Starcraft 2 in Alcatraz - Page 7

On February 21 2012 21:41 OrchidThief wrote:


That's kind of true of all productplacement though isn't it?

On February 21 2012 13:53 Blazinghand wrote:
Man that guy is so cool. I wish I could be that guy. "I am the grand master"

On February 23 2012 14:58 erised wrote:
I have never heard anybody who plays Starcraft 2 use the entire phrase "four gate rush" when talking about a 4gate. This reeks of product placement, and some light forum reading. If you watch his screen, what he is fighting against is clearly not a 4gate. It's pretty cool to see a reference on Alcatraz, but just as with every other TV show allusion to a video game (e.g. WoW on The Big Bang Theory) they managed to get it wrong. T.t

On February 23 2012 13:49 SupLilSon wrote:


No? If Blizzard's name and logo had appeared then it would be product placement. As it is, really only people who already know what SC2 is are going to recognize it in the show. The majority of viewers probably saw that 5 second clip and thought nothing of it. I don't think it was aimed to be product placement, someone working on the show probably likes SC2.

On February 23 2012 15:04 zaradron wrote:
Was cool to see Starcraft in a TV show, but they shoulda showed a huge engagement or something with lots of storms, and other abilities to make Starcraft seem awesome. Someone who doesn't play Starcraft would probably think that looked dull and boring.

On February 23 2012 14:58 spancho wrote:


I would probably have been right there with you if the, "Your refresh rate is at ZERO!" comment hadnt been right before it.

Lets look at this comment and why its so wrong on so many levels. Setting aside the fact that refresh rate is something to do with your monitor*, lets just assume the annoying 12 year old this guy is trying to impress actually means "ping time." As you probably know your "ping" is a measure of your internet connectivity; it's the time delay between sending and recieving an ICMP echo request.

Unfortunately for the obnoxious nerd on the other end of the phone, he has no access to this information, all he could see would be the time between himself and the battle.net servers. All of this is immaterial, because even the fastest pentagon computer still sends packets over copper wire, after which the signal creeps along at a glacial 2e8 meters/second**. A 'mainframe' even if it could run starcraft on ultra settings with 200 FPS would still lag from bnet anyway.

On a different note, did you see that sick one zealont, one stalker, no pylon 4 gate he was the "master" of?





* Check out that monitor set up. His Double Screen gives him Double Vision, with a giant gap right down the middle where all the micro is happening.

** If he was in Soul playing on the Korean server all his traffic would be on nice fiberoptic cable running at the speed of light, so it could be argued that his, "refresh rate is at like ZERO." Except since he is physically located in the united states even if his traffic got routed directly through fiberoptic cable under the pacific, all his packets would be going through some DPI on its way outbound from the US, giving him some tasty latency.

On February 23 2012 18:06 NexaS wrote:

"Unfortunately for the obnoxious nerd..." is my favorite part of your post.

* Because it sums up your entire post.