Lings of Liberty: The Rise of the Patchzergs - Page 12

On December 04 2012 05:31 13_Doomblaze_37 wrote:
Does nobody understand what blizzard is doing? They are trying to increase game sales. The first game is terran based, so terran will of course start out as overpowered, and everyone will play terran. The expansion is a zerg expansion so they are slowly buffing zerg over time to make it overpowered. That way everyone will play HotS and play zerg. When LotV comes out protoss will be overpowered due to buffs over time for the same reason.

On December 04 2012 05:31 Yoshi Kirishima wrote:
Tl;dr at bottom of post

Ver, I applaud your efforts for what seems to be some kind of humor. It is obviously hard to write a very good satire. But your intentions and messages can be interpreted in too many ways. With some background knowledge of you and Monk and what Monk said regarding this thread, your intentions and messages can be made clearer, but it is still quite unclear exactly what your points are.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but only the ending is similar to A Modest Proposal. The usage of only alluding to A Modest Proposal in the end can, by itself, be interpreted in many ways.

For example, by copying the style of A Modest Proposal's last paragraph, are you simply trying to make his thread humorous, to contrast the seriousness of most of the post?

Are you copying the style of A Modest Proposal to similarly show the ridiculousness of a need to nerf Zerg, as it was ridiculous for babies to be suggested to be eaten?

Are you saying that Zerg is indeed dominating, but are criticizing people who think Blizzard buffed zerg just so that foreigners can win more (there aren't many people who say/believe this)

Maybe you are criticizing both people who think Zerg is dominating and people who think Blizzard wants zerg to be the strongest and wants foreigners to win?

There's many other things I can think about, but these are just on the top of my head.

With Monk's post it's more clear what the general direction of your satire is, but with just Ver's post alone, I think it is open for too many interpretations.

Another thing I don't like about this post is that, unless you disagreed with Monk and felt many would indeed understand it (and if this is the case please disregard this), if you are posting this with the intention of only a few people understanding this and hoping to get some laughs from this -- while it may be funny to see people to fail to understand your satire, you and others can't really blame them; there is simply enough evidence to support many different interpretations of your post.

If you posted this with the intention of only a few people understanding it, is that not a form of laziness, or at least can be criticized? I don't think it's a good satire if not many people can understand it. A Modest Proposal is written in a humorous way that is easily understandable ( at least in our more sophisticated, modern, and educated society than in its time ) and has messages and points that are clearly discernible.

Now obviously it must have taken you a long time to write this; I'm not trying to make a personal attack "omg you failed to make a satire as well written as someone as famous as John Swift!" but would like to give my feedback that overall, the satire should have been clearer.

Tl;dr nice humorous post, didn't understand it at first, and still see too many interpretations that are possible, would have liked you to make it clearer because posting an unclear satire on a site like TL isn't such a good idea to me.

On December 04 2012 05:32 neoghaleon55 wrote:
This thread is racist
misinformed and often times down right incorrect.
For example, the reason fungal was buffed was because of massvoidrays
or any combination of voidray collosi combo that could not be engaged at any angle.

What a long winded QQ.

On December 04 2012 03:58 Ver wrote:Yet what has Blizzard's response been? Do nothing and claim all is well. In one interview after another, Blizzard's dubious statements have created volumes of outrage at how they seem to be living in an Ivory Tower, walled off from reality. In Blizzard's imaginary world, players sit at home devising plans to maximize the usage of destructible rocks and infestors don't dominate almost every high level game, either by threat - go allin and win before hive+infestors - or actual appearance. Games like Scarlett vs Hero on Taldarim (MLG Dallas), where a 7 base Hero who is massively outplaying Scarlett with great harass ends up losing because she marches 1 broodlord/infestor army across the entire map, are just imaginary to Blizzard. So it seems superficially.

On December 04 2012 05:32 Miotonir wrote:


So u recon that u should be able to burn 60 drones with 4-6 helions ... do u think reverting to queen range 3 would alow that or maybe zergs learned that queen is good unit to defend with?
Maybe its time for u to think of something diffrent than 6 helion runby which ive seen 1000 and more times.

On December 04 2012 05:36 Left hand wrote:
Good article. It ties in well with this one about BitByBit, the most tragic victim of the patchzergs:

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=242118