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BobMcJohnson
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
France2916 Posts
August 02 2013 11:10 GMT
#141
Thanks for this, a lot.

TL is like the Helm's Deep of the internet, the last stand of sane people versus the endless hordes of twitch chat trolls and other breeds of evil internet creatures.
Romanes eunt domus
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland25749 Posts
August 02 2013 11:45 GMT
#142
Glorious analogy man, would also have accepted the Spartans at Thermopylae
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
robson1
Profile Joined March 2013
3632 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-02 13:13:32
August 02 2013 12:00 GMT
#143
Idra/Khaldor is a good duo i think.
Lol wrong thread.
Genius is that funny scientist who no one takes seriously until he kills you with a flame throwing trumpet. - stuchiu 2013
robson1
Profile Joined March 2013
3632 Posts
August 02 2013 12:00 GMT
#144
On August 02 2013 20:45 Wombat_NI wrote:
Glorious analogy man, would also have accepted the Spartans at Thermopylae


LotR > 300
Genius is that funny scientist who no one takes seriously until he kills you with a flame throwing trumpet. - stuchiu 2013
Kleinmuuhg
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Vanuatu4091 Posts
August 02 2013 12:05 GMT
#145
Doesnt work, in LOTR the sane people won.
This is our town, scrub
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland25749 Posts
August 02 2013 12:10 GMT
#146
On August 02 2013 21:00 robson1 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 02 2013 20:45 Wombat_NI wrote:
Glorious analogy man, would also have accepted the Spartans at Thermopylae


LotR > 300

Unlike Helms Deep we'll eventually be overrun and killed :p
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
Noocta
Profile Joined June 2010
France12578 Posts
August 02 2013 12:15 GMT
#147
All of this had me thinking... Does Kappa actually know what his name has become, since he doesn't work at justin.tv since quite a long time now ?
" I'm not gonna fight you. I'm gonna kick your ass ! "
SgtCoDFish
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United Kingdom1520 Posts
August 02 2013 12:20 GMT
#148
Twitch chat has to be gamers at their absolute worst, glad to see it won't spill over here.
robson1
Profile Joined March 2013
3632 Posts
August 02 2013 12:21 GMT
#149
Yeaaaaaaaaah taeja.... thats bullshit. Ladder practice is not better than Team-Practice.
Genius is that funny scientist who no one takes seriously until he kills you with a flame throwing trumpet. - stuchiu 2013
pigmanbear
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Angola2010 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-02 13:07:23
August 02 2013 13:07 GMT
#150
On August 01 2013 11:31 Waxangel wrote:
it took me so long to figure out what Kappa was, I stopped using twitch chat in like 2011 T_T

I learned what Kappa was from this thread ... I had searched for it like a geek, no luck. I'm not surprised it's as stupid as it sounds.
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland25749 Posts
August 02 2013 13:14 GMT
#151
I still don't know what it represents or what the joke is. Is it an emote of a Justintv staff guy that stuck it there for a laugh never expecting it to be spammed?
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
figq
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
12519 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-02 13:28:48
August 02 2013 13:25 GMT
#152
"Kappa" is (probably the nickname of) a former Justin.tv employee, called Josh in real life (no idea about family name). Here is his twitter: https://twitter.com/KappaJTV

Many emotes on JTV are the faces of current or former employees, but this guy's particular photo resembles somewhat the "trollface" meme. So JTV chat has accepted it as equivalent. It has grown outside of Justin or Twitch, and can be seen now in other text-based internet communication.

p.s. Notably, in Rollplay Warhammer 40k Dark Heresy (with JP, djWHEAT, iNcontrol & TB), Totalbiscuit's character is called Engelbart Kappa - although, of course, one could very well argue that it just fits the W40k theme, as TB gladly would.
If you stand next to my head, you can hear the ocean. - Day[9]
Cascade
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
Australia5405 Posts
August 02 2013 13:30 GMT
#153
On August 02 2013 21:21 robson1 wrote:
Yeaaaaaaaaah taeja.... thats bullshit. Ladder practice is not better than Team-Practice.

2 wrong thread posts in 1 minute? is that some kind of record?
Dubzex
Profile Joined October 2010
United States6994 Posts
August 02 2013 13:42 GMT
#154
And so the great purging begins...
"DONT UNDERESTIMATE MY CARRY OR YOU WILL BE CARRIED INTO THE ABYSS OF SUFFERING" - Tyler 'TC' Cook
Chengakz
Profile Joined January 2012
United States163 Posts
August 02 2013 14:41 GMT
#155
I feel so lost re this matter lol. It looks like I'm not the only one.
For Aiur!
sixfour
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
England11061 Posts
August 02 2013 15:10 GMT
#156
Never noticed them on TL (then again I don't read the LR threads anymore due to work commitments and WCS killing ESPORTS), and never noticed twitch chat being anything but a fun place, although I do watch more speedrunning streams than sc2 nowadays. Cannot understand this other than that TL isn't twitch chat so posting FrankerZ has no real context.
p: stats, horang2, free, jangbi z: soulkey, zero, shine, hydra t: leta, hiya, sea
BLinD-RawR
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
ALLEYCAT BLUES50394 Posts
August 02 2013 15:11 GMT
#157
On August 02 2013 22:42 Dubzex wrote:
And so the great purging begins...

Purge the unclean.
Brood War EICWoo Jung Ho, never forget.| Twitter: @BLinDRawR
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Crownlol
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States3726 Posts
August 02 2013 15:14 GMT
#158
On August 01 2013 11:11 IcedBacon wrote:
I hate that stupid Twitch culture so much.


Twitch chat is almost as bad as YouTube comments. I wish I was joking.
shaGuar :: elemeNt :: XeqtR :: naikon :: method
Xpace
Profile Joined March 2011
United States2209 Posts
August 02 2013 15:23 GMT
#159
How about hashtags? Or at least posts that contain nothing but hashtagged insider phrases?
ComaDose
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada10357 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-02 16:15:25
August 02 2013 16:14 GMT
#160
On August 02 2013 21:10 Wombat_NI wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 02 2013 21:00 robson1 wrote:
On August 02 2013 20:45 Wombat_NI wrote:
Glorious analogy man, would also have accepted the Spartans at Thermopylae


LotR > 300

Unlike Helms Deep we'll eventually be overrun and killed :p

They were being over runed and killed at helms deep too tho...
Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth day, at dawn look to the east

This is pretty much our only hope
BW pros training sc2 is like kiss making a dub step album.
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