].
Damn this is awesome. From the US, so I obviously understand it, but I think the daily is something everyone should be able to watch. One thing I found odd is that there's no Korean translation in the works, especially given how by SC is there.
[1:20:00] "Day, I do not want you to feel bad. You are such good player, and good friend." And he was... he was just so nice and I could tell he felt bad, because he and I were the two players who were battling for the second place spot, because Sen, he had already gotten first, there was no chance he was getting eliminated. So Android, he still came up to me and just said "You know what man, like, good game. I... you know, I feel bad." and that was so nice for me to hear, this player who people were like "Oh yeah, notoriously getting pissed off at people" but he came to me and he was like "Dude, I... I appreciate your skill and you, and I think you're a good guy and I'm sorry it had to turn out this way." So that, that's always been really nice to me, 'cause I've always valued trying to be as kind as possible, via the forums, because, I mean, you can try to be funny on forums, but the tone gets lost so easily, sometimes you come across as a jerk. So I just valued trying to be just as nice, and polite and pleasant on the forums as possible, and...
It was so... it was so nice to hear him be able to say that. And around this time in 2005, I was like "You know what? I just wanna be good at Starcraft" like, afterwards, I'd hated on myself for a little bit, but then when I found out
about Bunny, I was like so upset about it, I took, actually, a break from Starcraft, couldn't even handle it. And I ended up coming right back and started playing, and this is when I started going hardcore into, like, PGTour... This is when I hit A+ over multiple seasons in PGTour, just mass gaming, like 6-7 accounts a season. I would work an account up and I would just reset it and just try to work it all the way back up again. Using that Fr0z style, you know, like increasing the temperature, dropping the temperature, shoes on, shoes off, chair up, chair down, every little thing I could because I just wanted to get good.
And I didn't tell anyone about it, I think my brother is the only person who actually ever knew about it, because, you know, throughout this whole time I'm talking to him like crazy. He's the only person who ever really knew, because again I just, like, didn't want winning, I didn't want any of this stuff to get in the way, I just wanted to focus purely on the game. I had such a useful discussion with my mom, one of the most... eye opening discussions I've ever had in my entire life, 'cause I said "You know mom, I have been working... I just get so angry after some of my games, and you know I'll... I'll... I broke, I've actually broken my keyboard multiple times, you know, I've broken mice. And I just get really upset and I get shaken up" and my mom said "You know what Sean? That is totally normal. Don't you worry about that, Sean. Don't worry about those feelings." and she said "You know Sean, the thing that's so important to know is that all that feeling of tension, and anxiety, and the adrenaline that goes into your system and more importantly the adrenaline that comes out of your system after you lose a really intense match, that stuff is just chemicals. And it's so easy to get sucked in by that, and to believe it, and to direct that anger at yourself." and she's like "Which I can see is, as you said, what you've been doing." But she said "But Sean, remember: I could give you a pill that will make you feel the exact same way. It's just chemicals. Just ignore it and wait for it to go out of your system, and then don't believe it. Don't think anything, just be very calm and just deal with it." Oh excuse me, "Just deal with the emotion, don't think about anything else."
So, from that point on, I would go on losing streaks, of course I would get angry. If any of you get angry and think "Oh I shouldn't do that after some games." Don't worry about that. But the important thing is, as my mom said, just don't be hard on yourself! Do not hate on yourself! If you get that feeling of anger and feeling flushed, just go sit down somewhere, and just calmly... wait for it to go away, and then you can go back and look at your game. Then you can start thinking, then you can start analysing, then you can start working all that good stuff out.
And that has been like so valuable to me, that's just been like the biggest help in terms of all my practice, so I don't like, flip out or anything, you know, because you know, I'm very low on my teacups. But yeah, so the 2006 U.S. Open happened... My brother and I both qualified for the finals... for that one and... Up to this point, I mean, I hadn't... I still hadn't had, like, a win. I mean, I won 2005 USA, but, I mean, it's the qualifer for the tournament, and I got that bittersweet feeling because "Ohhh, I played so bad against Android and all that other stuff." And... I lost my train of thought. Allow me to sip tea in muse and regain it.
At the 2006 Finals, that... that was... one of the most stressful tournament experiences of my life, so... They did, like, some little interview thing beforehand, like "Day, who do you not want to play at the finals?" I was like "I do not wanna play EchoOfThunder, that guy-- uh excuse me, EchoOfTerran, that guy is really, really, really good!" and obviously he's in my Round Robin group, first round. I'm up against EchoOfTerran and Slog, just a group of three.
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And so I lose my first game against EchoOfTerran, but then I barely win the next two, in order to come back. So then I'm feeling like "Oh my God, I beat EchoOfTerran, oh my God! I... I can do this, right? I got this! I just gotta focus. I just have to go through Slog and, I mean, already the hardest person at the tournament is just thrown out the window" And I... I... So this is actually really funny, so at WCG 2006, because they're on a tight schedule what they would do is cast the first game of every Best Of Three. Or, every notable Best of Three. Because obviously they didn't have time to do all of them. So what happened is, it was me vs Slog, so Game 1 was up on stage and I lost to Slog4, the Protoss player. And I was like "Oh my God" and he, like, crushed me, it was not even close. And then... I barely, barely, barely, barely won the next two games. But what was so funny is that everyone in the tournament was like "Oh yea, let's watch the Starcraft matches. Oh yea, that Day9 guy, he lost, alright..." so then... and then I had to play against LastGosu, who ended up beating me twice. So that first game was shown, and I lost that. So then I had to go to the Losers Bracket, where I played against Nony, and then first round game that gets broadcasted, and I lose that, and then I win the next two.
And then I had to play against Artosis, and they didn't cast those games. But then I had to be up against LastGosu in the finals. So, every single game I... every single series I'd played, was me losing the first game and winning the next two. With the one exception of LastGosu who just beat me 2-0 straight up.
So, in the final game, I was... I was just so tired... That in the last deciding match, and this is the one that got cast... I 5-Pooled. I've never 5-Pooled in a practice game in my life. I just... I just 5-Pooled. And... I lost because he 9-Rax'ed, and I remember I got that same bitter feeling that I got after Android, because I thought to myself "I designed my build to hold off 9-Rax, and I abandoned all of that just for an easy win because I was too tired" and you know again, I was really bummed out about that. But you know, my brother, he was there and we went into a corner and I got really upset. And he's... He's just been this, like, fixture of support, that's why I think it's so important for people, you know, if you have brothers and parents who don't get Starcraft, to just... get them into it. To just figure out ways to say these stories, to... to... share your intense passion, all the amazing stuff that happens in Starcraft with them, so that way you can... so that they can just be supportive, because once they get it, they'll definitely just... be there for you! And be so nice. My mom felt horrible, you know, I ended up... 'cause it was just number one spot goes to the grand finals, so I didn't get to go, and I was just like "urghhh".
And... and eventually LastGosu couldn't go, but I had already scheduled stuff in with school so I couldn't go to the 2006 Finals. But you know, I still just kept playing, you know, even though that hurt... I just focused and kept playing. And then 2007 came along. This is me now, I'm... still more WCGs, there was a WCG U.S. Open and... Okay, for the U.S. Open, if you got in the top two spots you qualified for the WCG Pan-American championship, which is just North and South American countries.
So I... I went to... I was invited to the open, 'cause I was top 4 from the previous year, so it was me, Artosis, Nony and LastGosu. And I trained harder for that than I ever have for anything in my entire life. I... So, there was a break at the end of school, between when school finished and when my summer research began at Harvey Mudd. So, in that period of about a month, little over a month, I would wake up at 10 A.M., I'd play from 10:00 to 12:00, I'd take a break for lunch, I'd play from 1 to 6 P.M., take a break for dinner, play from 7 P.M 'till 3 in the morning, then wake up on the next day at 10 A.M. again and just repeat.
And I played countless games, like the three people who I wanna personally thank right now are: FrozenArbiter, helped me with my Zerg vs Protoss, DeadMan from Croatia, for helping me with my Zerg vs Terran, and IVeeLove from Denmark, I believe, who also helped me with my Zerg vs Terran. And I just trained SO MUCH, holy cow! I played a lot of games then... as you might imagine. And... Nony got first at the... at the Open and I got second so we're "Oh my God! We're both going to the U.S. Open [Pan-American?]" and then there's this weird thing, this is perhaps the best feeling I've ever gotten in Starcraft, like far and away the best.
You'll end up in situations where... You wanna do some sort of skill measuring contest, you know, where it's just like "Oh, he's a C+ player. Aww, that guy got B- last season." but most people know [NOTE: Goes to 1:30:00]
Hello ladies and gentlemen. Today is April 13th, 2010... and it is Day[9] Daily number 100. Look as my camera auto-adjusts the light. I repositioned it back to that old angle... Did number 99 with this webcam actually on top of my computer but I kept actually naturally looking down here. And I'm sure a lot of people here are familiar with the Diablo III poster. And now because I have an HD camera you can even see the Starcraft II poster there, so that's pretty awesome...
So today... Today is an unbelievably special Day[9] Daily because first of all, I just hit three digits for the first time ever. Hum, and three digits is cool ! Also, today we're not going to do any analysis of any game : no games at all. It's just gonna be my life playing Starcraft. Because, I think people just don't quite appreciate how into games that they are [?]. I have grown up playing Starcraft. The things that I have learned by playing Starcraft have helped shaped me so much. I just want to do a big dedication to the community, to just say "man, just be proud you are a Starcraft gamer." There is nothing more cool than being proud of things that you love. And it's actually... It was almost really emotional today as I'm like trying to go through all the memories I have from Starcraft and try to... boil them down to something that's, you know, reasonably entertaining. So, as you'll note, I have even been taking notes to everything to make sure I don't skip anything.
So, let's just talk about Starcraft. Let us begin at the very beginning, when I first bought Starcraft. I can still remember it. I grew up in a little town in Leawood, Kansas. Which is in the middle of nowhere. It's in Kansas right ? Well, it's part of Kansas City but still, I'm from Leawood, Kansas, where the land is flat and evolution is still a theory. It's the line I always use. We lived in this awesome little house, that was right next to this mall that Nick and I could walk across the street to every day. And of course, there was like a computer software store there, where we would buy our various electronics. And we were super pumped for Starcraft, because We played Warcraft II baby... Yes, indeed, we were Warcraft II players ! And like any kid, you just go up to your mom and you're just : "Mom ! Mom !" and you tell your mom about this genius shit you have just devised in your head. "Mom, did you know that in Warcraft II, a catapult outranges a tower ?" Ooh, baby, baby ! Now... Now, all of a sudden, I can never lose to towers. You know, just simplistic junk like that. We were your standard little newbies my brother and I...
So, my brother Nick, whose probably more commonly known as Tasteless in the Starcraft community but he shall be Nick for this story... So my brother Nick and I, we walked to the mall and we paid, like, 52.36 or something for our first game of Starcraft ever. And it was so funny because the guy at the counter was a huge nerd too. So he was just excited about Starcraft. So he even knew the price of the top of his head. I mean, that's very standard nerd type of stuff, you know... So, Nick and I bought it for the first time ever and we only owned one computer in the family. Because, you know, now we're ritsy ballers and we each have our own computer. But back then, we had to like, split time, so we would just like crowd against each other, trying to, like, get as much play time, or at the very least as much back seat playing time. You know : "Build Zerglings ! They're awesome ! Trust me !". We didn't know what we were talking about...
So, you know, I played Starcraft a lot. This was when I was in, god... it must have been fifth or sixth grade when I first bought Starcraft. I know for a fact it was in sixth grade ! And... And after a while, as I'm playing more and more, it, it, it rapidly became something that I did, right ? You know, I was known for being that guy. Because I would bring the Prima Starcraft strategy to school, and like, read it. I was just, er hum... I know what unit counters what, according to Prima, you know... The : "How look ! Here's the easiest way to beat the second Terran single mission", right ? I was hot shit in sixth grade, man ! I got it ! Hum, and I started playing with my, with my great friends Shawn and Charlie. And we would go to each others' house and we would play. And this was my first ever, like, network experience. I had never played against another human being. I mean, I played custom games, which, generally for me, would take like, two, three days to beat a custom game. Because, you know, I would make sure that all the units had names. If they were dishonorable in some way, they would have to be executed. I would talk to them. You know, just like : "Erm. Oh yeah. I gotta make sure that Martin the marine... you know, we gotta give him something special, because he has 4 kills." You know, because I just, would only attack with 3-4 units at a time. Anyways. First ever game I actually played against real people. And we were like god awful, and stuff. And the network eventually crashed. We want back to play single player games on, of course, Big Game Hunters. Because that was our favorite map in seventh grade. And... Oh god, was Brood War even out yet ? I guess it was just regular Hunters we were playing upon. And, to make it fair, against the computer, we would only use one cheat code. That was the rule that we created, right ? Just one. You could do anything else you want, but one cheat code. And it can't be the invulnerability cheat code. You could turn on the entire map, you could turn on the vision, you could get money. For some reason, I opted for mass level one upgrade. That's a cheat that you can just type in. I was like : "Yeah man, I want my workers to start 1-1-1, man. It's gonna be the best." So, you know...
Things sort of progressed from there and soon enough, my brother and I just started figuring out how to network our two computers together. Cause we had one really awful old computer and we also had this network laptop. And we would just like play against each others. For hours ! Erm, but I think that perhaps the most significant thing to note about our play time... was that... we had curfew. We were not allowed to play the computer 'till 3 pm. Cause one day, Nick and I were playing Syndicate Wars ! Do you guys remember this game ? Oooh my god that's old school... Open up a web browser and look up Syndicate Wars, 'cause I swear to God, I thought this game had the best graphics of any things that had ever existed, right ? And you're gonna look it up, and it's like, 320x240 and it's all pixelated. You rotate the screen and it like almost shuts down your computer, cause it's like, too hard for him. Erm. But one day, Nick and I were like fighting with each others. Really wanting you know, get on. And my mom was like : "Well look ! You guys are fighting over the computer. You shouldn't even be on the computer anyway. No video games 'till 3 !". And we were just like "Ow, why'd we fight about it ? If only we hadn't done that..." My mom also made us get up, you know, at like 8 or 9 in the morning, in the summer's to do, you know, like chores, maw the lawn. Because in Kansas, you actually have a lawn. In LA, it's pretty much concrete, you know desert, and really high gas prices. So not really much mawing going on there. And, so, we didn't have time to actually play. We would be up and, we wouldn't have anything to do ! And it's kind of weird because my mom was like a single working mother, like running her own business. So it's not like she was going to be home to see if we were gonna be there, like playing before 3, but Nick and I still, honorable gentlemen that we were, we did not play any Starcraft before 3pm... And what we would do, is that we would walk to the mall, erm, every day. That same mall we would get Star.., erm, we got Starcraft. We would look at the games. We really didn't have that much money so we would just, like, look at the games and read all the backs and covers. And occasionnally, we would have enough money for Orange Chicken and we would seat with our Orange Chicken from the, erm, from the food court, behind the escalator, and we would just talk about Starcraft and we would talk about video games.
And I really think that the beginnings of my brother and I, just, loving discussing games. Because I definitely think that, probably a majority of people who are listening to this and you know, don't have siblings, based on some random polls I've seen on TeamLiquid and stuff. And I just think it was so helpful to me to just have a brother there who just wanted to talk about Starcraft all day. We wanted to talk about strategies and everything. And just, our crazy ideas we had and everything... Erm. And what was awesome about Nick is that, like... I mean, a lot of people have asked questions like "What was it like growing up with Tasteless ?" It was awesome ! Do you watch GomTV ? How could that be bad ? My brother is hilarious ! I mean... What's actually funny is that Nick is so funny and so good at, you know, being on, I actually was the quiet younger brother growing up. Erm. And it was, it was cool ! I would just sit there and Nick would just go and go and go and keep being funny and funnier and funnier. It was great fun, you know, for my brother, my mom and I. That was the three of us that grew up together. So, like, erm, yeah god... And we played 1v1, like everything ! You name the game, Nick and I challenged ourselves to it. My brother was like, my biggest competitor. We played Goldeneye 1v1, License to Kill pistols in the arcade... Yes, thank you ! We played Soul Calibur. I played Maxi and Ivy, and Nick played Mitsurugi, because he's cheap, right ? He's unfair ! He would just do like, the, the... What is it ? Like, the down kick erm... It was like Kick-A. He used various combinations : Back-Kick-A, Down-Kick-A... and just alternated them. And I could never beat it. What else did we do ? Like even Sega Saturn games like Last Bronx or Sonic Racing... All sorts of stuff. So I mean, I just grew up, ow, Street Fighter Alpha ! Ow, yes. We just grew up competing with each others, and just wanting, to like, one-up each other, and, in the olden days of Starcraft, Nick and I finally got on, it was weird.
Because we only played against each others, and suddenly, we were on... The Internets ! Where the big fishs swam, right ? And, I still remember, my first game of Starcraft ever, right ? It was... Ok, it was a 1v1 Free-For-All. Okay ? And I was like "Allright... This will give me ample time to build up, so that way, I can win ! Eventually... I just have to stay out of their way." You know standard Free-For-All junk and, and these two guys allied and they 4-pooled me ! So, I'm like, in this game, I'm like "Allright. Okay. Cool." You know. I was getting my cybernetics core. I was probably gonna be doing an arbiter rush, which is a strategy that I had praticed many times in my 3 days long custom games. And, erm, all of sudden, 12 zerglings run into my base, and I was just like : "Hooo..." And they weren't attacking each other, and I was like : "You guys... You guys... It's a Free-For-All ! It's a Free-For-All !" And I'm typing, and of course, I had like, 30 words per minute, so this is really cutting into my ability to play. I'm like "Y-o-u g-u-y-s" Just each little individual punch on the letters. Just like sweat pouring down my face, and I'm like "You're... You're allied... Just... Just stop it... It's Free-For-All !" That's what it said in the game title. How can you violate what the title of the game was ? Erm. So I lost that game, and I almost threw up. I swear to God ! I was so upset. It felt so vile to be betrayed by these two random strangers, that I, like, went to my mom and cried, and she was like "Never play on the internet again !" I'm like "I'm never gonna get on the internet again" I'm just gonna play Sonic Racer with my brother. But eventually, you know, I got over that. I did this same thing that every new player does : I just latched on to team games. I think "Well, it's obviously because I need a good ally, someone who respects my ability to get those arbiters really fast", right ? "Me and my [? 11:20] will definitely appreciate the use of a good ally."
So, did a whole bunch of team games, and eventually, BGH ! Oh, I learned about this. "Wait a minute ? Are you saying that I don't ever have to expand, ever ? And I have infinite money ? This seems like a reasonnable way to spend my time, right ? I'm gonna do this and I would 3v3" Okay ! I don't know if this has ever happened to you, just your history as a person... Especially for me, my life as a Starcraft player, I was an asshole ! I disconnected when I lost, right ? I would pull the plug. I would be in a BGH game, and I would be like, you know, mass hydralisks. Enough. Ain't no big deal. All I got to do is... Not hit the H key, because you know, who uses the keyboard ? This hand was busy pulling up my lip, and folding it and scratching while I thought, you know, maybe using on my chin a little bit, because I was quite the intellectual nerd. Erm. And, I would mass hydralisks. And then I would lose everything. And I would just be like "Well. Erm. Good game man". And I would actually type Good Game. And because I was playing on a laptop, I would reach behind and unplug that modem cord. And remember : I'm actually on dial-up right now, so it would take me like two minutes to call up AOL again and have to reconnect. But, you know, it was worth it because, it just wasn't fair man... I am so ashamed that I did that. I can't believe it. And it was really funny because I would join games... And erm.
I had nicknames that were stolen from the Fallout series. My brother and I made a clan, the clan was Tang, right ? Tang ? Ho, it means something fresh ! So, I was Tang Kamakazi, which is again a name from Fallout. Tang Finesse. Because again, if you ranked up too many loses on one of these accounts, you gotta create a new one that represents your actual skill. And I would have these records that looked like 10 wins, and 3 loses, and 20 disconnects. And, and I litteraly, didn't get that that was bad. I would join these games and I would be like "Hey what's up guys ?" Ready to chat before a game of Starcraft. And they would go "Dude, do you disc ?" And of course, they mean, do you disconnect ? But I didn't make the connection. And I was like "Of course, I have the Starcraft disc... How else do you think I'm playing idiot ?" And I was like, nudging my brother, like "Uh Uh". And he was like "Dude, you got him !" Ooh. Oh man I was such a nerd. But erm, eventually I moved away from these infinity money maps. And I began playing 1v1. Because even thought everyone was god awful and only played with one hand, only played with the mouse... That was normal, right ? That isn't considered newbie as it is right now. That was like the norm. So I said "Who are these garbage allies that I, the seventh grad, erm, Tang Kamakazi, has to put up with ? you know. I'm gonna go play 1 vs 1 games where I can actually get the good feeling for it". So I only played 1v1s on the Small Divide. And some of you have heard the stories if you've watched the ZOTAC Cup cast I did. Erm. But I would only play on Small Divide, which is like a 64 by 64 map, that you both start on islands. And I would mutalisks rush 100% of games. And by now, my alias had evolved. I was no long Tang Kamakazi, I was Sean - hyphen- P ! My name is Sean Plott... Being clever right ?
Before I even continue with this story of me, like, 1v1ing on the Small Divide, I just want to give you a picture of what I looked like at this age. So, I was short, okay ? At the start of the seventh grade, I was 5 ft 2. At the end of eighth grade, I was 6 ft 1. That hurt, that period. It was like like urgh like Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory style of growth right ? Erm. What was I talking about ? What was my train of thought ? Oh yes ! So I was really short but my mom had seen how much my brother had grown so she bought me like big, extra large T-shirts. Erm. And I really liked sweat pants but I didn't like that the extra large T-shirt would like hang over. So I tucked the shirt into my sweat pants. So there was just like this ring of collected stuff and my sweat pants, I tucked them into my fluorescent purple snow boots with velcro. So, like, I would actually play with the velcro snow boots at school, be like [Velcro Noises] and I just enjoyed doing that. Because I just had these nervous tweaks as a kid. Erm, I also had these thick enormous glasses that I would wear, and I would use them to like, melt insects and stuff, and these things were like gigantic. And my vision was really bad, so they shrunk my eyes. So I looked all silly and stuff. And then I moosed [?] my hair. Not gel my hair, I would moose it. I would moose it directly to the left, right ? It was like a giant sheet of hair. And it would flick off in the day and my eyes were allergic to it. So I always had these bloodshot red eyes, with like, tears coming down and you know how I would socialize with people ? I would walk up to them and I would say random facts that I was pretty sure they didn't know. Ow baby, yes, I sure know how to work with the ladies... I would go up and be like "did you know that the [?] moves an average of 6 feet per second ?" And erm, I'm surprised I actually got beat up after school. Hell, I would beat me up right. That was a good formative moment for me as a youthfull nerd.
But you know, going back to these games of Starcraft. I mean this was like one or two years after this state I described. I wasn't much better right ? I was still pretty similar. I liked to, I got that idea that I was intellectual, henceway I bought the Protoss Starcraft box, because Protoss were clever. Terrans were scrappy and Zergs were bugs and uuh I still hate bugs ! Uuh uuh ! I don't want to get that. But I, but I was a mastermind. I only played 1v1s on this Small Divide. I got it ! All I had to do was make a pool at 12, I made the extractor on 12 and then I would get a lair once my pool finished and then I would get hatch when I could. Which was pretty close to optimal right ? Except, I had to it on an island because I couldn't wrap my head around rushes and I actually explained to people at my school (again, keeping in line with giving facts that you don't know), I would explain to people at my school why I was so good, right ? I would go up to, I would litteraly go up to girls I had crushes on and I would be like "Hey ! You ever heard of Starcraft ?" And they'd be like "No." Apparently they had very deep voices that would be like "No. No. Absolutely not." So I'd go "Well, it's this strategy game and I have an account Sean dash P, I'm 13-1 on it. I have another account Sean tilde P, right ? Just using different delimeters, right ? I'm Sean apostrophe P, and I'm 15-2 on that. And look, look, look... You're probably saying 'How is it that you get so good at this game ?' Well, I have discovered a trick. If you get air units really fast, you can win if he doesn't have anti-air." Allright, a lot of assumptions there. And I actually did start losing a lot of games. I litteraly did this for like, god, three-four months. Like, only playing on the Small Divide, multiple games in a row, on my 56k modem connection, one hand only, and I, I would lose to people who would get air, and I would be like "How did he know I was getting air ? Has to be cheating..." I was one of those guys ! Ow god, that was humiliating. "He has to be cheating. Because, if it's an island map, how does he know I'm gonna go air ?"
So, eventually, I ended up finding out about [?] places were good people hang out ? hanged out ? hung out ? Well where people were. And these places were known then as Clan X17 on the East server. That is where the best of the best of the best hung out all day. If you wanted a game with good people, you tried to join, normally couldn't, normally full. 40 people ! Uh ! Channel gets at its maximal capacity. Couldn't join. I would sometimes sit in an empty channel, just trying to join X17, because, I got in there and 1v1'd someone, I knew that I would, eventually, be against the best of the best of the best of Starcraft players. Erm, so eventually, I ended up getting in X17, playing all these people and I actually started using my keyboard. And this was around, erm, when I was an eighth grader, going into freshman year of highschool. I actually used the keyboard now. No hotkeys. I didn't use like Control-1, Control-3, I used S-H to help that mass hydralisks strategy I was talking about earlier. I used, erm, I didn't used S-M because, man, sure M is really far across the keyboard. Pff, I'm not going to have any of that. Erm. Happily just stuck with S-H, and S-Z, and S-D, because, you know, I was pretty set on Zerg from that point in time.
And, now, I'm actually starting to get to where the real 1v1 players are. You know, players like FirstTsunami, if you guys remember this. Rekrul existed back then, except he played under the name 88lurker. Incontrol existed back then. There were strong players like Pillars, erm, god, what was more names ? [?] Agent911, erm, Jolly, who were some other good players. Oh god, there was one, it's on the tip of my tongue. Who was that player ? BlackishRed ! That's right ! BlackishRed ! The first ever big tournament my brother and I tried to qualify for was the Worlds Cyber Games Challenge, not the first World Cyber Games that happened in 2001, but like the 1999-2001 when like the KBK tournament were running, where players like, erm, GG99Slayer and LG were very very strong foreign players. And, erm, I remember my brother was invited to the Blackish clan. He was BlackishGold, he got really far in the tournament, and he lost, and he was like horribly upset and everything. And it's so funny to think about the way that strategies worked back then. Erm, you know I was... By the way, I just want to briefly interject and note that my camera seems to be doing weird things to the colors. So I'm actually going to, erm, see if I can adjust this. Okay. Seems like it's going to be a little more stable now. So, serious apologies. But these, these were the strategies that we faced back then. Here was a standard strategy in Zerg versus Terran. I 9-pool you, and I build a hatchery in your base, and I sunken push you. Because, think about it... Terran only has marines then, and no one's gonna check their ramps. No ! You have to get a force and then move to secure your ramp. Of course, now everyone is playing Lost Temple around these days. So, erm. You do this a lot. What were some others, like weird, nutty strategies, like one base corsair, reaver against Zerg was unstoppable. Nick and I improved it to one-base, reaver, scout. Because, the scout does so much more damage than the corsair, why would you make anything but a scout ? Erm, so we did scout, corsair a lot. This is the time where my alias was SleepingDrone, if any of you were familiar with this.
And after a while, Nick and I actually started to get decently okay, compared to other people present at the time. I mean my strategies were still like one-hatch lurker versus terran, which, by the way, was standard, and... I think it's important to stop and to note how my mind sets were working at this stage. Erm, because players still experience this all the time as they, you know, join a Starcraft community. So think about my mutalisks. That was my trick ! I just had a trick ! And when someone was able to defeat my trick, I just got pissed and would try it again, and I would be like "Oww, I still hope it's working..." Erm, and as I branched out to 'more diverse' strategies, I would go "Pff I used to mutalisk rush but now, I know better" Erm, I still didn't ever deviate from that trick methodology. My question was always "What is the right strategy in this spot ?" And I would abandon everything else, that I had. The plan was gone, nothing... Just like, "hum, what do I think he would not expect now ?" So for instance, I just started out going, erm, this mutalisk rush, but then I expanded to things like : lurker-drop people. I would one-hatch lurker rush and you had just enough gas to Transport Upgrade for Overlord and two lurkers, and you lift them up and runs straight to his mineral line. That was my whole strategy. What else did I have ? I had in Terran versus Terran : building a factory and floating it in his base, without him expecting and makings vultures to kill him. Erm. I would Dark Templar rush. I would just do every sort of weird rush, gimmicky thing imaginable, and I thought that that made me a good player 'cause doing these wild different things.
And I eventually slowly gravitated towards 9-pooling every single game in every single match-up. 9-pooling with speed. And, you know, that sound gimmicky, but what I was finding with it, was that I could have a next step in the play. I had follow-ups. I was able to get mutalisks really fast, I could expand, I could snipe probes, I could distract him and all this stuff. And, I remember for the, for the World Cyber Games, like the first one in 2001, I actually got to pull all of this out to use. I had been practicing in Clan X17, where the best of the best hang out. Erm. And I, erm, and I worked on this 9-pool strategy, I even sometimes logged-on to this scary Europe server, to some channel whose name I can't remember anymore. You just had to somehow know that these channels existed. And what I would do is, erm...
When the 2001 World Cyber Games was announced, they had this online tournament brackets system, and the top 3 of the entire qualifier would be flown out to Los Angeles, to compete in the finals. And once again, remember that I live in Kansas. And erm, other than that, anyone who wanted to participate in the qualifying finals could. All you had to do was show up. But, you could get these tickets out. So Nick and I trained, and trained for days. And I remember : I played three games. I had to go to my friend's house, because, erm, Nick and I didn't have two working computers. We had like one and a half working computer. So it was pretty much that laptop that I mentionned earlier, and other times, you know my, erm, my, our main computer just sort of bit the dust. So I did drive to a friend's house and I remember : I had 3 Protosses in a row. I, I... The first player, I can't even remember his name but I 9-pooled him and I went straight up with a 9-pool. The second player I played was actually BlueWolf who was one of those names that stuck around in the Starcraft, erm, in the competitive RTS scene for ages, I mean. He's been like in Dawn of War, and like Age of Empires and all this kind of stuff and now, he's been in Starcraft II. I remember : I beat BlueWolf with my 9-pool and I was feeling really good. And then I had to play against Jolly, who's one of those players that, if you go to the BattleNet, erm, old tournaments write-ups, he's there ! In these starting tournaments that had like XDSGrrr, and BeeBladeLeader [?], these legend names : he was in some of these tournaments and I had to play him. And I remember, I just, I was so focused with my little 9-pool, my stupid little gimmick and I microed around his base and I even counted : I killed ss... I killed like sixteen of his probes with the initial 9-pool, erm, and of course I kept these lings alive in his base forever. And then I got mutalisks and killed another 12-13 probes, just darting in and out. And then, when I did my final push, I rushed all my lurkers to his expo and I killed 25 probes in one shot. I litteraly won by harassing him to death, and I thought I was so clever, and I qualified for the second day of play. Erm, and of course I played against a guy named Wizard who was really good and just demolished me. It wasn't even close. But, erm, you know. It, erm, it was just a really good experience for me that, erm, you know, get that excitement, you know ? get that adrenaline. And, oh my god, I had a strategy, I executed it, and it worked. It wasn't well developped at all, it was just [Crossing fingers] "Uuuh, I hope I get up his ramp, because if I don't, I guess I lost, and I guess I'll have to find another opponent".
Erm, but I started doing something, at that point in time, that has always stuck with me, as one of like the center pieces of my mind set, which is : there is a player named JelloOne, and there was a Jello Clan who had players like JelloPud as well. And the Jello Clan were ultra notorious hackers, oh my god did they ever hack at times. Some of them are probably still around, hacking as well. But they started this sort of like, erm, now you know, you see this all the time, but it was like new era trolling where, erm, they would blatantly hack, you know, like : you would move a dropship along the edge of the map and they would just have no observers, take 12 dragoons, went over right over there, kill it, and then moved back. You would be like "How did you see it ?" He's like "I thought it was coming" You know, just like always, always, never ever saying to anyone that they hacked, just always be like "No dude, I'm totally innocent in here !", you know. And, back then, if you maphacked, I mean, as your hero would mean [?] to describe these strategies, I mean : 9-pool, to hatch rush in your base. If you have a maphack, where you can see what someone is doing, you get an unbelievable advantage. It's obviously gonna be the biggest help in the world. But I remember, I played against him, and erm, this is a little bit my gullibility then. I remember saying "Well, you know what ? If he says he's not hacking, then I'm just gonna believe that he's not hacking" And, erm, we ended up playing a lot of games together. Just a ton, a ton, a ton of games. And even though he did a ton of stuff that was really suspicious, I still wanted to beat him. Because I was really competitive, you know ? I've been playing all these other games with my brother competitively. I liked competing with someone, as a friend. Why not do it with this JelloOne player ? And that has been so helpful to me, the idea that a good strategy and solid play, doesn't revolve around tricks. It doesn't revolve around surprises. It doesn't revolve around having hidden information. It revolves around very solid, strong timing, and crisp execution. And that was such a valuable lesson, that I couldn't try to sneak a little drop in there. My gimmick of sneaking the overlord with lurkers into his base never worked ! I had to just have more units and I had to have better timings. And erm, I wasn't able to go... So, right now, I was a... oh my god, I didn't even finish this story !
Yes, so this is, I'm, I'm a sophomore in high school, it was 2001, and I don't qualify and I'm all bumped out, but my mom, erm... I want to just spend a little more time talking about her, erm, in this, because having a supportive family, have a Starcraft family, has been instrumental to like, everything. My, erm, my mom saw how bumped out Nick and I were, she heard us talk about Boxer, she had seen that this Starcraft game wasn't just another game that we bought and played for a month, and then never played again. We were still chattering about it for years. She said "You know what ? We don't have much money, but we're gonna get these tickets, we're gonna fly out to Los Angeles and you're gonna play into this tournament." Which was just like so nice, to have like, my mom being so supportive. And, erm, the problem is that we show up and we're the two kids whose mom came with us. Ow god, ow ! How revolting to be cool at that age, to be, you know ? have your mom be the chauffeur, you know, the chaperone for the event. But you know, she was really polite, she didn't try to like step in, like, you know "I'm, I'm..." Nick was know as Tasteless then, I was still SleepingDrone. She wasn't like "I'm SleepingDrone and Tasteless' mom" No, she was very low key and went off, you know, just like read a book erm. And I remember Nick got eliminated first round. He got knocked to the losers bracket first round and, you know, he advanced four at once and then he lost then, and it was just "Rrr", it was just sopainful, 'cause I remember, in his first game, he was playing against someone whose name I can't remember anymore. He built like four, five creep colonies and had an overlord outside the guy's base, so he would morph them into sunken when the guy moved out. But Nick wasn't watching the minimap at that exact instant, so the guy just got to his base, with like five creep colonies in it so he ended up losing. But I was like in a bracket with, I wouldn't call it easy people but I would call it people who I 9-pooled... 9-pooled everyone right ? I 9-pooled seven straight matches, and then somehow, erm, I'm getting pretty deep into this tournament.
Lot of famous players there. Maynard was there, he was, you know, the best American player at the time. Erm, Whear was there, Wizard was there, BlueWolf was there, Fr0z was there. That was his first tournament appearance. Erm, really strong players. Requiem was there. I think I said Dream was there as well. Dream was a Zerg player who was like, really into the game. You know, he played on the Game I server, with the koreans you know, and there was this epic series between Requiem, who was completely unknown and Dream. And, I mean like, it was first like this 20 minutes game but then everyone's else tournament games had finished, so they were the ones clogging up the brackets, right ? So everyone just crowded around them and watched their games. They played this 45 minutes game on Lost Temple where Dream builds up a hatchery outside Requiem's base. And you guys have seen this on games that Great has played and this kind of stuff, but, back then "Holy shit ! He does play on the Korean server ! Look at this ingenuity !", right ? He was like building a ton of sunken colonies and getting mass zerglings, oh my god, and Requiem is like getting 10 shuttles and like trying to expand everywhere. And they played this dramatic game that had stasis and storms, and Maelstrom and Guardians and Defilers, and every single unit you could imagine, and, erm, and Dream loses and this unknown kid Requiem wins. And then they play next game and they get 10 vs 3 on Lost Temple, which, as you know, you hate 10 vs 3, if you're a Zerg player. So Dream was the Zerg, erm, he was at the 3 o'clock position. Requiem brings two probes early on to harass, kills a drone and Dream forgets his first Overlord, because he's trying to deal with this harrassment. So there's just this like huge upset, and everyone's like "Ho my god", getting really excited because, I knew I would lose to Dream if I played him. But my Zerg versus Protoss was my strong match-up cause I knew how to do a 9-pool. So, I ended up playing against this Requiem guy and I actually won, and I was like "holy..." freaking out and everything. And then I had to play against Maynard, but we had to wait a day to play it. And the winner of that match was in the semi-finals. But the winner of the game between me and Maynard was going to the WCG grand finals in Korea. And erm, I, I played against him, and I was so nervous, and my mom was trying to figure out, you know, in between "Well if you do end up winning and we end up going to... We end up going to Korea, I want, I want to fly out to this, I want, I think, you know go out as a family" And, I just batched the first game and I lost. And the second game I won with Hold Position lurkers, in like two minutes, and then I lost the third game, and I was "Uuh" and ended up in the losers bracket up and was eventually eliminated. And you know, I was really bummed out and sad, but you know, I actually got to tell people that I went to a Starcraft tournament. So that, you know, that story was probably a bit long, but it was cool : I gotta meet all these people, who were just names, I actually got to see the faces of people. I mean, nowadays, we have Facebook and, and people are just happy to like, send each other photos around on Skype and all this stuff, these forums, but there was actually no way to meet people who you played with. I actually got the chance to do that. And Fr0z blew everyone's mind then. Fr0z, erm, who, later I became pretty good friends with... At that tournament, this is in 2001. When people went back and watched these replays, Fr0z had 300 actions per minute. No one could believe how quickly Fr0z played. And like, the second highest was like, 140 or something. Fr0z was mind-numbingly fast and crushed everyone at that tournament and it was not close. Erm. Now it was cool to see some one who was just so cool.
So there's WCG 2002 comes along, and I can't go because the qualifiers were spread around the country, and nowhere near Kansas, 'cause it wasn't exactly the buzzling [?] esports community in Kansas, so... We waited until, we waited till like 2003 before we were actually like able to, you know, participate in any more, any more tournaments. Erm. Oh man, 'cause that's weird. Yeah, I'm actually checking up my notes to make sure I'm right, so I don't forget anything. But you know, throughout this all period, I was still the guy who played Starcraft. And, back then through these early highschool days, there was still a lot of tension in the family. Because, as you can tell, Nick and I are sort of, you know, talkative, big personnalities. We really liked to, you know, have our own space, be independent. And it was hard because we lived, erm, we had to share a room together. And we argued a lot, 'cause we still had one computer. So there was that whole debate and you know, mom, as supportive as she was, erm, you know, we were playing this one game all the time and that was so weird back then, so there was all this family tension, but I was still known as that, and I was still into it. And I remember even dating girls in high school and telling them about Starcraft, and trying to explain it to them. Because, I just, I was so excited about it. I thought that it was so cool, that I was playing this game. What really pissed me off was that that girl I dated, I explained to her gg, when you say Good Game, and she would type it to me on AIM but she would g.g. I'm like "That's not how you abbreviate it, it's gg, that's the thing". So she would like do it to like poke-make fun at me. Uuuh. I'm so glad, so glad that ended. Clearly, she wasn't respecting the important things in life. So, erm.
2003 was actually where, where cool stuff started to happen, right ? Where Nick and I, where... WCG was still going stronger than other tournaments. For WCG 2003, there were actually 23 qualifiers locations across all of the United States. Erm. And the winner of the qualification process would advance to the finals, and win a pimped out gaming computer, right ? The sickest gaming computer you could think off that had like XP and you know, like glow... It was awesome, it was a sick deal. You even got travel stipends to fly out. No actually I think they straight up paid for the ticket. That tournament was organized by Joe Moss. And I'm going to say that name, because if you're listening Joe Moss, you're the man ! That tournament was awesome. But anyways. So my brother and I, we had to drive to Saint Louis. But we don't own a car in our family. I mean, my mom owns a car but she's like : "I still need it, so you can't exactly drive to Saint Louis with it". So, our friend Dane, who's very famous, who, I was really good friend with Dane as well. For any of you who don't know Dane, please watch Day[9] daily number 50 and number 65 for some epic 2v2v2v2 BGH action. God, Dane is hilarious. Anyways... So we convinced him to drive us to Saint Louis... Oh no, it wasn't that time. Okay. No, no : this is what happened.
So, the qualifica... the qualifier for Saint Louis happened in two phases : you showed to the first phase, and if you get top 8, you qualified for the final. And then you'd have to drive back out to the final and the winner of the final goes to the, you know, to the national tournament finals. So we didn't have a ride. So what did we do ? We thought of everyone at our school who owned a car. And we found about this guy named Clint who we were friends with at the time. Erm. We tried to convince him to like, go out to this tournament : "Yeah man, come on, let's like go out there". And we just conviced him "Yeah and just 4-pool all of your games, you'll be fine, you'll easily qualify. I mean, not that many people will show up". So we had to like, drive out there and it's like a 4 hour drive from our house, and we got pulled over by the cops, because we tried to like exit at this one thing and they pulled us over. They like, opened up the trunk, and there was like only computer equipment in there, like mice and keyboards. "No, no, we're going to a video game tournament". He's like "It smells like pot in here" And we're like "No, we're actually just going to a video game tournament. We're nerds. We don't do any of that. We only play video games". So we'd like get there and like, our hotel got cancelled, so we like, tried to sneak into like a hotel room but we got caught and they were really nice. My brother was really tackle[?] "Look, we're just here for a video games tournament. We've been driving all night. We're really tired. Can we please sleep ?" And they're like "Video games tournament ?" and then we got to spend a really long time explaining that to them. But finally, we end up, you know, getting there for the tournament. And Clint 4-pools everyone but screws up and loses. So of the nine people that show up and the top 8 qualified, Clint gets 9th. Allright. He really didn't play Starcraft but he was pissed, man. And on the car ride home, he just blasted Insane Cloud Posse for 4 hours. And we were like "Clint, could you please turn down the Insane Cloud Posse, so I don't lose my mind". And he's like "Dude, look, I drove all the way out here, I just wanted to get top 8 in this tournament and I just want to listen to some of my music. I didn't have a good trip, man. I got knocked out of the tournament". We were like "Well, you don't even play this game, man. We were just hoping you'd have a good time". We had to endure that but, eventually, we went back.
Since only one could qualify, I had to knock my brother out of the tournament, so I got first for there. And, then, I flew out. And that's one of the worst things that has just has been in like, my life of Starcraft. I hate it whenever there's a qualifier and my brother and I both happen to go there and there's just like one spot. And only one of us can go. And that would happen a lot early on, like the WCG stuff, the World Cyber Games challenge, that he had to be the one to take the spot, because he would knock me out. So. Moving on forward.
2003 was a really nice finals for me. I was a senior in highschool. I just qualified over the summer, I was really excited for it. I went in to school a week early. This was starting to be pretty big in my life, that I actually played Starcraft, a lot. I mean, it was a bit past time, but even the teachers at school knew I'd like, have done this tournament in 2001. And I went in to the dean's office. And I was like "I will be missing school for the first week because I'm going to a video games tournament". He was like "No, you won't. I'm not letting you do that" And I was "No please ! Can I, can I ? I really, this is really important" He's like "No, probably not". And I'm still trying to work out the fact that I'm a little bit awkward and goofy, back then. So I couldn't articulate it, and I just remember that I left and that I was really bummed. I mean, you know, it's just... I was still this quiet, quieter person, just like "Ow, I'm really bummed out" and I called my mom and I was like "Man, mom, you know. Erh. They're not gonna let me do it" And she's like "What ?!" She got like really pissed, she's like "They're what ?!" I'm like "They just won't let me do it. They said they're not gonna let me do it. They just say it's a video game and they're not gonna let me, you know, get excused absence for a video game" And my mom said "Sean, this isn't just some game you're gonna go play. You're not gonna go play Mario Kart out in LA for a fun week. This is something that you work on. I'll take care of this" First of all, my mom referenced Mario Kart. I didn't know she knew that shit. Cool, Mom, allright ! So, she, she's gone for like 15 minutes. I called her at work to let her know but when she got back, she gets back 15 minutes later, she gets back and she's like "You're going Sean. It's all taken care of, don't worry about it, I took care of it". I was like "Oookay. Allright man" And that... Things like that, that's just like "Wow... Thank you mom", right ? And I mean, part of what was so helpful about like getting to that stage was that, I treated Starcraft not like this goofy hobby that, you know, was just some way to pass the time and not really mention. I thought it was so cool that I played it and I would just always go down to my mom, I'd be like "Mom, it is so cool that I do this" And I would try to convince her that it was cool. And that has been, you know, in addition to, you know, talking to my brother under the escalator as kids over at the mall. That act of making my mom understand, because I was just so excited, I wanted to share my excitement with her. The act of trying to articulate it, in some clear fashion, has been so helpful for me, because, you know, a lot of the ways I learned to explain it to my mom back then, I've used throughout my whole life. When trying to, you know, make people get right to the point, right away with Starcraft. Erm. 2003 didn't... the tournament didn't go so well. I got knocked out. I would tell you the whole tournament experience but it's very sad and I've been going for 43 minutes now, and I'm at 2003, so I still have 7 years to go. But I got eliminated by a guy named Pyrrhus[?], who, no one really knew of. I played like an idiot, and I was like, all embarrassed about it but I got to meet a lot of cool people there as usual. The best part of going to any tournament is just that you get to see the people you've been chatting with. So erm.
2004 rolls along. This was like when I was a freshman in college. It's actually the summer in between that were the qualifiers and, and... It was weird because erm, it was around this time that I actually stuck with the name Day[9]. I wanted a cool one word name. Cause there were players like Reach, Yellow, Boxer and it was like A Word ! And I was like "I'm gonna do that : Day !!" Allright ? So, that was taken, so I had to think of something cool, and I always thought that the 9 Clan was cool : 9Everlast, 9Kane, and this it wasn't really around, I was like "I guess I'll be 9" So I just pust Day[9] there, with the brackets. Yeah ! Somehow, this guy named Paul got our AIM, and he'd just like... And by our, I mean my brother's AIM and my AIM and he would just like message us constantly, leading up to this WCG 2004. And it was weird because he would just lie, like incessantly. He would just make a [?] story about what he'd done in Starcraft and about all this stuff, that like, like... For me : he told me like he was a 22 years old 250 pounds ripped football player, who had a football scholarship. And then he told my brother that, he was like a 16 years old highschool student who was into debate. Just like, completely non-sensical. What was so funny is that like, we drove up to the WCG 2004 qualifiers, which were in Chicago. He wanted to be picked up because he, like, wanted to go to this tournament as well, so right...
I'd like to point out that English is not my native language (French is) so I'd appreciate if someone was to take a second look. Also there are a few parts I didn't understand, or that I'm really not sure about : I indicated them with [?].
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[1:20:00] "Day, eu não quero que você fique triste. Você é um ótimo jogador, e um bom amigo." E ele... ele foi tão legal, e eu pude perceber que ele se sentiu mal, porque eu e ele éramos os dois jogadores que estavam lutando pelo segundo lugar, porque Sen já tinha garantido o primeiro, não havia chances dele ser eliminado. Então Android, ele ainda assim veio até mim e disse: "Quer saber? Bom jogo. Eu... sabe... me sinto mal." e foi tão bom ouvir isso, esse jogador que as pessoas diziam "Ah é, conhecido por ficar com raiva das pessoas" mas ele veio até mim e disse "Cara, eu... eu aprecio você e suas habilidades, eu acho que você é uma boa pessoa e sinto muito que as coisas tiveram que acabar assim." Então isso, isso sempre foi muito legal pra mim, porque eu sempre valorizei ser o mais legal possível, nos forums, porque... você pode tentar ser engraçado nos forums, mas o tom se perde facilmente que algumas vezes você pode parecer um babaca. Então eu sempre valorizei ser o mais legal, educado e comportado possível nos forums, e...
Foi tão... foi tão bom ouvir ele dizer aquilo. E nessa época em 2005, eu pensava "Quer saber de uma coisa? Eu quero ser bom no Starcraft", tipo, depois disso eu me odiei um pouco, mas quando eu descobri sobre o Bunny, eu fiquei com tanta raiva que dei um tempo no Starcraft, porque não conseguia aguentar. E eu acabei voltando e comecei a jogar novamente, e isso foi quando comecei a jogar pra valer no PGTour... Isso foi quando eu alcancei A+ em várias temporadas da PGTour, jogando muito, tipo 6-7 contas por temporada. Eu iria trabalhar em uma conta e depois eu simplesmente a resetava e tentava conseguir tudo novamente. Usando o estilo do Fr0z, sabe, aumentando a temperatura, abaixando a temperatura, com sapatos, sem sapatos, cadeira mais alta, cadeira mais baixa, cada coisinha que eu pudesse fazer, porque eu realmente queria melhorar.
E eu não contei a ninguém sobre isso, acho que apenas meu irmão sabia disso, porque, vocês sabem, durante todo esse tempo eu conversava bastante com meu irmão. Ele é a única pessoa que realmente sabia, porque novamente eu simplesmente... não queria vitórias, não queria essas coisas me atrapalhando, eu só queria me concentrar puramente no jogo. Eu tive uma discussão tão proveitosa com minha mãe, uma das discussões mais... esclarecedoras que eu já tive em minha vida, porque eu disse "Sabe mãe, eu tenho tentado... Mas eu tenho ficado com tanta raiva depois de alguns dos meus jogos, sabe? Eu... eu... quebrei, na verdade quebrei meu teclado diversas vezes, e já quebrei vários mouses. E eu fico com muita raiva e abalado" e minha mãe disse "Sabe, Sean... Isso é completamente normal. Não se preocupe com isso, Sean. Não se preocupe com esses sentimentos." E ela disse "Sabe Sean, a coisa mais importante a saber é que todo esse sentimento de tensão, e ansiedade, e a adrenalina que entra no seu sistema e, mais importante, a adrenalina que sai do seu sistema depois que você perde uma partida muito intensa, isso tudo é apenas química. E é tão fácil ser sugado por isso, e acreditar nisso, e direcionar toda essa raiva em você mesmo." E ela continuou "Que pelo que você me disse, parece ser o que você está fazendo." Mas ela explicou "Mas Sean, lembre-se: eu poderia te dar um comprimido que te deixa da mesma maneira. É tudo química. Simplesmente ignore isso e espere que saia do seu corpo, e não acredite nisso. Não pense em nada, só fique calmo e lide com isso." Ou melhor "Apenas lide com a emoção, não pense em mais nada".
Então, daquele momento em diante, eu iria perder consecutivamente, claro que ficaria com raiva. Se algum de vocês fica com raiva e pensa "Ah, eu não deveria fazer isso depois de algumas partidas" Não se preocupe com isso. Mas a coisa importante a se lembrar é que, como minha mãe disse, você não deve ser duro demais consigo mesmo! Não se odeie! Se você tiver aquele sentimento de raiva, aquela sensação de calor, apenas vá se sentar em algum lugar, e calmamente... espere que ela desapareça, e então você pode voltar e olhar para sua partida. E então você pode começar a pensar, e começar a analisar, e começar a trabalhar em cima disso.
E isso tem sido sempre tão valioso para mim, isso foi tipo, a maior ajuda que eu recebi em termos de prática, para que eu não, endoideça ou coisa do tipo, sabe, porque eu... tipo, eu estou tomando muito pouco café. Mas sim, a 2006 U.S. Open aconteceu... Meu irmão e eu nos classificamos para as finais... para essa vez e... até esse ponto, sabe, eu não... Eu ainda não tinha tido uma grande vitória. Quero dizer, eu ganhei o 2005 USA, mas, sabe? Era a classificatória para o torneio, e eu tive aquele sentimento amargo porque "Ohhh, eu joguei tão mal contra Android e tudo mais." E... eu perdi minha linha de pensamento. Permitam-me tomar chá em meditação e recuperá-la.
Nas finais de 2006, foi... acho que... foi uma das experiências em torneios mais estressantes da minha vida... Eles fizeram uma pequena entrevista antes do torneio, tipo "Day, quem você não quer enfrentar nas finais?" e eu respondi "Eu não quero enfrentar EchoOfThunder, esse cara - me desculpem, EchoOfTerran, esse cara é muito, muito, muito bom!" e aí, claro, descobri que ele era meu primeiro oponente do meu grupo. Eu iria enfrentar EchoOfTerran e Slog, um grupo de apenas três.
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E aí eu perco minha primeira partida contra EchoOfTerran, mas depois eu venço as duas seguintes por muito pouco. Daí eu me senti tipo "Meu Deus! Eu venci EchoOfTerran, meu Deus! Eu... eu vou conseguir, não é? Eu vou conseguir! Só preciso me concentrar. Só preciso vencer Slog e, tipo, o jogador mais forte do torneio eu já venci!" E eu... eu... isso na verdade foi muito engraçado, pois no WCG 2006, eles estavam com o cronograma muito apertado, então o que eles fizeram? Eles mostraram apenas o primeiro jogo de cada Melhor de Três. Ou, apenas as mais notáveis Melhores de Três. Porque obviamente eles não tinham tempo para mostrar todas. Então o que aconteceu foi que, era eu contra Slog, então o Game 1 foi mostrado no palco e eu perdi para o Slog4, o jogador Protoss. E eu pensei "Meu Deus!" e ele, tipo, me esmagou, eu não cheguei nem perto. E então eu... venci por muito, muito, muito, muito pouco os outros dois jogos. Mas o que é engraçado é que todo mundo no torneio fazia, tipo "Ei, vamos ver umas partidas de Starcraft. Olha só, aquele cara, o Day9, ele perdeu, beleza..." e então... então eu tive que jogar contra LastGosu, que me derrotou duas vezes. Então o primeiro jogo foi mostrado, e eu perdi. E aí eu fui para a Losers Bracket, onde eu joguei contra Nony, e a primeira partida foi mostrada, e eu perdi, e depois ganhei as duas seguintes.
E então eu tive que jogar contra Artosis, e eles não mostraram esses jogos. Mas daí eu tive que jogar cona LastGosu nas finais. Então, para cada jogo que eu... cada série que eu joguei, foi eu perdendo a primeira partida e depois vencendo as duas seguintes. Com exceção de LastGosu que me venceu por 2-0.
Então, no último jogo, eu estava... estava tão cansado... que na última partida decisiva, e essa foi a partida que foi mostrada... eu fiz uma 5-Pool. Eu nunca fiz uma 5-Pool na minha vida, nem durante as práticas. Eu simplesmente... Fiz uma 5-Pool. E perdi porque ele fez uma 9-Rax, e eu lembro que eu senti aquele mesmo amargo sentimento que senti depois da partida com Android, porque eu pensei comigo mesmo "Eu criei a minha build para segurar uma 9-rax, e depois abandonei tudo em troca de uma vitória fácil porque estava muito cansado" e daí novamente, eu fiquei muito arrasado por isso. Mas daí meu irmão, ele estava lá, e nós fomos para um canto, e eu fiquei extremamente nervoso. E ele... ele sempre me ajudou e apoiou, é por isso que eu acho que é tão importante para as pessoas, sabe? Se você tem irmãos e pais que não entendem Starcraft, simplesmente... os traga para dentro desse mundo. Encontre maneiras de contar suas histórias, de... de compartilhar com eles sua paixão intensa, todas essas coisas incríveis que acontecem no Starcraft, para que dessa maneira você possa... eles possam te apoiar. Porque depois que eles passarem a entender, eles definitivamente... irão estar lá por você! E será muito legal. Minha mãe se sentiu muito mal, sabe, eu perdi... porque apenas o primeiro lugar iria para as grandes finais, então eu não tive a chance de ir, e fiquei meio "uurrghhh".
E eventualmente LastGosu não pôde ir, mas eu já tinha marcado algumas coisas com a escola, então também não pude ir para as finais de 2006. Mas sabe, eu continuei jogando, apesar de ter machucado muito o que aconteceu... Eu só me concentrei e continuei jogando. E então 2007 chegou. Esse sou eu... mais WCGs, houve uma WCG U.S. Open e... Ok, para a U.S. Open, se você ficasse nos dois primeiros lugares você se qualificava para o campeonato WCG Pan-Americano, que era apenas com países da América do Norte e América do Sul.
Então eu... eu fui para... eu fui convidado para o Open, porque eu estava entre os 4 melhores do ano anterior, então era eu, Artosis, Nony e LastGosu. E eu treinei mais para isso do que para qualquer outra coisa em minha vida. Eu... Então, eu tive umas férias no colégio, entre o fim das aulas e o ínicio dos estudos no verão lá na Harvey Mudd. Então, nesse período de aproximadamente um mês, pouco mais que isso, eu acordava de 10 da manhã, jogava das 10:00 às 12:00, parava para almoçar, jogava de 1 da tarde às 6 da noite, parava para jantar, jogava das 7 até as 3 da manhã, então acordava no outro dia às 10 da manhã novamente e repetia tudo.
E eu joguei incontáveis partidas, e três pessoas que eu quero agradecer pessoalmente neste momento são: FrozenArbiter, me ajudou com meu Zerg vs Protoss, DeadMan da Croácia, por me ajudar com meu Zerg vs Terran, e IVeeLove da Dinamarca, eu acho, que também me ajudou com meu Zerg vs Terran. E eu treinei TANTO, minha nossa! Eu joguei muitas partidas... como vocês devem imaginar. E... Nony ficou em primeiro no... no Open, e eu fiquei em segundo, então ficamos tipo "Oh meu Deus! Nós dois vamos para o U.S. Open [Pan-Americano?]". E então aconteceu essa coisa muito estranha, esso foi provavelmente a melhor sensação que já senti no Starcraft, tipo, de longe a melhor de todas.
Você acaba em situações onde... você quer alguma maneira de comparar habilidades, sabe, onde você pensa "Oh, ele é um jogador C+. Aww, aquele cara era B- na temporada anterior." mas a maioria das pessoas sabem [NOTA: Vai para 1:30:00]
P.s.: Oh my god, Day[9] talks too much and too fast, rofl my hands are soo tired =P
OP UPDATED - Added contributions to the english translation by Rampager with revision by Tschis, thank you both! you are doing an amazing work! - Added the first 45 minutes to the english translation by elladan, amazing! it's almost complete! -Also added the 1:20:00 to 1:30:00 part for the portuguese-brazilian translation by Tschis, thanks! - Italian added - Latin American Spanish added. As i saw all the users who offered help to do the spanish translation were from Latin America, i decided to separate it from the "neutral" spanish from Spain, as they are different in some ways of speaking.
On February 20 2011 08:14 elladan wrote: Okay... So I did a transcription of the first 45 minutes, and I think I'm going to stop there for a moment, because man, Day[9] sure talks a LOT.
Oh wow, great job! Only 35 minutes left to go, awesome stuff.
Tschis: Great revisions man, it just occurred to me as I read it that I totally missed an entire sentence which you filled in (at 1:20:00 :D), I have no idea what happened there haha.
I'm going to set aside some time tonight and so 1:10 to 1:20 and possibly 1:00 to 1:10 also, and that should bring us ever closer to completion :D
Why do I see no timestamps (.srt?) on the transcripts? Timestamps are kind of a requirement for this type of thing.
If there will come an english subtitlepack, and someone will do the main work (grimhammer), I can help on the swedish translation. Maybe just look it over, maybe provide some info/advice on how to do it, etc.
On February 20 2011 11:14 Arn wrote: Why do I see no timestamps (.srt?) on the transcripts? Timestamps are kind of a requirement for this type of thing.
If there will come an english subtitlepack, and someone will do the main work (grimhammer), I can help on the swedish translation. Maybe just look it over, maybe provide some info/advice on how to do it, etc.
We are just doing the transcription of the audio.
Then we'll have to make the timmings.
I don't even know if I'll be able to do that, I've never done it... Sounds really time-taking.
Yea subtitling is not an easy process, we're hoping that other people with that expertise will join in and help us out For the moment, we're doing a transcript of the audio so people can begin translating to their chosen language and then... well... the actual timings and inserting the subtitles will get interesting.
I'm sure there will be willing participants though, this is a one-time project (doing this for any other daily would take foreverrrrrrrrrrrrr) so we'll just have to see how it goes
I'm sorry to bust your bubble and say you have done work the wrong way, but: With subtitling, step #1 is to do the timings (with english language for example). That's way more than half the work.
If someone does a transcript without inserting it into timings, someone would have to "do their work again" but with timings instead, reading from the transcript into the timings. It's easier to just transcript each "scene".
Besides, subtitling day[9] will be extra challenging, since he talks totally non-stop.
On February 20 2011 23:14 Arn wrote: I'm sorry to bust your bubble and say you have done work the wrong way, but: With subtitling, step #1 is to do the timings (with english language for example). That's way more than half the work.
If someone does a transcript without inserting it into timings, someone would have to "do their work again" but with timings instead, reading from the transcript into the timings. It's easier to just transcript each "scene".
Besides, subtitling day[9] will be extra challenging, since he talks totally non-stop.
timings are the same for every language though, so that work can be spread among many more people.
Please, can someone take the first 45 minutes text in english done by elladan and put timestamps every 10 minutes just like Rampager has been doing in his texts? Thanks!
Also I would like to request if someone can help with the Korean and Chinese translations. These are very big audiences and it would be very good to translate this Day[9] Daily to their languages!
On February 21 2011 01:02 escruting wrote: Please, can someone take the first 45 minutes text in english done by elladan and put timestamps every 10 minutes just like Rampager has been doing in his texts? Thanks!
Also I would like to request if someone can help with the Korean and Chinese translations. These are very big audiences and it would be very good to translate this Day[9] Daily to their languages!
On February 20 2011 23:14 Arn wrote: I'm sorry to bust your bubble and say you have done work the wrong way, but: With subtitling, step #1 is to do the timings (with english language for example). That's way more than half the work.
If someone does a transcript without inserting it into timings, someone would have to "do their work again" but with timings instead, reading from the transcript into the timings. It's easier to just transcript each "scene".
Besides, subtitling day[9] will be extra challenging, since he talks totally non-stop.
Ah, forgive my noobiness in this regard, I see where you're coming from. I'll have to look into timing a lot more deeply and then go through the transcript and insert them in the correct place. I hope this doesn't set us back too far
In the tournament but it was, it was just so nice to have him just be there between every round. I didn't have to call him, he was just like,he was just right there ya'know I could just easily ya'know, he would be like "Awesome man, you played well!" and I'd just high-five him. Uhm... What was I talking about, oh yea but that was so cool because Nick got eliminated first round, he had nothing to do and the commentators were up on stage. and they were Radio ITG and they were doing all the events and their guy on up on stage just didn't play Starcraft at all. And I mean, it was so funny because he was on stage, there was like a 60ft screen behind him. It was almost as big as my pit-stains, whoopsie daisies!
So I mean he, it was this huge screen -- honestly the 2005 USA finals was one of the best run tournaments I've ever been at. But I remember, uh, so he's up there and he has the mic and he's watching a game and he's like "Wow!" he literally is like, turned sideways looking at his computer and he's going "Wow! That guy, he is making marines! Those marines, man! He can -- They can shoot up, down, and he's gonna keep making them", hah, it was just this non-sensical completely randomly directed commentary. And Nick went up to them right after that game and said "Okay look, I understand your guy doesn't have that much experience, give me the mic I'll take care of all this." Nick walked right up on the stage there, absolutely no preparation, sat down and commentated beautifully. He said everything right, anytime his -- the, the cocaster said anything at all that seemed ridiculous, Nick would totally just save him, would not do any sort of thing to embarrass and Radio ITG hired him right on the spot, and that's what began his casting career.
So I mean, it ended up working so nicely for him, it was so funny I even remember there was this game on Astriah again, because for some reason WCG wants to have an Island Map in every single tournament, and uh... I remember the guy, the guy, the radio ITG guy, says... Ok so, I need this hand here so you can see this, "So Nick. It's an island map, do you think we're gonna see... Drops?" and he like "Uhhh" like "Don't you think?!" and Nick likes "Yes, I definitely think that's a possibility here, ya'know, big variety of ya'know things we can do here." Just completely picked it up. I mean, I'm not gonna lie 99 people out of a 100 would've been like "Well Gee, yea I think he might get drops if he's ever into attacking in this war game, yea, I think he'll maybe get drops if he's interested in winning EVER" Ya'know, but Nick just completely just crisp, noooooo dropping the ball at all there. So that ended up working out just great.
But Uhm... Now comes the 2005 Grand Final in Singapore that I flew all the way out too. And I wanted to do better than I did last year, I got in the round of 16 against XellOs, I lost, so of course I say "Ohh, I got 9th, right, Ohhh!" and I wanted to get into the Top 24, Round Robin groups of 8 instead of 4. And I was in the group with Sen, and Android. And... They're both really good, hah. And this is also the period where I started playing alot on The Abyss which later became PGTour , oh excuse me, I was playing on PGTour and then later on I played on The Abyss which eventually became ICCUP. But my major practice partners during that period were uhm... FrozenArbiter, on the TeamLiquid.net forums, tons of the Russian players: Advokact, Android, Deadman from Croatia, I mean just a lot of really awesome guys. They were all in the ORKY clan, pretty much, for any of you familiar with that.
Now, Android is notorious for having 'funky' manner in tournaments. I wouldn't call it bad manner, but just alittle... alittle off. Like he would lift, like, he'd be dead but instead of saying gg he'd like lift his buildings and float them around the map to try to just like delay the game which is kind of funny, right? But ya'know technically bad manner, and people would sometimes be like "Oh that Android guy is bad manner!" but ya'know we always played together, and ya'know there was a language barrier obviously but we played a lot a lot a lot of games leading up to that tournament, so I was feeling confident against him. It was on the map Paranoid Android and I hadn't practiced against Sen, who terrifies me! God, Sen! Okay, Sen was scary in the TSL2 that just happened not long ago, but also he was terrifying in 2005, right. He is just a scary beast at uhm, RTS games. So, with Sen there I was like "Okay, gotta practice a lot of Zerg vs Zerg, gotta practice it!" and when I got to the tournament, he said "No no, we're playing on Astriah and I'm gonna play Protoss" and I was like "Ohhhh man" so I lose my first game and I'm 0-1, right, seven more to go! Oh wait excuse me, six more to go. So I have to pretty much go, uhm, 6-1 or 5-2 in the group.
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So, uhm... So I kept playing and I was winning all my games until I got to Android and... I was in that game and I was playing and I was even... playing better then I did in practice but... All of a sudden, he comes out with his first push, I have lurkers and zerglings there, they were ready and positioned behind the fat bridge on Paranoid Android, and all of a sudden I felt my muscles just starting doing things that I didn't want to them to do. And in my head I said "Oh my god, I'm about to send in a full control group of my lurkers, and they're all gonna die. And I have no idea why I'm gonna do that." and I just choked and I watched myself do this and I like, felt no control over my hands, right. Just none , I was just like "Oh my god..." and I just lost all my 12 Lurkers so I had 3 Control Groups of Zerglings and no Lurkers, that's not going to do very much good.
And I remember, like, after that plan I got this boost of adrenaline and my focus just like peaked but I mean it didn't matter at that point, ya'know, it's like the perfectly orchestrated symphony but ya'know all the instruments are out of tune. I just couldn't pull it together, and I remember I lost that game and I... I... I was so mad at myself. I was SO angry because I practiced so hard now I wasn't going to get out the group, I was 4-2, the best I could do was 5-2 which meant that Sen was gonna go 7-0 and Android was gonna go 6-1, and... I remember I just left the game and I just punched my keyboard SO hard that I actually cut my... my pinky, I just slammed it and uhm... GosuGamers, the crew uhm, Mazer, he was running the tournament for the Grand Finals and I remember he came over and he uh, he said "Dude look, I, I know your upset. If there's anything I can do to help, I'll let you know. I'm not gonna give you a yellow card. But ya'know, I'm going to let you stay in here, ya'know, just, just take some time to cool off."
I've been so grateful for that, a lot of the players after they were done with their games they had to go to the booths and sign some stuff but he was like "Ya'know what man, just stay here, I understand." And... Uh god... I mean, a lot of nice things happened there in retrospect but I was still so angry at myself, I was so mad. Ahhh. 'Cause what ended up happening was that I lost, and that I couldn't... I was so angry at myself, how could dumb could you be Sean?! How could you have choked like that, and send your Lurkers in there? You were playing perfectly, exactly to plan, on such a hard map it would've been such an unbelievable win against this great player who knows your style in and out, but you just choked. Why did you do that Sean? And I remember I went in the bathroom and I just cried, and I was just so mad. And I, I brought my stuffed animal to the tournament, my bunny named Bunny. Like, the dearest sentimental object I've ever owned in my entire life.
And, I mean, it's because ya'know, everyone has a lucky, ya'know, I wear lucky pants to my tournament, oh this is a jewel or an angel that I got from so-and-so event. For me, I just brought my little bunny that I had since childhood and I when I scheduled my flight to leave early and I just hated on myself for a 14-hour flight back from Singapore. I realised that I actually left my bunny in the hotel, like, the most dear sentimental object in my entire life. And... I tried to get the hotel to ship it back, but I gave them the wrong address. So, my bunny was forever lost in the mail. And, I mean, It was after that, that like, I was just like, ya'know... All of that happened just because I was being too hard on myself. I liked being hard on myself, I loved being hard on myself, it's one of my favourite things. You hear me watch my, ya'know, you see the Day9 dailies here's a game of me, LOL I'm awful! Ya'know? But I was just too hard on myself then.
The winning, I was valuing it too much. I loved learning, I loved figuring things out, I was generally a very quiet gamer, I didn't post much on forums, I didn't publish my replays, I just trained in private. But just because I didn't win this tournament, didn't mean that I was somehow a bad player, that somehow I had sold myself short. And...It was... I mean, it, it, it still hurts dearly to this day to know that I left Bunny there in Singapore and wherever Bunny is... ya'know. It's because I... I spent too much time focusing on myself and focusing inward and not... and just not trying to, to just be reasonable to myself, to be good to myself. I mean I like this high benchmark that I put myself to, but ya'know when one of the, the greatest things that happened after that loss, is that, is that Android came up to me after that and of course he, again, is notorious for bad manner but he said... I'll do the russian accent, to hell with it!
If Rampager includes the timings, then I guess the .srt would be pratically finished. I mean, after the transcription, the only thing left would be the timings of the words :}
I've already revised the first 45 minutes of elladan.
I just need to go throught it one last time to make sure I didn't miss anything big. Then I'll revise 1:10 to 1:20 and translate everything to PT-BR;
Hello ladies and gentlemen. Today is April 13th, 2010... and it is Day[9] Daily number 100. Look as my camera auto-adjusts the light. I repositioned it back to that old angle... Did number 99 with this webcam actually on top of my computer but I kept actually naturally looking down here. And I'm sure a lot of you here are familiar with the Diablo III poster, and now because I actually have an HD camera you can even see the Starcraft II poster there, so that's pretty awesome...
So today... Today is an unbelievably special Day[9] Daily because first of all, I just hit three digits for the first time ever... And three digits is cool! Also, today we're not going to do any analysis of any game: no games at all. It's just gonna be my life playing Starcraft. Because, I think people just don't quite... appreciate how in the games that they are. I have grown up playing Starcraft. The things that I have learned by playing Starcraft have helped shape me so much. I just wanna do a big dedication to the community, to just say "Man, just be proud you are a Starcraft gamer. There is nothing more cool than being proud of the things that you love." And it's actually... It was almost really emotional today as I'm like trying to sort through all the memories I have from Starcraft and just try to... just boil them down to something that's, you know, reasonably entertaining. So, as you'll note, I even have taken notes to everything to make sure I don't skip anything.
So, let's just talk about Starcraft. So... let us begin at the very beginning, when I first bought Starcraft. I can still remember it. I grew up in a little town in Leawood, Kansas. Which is in the middle of nowhere. It's in Kansas right? Well, I mean, it's part of Kansas City but still, I'm from Leawood, Kansas, where the land is flat and evolution is still a theory. It's the line I always use. We lived in this awesome little house, that was right next to this mall that Nick and I could walk across the street to every day. And of course, there was like a computer software store there, where we would buy our various electronics. And we were super pumped for Starcraft, because We played Warcraft II baby... Yes, indeed! We were Warcraft II players! And like any kid, you just go up to your mom and you're just like "Mom! Mom!" and you tell your mom about this genius shit you have just devised in your head. "Mom, did you know that in Warcraft II, a catapult outranges a tower?" Uuh, baby, baby! Now... Now, all of a sudden, I can never lose to towers. You know, just simplistic junk like that. We were your standard little newbies my brother and I...
So, my brother Nick, whose probably more commonly known as Tasteless in the Starcraft community, but he shall be Nick for this story... So my brother Nick and I, we walked to the mall and we paid, like, 52.36 or something for our first game of Starcraft ever. And it was so funny because the guy at the counter was a huge nerd too. So he was just excited about Starcraft. So he even knew the price off the top of his head. I mean, that's very standard nerd sort of stuff, you know... So, Nick and I bought it for the first time ever and we only owned one computer in the family. Because, you know, now we're ritsy ballers and we each have our own computer. But back then, we had to like, split times, so we would just like crowd against each other, trying to, like, get as much play time, or at the very least as much back seat playing time, like: "Build Zerglings! They're awesome! Trust me!". We didn't know what we were talking about...
So, you know, I played Starcraft a lot. This was when I was in, God... it must have been fifth or sixth grade when I first bought Starcraft. I know for a fact that was in the sixth grade! And... And after a while, as I'm playing more, and more, and more... It, it, it rapidly became something that I did, right? I was known for being that guy. 'Cause I would bring the Prima Starcraft strategy to school, and like, read it. I was just "Er hum... I know what unit counters what, according to Prima" you know... The: "Oh look! Here's the easiest way to beat the second Terran single mission", right? I was hot shit in sixth grade, man! I got it! And I started playing with my, with my great friends Shawn and Charlie.
And we would go to each others' house and we would play. And this was my first ever, like, networked experience. I had never played against another human being. I mean, I played custom games, which, generally for me, would take like... Two? Three days? To beat a custom game? Because, you know, I would make sure that all the units had names, if they were dishonorable in some way, they would have to be executed, I would talk to them, you know, just like: "Erm. Oh yeah. I gotta make sure that Martin the marine... you know, we gotta give him something special, because he has 4 kills." You know, because I just, would only attack with like 3-4 units at a time. But anyways, first ever game that I actually played against real people, and we were like God awful, and stuff, and the network eventually crashed. So we want back to play single player games on, of course, Big Game Hunters, because that was our favorite map in seventh grade, and... Oh God, was Brood War even out yet? I guess it was just regular Hunters
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that we played on. And, to make it fair, against the computer, we would only use one cheat code. That was the rule that we created, right? Just one! You could do anything else you want, but you're allowed one cheat code. And it can't be the invulnerability cheat. You could turn on the entire map, you could turn on the vision, you could get money. For some reason, I opted for mass level one upgrades. That's a cheat that you can just type in. I was like: "Yeah man, I want these workers to start out 1-1-1, man. It's gonna be the best." So, you know...
Things sort of progressed from there and soon enough, my brother and I just started figuring out how to network our two computers together. 'Cause we had one really awful old computer and we also had this network laptop. And we would just, like, play against each other. For hours! But I think, perhaps the most significant thing to note, about our play time, was that... we had curfew. We were not allowed to play the computer untill 3 pm. 'Cause one day, Nick and I were playing Syndicate Wars! Do you guys remember this game? Hooo my God that's old school! Open up a web browser and look up Syndicate Wars, 'cause I swear to God, I thought that game had the best graphics of anything that had ever existed, right? And you're gonna look it up, and it's like, 320x240 and it's all pixelated. You rotate the screen and it like almost shuts down your computer, cause it's like too hard for him.
But one day, Nick and I were like fighting with each other, really wanting, you know, get on... And my mom was like: "Well look! You guys are fighting over the computer. You shouldn't even be on the computer anyways. No video games 'till 3!". And we were just like "Ow, why'd we fight about it? If only we hadn't done that..." But my mom also made us get up, you know, at like 8 or 9 in the morning, in the summer's to do, you know, like chores, maw the lawn, because in Kansas, you actually have a lawn. In LA, it's pretty much concrete and deserts, and really high gas prices. So not really much mawing is going on there. And, so we didn't have time to actually play. We would be up and, we wouldn't have anything to do!
And it's kind of weird because my mom was like a single working mother, like running her own business. So it's not like she was going to be home to see if we were gonna be there, like playing before 3, but Nick and I still, honorable gentlemen that we were, we did not play any Starcraft before 3pm... And what we would do, is that we would walk to the mall, every day. That same mall where we would get Star.. er, we got Starcraft. We would look at the games. We really didn't have that much money so we would just, like, look at the games and read all the backs and covers. And occasionnally, we would have enough money for Orange Chicken and we would seat with our Orange Chicken from the... from the food court, behind the escalator, and we would just talk about Starcraft and talk about video games.
And I really think that was the beginnings of my brother and I, just, loving discussing games. 'Cause I definitely think that, probably a majority of people who are listening to this, and you know, don't have siblings, based on some random polls I've seen on TeamLiquid and stuff. And I just think it was so helpful to me to just have a brother there who just wanted to talk about Starcraft all day. We wanted to talk about strategies and everything. And just, our crazy ideas that we had and everything... And what was awesome about Nick is that, like... I mean, a lot of people have asked questions like "What was it like growing up with Tasteless?" It was awesome! Do you watch GomTV? How could that be bad? My brother is HILARIOUS! I mean...
What's actually funny is that Nick is so funny and so good at, just like, being on, I actually was the quiet younger brother growing up. And it was, it was cool! I would just sit there and Nick would just go, and go, and go, and keep being funny, and funnier, and funnier, and... It was, it was great fun, you know, for my brother, my mom and I. 'Cause that was the three of us that grew up together. So, like... yeah God, and we played 1v1, in like everything! You name the game, Nick and I challenged eachother to it. Man, my brother was like, my biggest competitor. We played Goldeneye 1v1, License to Kill pistols in the Archives... Thank you! Yes, we played Soul Calibur. I played Maxi and Ivy, and Nick played Mitsurugi, because he's cheap, right? He's unfair! He would just do like, the, like the... What is it? Like, the down kick erm... It was like Kick + A.
He used various combinations: Back + Kick + A, Down + Kick + A... and he would just alternated them. And I could never beat it! What else did we do? Like, even Sega Saturn games, like Last Bronx or Sonic Racing... All sorts of stuff. So I mean, I just grew up, ow, Street Fighter Alpha! Oh, yes! We just grew up competing with each others, and just wanting, to like, one-up each other, and... in the olden days of Starcraft, Nick and I finally got on, it was weird.
'Cause we only played against each others, and suddenly, we were on... The Internets! Where the big fishes swam, right? And, I still remember, my first game of Starcraft ever, right? It was... Ok, it was a 1v1v1 Free-For-All. Okay? And I was like "Alright... This will give me ample time to build up, so that way, I can win! Eventually... I just have to stay out of their way." You know standard Free-For-All junk and, and these two guys
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allied and they 4-Pooled me! Alright? So, I'm in this game, I'm like "Alright. Okay. Cool!" You know. I was getting my Cybernetics Core. I was probably gonna be doing an Arbiter rush, which is a strategy that I had praticed many times in my 3 days long custom games. And... all of a sudden, 12 Zerglings run into my base, and I was just like: "Oohhhhh!!!" And they weren't attacking each other, and I was like: "You guys... You guys! It's a Free-For-All! It's a Free-For-All!" And I'm like, typing, and of course, I had like, 30 words per minute, so this is really cutting into my ability to play. I'm like "Y-o-u g-u-y-s !" Just each little individual punch on the letters. Just like sweat pouring down my face, and I'm like "You're... You're allied... Just... Just stop it! It's Free-For-All! That's what it said in the game title!" How can you violate what the title of the game was?
So I lost that game, and I almost threw up. I swear to God! I was so upset! It felt so vile, to be betrayed by these two random strangers, that I, like, went to my mom and cried, and she was like "Never play on the internet again!" I'm like "I'm never gonna get on the internet, I'm just gonna play Sonic Racer with my brother." But eventually, you know, I got over that. I did the same thing that every new player does: I just latched on to team games. I think "Well, it's obviously because I need to have a good ally, someone who respects my ability to get those Arbiters really fast, right? Me and my marine Martin will definitely appreciate the use of a good ally."
So, did a whole bunch of team games, and eventually, BGH! Oh, I learned about this. "Wait a minute? Are you saying that I don't ever have to expand... ever? And I have infinite money?" This seems like a reasonnable way to spend my time, right? "I'm gonna do this" and I would 3v3 and... Okay, I don't know how often this happens to you, in just your history, as like a person... But especially for me, looking back my life as a Starcraft player, I was an asshole! I disconnected when I lost, right? I would pull the plug. I would be in a BGH game, and I would be like, you know, mass Hydralisks. Nope, ain't no big deal, right? All I gotta do is, you know, not hit the "H" key, because, you know, who uses the keyboard? You know, this hand was busy pulling up my lip, and folding it and scratching while I thought, you know, maybe musing on my chin a little bit, because I was quite the intellectual nerd.
And... I would mass Hydralisks, and then I would lose everything, and I would just be like "Well. Err... Good Game man". And I would actually type "Good Game" and because I was playing on a laptop, I would just reach behind and unplug that modem cord. And remember: I'm actually on dial-up right now, so it would take me like two minutes to call up AOL again and have to reconnect. But, you know, it was worth it because, it just wasn't fair man... I am so ashamed that I did that. I can't believe it. And it was really funny because I would join games...
And... I had nicknames that were stolen from the Fallout series. I was... So, my brother and I made a clan, our clan was Tang, right? Tang? You know, "Oh! It means something fresh!" So, I was Tang Kamakazi, which is again a name from Fallout, or Tang Finesse. Because again, if you ranked up too many losses on one of these accounts, you gotta create a new one that represents your actual skill. And I would have these records that looked like 10 wins, and 3 losses, and 20 disconnects. And, and I litteraly, didn't get that that was bad, right?. I would join these games and I would be like "Hey what's up guys?" You know, ready to chat before a game of Starcraft.
And they would go "Dude, do you disc?" And of course they mean "Do you disconnect?" But I didn't make the connection. And I was like "Of course, I have a Starcraft disc... How else do you think I'm playing, idiot?" And I was like, nudging my brother, like "Uh Uh". And he was like "Dude, you got him!" Ooh. Oh man, I was such a nerd. But... eventually I moved away from these infinity money maps. And I began playing 1v1. Because even thought everyone was God awful and only played with one hand, only played with the mouse...
That was normal, right? That isn't considered newbie as it is now, that was, like, the norm. So I said "Who are these garbage allies that I, the seventh grade, Tang Kamakazi, has to put up with? you know. I'm gonna go play 1 vs 1 games where I can actually get the good feel for it". So I only played 1v1s on the Small Divide. And I'm sure some of you have heard the stories if you've watched the ZOTAC Cup cast I did. But I would only play on Small Divide, which is like a 64 by 64 map, that you both start on islands. And I would Mutalisks rush 100% of games. And by now, my alias had evolved. I was no longer Tang Kamakazi, I was Sean - hyphen - P! My name is Sean Plott... Getting clever right?
Before I even continue with this story of me, like, 1v1ing on the Small Divide, I just want to give you a picture of what I looked like at this age. So, I was... I was short, okay? At the start of the seventh grade, I was 5 ft 2. At the end of eighth grade, I was 6 ft 1. That hurt, that period. I just "Urrrgh!!" just like Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory
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style of growth, right? What was I talking about? Lost my train of thought... Oh yes! So I was really short, but my mom had seen how much my brother had grown so she bought me like big, extra large T-shirts. And I really liked sweat pants, but I didn't like that the extra large T-shirt would, like, hang over, so I tucked the shirt into my sweat pants. So there was just this, like, ring of collected stuff. And my sweat pants, I tucked them to my fluorescent purple snow boots with velcro. And I... So, like, I would actually play with the velcro snow boots at school, be like [Velcro Noises] and I just enjoyed doing that. Because I just had these nervous tweaks as a kid.
I also had these thick enormous glasses that I would wear, and I would use them to, like, melt insects and stuff, and I mean, these things were GIGANTIC. And my vision was really bad, so they shrunk my eyes, so I looked all silly and stuff. And then I moosed my hair. Not gel my hair, I would moose it! And I would moose it directly to the left, right? It was like a sheet of hair. And it would flick off in the day and my eyes were allergic to it, so I would always had these bloodshot red eyes, with like, tears coming down, and you know how I would socialized with people? I would walk up to them and I would say random facts that I was pretty sure they didn't know. Ow baby, yes! I sure know how to work with the ladies... I would go up and be like "Did you know that the tree sloth moves an average of 6 feet per second?" And... I'm surprised I didn't actually got beat up after school. Hell, I would beat me up, right? That was a good formative moment for me as a youthfull nerd.
But you know, going back to these games of Starcraft, I mean, this was like maybe 1-2 years later, after this state that I just described. I wasn't much better, right? I was still pretty similar. I liked to... I liked that idea that I was intellectual, hence why I bought the Protoss Starcraft box, because Protoss were clever. Terrans were scrappy and Zergs were bugs and... Uuh I still hate bugs! Uuh, uuh! I don't wanna get that. But I, but I was a mastermind, right? I only played 1v1s on the Small Divide. I got it! All I had to do was make a Pool at 12, I made the Extractor on 12 and then I would get a Lair once my Pool finished, and then I would get Hatch when I could. Which is pretty close to optimal, right? Except, I had to it on an island, because I couldn't wrap my head around the rushes...
And I actually explained to people at my school - again, keeping in line with the facts that you don't know - I would explain to people at my school why I was so good, right? I would go up to... I would litteraly go up to girls I had crushes on, and I'd be like "Hey! You ever heard of Starcraft?" And they'd be like "No!" Apparently they had very deep voices then... They would be like "No. No. Absolutely not." So I'd go "Alright, well... it's this strategy game, and I have an account Sean "dash" P, I'm 13-1 on it. I have another account Sean "tilde" P, right? Just using different... delimeters! I'm Sean "apostrophe" P, and I'm 15-2 on that. And look, look, look! You're probably saying 'How is it that you get so good at this game?' But I have discovered a trick, if you get air units really fast, you can win if he doesn't have anti-air." Alright, a lot of assumptions there.
And I actually did start losing a lot of games. I litteraly did this for, God, like 3-4 months. Like, only playing on the Small Divide, multiple games in a row, on my 56k modem connection, one hand only, and I... I would lose to people who would get air, and I would be like "How did he know I was getting air? Has to be cheating!" I was one of those guys! Oh God, how humiliating! "He has to be cheating! Because, if it's an island map, how does he know I'm gonna go air?"
So, eventually, I ended up finding out about cool places were good people... Hang out? Hanged out? Hung out? Where good people were! And these... these places were known then as Clan X17 on the East server. That is where the best of the best of the best hung out all day. If you wanted a game with good people, you tried to join, normally couldn't, normally full. 40 people! Uhhh! Channel's had it's maximal capacity. Couldn't join. I would sometimes sit in an empty channel, just trying to join X17, because if I got in there and 1v1'd someone, I knew that I would, eventually, be against the best of the best of the best of Starcraft players.
So eventually, I ended up getting in X17 and playing with all those people and I actually started using my keyboard. And this was around... when I was an eighth grader going into freshman year of highschool. I actually used the keyboard now, no hotkeys! I didn't use, like, Control-1, Control-3... I used S-H, to help that mass Hydralisks strategy I was talking about earlier. I used... I didn't used S-M because, man, "M" sure is really far across the keyboard. Pff, I'm not gonna have any of that. Happily just stuck with S-H, and S-Z, and S-D,
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because, you know, I was pretty set on Zerg at that point in time.
And, now, I'm actually starting to get to where the real 1v1 players are. You know, players like FirstTsunami, if you guys remember this. Rekrul existed back then, except he played under the name 88lurker. iNcontroL existed back then. There were strong players, like Pillars... God, where are some other names? Agent911... Jolly, who were some other good players. Oh God, there was one I... it's on the tip of my tongue. Who was that player? BlackishRed! That's right! BlackishRed!
The first ever big tournament my brother and I tried to qualify for was the World Cyber Games Challenge, not the first World Cyber Games that happened in 2001, but like the 1999-2001, when like the KBK tournament were running, when players like... GG99Slayer and ElkY were very, very strong foreigners. And... I remember my brother was invited to the Blackish clan. He was BlackishGold, he got really far in the tournament, and he lost, and he was like horribly upset and everything. And it's so funny to think about the way that strategies worked back then. You know, I was...
By the way, I just want to briefly interject and note that my camera seems to be doing weird things to the colors. So I'm actually going to... see if I can adjust this. Okay. Seems like it'll be a little more stable now. Sinceres apologies. But like, okay, so these... these were the strategies that we faced back then. Here was a standard strategy in Zerg versus Terran. I 9-Pool you, and I build a Hatchery in your base, and I Sunken push you! Because, think about it... Terran only has marines then, and noone is gonna check their ramp. No! No, no! You have to get a force and then move to secure your ramp. And, of course, everyone is now playing Lost Temple around these days.
So... You know, you do this a lot, where's some other, like, weird, nutty strategies... like one base Corsair-Reaver against Zerg was unstoppable. Nick and I improved it to one-base Reaver-Scout. Because, the Scout does so much more damage than the Corsair, why would you make anything but a Scout? So we did Scout-Corsair a lot. This is the time where my alias was SleepingDrone, if any of you were familiar with this.
And after a while, Nick and I actually started to get decently okay, compared to other people at the time. I mean, my strategies were still like, one-Hatch Lurker versus Terran, which, by the way, was standard, and... I think it's important to stop and to note how my mind sets were working at this stage. Because players still experience this all the time as they, you know, join a Starcraft community. So think about my Mutalisks thing, that was my trick! I just had a trick! And when someone was able to defeat my trick, I just got pissed and would try it again, and be like "Oww, I still hope it's working..." And as I branched out to 'more diverse' strategies, I would go "Pff! I used to Mutalisk rush, but now, I know better" I still didn't ever deviate from that trick methodology.
My question was always "What is the right strategy in this spot?" And I would abandon everything else, that I had. The plan was gone, nothing... Just like, "Hum, what do I think he would not expect now?" So for instance, I just started out going... this Mutalisk rush, but then I expanded to things like: Lurker-drop people. I would one-Hatch Lurker rush and you had just enough gas to get the... the... Transport Upgrade for Overlords and two Lurkers, and you lift them up and float them into his base and runs straight to his mineral line. That was my whole strategy. What else did I have? I had in Terran versus Terran: building a Factory and floating it into his base without him expecting and makings Vultures to kill him. I would Dark Templar rush. I would just do every sort of weird rush, gimmicky thing imaginable, and I thought that that made me a good player, 'cause doing these wildly different things.
And I eventually slowly gravitated towards 9-Pooling every single game in every single match-up. 9-Pooling with Speed. And, you know, that sound gimmicky, but what I was finding with it, is that I could have a next step in the play. I had follow-ups, I was able to get Mutalisks really fast, I could expand, I could snipe Probes, I could distract him and all this stuff. And, I remember for the... for the World Cyber Games, like the first one in 2001, I actually got to put all of this to use, right? I had been practicing in Clan X17, where the best of the best hang out. And I... I worked on this 9-Pool strategy, I even sometimes logged-on to this scary Europe server, to some channel whose name I can't remember anymore. You just had to somehow know that these channels existed. And what I would do is...
When the 2001 World Cyber Games was announced, they had this online tournament brackets system, and the top 3 of the entire qualifier would be flown out to Los Angeles, to compete in the finals. And once again, remember that I live in Kansas. And... other than that,
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anyone who wanted to participate in the qualifying finals could. All you had to do was show up. But, you could get these tickets out. So Nick and I trained, and trained for this. And I remember I played three games. I had to go to my friend's house, because... Nick and I didn't have two working computers. We had like one and a half working computers. It was pretty much that laptop that I mentionned earlier, and another times, you know my... my... our main computer just sort of bit the dust.
So I had to drive to a friend's house and I remember I had 3 Protosses in a row. I, I... The first player, I can't even remember his name but I 9-Pooled him and just won straight up with a 9-Pool. The second player I played was actually BlueWolf, who was one of those names that stuck around in the Starcraft, er... in the competitive RTS scene for ages. I mean, he's been in like in Dawn of War, and like Age of Empires and all this stuff and now, he's been seen in Starcraft II. But I remember I beat BlueWolf with my 9-Pool and I was feeling really good. And then I had to play against Jolly, who's one of those players that, if you go to the BattleNet... old tournament write-ups, he's there! In those starting tournaments that had like XDSGrrr, and BeeBladeLeader[?], these legend names. He was in some of those tournaments and I had to play him.
And I remember, I just was so focused with my little 9-Pool, my stupid little gimmick, and I microed around his base and I even counted, I killed... I killed like 16 Probes with the initial 9-Pool... and of course I kept these Lings alive in his base forever. And then I got Mutalisks and killed another 12-13 Probes, just darting in and out. And then, when I did my final push, I rushed all my Lurkers to his expo and I killed 25 Probes in one shot. I litteraly won by harassing him to death, and I felt so clever, and I qualified for the second day of play. And of course I played against a guy named Wizard who was really good and just demolished me. It wasn't even close. But, you know. It... it was just a really good experience for me to... to... you know, get that excitement, you know? Get that adrenaline of "Oh my God!" I had a strategy, I executed it, and it worked. It wasn't well developped at all, it was just "Uuuh, I hope I get up his ramp, because if I don't... Ohh, I guess I lost, and I guess I'll have to find another opponent".
But I started doing something, at that point in time, that has always stuck with me, as one of like the center pieces of my mind set, which is: there is a player named JelloOne, and there was a Jello Clan who had players like JelloPud as well. And the Jello Clan were ultra notorious hackers, oh my God! Did they ever hack at times! Some of them are probably still around, hacking as well. But they started this sort of like... now, you know, you see this all the time, but it was like... new era trolling. Where, you know, they would blatantly hack, you know, like: you would move a dropship along the edge of the map and they would just have no Observers, take 12 Dragoons, wander right over there, kill it, and then moved back. You would be like "How did you see it?" He's like "I thought it was coming" You know, just like always, never ever saying to anyone that they hacked, just always be like "No dude! I'm totally innocent here!", you know.
And, back then, if you maphacked, I mean, as you're hearing with me describing these strategies, 9-Pool to Hatch rush in your base, if you have a maphack where you can see what someone is doing, you get an unbelievable advantage. It's obviously gonna be the biggest help in the world. But I remember, I played against him, and I mean, this is a little bit my gullibility then. I remember saying "Well, you know what? If he says he's not hacking, then I'm just gonna believe that he's not hacking." And... we ended up just playing a lot of games together. Just a ton, a ton, a ton of games. And even though he did a ton of stuff that was really suspicious, I still wanted to beat him. Because I was really competitive, you know? I've been playing all these other games with my brother competitively. I liked competing with someone, as a friend. Why not do it with this JelloOne player?
And that has been so helpful to me, the idea that a good strategy and solid play, doesn't revolve around tricks. It doesn't revolve around surprises, it doesn't revolve around having hidden information. It revolves around very solid, strong timing, and crisp execution. And that was such a valuable lesson, that I couldn't try to sneak a little drop in there. My gimmick of sneaking the Overlord with Lurkers into his base never worked! I had to just have more units and I had to have better timing. And... I wasn't able to go... So, right now, I was a... Oh my God, I haven't even finish the story!
Yes, so this is, I'm, I'm a sophomore in high school, it's 2001, and I don't qualify and I'm all bummed out, but my mom... I want to just spend a little more time talking about her... in this, because having a supportive family, having a Starcraft family, has been instrumental to like, everything. My... my mom saw how bummed out Nick and I were, she'd heard us talk about Boxer, she had seen that this Starcraft game wasn't just another game that we bought and played for a month, and then never played again. We were still chattering about it for years. She said "You know what? We don't have much money,
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but we're gonna get these tickets, we're gonna fly out to Los Angeles and you're gonna play into this tournament." Which was just like so nice, to have like, my mom be, like, that supportive. And... the problem is that we show up and we're the two kids whose mom came with us. Oh God! Oh! How revolting to be cool at that age, to be, you know? Have your mom be the chauffeur, you know, the chaperone for the event. But you know, she was really polite, she didn't try to like step in, be like, you know "I'm, I'm..." Nick was know as Tasteless then, I was still SleepingDrone. She's like, you know, "I'm SleepingDrone and Tasteless' mom" No! She was very low key and went off, and you know, just like read a book.
And I remember Nick got eliminated first round. He got knocked to the losers bracket first round and, you know, he advanced four at once and then he lost then, and it was just "Arrr", it was just so painful. 'Cause I remember, in his first game, he was playing against someone whose name I can't remember anymore. He built like 4-5 Creep Colonies and had an Overlord outside the guy's base, so he would morph them into Sunkens if the guy ever moved out. But Nick wasn't watching the minimap at that exact instant, so the guy just got to his base, with like five Creep Colonies, so he ended up losing. But I was like in a bracket with, I wouldn't call it easy people, but I would call it people who I 9-Pooled... 9-Pooled everyone right? I 9-Pooled 7 straight matches, until somehow... I'm getting pretty deep into this tournament.
And there were lot of famous players there. Maynard was there, he was, you know, the best American player at the time. Whear was there, Wizard was there, BlueWolf was there, Fr0z was there. That was his first tournament appearance. Really strong Protoss player named Requiem was there. I think I said Dream was there as well, Dream was a Zerg player who was like, really into the game. You know, he played on the Game I server, with the Koreans, you know, and there was this epic series between Requiem, who was completely unknown, and Dream. And I mean, like, it was... it was first this like 20 minutes game, but then everyone's else tournament games finished, so they were the ones clogging up the brackets, right? So everyone just crowded around them and watched their games. So they played this 45 minutes game on Lost Temple where Dream builds a Hatchery outside Requiem's base. Now you guys have seen this on Medusa games, you know, that Great has played and that sort of stuff, but, back then "HOLY SHIT! He really does play on the Korean server! Look at this ingenuity!", right? He was like building a ton of Sunken Colonies and getting mass Zerglings, oh my God, and Requiem is like getting 10 Shuttles and, like, trying to expand everywhere. And they played this dramatic game that had Stasis and Storms, and Maelstrom, and Guardians, and Defilers, and every single unit you could imagine, and, and Dream loses, this unknown kid Requiem wins.
And then they play the next game and they get 12 vs 3 on Lost Temple, which, as you know, you hate 12 vs 3, if you're a Zerg player. So Dream was the Zerg, he was at the 3 o'clock position. Requiem brings two Probes early on to harass, kills a Drone and Dream forgets his first Overlord, because he's trying to deal with this harrassment. So there's just this, like, huge upset, and everyone's like "OH MY GOD!", getting really excited because, I knew I would lose to Dream if I played him. But my Zerg versus Protoss was my strong match-up, 'cause I knew how to do a 9-Pool. So, I ended up playing against this Requiem guy and I actually won, and I was like totaly freaking out and everything. And then I had to play against Maynard, but we had to wait a day to play it.
And the winner of that match was in the semi-finals. The winner of the game between me and Maynard was going to the WCG grand finals in Korea. And... I, I played against him, and I was so nervous, and my mom was trying to figure out, you know, in between "Well if you do end up winning and we end up going to... We end up going to Korea, I want, I want to fly out to this, I want, I think, you know, go out as a family" And, I just batched the first game and I lost. And the second game I won with Hold Position Lurkers, in like two minutes, and then I lost the third game, and I was "Uuh!" and then I went to the Losers Bracket and was eventually eliminated. And, you know, I was really bummed out and sad, but, you know, I actually got to tell people that I went to a Starcraft tournament.
So that, you know, story was peharps a little bit longer, but it was cool. I got to meet all these people, who were just names. I actually got to see the faces of people. I mean, nowadays, we have like Facebook and, and people are just happy to like, send each other photos around on Skype and all this stuff, these forums, but there was just no way to actually meet the people who you played with. And I actually got the chance to do that. And Fr0z blew everyone's mind then. Fr0z, who, later I became pretty good friends with... At that tournament, this is in 2001, when people went back and looked to those replays, Fr0z had 300 actions per minute. No one could believe how quickly Fr0z played. And like, the second highest was like, 140 or something. I mean, Fr0z was mind-numbingly fast
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and crushed everyone at that tournament and it was not close. Now it was cool to see, someone who was just, like, so good.
So WCG 2002 comes along, Nick and I can't go 'cause the qualifiers, you know, were spread around the country, and nowhere near Kansas, 'cause there wasn't exactly the buzzling E-sports community in Kansas, right? So we waited 'till... we waited 'till like 2003 before we were actually able to, you know, participate in any more, any more tournaments. Oh man, is that the year? Yeah, I'm actually checking my notes to make sure I'm right, so I don't forget anything.
But, you know, throughout this whole period, I was still the guy who played Starcraft. And, you know, back then in those early highschool days, there was still a lot of tension in the family. Because, as you can tell, Nick and I are sort of, you know, talkative, big personnalities. We really liked to, you know, have our own space, and be independent. And it was really hard because we lived... we had to share a room together. And we, you know, we argued a lot, 'cause we still had one computer. So there was that whole debate and, you know, mom, as supportive as she was, there we were playing this one game all the time and that was so weird back then, so there was just this whole family tension, but I was still known as that, and I was still into it.
And I remember even, like, dating girls in high school and telling them I played Starcraft, and trying to explain it to them. Because, I just was so excited about it. I just thought it was so cool, that I was playing this game. It really pissed me off this one girl I dated, I explained to her "GG", that you say "Good Game", and she would type it to me on AIM, but she would do "g.g." I'm like "This is not how you abbreviate it, it's "GG", just this thing". So she would like do it to, like, poke fun at me. Uuuh. I'm so glad, so glad that ended. Clearly, she doesn't have respect for the important things in life.
So... 2003 was actually where, where cool stuff started to happen, right? Where, where Nick and I... Where WCG was still going stronger than some other major tournaments. For WCG 2003, there were actually 20 qualifier locations across the entire United States. And the winner of the qualification process would advance to the final AND win a pimped out gaming computer, right? The sickest gaming computer you could think off that had like XP and it, like, it glowed! It was awesome, it was a sick deal. You even got, like, travel stipends to fly out. No, actually I think they just straight up paid for your ticket. That tournament was organized by Joe Moss.
And I'm gonna say that name, because if you're listening Joe Moss, you are the man! That tournament was awesome! But anyways, so my brother and I, we had to drive to Saint Louis. But we don't own a car in the family. I mean, my mom owns a car but she's like "I still need it. So you can't exactly drive to Saint Louis with it". So, our friend Dane, who is very famous, who, I was really good friend with Dane as well. For any of you who don't know Dane, please watch Day[9] Daily number 50 and number 65 for some epic 2v2v2v2 BGH action. God, Dane is hilarious. But anyways... So we convinced him to drive us out to Saint Louis... Oh no! It wasn't that time. Okay. No, no! This is what happened.
So, the qualifica... the qualifier for Saint Louis happened in two phases. You showed up to the first phase, and if you get top 8, you qualified for the final. And then you'd have to drive back out to the final and the winner of the final goes to the, you know, to the national tournament finals. So we didn't have a ride. So what did we do? We thought of everyone at our school who owned a car. And we found about this guy named Clint who we were friends with at the time. We tried to convince him to like, go out to this tournament, like "Yeah man, come on, let's like go out there". And we just conviced him "Yeah man, just 4-Pool all your games, you'll be fine, you'll easily qualify. I mean, not that many people will show up!".
So we had to like, drive out there and it's like a 4 hour drive from our house, and, like, we got pulled over by the cops because we tried to, like, exit at this one thing and then they pulled us over. They like, opened up the trunk, and noticed there was just computer equipment in there, like mice and keyboards. We're like "No, no, we're going to a video game tournament!". He's like "It smells like pot in here!" And we're like "No, we're ACTUALLY just going to a video game tournament. We're nerds. We don't do any of that. We only wanna play video games".
So we'd like get there and like, our hotel got cancelled, so we like, tried to sneak into like a hotel room but we got caught and they were really nice. My brother was really tactful, he was like "Look, we're just here for a video games tournament. We've been driving all night. We're really tired. Can we please sleep?" And they're like "Video games tournament?" and then we got to spend a really long time explaining that to them. But finally, we end up, you know, getting there for the tournament. And Clint 4-Pools everyone but screws up and loses.
So of the nine people that show up, and the top 8 qualified, Clint gets 9th. Alright? He really didn't even play Starcraft but he was pissed, man. And on the car ride home, he just blasted Insane Clown Posse for 4 hours. And we were like "Clint, can you please turn down the Insane Clown Posse, so I don't lose my mind", right?
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And he's like "Dude, look, I drove all the way out here, I just wanted to get top 8 in this tournament and I just want to listen to some of my music. I didn't have a good trip, man. I got knocked out of the tournament". We were like "You don't even play this game, man! We were just hoping you'd have a good time!" So we had to endure that but, eventually, we went back.
Since only one could qualify, I had to knock my brother out of that tournament, so I got first for there. And, then, I flew out. And that's one of the worst things that has just been in like, my life of Starcraft. Just... I hate that whenever there's a qualifier, my brother and I both have to go there and then there's just like one spot. And only one of us can go. 'Cause, man they didn't happen a lot early on, like with the WCGC stuff, the World Cyber Games Challenge, that he had to be the one to take the spot, 'cause I... he would knock me out.
So. Moving on forward... 2003 was a really nice finals for me. I was a senior in highschool. I just qualified over the summer, I was really excited for it. I went in to school a week early. Even... This was starting to be pretty big in my life, the fact that I actually played Starcraft a lot. I mean, it was a bit past time, but even the teachers at school knew that I had like, had done this tournament in 2001.
And I went into the Dean's Office and I was like "I will be missing school for the first week 'cause I'm going to a video games tournament". He was like "No, you won't. I'm not letting you do that." And I was like "No, no, please! Can I, can I? I... really, this is really important!" He's like "No, totally not". And I'm still trying to work out the fact that I'm a little bit awkward and goofy, back then, so I couldn't articulate it, and I just remember that I left and that I was really bummed. I mean, you know, it's just... I was still this quiet, quieter person, I was just like "Owww" I was really bummed out and I called my mom and I was like "Man, mom, you know. They're not gonna let me do it."
And she's like "WHAT?!" She got like really pissed, she's like "THEY'RE WHAT?!" And I'm like "I mean... They just won't let me do it. They said they're not gonna let me do it. They just said it's a video game and they're not gonna let me, you know, get excused absence for a video game." And my mom said "Sean, this isn't just some game you're gonna go play! You're not gonna go play Mario Kart out in L.A. for a fun week! This is something that you work on! I'll take care of this!" First of all, my mom referenced Mario Kart, I didn't know she knew that shit! Cool! Mom! Alright! Right? So, she... she's gone for like 15 minutes. I called her at work to let her know, but she came back 15 minutes later, when she gets back she's like "You're going Sean! It's all taken care of, don't worry about it, I took care of it!".
And I was like "Oookay!" I was like "Alright man!" And that... It's things like that, that just, like, "Wow... Thank you mom!", right? And I mean, part of what was so helpful about like, actually getting to that stage is just that, I treated Starcraft not as this goofy hobby that, you know, was just some way that I would pass the time and not really mention. I thought it was so cool that I played it and I would just always go down to my mom, and just be like "Mom, it is so cool that I do this" And I would, like, try to convince her that it was cool.
And that has been, you know, in addition to, you know, talking to my brother under the escalator as kids over at the mall, that act of making my mom understand, because I was just so excited, I wanted to share my excitement with her. The act of trying to articulate it, in some clear fashion, has been so helpful for me, because, you know, a lot of the ways I learned to explain it to my mom back then, I've used throughout my whole life. When trying to, you know, make people get right to the point, right away with Starcraft. 2003 didn't... the tournament didn't go so well. I got knocked out. I would tell you the whole tournament experience but it's very sad and I've been going for 43 minutes now, and I'm at 2003, so I still have 7 years to go.
But I got eliminated by a guy named Pyrrhus[?], who, noone really knew of. I played like an idiot, and I was like, all embarrassed about it, but I got to meet a lot of cool people there as usual. And the best part of going to any tournament is just that you get to see the people you've been chatting with.
So... 2004 rolls along. This was like when I was a freshman in college. It's actually the summer in between the qualifiers and, and... It was weird because... it was around this time that I actually stuck with the name Day[9]. I wanted a cool one word name. 'Cause there were players like Reach, Yellow, Boxer! And it was like "A Word"! And I was like "I'm gonna do that... Day!!!" Right? So, that was taken, so I had to think of something cool, and I always thought that the 9 Clan was cool, 9Everlast, 9Kane, and since it wasn't really around, I was like "I guess I'll be 9" So I just pust Day[9] there in brackets. Just like, yeah!
And Somehow, this guy named Paul got our AIM, and he'd just like... And by our, I mean my brother's AIM and my AIM and he would just like message us constantly, leading up to this WCG 2004. And it was weird because he would just, like, lie... like incessantly. He would just make up all these stories about what he'd done in Starcraft and about all this stuff, that like, like... For me, he told me he was, like
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a 22 years old 250 pounds ripped football player, who had a football scholarship. And then he told my brother that, he was like, you know, a 16 years old highschool student who was into debate. Just like, completely non-sensical. And what was so funny is that like, when we drove up to the WCG 2004 qualifiers, which were in Chicago... he wanted to be picked up because he, like, wanted to go to this tournament as well, right?
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Edit1.: @escruting Please, at the [1:20:00] PT-BR, first paragraph, where it says "mas o tom se perde facilmente que algumas vezes", change to "mas o tom se perde tão facilmente que algumas vezes"
Woah... That's quite the update escruiting. Do you know if their transcripts will include timings as well, or are they leaving that one up to the community? Regardless, I wonder where that puts us, hah.
Great job revising as always Tschis (is English your native tongue or what?).
In regards to the project as a whole: This is a pretty slow process, hah, man I have uber respect for people who do this stuff. I still need to sit down and transcribe the last 25 minutes, and then start learning about timing. The guys over at Aegisub have written a nice little guide for that though, so we'll see how it goes :D
On February 23 2011 22:00 Rampager wrote: Woah... That's quite the update escruiting. Do you know if their transcripts will include timings as well, or are they leaving that one up to the community? Regardless, I wonder where that puts us, hah.
Great job revising as always Tschis (is English your native tongue or what?).
In regards to the project as a whole: This is a pretty slow process, hah, man I have uber respect for people who do this stuff. I still need to sit down and transcribe the last 25 minutes, and then start learning about timing. The guys over at Aegisub have written a nice little guide for that though, so we'll see how it goes :D
Their transcripts will not include timings, they will provide us with the english transcript, we will make sure its 100% correct and then they will do the timing process. When the english translation is done we will translate it to whatever language we want( or can). We will do all of this using google docs, but only a group of chosen people will have access and rights to edit, i'm sure you will be in that list, and the other users that are actively involved too.
On February 23 2011 22:00 Rampager wrote: Woah... That's quite the update escruiting. Do you know if their transcripts will include timings as well, or are they leaving that one up to the community? Regardless, I wonder where that puts us, hah.
Great job revising as always Tschis (is English your native tongue or what?).
In regards to the project as a whole: This is a pretty slow process, hah, man I have uber respect for people who do this stuff. I still need to sit down and transcribe the last 25 minutes, and then start learning about timing. The guys over at Aegisub have written a nice little guide for that though, so we'll see how it goes :D
Their transcripts will not include timings, they will provide us with the english transcript, we will make sure its 100% correct and then they will do the timing process. When the english translation is done we will translate it to whatever language we want( or can). We will do all of this using google docs, but only a group of chosen people will have access and rights to edit, i'm sure you will be in that list, and the other users that are actively involved too.
@Rampager
Thanks! But you're doing a harder job than mine =P
And nope, English is not my native language, I'm Brazilian. I learned English by myself while gaming, listening to music and watching movies.
@escruting So they'll give us a transcription, we revise, then we give it back to them, they make the timmings, give it back to us so we can translate with the timings?
Great innitiative. I'd love to help out for this - Please let me know in this thread if I could help out with Dutch translations. If there's interest, I'll send my info to you.
On February 24 2011 02:57 AtrumX wrote: Why not contact fansubbing groups? They're the people that sub new anime releases. They would be much faster.
I was thinking about that, for the timmings. I don't think they'd be able to do a 100% transcription of the dailies because they would lack the knowledge of in game expressions.
But they'd certainly be helpful. Maybe I'll try to contact some and see how it goes.
On February 23 2011 22:00 Rampager wrote: Woah... That's quite the update escruiting. Do you know if their transcripts will include timings as well, or are they leaving that one up to the community? Regardless, I wonder where that puts us, hah.
Great job revising as always Tschis (is English your native tongue or what?).
In regards to the project as a whole: This is a pretty slow process, hah, man I have uber respect for people who do this stuff. I still need to sit down and transcribe the last 25 minutes, and then start learning about timing. The guys over at Aegisub have written a nice little guide for that though, so we'll see how it goes :D
Their transcripts will not include timings, they will provide us with the english transcript, we will make sure its 100% correct and then they will do the timing process. When the english translation is done we will translate it to whatever language we want( or can). We will do all of this using google docs, but only a group of chosen people will have access and rights to edit, i'm sure you will be in that list, and the other users that are actively involved too.
@Rampager
Thanks! But you're doing a harder job than mine =P
And nope, English is not my native language, I'm Brazilian. I learned English by myself while gaming, listening to music and watching movies.
@escruting So they'll give us a transcription, we revise, then we give it back to them, they make the timmings, give it back to us so we can translate with the timings?
//tx
Yeah, that would be the way. They are not completely sure on how to do it yet, conversations with blip.tv are in progress.
When you guys finish the english transcription of the Daily #100 they will show it to blip.tv and then we will see....(not trying to put pressure on you guys , you are doing an amazing work).
Thanks!
On February 24 2011 01:48 Palandiell wrote: Great innitiative. I'd love to help out for this - Please let me know in this thread if I could help out with Dutch translations. If there's interest, I'll send my info to you.
Palandiell
Of course you can help, everybody can translate what they want.
If you can you can start translating, no hurrys. If you have some friends that could help you that would be great ( no users except you have offered translating to dutch yet).
EDIT:
OP updated with the revision of the first 45 minutes by Tschis, added the 1:10:00 to 1:20:00 fragment by Rampager and corrected the word "tão" of the PT-BR translation as Tschis pointed.
Hmm ok then i post this here, if you dont read my PM escruiting :D. I translated the first 7 and a half minutes of the Daily to German. I even have more at this point ( till around 15 minutes) but i need some time to review it.
well here it is German users just overlook the text please some parts where pretty difficult to translate but i gave my best and criticism is always good :D.
Hallo meine Damen und Herren. Heute ist der 13.te April 2010… und es ist Day[9] Daily Nummer 100. Seht wie meine Kamera sich ans Licht automatisch anpasst. Ich hab sie zurück an ihren alten Platz gestellt…Bei Daily 99 hab ich sie auf meinen Monitor gestellt aber hab einfach aus Gewohnheit weiter nach hier unten geschaut. Und ich bin sicher viele von euch kennen das Diablo 3 Poster. Und jetzt da ich eine HD-Kamera hab könnt ihr sogar das Starcraft 2 Poster sehen, das ist ziemlich genial. ..
Also heute… Heute ist ein unglaublich besonderes Day[9] Daily denn zu allererst, die Dailies ab jetzt sind dreistellig. Und dreistellig ist cool! Außerdem werden wir keine Analyse von einem Spiel heute machen: kein Spiel in keinster Weise. Es wird nur um mein Leben um und mit Starcraft gehen. Denn ich glaube Leute können gar nicht abschätzen wie sehr ein Spiel ein Leben beeinflussen kann[?]. Ich bin mit Starcraft aufgewachsen. Die Dinge, dich ich beim Spielen von Starcraft gelernt habe, haben mich zu der Person gemacht, die ich heute bin. Ich möchte den Leuten aus der Community eine Widmung geben, sagt einfach „Leute seid stolz darauf Starcraft Spieler zu sein“. Denn es gibt nichts Cooleres als auf das stolz zu sein dass man liebt. Und es war wirklich…es war nahezu richtig emotional, als ich heute durch die ganzen Erinnerungen gegangen bin, die ich durch Starcraft habe und ich versuche… sie zu zusammenfassen zu etwas, dass ansatzweise unterhaltend ist. Also, wie ihr bemerkt habt, habe ich hier Notizen gemacht, damit ich auch ja nichts auslasse.
So lasst uns über Starcraft reden. Lasst uns ganz am Anfang starten, als ich Starcraft das erste Mal gekauft habe. Ich kann mich immer noch daran erinnern. Ich bin in einer kleinen Stadt in Kansas aufgewachsen, Leawood. Das ist mitten im Nirgendwo. Aber es ist doch in Kansas? Ja es ist ein Teil von Kansas City aber trotzdem ich bin aus Leawood, Kansas, wo das Land flach ist und Evolution immer noch eine Theorie ist. Das sag ich immer wenn mich jemand auf meinen Heimatort anspricht. Wir lebten in einem tollen, kleinen Haus, das gleich neben einem Einkaufszentrum war zu dem Nick und Ich jeden Tag rübergehen könnten. Und natürlich war da ein Computerladen in dem wir all unsere Elektronikartikel gekauft haben. Und wir waren total aufgeregt für Starcraft, denn WIR spielten Warcraft 2 Baby… Ja wir sind wirklich Warcraft 2 Spieler! Und wie jedes Kind geht man zu seiner Mutter und sagt: „Mama! Mama!“ und du erzählst ihr all den genialen Blödsinn, der dir grad durch den Kopf geht. „ Mama, wusstest du dass in Warcraft 2 Katapulte weiter schießen können als Türme?“ Oh Baby Baby! Jetzt… Jetzt auf einmal kann ich nicht mehr gegen Türme verlieren. Ihr wisst schon, diese einfachen Sachen wie das grad. Wir waren diese normalen kleinen Anfänger, mein Bruder und ich…
Also mein Bruder Nick, der wahrscheinlich bekannter als Tasteless ist in der Starcraft Szene, aber in dieser Geschichte soll er Nick sein… Also mein Bruder Nick und ich, wir gingen rüber zum Einkaufszentrum und wir zahlten ungefähr 52,36 für unser erstes Exemplar von Starcraft. Und es war so lustig, denn der Typ hinter dem Tresen war auch so ein Riesennerd wie wir. Darum war er genauso aufgeregt für Starcraft wie wir. Daher wusste er den genauen Preis ohne nachschauen zu müssen. Ich glaube, das ist sehr typisches Zeichen für Nerdheit… Also Nick und ich kauften unser allererstes Exemplar und wir besaßen nur einen Computer in der Familie. Denn heutzutage sind wir reiche Prolls [?] und jeder hat seinen eigenen PC. Aber damals mussten wir uns die Zeit am PC aufteilen, also haben wir versucht uns vorzudrängeln, damit wir mehr Spielzeit hatten, oder zumindest mehr Rücksitzspielzeit. Ihr wisst schon: „Bau Zerglinge! Die sind genial! Glaub mir!”. Wir wussten nicht worüber wir redeten..
Also, ihr wisst ja, ich habe sehr viel Starcraft gespielt. Das war damals als ich in der, verdammt… ich muss in der fünften oder sechsten Klasse gewesen sein als ich Starcraft das erste Mal gekauft hab. Ich bin mir sicher dass ich in der 6ten Klasse war! Und… Und mit der Zeit, während ich immer mehr und mehr spielte, es, es ,es bekam immer mehr zu dem was ich tat: Ihr wisst schon als der Typ erkannt zu werden. Denn ich würde das Prisma Starcraft Strategieheft mit in die Schule bringen und würd es lesen. Ich war einfach, ähmm… Ich weiß welche Einheit gegen diese Einheit stark ist, laut Prisma, ihr wisst schon… „ Oh schaut her! Das ist der einfachste Weg die zweite Terranermission zu erledigen“, stimmts? Ich war derjenige, um den es sich in der 6ten Klasse gedreht hat! Ich hatte es! Hmm, und dann habe ich angefangen mit meinen, mit meinen großartigen Freunden Shawn und Charlie zu spielen. Und wir sind zu unseren Zuhauses gegangen und wir haben gespielt. Und das war meine erste, man kann es LAN-Erfahrung nennen. Ich hatte nie zuvor gegen einen Menschen gespielt. Ich meine, ich hab eigene Spiele gemacht, die normalerweise 2 bis 3 Tage dauerten bis diese beendet waren. Denn, wisst ihr, ich wollte sicher gehen, dass jede Einheit einen Namen hatte, Und falls sie unehrenhaft handelten wurden sie exekutiert. Und ich würde mit ihnen reden. Ihr wisst schon, so ungefähr: „Hmm. Oh ja. Ich muss sichergehen, dass Martin der Marin… ihr wisst schon, wir müssen ihm irgendetwas Besonderes geben, denn er hat schon 4 Gegner erledigt.” Wisst ihr, denn ich würde nur mit 3 bis 4 Einheiten gleichzeitig angreifen. Jedenfalls, Erstes Spiel jemals gegen echte Menschen. Und wir waren halt super schlecht und so. Und dann würd das Netzwerk ausfallen. Wir sind also zurück zu Einzelspieler Spielen natürlich auf der Karte Big Game Hunters. Denn das war unsere beliebteste Karte in der 7ten Klasse. Und… Oh verdammt, Brood War war damals schon draußen? Ich schätze mal dann haben wir auf der normalen Hunters Karte gespielt. Und, damit es auch fair ist, gegen den Computer haben wir nur eine Cheat benutzt. Das war die Regel, die wir aufgestellt haben. Nur einen. Man konnte machen, was man wollte, aber nur einen Cheat benutzen. Und es konnte nicht der Unverwundbarkeit Cheat sein. Man konnte einstellen, dass man die komplette Karte sieht, dass man die Sicht des Gegners sieht, dass man Geld bekommt. Aus einem unersichtlichen Grund, hab ich immer das Level 1 Upgrade für alle meine Einheiten genommen. Das ist ein Cheat den man einfach eingeben konnte. Ich war ungefähr so: „ Yeah, ich will, dass meine Arbeiter mit 1-1-1 starten. Das wird genial.“ So wisst ihr
Die Sache hat sich von da an zu Entwickeln begonnen und bald darauf haben mein Bruder und ich herausgefunden wie man 2 Computer miteinander verbinden konnte. Denn wir hatten diesen einen wirklich schlechten, alten PC und wir hatten auch noch diesen Netzwerk Laptop. Und wir würden dann halt einfach gegeneinander spielen. Für Stunden! Hm, aber ich denke, dass vielleicht wichtigste über unsere Spielzeit war… war das… wir hatten eine Sperrstunde. Wir durften bis 15 Uhr nicht am PC spielen. Denn eines Tages, Nick und ich spielten gerade Syndicate Wars! Erinnert ihr Leute euch an das Spiel? Unglaublich, das Spiel ist so Oldschool… Öffnet euren Web Browser und schaut nach Syndicate Wars, denn ich schwöre zu Gott, ich dachte das Spiel hatte die beste Grafik von allem was bis dato existiert hat, stimmts? Und ihr werdet nachschauen und es hat diese 320x240 Grafik und alles ist verpixelt. Man dreht den Bildschirm und der PC stürzt dadurch fast ab, weil es zu schwer zu verarbeiten für ihn ist. Hmm. Aber eines Tages, Nick und Ich stritten uns. Wir beide wollten wirklich, ihr wisst schon, spielen. Und unsere Mama war ungefähr so: „Da schaut her! Ihr streitet euch über den Computer. Ihr solltet eh nicht am Computer sein. Keine Video Spiele bis 15 Uhr!”. Und wir waren “Ohh, warum streiten wir uns darum? Hätten wir das nur nie getan…“ Meine Mutter hat uns immer um ungefähr 8, 9 Uhr aufgeweckt morgens, in den Sommerferien, damit wir Hausarbeiten machen, also Rasen mähen usw. Denn In Kansas hat man tatsächlich noch Rasen. In LA, es ist nahezu alles Beton, wisst ihr Betonwüste, und verdammt hoho Benzinpreise. Also nicht viel Mähen, das hier erledigt werden müsste. Und darum hatten wir nicht Zeit zum richtigen Spielen. Wir wären zwar wach, und wir hätten einfach nichts zu tun! Und es ist irgendwie komisch denn unsere Mutter war eine alleinerziehende arbeitende Mutter, die ihr eigenes Geschäft führt. Also war sie gar nicht in der Lage zu schauen, ob wir beide nicht schon vor 15 Uhr am Computer spielten, aber Nick und ich, ehrenhafte Gentleman wie wir immer noch sind, haben nie vor 15 Uhr am Computer gespielt… Und was wir stattdessen gemacht haben ist, dass wir zum Einkaufszentrum gegangen sind, jeden Tag. Das gleiche Einkaufszentrum in dem wir Star… Starcraft kauften. Wir schauten uns all die Spiele an. Wir hatten nicht wirklich viel Geld also würden wir das Cover der Spiele nur anschauen und nur lesen was auf den Rückseiten geschrieben stand. Und manchmal hatten wir genug Geld um uns ein Orangenhühnchen zu kaufen und wir setzten uns mit unserem Orangenhühnchen von der Essensausgabe hinter den Aufzug, und wir redeten einfach über Starcraft und wir würden einfach über Video Spiele reden.
Nice, another translation starting to grow! Keep up the good work :}
May I suggest you put some timmings in there?
Like at every 5 minutes mark [0:05:00] and then [0:10:00] etc... so it would be easier to follow it up, for those who understand and also for those who don't, but are checking it =P
You can check some of the English version to see what I mean
Hallo meine Damen und Herren. Heute ist der 13.te April 2010… und es ist Day[9] Daily Nummer 100. Seht wie meine Kamera sich ans Licht automatisch anpasst. Ich hab sie zurück an ihren alten Platz gestellt…Bei Daily 99 hab ich sie auf meinen Monitor gestellt aber hab einfach aus Gewohnheit weiter nach hier unten geschaut. Und ich bin sicher viele von euch kennen das Diablo 3 Poster. Und jetzt da ich eine HD-Kamera hab könnt ihr sogar das Starcraft 2 Poster sehen, das ist ziemlich genial. ..
Also heute… Heute ist ein unglaublich besonderes Day[9] Daily denn zu allererst, die Dailies ab jetzt sind dreistellig. Und dreistellig ist cool! Außerdem werden wir keine Analyse von einem Spiel heute machen: kein Spiel in keinster Weise. Es wird nur um mein Leben um und mit Starcraft gehen. Denn ich glaube Leute können gar nicht abschätzen wie sehr ein Spiel ein Leben beeinflussen kann[?]. Ich bin mit Starcraft aufgewachsen. Die Dinge, dich ich beim Spielen von Starcraft gelernt habe, haben mich zu der Person gemacht, die ich heute bin. Ich möchte den Leuten aus der Community eine Widmung geben, sagt einfach „Leute seid stolz darauf Starcraft Spieler zu sein“. Denn es gibt nichts Cooleres als auf das stolz zu sein dass man liebt. Und es war wirklich…es war nahezu richtig emotional, als ich heute durch die ganzen Erinnerungen gegangen bin, die ich durch Starcraft habe und ich versuche… sie zu zusammenfassen zu etwas, dass ansatzweise unterhaltend ist. Also, wie ihr bemerkt habt, habe ich hier Notizen gemacht, damit ich auch ja nichts auslasse.
So lasst uns über Starcraft reden. Lasst uns ganz am Anfang starten, als ich Starcraft das erste Mal gekauft habe. Ich kann mich immer noch daran erinnern. Ich bin in einer kleinen Stadt in Kansas aufgewachsen, Leawood. Das ist mitten im Nirgendwo. Aber es ist doch in Kansas? Ja es ist ein Teil von Kansas City aber trotzdem ich bin aus Leawood, Kansas, wo das Land flach ist und Evolution immer noch eine Theorie ist. Das sag ich immer wenn mich jemand auf meinen Heimatort anspricht. Wir lebten in einem tollen, kleinen Haus, das gleich neben einem Einkaufszentrum war zu dem Nick und Ich jeden Tag rübergehen könnten. Und natürlich war da ein Computerladen in dem wir all unsere Elektronikartikel gekauft haben. Und wir waren total aufgeregt für Starcraft, denn WIR spielten Warcraft 2 Baby… Ja wir sind wirklich Warcraft 2 Spieler! Und wie jedes Kind geht man zu seiner Mutter und sagt: „Mama! Mama!“ und du erzählst ihr all den genialen Blödsinn, der dir grad durch den Kopf geht. „ Mama, wusstest du dass in Warcraft 2 Katapulte weiter schießen können als Türme?“ Oh Baby Baby! Jetzt… Jetzt auf einmal kann ich nicht mehr gegen Türme verlieren. Ihr wisst schon, diese einfachen Sachen wie das grad. Wir waren diese normalen kleinen Anfänger, mein Bruder und ich…
Also mein Bruder Nick, der wahrscheinlich bekannter als Tasteless ist in der Starcraft Szene, aber in dieser Geschichte soll er Nick sein… Also mein Bruder Nick und ich, wir gingen rüber zum Einkaufszentrum und wir zahlten ungefähr 52,36 für unser erstes Exemplar von Starcraft. Und es war so lustig, denn der Typ hinter dem Tresen war auch so ein Riesennerd wie wir. Darum war er genauso aufgeregt für Starcraft wie wir. Daher wusste er den genauen Preis ohne nachschauen zu müssen. Ich glaube, das ist sehr typisches Zeichen für Nerdheit… Also Nick und ich kauften unser allererstes Exemplar und wir besaßen nur einen Computer in der Familie. Denn heutzutage sind wir reiche Prolls [?] und jeder hat seinen eigenen PC. Aber damals mussten wir uns die Zeit am PC aufteilen, also haben wir versucht uns vorzudrängeln, damit wir mehr Spielzeit hatten, oder zumindest mehr Rücksitzspielzeit. Ihr wisst schon: „Bau Zerglinge! Die sind genial! Glaub mir!”. Wir wussten nicht worüber wir redeten..
Also, ihr wisst ja, ich habe sehr viel Starcraft gespielt. Das war damals als ich in der, verdammt… ich muss in der fünften oder sechsten Klasse gewesen sein als ich Starcraft das erste Mal gekauft hab. Ich bin mir sicher dass ich in der 6ten Klasse war! Und… Und mit der Zeit, während ich immer mehr und mehr spielte, es, es ,es bekam immer mehr zu dem was ich tat: Ihr wisst schon als der Typ erkannt zu werden. Denn ich würde das Prisma Starcraft Strategieheft mit in die Schule bringen und würd es lesen. Ich war einfach, ähmm… Ich weiß welche Einheit gegen diese Einheit stark ist, laut Prisma, ihr wisst schon… „ Oh schaut her! Das ist der einfachste Weg die zweite Terranermission zu erledigen“, stimmts? Ich war derjenige, um den es sich in der 6ten Klasse gedreht hat! Ich hatte es! Hmm, und dann habe ich angefangen mit meinen, mit meinen großartigen Freunden Shawn und Charlie zu spielen. Und wir sind zu unseren Zuhauses gegangen und wir haben gespielt. Und das war meine erste, man kann es LAN-Erfahrung nennen. Ich hatte nie zuvor gegen einen Menschen gespielt. Ich meine, ich hab eigene Spiele gemacht, die normalerweise 2 bis 3 Tage dauerten bis diese beendet waren. Denn, wisst ihr, ich wollte sicher gehen, dass jede Einheit einen Namen hatte, Und falls sie unehrenhaft handelten wurden sie exekutiert. Und ich würde mit ihnen reden. Ihr wisst schon, so ungefähr: „Hmm. Oh ja. Ich muss sichergehen, dass Martin der Marin… ihr wisst schon, wir müssen ihm irgendetwas Besonderes geben, denn er hat schon 4 Gegner erledigt.” Wisst ihr, denn ich würde nur mit 3 bis 4 Einheiten gleichzeitig angreifen. Jedenfalls, Erstes Spiel jemals gegen echte Menschen. Und wir waren halt super schlecht und so. Und dann würd das Netzwerk ausfallen. Wir sind also zurück zu Einzelspieler Spielen natürlich auf der Karte Big Game Hunters. Denn das war unsere beliebteste Karte in der 7ten Klasse. Und… Oh verdammt, Brood War war damals schon draußen? Ich schätze mal dann haben wir auf der normalen Hunters
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Karte gespielt. Und, damit es auch fair ist, gegen den Computer haben wir nur eine Cheat benutzt. Das war die Regel, die wir aufgestellt haben. Nur einen. Man konnte machen, was man wollte, aber nur einen Cheat benutzen. Und es konnte nicht der Unverwundbarkeit Cheat sein. Man konnte einstellen, dass man die komplette Karte sieht, dass man die Sicht des Gegners sieht, dass man Geld bekommt. Aus einem unersichtlichen Grund, hab ich immer das Level 1 Upgrade für alle meine Einheiten genommen. Das ist ein Cheat den man einfach eingeben konnte. Ich war ungefähr so: „ Yeah, ich will, dass meine Arbeiter mit 1-1-1 starten. Das wird genial.“ So wisst ihr
Die Sache hat sich von da an zu Entwickeln begonnen und bald darauf haben mein Bruder und ich herausgefunden wie man 2 Computer miteinander verbinden konnte. Denn wir hatten diesen einen wirklich schlechten, alten PC und wir hatten auch noch diesen Netzwerk Laptop. Und wir würden dann halt einfach gegeneinander spielen. Für Stunden! Hm, aber ich denke, dass vielleicht wichtigste über unsere Spielzeit war… war das… wir hatten eine Sperrstunde. Wir durften bis 15 Uhr nicht am PC spielen. Denn eines Tages, Nick und ich spielten gerade Syndicate Wars! Erinnert ihr Leute euch an das Spiel? Unglaublich, das Spiel ist so Oldschool… Öffnet euren Web Browser und schaut nach Syndicate Wars, denn ich schwöre zu Gott, ich dachte das Spiel hatte die beste Grafik von allem was bis dato existiert hat, stimmts? Und ihr werdet nachschauen und es hat diese 320x240 Grafik und alles ist verpixelt. Man dreht den Bildschirm und der PC stürzt dadurch fast ab, weil es zu schwer zu verarbeiten für ihn ist. Hmm. Aber eines Tages, Nick und Ich stritten uns. Wir beide wollten wirklich, ihr wisst schon, spielen. Und unsere Mama war ungefähr so: „Da schaut her! Ihr streitet euch über den Computer. Ihr solltet eh nicht am Computer sein. Keine Video Spiele bis 15 Uhr!”. Und wir waren “Ohh, warum streiten wir uns darum? Hätten wir das nur nie getan…“ Meine Mutter hat uns immer um ungefähr 8, 9 Uhr aufgeweckt morgens, in den Sommerferien, damit wir Hausarbeiten machen, also Rasen mähen usw. Denn In Kansas hat man tatsächlich noch Rasen. In LA, es ist nahezu alles Beton, wisst ihr Betonwüste, und verdammt hoho Benzinpreise. Also nicht viel Mähen, das hier erledigt werden müsste. Und darum hatten wir nicht Zeit zum richtigen Spielen. Wir wären zwar wach, und wir hätten einfach nichts zu tun! Und es ist irgendwie komisch denn unsere Mutter war eine alleinerziehende arbeitende Mutter, die ihr eigenes Geschäft führt. Also war sie gar nicht in der Lage zu schauen, ob wir beide nicht schon vor 15 Uhr am Computer spielten, aber Nick und ich, ehrenhafte Gentleman wie wir immer noch sind, haben nie vor 15 Uhr am Computer gespielt… Und was wir stattdessen gemacht haben ist, dass wir zum Einkaufszentrum gegangen sind, jeden Tag. Das gleiche Einkaufszentrum in dem wir Star… Starcraft kauften. Wir schauten uns all die Spiele an. Wir hatten nicht wirklich viel Geld also würden wir das Cover der Spiele nur anschauen und nur lesen was auf den Rückseiten geschrieben stand. Und manchmal hatten wir genug Geld um uns ein Orangenhühnchen zu kaufen und wir setzten uns mit unserem Orangenhühnchen von der Essensausgabe hinter den Aufzug, und wir redeten einfach über Starcraft und wir würden einfach über Video Spiele reden.
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Edit: Ok i got one question to all the non-English translators. How do you explain the thing with the discs at around 12:30, because probably in your language like in German you can`t just translate it, because it would make no sense. Can we make like a short text which explains the situation? Or something else? Need some Input kinda clueless here. :D
On February 24 2011 05:27 niTsEn wrote: Hmm ok then i post this here, if you dont read my PM escruiting :D. I translated the first 7 and a half minutes of the Daily to German. I even have more at this point ( till around 15 minutes) but i need some time to review it.
well here it is German users just overlook the text please some parts where pretty difficult to translate but i gave my best and criticism is always good :D.
Hallo meine Damen und Herren. Heute ist der 13.te April 2010… und es ist Day[9] Daily Nummer 100. Seht wie meine Kamera sich ans Licht automatisch anpasst. Ich hab sie zurück an ihren alten Platz gestellt…Bei Daily 99 hab ich sie auf meinen Monitor gestellt aber hab einfach aus Gewohnheit weiter nach hier unten geschaut. Und ich bin sicher viele von euch kennen das Diablo 3 Poster. Und jetzt da ich eine HD-Kamera hab könnt ihr sogar das Starcraft 2 Poster sehen, das ist ziemlich genial. ..
Also heute… Heute ist ein unglaublich besonderes Day[9] Daily denn zu allererst, die Dailies ab jetzt sind dreistellig. Und dreistellig ist cool! Außerdem werden wir keine Analyse von einem Spiel heute machen: kein Spiel in keinster Weise. Es wird nur um mein Leben um und mit Starcraft gehen. Denn ich glaube Leute können gar nicht abschätzen wie sehr ein Spiel ein Leben beeinflussen kann[?]. Ich bin mit Starcraft aufgewachsen. Die Dinge, dich ich beim Spielen von Starcraft gelernt habe, haben mich zu der Person gemacht, die ich heute bin. Ich möchte den Leuten aus der Community eine Widmung geben, sagt einfach „Leute seid stolz darauf Starcraft Spieler zu sein“. Denn es gibt nichts Cooleres als auf das stolz zu sein dass man liebt. Und es war wirklich…es war nahezu richtig emotional, als ich heute durch die ganzen Erinnerungen gegangen bin, die ich durch Starcraft habe und ich versuche… sie zu zusammenfassen zu etwas, dass ansatzweise unterhaltend ist. Also, wie ihr bemerkt habt, habe ich hier Notizen gemacht, damit ich auch ja nichts auslasse.
So lasst uns über Starcraft reden. Lasst uns ganz am Anfang starten, als ich Starcraft das erste Mal gekauft habe. Ich kann mich immer noch daran erinnern. Ich bin in einer kleinen Stadt in Kansas aufgewachsen, Leawood. Das ist mitten im Nirgendwo. Aber es ist doch in Kansas? Ja es ist ein Teil von Kansas City aber trotzdem ich bin aus Leawood, Kansas, wo das Land flach ist und Evolution immer noch eine Theorie ist. Das sag ich immer wenn mich jemand auf meinen Heimatort anspricht. Wir lebten in einem tollen, kleinen Haus, das gleich neben einem Einkaufszentrum war zu dem Nick und Ich jeden Tag rübergehen könnten. Und natürlich war da ein Computerladen in dem wir all unsere Elektronikartikel gekauft haben. Und wir waren total aufgeregt für Starcraft, denn WIR spielten Warcraft 2 Baby… Ja wir sind wirklich Warcraft 2 Spieler! Und wie jedes Kind geht man zu seiner Mutter und sagt: „Mama! Mama!“ und du erzählst ihr all den genialen Blödsinn, der dir grad durch den Kopf geht. „ Mama, wusstest du dass in Warcraft 2 Katapulte weiter schießen können als Türme?“ Oh Baby Baby! Jetzt… Jetzt auf einmal kann ich nicht mehr gegen Türme verlieren. Ihr wisst schon, diese einfachen Sachen wie das grad. Wir waren diese normalen kleinen Anfänger, mein Bruder und ich…
Also mein Bruder Nick, der wahrscheinlich bekannter als Tasteless ist in der Starcraft Szene, aber in dieser Geschichte soll er Nick sein… Also mein Bruder Nick und ich, wir gingen rüber zum Einkaufszentrum und wir zahlten ungefähr 52,36 für unser erstes Exemplar von Starcraft. Und es war so lustig, denn der Typ hinter dem Tresen war auch so ein Riesennerd wie wir. Darum war er genauso aufgeregt für Starcraft wie wir. Daher wusste er den genauen Preis ohne nachschauen zu müssen. Ich glaube, das ist sehr typisches Zeichen für Nerdheit… Also Nick und ich kauften unser allererstes Exemplar und wir besaßen nur einen Computer in der Familie. Denn heutzutage sind wir reiche Prolls [?] und jeder hat seinen eigenen PC. Aber damals mussten wir uns die Zeit am PC aufteilen, also haben wir versucht uns vorzudrängeln, damit wir mehr Spielzeit hatten, oder zumindest mehr Rücksitzspielzeit. Ihr wisst schon: „Bau Zerglinge! Die sind genial! Glaub mir!”. Wir wussten nicht worüber wir redeten..
Also, ihr wisst ja, ich habe sehr viel Starcraft gespielt. Das war damals als ich in der, verdammt… ich muss in der fünften oder sechsten Klasse gewesen sein als ich Starcraft das erste Mal gekauft hab. Ich bin mir sicher dass ich in der 6ten Klasse war! Und… Und mit der Zeit, während ich immer mehr und mehr spielte, es, es ,es bekam immer mehr zu dem was ich tat: Ihr wisst schon als der Typ erkannt zu werden. Denn ich würde das Prisma Starcraft Strategieheft mit in die Schule bringen und würd es lesen. Ich war einfach, ähmm… Ich weiß welche Einheit gegen diese Einheit stark ist, laut Prisma, ihr wisst schon… „ Oh schaut her! Das ist der einfachste Weg die zweite Terranermission zu erledigen“, stimmts? Ich war derjenige, um den es sich in der 6ten Klasse gedreht hat! Ich hatte es! Hmm, und dann habe ich angefangen mit meinen, mit meinen großartigen Freunden Shawn und Charlie zu spielen. Und wir sind zu unseren Zuhauses gegangen und wir haben gespielt. Und das war meine erste, man kann es LAN-Erfahrung nennen. Ich hatte nie zuvor gegen einen Menschen gespielt. Ich meine, ich hab eigene Spiele gemacht, die normalerweise 2 bis 3 Tage dauerten bis diese beendet waren. Denn, wisst ihr, ich wollte sicher gehen, dass jede Einheit einen Namen hatte, Und falls sie unehrenhaft handelten wurden sie exekutiert. Und ich würde mit ihnen reden. Ihr wisst schon, so ungefähr: „Hmm. Oh ja. Ich muss sichergehen, dass Martin der Marin… ihr wisst schon, wir müssen ihm irgendetwas Besonderes geben, denn er hat schon 4 Gegner erledigt.” Wisst ihr, denn ich würde nur mit 3 bis 4 Einheiten gleichzeitig angreifen. Jedenfalls, Erstes Spiel jemals gegen echte Menschen. Und wir waren halt super schlecht und so. Und dann würd das Netzwerk ausfallen. Wir sind also zurück zu Einzelspieler Spielen natürlich auf der Karte Big Game Hunters. Denn das war unsere beliebteste Karte in der 7ten Klasse. Und… Oh verdammt, Brood War war damals schon draußen? Ich schätze mal dann haben wir auf der normalen Hunters Karte gespielt. Und, damit es auch fair ist, gegen den Computer haben wir nur eine Cheat benutzt. Das war die Regel, die wir aufgestellt haben. Nur einen. Man konnte machen, was man wollte, aber nur einen Cheat benutzen. Und es konnte nicht der Unverwundbarkeit Cheat sein. Man konnte einstellen, dass man die komplette Karte sieht, dass man die Sicht des Gegners sieht, dass man Geld bekommt. Aus einem unersichtlichen Grund, hab ich immer das Level 1 Upgrade für alle meine Einheiten genommen. Das ist ein Cheat den man einfach eingeben konnte. Ich war ungefähr so: „ Yeah, ich will, dass meine Arbeiter mit 1-1-1 starten. Das wird genial.“ So wisst ihr
Die Sache hat sich von da an zu Entwickeln begonnen und bald darauf haben mein Bruder und ich herausgefunden wie man 2 Computer miteinander verbinden konnte. Denn wir hatten diesen einen wirklich schlechten, alten PC und wir hatten auch noch diesen Netzwerk Laptop. Und wir würden dann halt einfach gegeneinander spielen. Für Stunden! Hm, aber ich denke, dass vielleicht wichtigste über unsere Spielzeit war… war das… wir hatten eine Sperrstunde. Wir durften bis 15 Uhr nicht am PC spielen. Denn eines Tages, Nick und ich spielten gerade Syndicate Wars! Erinnert ihr Leute euch an das Spiel? Unglaublich, das Spiel ist so Oldschool… Öffnet euren Web Browser und schaut nach Syndicate Wars, denn ich schwöre zu Gott, ich dachte das Spiel hatte die beste Grafik von allem was bis dato existiert hat, stimmts? Und ihr werdet nachschauen und es hat diese 320x240 Grafik und alles ist verpixelt. Man dreht den Bildschirm und der PC stürzt dadurch fast ab, weil es zu schwer zu verarbeiten für ihn ist. Hmm. Aber eines Tages, Nick und Ich stritten uns. Wir beide wollten wirklich, ihr wisst schon, spielen. Und unsere Mama war ungefähr so: „Da schaut her! Ihr streitet euch über den Computer. Ihr solltet eh nicht am Computer sein. Keine Video Spiele bis 15 Uhr!”. Und wir waren “Ohh, warum streiten wir uns darum? Hätten wir das nur nie getan…“ Meine Mutter hat uns immer um ungefähr 8, 9 Uhr aufgeweckt morgens, in den Sommerferien, damit wir Hausarbeiten machen, also Rasen mähen usw. Denn In Kansas hat man tatsächlich noch Rasen. In LA, es ist nahezu alles Beton, wisst ihr Betonwüste, und verdammt hoho Benzinpreise. Also nicht viel Mähen, das hier erledigt werden müsste. Und darum hatten wir nicht Zeit zum richtigen Spielen. Wir wären zwar wach, und wir hätten einfach nichts zu tun! Und es ist irgendwie komisch denn unsere Mutter war eine alleinerziehende arbeitende Mutter, die ihr eigenes Geschäft führt. Also war sie gar nicht in der Lage zu schauen, ob wir beide nicht schon vor 15 Uhr am Computer spielten, aber Nick und ich, ehrenhafte Gentleman wie wir immer noch sind, haben nie vor 15 Uhr am Computer gespielt… Und was wir stattdessen gemacht haben ist, dass wir zum Einkaufszentrum gegangen sind, jeden Tag. Das gleiche Einkaufszentrum in dem wir Star… Starcraft kauften. Wir schauten uns all die Spiele an. Wir hatten nicht wirklich viel Geld also würden wir das Cover der Spiele nur anschauen und nur lesen was auf den Rückseiten geschrieben stand. Und manchmal hatten wir genug Geld um uns ein Orangenhühnchen zu kaufen und wir setzten uns mit unserem Orangenhühnchen von der Essensausgabe hinter den Aufzug, und wir redeten einfach über Starcraft und wir würden einfach über Video Spiele reden.
On February 24 2011 05:47 niTsEn wrote: thanks.
Ok here are the timings, well only one but still its one :D
Hallo meine Damen und Herren. Heute ist der 13.te April 2010… und es ist Day[9] Daily Nummer 100. Seht wie meine Kamera sich ans Licht automatisch anpasst. Ich hab sie zurück an ihren alten Platz gestellt…Bei Daily 99 hab ich sie auf meinen Monitor gestellt aber hab einfach aus Gewohnheit weiter nach hier unten geschaut. Und ich bin sicher viele von euch kennen das Diablo 3 Poster. Und jetzt da ich eine HD-Kamera hab könnt ihr sogar das Starcraft 2 Poster sehen, das ist ziemlich genial. ..
Also heute… Heute ist ein unglaublich besonderes Day[9] Daily denn zu allererst, die Dailies ab jetzt sind dreistellig. Und dreistellig ist cool! Außerdem werden wir keine Analyse von einem Spiel heute machen: kein Spiel in keinster Weise. Es wird nur um mein Leben um und mit Starcraft gehen. Denn ich glaube Leute können gar nicht abschätzen wie sehr ein Spiel ein Leben beeinflussen kann[?]. Ich bin mit Starcraft aufgewachsen. Die Dinge, dich ich beim Spielen von Starcraft gelernt habe, haben mich zu der Person gemacht, die ich heute bin. Ich möchte den Leuten aus der Community eine Widmung geben, sagt einfach „Leute seid stolz darauf Starcraft Spieler zu sein“. Denn es gibt nichts Cooleres als auf das stolz zu sein dass man liebt. Und es war wirklich…es war nahezu richtig emotional, als ich heute durch die ganzen Erinnerungen gegangen bin, die ich durch Starcraft habe und ich versuche… sie zu zusammenfassen zu etwas, dass ansatzweise unterhaltend ist. Also, wie ihr bemerkt habt, habe ich hier Notizen gemacht, damit ich auch ja nichts auslasse.
So lasst uns über Starcraft reden. Lasst uns ganz am Anfang starten, als ich Starcraft das erste Mal gekauft habe. Ich kann mich immer noch daran erinnern. Ich bin in einer kleinen Stadt in Kansas aufgewachsen, Leawood. Das ist mitten im Nirgendwo. Aber es ist doch in Kansas? Ja es ist ein Teil von Kansas City aber trotzdem ich bin aus Leawood, Kansas, wo das Land flach ist und Evolution immer noch eine Theorie ist. Das sag ich immer wenn mich jemand auf meinen Heimatort anspricht. Wir lebten in einem tollen, kleinen Haus, das gleich neben einem Einkaufszentrum war zu dem Nick und Ich jeden Tag rübergehen könnten. Und natürlich war da ein Computerladen in dem wir all unsere Elektronikartikel gekauft haben. Und wir waren total aufgeregt für Starcraft, denn WIR spielten Warcraft 2 Baby… Ja wir sind wirklich Warcraft 2 Spieler! Und wie jedes Kind geht man zu seiner Mutter und sagt: „Mama! Mama!“ und du erzählst ihr all den genialen Blödsinn, der dir grad durch den Kopf geht. „ Mama, wusstest du dass in Warcraft 2 Katapulte weiter schießen können als Türme?“ Oh Baby Baby! Jetzt… Jetzt auf einmal kann ich nicht mehr gegen Türme verlieren. Ihr wisst schon, diese einfachen Sachen wie das grad. Wir waren diese normalen kleinen Anfänger, mein Bruder und ich…
Also mein Bruder Nick, der wahrscheinlich bekannter als Tasteless ist in der Starcraft Szene, aber in dieser Geschichte soll er Nick sein… Also mein Bruder Nick und ich, wir gingen rüber zum Einkaufszentrum und wir zahlten ungefähr 52,36 für unser erstes Exemplar von Starcraft. Und es war so lustig, denn der Typ hinter dem Tresen war auch so ein Riesennerd wie wir. Darum war er genauso aufgeregt für Starcraft wie wir. Daher wusste er den genauen Preis ohne nachschauen zu müssen. Ich glaube, das ist sehr typisches Zeichen für Nerdheit… Also Nick und ich kauften unser allererstes Exemplar und wir besaßen nur einen Computer in der Familie. Denn heutzutage sind wir reiche Prolls [?] und jeder hat seinen eigenen PC. Aber damals mussten wir uns die Zeit am PC aufteilen, also haben wir versucht uns vorzudrängeln, damit wir mehr Spielzeit hatten, oder zumindest mehr Rücksitzspielzeit. Ihr wisst schon: „Bau Zerglinge! Die sind genial! Glaub mir!”. Wir wussten nicht worüber wir redeten..
Also, ihr wisst ja, ich habe sehr viel Starcraft gespielt. Das war damals als ich in der, verdammt… ich muss in der fünften oder sechsten Klasse gewesen sein als ich Starcraft das erste Mal gekauft hab. Ich bin mir sicher dass ich in der 6ten Klasse war! Und… Und mit der Zeit, während ich immer mehr und mehr spielte, es, es ,es bekam immer mehr zu dem was ich tat: Ihr wisst schon als der Typ erkannt zu werden. Denn ich würde das Prisma Starcraft Strategieheft mit in die Schule bringen und würd es lesen. Ich war einfach, ähmm… Ich weiß welche Einheit gegen diese Einheit stark ist, laut Prisma, ihr wisst schon… „ Oh schaut her! Das ist der einfachste Weg die zweite Terranermission zu erledigen“, stimmts? Ich war derjenige, um den es sich in der 6ten Klasse gedreht hat! Ich hatte es! Hmm, und dann habe ich angefangen mit meinen, mit meinen großartigen Freunden Shawn und Charlie zu spielen. Und wir sind zu unseren Zuhauses gegangen und wir haben gespielt. Und das war meine erste, man kann es LAN-Erfahrung nennen. Ich hatte nie zuvor gegen einen Menschen gespielt. Ich meine, ich hab eigene Spiele gemacht, die normalerweise 2 bis 3 Tage dauerten bis diese beendet waren. Denn, wisst ihr, ich wollte sicher gehen, dass jede Einheit einen Namen hatte, Und falls sie unehrenhaft handelten wurden sie exekutiert. Und ich würde mit ihnen reden. Ihr wisst schon, so ungefähr: „Hmm. Oh ja. Ich muss sichergehen, dass Martin der Marin… ihr wisst schon, wir müssen ihm irgendetwas Besonderes geben, denn er hat schon 4 Gegner erledigt.” Wisst ihr, denn ich würde nur mit 3 bis 4 Einheiten gleichzeitig angreifen. Jedenfalls, Erstes Spiel jemals gegen echte Menschen. Und wir waren halt super schlecht und so. Und dann würd das Netzwerk ausfallen. Wir sind also zurück zu Einzelspieler Spielen natürlich auf der Karte Big Game Hunters. Denn das war unsere beliebteste Karte in der 7ten Klasse. Und… Oh verdammt, Brood War war damals schon draußen? Ich schätze mal dann haben wir auf der normalen Hunters
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Karte gespielt. Und, damit es auch fair ist, gegen den Computer haben wir nur eine Cheat benutzt. Das war die Regel, die wir aufgestellt haben. Nur einen. Man konnte machen, was man wollte, aber nur einen Cheat benutzen. Und es konnte nicht der Unverwundbarkeit Cheat sein. Man konnte einstellen, dass man die komplette Karte sieht, dass man die Sicht des Gegners sieht, dass man Geld bekommt. Aus einem unersichtlichen Grund, hab ich immer das Level 1 Upgrade für alle meine Einheiten genommen. Das ist ein Cheat den man einfach eingeben konnte. Ich war ungefähr so: „ Yeah, ich will, dass meine Arbeiter mit 1-1-1 starten. Das wird genial.“ So wisst ihr
Die Sache hat sich von da an zu Entwickeln begonnen und bald darauf haben mein Bruder und ich herausgefunden wie man 2 Computer miteinander verbinden konnte. Denn wir hatten diesen einen wirklich schlechten, alten PC und wir hatten auch noch diesen Netzwerk Laptop. Und wir würden dann halt einfach gegeneinander spielen. Für Stunden! Hm, aber ich denke, dass vielleicht wichtigste über unsere Spielzeit war… war das… wir hatten eine Sperrstunde. Wir durften bis 15 Uhr nicht am PC spielen. Denn eines Tages, Nick und ich spielten gerade Syndicate Wars! Erinnert ihr Leute euch an das Spiel? Unglaublich, das Spiel ist so Oldschool… Öffnet euren Web Browser und schaut nach Syndicate Wars, denn ich schwöre zu Gott, ich dachte das Spiel hatte die beste Grafik von allem was bis dato existiert hat, stimmts? Und ihr werdet nachschauen und es hat diese 320x240 Grafik und alles ist verpixelt. Man dreht den Bildschirm und der PC stürzt dadurch fast ab, weil es zu schwer zu verarbeiten für ihn ist. Hmm. Aber eines Tages, Nick und Ich stritten uns. Wir beide wollten wirklich, ihr wisst schon, spielen. Und unsere Mama war ungefähr so: „Da schaut her! Ihr streitet euch über den Computer. Ihr solltet eh nicht am Computer sein. Keine Video Spiele bis 15 Uhr!”. Und wir waren “Ohh, warum streiten wir uns darum? Hätten wir das nur nie getan…“ Meine Mutter hat uns immer um ungefähr 8, 9 Uhr aufgeweckt morgens, in den Sommerferien, damit wir Hausarbeiten machen, also Rasen mähen usw. Denn In Kansas hat man tatsächlich noch Rasen. In LA, es ist nahezu alles Beton, wisst ihr Betonwüste, und verdammt hoho Benzinpreise. Also nicht viel Mähen, das hier erledigt werden müsste. Und darum hatten wir nicht Zeit zum richtigen Spielen. Wir wären zwar wach, und wir hätten einfach nichts zu tun! Und es ist irgendwie komisch denn unsere Mutter war eine alleinerziehende arbeitende Mutter, die ihr eigenes Geschäft führt. Also war sie gar nicht in der Lage zu schauen, ob wir beide nicht schon vor 15 Uhr am Computer spielten, aber Nick und ich, ehrenhafte Gentleman wie wir immer noch sind, haben nie vor 15 Uhr am Computer gespielt… Und was wir stattdessen gemacht haben ist, dass wir zum Einkaufszentrum gegangen sind, jeden Tag. Das gleiche Einkaufszentrum in dem wir Star… Starcraft kauften. Wir schauten uns all die Spiele an. Wir hatten nicht wirklich viel Geld also würden wir das Cover der Spiele nur anschauen und nur lesen was auf den Rückseiten geschrieben stand. Und manchmal hatten wir genug Geld um uns ein Orangenhühnchen zu kaufen und wir setzten uns mit unserem Orangenhühnchen von der Essensausgabe hinter den Aufzug, und wir redeten einfach über Starcraft und wir würden einfach über Video Spiele reden.
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Yeah, i've read your PM, but i was kinda busy and i forgot to post it , sorry. I've added it to the OP. Its strange that a lot of users offered help to do the german translation but none of them has said anything more :S, maybe you could contact them to see if they still want to do it...
The good news about timing this is that since it's no scene switching it's a fairly easy process. I was involved in the fansubbing scene a couple of years ago so I know pretty much how it works and yeah, the hard part is getting subtitles to fit the scene cuts, the timing in itself isn't all that big of a deal, I could drag aegisub out of its hole and dust it off.
The bad news is that Arn is completely right, timings come first, if they don't you will have some extra work to do. It's not THAT complicated as long as you have one language, but if you, as has been done here, have multiple translations already, you basically need to do all the timings over again for the next translation or get ready for some SERIOUS copy-pasting.
I'll start downloading the daily and fire up aegisub and see what I can do as soon as possible
On February 24 2011 01:48 Palandiell wrote: Great innitiative. I'd love to help out for this - Please let me know in this thread if I could help out with Dutch translations. If there's interest, I'll send my info to you.
Palandiell
Of course you can help, everybody can translate what they want.
If you can you can start translating, no hurrys. If you have some friends that could help you that would be great ( no users except you have offered translating to dutch yet).
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I'll get on it tomorrow. First I'll figure out the software and start the text. I'll send you a pm once it's actually underway.
On February 24 2011 07:23 grimhammer wrote: The good news about timing this is that since it's no scene switching it's a fairly easy process. I was involved in the fansubbing scene a couple of years ago so I know pretty much how it works and yeah, the hard part is getting subtitles to fit the scene cuts, the timing in itself isn't all that big of a deal, I could drag aegisub out of its hole and dust it off.
The bad news is that Arn is completely right, timings come first, if they don't you will have some extra work to do. It's not THAT complicated as long as you have one language, but if you, as has been done here, have multiple translations already, you basically need to do all the timings over again for the next translation or get ready for some SERIOUS copy-pasting.
I'll start downloading the daily and fire up aegisub and see what I can do as soon as possible
As long as the sentences fill the same space, wouldn't the work be just like copypasting the translation over the english text?
In the tournament, but it was... it was just so nice to have him just be there between every round. I didn't have to call him, he was just like, I mean, he was just right there, you know, I could just easily, you know, he would be like "Awesome man, you played well!" and I'd just high-five him. Uhm... What was I talking about? Oh yea! But that was so cool because Nick got eliminated first round, he had nothing to do, and the commentators were up on stage. And they were... it was Radio ITG, and they were doing all the events! And their guy up on stage just didn't play Starcraft, at all! And I mean, it was so funny because he was on a stage, there was like a 60ft screen behind him, it was almost as big as my pit-stains, whoopsie daisies!
So I mean he... it was this huge screen -- honestly the 2005 USA finals was one of the best run tournaments I've ever been at. But I remember... so he's up there and he has the mic and he's watching the game and he's like "Wow!" he literally is like, turned sideways looking at his computer and he's going "Wow! That guy, he is making marines! Those marines, man! He can... They can shoot up, down, and he's gonna keep making them", it was just, like, this non-sensical completely randomly directed commentary. And Nick went up to them right after that game and he said "Okay look, I understand your guy doesn't have that much experience, give me the mic. I'll take care of all this." Nick walked right up on the stage there, absolutely no preparation, sat down and commentated beautifully. He said everything right, anytime his... the, the cocaster said anything at all, that seemed ridiculous, Nick would totally just save him, would not do any sort of thing to embarrass him, and Radio ITG hired him right on the spot, and that's what began his casting career.
So I mean, it ended up working so nicely for him, it was so funny I even remember there was this game on Astriah, again, 'cause WCG, for some reason, wants to have an Island Map in every single tournament, and uh... I remember the guy, the guy, the radio ITG guy, says "Ok so..." I need this hand here, so you can see this, so he goes "So Nick, it's an island map, do you think we're gonna see... Drops?" He's like "Uhhh", like "Don't you think?!", and Nick's like "Yes, I definitely think that's a possibility here, you know, big variety of, you know, things we can do here." Just completely picked it up. I mean, I'm not gonna lie... 99 people out of a 100 would've been like "Well gee, yea I think he might get drops if he's into ever ATTACKING in this WAR GAME! Yeah! I think he'll MAYBE get drops if he's interested in winning, EVER!" You know, but Nick just completely, just crisp, no... No dropping the ball at all there. So that ended up working out just great.
But uhm... Now comes the 2005 Grand Final, in Singapore, that I flew all the way out to. And I wanted to do better than I did last year. I got in the Round of 16 against XellOs, I lost, so of course I said "Ohh, I got 9th, right? Ohhh!" and I wanted to get into the Top 24, Round Robin groups of 8, instead of 4. And I was in the group with Sen, and Android. And... They're both really good. And this is also the period when I started playing a lot on The Abyss, which later became PGTour... Oh, excuse me! No, I was playing on PGTour. And then, later on I played on The Abyss which eventually became ICCUP. But my major practice partners during that period were... FrozenArbiter, on the TeamLiquid.net forums, tons of the Russian players: Advokact, Android, Deadman from Croatia... I mean, just a lot of really awesome guys. They were all in the ORKY clan, pretty much, for any of you familiar with that.
Now, Android is notorious for having 'funky' manner in tournaments. I wouldn't call it 'bad manner', but just a little... a little off. Like, he would lift... he would be dead! And instead of saying "GG" he'd like, lift his buildings and float them around the map, to try to just, like, delay the game. Which is kinda funny, right? But you know, technically bad manner. And people would sometimes be like "Oh, that Android guy is bad manner!" But you know, we always played together, and you know, there was a language barrier, obviously, but we played a lot, a lot, a lot of games leading up to that tournament. So I was feeling confident against him. It was on the map Paranoid Android and I hadn't practiced against Sen, who TERRIFIES ME! God, Sen! Okay, Sen was scary in the TSL2 that just happened, not long ago. But also, he was terrifying in 2005, right? He is just a scary beast at... RTS games. So, with Sen there, I was like "Okay, gotta practice a lot of Zerg vs Zerg, gotta practice it!" and when I got to the tournament, he said "No, no! We're playing on Astriah, I'm gonna play Protoss." and I was like "Ohhhh man..." so I lose my first game, and I'm 0-1, right? Seven more to go! Oh, excuse me. Six more to go, right? So I have to pretty much go... 6-1 or 5-2 in the group.
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So, uhm... So I kept playing and I was winning all my games until I got to Android and... I was in that game, and I was playing, and I was even... playing better then I did in practice, but... All of a sudden, he comes out with his first push, I have... I have Lurkers and Zerglings there, they're ready, they're positioned behind the fat bridge on Paranoid Android. And all of a sudden, I felt... my muscles just started doing things that I didn't want them to do. And in my head I said "Oh my God! I am about to send in a full control group of my Lurkers, and they're all gonna die. And I have no idea why I'm gonna do that." and I just choked! And I watched myself do this, and I, like, felt no control over my hands, right? Just none! I was just like "Oh my God..." and I just lost all my 12 Lurkers... So I had 3 Control Groups of Zerglings and no Lurkers, that's not gonna do very much good.
And I remember, like, after that plan I got this boost of adrenaline and my focus just like, peaked! But I mean, it didn't matter at that point, you know, it's like... The perfectly orchestrated symphony, but you know, all the instruments are out of tune. I just couldn't pull it together, and I remember I lost that game and I... I... I was SO MAD at myself! I was SO angry! Because I practiced so hard, now I wasn't going to get out the group, I was 4-2, the best I could do was 5-2, which meant that, you know, Sen was gonna go 7-0 and Android was gonna go 6-1... And... and I remember I just left the game and I just punched my keyboard SO HARD... I actually cut my pinky. I just slammed it, and... GosuGamers, the crew... Mazer. He was running the tournament for the Grand Finals, and I remember he came over and... he said "Dude look, I, I know you're upset. If there's anything I can do to help, I'll let you know. I'm not gonna give you a yellow card. But, you know, I'm gonna let you stay in here, you know, just... Just take some time to cool off."
I've been so grateful for that, a lot of the players, you know, after they were done with their games, they had to go to the booths and sign some stuff and be done, but he was like "You know what, man? Just stay here. I understand." And... Oh God... I mean, a lot of nice things happened there in retrospect, but I was still so angry at myself, I was so mad. 'Cause... what ended up happening is that I lost. And I couldn't... I was so angry at myself, how dumb could you be, Sean?! How could you have choked like that? And send your Lurkers in there? You were playing... you were playing perfectly! Exactly the plan, on such a hard map, it would've been this unbelievable win against this great player who knows your style in and out, but you just choked! Why did you do that, Sean? And I remember I went in the bathroom and I just cried, and I was just so mad. And I... I brought my stuffed animal to the tournament, my bunny named... Bunny. Like, the dearest sentimental object I've ever owned in my entire life!
And, I mean... It's because, you know, everyone has a lucky, you know, "I wear lucky pants to my tournament", "Oh, this is a jewel", "This is an angel that I got from so-and-so event". For me, I just brought my little bunny, that I had since childhood. And when I scheduled my flight to leave, early, and I just hated on myself for a 14-hour flight back from Singapore. I realised that I had actually left my bunny in the hotel... Like, the most dear sentimental object in my entire life! And... I tried to get the hotel to ship it back, but I gave them the wrong address. So my bunny was forever lost... in the mail. And, I mean, it was after that, that like... I was just like, you know... All of that happened just because I was being too hard on myself. I liked being hard on myself, I loved being hard on myself! It's one of my favourite things! You hear me... watch my... you know, you see the Day[9] Dailies where I'm like "Here's a game of me, LOL I'm awful!" You know? But... I was just TOO HARD on myself then.
The winning! I was valuing it too much! I loved learning, I loved figuring things out, I was generally a very quiet gamer, I didn't post much on forums, I didn't publish my replays, I just trained in private. But just because I didn't win this tournament didn't mean that I was, somehow, a bad player. That somehow I had sold myself short. And... It was... I mean, it... It still hurts dearly, to this day, to know that I left Bunny there in Singapore. And wherever Bunny is... you know. It's because I... I spent too much time focusing on myself and focusing inward and not... and just not trying to... To just be reasonable to myself, to be good to myself. I mean, I like this high benchmark that I put myself to. But you know, one of the greatest things that happened, after that loss, is that... Is that Android came up to me after that, and of course he -- Again, he is notorious for bad manner -- but he said... I'll do the Russian accent! To hell with it!
The bad news is that Arn is completely right, timings come first, if they don't you will have some extra work to do. It's not THAT complicated as long as you have one language, but if you, as has been done here, have multiple translations already, you basically need to do all the timings over again for the next translation or get ready for some SERIOUS copy-pasting.
Oh doh, I see where this is coming from. Hah, I blame a blatant disregard for understanding how the subtitling process actually works, but I've always learned through trial and error so I should've picked it up from what Arn said, but thank you for clarifying!
So without further waiting, it's time for the last 25 mins of transcription to be posted:
So, he like, he's like "No no no, I'm right by the [?], come pick us up" He was 2 hours out of the way, we had driven all night to get to Chicago, right. And then we had to drive 2 hours, to like, go get this guy and we get there he comes out and he's like... he's like 13, okay! Nick and I look at each other and we're like "That's Paul?" and I was like "I thought he was 22?!" and Nick's like "What? I thought he was 17" and apparently he was talking to my brother's girlfriend, who had driven us up there, and she said "No no no, I thought he was 19" and we're like "...What?" and this, like, 14 year old comes up to our car and he's like "Hey what's up, I'm Paul man! This is my dog, isn't my dog cool?" and this dog comes out and we're like "What the hell?!" and it's just so... hah.
It's just kinda funny how these things kinda start happening as you start transistioning over that border between interacting with people online and interacting with people in real life. I mean, he was one, like, humourous exception, but we like took him to this tournament anyways, and... I remember this is when, ya'know, APM was big. People getting really into APM, so I tried to play really fast, and there was actually a question in the thread on TeamLiquid about this, about whether I,ya'know, ever get nervous or get like sweaty, or something like that. Oh my god, YES! For tournaments, jesus, I get like, now I've sort of calmed down but like in 2004 when I hadn't even really done that much tournament-wise, I just like, sweat! And I remember I was playing, and I could feel the sweat pouring down my face and pooling at my nose, and dripping into my keyboard because I was like really far forward. And I checked my APM after that game, it was 412... In my first game because I was just so nervous and jittery. Non-sensically high, was not nearly good enough to make use of that, all that it made me do was sweat, like, a lot. I was like a Sumo Wrestler who was jumping rope in an attic or something, I was exhausted.
So, ya'know, despite driving all night, managed to qualify for the finals and I'm like "Yes!" uhm... And at this time, I started to be better friends with Fr0z, at this point in time. And Fr0z is... He is the most influential gamer that I have ever known in terms of, especially in terms of Starcraft, but also of all time. He had this ability to just decide to be good. There was no bullshit, there was no excuse, there was... he... he... I remember asking him in 2001, like god how do you play that fast? And he said "Well I saw a video of a Korean guy Jojo [Chojo?], so I thought 'I could play that fast' so I just kept playing until I could" and I was like "Oh my god..." and this was like 3 years later, and, ya'know, I would, I would chat with him and he would watch some replay of like Boxer or Nada playing brilliantly and he'd watch it and be like "God, he made so many mistakes that guy sucks! I'm going to play better than he does" and then, he would play a game and I would observe and he would play better than Nada. He would just do it, right! And eventually when I, why, ya'know, started meeting and LAN'ing with him and hanging out with him in college, he would just focus so intensely and he would do all these crazy things like: He would turn his air conditioning really high so it'd be freezing, then he'd turn the heat on and practice. He'd practice with his chair at different heights, he'd practice with shoes on, with shoes off, he'd practice when he was tired, he'd practice when he had a lot of rest, before meals, after meals. He would vary up the schedule so much, so that way he would be prepared for anything.
And he was always so confident in himself. He just always believed in himself, and any time he lost he would blame it on himself and be like "God, I suck. I need to get better." Uhm... It was alittle overly harsh but I mean like, he just improved at such a phenomanal rate. So, I was terrified that when I actually got to WCG 2004 finals, that he was in my bracket, right. It was this weird thing, because I mean I just told you there were 20 qualifiers everywhere, one of them didn't get announced until three days beforehand. So there was this guy, there was actually this kid, he was like 11. He went to the Las Vegas qualifier, he was the only one who went there so he qualified. And I remember I was in the hotel with Artosis and this little guy comes up and he's like "Are you here for the Starcraft tournament?" and we're like "Yea man, yea!" and Artosis goes "Did you qualify from Las Vegas?" and he was like "Yea!" and Artosis is like "That's awesome, man!" and the kid, the kid goes "Did you know there's a strategy where you can drop vultures by their workers and kill them off?" and we were just like "My god, that's the sweetest thing I've ever heard in my entire life." This little kid who qualified in Las Vegas is now, like, in a finals tournament with a pretty robust scene at the moment and he is... Artosis and I were like "Man, that is awesome." and then we like left and Artosis is like "God, I hope I'm in his bracket" and I'm like "Me too!" Hah, ruthless competitors.
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But like, so, ya'know, they did a random seeding and in the brackets it was, like, Artosis and, uhm... and the bottom half in terms of the skill bracket. And my bracket was all the, like, terrifying names that I was just praying to God I wouldn't have to face against, ya'know, there was: Evade was there, I actually have the list, Skew, Rekrul, Fr0z, uhm, Satist. Just really good players at the time, and I remember my first game I just botched it, uhm, and I barely won against Evade 2-1. And ya'know, it's... it's... that tournament... I called my brother soooo many times in that tournament, he didn't qualify for it but I called him between every game and he kept calling to check up on me. Ah, god, it's like, uh, it even makes me emotional just like, how supportive he's just always been of me, just like my whole family. And I remember I would like call him before games and I'd be like "Dude, I gotta play Evade" and he's like "Dude, you've been practicing, you got this! You, you know you're better. Just stick to what you've been practicing, you understand this game man, you get it, ya'know, he's just here for fun but you're gonna be here for the win, right." and I played and I won, and then I was up against Fr0z and I was terrified but I got the chance to choose my map first. I choose my best map, Korhal of Ceres that I had a well practiced strategy, Fr0z demolishes me on it and the game isn't even close, I called my brother inbetween those games and I'm like "Man, I'm in this bracket of death. There's no way I can make it, I'm down 0-1 to Fr0z." and Nick says "No Sean, it's a bracket of death because there's people like you in it. You've beaten Fr0z all the time online, you got this man." and the next map is Gorky Island. And if any of you look at that map, it is horrendous for Zerg vs Terran. Just look atit and you'll be like "Urghhhh", It's an island map, it's very awkwardly positioned but I practiced it really hard, I stuck to my guns and played a dramatic game and ended up winning. And then I felt really focused, I was calm, I stopped sweating and I just got in the zone. And in that third game, it was on Martian Cross, I was scouting with my first overlord and he sniped it with marines. And I was just like, "Ohhh god." and then I just send a scouting drone in there, just like "Well I don't know what he's doing" and I got into his base and I saw that he was early expanding, and at that point in time early expanding against a Zerg was still a very unorthodox thing to do. Players still primarily one-based as Terran against Zerg but he was early expanding, and all of a sudden in my head I went "I know exactly what I need to do to win." and I just, I... I, did a transistion that I actually still use today. I expanded a bunch, I opened Mutalisks to harass, transistioned into Lurkers, got the Hive, then transistioned into Guardians followed by Ultralisks. When his first push came out, I had 12 guardians that demolished the whole thing and just kept rallying Ultralisks until I won 2-1. And it was insane, because when I won and I looked up no other games were being played in the tournaments, it was just Fr0z and I opposite computers and everyone else was crowded around, and I was just like "Hooo oh my god" I had no idea that there were that many people there. It was just such a rush, Fr0z shook my hand mannerly and I called my brother and I'm like "Nick! Nick! I beat Fr0z" and he's like "Dude, I knew you could do it! Now you're playing against Satist, and that guy is probably pissing in his pants because you just knocked out the best Terran in America!" and I was just like "Oh my god!" and I, I, I beat Satist 2-0 and I was in the Top 3. Which meant I was qualifying ever, for my first ever Grand Finals. And I remember I actually played Artosis in the Winner's Bracket finals, so he was Top 3 as well, and you will never have seen a happier man than Artosis. I, I seriously, I like, I sat down and he said, "Hey man" he said "You wanna play Best of One? I don't even care if I get first or second, we're all going man!" and I was like, "Ahhh let's just play a Best of Three, I'm feeling good" and he's like "Cool man! Ah god, this feels so good!" and I remember in the games I was sitting there playing, and I leaned over because he was playing across from me, our monitors were facing each other, so if I leaned over I could see him. And in the middle of a game, I just looked over and he was just beaming. He was just beaming! It was... It was so cool 'cause it was like a moment, ya'know, where it's like I know exactly, 'cause I knew Artosis had been practicing, I know exactly how hard this guy has been training for this tournament and I know how hard I've been training for this tournament man, and it like paid off.
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So Fr0z came back to the Winners Bracket, he had to beat me in two Best of Threes and he did that handily, he beat me like 5-1 and however many games I ended up playing after that, so uhm, Fr0z won the tournament. But you know, it was me, Artosis and Fr0z going, and it was my first ever WCG USA qualifer that I qualified for the Grand Final. And I was just like "Oh my god..." and I called my mum and this is... this is... I part say this is what happens when you have a mum who is just around two Starcraft players, but more importantly what happens when you just have a really kind mum who just supports you. 'Cause I called her and I said "Mum, mum, I did it! I'm in the Top 3, and I beat Fr0z to do it" and she said "Sean, you beat Fr0z?! Oh my god!" Because Fr0z had, ya'know, gone to the Grand Finals, he beat Boxer TWICE in 2002 and in the group of death , and just an epic epic player. And it was just so, so nice, ahh. And you know, I went to the Grand Finals and I practiced more for that and ya'know inbetween that period of time I learned another, like, key thing in terms of my mindset as a player, that I uhm... I... Zerg versus Terran was my good match up, actually, as you're gonna hear my Zerg vs Protoss has actually been really lackluster until about 2007, I think was the first year when I was like "Hey! I'm confident in this. " but it was just Zerg vs Terran that I really got, and, ya'know, right around the time of those finals especially leading up to the Grand Finals it occured to me... That... I really should not ever be worrying about the player, or who the player is, or what the player is capable of, or who he has beaten in the past, or what his rank is, or what anything is. If he is Terran, Terran has constraints that any Terran cannot overcome, and that means that if I practice against Terran it doesn't matter what name behind that uhm, what the name of that player is, or who that player is, because I know how to beat Terran and I just studied how Terran worked, and uhm, I came across that key timing where after the Zerg gets Lurkers, you can come make a ton of drones because the Terran player cannot move out until he has a science vessel.
It seems totally inituative now because you watch the pro matches and they do that... All the time. There's nothing new about that, uhm... But at the time it was just like, weird! Because players would pretty much just start massing up units once they hit a certain point, just start making the units and never stop making the units but it was just this alternation and... When I... Time for the WCG finals I was actually in Group E, uhm... Yea! Actually, hold on! Stay right here. So, I'm going, going over to my closest right now because I think I actually still have these little things... Yea! Yea! Dude, guys! Keep everything! Keep every single thing that you get, see here's my beib, I was in the Group E at the WCG Grand Finals. In my group, it was the Group of Death, again! It was MethosPG, the famous German Zerg player, it was HellGhost, the famous Brazilian Terran player who is also very strong at Random, and Liquid`Drone, who played Random but in tournaments he would just pick whatever race was the best at that map and at the time. I was against these players and I was just like "AHHHHH, GOD!" ya'know. My brother... My brother, the game was in San Fransisco so I could still get cellphone reception, my brother called my everyday and before every game I would call him and tell him "Nick, I have to play Methos." and Nick said "Don't worry man, you got this!" and I think the general theme in all my tournaments is that I'm always shaken in like, the first, uh, game of the tournament, or in the first, or even in a Best of Three I generally lose the first game uhm... Excuse me, if I do win the Best of Three, I end up losing the first one and winning the next two, that's sort of the story of my life.
So, I played against MethosPG and for some reason I got so shaken up that I was in this huge area of computers, every famous player that ever met, uh excuse me, every famous player that I've ever hear of from around the world was there! It wasn't just America, it was the whole world! Mondragon, Deathshaman from Romania who you guys should know because he's pretty awesome, I mean, Liquid`Drone, the famous canadian players like Testie was there, the Koreans were there, XellOs my hero was there. I was just so shaken up, uhm... that I abandoned my game plan against Methos. For no reason. I just completely abandoned my game plan, and I went hydralisks in Zerg vs Zerg. Which nowadays I love Hydras in Zerg vs Zerg but then I never practiced it, and I just locked up. I called my brother and I was like "Okay Nick, I'm already down 0-1. I have two more games I gotta play against HellGhost and Ariador, excuse me, Ariador is Liquid`Drone, same person." And I was like "Oh god" and he's like "No man! Remember, dude, you knocked out Fr0z at the finals man. You knocked out Satist. You knocked out Artosis, man, you got this!" Endlessly supportive of me, and 'cause he was a Starcraft player, and because we talked so much, he could just calm me down and get me focused and get me in the zone.
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And I... I... managed to win my next game against HellGhost. It was a pretty dramatic game but I managed to win, I managed to win my next game against Liquid`Drone on my best map, and I just stuck to my game plan and crisply executed it. And all of a sudden, I, I was first in the group! I was first! I was 2-1, Liquid`Drone was 2-1, and Methos and HellGhost both went 1-2. So I was like "Oh my, oh my god, I'm in the Round of 16!" and I hadn't played DarkCalum, whose a very famous Check player, we played a Zerg vs Zerg and I won that 2-0, and now all of a sudden I had to play against XellOs. Now, that's... That is awesome for two reasons. Because XellOS was the korean, who eventually went on to win that tournament. And I'm not gonna lie, when you're in a Starcraft tournament and you're just a, uh, random, ya'know, basically a newbie from America, I mean... like, especially compared to the calibre of player there. I was just not, ya'know, top of the, top of the pack. If you get faced againstXellOS, that's the person you wanna lose to man, oh that's so great for wee-little weasely foreigners with no pro-scene. Oh yea, lost to the Korean, no big deal. You don't wanna lose to something whose also a foreigner or anything like that, so he demolished me and I actually did a review of one of the games I played against him in the Day[9] daily, but uhm... So I ended up getting eliminated and I was a little bit bitter but... It was, it it just went so well because I got to go back to school and this is when I'm a Freshman in College, and I get to tell everyone "Guys, I went to the Starcraft World Finals, and I lost to the Korean who won it all!" Ya'know, easy out for me, hah, easiest thing in the world. If I lost to someone, ya'know, with an embarrassing name, for instance: Rekrul, in the WCG USA finals the one Fr0z, Artosis and I got first second third. Rekrul was eliminated in the Losers Bracket by Monkeyballs, was the guy's name. Now if you're in a tournament, and you have to go home and your mum's like "Oh honey, how'd the tournament go?", "Oh it went crappy, I got eliminated by some random guy in the Losers Bracket?", "Well who was it?!", "It was Monkeyballs" It just, damages reputation for everything you've ever done in your life ya'know. So I'm delighted that, ya'know, managed to lose to, to, uhm, XellOs in that final. What was I... What was I talking about, I need to get my notebook out once again, I've put it aside to go get that awesome little beib because once again I keep absolutely everything. Still, I, I, at this point I've had no wins in my entire life, and I remember for the, for the 2005, uh, final. So there was like this online ladder that, uh, ya'know there's a qualifier for and I mean, it's, it's around this time that my family really started to just gel around Starcraft, ya'know. Like, any time we had a tournament, Mum would ask for updates, uh... Nick and I would constantly call each other and then anytime ask... anyone asked me for my favourite memory, or one of my favourite memories, I tell them the story of how my brother qualified for the 2005 Final, 'cause I qualified online so I was already seated, right, and Nick had to drive down to Texas for this tournament, and... So it was just him, right, it wasn't anything dumb like we both had to go to the same qualifier and one of us ended up winning, we went to diferent places, and at this qualifier Nony was actually there. Nony is really, really good now, and he was pretty damn good back then as well, and my brother had been practicing his Protoss vs Protoss and, oh my god, I remember he... So he drove down there, he drove 17 hours to get to this Texas qualifier and he'd been practicing so hard, oh my god, he killed himself practicing for that tournament. Just endless Protoss vs Protoss against random players, againast practice partners, against everyone he could find, and again for any of you tuning in this is my brother Tasteless, the uh, ya'know, the Storm Observer for GomTV.
He, uhm... He practiced so hard for that tournament, and he drove all the way down there, and uhm... Nony was knocked into the Losers Bracket by a Zerg player early on so Nick was like "Oh my god, yes, I have a free ride to get to the finals!" so that's what happens Nick gets all the way to the finals, we're calling each other, he's like "Dude, I got this! Nony was knocked into the Losers Bracket!" but Nony came all the way up, losing first round, came all the way through the Losers Bracket and when they got to the finals, the way that it worked was that Nick had to win one Best of Five, and Nony had to win two Best of Fives.
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So Nick says "Alright man, alright. I'm, I'm feeling alittle nervous.", "Don't worry man it's cool, you got this, you can do this man, you've been training just stick to what you know!" and he... he plays the series and he calls me back twenty minutes later and he says, he says "Sean, I got 3-0'd. He, he, he raped me. It wasn't even close. It was totally one-sided, he 3-0'd me." and he said "Sean, I..." god, it's just "Sean, I drove all the way out here and I'm gonna lose. I tried so hard and I'm just gonna lose here."... and I... God... I felt so bad, he still had a Best of Five left and I, and I talked to him for 45 minutes. He actually asked the tourney directors if he could have 5 minutes, heh, but, he, he just stayed on the phone with me for 45 minutes and I calmed him down. I was just like "Don't worry." He got rushed all three games so it's obviously gonna feel worse, but you just have to... God I just get so emotional about this, right, I was like "You just stick with what you know," and it was Loser picks the map, so he was allowed to pick the first map so he choose Astriah, which was a really obnoxious Island map, because for some reason WCG just keeps throwing in Island maps into the series. They just had this hook on it, I don't know, it was in there, so...
So Nick chooses Astriah, and he wins the first game, and I'm like "Yes!" and he had a brilliant build constructed on Astriah, I mean to this day when I go back and I look at that, brilliant! Weirdly timing when he gets his range upgrade for an Island map as Protoss, but it finishes at just the right time to deal with this one Dark Templar drop, and this one time when his opponent would get observers in, he can snipe it with the range before it gets in. Building placement thought out, genius, he executes it, he wins. And there's this guy, who uhm, another friend I met through Starcraft named RogerDodger, uhm, I think his real name was Matt but we called him Roger. So RogerDodger was messaging me via battle.net, there was no way to get a hold of him, so he said "Nick lost the next game, and it was a really one-sided game." and he said "But Nick is choosing Astriah, again. Nick chooses Astriah he wins, they're 2-1. Then he loses the next game, so they're tied 2-2" So now it's Nony and my brother in the final for the qualifier for the 2005 USA Finals and I'm just like "Roger, you gotta keep me updated on everything. My hearts pounding, I'm so stressed out and everything," and he's typing to me, and, uhm... He's like, "Okay. Nony tried to do this drop. It's not working. So Nick's building up his army, he's getting Dragoons and Reavers, he's getting his Shuttle. Nony's expanded before him. Wow, Nick really is slow on that shuttle, he's not moving his stuff out. Now he's ferrying his stuff to the low ground. Nony's expansion has been up for a really long time." And then dead silence. And then he comes back and says "Holy cow, HUGEEEE battle. One sec." and I don't hear from him for like 3 or 4 minutes and I've just never been so wigging out in my entire life, so he gets back on and he says "Okay. I think Nick won that battle. I think he came out on top." Five seconds later, he says "Nick lost his shuttle with both his reavers in it." and i was just like, oh my god... oh my god... I was like, oh, please please Nick find a win. And then Roger says "Oh wait a minute, you're gonna love this. Nick's food is 92. Nony's food is 38." and I was like *gasp* right as I got that I got a call from Nick, he said "I WON, I'm going to the finals man!" and I was, I had never been so happy in my entire life. I couldn't stop jumping for like, like, an hour and a half. I just had so much adrenaline in my body, I called my mum, she drove home for work, we both went out to dinner, Nick was in Texas so, who could, yea. But she and I went out to dinner, and we were just like "Oh my god, he trained so hard and he did it, and you're both gonna be at the finals. Because you know what, we're a family that plays Starcraft!" Uh, we're just the ones who get it, ya'know.
So going to that 2005 finals was... horrible to find out that my brother and I were paired each other first round, and I remember going out there and it was just so bittersweet... 'cause... I had to play my brother first round, and, and, I won... And afterwards, he gave me a big hug and everything and, ya'know, was talking to him and I just felt really bad. And I remember he... He brought me into this backstage, and he just started cried because he's just like "I'm sorry, man, ya'know, I practiced really hard for this." and... and then he just said "But you know what Sean, you're gonna win this tournament." He's like "I'm... I'm so proud of you." Ah... Man... There's 3000 nerds watching me right now, get all emotional but ya'know... It's just so important to me that... just the like, how supportive he could be, that he could be so upset that he flew all the way out, worked so hard and ended up getting eliminated first round to his brother, so he's gotta deal with all those obvious obnoxious comparisons... But then he still just says, ya'know, "I'm so proud of you. You're gonna win." and then, from that moment on, I was focused man. I can't lose after that, I can't be like "Whoops, lost to a 4pool next round! Whoops, got bunker rushed!" So I was just so focused that whole tournament, I ate so little. My focus was just peaked, and I ended up... It was the first time I ever actually won a tournament, and it was a little bittersweet 'cause ya'know, again, I had to knock Nick out first round, uh, ya'know, I had to play a bunch a whole bunch of my friend
After a quick revision from someone (Tschis :D)... It's time to start the actual process I guess, hah.
Edit: My word count says (all the parts I did) was 12,418 words. Day[9]... You talk far too much.
The first ever big tournament my brother and I tried to qualify for was the World Cyber Games Challenge, not the first World Cyber Games that happened in 2001, but like the 1999-2001, when like the KBK tournament were running, when players like... GG99Slayer and ElkY were very, very strong foreigners. And... I remember my brother was invited to the Blackish clan. He was BlackishGold, he got really far in the tournament, and he lost, and he was like horribly upset and everything. And it's so funny to think about the way that strategies worked back then. You know, I was...
it isn`t 1999-2001 he means the 1999-2000 one, like the one tournament happened in 1999-2000. Anything else would make no sense to me. well just a minor mistake but still one :D
got the daily downloaded, gonna re-encode to a smaller, easier format and get to work on the timings
edit: and don't worry about any potential small errors (do revise tho, makes my job easier) because as I time I'll be forced to go over it with a fine tooth comb so...
The first ever big tournament my brother and I tried to qualify for was the World Cyber Games Challenge, not the first World Cyber Games that happened in 2001, but like the 1999-2001, when like the KBK tournament were running, when players like... GG99Slayer and ElkY were very, very strong foreigners. And... I remember my brother was invited to the Blackish clan. He was BlackishGold, he got really far in the tournament, and he lost, and he was like horribly upset and everything. And it's so funny to think about the way that strategies worked back then. You know, I was...
it isn`t 1999-2001 he means the 1999-2000 one, like the one tournament happened in 1999-2000. Anything else would make no sense to me. well just a minor mistake but still one :D
Yeah, but it's a transcription of the audio... maybe he meant it, but what he said was "1999-2001", I'm almost sure (not home to check it)
re-encode is almost done, gonna try to get started with the timings today, kinda busy today tho, will get done ASAP as it's my #1 priority atm. Will update with progress.
On February 25 2011 00:35 grimhammer wrote: re-encode is almost done, gonna try to get started with the timings today, kinda busy today tho, will get done ASAP as it's my #1 priority atm. Will update with progress.
If you re-encode, can you assure the timmings of different files will be the same?
Edit1.:
@escruting At the [0:00:00] ->[0:45:00] part of English version, couple lines before the [0:05:00] mark where it says "So we want back to play single player" change to "So we went back to play single player"
At this same version, after the 5 minutes mark where it says "like chores, maw the lawn, because" change to "like chores, mow the lawn, because" //tx
On February 25 2011 00:35 grimhammer wrote: re-encode is almost done, gonna try to get started with the timings today, kinda busy today tho, will get done ASAP as it's my #1 priority atm. Will update with progress.
If you re-encode, can you assure the timmings of different files will be the same?
//tx
Yeah, it won't make a difference, I just want a format that my ooooold notebook can handle as well, that way I can work on it no matter where I am.
On February 25 2011 00:35 grimhammer wrote: re-encode is almost done, gonna try to get started with the timings today, kinda busy today tho, will get done ASAP as it's my #1 priority atm. Will update with progress.
If you re-encode, can you assure the timmings of different files will be the same?
//tx
Yeah, it won't make a difference, I just want a format that my ooooold notebook can handle as well, that way I can work on it no matter where I am.
Great.
Could you post a small piece of material when you got one? Like 5 minutes or something. I just wanna know how much work I'll have to put to insert the translated parts into the timed version.
If it's too much, I will wait for the whole english version to be finished before I translate.
On February 25 2011 00:35 grimhammer wrote: re-encode is almost done, gonna try to get started with the timings today, kinda busy today tho, will get done ASAP as it's my #1 priority atm. Will update with progress.
If you re-encode, can you assure the timmings of different files will be the same?
Edit1.:
@escruting At the [0:00:00] ->[0:45:00] part of English version, couple lines before the [0:05:00] mark where it says "So we want back to play single player" change to "So we went back to play single player"
At this same version, after the 5 minutes mark where it says "like chores, maw the lawn, because" change to "like chores, mow the lawn, because" //tx
Done, also added fragments to the german translation, user niTsEn has been working hard and has already done 30 minutes! Thanks!
The first ever big tournament my brother and I tried to qualify for was the World Cyber Games Challenge, not the first World Cyber Games that happened in 2001, but like the 1999-2001, when like the KBK tournament were running, when players like... GG99Slayer and ElkY were very, very strong foreigners. And... I remember my brother was invited to the Blackish clan. He was BlackishGold, he got really far in the tournament, and he lost, and he was like horribly upset and everything. And it's so funny to think about the way that strategies worked back then. You know, I was...
it isn`t 1999-2001 he means the 1999-2000 one, like the one tournament happened in 1999-2000. Anything else would make no sense to me. well just a minor mistake but still one :D
Yeah, but it's a transcription of the audio... maybe he meant it, but what he said was "1999-2001", I'm almost sure (not home to check it)
//tx
I just checked, and niTsEn is right. Day[9] says "not the first World Cyber Games that happened in two thousand one, but like the nineteen ninety nine - two thousand one". I can see where the mistake originated - if we used numbers to write that sentence, it would be "Not the first World Cyber Games that happened in 2001, but like the 1999-2000 one.". Get it?
I don't think there's any need for that, really. It's pretty clear once you look at it. It's "but like the 1999-2000 one" as in "but like the one that happened during the years 1999-2000".
On February 25 2011 08:36 Tschis wrote: Aff, near the last mistake, change the "not really much mawing is going on there" for "not really much mowing is going on there"
On February 25 2011 00:35 grimhammer wrote: re-encode is almost done, gonna try to get started with the timings today, kinda busy today tho, will get done ASAP as it's my #1 priority atm. Will update with progress.
[B]On February 25 2011 04:30 Tschis wrote: Could you post a small piece of material when you got one? Like 5 minutes or something. I just wanna know how much work I'll have to put to insert the translated parts into the timed version.
If it's too much, I will wait for the whole english version to be finished before I translate. //tx
I would also like a small sample! Since I'm new to this process it would be nice if you could post an example that I can roughly follow. Then I can start working on the final minutes and we can meet up on the middle (or middle-ish, you'll probably work a lot faster than me ) (I assume this is possible, can you merge timings like that? Surely they won't conflict)
Where it says "I just batched the first game and I lost" change to "I just botched the first game and I lost"
Edit.:
What do you guys think?
at [0:54:42] he says "So Fr0z came back through the Winners Bracket", but since he had beaten Fr0z, do you think he meant "So Fr0z came back through the Losers Bracket"?
Should we transcript it they way he said, or the way he meant it?
Haha yea I noticed that as well. I figured I'd just transcribe it faithfully :D I think it doesn't matter too much, might as well keep it.
I finally see what people are talking about, doing the timing first is the smart way. Now it's just an endless process of copy-pasting, there's no actual timing going on, I'm just subtitling at this point, hah.
Once I slowly but surely plod through the timing part of Day9 daily (uh, this will take awhile... especially since I'm off break after today xD) then there will be an english subtitled version of Day9 daily 100... and then I guess it's up to the rest of you to copy-paste the translations in, rofl. Ah, what a wonderful world subbing is.
I am an american, who isn't well known, but I believe I can say with confidence the community thanks you for doing this. Literally only good can come from its
Many apologies, been stuck in the RIFT head start, haven't been able to tear myself away from Telara. Since I live in Sweden it's 3:48 AM here now so I'll be heading to bed now but I'll post tomorrow morning with some progress as well as a small explanation for how to do it so we can split up the work.
So, he like, he's like "No, no, no! I'm right by the tournament, just come pick us up" He was 2 hours out of the way, we'd driven all night to get to Chicago, right? And then we had to drive 2 hours, to like, go get this guy and when we get there, he comes out, and he's like... he's like 13, okay? And Nick and I look at each other and we're like "That's Paul?" and I was like "I thought he was 22?!" and Nick's like "What? I thought he was 17" and apparently he was talking to my brother's girlfriend, who had driven us up there, and she's like "No, no, no, I thought he was 19" and we're like "...What?" and this, like, 14 year old comes up to our car and he's like "Hey what's up, I'm Paul, man! This is my dog, isn't my dog cool?" and this dog comes out and we're like "What the hell?!" and it's just so...
It's just kinda funny the way these things actually start happening when you just start transitioning over that border between interacting with people online and interacting with people in real life. I mean, he was one, like, humourous exception, but, you know, we took him to this tournament anyways, and... I remember this is when, you know, APM was big. People getting really into APM, so I tried to play really fast, and there was actually a question in the thread on TeamLiquid about this, about whether I ever, you know, get nervous or get like sweaty, or something like that. Oh my God, YES! For tournaments, Jesus! I get like... now I've sort of calmed down, but like in 2004 when I hadn't even really done that much, tournament-wise, I just, like, sweat!
And I remember I was playing, and I could feel the sweat pouring down my face and pooling at my nose, and dripping into my keyboard, 'cause I was like really far forward. And I checked my APM after that game, it was 412, in my first game. Because I was just like, so nervous and jittery. Non-sensically high, was not nearly good enough to actually make use of that, all that it really do was just make me sweat, like, a lot. Just like I was like a Sumo Wrestler who been jumping rope in an attic or something, I was exhausted.
So, you know, despite driving all night, managed to qualify for the finals and I'm like "Yes!"... And at this time, I started to... Be better friends with Fr0z, at this point in time. And Fr0z is... He is the most influential gamer that I have ever known, in terms of, especially in terms of Starcraft, but just of all time. He had this ability to just decide to be good. There was no bullshit, there was no excuse, there was... he... he... I remember asking him in 2001, like, "God, how do you play that fast?" And he said "Well I saw a video of some Korean guy, ChoJJa, and I thought 'I can play that fast', so I just kept playing until I could" and I was like "Oh my God..."
So this was like 3 years later, and, you know, I would... I would chat with him and he would watch some replay of like Boxer or Nada playing brilliantly, and he'd watch it and be like "God, he made so many mistakes. That guy sucks! I'm gonna play better than he does" and then... He would play a game, and I would observe, and he would play better than Nada. I mean, he would just do it, right? And eventually when I... You know, started meeting and LAN'ing with him and hanging out with him in college, he would just focus so intensely and he did all these crazy things like: He would turn his air conditioning really high so it'd be freezing, then he'd turn the heat on and practice. He'd practice with his chair at different heights, he'd practice with shoes on, with shoes off, he'd practice when he was tired, he'd practice after he had a lot of rest, before meals, after meals. He would vary up the schedule so much, so that way he would be prepared for anything!
And he was always so confident in himself. He just always believed in himself, and any time he lost, he would blame it on himself and be like "God, I suck. I need to get better." You know, it was a little... a little overly harsh. But I mean like, he just improved at such a phenomenal rate. So, I was terrified when I actually got to WCG 2004 finals, that he was in my bracket, right? It was this weird thing, 'cause I mean, I just told you there were 20 qualifiers everywhere. One of them didn't get announced until three days beforehand.
So there was this guy, there was actually this kid, he was like 11. He went to the Las Vegas qualifier, he was the only one who went there, so he qualified. And I remember I was in the hotel with Artosis and this little guy comes up and he's like "Are you here for the Starcraft tournament?" and we're like "Yeah man, yeah!" and Artosis goes "Did you qualify from Las Vegas?" and he was like "Yea!" and Artosis is like "That's awesome, man!" and the kid is... The kid goes "Did you know that there's a strategy where you can drop Vultures by their workers and kill them off?" and we were just like "Oh my God, that is the sweetest thing that I've ever heard in my entire life!" This little kid who qualified in Las Vegas is now at, like, a finals tournament with a pretty robust scene at the moment, and he is... Artosis and I were like "Man, that is awesome!" and then he like, left, and Artosis is like "God, I hope I'm in his bracket" and I'm like "Me too!" Ruthless competitors.
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But like, so, you know, they did a random seeding. And in the brackets it was like, Artosis and... Like, the bottom half, in terms of the skill bracket. And in my bracket was all the, like, the terrifying names that I was just praying to God I wouldn't have to face against, you know, there was: Evade was there, I actually have the list, Skew, Rekrul, Fr0z... Satist. Like, really good players at the time, and I remember my first game I just botched it, and I barely won against Evade 2-1. And you know, it's... it's... That tournament... I called my brother so many times, in that tournament. He didn't qualify for it, but I called him between every game and he kept calling to check up on me. Ah, God. It's like... it even makes me emotional.
Like, how supportive he's just always been of me, just like my whole family. And I remember I would like call him before games and be like "Dude, I gotta play Evade" and he's like "Dude, you've been practicing, you got this! You... you know you're better. Just stick to what you've been practicing. You understand this game, man. You get it! He's just here for fun but you're gonna be here for the win" right? and I played and I won, and then I was up against Fr0z and I was just terrified, but I got the chance to choose my map first.
I choose my best map, Korhal of Ceres. I have a well practiced strategy, Fr0z DEMOLISHES me on it. The game isn't even close, I called my brother in between those games, and I'm like "Man, I'm in this bracket of death, man. There's no way I can make it, I'm down 0-1 to Fr0z." and Nick said "No Sean! It is a bracket of death because there's people like you in it. You've beaten Fr0z all the time online, you got this man." and the next map is Gorky Island.
And if any of you look at that map, it is HORRENDOUS for Zerg vs Terran. Just look at it and you'll be like "Urghhhh". You know, it's an island map, it's very awkwardly positioned. But I practiced it really hard, I stuck to my guns and played a dramatic game and ended up winning. And then I felt really focused, I was calm, I'd stopped sweating and I just got in the zone. And in that third game, it was on Martian Cross, I was scouting with my first Overlord and he sniped it with Marines.
And I was just like, "Ohhh God." and then I just send a scouting Drone in there, just like "Well I don't know what he's doing" and I got into his base and I saw that he was early expanding. And at that point in time, early expanding against a Zerg was still a very unorthodox thing to do. Players still primarily one-based as Terran against Zerg, but he was early expanding, and all of a sudden in my head I went "I know exactly what I need to do to win." and I just. I... I did a transistion that I actually still use today. I expanded a bunch, I opened Mutalisks to harass, transistioned into Lurkers, got the Hive, then transistioned into Guardians followed by Ultralisks. When his first push came out, I had 12 Guardians that demolished the whole thing and just kept rallying Ultralisks until I won 2-1.
And it was insane, because I won and when I looked up no other games were being played in the tournament. It was just Fr0z and I, opposite computers and everyone else was crowded around, and I was just like "Ohhh my God!" I had no idea that there were that many people there. And it was just such a rush, and Fr0z shook my hand, you know, mannerly. And I called my brother and I'm like "Nick! Nick! I beat Fr0z" and he's like "Dude, I knew you could do it! Now you're playing against Satist, and that guy is probably pissing in his pants because you just knocked out the best Terran in America!" and I was just like "Oh my God!" and I... I beat Satist 2-0 and I was in the Top 3. Which meant I was qualifying ever, for my first ever Grand Finals.
And, I remember I actually played Artosis in the Winner's Bracket finals, so he was Top 3 as well, and you will never have seen a happier man than Artosis. I seriously... like... I sat down and he's like "Hey man!" he said "You wanna play a Best of One? I don't even care if I get first or second, we're all going man!" and I was like "Nah! Let's just play a Best of Three, I'm feeling good" and he's like "Cool man! Ah God, this feels so good!" and I remember in the games I was sitting there playing, and I leaned over, because he was playing across from me, our monitors were facing each other, so if I leaned over I could see him.
And in the middle of a game, I just looked over and he was just beaming. He was just beaming! It was... And it was so cool, 'cause it was like a moment, you know, where it's like... I know exactly, 'cause I knew Artosis had been practicing, so I know exactly how hard this guy has been training for this] tournament and I know how hard I've been training for this tournament man. And it like, paid off.
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So Fr0z came back through the Winners Bracket, he actually... He actually won the whole tournament, he just like... He had to beat me like in two Best of Threes, and he did that handily, he beat me like 5-1 and however many games I ended up playing after that. So... Fr0z won the whole tournament. But you know, it was me, Artosis and Fr0z going, and it was like my first ever WCG USA qualifer that I qualified for the Grand Final. And I was just like "Oh my God..." and I called my mom and this is... this is... I part say this is what happens when you have a mom who is just around two Starcraft players, but more importantly what happens when you just have a really kind mom, who just supports you.
'Cause I called her and I said "Mom, mom I did it! I'm in the Top 3, and I beat Fr0z to do it" and she said "Sean, you beat Fr0z?! Oh my God!" Because Fr0z had, you know, gone to the Grand Finals, he beat Boxer TWICE! In 2002, and in the group of death, and I mean, just an epic, epic player. And it was just so, so nice. And then, you know, I went to the Grand Finals and I practiced more for that.
And, you know, in between that period of time I learned another like, I think, key thing, in terms of my mindset as a player, that I... Zerg versus Terran was my good match up, actually, as you're gonna hear, my Zerg vs Protoss is actually been really lackluster until about 2007, I think was the first year when I was actually like "Hey! I'm confident in this." but it was just Zerg vs Terran that I really got, and, you know, right around the time of those finals, especially leading up to the Grand Finals, it occured to me...
That... I really should not ever be worrying about the player, or who the player is, or what the player is capable of, or who he has beaten in the past, or what his rank is, or what anything is. If he is Terran, Terran has constraints that any Terran cannot overcome, and that means that if I practice against Terran it doesn't matter what name behind that... what the name of that player is, or who that player is, because I know how to beat Terran and I just studied how Terran worked, and... I came across that key timing, where after the Zerg gets Lurkers, you can come make a ton of Drones, because the Terran player cannot move out until he has a Science Vessel.
It seems... It seems totally intuitive now, because you watch the pro matches and they do that all the time. There's nothing new about that... But at the time, it was just like, weird! Because players would pretty much just start massing up units, once they hit a certain point, just start making the units and never stop making the units. But it was just this alternation and... When I... Time for the WCG Grand Finals, I was actually in Group E... Yeah! Actually, hold on! Stay right here! So, I'm going, going over to my closest right now, because I think I actually still have these little things...
Yea! Yea! Dude, guys! Keep everything! Keep every single thing that you get, see here's my beib, I was in the Group E at the WCG Grand Finals. And in my group, it was the Group of Death, again! It was MethosPG, the famous German Zerg player, it was HellGhost, the famous Brazilian Terran player, who is also very strong at Random, and Liquid`Drone, who played Random, but in tournaments he would just pick whatever race was the best at that map and at the time. I was against these players and I was just like "AHHHHH, GOD!" you know.
My brother... My brother, the game was in San Fransisco, so I could still get cellphone reception, my brother called my everyday and before every game I would call him and I would say "Nick, I have to play Methos." and Nick said "Don't worry man, you got this!" and I think the general theme in all my tournaments is that I'm very shaken in like, the first... game of the tournament. Or in the first... even in a Best of Three, I generally lose the first game... Excuse me, if I do win the Best of Three, I end up losing the first one and then winning the next two, that's sort of the story of my life.
So, I played against MethosPG and for some reason I got so shaken up that I was in this huge area of computers, every famous player that ever met, excuse me, every famous player that I've ever heard of, from around the WORLD, was there! It wasn't just America! It was the whole world! Mondragon, Deathshaman from Romania, who you guys should know because he's pretty awesome. I mean, Liquid`Drone... The famous Canadian players, like Testie, was there. The Koreans were there, XellOs, my hero, was there. I was just so shaken up... that I abandoned my game plan against Methos. For no reason. I just completely abandoned my game plan.
I went Hydralisks in Zerg vs Zerg. Which nowadays, you know, I love Hydras in Zerg vs Zerg, but then, I never practiced it, and I just locked up. And I called my brother and I was like "Okay Nick, I'm already down 0-1. I have two more games I gotta play against HellGhost and Ariador" Excuse me, Ariador is Liquid`Drone, same person. And I was just like "Oh God" and he's like "No man! Remember, dude, you knocked out Fr0z at the finals man. You knocked out Satist. You knocked out Artosis, man, you got this!" Endlessly supportive of me, and 'cause he was a Starcraft player, and because we talked so much, he could just calm me down and get me focused and get me in the zone.
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And I... I managed to win my next game against HellGhost. It was a pretty dramatic game but I managed to win. I managed to win my next game against Liquid`Drone, on my best map, and I just stuck to my game plan and crisply executed it. And all of a sudden, I... I was first in the group! I was first! I was 2-1, Liquid`Drone was 2-1, and Methos and HellGhost both went 1-2. So I was like "Oh my, oh my God, I'm in the Round of 16!" and I hadn't played DarkCalum, whose a very famous Check player, we played a Zerg vs Zerg and I won that 2-0, and now all of a sudden I had to play against XellOs.
Now, that's... That is awesome for two reasons. Because XellOS was the Korean, who eventually went on to win that tournament. And I'm not gonna lie, when you're in a Starcraft tournament, and you're just a random, you know, basically a newbie from America, I mean... Like, especially compared like, to the calibre of player there. I was just not, you know, top of the... top of the pack. If you get faced against XellOS, that's the person you wanna lose to man! Oh, that's so great for we-little-weasely-foreigners who have no pro-scene. Oh yea, I lost to the Korean, no big deal! You don't wanna lose to someone, you know, who is also a foreigner or anything like that.
So... he demolished me and I actually did a review of one of the games I played against him in the Day[9] Daily. But... So I ended up getting eliminated and I was a little bit bitter but... It was, it just went so well, because I got to go back to school and this is when I'm a Freshman in College, and I get to tell everyone "Guys, I went to the Starcraft World Finals, and I lost to the Korean who won it all!" You know, I mean, easy out for me, right? Easiest thing in the world.
If I lost to someone, you know, with an embarrassing name, for instance: Rekrul, in the WCG USA Final, the one that Fr0z, Artosis and I got first-second-third... Rekrul was eliminated in the Losers Bracket by Monkeyballs, was the guy's name. Now if you're in a tournament, and you have to go home and your mom's like "Oh honey, how did the tournament go?", "Oh it went crappy, got eliminated by some random guy in the Losers Bracket?", "Well who was it?!", "It was Monkeyballs" You know... It just, damages reputation for everything you've ever done in your life, you know. So... I'm delighted that, you know, I managed to lose to... to XellOs in that final. What was I... What was I talking about, I need to get my notebook out, once again. I've put it aside to go get that awesome little beib, because once again, I keep absolutely everything.
Still, I, I, at this point I've had no wins in my entire life, and I remember for the, for the 2005 final... So there was like this online ladder that... you know there's a qualifier for, and I mean, it's... It's around this time that my family really started to just gel around Starcraft, you know? Like, any time we had a tournament, mom would ask for updates... Nick and I would constantly call each other, and anytime ask... anyone asked me for my favourite memory, or one of my favourite memories, I tell them the story of how my brother qualified for the 2005 Final, 'cause I qualified online, so I was already seeded, right?
And Nick had to drive down to Texas for this tournament, and... So it was just him, right? It wasn't anything dumb like we both had to go to the same qualifier and one of us ended up winning. We went to diferent places, and at this qualifier, NonY was actually there. NonY is really, really good now, and he was pretty damn good back then as well, and my brother had been practicing his Protoss vs Protoss... And, oh my God, I remember he... So he drove down there, he drove 17 hours to get to this Texas qualifier, and he'd been practicing so hard, oh my God, he killed himself practicing for that tournament. Just endless Protoss vs Protoss against random players, against practice partners, against everyone he could find. And again, for any of you tuning in, this is my brother Tasteless, who's the... You know, the Storm Observer for GomTV.
He... He practiced so hard for that tournament, and he drove all the way down there, and... NonY was knocked into the Losers Bracket by a Zerg player early on, so Nick was like "Oh my God, yes! I have a free ride to get to the finals!" so that's what happens, Nick gets all the way to the finals, we're calling each other, he's updating me, he's like "Dude, I got this! NonY was knocked into the Losers Bracket!" but NonY came all the way up, losing first round, came all the way through the Losers Bracket, and when they got to the finals, the way that it worked was that Nick had to win one Best of Five, and NonY had to win two Best of Fives.
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So Nick says "Alright man, alright. I'm... I'm feeling a little nervous.", and I'm like "Don't worry man! It's cool, you got this! You can do this, man. You've been training, just stick to what you know!" and he... He plays the series and he calls me back twenty minutes later and he says... He says "Sean, I got 3-0'd. He... He raped me. It wasn't even close. It was totally one-sided, he 3-0'd me." And he said "Sean, I..." God, he said "Sean, I drove all the way out here and I'm gonna lose. I tried so hard and I'm just gonna lose here." And I... God... I felt so bad, he still had a Best of Five left and I, and I talked to him for 45 minutes. He actually asked the tourney directors if he could have 5 minutes, but he...
He just stayed on the phone with me for 45 minutes, and I calmed him down. I was just like "Don't worry." I told him he got rushed all three games, so it's obviously gonna feel worse. But you just have to... God I just get so emotional about this, right? I was like "You just stick to what you know." right? And it was Loser picks the map, so he was allowed to pick the first map, so he chose Astriah, which was a really obnoxious Island map. Because for some reason WCG just keeps throwing in Island maps into the series. They just had this... The hook on it, I don't know, but it was in there, so...
So Nick chooses Astriah, and he wins the first game. And I'm like "Yes!" and he had a brilliant build, constructed on Astriah. I mean, to this day when I go back and I look at that, brilliant! Weirdly timing when he gets his Range Upgrade for an Island map as Protoss, but it finishes at just the right time to deal with this one Dark Templar drop, and this one time when his opponent would get Observers in, he can snipe it with the Range before it gets in. Building placement thought out, genius! He executes it, he wins.
And there's this guy, who... Another friend I met through Starcraft named RogerDodger... I think his real name was Matt, but we called him Roger. So RogerDodger was messaging me via Battle.net, there was no way to get a hold of him, so he said "Nick lost the next game, and it was a really one-sided game." and he said "But Nick is choosing Astriah, again." Nick chooses Astriah, he wins, they're 2-1. And then he loses the next game, so they're tied 2-2. So now it's NonY and my brother in the final for the qualifier for the 2005 USA Finals, and I'm just like "Roger, you gotta keep me updated on everything." Like, my heart is pounding, I'm so stressed out and everything... And he's typing to me, and...
He's like "Okay. NonY tried to do this drop. It's not working. So Nick's building up his army, he's getting Dragoons and Reavers, he's getting his Shuttle. NonY's expanded before him. Wow! Nick really is slow on that Shuttle, he's not moving his stuff out. Now he's ferrying his stuff to the low ground. NonY's expansion has been up for a really long time." And then dead silence. And then he comes back and says "Holy cow, HUGEEEE battle. One sec." and I don't hear from him for like 3 or 4 minutes, and I've just never been so wigging out in my entire life! So he gets back on and he says "Okay. I think Nick won that battle. I think he came out on top." Five seconds later, he says "Nick lost his Shuttle with both his Reavers in it." and I was just like... "Oh my God... Oh my God..." I was like "Oh, please, please Nick, find a win!" And then Roger says "Oh wait a minute, you're gonna love this. Nick's food is 92. NonY's food is 38." and I was like *gasp*...
And right as I got that I got a call from Nick, he said "I WON, I'm going to the finals, man!" and I was, I had never been so happy in my entire life. I couldn't stop jumping for like... Like an hour and a half. I just had like so much adrenaline in my body. I called my mom, she drove home from work, we both went out to dinner, Nick was in Texas so, you know... But she and I went out to dinner, and we were just like "Oh my God, he trained so hard and he did it, and you're both gonna be at the finals. Because you know what, we're a family that plays Starcraft!" We're just the ones who get it, you know.
So going to that 2005 finals was... horrible to find out that my brother and I were paired against each other first round. And I remember going out there and it was just so bittersweet... 'Cause... I had to play my brother first round, and... And I won... And afterwards, he gave me a big hug and everything and, you know, was talking to him and I just felt really bad. And I remember he...
He brought me into this backstage, and he just started crying, because he's just like "I'm sorry, man, you know, I practiced really hard for this." And... and then he just said "But you know what Sean? You're gonna win this tournament." He's like "I'm... I'm so proud of you." Man, there's 3000 nerds watching me right now, get all emotional but, you know... It's just so important to me that... Just the like, the... How supportive he could be. That he could be so upset that he flew all the way out, worked so hard, and ended up getting eliminated first round to his brother, so he's gonna deal with all those obvious obnoxious comparisons...
But then he still just says, you know "I'm so proud of you. You're gonna win." And then, from that moment on, like, I was focused man! I can't lose after that! I can't be like "Whoops, sorry! I lost to a 4-Pool, next round! Whoops, got Bunker Rushed!" You know? So I was just so focused that whole tournament, I ate so little. My focus was just peaked, and I ended up... It was the first time I ever actually won a tournament, and it was a little bittersweet, 'cause you know, again, I had to knock Nick out first round.. You know, I had to play a bunch a whole bunch of my friends
Oh wow Tschis, it totally just occured to me. It boggled me when I was transcribing but it totally makes sense now + Show Spoiler +
Shortly after [0:59:46] (in that paragraph) So I was like "Oh my, oh my God, I'm in the Round of 16!" and I hadn't played DarkCalum, whose a very famous Check (original) -> Czech (what he meant) player, we played a Zerg vs Zerg and I won that 2-0, and now all of a sudden I had to play against XellOs.
und ich sagte nur.. "Oh Gott! Ja Junge, gutes Spiel!" Ich wusste nicht, was ich tun soll, wie ich feiern sollte, denn ich mache keine Partys, sondern spiele Videospiele! Wie sähe ein guter Freitagabend für mich aus? Wie wäre es mit einer Runde Siedler von Catan oder dem Kartenspiel Dominion? So, also, ich war in Cancún und habe gerade das größte Starcraft-Turnier gewonnen bei dem ich je war, und dann ging ich einfach zurück in mein Hotelzimmer und setzte mich auf's Bett und wusste nicht, was ich tun sollte. Ich war einfach da und dachte mir, "Oh mein Gott... Das wars.. das ist cool!", schaute irgendeinen blöden Johnny Depp Film und ich aß die gefrorenen M&Ms aus dem Eisschrank. Und, ich erinnere mich, ich spazierte einfach am Strand entlang, ganz allein und saß einfach dort herum und dachte "Mann, ich habe wirklich, wirklich hart an etwas gearbeitet... und es hat sich bezahlt gemacht. Und die einzige Person die verantwortlich ist, bin ich." Und ich erinnere mich, ich... meine Mutter hat mir vorher eine Nachricht geschickt auf Facebook, sogar bevor ich dann zuhause war, aber auf Facebook schrieb sie "Oh mein Gott, Sean, herzlichen Glückwunsch! Ich bin so stolz auf dich, ich weiß wie hart du dafür gearbeitet hast und ich habe das Ergebnis gesehen. Ich habe gehört, dass du Testie gleich zwei mal ausgeknockt hast!" Wie cool kann eine Mutter sein, hm? Wie oft sagt deine Mutter "Yeah, du hast Testie zwei mal in einem Turnier besiegt" und versteht es? Stimmts? Welche Mutter weiß von den berühmten kanadischen Starcraft Spielern, außer meiner Mutter, und meiner Familie, die mich von Anfang bis Ende unendlich viel unterstützt hat.
Und... was so lustig an dem Turnier war, ist, wie ich sagte ich bin ein sehr zurückhaltender Spieler, ich veröffentliche nicht gern meine eigenen Replays, vor allem keine Replays von mir, wie ich gewinne, denn das fühlt sich irgendwie... großspurig an. Wie "Hey, ich habe ein Spiel gewonnen, hurrr", und dann lad' ich es da hoch... aber wenn der andere Typ nicht möchte, dass ich es hochlade; ich will ihn ja nicht in Verlegenheit bringen, vielleicht hatte er einen schlechten Tag. Also veröffentliche ich sehr selten Replays von mir bei der PGTour oder dem iCCup. Und für dieses Turnier, das Pan American, sind alle Replays verloren gegangen. Somit hatte ich nie eine Chance, mir auch nur eines dieser Spiele noch einmal anzusehen. Aber das ist in Ordnung, denn es ist immer noch eine wirklich schöne Erinnerung. Ich habe tatsächlich diese kleine Medaille hier oben, ach, warum hole ich sie nicht einfach kurz, ich habe doch überall in meinem Zimmer Starcraft Zubehör rumliegen. Ja, hier ist sie. Hier ist meine tolle kleine Goldmedaille, die einzige Goldmedaille die ich jemals aus einem Starcraft Turnier bekommen habe. Ich brauchte sechs Jahre der WCGs um das zu erreichen, und acht Jahre lang Spielen. Einfach Einsatz zeigen, einfach hart arbeiten und nur, wie mein Bruder sagte, nur an sich selbst glauben.
Und danach war in der Schule einfach zu viel los. Ich meine, 2008 habe ich in einem Qualifier gespielt und habe mich nicht qualifiziert und konnte nicht zu den Finals. Und 2009 habe ich mich zwar qualifiziert, aber konnte wieder nicht gehen, wegen der Schule. Aber wisst ihr was, in dieser Periode brauchte ich immer meine Dosis Starcraft. Ich habe immer noch all die Pro Matches verfolgt, ich habe sogar bis vor kurzem, vor 3-4 Wochen, jedes einzelne professionelle Starcraft Match seit 2003 gesehen. Jedes einzelne, und.. ich liebe einfach die Szene. Ich liebe Teamliquid, wo man einfach mal vorbeischauen und mit einer Gruppe von Leuten chatten kann, mal ein Replay postet, denn wisst ihr was? Wenn du ein Spiel hast mit wahnsinnig gutem Mutalisk Micro, ist es manchmal so schwer, in der Lage zu sein sich zum Mitbewohner umzudrehen und zu sagen "Alter, hier ist diese schwierige Sache die ich geschafft habe, und... ich bin wirklich glücklich." Aber wenn du dich in MSN einloggen kannst und einen Kumpel findest und sagst "Mann, guck dir das Replay an!" und er sagt "Oh Mann, gute Arbeit!" - diese Art von Unterstützung und Ermutigung ist es, die die Starcraft Community so, so wunderbar macht und warum ich so hocherfreut bin, schon so lange ein Teil davon zu sein.
Und ich erinnere mich sogar, wo ich die ganze Zeit von meinem Leben als Spieler gesprochen habe, im College habe ich mir regelmäßig die Matches angeschaut und ich habe immer so viele Leute wie möglich dazu eingeladen und habe versucht, ihnen zu erklären was in diesen Spielen vor sich geht, denn ich.. ich dachte, die waren so cool. Und ich fand, dass diese professionellen Spieler so talentiert waren und ich war entschlossen, es ihnen allen verständlich zu machen, und kam zu dem Punkt an dem sie es tatsächlich verstanden haben. Und am Harvey Mudd, einer Schule mit jetzt gut 900 Leuten, ich glaube damals waren es 850, habe ich angefangen eine Art von Ausstrahlung der MSL/OSL Finals zu hosten. Ich ging zum akademischen Ende, ins Auditorium, und mietete es von etwa Mitternacht bis drei Uhr morgens, und ich schickte eine E-Mail an die ganze Schule mit der Absicht jeden; so viele wie möglich dort reinzubekommen, und es zog tatsächlich von gut 800 Leuten 350 an, die es sich anschauen wollten. Und es war GROSSARTIG! Ich hatte das Mikrofon, und ich half jedem, zu verstehen, warum dieses Spiel so cool war. Ich meine, Spielen ist super - ich liebe Spielen und zu Turnieren zu gehen, dafür zu trainieren, aber es gibt nichts erfüllenderes als in eine Menschenmenge zu blicken und ihnen verständlich zu machen, was ich liebe. Und für jeden von euch Zuschauern: 1:45:00
Wenn ihr Freunde und Familie habt, ist das definitiv etwas, das ihr tun solltet. Ich meine, das ist der Grund, dass in den letzten.. im letzten Jahr, naja, ich hatte nicht mehr die Gelegenheit so viel zu spielen, aber ich brauchte immer noch meine Dosis, und ich möchte einfach so viele Spiele wie möglich kommentieren und alles aus 12 Jahren Starcraft teilen, all meine Gedanken und alles, und, wisst ihr, einfach mit dieser unfassbar tollen Community interagieren.
Ein paar der Dinge, die Leute gefragt haben, waren "Wie schaffst du es, Schule und Arbeit und das ganze Starcraftzeug unter einen Hut zu bringen?" und die Antwort lautet: Ich liebe Starcraft einfach so sehr, und ich liebe, dass ich es liebe. Ich gehe also zur Schule, hänge mit meinen Freunden rum, aber ich schäme mich auch nicht dafür, wenn es Freitagabend ist und ich einfach zuhause bleiben und Starcraft spielen möchte. In der Highschool ging ich non-stop auf LAN-Partys. Und jetzt im College habe ich nach heute Abend nicht mehr so viel Arbeit zu erledigen, und wisst ihr was, ich spiele jetzt Starcraft 2. Ich muss nicht rausgehen und irgendeiner sozialen Norm gerecht werden, etwa "Oh, du bist im College und gehst nicht auf Partys?" "Nun, dieses Wochenende nicht. Ich will Starcraft spielen!" und ich denke, das ist super.
Und wisst ihr, was? Ich werde eine Veranstaltung hosten am Wochenende und hole alle Leute dazu. Ich hoste die OSL im Auditorium, auf einem 15inch Projektor, und jeder kommt und versteht, warum es so cool ist.
So, wisst ihr, ich glaube, ich habe jetzt so ziemlich alles angesprochen, was es heißt, ein Starcraft Spieler zu sein. Es gibt so viele Lektionen die ich gelernt habe, die so wertvoll für mich waren. Zum Beispiel: verlieren. Eine Niederlage ist keine schlimme Sache. Misserfolg ist nichts, was man verachten oder vermeiden sollte, und auch nichts wo man jemandem versichern sollte "Nein nein, ist schon in Ordnung, der russische Preisrichter war nur in einer schlechten Stimmung." Diese Niederlagen, diese Spiele, in denen du nicht gut gespielt hast, die du verloren hast, die sind nicht du. Das ist auch keine reflexion von dir; das Spiel ist absolut extern von dir. Und wenn du es dir einfach anschaust, alles was diese Niederlage ist, ist ein Pfeil der dich in die falsche Richtung schickt.
Im schlimmsten Falle, wenn ich hundert Spiele verliere, dann habe ich hundert verschiedene Informationsquellen die ich mir anschauen kann, um ein besserer Spieler zu werden. Und jetzt habe ich wirklich nur sehr wenig Angst vor Misserfolg. Denn wenn ich ein Turnier in den 2005 Finals gegen einen Spieler komplett verbocke, weil ich viel zu nervös war, was macht das schon? Ich werde nächstes Jahr zurück sein und werde aus diesem Fehler gelernt haben, und in der Zukunft werde ich mich im Griff haben.
Es hat mir sehr geholfen mit Dingen umzugehen. Etwa, wenn ich eine Hausaufgabe vermasselt habe, ist es gar nicht so eine große Sache, wenn ich am Ende einer Beziehung bin, weil es letztlich irgendwie nicht gepasst hat... ich kann damit jetzt viel besser umgehen. Ich weiß dass, weil man in Starcraft so schnell Entscheidungen treffen muss, ich jetzt sehr wenige Probleme damit habe, Entscheidungen zu treffen, und ich erkenne, wie wichtig es ist, in der Lage zu sein, jetzt zu entscheiden und sich erst später zu fragen, ob das besser ist. Zu oft, glaube ich, verschwenden die Leute ihre Zeit mit diesen Problemen, und sagen "Soll ich A oder B tun?", und sie sind zu verängstigt sich zu entscheiden. Starcraft macht dich stolz, jemand zu sein, der Entscheidungen trifft, und es lässt es dich lieben, so jemand zu sein. All diese Situationen in denen du dich wiederfinden kannst, sind so viel einfacher, wenn man diese Erfahrungen hat.
Und die letzte Sache die ich sagen möchte ist, dass man versteht, wie wichtig die Community ist. Niemand in Starcraft ist isoliert und spielt immer nur allein, kommt wieder und ist besser als alle anderen. Spieler spielen miteinander, sie diskutieren miteinander und entwickeln wirklich enge Freundschaften nach Übersee. Einige meiner besten Freunde leben in Europa, Starcraft sei dank. Diesen Community Aspekt habe ich einfach so gern.
Ich schließe ab mit dieser letzten Frage die jemand stellte: "Was möchtest du tun mit Starcraft 2? Willst du ein professioneller Spieler werden? Willst du ein Kommentator sein?" Mein Lebenstraum ist es, dass eSports in der westlichen Welt groß wird. Ich will, dass es eine riesige Angelegenheit ist. Also wäre ich sehr gern der Botschafter der eSports. Ich will die Person sein, die du deiner Mutter zeigen kannst und sagen kannst: "Schau dir diesen Typ an, er ist nicht Obdachlos! Er ist nicht schrecklich schlimm geraten, stimmts? Er spielte dieses Spiel und es hat ihn weit gebracht im Leben. Und hör dir an, wie er das Spiel beschreibt. Dieses großartige Gefühl, über das er reden kann, das ist, was ich empfinde." Das ist etwas, was ich für so wichtig halte. Einfach in der Lage zu sein, so vielen Leuten wie möglich eSports zu vermitteln und ich wünsche mir, dass die Liebe und die Leidenschaft für eSports einfach niemals aufhören. Und.. es wäre ein gut verbrachtes Leben, wenn ich das tun könnte.
So, das waren jetzt gut zwei Stunden. Vielen Dank an jeden, der reingeschaut hat. Und für alle von euch, die ein Getränk haben, ich würde gern einen Trinkspruch sagen für zwölf Jahre, für meinen liebsten Freund, die Starcraft Community, die mit mir durch dick und dünn gegangen ist. Glaubt immer an euch selbst und habt große Träume. Prost. - 1:50:00
I have divided the text into the same paragraphs as Rampager in his transcript, that might help later on with the exact timings. Any German who wants to revise it, feel free to do so. I appreciate it.
The Day[9]TV Guys said the would do the timing process, so don't worry guys, for now we just have to translate the text entirely (i believe the only thing left is the revision of the fragment 0:45:26 to 1:10:00 by Tschis)
EDIT: i just saw its arleady done.... , sorry, i'll update the OP and send it to the Day[9]TV guys!
EDIT2: OP updated with the revision by Tschis, corrected the "botched" thing, the Check->Czech thing too, also added a fragment by Robqxz to the german translation.
Rampager, elladan and Tschis, send me your emails (i think gmail is necesary) to share with you the document so you cant make more correction if you want.
I made some corrections too, listed above (in order of appearance):
untill-> until occasionnally-> occasionally praticed-> practiced reasonnable-> reasonable litteraly-> literally (x4) sinceres-> sincerest noone-> no one (x2) mentionned-> mentioned developped-> developed harrassment-> harassment totaly-> totally peharps-> perhaps personnalities-> personalities conviced-> convinced pust-> put humourous-> humorous transistion-> transition transistioned-> transitioned (x2) qualifer-> qualifier (x4) occured-> occurred diferent-> different cocaster-> co-caster necessarrily-> necessarily ya'know-> you know (x5) rewatch-> re-watch
I hope everything is okay, almost all of the thing i corrected are grammar wise. Let me know what you thing guys, ill revert some if you want xD.
Also there are a couple of "beib" between the [0:54:42] and the [1:04:23] fragments. I don't know if its a player name or you wanted to say "babe".
On February 27 2011 18:59 escruting wrote: The Day[9]TV Guys said the would do the timing process, so don't worry guys, for now we just have to translate the text entirely (i believe the only thing left is the revision of the fragment 0:45:26 to 1:10:00 by Tschis)
EDIT: i just saw its arleady done.... , sorry, i'll update the OP and send it to the Day[9]TV guys!.
So they're gonna get back to us with a timed english translation for us to translate or should we translate the transcript and they'll time that, when are they gonna time the english translation and how soon can we get the timed subtitles? Or is their plan to time and put up?
On February 27 2011 18:59 escruting wrote: The Day[9]TV Guys said the would do the timing process, so don't worry guys, for now we just have to translate the text entirely (i believe the only thing left is the revision of the fragment 0:45:26 to 1:10:00 by Tschis)
EDIT: i just saw its arleady done.... , sorry, i'll update the OP and send it to the Day[9]TV guys!.
So they're gonna get back to us with a timed english translation for us to translate or should we translate the transcript and they'll time that, when are they gonna time the english translation and how soon can we get the timed subtitles? Or is their plan to time and put up?
With the daily number 100 in english we will give them the transcript and they will make the timings (when they can, i dont know how much time will it take, they don't know yet).
But, with other dailies, as you can read here ( http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=195464) they will give us the english transcript (i dont know if with the timings already put on them) and then we will translate it to the other languages.
We are still figuring it out and they are talking with blip.tv to know the best way to do it.
Oh so they'll do the whole timing process? Well then I guess my job here is done, hah.
You may need to clarify how much they're doing escruiting. Like grimhammer said (and now I understand xD) there's a varying amount of work they could do.
e: I see you posted, but I can only assume they're basically going to do the entire english subtitle, and then translators will download the subtitle file and change it line by line.
Do not translate ANYTHING without timings, for your own sake. If I can only get Subtitles Workshop working I'll try to give a timing sample along with an estimation of how long it takes for an amateur to time one minute.
On February 27 2011 20:43 Rampager wrote: Oh so they'll do the whole timing process? Well then I guess my job here is done, hah.
You may need to clarify how much they're doing escruiting. Like grimhammer said (and now I understand xD) there's a varying amount of work they could do.
e: I see you posted, but I can only assume they're basically going to do the entire english subtitle, and then translators will download the subtitle file and change it line by line.
I think i already explained it in this post, also on the thread to vote the dailies to subtitle(and posts on this thread).
They say they will provide the english trancript of the dailies choosed on this thread, then the community will make the "proofing process" aka the same tschis has been doing, make sure everything is alright and that the SC-related words are correct. Then we will send it to them, they will do the subtitling process of the english transcript and then they'll give it to us so we can translate it to whatever language we want.
They intend to put the subtitles on blip.tv but they are figuring out how to do it( i suppose they will make the same in youtube).
Things to do now: If they want, Rampager, elladan and Tschis have to give me their gmail to share with them the Google docs document so they can make a final revision of the whole transcript. If its not necessary, tell me and i'll send it to the Day[9] Crew today.
If there are more questions, let me know
PD: and please vote the next dailies you want to be subtitled on the thread i mentioned, tell your sc2 friends and everyone you can, we need more votes to make sure we are doing the right choices.
Aite, done the first 5 minutes, took roughly 1 hour with me being rusty and not really focused (crazy puppy demanding attention and raising hell) so that's about what it'll take for someone who's never done this before as well, if they are focused on what they're doing. Subtitle file
Hopefully we won't have to think about this if they Day[9] crew is doing all the timing, my only concern then is that it's done well but I think they'll manage that Either way it doesn't hurt to have this on paper, so to speak.
Let's quickly explain the process then. The format we're working in is .ASS, which is one of those more fancy formats that allows styling and other fun stuff mostly used by fansubbers. When we want to change this for the finished product, the only thing you need to do is change from .ass to .srt, no fancy conversions needed so that's that. Download the daily (hd version, FLV doesn't really work) from blip.tv and let's get busy :D
The program we're using is Aegisub (Download Here), a free and VERY good subtitling program. Below follows a quick explanation on how it works and how to time anything.
Alright then, when you've grabbed the subtitle file and loaded it up, the first thing you're gonna wanna do is get some video going (video -> open video, duh) and set the zoom on the video to 50% to get it out of the way (personal preference). So, quick rundown of the software.
Upper left square is video and video controls, the only things to note here is the three buttons play, play selected line, and pause. The first button, play, plays the video from whatever point you're at currently. Mark a line below and hit play and it plays the video from that point on until you hit pause. Play selected line does what it says, it starts the video from the current line, runs until that line is over and then stops. Pause is self explanatory.
Next part is the bottom half (saving top right square for last) and here is where the subtitle file is, so to speak. Every line in the video ends up here and this is what you're using to navigate the video. For instance, click line 51 and then hit play on the video controls and it plays from that point forwards.
Last part is the editing window. There's alot of stuff to play with here but the only thing you need to focus on is start and end times for that line and the commit button, which enters the line into the subtitles and creates a new empty line.
The process then. Timing is NOT a science, it's an art form. By that I mean that there's no "right" way to do things, you go by feel. If it feels and looks right, odds are it is. Quick example.
Because, you know, I would make sure that all the units had names, if they were dishonorable in some way, they would have to be executed, I would talk to them, you know, just like: "Erm. Oh yeah. I gotta make sure that Martin the marine... you know, we gotta give him something special, because he has 4 kills." You know, because I just, would only attack with like 3-4 units at a time.
"Because, you know, I would make sure that all the units had names, if they were dishonorable in some way, they would have to be executed," This is a very natural breaking point. It's a good amount of text, it's the end of a sentence and it just feels right to break here. So you note what time he starts talking, what time he stops talking and fill those two in in the start and end fields and hit commit. If there's more than .5 seconds since the previous line you want to leave some space in between lines but if not, just tack the second line on directly after the first one.
"I would talk to them, you know, just like: "Erm. Oh yeah. I gotta make sure that Martin the marine... you know, we gotta give him something special, because he has 4 kills."" This is also a natural breaking point. Unfortunately, this is too much text so we have to insert an extra break. I inserted it between "marine... you" because that felt alot better than any other option. This leaves "you know, we gotta give him something special, because he has 4 kills."" on it's own, which is perfectly fine since it's a self-contained statement.
"You know, because I just, would only attack with like 3-4 units at a time." Is what's left, and altho it could've been tacked on with "you know, we gotta give him something special, because he has 4 kills."" because the two lines are very close to each other in time, it looks better on it's own. When you read it stuck together it's obvious. ""you know, we gotta give him something special, because he has 4 kills." You know, because I just, would only attack with like 3-4 units at a time."
So. Here's how I do it, I listen to Sean talk. When he hits a natural breaking point, I pause and determine if it's too much text (you wanna make sure to never hit 3 rows of text in one line) I find a good point to break, find out the time, fill it in and commit. Then I mark the line I just entered, hit play and listen to him talk, making sure that the subtitle looks good and starts and ends at the right time and when the completed line is done I keep the video rolling until I got the next line to be entered, be it thru natural breaking point or too much text, pause, enter the line and then repeat ad nauseam.
Fortunately this is one long scene so it's not very complicated and we should be grateful for that. Cuts make things more difficult
On February 27 2011 22:59 grimhammer wrote: Aite, done the first 5 minutes, took roughly 1 hour with me being rusty and not really focused (crazy puppy demanding attention and raising hell) so that's about what it'll take for someone who's never done this before as well, if they are focused on what they're doing. Subtitle file
Hopefully we won't have to think about this if they Day[9] crew is doing all the timing, my only concern then is that it's done well but I think they'll manage that Either way it doesn't hurt to have this on paper, so to speak.
Let's quickly explain the process then. The format we're working in is .ASS, which is one of those more fancy formats that allows styling and other fun stuff mostly used by fansubbers. When we want to change this for the finished product, the only thing you need to do is change from .ass to .srt, no fancy conversions needed so that's that. Download the daily (hd version, FLV doesn't really work) from blip.tv and let's get busy :D
The program we're using is Aegisub (Download Here), a free and VERY good subtitling program. Below follows a quick explanation on how it works and how to time anything.
Alright then, when you've grabbed the subtitle file and loaded it up, the first thing you're gonna wanna do is get some video going (video -> open video, duh) and set the zoom on the video to 50% to get it out of the way (personal preference). So, quick rundown of the software.
Upper left square is video and video controls, the only things to note here is the three buttons play, play selected line, and pause. The first button, play, plays the video from whatever point you're at currently. Mark a line below and hit play and it plays the video from that point on until you hit pause. Play selected line does what it says, it starts the video from the current line, runs until that line is over and then stops. Pause is self explanatory.
Next part is the bottom half (saving top right square for last) and here is where the subtitle file is, so to speak. Every line in the video ends up here and this is what you're using to navigate the video. For instance, click line 51 and then hit play on the video controls and it plays from that point forwards.
Last part is the editing window. There's alot of stuff to play with here but the only thing you need to focus on is start and end times for that line and the commit button, which enters the line into the subtitles and creates a new empty line.
The process then. Timing is NOT a science, it's an art form. By that I mean that there's no "right" way to do things, you go by feel. If it feels and looks right, odds are it is. Quick example.
Because, you know, I would make sure that all the units had names, if they were dishonorable in some way, they would have to be executed, I would talk to them, you know, just like: "Erm. Oh yeah. I gotta make sure that Martin the marine... you know, we gotta give him something special, because he has 4 kills." You know, because I just, would only attack with like 3-4 units at a time.
"Because, you know, I would make sure that all the units had names, if they were dishonorable in some way, they would have to be executed," This is a very natural breaking point. It's a good amount of text, it's the end of a sentence and it just feels right to break here. So you note what time he starts talking, what time he stops talking and fill those two in in the start and end fields and hit commit. If there's more than .5 seconds since the previous line you want to leave some space in between lines but if not, just tack the second line on directly after the first one.
"I would talk to them, you know, just like: "Erm. Oh yeah. I gotta make sure that Martin the marine... you know, we gotta give him something special, because he has 4 kills."" This is also a natural breaking point. Unfortunately, this is too much text so we have to insert an extra break. I inserted it between "marine... you" because that felt alot better than any other option. This leaves "you know, we gotta give him something special, because he has 4 kills."" on it's own, which is perfectly fine since it's a self-contained statement.
"You know, because I just, would only attack with like 3-4 units at a time." Is what's left, and altho it could've been tacked on with "you know, we gotta give him something special, because he has 4 kills."" because the two lines are very close to each other in time, it looks better on it's own. When you read it stuck together it's obvious. ""you know, we gotta give him something special, because he has 4 kills." You know, because I just, would only attack with like 3-4 units at a time."
So. Here's how I do it, I listen to Sean talk. When he hits a natural breaking point, I pause and determine if it's too much text (you wanna make sure to never hit 3 rows of text in one line) I find a good point to break, find out the time, fill it in and commit. Then I mark the line I just entered, hit play and listen to him talk, making sure that the subtitle looks good and starts and ends at the right time and when the completed line is done I keep the video rolling until I got the next line to be entered, be it thru natural breaking point or too much text, pause, enter the line and then repeat ad nauseam.
Fortunately this is one long scene so it's not very complicated and we should be grateful for that. Cuts make things more difficult
Anyways, questions?
a few questions. how do you edit the size of the text? and from what i understand, the subtitle file and video are separate. how can you make a video that has the subs included (as one file)? and how do you view the subtitles? vlc?
The only question we could raise is probably "should we start working on this, or will justin guys work on this asap and finish faster than us"
escruting, I think the text is probably completely fine, or containing really few mistakes.
Maybe we can already send to them, and ask them how long until they start working on this, and how much time do they think it will take. Just so we know if we should do it or let them do it
Edit:
On February 28 2011 00:15 29 fps wrote: a few questions. how do you edit the size of the text? and from what i understand, the subtitle file and video are separate. how can you make a video that has the subs included (as one file)? and how do you view the subtitles? vlc?
I think you have to re-encode the video with the subtitles on it. But then we would have to make it 10x because we have like 10 languages listed for translation.
If the subtitle file has the same name as the video file, most players automatically load them (at least WMP does). But you can use VLC "Advanced open - use subtitle"
a few questions. how do you edit the size of the text? and from what i understand, the subtitle file and video are separate. how can you make a video that has the subs included (as one file)? and how do you view the subtitles? vlc?
I think you have to re-encode the video with the subtitles on it. But then we would have to make it 10x because we have like 10 languages listed for translation.
If the subtitle file has the same name as the video file, most players automatically load them (at least WMP does). But you can use VLC "Advanced open - use subtitle"
Well, first off, tx is right, if you want hardcoded subtitles, you have to do a re-encode in something like virtualdub. No-one does this anymore tho as it's a very outdated form of release in everything except fansubs who often provide a HD release and a SD release, the HD in a more versatile container, the SD as a simple .AVI with hardcoded subs.
Secondly, if you really want a video where the subtitles are included, the best way to go about it would be a .MKV release. MKV is a container for pretty much anything, you put in a video file, multiple audio and subtitle files and wrap it up with a neat little bow. Since what we're doing is for blip and youtube, it doesn't really apply here.
Regarding text size. Depends on subtitle format. SRT is a very common format because it's very very simple, it doesn't require anything from the player (except the obvious) and it's very rigid. How SRT looks is determined by the player, that's where you decide what size, what font, what color and so on.
ASS (advanced substation alpha) is a much more versatile sub format. With ASS you can define styles (font, color, size) and position on the screen, do karaoke and all sorts of fun stuff. Also really not needed here. The only reason I did it in ASS is that that's the native format for Aegisub. The only thing you need to do to have a working SRT is change the extension. In the process you'd lose any formatting you've done (it won't vanish from the file ofc, it just won't show up on screen) but it'll work.
Most players can play subtitles, like VLC for instance. VLC can't display styled subtitles tho. I use media player classic, MPC. It can handle anything I throw at it.
Oh, awesome grim! I appreciate that little explanation, I definitely got something out of that and yea, nicely done :D
Escruiting: Sent you a PM with my email, I'll give it a once over and soon after I think the English transcript is pretty much done. Then we can give it to the Day9 guys and I guess we play the waiting game after that :D
It's great that we're getting ever closer to seeing this come to fruition!
On February 28 2011 05:13 Rampager wrote: Oh, awesome grim! I appreciate that little explanation, I definitely got something out of that and yea, nicely done :D
Escruiting: Sent you a PM with my email, I'll give it a once over and soon after I think the English transcript is pretty much done. Then we can give it to the Day9 guys and I guess we play the waiting game after that :D
It's great that we're getting ever closer to seeing this come to fruition!
Thank you very much, and yeah, time to play the waiting game I guess :D I mean, I could time it and I could probably shave it down to 10 minutes done in an hour, but still, that's 11 hours of work if you stay very focused the entire time and never take breaks So yeah, I could do it, but it would NOT be a regular thing ^^
Ok, so I finished with my February exams and started translating into LA Spanish! There's not really a need to have two Spanish translations but it's still an interesting experience in the never ending journey that is learning English, so I'll go for it And I finally realized how long this is, still I'll make sure to work on it a bit everyday/week.
Hola damas y caballeros. Hoy es 13 de Abril del 2010... y es el Day[9] Daily número 100. Vean mientras mi cámara auto ajusta la luz. La reposicioné de vuelta a ese viejo ángulo... Hice el número 99 con la cámara arriba de mi computadora preo seguía mirando hacia aquí abajo. Y estoy seguro que muchos de ustedes están familiarizados con con el poster de Diablo III, y ahora como tengo una cámara HD pueden incluso ver el poster de Starcraft II ahí, impresionante.
Así que hoy... hoy es un increíblemente espcial Day[9] Daily porque primero que nada, acabo de alcanzar los 3 dígitos, y tres dígitos es cool. También, hoy no vamos a analizar ninguna partida, ninguna partida en absoluto. Solo va a ser mi vida jugando Starcraft. Porque, creo que la gente simplemente no llegan a... apreciar cuan comprometidos están con los juegos que practican. He crecido jugando Starcraft. Las cosas que he aprendido jugando Starcraft me han ayudado tanto. Solo quiero hacen una gran dedicatoria a la comunidad para tan solo decir: "hombre, solo ten orgullo de ser un jugador de Starcraft" No hay nada más cool que estar orgulloso de las cosas que amas. I por cierto, hoy fue casi demasiado emocional mientras trataba de ordenar todas las memorias que tengo de Starcraft y tratar de... resumirlas a algo que sea, ya saben, razonablemente entretenido. Así que como notarán, Incluso tomé notas de todo para estar seguro de no saltearme nada.
Hablemos de Starcraft. Empecemos por el mismísimo comienzo, cuando compré Starcraft. Todavía puedo recordarlo. Crecí en un pequeño pueblo en Leawood, Kansas. El cual está en el medio de la nada. Es Kansas verdad? Quiero decir, es parte de la ciudad de Kansas pero aún así. soy de Leawood Kansas, donde la tierra es plana y la evolución aún es una teoría, esa es a frase que siempre uso. Vivíamos en esta impresionante pequeña casa que estaba inmediatamente al lado de este centro comercial al que Nick y yo podíamos cruzar la calle todos los días. Y por su puesto, había una tienda de software de computadoras allí, donde solíamos comprar nuestra variada electrónica. Y estábamos super emocionados por Starcraft, porque nosotros jugabamos Warcraft II nena... Si! Éramos jugadores de Warcraft II! y como cualquier niño, tu tan solo vas hasta tu madre: "Mamá! Mamá!" y le dices acerca de las cosas geniales que has maquinado en tu cabeza. "Mamá, sabias que en Warcraft II, una catapulta tiene más rango que una torre?" Oh, nena, nena! Ahora... Ahora de repente nunca perderé contra las torres. Ya saben, cosas normales como esas. Éramos los típicos pequeños newbies my hermano y yo. Así que mi hermano Nick, quien es probablemente más conocido como Tasteless en la comunidad de Starcraft, pero el será Nick en esta historia... Entonces mi hermano Nick y yo, caminamos al centro comercial y pagamos, como 52,36 o algo por nuestro primer juego de Starcraft. Y fue muy gracioso porque el tipo en el mostrador era un gran nerd también, Así que estaba emocionado por el Starcraft. Incluso sabía el precio de memoria. Quiero decir, las cosas nerds de todos los dias, ya saben... Así que Nick y yo lo compramos por primera vez y solo teníamos una computadora en la familia. Porque ya saben, ahora somos unos lujosos grosos y tenemos nuestras propias computadoras. Pero en aquel entonces teníamos que dividirnos el tiempo, por lo que solíamos empujarnos uno al otro, tratando de jugar el mayor tiempo posible, o al menos mirar al otro jugar: "Haz Zerglings! Son increíbles! Créeme!" No sabíamos de lo que hablábamos. Así que ya saben, Jugaba mucho Starcraft. Esto era cuando estaba en... Dios, debe haber sido quinto o sexto grado, cuando compré Starcraft. Estoy seguro de que estaba en sexto grado! Y.. y después de un tiempo, mientras jugaba más y más y más... Rápidamente se convirtió en algo que yo hacía, me entienden? Era conocido por ser ese tipo. Porque llevaba la guía "Prima" de Starcraft a la escuela, y como que, la leía. Era como: "Er hum... Sé que unidad vence a cual, según Prima" Ya saben, El "Oh miren! Aquí está la forma más sencilla de completa la segunda misión de la campaña Terran" Estaba en la última en sexto grado! Tenía la posta! Y empezamos a jugar con mis grandes amigos Shawn y Charlie.
Y solíamos visitarnos unos a otros y jugar. Esta fue mi primera experiencia en red. Nunca había jugado contra otro ser humano. Quiero decir, jugaba partidas personalizadas, las cuales, en general para mi, duraban como… Dos? Tres días? Para terminar una partida personalizada? Porque, ya saben, Me aseguraba que todas las unidades tuvieran nombres, si eran deshonorables en alguna forma debían ser ejecutadas. Solía hablarles, decía:”Oh si, tengo que asegurarme que Martin el marine… ya saben, tenemos que darle algo especial, porque tiene 4 muertes.” Porque yo solo, atacaba con solo 3-4 unidades por vez. Pero de todas formas, primer juego que jugué contra gente real, y éramos horribles y eso, y la red eventualmente se calló. Entonces volvimos a jugar single player en, por supuesto, “Big Game Hunters” porque ese era nuestro mapa favorito en séptimo grado, y… Oh dios, había salido Brood War ya? Supongo que era el “hunters” regular el que jugábamos. [0:05:00]
Y, para hacerlo justo, contra la computadora, solo podíamos usar un cheat code. Esa era la regla que creamos, solo uno. Puedes hacer todo lo que quieras pero solo se te permite un cheat code. Y no puede ser el de invulnerabilidad. Podías revelar el mapa entero, podías darte visión, conseguir dinero. Por alguna razón, yo opté por las mejoras de ataque y defensa nivel uno. Ese cheat que puedes escribir. Yo decía: “Si hombre, quiero que estos trabajadores empiecen con 1-1-1, Va a ser lo mejor” Así que ya saben… Las cosas progresaron de allí y pronto mi hermano y yo empezamos a aprender a conectar nuestras dos computadoras en una lan. Porque teníamos una realmente horrible vieja computadora y una laptop. Y solíamos jugar uno contra el otro. Por horas! Pero pienso que, quizás lo más significativo a notar, sobre nuestro tiempo de juego, era que… teníamos toque de queda. No se nos permitía jugar a la computadora hasta las 3 pm. Porque un día, Nick y yo estábamos jugando “Syndicate Wars”! Recuerdan ese juego? Oh mi dios eso es vieja escuela! Abran el navegador y busquen “Syndicate Wars”! Porque juro por dios que pensé que ese juego tenía los mejores gráficos de todo lo que haya existido. Y si lo buscan es como… 320x240 y todo pixelado. Rotas la cámara y casi te apaga la computadora porque es muy exigente. Pero un día, Nick y yo estábamos peleando uno con otro, realmente queriendo, ya saben, pegarnos. Y mi madre dijo: “Bueno miren, están peleando por la computadora? Ni siquiera deberían estar en la computadora de todos modos. Nada de video juegos hasta las 3!!” Y nosotros: “Ohh, Porque peleamos? Si tan solo no hubiéramos hecho eso!” Pero mi madre también nos hacía levantarnos como a las 8 o 9 de la mañana, en el verano para hacer, a saben, las tareas, cortar el pasto, porque en Kansas, de hecho tienes pasto. En Los Ángeles es prácticamente todo concreto y desierto, y gasolina muy cara. Entonces no se corta mucho el pasto allí. Y, entonces no teníamos tiempo de jugar. Podíamos estar despiertos, y no teníamos nada que hacer!
Y es extraño porque mi madre era una madre soltera que trabajaba, tenía su propio negocio. Entonces no era que ella estuviera en casa para ver si jugábamos antes de las 3, pero aún así Nick y yo, como los honorables caballeros que éramos, no jugábamos nada de Starcraft antes de las 3, y lo que solíamos hacer era caminar hasta el centro comercial, todos los días. El mismo centro comercial donde compramos Starcraft. Solíamos mirar los juegos. Realmente no teníamos mucho dinero así que solo mirábamos los juegos y leíamos todas las tapas y contratapas. Y ocasionalmente, teníamos suficiente dinero para Orange Chicken y nos sentábamos con nuestro pollo de.. de “Food Court”, detrás de la escalera mecánica, y tan solo hablábamos sobre Starcraft y sobre video juegos. Y realmente creo que ese fue el comienzo de mi hermano y yo, tan solo, amando discutir videojuegos. Porque definitivamente pienso, probablemente la mayoría de la gente que está escuchando esto, ya saben, no tiene hermanos, basándome en algunas encuestas que he visto en TeamLiquid y eso. Y pienso que me ayudó tener un hermano ahí que tan solo quería hablar de Starcraft todo el día. Queríamos hablar de estrategias y todo… Y lo que es genial acerca de Nick es que… Como… quiero decir, mucha gente me ha preguntado cosas como “Como ha sido crecer con Tasteless?” Fue increíble! Ven GomTV? Como podría ser malo? Mi hermano es DIVERTIDÍSIMO! Lo que es gracioso es que Nick es tan gracioso y tan bueno en… **being on** Y yo era el tranquilo hermano menor cuando crecimos. I fue… fue cool! Yo solo me sentaba ahí y mi hermano seguía y seguía y seguía, seguía siendo gracioso, y más gracioso, más gracioso, y… Fue.. Fue muy divertido, para, ya saben, para mi hermano, mi madre y yo. Porque éramos nosotros 3 los que crecimos juntos. Así que… Dios, y jugábamos 1v1 (uno contra uno), en todo! Nombra el juego, Nick y yo nos retamos uno al otro en él. Hombre, mi hermano era como, mi más grande competidor. Jugábamos Goldeneye 1v1, License to Kill pistols in the Archives… Gracias! Si, jugábamos Soul Calibur. Yo jugaba con Maxi e Ivy, y Nick jugaba con Mitsurugi, porque es bajo, verdad? Es injusto! El hacía el, como era? El abajo patada erm… Era como patada + A. Usaba varias combinaciones: Atrás + Patada + A, Abajo + Patada + A… y solo las alternaba. Y nunca lo podía vencer! Que más hacíamos? Incluso juegos de Sega Saturn, como Last Bronx o Sonic Racing… Toda clase de cosas, Así que quiero decir, solo crecí… oh!, Street Fighter Alpha! Oh sí! Solo Crecimos compitiendo uno con otro, y solo queriendo superarnos uno al otro, y… En los viejos días de Starcraft, Nick y yo finalmente nos conectamos, fue extraño. Porque solo habíamos jugado uno contra otro, y de repente, estábamos en… La internet! Donde los grandes peces nadan, no? Y, aún recuerdo, mi primera partida de Starcraft. Fue… fue un 1v1v1 Free-For-All (todos contra todos). Okay? I yo pensaba: “Ok… esto me dará abundante tiempo para construir, de esa manera, puedo ganar! Eventualmente… Solo tengo que alejarme de sus caminos.” Ya saben, típico asunto del Free For All y, y estos dos tipos… [0:10:00] Se aliaron y me 4-Poolearon! Ok? Entonces, estoy en este juego, como:”Bien, ok, cool!” ya saben. Estaba construyendo mi Cybernetics Core. Probablemente iba a hacer un Arbiter rush, que es una estrategia que había practicado muchas veces en mis partidas personalizadas de 3 días. Y… de repente, 12 Zerglings entran en mi base, y yo: “Oohhhh!!” Y no se atacaban entre ellos, y dije: “Chicos, chicos! Es un Free-For-All! Es un Free-For-All!” Y escribía, y obviamente tenía como, 30 palabras por minuto, así que eso estaba realmente metiéndose en medio de mi habilidad de jugar. Como: “C-h-i-c-o-s!” Solo individualmente golpeando cada letra. Sudor corriendo por mi cara, Y estaba como: “ Ustedes… ustedes se aliaron.. solo…. Solo paren! Es un Free-For-All!! Eso era lo que decía en el título de la partida!!” Como pueden violar lo que decía el título de la partida?
Así que perdí esa partida, I casi vomito. Lo juro por dios! Estaba tan alterado! Se sentía tan vil, el ser traicionado por estos dos completos extraños, que yo, fui con mi madre y lloré, y ella dijo: “ Nunca más vuelvas a jugar en la internet!” Y yo: “ Nunca más voy a entrar a internet, Solo voy a jugar Sonic Racing con mi hermano” Pero eventualmente, ya sabe. Lo superé. Hice lo mismo que cualquier jugador nuevo hace: Solo me pegue a las partidas en equipo. Pensaba “Bueno, es obviamente porque necesito tener un buen aliado, alguien que respete mi habilidad de conseguir esos Arbiters realmente rápido, no? Yo y mi marine Martin definitivamente apreciaríamos el uso de un buen aliado.” Así que hice un montón de partidas en equipo, y eventualmente, BGH! Oh, aprendí sobre esto: “Espera un minuto, estás diciendo que no necesito expandirme… ¿jamás? Y tengo dinero infinito?” Esto parece como una forma razonable de pasar mi tiempo, ¿no? “Voy a hacer esto” Y solía jugar 3v3 y… Okay, no se cuan a menudo esto les pasa a ustedes, en tu historia como persona… Pero especialmente para mí, mirando hacia atrás en mi vida como un jugador de Starcraft, era un imbécil! Me desconectaba cuando perdía, Desconectaba el cable. Estaba en un juego de BGH, y hacía solo Hydralisk. No, ¿no hay problema, no? Todo lo que tengo que hacer es, ya saben, NO apretar la tecla “H”, porque ya saben, ¿quién usa el teclado? Esta mano estaba ocupada levantando mi labio, doblándolo y rascándome mientras pensaba, ya saben, reflexionando con mi mentón un poco, porque era un nerd bastante intelectual.
Y… Hacía muchas Hydralisks, y perdía todo, y solo decía “Bueno. Err… Buen juego hombre” E incluso escribía “Buen Juego” y porque estaba jugando en una laptop, Solo alcanzaba el cable del modem y lo desconectaba. I recuerdo que estaba en Dial-up, así que me tomaba como dos minutos llamar a AOL de nuevo y reconectarme. Pero ya saben, lo valía porque, no era justo… Estoy tan avergonzado de que hice eso, no lo puedo creer. I era realmente gracioso porque me unía a las partidas…
Y… Tenía nicks que eran robados de los Fallout. Yo era… Entonces mi hermano y yo hicimos un clan, nuestro clan era Tang, ok? Tang? Ya saben, “Oh significa algo fresco!” Entonces yo era Tang Kamazaki, que de nuevo es un nombre de Fallout, o Tang Finesse. Porque de nuevo, si acumulabas muchas derrotas en una de estas cuentas, tenías que crear una nueva que representara tu verdadera habilidad. Y yo tenía estos registros que se veían como: 10 victorias, 3 derrotas y 20 desconexiones. Y, y literalmente, no entendía que eso era malo, ok? Me unía a las partidas y decía “Hey, como andan chicos” Ya saben, listo para chatear antes de una partida de Starcraft. Y ellos decían: “Dude, do you disc?” Y obviamente querían decir “Te desconectas?” Pero yo no hacía la conexión y pensaba: “Por supuesto que tengo el disco de Starfcraft… Como voy a estar jugando si no, idiota?” Y codeaba a mi hermano, como “Uh Uh” Y el decía “Loco, se la diste!” Ooh. Hombre, era un gran nerd. Pero... eventualmente dejé estos mapas de dinero infinito. Y comencé a jugar 1v1. Porque aún cuando todos eran terribles y solo jugaban con una mano, solo con el mouse… Eso era lo normal, ok? Eso no era considerado newbie como lo es ahora, eso era, la norma. Así que dije “ Quienes son estos aliados de porquería que yo, Tank Kamazaki de séptimo grado, tengo que compensar?” Voy a jugar juegos de uno contra uno donde realmente pueda agarrarle la mano” Así que solo jugaba 1v1s en Small Divide. Y estoy seguro de que algunos de ustedes ya han oído la historia en el cast de la Zotac Cup que hice. Pero solo jugaba small divide, que es un mapa de cómo 64x64, en el que ambos empiezan en islas. Y solía ir Mutalisks rush el 100% de las partidas. Y ahora, mi alias había evolucionado. Ya no era Tank Kamazuki. Era Sean-P! Mi nombre es Sean Plott… Que listo eh? Antes de que continúe con esta historia de, 1v1 en Small Divide, solo quiero darles una imagen de cómo me veía en esta edad. Era… bajo, ok? Al comienzo del séptimo grado. Medía 1.58 metros. Al final del octavo grado, medía 1.86 metros. Eso dolió, ése período. Yo solo “Urrrghhh!!” Crecimiento estilo fábrica de chocolate Willy Wonka, no?
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Once we get the timings I'll start doing serious proofreading.
Alright, I'm psyched! I see the English transcript is up and I'll get started on it as soon as I have a moment. Can anyone PM me or explain here where I can download the daily100 video to subtitle?
I am just learning about this proyect thanks to the link in the Day[9] daily thread. My name is Rommel, admin of the largest Mexican SC2 fansite out there (http://sc2mx.com). Given our proximity to the U.S. border, many of us are fully bilingual and understand perfect english. We may be able to help.
Here is what I suggest we can do: -> "Sell" or assign 5 minute chunks of translation work. Each person can choose how many of those 5 minute chunks they can do, but 5 minutes would be the minimum and they would be responsible for those 5 minutes. If you find many volunteers, perhaps you could narrow it down to 2 minute chunks. -> Create a Gmail account and set-up and open Google Document where people can be invited to edit a shared translation document. A template would be created that divides the work into ~12 5min chunks, but each person can proofread and edit other chunks. -> After a rough draft is completed, compile the document and spell check it in something like MS Word. This can be done by a single person. -> Hand over the finalized version to the person who will encode the subtitles into the video.
Anyway, I will let the Mexican community know about this proyect and don't hesitate to contact us if you need any help. Hopefully this will be the beginning of something big. Obviously it will be a lot of work, we will likely only be able to do 1 daily every 2 weeks or less, and will require tons of volunteers, but this can do wonders for growing eSports in LA. Keep in mind that I personally think efforts like these need to be temporary. We need to have our own Sean Plott that speaks Spanish, but that will come with time.
Thanks, -Rommel, administrator sc2mx.com.
Edit: After reading some more of the thread, it seems you guys were already doing what I suggested even though you hadn't explicitly stated it. You guys are awesome!
On March 01 2011 02:19 Truenappa wrote: Alright, I'm psyched! I see the English transcript is up and I'll get started on it as soon as I have a moment. Can anyone PM me or explain here where I can download the daily100 video to subtitle?
We are currently waiting on word from the Day[9] crew. They said that they would take care of the timings so I guess we're waiting for either #1: an official word that yes, they are doing it, #2 that they are not able to time it or #3 we're done, here's a timed english subtitle file.
If it turns out that they aren't able to do it you need to go to day9.blip.tv, browse to daily 100 and on the right hand side a bit down there will be download links. Get aegisub and check my post on page 10 if you don't know how to use it. Before you do anything tho we need to have a more clear idea what's going on and make sure we aren't working on the same parts.
Also, just clarifying. The timing process is ONLY done in english. The translations then base themselves on the english translation and, hopefully, timing.
Here's a first run at the timings in English. They're currently up on the video on Youtube if you turn captions on - it would be great if someone could check/correct this since I'm sure the alignment tool isn't perfect.
Once this is perfected, it would be great to have someone from each language basically put in the time codes into their own translation based of these timings since I don't know of a tool to do it automatically for anything other than English. If the translation to other languages is in this format, it will be very easy to have subtitles directly on the video for all other languages on Youtube!
On March 01 2011 05:46 WHiT3R4bBiT wrote: Here's a first run at the timings in English. They're currently up on the video on Youtube if you turn captions on - it would be great if someone could check/correct this since I'm sure the alignment tool isn't perfect.
- OP updated with the link to see the english transcript text on Google Docs, only view is permitted for people not on the "editors" list. - OP updated with updated status notes for some of the translations. - OP updated with some text done for the LA Spanish translation by MrFrozen.
@WHiT3R4bBiT: Can you explain us the process you followed to put this text to the video? Did you put the text we translated here or it was done using a transcription done by youtube,etc.
The last words from Sean about the subtitling process were "We mentioned earlier that we would look into information on how to line up the timing of the subtitles with the video. We're still looking into said matter and will get to you as soon as we can :D."
So we just have to wait for them. Also, first they are working on putting the subtitles in the videos on Sean's blip.tv account. I will let them know what user WHiT3R4bBiT has done on the Youtube video when he explains the process he followed to do so.
On March 01 2011 14:28 meeyoop wrote: I know you already have someone working on the Japanese translation, but if they need help I would be happy to assist. :3
You could send a PM to try to contact the other users involved in the Japanese translation, if they don't reply, you just start translating yourself from the begining if you want and have time, don't worry.
It's most definitely our transcription word for word, you can tell because we use a boatload of ellipses
I assume whiterabbit is behind day9tv on youtube, or can you submit closed captions to a video and have it approved by the admin? Either way, sexy amount of effort.
Sorry, I should have been more clear - that is the text translated on this thread that's now on the video (possibly an older version of it by now).
I do help Sean with his Youtube account and the only way I know of to add a translation is from within the account itself, although that would be a really useful feature to let other people submit for approval. Adding the other languages will be simple whenever they're ready as long as the time codes are included.
On March 02 2011 12:07 WHiT3R4bBiT wrote: Sorry, I should have been more clear - that is the text translated on this thread that's now on the video (possibly an older version of it by now).
I do help Sean with his Youtube account and the only way I know of to add a translation is from within the account itself, although that would be a really useful feature to let other people submit for approval. Adding the other languages will be simple whenever they're ready as long as the time codes are included.
Oh okay, then that's perfect! Thanks!
I also see that you did the same on blip.tv, although when i tried to skip to the end of the video(for example) no more subtitles appeared, i don't know if it's not finished yet or it's a bug,
So you can't make the same with the transcript on another language, right? it has to have the timings like the subtitle file you uploaded. I ask that beacuse i noticed that that when you change the line, on the file you uploaded it looks like "anddream" with words without space between them, it can be a bit tricky when we do the timing of the other languages, because words can be longer/shorter and phrases could not be arranged the same way in all the languages.
PD: i updated the OP with the embedded video of the dailies to make it easier for people to see it ( i couldn't embed the blip.tv video, i don't know why).
EDIT: oh, now i opened it with microsoftt office and it looks a lot better aesthetically, the lines correctly separaded, i did not remember that notepad opens the text without format >.< xD
Please wait until we know if the subtitles were done using the latest version of the english transcript on Google Docs, i already asked WHiT3R4bBiT by email.
On March 02 2011 12:07 WHiT3R4bBiT wrote: Sorry, I should have been more clear - that is the text translated on this thread that's now on the video (possibly an older version of it by now).
I do help Sean with his Youtube account and the only way I know of to add a translation is from within the account itself, although that would be a really useful feature to let other people submit for approval. Adding the other languages will be simple whenever they're ready as long as the time codes are included.
Oh okay, then that's perfect! Thanks!
I also see that you did the same on blip.tv, although when i tried to skip to the end of the video(for example) no more subtitles appeared, i don't know if it's not finished yet or it's a bug,
So you can't make the same with the transcript on another language, right? it has to have the timings like the subtitle file you uploaded. I ask that beacuse i noticed that that when you change the line, on the file you uploaded it looks like "anddream" with words without space between them, it can be a bit tricky when we do the timing of the other languages, because words can be longer/shorter and phrases could not be arranged the same way in all the languages.
PD: i updated the OP with the embedded video of the dailies to make it easier for people to see it ( i couldn't embed the blip.tv video, i don't know why).
EDIT: oh, now i opened it with microsoftt office and it looks a lot better aesthetically, the lines correctly separaded, i did not remember that notepad opens the text without format >.< xD
use wordpad, it gives the best combination of simplicity and formating, works like a charm
On March 02 2011 19:53 escruting wrote: Please wait until we know if the subtitles were done using the latest version of the english transcript on Google Docs, i already asked WHiT3R4bBiT by email.
Nah it should be fine to just go now. It has all the revisions you made, and there were very little changes inbetween then (and it's not something that needs clarifying. It's fine as is)
On March 02 2011 23:40 Tschis wrote: I'm not sure what's going on.
I mean, the subtitles were uploaded to the youtube video. But which "version" of the text was it? Who finished the timings?
Last time I checked we had the first 5 minutes as example, and were waiting for blip.tv guys to answer.
=O
//tx
The version is the one we did, but i thought he made it some days before and we did some changes until this monday. But it seems it's almost the last version, maybe is doesn't include some of the changes you and rampager did this monday. Rampager said it's fine.
We were not waiting for the blip.tv guys, we were waiting for the Day[9]TV guys (who were talking with blip), WHiT3R4bBiT is one of the guys at Day[9]TV, but he posted as a "normal" user and it created some misunderstanding.
On March 02 2011 23:40 Tschis wrote: I'm not sure what's going on.
I mean, the subtitles were uploaded to the youtube video. But which "version" of the text was it? Who finished the timings?
Last time I checked we had the first 5 minutes as example, and were waiting for blip.tv guys to answer.
=O
//tx
The version is the one we did, but i thought he made it some days before and we did some changes until this monday. But it seems it's almost the last version, maybe is doesn't include some of the changes you and rampager did this monday. Rampager said it's fine.
We were not waiting for the blip.tv guys, we were waiting for the Day[9]TV guys (who were talking with blip), WHiT3R4bBiT is one of the guys at Day[9]TV, but he posted as a "normal" user and it created some misunderstanding.
That clarifies a lot xD
ps.: the youtube video doesn't have subtitles for me
On March 02 2011 23:40 Tschis wrote: I'm not sure what's going on.
I mean, the subtitles were uploaded to the youtube video. But which "version" of the text was it? Who finished the timings?
Last time I checked we had the first 5 minutes as example, and were waiting for blip.tv guys to answer.
=O
//tx
The version is the one we did, but i thought he made it some days before and we did some changes until this monday. But it seems it's almost the last version, maybe is doesn't include some of the changes you and rampager did this monday. Rampager said it's fine.
We were not waiting for the blip.tv guys, we were waiting for the Day[9]TV guys (who were talking with blip), WHiT3R4bBiT is one of the guys at Day[9]TV, but he posted as a "normal" user and it created some misunderstanding.
That clarifies a lot xD
ps.: the youtube video doesn't have subtitles for me
I think it would be really awesome if someone could do a korean translation as well, because thats not on the added lists. Just a suggestion, as I know almost no korean. I still think it would be cool because it would allow some koreans to see that foreigners have a passion for this game as well :D
On March 03 2011 21:19 anatem wrote: the english sub isn't TVQS yet, it needs some work. granted, a tough sub to pull with day9's w(ords)pm
downloaded the video file at 720p, 30 fps and the sub is working perfect on it
i'm still confused though, who made it, when, how, what's going on :-))
it works well as is for translations, started on it, and will edit timings where appropriate
so add working to the ro translation status please, should be ready in a couple days if nothing new comes up, will check back here regularly
Yeah, he's WPM rate is quite high, but some parts could be worked on =P
Also confused about who made those, great work nonetheless, it's just that I think we could do it even better, so that it would look a bit more professional, like the tv series subtitlers groups!
Hi guys, i'm a lurker that pops out (:D) to start with the italian translation. I couldn't find Hisverydistantcousin via PM, so if someone wants to help, just PM me, i'd be grateful for any help you cold give
On March 03 2011 11:29 Tschis wrote: I downloaded the .srt from the link posted, and even though it looks really good, I think it could still improve.
There are some parts that could be separated, to give a better tone to it. Some parts are too big, etc.
I hope the guys at Day[9].tv/blip.tv can work this kind of stuff out
//tx
Please post the parts you are talking about so WHiT3R4bBiT will know.
On March 03 2011 13:34 hellsan631 wrote: I think it would be really awesome if someone could do a korean translation as well, because thats not on the added lists. Just a suggestion, as I know almost no korean. I still think it would be cool because it would allow some koreans to see that foreigners have a passion for this game as well :D
Of course it would be, but no one has offered doing the korean translation yet.
On March 03 2011 21:19 anatem wrote: the english sub isn't TVQS yet, it needs some work. granted, a tough sub to pull with day9's w(ords)pm
downloaded the video file at 720p, 30 fps and the sub is working perfect on it
i'm still confused though, who made it, when, how, what's going on :-))
it works well as is for translations, started on it, and will edit timings where appropriate
so add working to the ro translation status please, should be ready in a couple days if nothing new comes up, will check back here regularly
What is TVQS? tv quality subtitles? If you think it needs work post the parts you are talking about, please.
Confused? if you read the last two pages of this thread i think your questions should be answered. Also i mentioned it in a couple of posts.
On March 03 2011 22:30 Tschis wrote: Yeah, he's WPM rate is quite high, but some parts could be worked on =P
Also confused about who made those, great work nonetheless, it's just that I think we could do it even better, so that it would look a bit more professional, like the tv series subtitlers groups!
//tx
The same as anatem, read the thread please The user WHiT3R4bBiT is the one who did the subtitles, he's from the Day[9]TV Crew. He used our the english transcript, he haven't said how yet (i asked him to to so).
On March 04 2011 02:19 Alcor wrote: Hi guys, i'm a lurker that pops out (:D) to start with the italian translation. I couldn't find Hisverydistantcousin via PM, so if someone wants to help, just PM me, i'd be grateful for any help you cold give
On March 03 2011 11:29 Tschis wrote: I downloaded the .srt from the link posted, and even though it looks really good, I think it could still improve.
There are some parts that could be separated, to give a better tone to it. Some parts are too big, etc.
I hope the guys at Day[9].tv/blip.tv can work this kind of stuff out
//tx
That .srt was auto-generated, I agree some manual curation could improve it but I think there's also a fundamental problem that Sean can just talk really fast
On March 03 2011 22:30 Tschis wrote: Yeah, he's WPM rate is quite high, but some parts could be worked on =P
Also confused about who made those, great work nonetheless, it's just that I think we could do it even better, so that it would look a bit more professional, like the tv series subtitlers groups!
//tx
Hi Tschis I'm Eric, a long time TL lurker and friend of Sean. I can't really take credit for the .srt file since it was Google's new beta transcript to subtitle technology (that only works in English and is crashing on the updated transcript at the moment which is why the captions went down on Youtube yesterday). If you're curious, the tool is embedded into Youtube and hidden deep in the UI in the transcript area.
I just updated the English version on Googledocs to change the name "Astriah" for "Estrella", I found out in another topic that this was the correct name of the map in question.
@WhiteRabit
Hello :}
Thanks for the info, I'm playing with that transcription function atm, sounds reaaaally interesting, but has to improve a lot. I see it likes to cut the subtitle before the end of the sentence, it's harder to see with Day9 talking speed (but you can still see it sometimes), but I'm testing in another videos and it's pretty clear that this is a problem they need to work on.
Edit.: I downloaded your .sbv and put it into an .srt, then started doing some minor corrections, but then I realized that not only it will take A LOT of time to fix everything, but also that it wasn't the latest version.
So I say we make any final revisions, and close the Google.docs for editing, and call it a finished version. I don't think there's any big errors left in there, and we really need to stop changing it if we're ever gonna let a program do the subtitles (google program), otherwise we can't get an up to date version of the .srt to modify and make corrections, right?
The last version of our text somehow crashed the youtube tool, and the version from the 28th of february too. So i took the subtitles from WhiteRabbit that worked, and started editing it making all the changes Tschis and Rampager did after that day. It doesnt even had the corrections i made for mispelled words, so it was a very bad version of the text (grammar wise).
I'm waiting for Tschis to reply my PM and see if he wants to make some final changes. When the subtitles are done, we will be able to do the other translations directly onto a subtitle file, so it will be much easier. The translations that already have text done will have to do some copy pasting.
On March 08 2011 22:28 escruting wrote: I'm waiting for Tschis to reply my PM and see if he wants to make some final changes. When the subtitles are done, we will be able to do the other translations directly onto a subtitle file, so it will be much easier. The translations that already have text done will have to do some copy pasting.
I just want to note there is no need to do copy pasting, the only thing you have to do is to separate the text you have into lines that correspond to those of the subtitles, then you can paste all the timings at once using notepad++'s box selection. Notepad++ also enumerates all the lines so it's easy to check if they match.
On March 08 2011 22:28 escruting wrote: I'm waiting for Tschis to reply my PM and see if he wants to make some final changes. When the subtitles are done, we will be able to do the other translations directly onto a subtitle file, so it will be much easier. The translations that already have text done will have to do some copy pasting.
I just want to note there is no need to do copy pasting, the only thing you have to do is to separate the text you have into lines that correspond to those of the subtitles, then you can paste all the timings at once using notepad++'s box selection. Notepad++ also enumerates all the lines so it's easy to check if they match.
Coul you do some more explanation on that? Or a 'how-to' guide?
First of all, using SubtitleWorkshop I convert the subtitles into a format that makes sense. To do this load the English subtitles into SubtitleWorkshop and go to File > Save As > Choose .stl from the list. Then open the file you just saved with notepad++, it should look like this:
This is good because all the timings are in a box that we can rip using Notepad++'s box selection (like normal text selection but holding the Alt key)
Now lets get rid of all those headers and make another 2 files: TimingsOnly and TextOnly. Which should look like this:
This is all you need to start making the translated subtitles from your translated text, to do it open up your translated text (for this guide it will be spanish) and the TextOnly file we just created, just like this:
Now start separating the translated text into lines that correspond to those of the english TextOnly file, using the Enter Key, like this:
(And so on...)[Silly me, enter missing on line 4 ]
When you finish close the English TextOnly file and open up the TimingsOnly file you'll have something like this:
Now you can just box select all the timings until the line you need and copy paste them into your file:
And there you have it, once you are done with subtitling the whole thing you'll need to go back to the original .stl and copy paste those headers back in, save the file and convert it to whichever format you like.
It's more complicated than just copy pasting but it's much more efficient for large amounts of text imo.
Edit: The images weren't in the right places, sorry about that.
Thank you so much MrFrozen, I didn't know you could do that with notepad++!
This will help a lot.
Thank you again.
Edit1.: @MrFrozen
I found out that when you're editing the .stl file, it has some " | " characters, that when you save the file as .srt, it doesn't become an "break line" code.
So I'd say you'd have to use the search/replace function with "Extended" mode on, to replace all the "|" for "\r\n", that stands for a break line into .srt files.
Do you mean that if you have a .stl file with "|" as line breaks and you save it as .srt using SW, those line breaks don't change into proper .srt line breaks (eols)? Because I tested it and that's not the case for me , keep in mind that SW shows ALL line breaks as "|" but that is just a notation, those are actually proper line breaks for the format.
Also, you could avoid such problems by doing the line breaks on the final .srt file directly (SW has an automatic function for line splitting)
On March 10 2011 08:28 MrFrozen wrote: I'm glad it was of help :D
Do you mean that if you have a .stl file with "|" as line breaks and you save it as .srt using SW, those line breaks don't change into proper .srt line breaks (eols)? Because I tested it and that's not the case for me , keep in mind that SW shows ALL line breaks as "|" but that is just a notation, those are actually proper line breaks for the format.
Also, you could avoid such problems by doing the line breaks on the final .srt file directly (SW has an automatic function for line splitting)
Yeah, I found the automatic tool for that. Nevermind xD
Little bump: 36 mins done from italy. I think i'll need a month to finish...
I'd like to know if there's someone that knows italian that will help me for spotting typos when i'm done... or how i can share without upping the whole subtitled video on youtube...
[0:30:00] Aber wir werden diese Tickets kaufen, wir werden nach Los Angeles fliegen und ihr werdet in diesem Turnier spielen.” Das war halt so super, so eine Mom zu haben, die einen so unterstützt. Und…das Problem war das wenn wir da auftauchten und wir waren halt 2 Kinder die mit ihrer Mutter kamen. Verdammt! Oh! Wie sehr wollte man in dem Alter cool sein, wisst ihr? Die Mom soll der Chauffeur sein, wisst ihr, die Begleitperson für den Event. Aber wisst ihr, sie war echt höflich, sie hat sich nicht versucht einzumischen, und halt „ Ich bin, ich bin…“ Nick war damals als Tasteless bekannt, ich war immer noch SleepingDrone. Sie halt „Ich bin SleepingDrone und Tasteless Mom!“ Nein! Sie hat sich sehr zurückgehalten und ging beiseite, wisst ihr, um ein Buch zu lesen oder so.
Und ich kann mich erinnern Nick wurde in der ersten Runde eliminiert. Er musste in den Loser Bracket nach der ersten Runde und, wisst ihr, er kam noch 4 Runden weiter aber dann verlor er, und es war einfach so „Arr“, es war so schmerzhaft. Denn ich kann mich dran erinnern, in seinem ersten Spiel, er spielte gegen jemand an dessen Namen ich mich nicht mehr erinnern kann. Er baute halt 4 oder 5 Creep Kolonien und hatte einen Overlord außerhalb der Basis des Gegners, so dass er diese in Sunken Kolonien morphen kann, falls der Kerl aus seiner Basis kommt. Aber Nick hat genau in dem Moment nicht auf die Minimap geschaut, also kam der Typ einfach in seine Basis mit halt den 5 Creep Kolonien, so hat er halt verloren. Aber ich war halt in dem Teil von dem Turnierbaum in dem, ich würde sie jetzt nicht einfache Gegner nennen, aber ich würd sei Leute nennen gegen die ich meine „Pool auf 9“-Strategie anwendete…Ich hab gegen jeden die Strategie benutzt? Ich hab das in 7 aufeinander folgenden Spielen gemacht, bis irgendwie… ich ziemlich weit gekommen bin in dem Turnier.
Und da viele berühmte Spieler waren da. Maynard war da, er war, wisst ihr, der beste amerikanisch Spieler zu der Zeit. Whear war da, Wizard war da, BlueWolf war da, Fr0z war da. Dort hat er sich zum ersten Mal auf einem Turnier blicken lassen. Ein wirklich starker Protoss Spieler namens Requiem war da. Ich glaube ich hab gesagt, dass Dream auch da war, Dream war ein Zerg Spieler, der halt sich wirklich in das Spiel vertieft hat. Wisst ihr, er spielte auf dem Game I Server, mit den Koreanern, wisst ihr, und da gab es diese epische Serie zwischen Requiem, den keiner bis dato kannte, und Dream. Und ich meine, halt es war… es war dieses 20 Minuten lange Spiel, aber die Spiele aller anderen im Turnier waren fertig, also haben sie den Turnierbaum im Endeffekt aufgehalten? Also hat sich jeder um sie herum versammelt und hat ihre Spiele angeschaut. Also dann spielten sie dieses 45 Minuten lange Spiel auf „Lost Temple“ bei dem Dream eine Brutstätte außerhalb der Basis von Requiem baut. Heutzutage habt ihr Leute diese Spiele auf Medusa gesehen, wisst ihr, die Great gespielt hat und all das Zeug, aber damals „ Verdammte Scheiße! Er spielt wirklich auf dem koreanischen Server! Schaut auf seine geniale Spielweise!“ Er baute halt eine Tonne an Sunken Kolonien und Massen an Zerglingen, oh mein Gott, und Requiem baut halt 10 Shuttle und versucht halt überall zu expandieren. Und sie spielen dieses dramatische Spiel, in dem einfach alles vorkam Stasis, Storms, Malstrom, Guardians, Defilers und jede Einheit die man sich vorstellen kann, und, und Dream verliert, dieses unbekannte Kind Requiem gewinnt.
Und dann kam es zum nächsten Spiel und sie spielten auf „Lost Temple“ und sie spawnten auf den 12 und 3 Uhr Positionen, und wie ihr wisst, als Zerg hasst man diese Positionen. Requiem schickt zwei Proben früh los um zu nerven, sie töten eine Drohne und Dream vergisst seinen ersten Overlord, weil er versucht mit dem Proben klar zu kommen. Als kommt es halt zu diesem riesigen Aufreger und jeder halt „ OH MEIN GOTT“, und ich wird ganz aufgeregt denn, ich wusste wenn ich gegen Dream spielen würde, würde ich verlieren. Aber mein Zerg gegen Protoss war mein starkes Matchup, denn ich wusste wie man einen Pool auf 9 baut. Also, musste ich letztendlich gegen diesen Requiem Typen spielen und ich hab tatsächlich gewonnen, und ich bin total ausgeflippt und so. Und dann musste ich gegen Maynard spielen, aber wir mussten einen Tag warten bis wir spielten. Und der Gewinner von dem Spiel war im Halbfinale. Der Gewinner von dem Spiel zwischen mir und Maynard würde zu den WCG Grand Finals nach Korea gehen. Und… ich, ich spielte gegen ihn, und ich war so nervös, und meine Mom versuchte rauszufinden, wisst ihr, so zwischendurch „ Also falls du letztendlich dass hier gewinnen solltest und wir nach…wir nach Korea fliegen, ich will, ich will da mit hin fliegen, ich will, ich denke, weißt du, als Familie das machen“. Und ich hab es einfach verkackt und verlor das erste Spiel. Und das zweite Spiel hab ich mit „Position halten“-Lurkern innerhalb von 2 Minuten gewonnen, und dann hab ich das dritte Spiel verloren, und ich war total „Uhh!“ und dann war ich im Losers Bracket und wurde letztendlich eliminiert. Und wisst ihr, ich war wirklich schlecht drauf und traurig, aber, wisst ihr, ich konnte Leute erzählen, dass ich wirklich bei einem Starcraft Turnier war.
Also die Geschichte, wisst ihr, war jetzt vielleicht etwas länger, aber es war cool. Ich konnte all die Leute treffen, die bis dahin nur Namen waren. Ich konnte tatsächlich die Gesichter der Leute sehen. Ich meine, heutzutage, haben wir halt Facebook, und Leute sind froh darüber ihre Fotos mit Skype herumzuschicken und alle das Zeug, diese Foren, aber damals gab es halt keine Möglichkeit die Leute mit denen man spielt tatsächlich zu treffen. Und ich habe wirklich die Chance bekommen das zu tun. Und Fr0z hat jedem dann den Verstand geraubt. Fr0z, mit dem ich später gut befreundet war…Bei diesem Turnier, dem in 2001, als Leute zurückschauten und die Replays von damals angeschaut haben, hatte Fr0z 300 Aktionen pro Minute. Niemand konnte glauben wie schnell Fr0z spielte. Und halt, das zweit höchste war halt 140 oder so ähnlich. Ich meine Fr0z war blitzschnell.
[0:35:00]
und hat jeden in diesem Turnier besiegt und es war nicht mal knapp in den Spielen. Es war halt so cool jemanden zu sehen, der halt einfach so gut war. Dann kam WCG 2002, Nick und ich konnten nicht zu den Qualifikations Turnieren, wisst ihr, den die waren übers ganze Land verteilt, und keins war in der Nähe von Kansas, den dort gab es keine wirklich aktive Esport-Szene. Also warteten wir bis…wir warteten bis 2003 bevor wir tatsächlich wieder die Möglichkeit hatten, wisst ihr, in anderen, anderen Turnieren mitzuspielen. Oh Mann, ist das das Jahr? Ja, ich checke wirklich meine Notizen, damit ich auch sicher bin, dass das stimmt und ich auch nichts vergesse. Aber, wisst ihr, während dieser ganzen Phase, ich war immer noch der Typ der Starcraft spielt. Und, wisst ihr, damals in diesen ersten High School Tagen, gab es eine Menge an Spannung in der Familie. Denn, wie ihr seht, Nick und ich haben eine Art von, wisst ihr, gesprächigen, großen Persönlichkeit. Wir wollten wirklich, wisst ihr, Platz für uns selbst haben, und unabhängig sein. Und es war wirklich schwer, denn wir wohnten…wir mussten einen Raum zusammen teilen. Und wir, wisst ihr, wir stritten viel, denn wir hatten immer noch einen Computer. Also gab es diese ganze Debatte, und wisst ihr, Mom, so unterstützend wie sie war, da waren wir die ganze Zeit nur dieses eine Spiel spielend und das war damals so komisch, also gab es einfach diese ganze Spannung in der Familie, aber ich war damals immer noch als das bekannt, und ich war immer noch dabei. Und ich erinnre mich sogar halt dass ich beim Daten von Mädchen in der High School ihnen erzählte, dass ich Starcraft spiele und hab es versucht ihnen zu erklären. Denn, ich hab mich einfach darüber so gefreut. Ich hab einfach gedacht, dass es total cool war, dass ich das Spiel spiele. Dieses eine Mädchen , dass ich gedatet habe, ha t mich so aufgeregt, denn ich hab ihr erklärt was „gg“ bedeutet, dass man halt „Good Game“ sagt, und sie würd mir das in AIM schreiben aber sie würde „g.g.“ schreiben. Und ich halt „ Das ist nicht wie man das abkürzt, es ist „gg“ und nicht anders“. Darum hat sie das weitergemacht nur um mich zu ärgern. Uhhh. Ich bin so froh, so froh dass das endete. Anscheinend, hat sie nicht genügend Respekt für die wichtigen Dinge im Leben. Also…wir waren 2003, als das ganze coole Zeug anfing zu starten. Als, als Nick und ich…Als WCG immer noch wichtiger war als alle anderen großen Turniere. Für WCG 2003, gab es diese 20 Qualifikationsturnieren überall in den ganzen Vereinigten Staaten. Und die Gewinner in diesem Qualifikations Prozess würden ins Finale vorrücken UND einen krassen Gaming Computer gewinnen. Der krasseste Gaming PC, den man sich vorstellen kann, der halt XP hatte und er leuchtete! Es war unglaublich, es war ein so geiles Angebot. Man hat sogar Reisestipendien bekommen, um zum Turnier zu fliegen. Nein, tatsächlich haben sie direkt das Ticket bezahlt. Das Turnier war organisiert bei Joe Moss. Und ich sage diesen Namen, denn falls du zuhörst Joe Moss, du bist der Mann! Das Turnier war so genial! Aber jedenfalls, also mein Bruder und ich, wir mussten nach Saint Louis fahren. Aber wir hatten kein Auto in der Familie. Ich meine halt, meine Mom besaß ein Auto, aber sie halt „Ich brauch es immer noch. Also damit könnt ihr nicht nach Saint Louis fahren.“ Also, unser Freund Dane, der sehr berühmt ist, mit dem ich sehr gut befreundet war. Für die Leute, die Dane nicht kennen, bitte schaut euch Day[9] Daily Nummer 50 und 65 an für epische 2v2v2v2 BGH Schlachten. Gott, Dane ist so lustig. Aber jedenfalls…wir mussten also ihn überzeugen, dass er uns nach Saint Louis fährt…Oh nein! Das war nicht damals. Nein, Nein! Das war was passiert ist. Also, das Quali…Qualifikationsturnier für Saint Louis geschah in 2 Phasen. Man musste für die erste Phase auftauchen, und falls man in die Top 8 kam, qualifizierte man sich fürs Finale. Und dann musste man wieder dahin fahren zum Finale und der Gewinner des Finale geht zu, wisst ihr, geht zu dem nationalen Finale. Also wir hatten keine Möglichkeit dahin zu kommen. Also was haben wir gemacht? Wir dachten an jeden in unserer Schule, der ein Auto besaß. Und wir haben über diesen Kerl namens Clint erfahren mit dem wir zu der Zeit befreundet waren. Wir versuchten ihn zu überzeugen, um halt zu diesem Turnier zu fahren, halt „ Ja Mann, komm schon, lass uns dahin fahren“. Und wir überredeten ihn „ Ja Mann, bau deinen Pool einfach immer auf 4, du schaffst das, du qualifizierst dich total einfach. Ich bin sicher, da tauchen nicht so viele Leute auf!“ Also mussten wir halt dahin fahren und es ist halt eine 4 Stunden Fahrt von unserem Haus aus und wir wurden halt von der Polizei rausgezogen, also wir versucht haben an dieser einen Stelle die Straße zu verlassen und dann haben sie uns halt raus gezogen. Sie öffneten halt unseren Kofferraum und sie bemerkten, dass da halt lauter Computerausrüstung drin war, Mäuse und Tastaturen halt. Wir halt „Nein, nein, wir sind auf dem Weg zu einem Video Spiel Turnier!“. Er halt „ Ich rieche Marihuana hier drinnen!“ Und wir „ Nein, wir fahren WIRKLICH einfach zu einem Video Spiel Turnier. Wir sind Nerds. Wir machen so was nicht. Wir wollen nur Video Spiele spielen.” Also kommen wir da an und unser Hotelzimmer wurde halt annulliert, also haben wir halt versucht uns in ein Hotelzimmer zu schleichen, aber wir wurden erwischt und sie waren wirklich nett. Mein Bruder war so Taktvoll, er halt „Schaut her, wir sind hier für ein Video Spiel Turnier. Wir sind die ganze Nacht mit dem Auto gefahren. Wir sind wirklich müde. Können wir bitte schlafen?“ Und sie „ Video Spiel Turnier?“ und dann haben wir eine wirklich lange Zeit gebraucht ihnen das zu erklären. Aber letztendlich, haben wir es geschafft, wisst ihr, bei dem Turnier aufzukreuzen. Und Clint macht die „Pool auf 4“-Strategie gegen jeden, aber verkackt es und verliert. Also von den neun Leuten die auftauchen, und die Top 8 qualifizieren sich, Clint wird 9ter. Ok? Er hat wirklich kein bisschen Starcraft gespielt, aber er hat sich aufgeregt, Mann. Und auf der Fahrt nach Hause, hat er die ganzen 4 Stunden diese unglaublichen Possen gerissen. Und wir halt „ Clint, kannst du nicht ein bisschen weniger Possen reißen, damit wir nicht den Verstand verlieren.“
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Und er “ Dude, schau, Ich bin den ganzen Weg hierher gefahren, ich wollte einfach in die Top 8 in diesem Turnier kommen und ich will nur rein bisschen Musik hören. Ich hatte keinen gute Fahrt, Mann. Ich wurde aus dem Turnier eliminiert.“ Wir „Du spielst doch nicht mal das Spiel, Mann! Wir haben nur gehofft du hast einen gute Zeit!“ Also mussten wir das aushalten, aber letztendlich sind wir daheim angekommen. Da sich nur einer qualifizieren konnte, musste ich meinen Bruder in dem Turnier eliminieren, also bin ich Erster dort geworden. Und dann bin ich ausgeflogen worden. Und das war eins der schlimmsten Dinge denen ich entgegen getreten bin in halt, meinen Leben in Starcraft. Einfach…ich hasse es wenn es ein Qualifikationsturnier gibt, mein Bruder und ich dahin gehen und sich halt nur einer qualifizieren kann. Und nur einer von uns kann dann dahin gehen. Denn, verdammt damals gab es nicht viele Turniere, wie halt WCGS, die World Cyber Games Challenge, dass er halt derjenige war, der sich qualifiziert hat, denn ich…er würd mich eliminieren Also. Weiter im Text…2003 war ein wirklich gutes Finalturnier für mich. Ich war im Seniorjahr in der High School. Ich hab mich im Sommer qualifiziert, ich war wirklich gespannt auf das Finale. Ich bin sogar eine Woche früher zur Schule gegangen. Sogar…All das begann wirklich wichtig in meinem Leben zu werden, dass ich halt tatsächlich eine Menge Starcraft gespielt habe. Ich meine, es war zwar ein bisschen spät, aber selbst die Lehrer wussten, dass ich halt bei diesem Turnier 2001 mitgespielt habe. Und ich bin in das Büro des Direktors gegangen und ich halt „Ich werde für die erste Woche in diesem Schuljahr fehlen, denn ich werde zu einem Video Spiel Turnier fahren.“ Er einfach „Nein, wirst du nicht. Ich werde dich das nicht machen lassen.“ Und ich „Nein, nein, bitte! Darf ich, darf ich? Ich… das ist wirklich wirklich wichtig für mich!“ Er „ Nein, absolut nicht.“ Und ich war immer noch dabei mich damit abzufinden, dass ich ein wenig komisch und seltsam war, damals, darum konnte ich mich nicht so gut ausdrücken, und ich kann mich nur daran erinnern, dass ich das Büro verlassen hab und wirklich schlecht drauf war. Ich meine, wisst ihr, es war einfach… ich war immer noch diese ruhige, sehr ruhige Person, ich war halt einfach „owwww“ ich war wirklich schlecht drauf und habe meine Mom angerufen und ich „ Mann, Mom, weißt du. Die lassen mich nicht dahin gehen.“ Und sie „WAS?!“ Sie begann sich wirklich aufzuregen, sie „ SIE MACHEN WAS?!“ Und ich „Ich meine…Sie lassen es mich einfach nicht machen. Sie haben gesagt sie lassen mich es mich nicht machen. Sie haben gesagt, dass das ein Videospiel ist und dass sie mich nicht lassen, weißt du, erlaubte Absenz aus dem Unterricht für ein Videospiel.“ Und meine Mom sagt „Sean, das ist nicht irgendein Spiel, dass du spielst. Du wirst nicht Mario Kart in L.A. zum Spaß eine Woche lang spielen. Das ist etwas auf das du hin gearbeitet hast! Ich mach das schon!“ Zuallererst, meine Mom hat Mario Kart erwähnt, ich wusste nicht, dass sie den Scheiß kannte! Cool! Mom! Ok! Ok? Also, sie… sie war für 15 Minuten weg. Ich hab sie in der Arbeit angerufen, um sie das wissen zu lassen, aber sie kam nach den 15 Minuten zurück, und als sie zurückkam „Du gehst dahin Sean! Ich hab mich darum gekümmert, sorg dich nicht darum, ich hab das geregelt!“ Und ich halt „Ooookay!“ Ich halt „ Ok Mann!“ Und dass… es sind Dinge wie das, die einfach, halt „Wooow…Danke Mom!“. Und ich meine, ein Teil was geholfen hat, um zu dieser Akzeptanz zu kommen, war dass ich Starcraft nicht als dieses komische Hobby angesehen habe, wisst ihr, es war nicht einfach eine Art meine Zeit zu verbringen und nicht erwähnenswert war. Ich dachte es war so cool, dass ich das Spiel gespielt hab und ich würde auch immer runter zu meiner Mom gehen und halt so „ Mom, das ist so cool was ich da mache.“ Und ich würde sie halt total überreden, dass das wirklich cool war. Und das war, wisst ihr, genauso wie die Gespräche mit meinem Bruder unter der Rolltreppe als Kinder in dem Einkaufzentrum, dieses meine Mom verstehen lassen, denn ich freute mich so darüber, dass ich die Freude mit meiner Mutter teilen wollte. Dieser Versuch dies zu artikulieren, in einer eindeutigen Weise, hat mir so geholfen, denn, wisst ihr, viele der Arten wie ich das versucht habe meiner Mutter zu erklären damals, hab ich mein ganzes Leben benutzt. Wenn ich versucht habe, wisst ihr, Leuten meine Sichtweise auf Starcraft zu erklären und dass sie damit klar kommen. 2003 war nicht…das Turnier lief nicht gut für mich. Ich wurde eliminiert. Ich würde euch die ganze Geschichte des Turnieres erzählen, aber die wäre sehr traurig und ich rede nun schon 43 Minuten und bin erst im Jahr 2003, also kommen noch 7 Jahre. Aber ich wurde von einem Kerl namens Pyrrhus, den keiner damals kannte, eliminiert. Ich spielte wie ein Idiot, und ich war halt, komplett beschämt darüber, aber ich konnte eine Menge coole Leute treffen wie jedes Mal. Und der beste Teil des Turniers ist ja auch, dass man die Leute sieht mit denen man sonst nur chattet. Also…2004 ist im Anmarsch. Das war als ich im Freshmanjahr im College war. Es ist tatsächlich der Sommer zwischen den Qualifikationsturnieren und, und… es war komisch den…es war um die Zeit herum als ich zu dem Namen Day[9] kam. Ich wollte einen coolen Ein-Wort-Namen. Denn es gab diese Spieler wie Reach, Yellow, Boxer! Und es war halt „Ein Wort“! Und ich halt „ Ich mache das…Day!!!! Also das war schon mal entschieden, also musste ich noch irgendwas cooles mir ausdenken, und ich dachte immer der 9 Clan war cool, 9Everlast, 9Kane, und da das nicht wirklich bekannt war, ich halt „ Ich schätze dann bin ich jetzt 9“ Also hab ich einfach Day[9] und es in Klammern gesetzt. So einfach, Yeah!
Und irgendwie hat dieser Typ Paul unseren AIM Namen bekommen und er hat halt einfach…Und mit unseren mein ich den AIM Namen von meinem Bruder und meinen und er würde uns halt einfach die ganze Zeit anschreiben, vor allem wegen WCG 2004. Und es war so komisch denn er würde einfach halt lügen…halt ununterbrochen. Er würde all die Geschichten erfinden was er schon alles in Starcraft gemacht hat und all das Zeug, das halt, halt…Mir hat er erzählt das er ein
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22 Jahre alter 125 kg schwerer Football Spieler ist, der ein Football Stipendium hat. Und dann hat er meinem Bruder erzählt, dass er ein 16 Jahre alter High School Student ist, der sehr oft an Debatten teilnahm. Einfach total unlogisch halt. Und das lustig war halt, dass wir zu den WCG 2004 Qualifikationsturnier gefahren sind, das in Chicago war…er wollte, dass wir ihn mitnehmen, denn er wollte ja auch zu dem Turnier.
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and the part from 50min to 59 min translated by cip
[0:50:18] Also, wisst ihr, die hatten ein zufälliges Seeding. Und in dem einen Bracket waren so, Artosis und … so die untere Hälfte bezüglich der Spielstärke. Und in meinem Bracket waren all die furchteinflößenden Namen, bei denen ich gebetet habe, nicht gegen sie antreten zu müssen, wisst ihr, da waren: Evade war da, ich habe die Liste sogar hier, Skew, Rekrul, Fr0z… Satist. So richtig gute Spieler zu der Zeit, und ich erinnere mich, das erste Spiel habe ich einfach vergeigt, und ich habe ganz knapp 2-1 gegen Evade gewonnen. Und wisst ihr, es war… es war… dieses Turnier… Ich rief meinen Bruder so oft an in diesem Turnier. Er hatte sich nicht dafür qualifiziert, aber ich rief ihn zwischen allen Spielen an und er rief mich ständig an um sich nach mir zu erkundigen. Oh, Gott. Es ist so, es macht mich sogar emotional. So wie sehr er mich immer unterstützt hat, meine ganze Familie. Und ich weiß noch wie ich ihn vor Spielen anrief und ich so „Dude, ich muss gegen Evade spielen“ und er so „Dude, du hast trainiert, du packst das! Du… du weißt du bist besser. Bleib bei dem, was du trainiert hast. Du verstehst dieses Spiel, Mann. Du kapierst es! Er ist nur zum Spaß hier aber du bist hier um zu gewinnen“, und ich hab gespielt und gewonnen und dann musste ich gegen Fr0z und ich hatte total Angst, aber ich durfte als erster meine Karte wählen. Ich wählte meine beste Karte, Korhal of Ceres. Ich habe eine gut trainierte Strategie, Fr0z nimmt mich da AUSEINANDER. Das Spiel ist nicht mal knapp, Ich rief meinen Bruder an zwischen diesen beiden Spielen und ich sag so „Mann, ich bin in diesem Todes-Bracket, Mann. Keine Chance, dass ich’s schaffe, ich liege 0-1 gegen Fr0z zurück.“ und Nick sagte „Nein Sean! Das ist ein Todes-Bracket weil da Leute wie du drin sind. Online hast du Fr0z ständig besiegt, du packst das, Mann.“ und die nächste Karte ist Gorky Island. Und wenn sich jemand von euch die Karte anguckt, die ist FÜRCHTERLICH für Zerg gegen Terraner. Guckt sie euch nur an und ihr werdet „Urghhhh“ machen. Wisst ihr, es ist eine Inselkarte, mit sehr komischen Positionen. Aber ich habe sie echt hart trainiert, ich ließ nicht locker und spielte ein dramatisches Spiel und gewann am Ende. Und dann fühlte ich mich sehr konzentriert, ich war ruhig, ich hörte auf zu schwitzen und war voll im Tunnel (?). Und in dem dritten Spiel, das war auf Martian Cross, scoutete ich mit meinem ersten Overlord und er tötete ihn mit Marines. Und ich nur „Ohhh Gott.“ und dann schickte ich eine Drone zum Scouten rein, nur so „Ich weiß nicht was er vorhat“ und ich kam in die Basis und ich sah, dass er früh expandierte. Und zu dem Zeitpunkt, früh expandieren gegen Zerg war da noch sehr unüblich. Hauptsächlich machten die Spieler one-base als Terraner gegen Zerg, aber er expandierte früh und plötzlich dachte ich „ich weiß genau was ich machen muss, um zu gewinnen.“ und ich hab einfach. Ich… Ich machte Übergänge (?), die ich noch heute benutze. Ich expandierte ein paar Mal, eröffnete mit Mutalisken zum Harassen, ging über zu Lurkern, holte den Hive, ging dann über zu Guardians, gefolgt von Ultralisken. Als sein erster Push kam, hatte ich 12 Guardians die alles zerstörten und schickte dann so lange Ultralisken, bis ich 2-1 gewann. Und es war irre, denn ich gewann und als ich hochschaute wurden keine anderen Spiele gespielt in dem Turnier. Es waren nur Fr0z und ich, gegenüber an Computern und alle anderen standen darum, und ich nur „Ohhhh mein Gott!“ Ich wusste nicht, dass da so viele Leute waren. Und es war so viel los, und Fr0z schüttelte meine Hand, so, gesittet. Und ich rief meinen Bruder an und ich so „Nick! Nick! Ich hab Fr0z geschlagen“ und er so „Dude, ich wusste du schaffst es! Jetzt spielst du gegen Satist, und der Typ macht sich wahrscheinlich in die Hose weil du gerade den besten Terraner Amerikas rausgeworfen hast!“ und ich nur so „Oh mein Gott!“ und ich… ich schlug Satist 2-0 und ich war in den Top 3. Was hieß ich qualifizierte mich für mein erstes Grand Final überhaupt. Und, ich erinnere mich, ich spielte gegen Artosis in dem Winner’s Bracket Finale, also er war auch Top 3 und man sah noch keinen glücklicheren Menschen als Artosis. Ernsthaft … so… Ich hab mich hingesetzt und er so „Hey, Mann!“ er sagte „Willst du ein Best of One spielen? Mir ist egal ob ich erster oder zweiter werde, wir fahren alle, Mann!“ und ich so „Nee! Lass uns einfach Best of Three spielen, ich fühle mich gut“ und er so „Cool, Mann! Oh Gott, das fühlt sich so gut an!“ und ich weiß noch in den Spielen saß ich da und spielte und ich lehnte mich rüber, weil wir gegenüber saßen, unsere Monitore waren gegenüber, also konnte ich ihn sehen wenn ich mich rüber lehnte. Und mitten in dem Spiel sah ich rüber und er war nur am strahlen. Er war nur am strahlen! Es war… Und es war so cool, denn es war so ein Moment, wisst ihr, wo es nur… Ich wusste genau, denn ich wusste Artosis hatte geübt, also wusste ich genau wie hart der Typ trainiert hatte für dieses Turnier und ich wusste wie hart ich trainiert hatte für das Turnier, Mann. Und es hat sich ausgezahlt. [0:54:42] Also Fr0z kam zurück durch das Winners Bracket, er hat… Er hat das ganze Turnier gewonnen, er musste nur… er musste mich in zwei Best of Threes schlagen, and tat das problemlos, er schlug mich so 5-1 und wie viele Spiele ich danach auch immer noch spielte. Also… Fr0z gewann das ganze Turnier. Aber wisst ihr, es waren ich, Artosis und Fr0z die fuhren, und es war mein allererstes WCG USA Turnier, bei dem ich mich für das Grand Final qualifizierte. Und ich nur so „Oh mein Gott“ und ich rief meine Mutter an und das ist… das ist… Ich muss sagen das ist was passiert, wenn man eine Mom hat die Starcraft-Spieler kennt, aber noch wichtiger wenn du eine wirklich liebe Mom hast, die dich unterstützt. Denn ich hab sie angerufen und gesagt „Mom, Mom ich habs geschafft! Ich bin unter den Top 3, und ich hab dabei Fr0z geschlagen“ und sie sagte „Sean, du hast Fr0z geschlagen?! Oh mein Gott!“ Denn Fr0z war, wisst ihr, schon zu den Grand Finals gefahren, er hatte Boxer ZWEI MAL geschlagen. 2002, in der Todesgruppe, ich meine, einfach ein klasse, klasse Spieler. Und es war einfach so schön. Und dann, wisst ihr, fuhr ich zu den Grand Finals und trainiert noch mehr dafür. Und, wisst ihr, in der Zeit lernte ich etwas Zentrales in Bezug auf meine Einstellung als ein Spieler, dass ich… Zerg gegen Terraner war mein gutes Match Up und wie ihr hören werdet war mein Zerg gegen Protoss sogar ziemlich schwach bis etwa 2007, ich denke das war das erste Jahr in dem ich dachte „Hey! Ich fühle mich hier drin sicher.“ aber es war nur Zerg gegen Terraner, was ich wirklich verstand und, wisst ihr, so zu der Zeit dieser Finals, besonders als es auf die Grand Finals zuging, ging mir auf… Dass… ich mich wirklich nicht darum sorgen sollte um den Spieler, oder wer der Spieler ist oder was er drauf hat, oder wen er in der Vergangenheit geschlagen hat, oder welchen Rang er hat oder was auch immer. Wenn er Terraner ist, Terraner haben Beschränkungen, die kein Terraner brechen kann und das bedeutet, dass wenn ich gegen Terraner übe, es egal ist was für ein Name dahinter steckt... wie der Spieler heißt oder wer der Spieler ist, weil ich weiß wie man Terraner schlägt und ich habe studiert wie Terraner funktionieren und… ich stieß auf ein Schlüssel-Timing, bei dem man als Zerg Lurker holt, und man dann eine Menge Drohnen machen kann, weil der Terraner nicht ausrücken kann, bis er Science Vessel hat. Es scheint… es scheint heute total intuitiv, weil man die Profi Spiele sieht und die das dauernd machen. Da ist nichts Neues dran… Aber zu der Zeit, war es einfach, komisch! Weil die Spieler einfach nur Einheiten angehäuft haben, bis sie einen bestimmten Punkt erreichten, einfach anfingen Einheiten zu bauen und nie aufgehört haben Einheiten zu bauen. Aber es war einfach diese Alternation (?) und… als ich… Zeit für die WCG Grand Finals, ich war in Gruppe E… Yeah! Wobei, moment! Bleibt wo ihr seid! So, ich gehe, gehe jetzt rüber zu meinem Schrank, denn ich glaube ich habe sogar noch diese kleinen Dinge… Ja! Ja! Leute! Bewahrt alles auf! Bewahrt jedes einzelne Ding auf, das ihr kriegt, seht hier ist mein Leibchen (?), ich war in der Gruppe E der WCG Grand Finals. Und in meiner Gruppe, es war die Todesgruppe, schon wieder! Es war MethosPG, der berühmte deutsche Zerg Spieler, es war HellGhost, der berühmte brasilianische Terraner Spieler, der auch sehr stark Random spielte, und Liquid`Drone, der Random spiele, aber in Turnieren einfach die Rasse nahm, die zu der Zeit die beste auf der Karte war. Ich musste gegen diese Spieler und ich nur „Ahhh, GOTT!“, wisst ihr. Mein Bruder… Mein Bruder, das Spiel war in San Francisco, also hatte ich Handy Verbindung, mein Bruder rief mich jeden Tag an und vor jedem Spiel rief ich ihn an und sagte „Nick, ich muss gegen Methos spielen.“ und Nick sagte „Keine Sorge, Mann, du hast das im Sack!“ und ich glaube das generelle Muster in all meinen Turnieren ist dass ich zuerst sehr durcheinander bin in so den ersten… Spielen des Turniers. Oder in den ersten… sogar in einem Best of Three, ich verliere generell das erste Spiel. Entschuldigung, wenn ich ein Best of Three gewinne, verliere ich das erste Match und gewinne die nächsten zwei, das ist so irgendwie meine Lebensgeschichte. Also, ich spielte gegen MethosPG und aus irgendeinem Grund war ich so aufgewühlt, dass ich in diesem riesigen Feld voller Computer war, jeder berühmte Spieler den ich je getroffen habe, Entschuldigung, jeder berühmte Spieler von dem ich je gehört habe, aus der ganzen WELT, war da! Es war nicht nur Amerika! Es war die ganze Welt! Mandragon, Deathshaman aus Rumänien, den ihr kennen solltet, denn er ist ziemlich großartig. Ich meine Liquid`Drone… Der berühmte kanadische Spieler Testie, war da. Die Koreaner waren da, XellOs, mein Held, war da. Ich war so aufgewühlt… dass ich gegen Methos meinen Plan abgebrochen habe. Ohne Grund. Ich habe einfach komplett meinen Plan über Bord geworfen. Ich ging auf Hydralisken in Zerg gegen Zerg. Heutzutage, wisst ihr, liebe ich Hydras in Zerg gegen Zerg, aber damals, ich hatte es nie geübt, und ich hab einfach blockiert. Und ich rief meinen Bruder an und ich so „Okay Nick, ich liege schon 0-1 hinten. Ich muss noch zwei Spiele spielen gegen HellGhost und Ariador“ Entschuldigung Ariador ist Liquid`Drone, dieselbe Person. Und ich nur so „Oh Gott“ und er so „Nein Mann! Erinner dich, dude, du hast Fr0z in den Finals geschlagen. Du hast Satist geschlagen. Du hast Artosis geschlafen, Mann, du packst das!“ Unendliche Unterstützung, und weil er ein Starcraft Spieler war und weil wir so viel geredet haben, konnte er mich einfach beruhigen und mich fokussieren und mich in den Tunnel (?) bringen.
thanks to him i kinda revised it but will do that again when everythings finished
BUHUHUHUHUHUH- I can't watch the first 5 minutes of daily 100 without bawling my eyes out. Sean remains a pretty cool guy. It's nice of you guys to help translate this! I wish my french was good enough to lend a hand, but being from eastern Canada all I really know is grunts that don't actually translate to text. Sorry!
I am an American but translating this deserves a giant panda bear hug for the people who don't understand English as well as us Native English Speakers. Great work sir, I listening to spanish to see if I could understand any of it from my spanish classes back in High school, I forgot all my spanish
UPDATE: - The english subtitles were done a week or so ago with the tool from youtube, but we have been correcting some things, they are still not perfect. The subtitles were done with an automated tool and its the best we can do. Thanks to Eric (white rabbit) from day9tv! And Tschis for helping me with the corrections! I'll upload the .srt file to a hosting site and also to google docs so you guys can work with it on your translations. If you have arleady done some text you should read the tutorial MrFrozen did for an easy way of putting the timings on the text without having to die copy pasting. Here it is:
On March 10 2011 02:10 MrFrozen wrote: You asked for it...
First of all, using SubtitleWorkshop I convert the subtitles into a format that makes sense. To do this load the English subtitles into SubtitleWorkshop and go to File > Save As > Choose .stl from the list. Then open the file you just saved with notepad++, it should look like this:
This is good because all the timings are in a box that we can rip using Notepad++'s box selection (like normal text selection but holding the Alt key)
Now lets get rid of all those headers and make another 2 files: TimingsOnly and TextOnly. Which should look like this:
This is all you need to start making the translated subtitles from your translated text, to do it open up your translated text (for this guide it will be spanish) and the TextOnly file we just created, just like this:
Now start separating the translated text into lines that correspond to those of the english TextOnly file, using the Enter Key, like this:
(And so on...)[Silly me, enter missing on line 4 ]
When you finish close the English TextOnly file and open up the TimingsOnly file you'll have something like this:
Now you can just box select all the timings until the line you need and copy paste them into your file:
And there you have it, once you are done with subtitling the whole thing you'll need to go back to the original .stl and copy paste those headers back in, save the file and convert it to whichever format you like.
It's more complicated than just copy pasting but it's much more efficient for large amounts of text imo.
Edit: The images weren't in the right places, sorry about that.
- The portuguese-brazilian subtitles are finished and will be up on youtube and blip later today, the link to the .srt file is on the OP, awesome work Tschis!
Guys, have a read at MrFrozen's tutorial, it helped me a lot!
Plus you'll need to read it to know how to use the timings we got from YouTube, unless you want to do the whole timing process, which is really stressful.
Portuguese finished already? Good work! :D I'll tell my Brazilian friends about it.
Status update on LA Spanish: I've translated until [0:54:42]. Text is, for the most part, unformatted (no linebreaks) and unverified. I got a couple of PMs from people wanting to help, no word on their progress as of yet. I've just asked for updates via PM.
The text needs heavy editing, this means reading it and fixing any errors that come up, which will be a TON times 100 (seriously, don't underestimate them) or just improving the overall quality. I'll start editing when the raw translation is finished, but I'm throwing it out there just in case anyone wants to help.
Great work Tschis for the Portuguese translation, I've just watched some parts here! Thanks! And off course, great job escruting and everyone involved in this project! ;D
I'd like to extend my deepest gratitude to everyone for being so awesome and contributing sooooo much <3333.
It's kinda funny the way things feel when you get really busy. With more ideas than man hours, I regularly struggle with guilt and frustration at my inability to deliver everything I want.
But, thanks to the SC community, I wake up and see you contributing without any demand or request on my part. You just decided "this would be awesome!" and BAM translations appear. Not only is it amazing to see the Daily pulled into so many languages, but you did a hell of a lot better than I could have done alone :D.
This is a great idea. Spread the word of Day9 in other languages is awesome. Specially episode #100 which is simply outstanding and so emotive. I drop a tear each time I watch it.
On March 31 2011 07:23 Day[9] wrote: I'd like to extend my deepest gratitude to everyone for being so awesome and contributing sooooo much <3333.
It's kinda funny the way things feel when you get really busy. With more ideas than man hours, I regularly struggle with guilt and frustration at my inability to deliver everything I want.
But, thanks to the SC community, I wake up and see you contributing without any demand or request on my part. You just decided "this would be awesome!" and BAM translations appear. Not only is it amazing to see the Daily pulled into so many languages, but you did a hell of a lot better than I could have done alone :D.
On March 31 2011 07:23 Day[9] wrote: I'd like to extend my deepest gratitude to everyone for being so awesome and contributing sooooo much <3333.
It's kinda funny the way things feel when you get really busy. With more ideas than man hours, I regularly struggle with guilt and frustration at my inability to deliver everything I want.
But, thanks to the SC community, I wake up and see you contributing without any demand or request on my part. You just decided "this would be awesome!" and BAM translations appear. Not only is it amazing to see the Daily pulled into so many languages, but you did a hell of a lot better than I could have done alone :D.
"Oh my God, Day[9] is saying nice things to me, oh my God!"
On April 03 2011 19:58 escruting wrote: I'm working on the spanish translation. Any news from the other translations? German? French? Italian? Romanian? Dutch?
for the ro translation, i started hard on it but ran into a very busy time and could do very little of it afterwards, i'm back now and hopefully i can make it happen before the easter madness comes
On April 03 2011 19:58 escruting wrote: I'm working on the spanish translation. Any news from the other translations? German? French? Italian? Romanian? Dutch?
for the ro translation, i started hard on it but ran into a very busy time and could do very little of it afterwards, i'm back now and hopefully i can make it happen before the easter madness comes
i've contacted Truenappa regarding japanese translation~he may or may not require my assistance so we shall see...just posting here to kinda 'bookmark' this thread. Love the idea and I love how happy Day9 is about it! Yes, i am even making my lovely mother watch this video. What a great episode!!
Thank you so much for this english subtitles. And i speak for every deaf english speaker out there. Now i've been able to watch the whole day[9] 100th's episode. Thank you day9 and Rampager, Elladan, Tschis, Escruting and WHiT3R4bBiT. ♥
On May 18 2011 07:05 RaiZ wrote: Thank you so much for this english subtitles. And i speak for every deaf english speaker out there. Now i've been able to watch the whole day[9] 100th's episode. Thank you day9 and Rampager, Elladan, Tschis, Escruting and WHiT3R4bBiT. ♥
So happy that atleast we helped one deaf fan
Thank you for letting us know that this was useful for you!
this is so awesome ... daily 100 really changed me from being a casual starcraft fan to realizing how amazing it is and becoming about as big of a fan as you can be..... giving this subtitles is a great gift to the community ... huge props to escruting and obviously Day 9
On May 20 2011 02:59 ShooTouts wrote: this is so awesome ... daily 100 really changed me from being a casual starcraft fan to realizing how amazing it is and becoming about as big of a fan as you can be..... giving this subtitles is a great gift to the community ... huge props to escruting and obviously Day 9
Well, i'm just the "founder" of this project and the translator for the spanish subs (a bit delayed on those -.-). A lot of other users contributed to this cause, their names can be found on the first post
On May 20 2011 02:59 ShooTouts wrote: this is so awesome ... daily 100 really changed me from being a casual starcraft fan to realizing how amazing it is and becoming about as big of a fan as you can be..... giving this subtitles is a great gift to the community ... huge props to escruting and obviously Day 9
Well, i'm just the "founder" of this project and the translator for the spanish subs (a bit delayed on those -.-). A lot of other users contributed to this cause, their names can be found on the first post
Alot of the time starting something and motivating people to do it is the hardest part. I don't need these, but i'm sure alot of people will be very grateful, nice job!
On May 18 2011 07:05 RaiZ wrote: Thank you so much for this english subtitles. And i speak for every deaf english speaker out there. Now i've been able to watch the whole day[9] 100th's episode. Thank you day9 and Rampager, Elladan, Tschis, Escruting and WHiT3R4bBiT. ♥
Your apreciation makes me so happy to be part of it :}
Awesome job!! I only watched this daily late last yr (pretty late) and it was one of the best podcasts ever! Great work to spread the wonder that is this daily
On May 30 2011 14:01 Drakan wrote: Hello there! I can also help to make subtitles in english, spanish (latinamerican) and portuguese.
So if there is still someway to help you guys I would be glad .
The English and Portuguese subtitles are already done. You can contact the users making the latin american spanish and ask if they want help (but i dont know if they are still working on it....).
You can se the users who are working on it on the first page.
This is such an awesome project! I never required any subtitles to watch Episode #100 -- but you've all opened up this great daily to a whole bunch of other people! The Starcraft community is the best.
On May 30 2011 17:43 Tump wrote: This is such an awesome project! I never required any subtitles to watch Episode #100 -- but you've all opened up this great daily to a whole bunch of other people! The Starcraft community is the best.
Hey i just seen that and i have to say i'd love to contribute in the spanish subtitles. I understand english perfectly and i'm of course spanish. If the OP wants to send me a PM i would be delighted
On June 06 2011 07:55 SeriouR wrote: Hey i just seen that and i have to say i'd love to contribute in the spanish subtitles. I understand english perfectly and i'm of course spanish. If the OP wants to send me a PM i would be delighted
gotta say that this is one of the most influential and inspirational videos i've ever seen related to StarCraft.. really was what I needed to see after being on a bit of a rage fit from losing in the past few days. this deserves a bump no matter how old it is.
OP, please add me to the list of translators on the standby list for the Japanese translation. Also, illKarasu and meeyoop should be on the list. You might want to PM some of the other translation teams who were waiting on the English transcript, as that appears to be complete now. Let me know if there's anything else I can help with on this project.
Also, in case any of the other translation teams read this, I'd appreciate a quick writeup on how you divided the work for this massive 22,000 word translation and any tips on completing it. Thanks everyone for any advice you can give :D TeamLiquiders go go!
Hi god_forbids, i already PM'd a lot of the people involved, even the ones who were presumedly working and no one replied.
It seems this is a bit dead, even I am not very active in my spanish translation because of time and people saying that they can help and not doing so at the end. But i suppose its okay, atleast we did 3 full translations (english, portuguese and italian).
If you are 3 people translating the best should be 400-500 lines each one (there are 1,350 lines aprox). If you follow the tutorial a user did to translate it on notepad++ its pretty straightforward.
Thanks for your help on the japanese translation, let me know of your progress