EPTI try to aim for a balance of my casting between analysis and "play by play". Considering that nothing going on in most of sc2 my audience can't figure out for themselves, I find it irrelevant to repeat myself on basic stuff after a while. Personally, I like the standard Korean commentary on BW games more than anything else, even though I have great respect for Tastosis/Day9 and such, just because of the energy they instill into the game that I feel cannot be translated very easily into English at all. But at that point I know enough about BW that I don't need people telling me obvious things. With SC2, I just don't find the game interesting at all, and I have an extremely hard time not getting bored through any manner of game. Thus I don't watch sc2 casts of any kind, not that my crappy Canadian bandwidth can support both HD uploading and regular downloading.
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IskatuMesk
Canada969 Posts
I try to aim for a balance of my casting between analysis and "play by play". Considering that nothing going on in most of sc2 my audience can't figure out for themselves, I find it irrelevant to repeat myself on basic stuff after a while. Personally, I like the standard Korean commentary on BW games more than anything else, even though I have great respect for Tastosis/Day9 and such, just because of the energy they instill into the game that I feel cannot be translated very easily into English at all. But at that point I know enough about BW that I don't need people telling me obvious things. With SC2, I just don't find the game interesting at all, and I have an extremely hard time not getting bored through any manner of game. Thus I don't watch sc2 casts of any kind, not that my crappy Canadian bandwidth can support both HD uploading and regular downloading. | ||
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Gingerninja
United Kingdom1339 Posts
PS I also bought Magicka based on his 25 min tutorial vid... Also he's a Geordie and if he spoke like he probably spoke growing up (I live an hour away so my accent is similar) people would complain about it too, probably a lot more. | ||
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Jimmy Raynor
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Also I'd like to state that I find Incontrol most of the time really funny so don't start calling hater or whatnot | ||
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dicey
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Bergys
Sweden337 Posts
Keep it up TB! | ||
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Dauntless
Norway548 Posts
On February 27 2011 22:07 Bergys wrote: I feel like TB receives alot of shit that he doesn't deserve. Imo his interest in SC2 is genuine and as he has said several times he makes money of WoW and not sc2. Just check the amount of viewers he gets on his videos and you'll see that SC2 gets far less. Keep it up TB! QFT! I wanna emphasize this. That is all. | ||
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Striding Strider
United Kingdom787 Posts
On February 27 2011 22:07 Bergys wrote: I feel like TB receives alot of shit that he doesn't deserve. Imo his interest in SC2 is genuine and as he has said several times he makes money of WoW and not sc2. Just check the amount of viewers he gets on his videos and you'll see that SC2 gets far less. Keep it up TB! QFT aswell. <3 TB | ||
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FALAPARK
United States224 Posts
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10or10
Sweden517 Posts
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kazansky
Germany931 Posts
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frankepooz
Sweden19 Posts
On February 27 2011 03:39 Faria wrote: It's weird, I'm English and find TB's accent harder to listen to than kellymilkies, no one talks like that - it's not natural :< He said on a podcast that his voice is a mix of Welsh Scottish and "Regular" english. I don't remember all the details but it was this freak build order of dialects | ||
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blae000
Norway1640 Posts
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Glaaki
Denmark12 Posts
On February 27 2011 02:38 Aberu wrote: Yes we are missing out on someone who knew as much about Starcraft as some random person that could be pulled off the street when he started casting. Not an insult, just he didn't exist in the community of Starcraft until he saw potential dollar signs in SC2, and less potential dollar signs in WoW. There's no problem with that, he has a very professional voice, is very creative, and is good at what he does for the most part. He is a professional, he went where the viewers went. But most people have a problem with that, there are casters who have been around in Starcraft when there was no point other than sacrificing your own time for free for something you love, and there are brand new casters who came in because they saw potentially being the next husky or HD. Aka $$$. Now they aren't rich, just they are doing something they like to do (talk about games), and getting paid for it. EDIT: Just so you know, I listened to total biscuit back in the day on warcraft radio when he first started out. I like his work quite a bit. He said himself numerous times that there are more viewers, listeners and site hits for his WoW content that there is for his StarCraft II content. So it is clearly not true that he does SCII content for the money. He does it because he likes SCII and that reflects in his casting. That is one of the reason I love his SCII casts. Now that is not saying that he would not like to do the SCII stuff on a more commercial basis. I think he obviously would. He is promoting the game well and is good at getting sponsors to support it, which is great for everybody as far as I can see. | ||
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Psyonic_Reaver
United States4342 Posts
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hifriend
China7935 Posts
Can we just stop with this shit and calm the fuck down? | ||
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Serthius
Samoa226 Posts
As far as professionalism goes, I see TB as the best caster in the community. We definitely need more people like him. | ||
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TotalBiscuit
United Kingdom5437 Posts
On February 27 2011 12:37 strongandbig wrote: So just a question then, but why do you care so much what people here say about you? If you don't want to be liked by this demographic, and your product is explicitly not targeted towards it, why do you get so involved in drama including it? Just my opinion, but I feel like if you're going to be a public personality, you should be a little more thick skinned about it. Don't get so involved whenever anyone says anything bad about you. For example, watching and commenting in this thread is probably a bad idea. When people from this site and this community make fun of you - which will happen inevitably, as long as you are part of SC2 - you should not get involved, because that makes it a BFD when it doesn't have to be. In other words, don't make a product which is explicitly not for this community, and then expect this community to love you for it. I'm not sure why you're asking me why I'd want a community I'm an active part of, not to despise me. That seems fairly obvious. Not a fan of apathy either. 'Just ignore it and it'll go away' only works on children and house pets. | ||
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dar0za
Canada74 Posts
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myPlums
United States10 Posts
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aka_star
United Kingdom1546 Posts
I'm not sure why you're asking me why I'd want a community I'm an active part of, not to despise me. That seems fairly obvious. Not a fan of apathy either. 'Just ignore it and it'll go away' only works on children and house pets. Although picking at it can make it worse, like acne right?  Hmmm I ponder if everyone leaves Incontrol alone, maybe he'll go away? although many of us would miss him terribly in SOTG  | ||
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