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Zoler
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Sweden6339 Posts
July 27 2009 18:26 GMT
#41
On July 27 2009 18:02 Pawsom wrote:
"Boxer hyung" do all players refer to him like this?


You say hyung to someone that is older and Boxer is the oldest progamer
Lim Yo Hwan forever!
thopol
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Japan4560 Posts
July 27 2009 18:29 GMT
#42
Garimto is coming back?!?!?!? SC2 is going to be so fucking cool!
Clow
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
Brazil880 Posts
July 27 2009 18:34 GMT
#43
He's so handsome and mature, I'm in love.

I hope he can do well in SC2 <3
(–_–) CJ Entusman #33
Dazed.
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada3301 Posts
July 27 2009 18:52 GMT
#44
On July 27 2009 18:52 Magic84 wrote:
In other words, "i don't have the mechanics, but this game won't require them and i'm smart enough to do well". I bet Savior also can't wait for SC2.
It's a strategy game. Strategy SHOULD trump mechanics. In sc it doesn't. Thats a flaw. Mechanics should be important, and no where did he say they wont be a relevant factor, simply that when a new game comes out everything is up in the air, and intelligent strategy will trump mechanical precision. Over time mechanics, just like in sc1, will increase in importance. Hopefully not to the point of sc1 where mechanics is the end all be all of the game, but nevertheless.
Never say Die! ||| Fight you? No, I want to kill you.
Smix *
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States4549 Posts
July 27 2009 18:54 GMT
#45
On July 28 2009 00:53 MrHoon wrote:
NOOO KONA YOU DIDNT ADD NETIZENS FOR THIS ARTICLE

The Netizens for this article is just brutal. Absolutely brutal.


LOLOL SO BAD
TranslatorBe an Optimist Prime, Not a Negatron // twitter @smixity
Flaite
Profile Joined July 2009
Chile6 Posts
July 27 2009 18:57 GMT
#46
Mechanics will play a bigger role at first, until innovative strats are created.
chuata
Dazed.
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada3301 Posts
July 27 2009 18:59 GMT
#47
On July 28 2009 03:57 Flaite wrote:
Mechanics will play a bigger role at first, until innovative strats are created.
Innovative strategies will be created before the pro circuit even starts. Its going to be the wild wild west, man.
Never say Die! ||| Fight you? No, I want to kill you.
geegee1
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States618 Posts
July 27 2009 19:02 GMT
#48
Man if hes coming back i cant wait for all the OLD OLD retired progammers to come back and play
pew pew
Flaite
Profile Joined July 2009
Chile6 Posts
July 27 2009 19:02 GMT
#49
On July 28 2009 03:59 Dazed_Spy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 28 2009 03:57 Flaite wrote:
Mechanics will play a bigger role at first, until innovative strats are created.
Innovative strategies will be created before the pro circuit even starts. Its going to be the wild wild west, man.



Ah, beta.
chuata
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
July 27 2009 19:12 GMT
#50
On July 28 2009 03:54 Smix wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 28 2009 00:53 MrHoon wrote:
NOOO KONA YOU DIDNT ADD NETIZENS FOR THIS ARTICLE

The Netizens for this article is just brutal. Absolutely brutal.


LOLOL SO BAD


please someone translate this!
SKT_Best: "I actually chose Protoss because it was so hard for me to defeat Protoss as a Terran. When I first started Brood War, my main race was Terran."
fanatacist
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
10319 Posts
July 27 2009 19:21 GMT
#51
Check out his pimp-status hair what a bamf.

Thanks for the interview!
Peace~
CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-27 21:13:50
July 27 2009 21:12 GMT
#52
On July 28 2009 02:43 Last Romantic wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 28 2009 02:41 stroggos wrote:
On July 27 2009 17:08 konadora wrote:

- When Starcraft 2 is released, do you intend to return as a progamer?
▲ When Starcraft first game out, the older players did better initially.


what does he mean by this? all the young players were good, boxer, him yellow...they were all young..and good. Were there actually like 30 year olds who pwned it up?



I think he means the players who are old now did better than the players who are young now.

Not that it's a fair comparison; they were 18 and the new kids were like 9....

lol


I'm pretty sure it was a loose/bad translation having something to do with the fact that the game [bw] has evolved so much now that all the new players don't need the strategic mind and adaption skills that the original pros had, because everyone has already figured out everything safe to do perfectly. The game is all just macro war now. Since sc2 is a new game, these types of players that dominate bw now won't have a chance with their copy cat builds because there is nothing to copy.
But like Steve suggested in his video interview, this will be short lived (a year at most imo) before they can start copying and take over again.
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
Ronald_McD
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada807 Posts
July 27 2009 21:49 GMT
#53
Finally a progamer with long hair.
Or.. Ex-progamer. Oh well
FUCKING GAY LAGS
gameguard
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
Korea (South)2132 Posts
July 27 2009 22:19 GMT
#54
dasfasdf

???? why all of a sudden?

fighting... but you went to the army yet?

flames are bad for esports.

3rd

Boxer is his hyung?

dont delete this. Kang Do kyung, Kim dong su(garimto) are gamer nerd (jerk?) kings. I cant believe gamer nerd (this word is kinda a slag.. meaning jerk nerd outcast etc) gets this much love. Gogo is much better than these fools.

The reason he retired was for the army .... ;;

He has no perserverance. If your just gona retire like that again, dont make a comeback. Learn from tossgirl;;; no passion ;;;;

wtf you talkin about... its been a while since he was commentating then went to army and came out to make the comeback as a player then retire again.

Why you talkin shit about garimto. His badass. Also wow, he transformed into a handsom guy. before he was... .

Garimto has his sights too high. At least boxer has spirit. If you look at players who quit after they do well for a bit, they want too much, but their skill doesnt match up to it and they just give up. Boxer yellow and nada at least has the tenacity to keep going.

comeback retire and then comeback again;; In between he said many things. Hard to believe this type.

last time he cameback then retired right away so meh...

I dont think his right... players these days are much better than before. Even boxer said his current lvl is much higher than before... Even in sc2 sc1 skills will transfer over. Also, theres no garantee that sc2 will be popular. Anyways like ppl above said garimto lacks spirit, dedication, drive.

garimto you talked mad shit about sc2 and now you want to be progamer again - -;;

he said on his gamer homepage that his drive for esports was gone and he talked shit about esports. Now he wants to come back to esports lol. well i like old gamers so im happy but i hope he becomes a more believable person.

garimto retires 3 times comes back 3 times.

i dont need. gtfo

one of the gamers who is all talk
------

as far as i can tell its like all mad shit talk about garimto after this lol..
zazen
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Brazil695 Posts
July 27 2009 22:32 GMT
#55
Most korean netizens are very angry because Garimto somewhat flamed the whole ESPORTS/pro-gamer scene while he was retired. He was specially bitter concerning the fact pro-gamers have to pratice a lot and "play the whole day" (his words). Fans don't forget this kind of thing easily.

I wonder if he genuinely likes SC2 or if he just think it's a good opportunity to make a comeback, since players will be on even grounds from the start.

"The quest for nexus has brought many men of genius to insanity... HUEHUEHUE!"
DreaM)XeRO
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Korea (South)4667 Posts
July 27 2009 22:49 GMT
#56
he looks like he's gonna stab someone with a rusty fishing hook yo..
cw)minsean(ru
Aegraen
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States1225 Posts
July 27 2009 22:52 GMT
#57
On July 28 2009 07:19 gameguard wrote:
dasfasdf

???? why all of a sudden?

fighting... but you went to the army yet?

flames are bad for esports.

3rd

Boxer is his hyung?

dont delete this. Kang Do kyung, Kim dong su(garimto) are gamer nerd (jerk?) kings. I cant believe gamer nerd (this word is kinda a slag.. meaning jerk nerd outcast etc) gets this much love. Gogo is much better than these fools.

The reason he retired was for the army .... ;;

He has no perserverance. If your just gona retire like that again, dont make a comeback. Learn from tossgirl;;; no passion ;;;;

wtf you talkin about... its been a while since he was commentating then went to army and came out to make the comeback as a player then retire again.

Why you talkin shit about garimto. His badass. Also wow, he transformed into a handsom guy. before he was... .

Garimto has his sights too high. At least boxer has spirit. If you look at players who quit after they do well for a bit, they want too much, but their skill doesnt match up to it and they just give up. Boxer yellow and nada at least has the tenacity to keep going.

comeback retire and then comeback again;; In between he said many things. Hard to believe this type.

last time he cameback then retired right away so meh...

I dont think his right... players these days are much better than before. Even boxer said his current lvl is much higher than before... Even in sc2 sc1 skills will transfer over. Also, theres no garantee that sc2 will be popular. Anyways like ppl above said garimto lacks spirit, dedication, drive.

garimto you talked mad shit about sc2 and now you want to be progamer again - -;;

he said on his gamer homepage that his drive for esports was gone and he talked shit about esports. Now he wants to come back to esports lol. well i like old gamers so im happy but i hope he becomes a more believable person.

garimto retires 3 times comes back 3 times.

i dont need. gtfo

one of the gamers who is all talk
------

as far as i can tell its like all mad shit talk about garimto after this lol..


Who cares if he comes back and retires so often? I guess it's an Eastern thing. Hell, look at Brett Favre, or Roger Clemens, Michael Jordan etc. Also, while SC2 'may' not and I mean may as in 1% or less (So far all the reports back from S.Korea point to SC2 being immensely popular, but I guess you would have a better perspective being from there) be popular, it sure as hell will be IMMENSELY popular outside of S.Korea. So, if he wants to become a pro again I don't see why he couldn't leave S.Korea you guys don't hold a monopoly on E-Sports.

It is kind of hilarious to talk shit (I don't actually know what he said, perhaps you can post what he said for us please) and then run back to what you just talked shit about...

Lastly, so if I hear it right in Korea and the East you might as well not pursue something unless you are going to dedicate 5-6-7+ years to it? When you know you can't compete with the heavy mechanics players after a few years there really is no point in frustrating yourself if you're not having fun.

You do know Garimto has 2 OSL's correct? I don't think he is all talk.

Anyways, thats a westerners perspective take it as you will.

Also, every sport has to have an antagonist. It'll be boring if it was all super super goody rule toting boring players.
"It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost." -- Murray N. Rothbard -- Rand Paul 2010 -- Ron Paul 2012
Tomed
Profile Joined August 2005
United States176 Posts
July 27 2009 22:57 GMT
#58
Very well translated, thanks.
DreaM)XeRO
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Korea (South)4667 Posts
July 27 2009 22:58 GMT
#59
On July 28 2009 07:52 Aegraen wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 28 2009 07:19 gameguard wrote:
dasfasdf

???? why all of a sudden?

fighting... but you went to the army yet?

flames are bad for esports.

3rd

Boxer is his hyung?

dont delete this. Kang Do kyung, Kim dong su(garimto) are gamer nerd (jerk?) kings. I cant believe gamer nerd (this word is kinda a slag.. meaning jerk nerd outcast etc) gets this much love. Gogo is much better than these fools.

The reason he retired was for the army .... ;;

He has no perserverance. If your just gona retire like that again, dont make a comeback. Learn from tossgirl;;; no passion ;;;;

wtf you talkin about... its been a while since he was commentating then went to army and came out to make the comeback as a player then retire again.

Why you talkin shit about garimto. His badass. Also wow, he transformed into a handsom guy. before he was... .

Garimto has his sights too high. At least boxer has spirit. If you look at players who quit after they do well for a bit, they want too much, but their skill doesnt match up to it and they just give up. Boxer yellow and nada at least has the tenacity to keep going.

comeback retire and then comeback again;; In between he said many things. Hard to believe this type.

last time he cameback then retired right away so meh...

I dont think his right... players these days are much better than before. Even boxer said his current lvl is much higher than before... Even in sc2 sc1 skills will transfer over. Also, theres no garantee that sc2 will be popular. Anyways like ppl above said garimto lacks spirit, dedication, drive.

garimto you talked mad shit about sc2 and now you want to be progamer again - -;;

he said on his gamer homepage that his drive for esports was gone and he talked shit about esports. Now he wants to come back to esports lol. well i like old gamers so im happy but i hope he becomes a more believable person.

garimto retires 3 times comes back 3 times.

i dont need. gtfo

one of the gamers who is all talk
------

as far as i can tell its like all mad shit talk about garimto after this lol..


Who cares if he comes back and retires so often? I guess it's an Eastern thing. Hell, look at Brett Favre, or Roger Clemens, Michael Jordan etc. Also, while SC2 'may' not and I mean may as in 1% or less (So far all the reports back from S.Korea point to SC2 being immensely popular, but I guess you would have a better perspective being from there) be popular, it sure as hell will be IMMENSELY popular outside of S.Korea. So, if he wants to become a pro again I don't see why he couldn't leave S.Korea you guys don't hold a monopoly on E-Sports.

It is kind of hilarious to talk shit (I don't actually know what he said, perhaps you can post what he said for us please) and then run back to what you just talked shit about...

Lastly, so if I hear it right in Korea and the East you might as well not pursue something unless you are going to dedicate 5-6-7+ years to it? When you know you can't compete with the heavy mechanics players after a few years there really is no point in frustrating yourself if you're not having fun.

You do know Garimto has 2 OSL's correct? I don't think he is all talk.

Anyways, thats a westerners perspective take it as you will.

Also, every sport has to have an antagonist. It'll be boring if it was all super super goody rule toting boring players.

you DO realize he was translating the Netizens?
cw)minsean(ru
Aegraen
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States1225 Posts
July 27 2009 22:59 GMT
#60
On July 28 2009 07:32 zazen wrote:
Most korean netizens are very angry because Garimto somewhat flamed the whole ESPORTS/pro-gamer scene while he was retired. He was specially bitter concerning the fact pro-gamers have to pratice a lot and "play the whole day" (his words). Fans don't forget this kind of thing easily.

I wonder if he genuinely likes SC2 or if he just think it's a good opportunity to make a comeback, since players will be on even grounds from the start.



:facepalm: Who talks shit about their former job then run back to it...Begging for a harsh reception.

If I was a pro-gamer I would have a blast practicing 10-14 hours a day (I'm very lighthearted so the whole time wouldn't be staring blankly at the screen. I love my fair share of pranks, trying odd builds, and having fun while playing). Hell, my current job I work 3-4 days a week 12 hour shifts mostly being bored half the time and during the winter for 6 months I don't do ANYTHING at all. I'd love to put that kind of time into something I love (at least for a short time, before I decide to settle down)

I guess we'll find out after the first year or so of SC2.

P.S. I'm genuinly curious how much the teams in Korea and hopefully, the teams in America would differ. I think it would be an awesome experiment to have the top American Team and Top Korean team duke it out a few times a year. Grand ol' experiment.
"It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost." -- Murray N. Rothbard -- Rand Paul 2010 -- Ron Paul 2012
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