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On December 05 2011 00:57 nooboon wrote:
2. Which lord of the rings character would each staff member be?

On February 17 2009 05:51 Hot_Bid wrote:
The mythical "To-Do List," created by the Dark Lord Bob during Patch 1.13f in order to gain dominion over the members of TeamLiquid. In disguise as R1CH, or "Wizard," he aided the Liquid Clan and their leader Nazgul in the making of the Lists of Power (including the Automated Ban List). He then forged the To-Do List himself in the fires of the Muffin Factory.

He intended it to be the most powerful of all lists, able to rule and control the other lists. Since the other lists were extremely powerful, Bob was obliged to place most of his native power, life force and will into it to achieve his purpose. Creating the To-Do List simultaneously strengthened and weakened Bob's power. On the one hand, as long as Bob completed the tasks on the List, he could control all the other lists, and thus he was significantly more powerful after its creation than before.

Putting such a great portion of himself into the To-Do List ensured Bob's invulnerability so long as the List's tasks were finished in a timely fashion. On the other hand, by binding his power within the List, Bob became dependent on it — without it he was severely weakened. In 2003, it was decreed by the Men in Red that the To-Do List would never again be fully completed, and the TeamLiquid Staff enforce this law by constantly adding tasks to it and purposely dragging their feet when deadlines approach.

Thus, Bob was unable to regain a physical form for over 6 years (to this date), henceforth known as "SonuvBob," forever doomed to constantly slave over the To-Do List, attempting to finish all the tasks to regain his lost power.

On February 17 2009 15:08 Hot_Bid wrote:

The To-Do List found it's way to the unlikeliest of creatures...a writer, named Mensrea Baggins.

I think in this analogy Plexa would be Frodo, as he adds the most to the To-Do List hence hiding it from your power. His best friend is Daigomi, loyal and headstrong, who i salso from some weird country. Other than Plexodo and Samgomi are joined by GTR and pachi, both of whom are underrated in their impact on Middle-Earth (getting the Ents to fight = updating calendar and TLPD, because the work was slow, tedious, but ultimately critical in the war). I think this goes without saying but GTR is Pippin and pachi is Merry, lol.

R1CH is Gandalf, who we thought was dead (DotA) but will return when we need him the most. He was all like YOU SHALL NOT PASS to that shitty Bnet lag for 1.16. intrigue is Legolas, obsessed with being girly, cute, and having ridiculous ban / obs micro when its needed. Gimli (sp?) is Chill, who is ill-tempered and of course, literally a dwarf.

Manifesto7 is Aragorn, who is older than he looks, has a beard, and is married to a woman of a different race. Manigorn went into exile for a while and finally returned to lead his people to freedom. He has wisdom and his speeches inspire a lot of people so everyone kind of listens, even though his voice is way too nasally during that RotK speech, so he tries to speak as low as possible from now on like Christian Bale in Batman, what a faker. Pop is that elf guy who makes the sword (TLPD) with which Aragorn will call on the dead (progamers).

Saro would be Agent Smith Elf, who knew all in the beginning but retired to the immortal place after seeing the war coming. Emlary is that older elf chick who has a ring too (old school VOD updater) and that other elf dude with a ring is TopTalent or ilovecats (not the Agent Smith Elf, the other one). They gave Plexa, Samgomi, and the other hobbits writers the tools they need.

FrozenArbiter is that big burly guy whos the Rohan King's son, he rapes all the trolls in the SC2 forum and is from Sweden. Last Romantic is that dead skeletal dwarf they found writing that book "they are coming... they are coming..." about the dwarfs last stand. The dwarfs = YellOw, Reach, and the rest of the old guard, and LR is just sitting with them, clutching to his heart forever the hope that they will return. Instead they are raped by all those orcs and that huge flaming dude who of course is Incontrol.

Baezzi is Boromir, who started down the right path but the To-Do List's power corrupted him and he turned bad. He tried to take the List from Plexa and ended up dying. Corinthos is his brother Faramir (sp?), who told to hold the river outpost keep the streams going when Baezzoromir died, which he did valiantly and almost sacrificed himself to do it. We appreciate your effort Corinthos, you will eventually get to marry that cute Rohan chick who knows how to ride. Sure, she digs Mani more (who wouldn't), but hey, not bad right?

SonuvBob as already stated is Sauron, that big beastly neck snapping orc who rapes Boromir in Fellowship is Kennigit, that troll who rides that wofl thing who takes Aragorn over the cliff is Hot_Bid, and the Nazgul are led by Nazgul (lol). I guess any other Liquid` guys make up the rest of the Ringwraiths, who used to ride horses (see the banner above), an analogy for StarCraft, but now have much cooler rides (those flying thingys) which they bought with poker money. Rekrul isn't a Nazgul but is rather Shelob, bent on entrapping poor progamers in his web when they walk the path of night path of that tower thing (cirith-something?). He gives us gossip from Korea, he knows all this stuff nobody else does (hence Shelob, the spider, Varys, asoiaf reference for those in the know, George R.R. Martin Game of Thrones read it suckas). Lol Daigomi fucks you up Rek, owned.

That guy who whispered all the shit into Rohan's ear is of course Puertorican, who when discovered is kicked out of Men in Rohan. Puertorican digs that Rohan warrior girl really badly but she finds him disgusting and creepy, this is probably a pretty good microcosm of his entire life.

Lastly, Smeagol is Stimey, Gollum is mitsy, I don't think I have to explain this one.

On December 08 2011 03:17 Dalguno wrote:
Will a TL Open be happening soon?

On December 08 2011 04:01 Antoine wrote:

yes! http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=292353