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Ruscour
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
5233 Posts
October 09 2011 22:19 GMT
#21
On October 10 2011 06:29 OmniscientSC2 wrote:
Maybe they really like the movie Black Dynamite?

Oh my god, that scene is absolutely legendary. brb watching again
FunnelC4kes
Profile Joined July 2010
Ireland462 Posts
October 09 2011 22:21 GMT
#22
Popcorn, do you have a peer-reviewed (NOT Wikipedia) source that states, explicitly, that the staff of Caduceus represents gamblers, liars and thieves?

I don't recall Mercury ever being associated with any of those "Guilds."
Scholar. Shaman. Starcraft Enthusiast.
Badfatpanda
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States9719 Posts
October 09 2011 22:22 GMT
#23
On October 10 2011 06:29 OmniscientSC2 wrote:
Maybe they really like the movie Black Dynamite?


OMG LOL thread ends if you don't get this watch the movie please ><
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Yoshi Kirishima
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States10366 Posts
October 09 2011 22:23 GMT
#24
well this is strange o.o well i guess if you change tradition then the meaning changes too eh? though of course it still won't be true to its original

Maybe it's thievery to upgrade the energy, cus it means it helps your drops and dropping in a base harasses them, it's like marauding someone, it's like stealing... it's like thievery! whoa xD
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FunnelC4kes
Profile Joined July 2010
Ireland462 Posts
October 09 2011 22:25 GMT
#25
On October 10 2011 06:52 Bojas wrote:
The pharmacist(apothecary?) and doctor here have almost the same emblem. Probably some medical thing.


The staff of Asclepius was associated with doctors, or barbers (who often acted as doctors "back in the day").

In Greece there was a common parasite that would burrow under the skin. A doctor would make an incision, and use a small stick to twist the snake-like parasite out from under the patient's skin. Hence the reason the Staff of Asclepius has a single snake coiled around a "staff," which, in real life, was a tiny stick.

If you had one of those parasites, you'd know where to go to get it removed.

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The_Piper42
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States426 Posts
October 09 2011 22:28 GMT
#26
On October 10 2011 06:30 Whitewing wrote:
I've figured out what the purpose of the upgrade is after watching Korean Terrans do this multiple times:

It's to fake upgrade cloak for your banshees, so that when you cancel it, you lose less resources. They see the tech lab spinning and assume cloak.


Please read the whole OP next time...
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eNtitY~
Profile Joined January 2007
United States1293 Posts
October 09 2011 22:31 GMT
#27
Pretty sure thats even in the logo of a huge health care provider.
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FeyFey
Profile Joined September 2010
Germany10114 Posts
October 09 2011 22:44 GMT
#28
love that upgrade in zvt, saves alot of supply and gas. (I actually let it finish when faking cloak ) As the terran you don't need a fast heal but alot of heal, so really no reason to not get it.

And i agree on the missuse, but if the missuse was intended by blizzard or not will always remain a secret. But as long as blizzard keeps dropping their eastereggs into their games i will love blizzard . Games without eastereggs are no real games.
Vei
Profile Joined March 2010
United States2845 Posts
October 09 2011 22:55 GMT
#29
Haha staff of thievery, I'm putting that into this RPG maker game I'm making. At least the name, it will be a cool lil thing 8)
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PopcornColonel
Profile Joined March 2011
United States769 Posts
October 09 2011 22:59 GMT
#30
On October 10 2011 07:21 FunnelC4kes wrote:
Popcorn, do you have a peer-reviewed (NOT Wikipedia) source that states, explicitly, that the staff of Caduceus represents gamblers, liars and thieves?

I don't recall Mercury ever being associated with any of those "Guilds."

Indeed I do, in fact my Latin teacher (a Classics major) pointed this fact out to me. I later confirmed it on Wikipedia.
Zerg delenda est.
PopcornColonel
Profile Joined March 2011
United States769 Posts
October 09 2011 23:01 GMT
#31
On October 10 2011 07:55 Vei wrote:
Haha staff of thievery, I'm putting that into this RPG maker game I'm making. At least the name, it will be a cool lil thing 8)

Awesome! Glad to contribute ^^
Zerg delenda est.
rUiNati0n
Profile Joined December 2010
United States1155 Posts
October 09 2011 23:10 GMT
#32
I agree with the first post that Blizz is just going with the common (incorrect) usage in US.
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IMSmooth
Profile Joined May 2011
United States679 Posts
October 09 2011 23:23 GMT
#33
On October 10 2011 06:27 caradoc wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus#Misuse_as_Symbol_of_medicine

Common practice according to wikipedia

Show nested quote +
It is relatively common, especially in the United States, to find the caduceus, with its two snakes and wings, used as a symbol of medicine instead of the correct rod of Asclepius, with only a single snake. This usage is erroneous, popularised largely as a result of the adoption of the caduceus as its insignia by the US Army medical corps in 1902 at the insistence of a single officer (though there are conflicting claims as to whether this was Capt. Frederick P. Reynolds or Col. John R. van Hoff).[21][22]

The rod of Asclepius is the dominant symbol for healthcare professionals and associations in the United States. One survey found that 62% of healthcare professionals used the rod of Asclepius, while 76% of commercial healthcare organizations used the caduceus


No, Americans know what it means. We just think doctors are a bunch of thieves :p

Sigh.... Someday we will have a good healthcare system. Someday
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Haydin
Profile Joined December 2010
United States1481 Posts
October 09 2011 23:24 GMT
#34
On October 10 2011 06:29 OmniscientSC2 wrote:
Maybe they really like the movie Black Dynamite?


What I wouldn't give to upgrade my Dark Templar with Kung Fu Treachery.
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Whitewing
Profile Joined October 2010
United States7483 Posts
October 09 2011 23:25 GMT
#35
On October 10 2011 07:28 The_Piper42 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 10 2011 06:30 Whitewing wrote:
I've figured out what the purpose of the upgrade is after watching Korean Terrans do this multiple times:

It's to fake upgrade cloak for your banshees, so that when you cancel it, you lose less resources. They see the tech lab spinning and assume cloak.


Please read the whole OP next time...


I read the OP, it was about whether or not the name is a mistake or intentionally wrong. I just posted a joke that was semi-on and semi-off topic.
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FunnelC4kes
Profile Joined July 2010
Ireland462 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-09 23:37:55
October 09 2011 23:33 GMT
#36
On October 10 2011 07:59 PopcornColonel wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 10 2011 07:21 FunnelC4kes wrote:
Popcorn, do you have a peer-reviewed (NOT Wikipedia) source that states, explicitly, that the staff of Caduceus represents gamblers, liars and thieves?

I don't recall Mercury ever being associated with any of those "Guilds."

Indeed I do, in fact my Latin teacher (a Classics major) pointed this fact out to me. I later confirmed it on Wikipedia.


I read the Wiki post on the Caduceus, but it didn't have anything to say about its association with thieves or gamblers.

The original rod that Hermes was depicted with, the messenger's staff, or Kerukeion (sp?), was not the twin-snaked staff of the Caduceus. It was much simpler, but definitely different from the Caduceus. To be certain, there are images of the Caduceus found in Sumeria, egypt, even as far as Western Nigeria. The Shaman I've talked to in Western Nigeria have said it is a visual representation of the rise of Ase, Chi, or energy from the base chakra through crown chakra.

The Grecian art I've seen of Herme's had the traditional Kerukeion, not the Caduceus. Those that did have the Caduceus weren't seen until well after the Classical Grecian period--even the Roman period. Maybe the aforementioned association with the Caduceus happened sometime after that?

Edit: but that's been my research, maybe not the Classical understanding--your professor may know something I don't. Maybe vise-versa. Just using as a base of discussion.

Scholar. Shaman. Starcraft Enthusiast.
slicknav
Profile Joined January 2011
1409 Posts
October 09 2011 23:47 GMT
#37
while we're at it we might was well deconstruct Blizzard's usage of the word "marine", which in the game is a guy with gun. However the word has mideval origins relating to the ocean and water. I wonder why they chose the name "marine" for a guy with a gun...
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StarCraft64
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States354 Posts
October 09 2011 23:48 GMT
#38
On October 10 2011 08:25 Whitewing wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 10 2011 07:28 The_Piper42 wrote:
On October 10 2011 06:30 Whitewing wrote:
I've figured out what the purpose of the upgrade is after watching Korean Terrans do this multiple times:

It's to fake upgrade cloak for your banshees, so that when you cancel it, you lose less resources. They see the tech lab spinning and assume cloak.


Please read the whole OP next time...


I read the OP, it was about whether or not the name is a mistake or intentionally wrong. I just posted a joke that was semi-on and semi-off topic.

It was also semi-incorrect. You get 100% back for cancelled upgrades, so they use it to temporarily occupy less resources.
Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: "I feed on your energy."
skatbone
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1005 Posts
October 09 2011 23:53 GMT
#39
On October 10 2011 06:30 Whitewing wrote:
I've figured out what the purpose of the upgrade is after watching Korean Terrans do this multiple times:

It's to fake upgrade cloak for your banshees, so that when you cancel it, you lose less resources. They see the tech lab spinning and assume cloak.


Lol, yea, I saw MMA do that today.
Mercurial#1193
goiflin
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Canada1218 Posts
October 10 2011 00:11 GMT
#40
They probably messed it up on purpose, but the medic energy upgrade was called that in brood war too, so whoever messed up the names is probably not working at blizzard anymore.

We will never know the answer to this mystery!
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