For my 100th post on teamliquid.net, I’ve decided to tackle possibly the greatest mystery of all of Starcraft 2: the Gracken himself.
Great minds have collaborated all their wisdom on this man, producing enough threads to clothe a third-world country. And yet the truth of Idra still eludes us. Why won’t he GG? From whence comes his rage? Why doesn’t he just switch races? Why doesn’t he 6 pool every other game like we think he should? Why doesn’t he respond to our PMs?
In my analysis, I hope to accomplish what every TL.net poster since beta has, at one time or another, sought to do: make a completely uninformed opinion on Idra's play using my wealthy experience as an idle third-party observer with nothing at stake and zero skill.
We have before us an enigma wrapped in a puzzle wrapped in +1 carapace. How shall we crack the Gracken?
The only way to do so is with overworked scientific analysis from a low-diamond league player such as myself. We will begin, for now, with the brain:
(image courtesy of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Security scanners prior to MLG Dallas)
A competent analyst could spend years with this data, but for now let me draw your attention to a few key things. Note the short rush distance between the macro lobe and Idra’s QQ glands. Secondly, note the large, bloated nature of those QQ glands, especially in comparison to the rest of his brain. There is, you might say, an imbalance.
My next step in fixing Idra's play will involve his GG habits. When to GG? When is it too early? Too late? When is it appropriate to rage? In order to navigate all of these issues, Idra surely needs a GG flowchart to post on his monitor next to his list of sponsors.
I laughed... hard; not because of quantity, but because of quality. You sir, are not only quite funny, but are stupendously witty and have a way with language that many TL posters ought to xerox... as it were.
As for the GRACKENSTEIN... yeah, I said Grackenstein... this post is just another reason why Idra is securely in my top 5 StarCraft personalities.
Idra has finally finished going through puberty , did you notice his latest interviews? he is no longer qqing, he's very amicable and is finally hitting on chicks, example: he was hitting on torch's girl.!
it's save to assume we wont seeing the old idra anymore. Now the new gracken's phase has started!!!! all hail to the new GRACKEN! (he comes we no qqing and gg's not included!) joke!!joke joke
My next step in fixing Idra's play will involve his GG habits. When to GG? When is it too early? Too late? When is it appropriate to rage? In order to navigate all of these issues, Idra surely needs a GG flowchart to post on his monitor next to his list of sponsors.
I bet it's decided in the ... madulla oblongata!! Ho ho ho, I make joke! + Show Spoiler +
How fitting that the medulla oblongata is located in the brain stem, where involuntary actions are processed... HO HO HO
On March 08 2011 12:41 ffz wrote: Anyone else started to label the brain with the actual areas in their head?
yeah i was looking at the QQ area and was like... really it comprises both the somatosensory and motor area? doesnt sound like the pre and post central gyrus to me
My next step in fixing Idra's play will involve his GG habits. When to GG? When is it too early? Too late? When is it appropriate to rage? In order to navigate all of these issues, Idra surely needs a GG flowchart to post on his monitor next to his list of sponsors.
I bet it's decided in the ... madulla oblongata!! Ho ho ho, I make joke! + Show Spoiler +
How fitting that the medulla oblongata is located in the brain stem, where involuntary actions are processed... HO HO HO
My next step in fixing Idra's play will involve his GG habits. When to GG? When is it too early? Too late? When is it appropriate to rage? In order to navigate all of these issues, Idra surely needs a GG flowchart to post on his monitor next to his list of sponsors.
I bet it's decided in the ... madulla oblongata!! Ho ho ho, I make joke! + Show Spoiler +
How fitting that the medulla oblongata is located in the brain stem, where involuntary actions are processed... HO HO HO
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"Wait that's not a gland!"
