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Northern Ireland25397 Posts
On July 26 2013 10:07 SCST wrote:Show nested quote +On July 26 2013 10:05 Wombat_NI wrote:
I'm not a big hater on casters, but one thing I notice is of late a lot of the American casters have voices that are rather annoying and homogenised or something?
There's a lot of varience in accents within the States, seems curious that so many of the casters I'm seeing lately sound the same These current casters are fill-in's and are virtually unknown. Don't think they'll be returning after NASL takes full control. Then again, I have no clue why the NASL casters aren't casting all the WCS AM games at the moment. Probably another "great idea" from the Blizzard Mothership 
I don't know, AxelToss were the same for me. I like Axslav especially, but together their intonation was a bit much, breaking them up and sticking them with other voices would have fixed it for me.
It's hard to articulate, but you know the way there's a kind of archetypal 'American News Anchor' or 'TV Host', and you see so many of them kind of blend into one? That's kinda what I mean
Very nitpicky I know
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On July 26 2013 10:07 Wombat_NI wrote:Show nested quote +On July 26 2013 10:04 WigglingSquid wrote:On July 26 2013 09:51 Wombat_NI wrote:On July 26 2013 09:41 forsooth wrote:On July 26 2013 09:36 Wombat_NI wrote:On July 26 2013 09:35 Vertigro wrote:On July 26 2013 09:34 Branman wrote:
Demu is channeling his inner Stephano:
Benjamin Baker @DeMusliM 10s
I went a nudie bar at noon today to power up for my WCS games, and I went 4/0! %) sooooo much british pride right now :D At long last something I can actually enthusiastically feel some patriotic fervour for, after the whole royal spawn overhype fiasco Do most Brits really care that much about it? From an American perspective it just seems funny and highly anachronistic. It pisses me off massively because it is so anachronistic. It's pathetic really, you can't imagine quite how omnipresent it was on the news and how nauseatingly fawning the coverage was unless you actually live here Throw out your television (or better yet, just the antenna/cable subscription). Don't read daily newspapers. Subscribe to something more serious for your intake of national news (for example, a monthly national politics journal), or visit similar websites. I have started doing this about 10 years ago (when I started my higher education), and never regretted doing so.  You can do that, and it does mitigate it. In terms of work and socialising it's pretty difficult to avoid. Ideally I will get a nest egg and emigrate to Alaska where I can live in a shack in the wilderness, with numerous PCs and alternate between tracking bears and sitting in an E-sports nerve centre.
Ah, yes, I forgot about that. I have the benefit of working in a very technical environment, where most people don't really care about such things.
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On July 26 2013 10:06 Vertigro wrote:Show nested quote +On July 26 2013 10:02 negativedge wrote:On July 26 2013 10:00 AgentW wrote:On July 26 2013 09:58 Larkin wrote:On July 26 2013 09:53 AgentW wrote:On July 26 2013 09:51 Larkin wrote:On July 26 2013 09:44 AgentW wrote:On July 26 2013 09:41 Larkin wrote:On July 26 2013 09:35 AgentW wrote:On July 26 2013 09:34 mikumegurine wrote:
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yea guess so then
"fan favorite" is different from "favorite"
so i guess he just mispoke That's what I figured. On July 26 2013 09:34 Branman wrote:
Demu is channeling his inner Stephano:
Benjamin Baker @DeMusliM 10s
I went a nudie bar at noon today to power up for my WCS games, and I went 4/0! %) Is that what British people call a strip club? I think "nudie bar" is also American. Originally here they were called "Gentlemen's Clubs" but everyone I know calls them strip clubs. By the way, "British people" is a bit stupid. People from different parts of Britain have very, very different idioms and phrasing. Not to mention the accents, of course. Makes it a bit foolish to say things like "British people" or "British accent". I apologize for my ignorance. What should I call people from the UK then? Just wondering, do you think Americans have an "American" accent then? I'm curious. Also, they're strip/gentlemen's club in the US too. Well I'd call English people English, Welsh people Welsh, Scottish people Scottish and Irish people Irish. If you really got into the accents you'd be able to figure out Scousers, Brummies, Geordies, Cornish, Cockney and so on. But that's not really necessary. Of course not. There's huge differences between, say, a Boston accent and an Arkansas one. Okay, so you would go by country of origin? That makes sense. I know almost nothing about the geography of England/UK (I would be interested to learn about it one day). It seems you're a more worldly person than I am :D Yeah, we tend to be more geographically aware. That's not slight against you personally, rather the US education system. Seems so many Americans struggle at putting things on a map. Most people I know have a pretty good understanding of world geography. I also went to a good schools and am pretty well educated. hmmmmm a typo isn't the best example to use when trying to be an asshole and call the guy stupid ><
lol yeah I wrote a good shool and changed it to good schools but forgot to delete a. Stupid American!
Computer overheated, relying on Shellshock LRs now.
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United States23455 Posts
On July 26 2013 10:08 Wombat_NI wrote:Show nested quote +On July 26 2013 10:05 Darkhoarse wrote:On July 26 2013 09:58 Larkin wrote:On July 26 2013 09:53 AgentW wrote:On July 26 2013 09:51 Larkin wrote:On July 26 2013 09:44 AgentW wrote:On July 26 2013 09:41 Larkin wrote:On July 26 2013 09:35 AgentW wrote:On July 26 2013 09:34 mikumegurine wrote:On July 26 2013 09:33 AgentW wrote:
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I think he meant to say the favorite in the match, not the fan favorite. yea guess so then "fan favorite" is different from "favorite" so i guess he just mispoke That's what I figured. On July 26 2013 09:34 Branman wrote:
Demu is channeling his inner Stephano:
Benjamin Baker @DeMusliM 10s
I went a nudie bar at noon today to power up for my WCS games, and I went 4/0! %) Is that what British people call a strip club? I think "nudie bar" is also American. Originally here they were called "Gentlemen's Clubs" but everyone I know calls them strip clubs. By the way, "British people" is a bit stupid. People from different parts of Britain have very, very different idioms and phrasing. Not to mention the accents, of course. Makes it a bit foolish to say things like "British people" or "British accent". I apologize for my ignorance. What should I call people from the UK then? Just wondering, do you think Americans have an "American" accent then? I'm curious. Also, they're strip/gentlemen's club in the US too. Well I'd call English people English, Welsh people Welsh, Scottish people Scottish and Irish people Irish. If you really got into the accents you'd be able to figure out Scousers, Brummies, Geordies, Cornish, Cockney and so on. But that's not really necessary. Of course not. There's huge differences between, say, a Boston accent and an Arkansas one. Okay, so you would go by country of origin? That makes sense. I know almost nothing about the geography of England/UK (I would be interested to learn about it one day). It seems you're a more worldly person than I am :D Yeah, we tend to be more geographically aware. That's not slight against you personally, rather the US education system. Seems so many Americans struggle at putting things on a map. Most people I know have a pretty good understanding of world geography. It's unfortunately true  in a college level government course we were asked by our professor to label 45 countries on a map. Many were glaringly obvious and I thought frankly elementary. The class average was 16 correct countries... It's not like everyone in our country is dumb but we seem to have such a self-centered overall feeling amongst students that they find knowledge about other countries trivial and uninteresting. It's sad. I think I wouldn't do too well in that, I'm pretty bad with maps actually. I'd beast a countries/capitals or trivia test, but I am woeful about maintaining map knowledge :p
There are certain excusable mistakes of course. I didn't get all of them correct. However, when someone could not correctly label the location of the USA or Mexico, I got worried.
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On July 26 2013 10:07 SCST wrote:Show nested quote +On July 26 2013 10:05 Wombat_NI wrote:
I'm not a big hater on casters, but one thing I notice is of late a lot of the American casters have voices that are rather annoying and homogenised or something?
There's a lot of varience in accents within the States, seems curious that so many of the casters I'm seeing lately sound the same These current casters are fill-in's and are virtually unknown. Don't think they'll be returning after NASL takes full control. Then again, I have no clue why the NASL casters aren't casting all the WCS AM games at the moment. Probably another "great idea" from the Blizzard Mothership
I think the casters migrated to World of Tanks and probably this seasons schedule overlapped. These were old casters at the end of IPL. After the golden age of Doa + Kevin.
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Northern Ireland25397 Posts
On July 26 2013 10:10 WigglingSquid wrote:Show nested quote +On July 26 2013 10:07 Wombat_NI wrote:On July 26 2013 10:04 WigglingSquid wrote:On July 26 2013 09:51 Wombat_NI wrote:On July 26 2013 09:41 forsooth wrote:On July 26 2013 09:36 Wombat_NI wrote:On July 26 2013 09:35 Vertigro wrote:On July 26 2013 09:34 Branman wrote:
Demu is channeling his inner Stephano:
Benjamin Baker @DeMusliM 10s
I went a nudie bar at noon today to power up for my WCS games, and I went 4/0! %) sooooo much british pride right now :D At long last something I can actually enthusiastically feel some patriotic fervour for, after the whole royal spawn overhype fiasco Do most Brits really care that much about it? From an American perspective it just seems funny and highly anachronistic. It pisses me off massively because it is so anachronistic. It's pathetic really, you can't imagine quite how omnipresent it was on the news and how nauseatingly fawning the coverage was unless you actually live here Throw out your television (or better yet, just the antenna/cable subscription). Don't read daily newspapers. Subscribe to something more serious for your intake of national news (for example, a monthly national politics journal), or visit similar websites. I have started doing this about 10 years ago (when I started my higher education), and never regretted doing so. You can do that, and it does mitigate it. In terms of work and socialising it's pretty difficult to avoid. Ideally I will get a nest egg and emigrate to Alaska where I can live in a shack in the wilderness, with numerous PCs and alternate between tracking bears and sitting in an E-sports nerve centre. Ah, yes, I forgot about that. I have the benefit of working in a very technical environment, where most people don't really care about such things.
I made the mistake in fucking up my tertiary education so I'm stuck here for a bit :p
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United States97276 Posts
On July 26 2013 10:09 Shellshock1122 wrote:0:00  TheStC spawns in the top left  HuK spawns in the bottom right
1:40
gateway first for HuK
rax first for TheStC
2:00
gas for TheStC
double gas for HuK
Cybernetics core for HuK
3:00
reactor for TheStC
zealot for HuK
double reaper for TheStC
4:00
CC on the low ground for TheStC
zealot moving across the map
MSC for HuK
2 reapers kill the zealot of HuK
Nexus for HuK
5:00
bunker in the natural finishes for TheStC before the stalker gets there
Factory for TheStC
2 more gates for HuK
2 reapers kill the stalker of HuK
4th gate for HuK
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On July 26 2013 10:07 JacobShock wrote:Show nested quote +On July 26 2013 10:06 Vertigro wrote:On July 26 2013 10:02 negativedge wrote:On July 26 2013 10:00 AgentW wrote:On July 26 2013 09:58 Larkin wrote:On July 26 2013 09:53 AgentW wrote:On July 26 2013 09:51 Larkin wrote:On July 26 2013 09:44 AgentW wrote:On July 26 2013 09:41 Larkin wrote:On July 26 2013 09:35 AgentW wrote:
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That's what I figured.
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Is that what British people call a strip club? I think "nudie bar" is also American. Originally here they were called "Gentlemen's Clubs" but everyone I know calls them strip clubs. By the way, "British people" is a bit stupid. People from different parts of Britain have very, very different idioms and phrasing. Not to mention the accents, of course. Makes it a bit foolish to say things like "British people" or "British accent". I apologize for my ignorance. What should I call people from the UK then? Just wondering, do you think Americans have an "American" accent then? I'm curious. Also, they're strip/gentlemen's club in the US too. Well I'd call English people English, Welsh people Welsh, Scottish people Scottish and Irish people Irish. If you really got into the accents you'd be able to figure out Scousers, Brummies, Geordies, Cornish, Cockney and so on. But that's not really necessary. Of course not. There's huge differences between, say, a Boston accent and an Arkansas one. Okay, so you would go by country of origin? That makes sense. I know almost nothing about the geography of England/UK (I would be interested to learn about it one day). It seems you're a more worldly person than I am :D Yeah, we tend to be more geographically aware. That's not slight against you personally, rather the US education system. Seems so many Americans struggle at putting things on a map. Most people I know have a pretty good understanding of world geography. I also went to a good schools and am pretty well educated. hmmmmm a typo isn't the best example to use when trying to be an asshole and call the guy stupid >< Willing to bet my house that negativeedge listens to the ten minute podcast.
I don't listen to any podcasts. And you don't have a house.
btw the sentence you're quoting is grammatically horrible ^_^
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OooooOOOooh yeah! Hukamaniacs running wild on you brother!
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United States97276 Posts
On July 26 2013 10:11 Shellshock1122 wrote:Show nested quote +On July 26 2013 10:09 Shellshock1122 wrote:0:00 TheStC spawns in the top left HuK spawns in the bottom right 1:40 gateway first for HuK rax first for TheStC 2:00 gas for TheStC double gas for HuK Cybernetics core for HuK 3:00 reactor for TheStC zealot for HuK double reaper for TheStC 4:00 CC on the low ground for TheStC zealot moving across the map MSC for HuK 2 reapers kill the zealot of HuK Nexus for HuK 5:00 bunker in the natural finishes for TheStC before the stalker gets there Factory for TheStC 2 more gates for HuK 2 reapers kill the stalker of HuK 4th gate for HuK
6:00
tech lab for TheStC
reactored hellion production started for TheStC
reaper marine pressure in the natural of HuK
photon overcharge on the natural nexus pushes TheStC back
a reaper and 3 marines fall
stim research started for TheStC
7:00 46 vs 50
robo for HuK
2 more rax for TheStC
ebay for TheStC
HuK warping in units at a forward pylong
8:00 51 vs 53
reaper scouts the main of HuK
hellion runby into the natural
Reaper sees that HuK is on 4 gates
hellions move into the main
HuK misses the forcefield on the ramp
HuK attacking the natural of TheStC
forcefields block repair and the bunker falls
9:00 47 vs 53
TheStC forced to lift his natural OC
HuK trying to target it down
scvs are pulled to repair and TheStc saves it
HuK pushing up the main ramp
scvs are pulled
medivacs coming out for TheSTC
stim finishes and HuK is forced back
10:00 49 vs 51
HuK warps in more stalkers and looks to continue that tacck
high ground vision from the MSC is being used to kill supply depots
HuK backs off
HuK chronoboosting his warpgates
no probes being produced
Huk warps in more zealots and sentries
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United States97276 Posts
On July 26 2013 10:15 Shellshock1122 wrote:Show nested quote +On July 26 2013 10:11 Shellshock1122 wrote:On July 26 2013 10:09 Shellshock1122 wrote:0:00 TheStC spawns in the top left HuK spawns in the bottom right 1:40 gateway first for HuK rax first for TheStC 2:00 gas for TheStC double gas for HuK Cybernetics core for HuK 3:00 reactor for TheStC zealot for HuK double reaper for TheStC 4:00 CC on the low ground for TheStC zealot moving across the map MSC for HuK 2 reapers kill the zealot of HuK Nexus for HuK 5:00 bunker in the natural finishes for TheStC before the stalker gets there Factory for TheStC 2 more gates for HuK 2 reapers kill the stalker of HuK 4th gate for HuK 6:00 tech lab for TheStC reactored hellion production started for TheStC reaper marine pressure in the natural of HuK photon overcharge on the natural nexus pushes TheStC back a reaper and 3 marines fall stim research started for TheStC 7:00 46 vs 50 robo for HuK 2 more rax for TheStC ebay for TheStC HuK warping in units at a forward pylong 8:00 51 vs 53 reaper scouts the main of HuK hellion runby into the natural Reaper sees that HuK is on 4 gates hellions move into the main HuK misses the forcefield on the ramp HuK attacking the natural of TheStC forcefields block repair and the bunker falls 9:00 47 vs 53 TheStC forced to lift his natural OC HuK trying to target it down scvs are pulled to repair and TheStc saves it HuK pushing up the main ramp scvs are pulled medivacs coming out for TheSTC stim finishes and HuK is forced back 10:00 49 vs 51 HuK warps in more stalkers and looks to continue that tacck high ground vision from the MSC is being used to kill supply depots HuK backs off HuK chronoboosting his warpgates no probes being produced Huk warps in more zealots and sentries
11:00 54 vs 57
timewarp on the army of TheStC
forcefields blocking units
TheStC pulls scvs
TheStC is out of ground units
HuK targets down the OC
12:00 43 vs 61
TheStC ggs!
HuK wins 2-0!
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Yay Huk! Gotta take on Crank now, gonna be tough.
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United States97276 Posts
Poll: Recommend Losers' Match game 2?Yes (5) 56% No (2) 22% Meh (2) 22% 9 total votes Your vote: Recommend Losers' Match game 2? (Vote): Yes
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Poll: Recommend Losers' Match game 3?Yes (3) 38% No (3) 38% Meh (2) 25% 8 total votes Your vote: Recommend Losers' Match game 3? (Vote): Yes
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Ouch, TheStc probably didn't think Huk stopped making probes for 2 minutes, that might be why he gg'ed
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On July 26 2013 10:13 negativedge wrote:Show nested quote +On July 26 2013 10:07 JacobShock wrote:On July 26 2013 10:06 Vertigro wrote:On July 26 2013 10:02 negativedge wrote:On July 26 2013 10:00 AgentW wrote:On July 26 2013 09:58 Larkin wrote:On July 26 2013 09:53 AgentW wrote:On July 26 2013 09:51 Larkin wrote:On July 26 2013 09:44 AgentW wrote:On July 26 2013 09:41 Larkin wrote:
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I think "nudie bar" is also American. Originally here they were called "Gentlemen's Clubs" but everyone I know calls them strip clubs.
By the way, "British people" is a bit stupid. People from different parts of Britain have very, very different idioms and phrasing. Not to mention the accents, of course. Makes it a bit foolish to say things like "British people" or "British accent".
I apologize for my ignorance. What should I call people from the UK then? Just wondering, do you think Americans have an "American" accent then? I'm curious. Also, they're strip/gentlemen's club in the US too. Well I'd call English people English, Welsh people Welsh, Scottish people Scottish and Irish people Irish. If you really got into the accents you'd be able to figure out Scousers, Brummies, Geordies, Cornish, Cockney and so on. But that's not really necessary. Of course not. There's huge differences between, say, a Boston accent and an Arkansas one. Okay, so you would go by country of origin? That makes sense. I know almost nothing about the geography of England/UK (I would be interested to learn about it one day). It seems you're a more worldly person than I am :D Yeah, we tend to be more geographically aware. That's not slight against you personally, rather the US education system. Seems so many Americans struggle at putting things on a map. Most people I know have a pretty good understanding of world geography. I also went to a good schools and am pretty well educated. hmmmmm a typo isn't the best example to use when trying to be an asshole and call the guy stupid >< Willing to bet my house that negativeedge listens to the ten minute podcast. I don't listen to any podcasts. And you don't have a house. btw the sentence you're quoting is grammatically horrible ^_^
How do you know I don't own a house!?!
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On July 26 2013 10:05 Wombat_NI wrote:
I'm not a big hater on casters, but one thing I notice is of late a lot of the American casters have voices that are rather annoying and homogenised or something?
There's a lot of varience in accents within the States, seems curious that so many of the casters I'm seeing lately sound the same
I don't think it's the American accent (some of the best casters, like Artosis, are American). While a British accent may sound exotic, classy, and remind people of football commentators, just having a British accent won't make one a good caster.
I think the problem with these casters is that they don't really add value to the caster. During the game, they'll say things like "thermal lance starting up", and that would be it. Now if I was blind or couldn't watch the stream, that would help. But I can see those things happening, so pointing it out in the cast and not going further and giving analysis doesn't add "value". The use of cliches doesn't help either ("it was the critical mistakes that lost him that game").
So neither of these guys are really good at analysis. But what about play by play, or just building excitement? Unfortunately, they haven't quite gotten that either. Some casters like Nathanias may not be the best at analysis, but they can generate excitement. But unfortunately, these casters have not yet mastered the art of generating excitement without sounding fake.
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Northern Ireland25397 Posts
On July 26 2013 10:16 NPF wrote:
Ouch, TheStc probably didn't think Huk stopped making probes for 2 minutes, that might be why he gg'ed
Aye, that said I think he was dead with the loss of his natural OC, think he would have fought on if he hadn't of lost that
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TheStc has been pretty bad for months now. I wonder if he stopped practicing.
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On July 26 2013 10:17 Wombat_NI wrote:Show nested quote +On July 26 2013 10:16 NPF wrote:
Ouch, TheStc probably didn't think Huk stopped making probes for 2 minutes, that might be why he gg'ed Aye, that said I think he was dead with the loss of his natural OC, think he would have fought on if he hadn't of lost that
Yeah, but Huk only had like 26-28 probes and TheStc probably had around that number of SCV, I saw it as hard not impossible.
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United States97276 Posts
we are not very good at this
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