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Protoss: A Race for the Cool Kids

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palanq
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
United States761 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-12 21:12:48
April 12 2010 18:04 GMT
#1
Protoss are the most baller high-tech kickass mad-scientist inventor/destructor species in the universe. Leonardo Da Vinci would need a few hundred more inventions and like 100kg+ more muscle mass before he could start to compare to any below-average protoss whiz-kid (which all protoss kids are). The Protoss have the most fearless warriors, the most powerful weapons, and the most advanced technology the other species have ever laid their dumb eyes upon.

Zealot - not only are all Protoss crazy intelligent, they are also fearless badasses who don't give a shit that you have a gun, or that you are literally 10x+ bigger in size; it doesn't matter, zeals will run up, charge in, and start slashing at anything and everything like it's just another day in the office. the protoss have enough advanced technology to create a giant walking war of the worlds robot but the average toss individual just says screw using GUNS, I'm gonna strap PSIONIC BLADES TO MY HANDS and stick them in your face.

Sentry - back in the days of broodwar this one zeal was getting pretty pissed that everything just kept running away from his fearsome handblades of destruction, so he spent a few seconds thinking how to get his enemies to stay put so he could get on with the hacking and slashing. the sentry robot was incorporated into the protoss army a couple days later because the protoss military is so fucking ingeniously adaptable, right after they figured out how to have it able to kill shit and make the rest of the army nearly invincible too.

Void Ray - zealots never get tired but sometimes after a good minute or two of hacking at buildings they get bored and decide it'd be more entertaining to decapitate something living. the protoss military thought yea, it really is too easy, so they put in a few death star beam flying machines of destruction into the force so zeals could get to the fun stuff.

DT - FACTS: DTs are biological/psionic. DTs kill all your units SO FAST. the purpose of DTs is to flip out and kill everything. DTs are so precise, strong, and invisible that you will never see them before they tear out your spine. DTs are so fearsome that just by being on the same planet with them makes all other species go crazy paranoid and waste all their resources trying to catch the DTs, which is a totally useless effort because DTs are so unimaginably awesome.

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Stalker - one day a DT after an easy day's work of 1-shotting 20 scvs was chilling in his lab and thought: hey, wouldn't it be cool if I could be a speedy supermobile instantly teleportable 4-legged machine of DEATH? So he thought it, and so it was.

Immortal - you thought you killed that zealot? nah, but you might have convinced him to pop himself into a kickass dragoon robot suit. oh, you thought you killed that too? nah, you just made him decide it was time for a little upgrade. you have a tank or 6? wouldn't try shooting, or else you might convince him to install some colossus lasers on the side after he demolishes the whole force in a few seconds.

Colossus - just in case the rest of the protoss war machine powerhouse wants to kill shit even faster, the protoss can always build a few of these babies: the most powerful piece of equipment, ever.

Warp-in - the sweetest piece of technology in the universe. yeah, we have an army spread across entire freakin' galaxies, but you need them all right in once place now? sure, we can just all just pop up anywhere on the whole map and decimate your force wherever it runs off to. warping in is like making instant noodles with 15 microwaves going at once, but instead of tasty noodly goodness, you get mindblowingly powerful armies.

Protoss: Race of the century, for all time.

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Special thanks to Mentat for inspiration
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But toss is the better race.




EDIT:
additions for units I missed are welcome. "super geniuses" would be a better title yea, since these Ts don't seem to understand figurative speech and all have the same identical 2-line comment. and c'mon now, you zerg have to get to writing one of these. they're much better than the official descriptions.

all in good fun ^^
time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
BentoBox
Profile Joined November 2009
Canada303 Posts
April 12 2010 18:06 GMT
#2
Real Man > Cool Kid

sry
Only dead fish swim with the stream
RoosterSamurai
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Japan2108 Posts
April 12 2010 18:08 GMT
#3
Real Man > Cool Kid

sry
-Iron-
Profile Joined April 2010
Germany27 Posts
April 12 2010 18:08 GMT
#4
Yes you're right Protoss is for kids, TERRAN IS FOR MEN
Terran are the most volatile romp n' stomp habanero chili boomshakalaka slam dunk descendants from Spartan warriors while drinking blood of roman gladiators bad ass race out there. If you don't play Terran you can never call yourself a real man. - Mentat
AmnDragon
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States33 Posts
April 12 2010 18:09 GMT
#5
On April 13 2010 03:06 BentoBox wrote:
Real Man > Cool Kid

sry

gg
DwmC_Foefen
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
Belgium2186 Posts
April 12 2010 18:12 GMT
#6
I like the effort ^^
Jackafur
Profile Joined February 2010
United States116 Posts
April 12 2010 18:14 GMT
#7
Zealots punch tanks until they explode. I think its clear who is more manly here.

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Protoss > Terran in terms of manliness
AppleTart
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States1261 Posts
April 12 2010 18:14 GMT
#8
Terran is for people who are attracted to real men. Protoss is for people who are attracted to cool kids.

You play the race you like, not who you pretend to be!
always tired -_-
TwilightStar
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States649 Posts
April 12 2010 18:16 GMT
#9
T is no longer the manly race, P is (For Sc2 at least..)
(5)Twilight Star.scx --------- AdmiralHoth: There was one week when I didn't shave for a month.
-Iron-
Profile Joined April 2010
Germany27 Posts
April 12 2010 18:16 GMT
#10
And Zerg players wanna have sex with giant disgusting insects?
Terran are the most volatile romp n' stomp habanero chili boomshakalaka slam dunk descendants from Spartan warriors while drinking blood of roman gladiators bad ass race out there. If you don't play Terran you can never call yourself a real man. - Mentat
Jackafur
Profile Joined February 2010
United States116 Posts
April 12 2010 18:18 GMT
#11
On April 13 2010 03:16 -Iron- wrote:
And Zerg players wanna have sex with giant disgusting insects?


precisely
palanq
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
United States761 Posts
April 12 2010 18:18 GMT
#12
for you guys saying manliness > coolness:

On April 12 2010 00:26 3FFA wrote:
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On April 12 2010 00:13 -Iron- wrote:
Don't try to undermine the PURE MANLINESS of the terran race you sissy protoss and zerg players out there!

Most people's definition for "pure manliness" is stupidly made decisions, show-offs, and the ability to go over-board because of the smallest little thing.


clearly coolness >>> manliness
time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
diehilde
Profile Joined September 2008
Germany1596 Posts
April 12 2010 18:18 GMT
#13
zergs dont even need shitty threads to boost their e-peen. Wouldnt be much more than "blaaargharrr!!" and stuff like that in it anyway
Savior: "I will cheat everyone again in SC2!" - SCII Beta Tester
RoosterSamurai
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Japan2108 Posts
April 12 2010 18:21 GMT
#14
On April 13 2010 03:14 AppleTart wrote:
Terran is for people who are attracted to real men. Protoss is for people who are attracted to cool kids.

You play the race you like, not who you pretend to be!

Oh my god. He's whacked!
-Iron-
Profile Joined April 2010
Germany27 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-12 18:48:56
April 12 2010 18:26 GMT
#15
Oh then this actually is a Zerg player on the picture: http://gawker.com/assets/resources/2008/03/scorpionad.jpeg WARNING: NASTY PICTURE! So only click if you're zerg player, if not you'll find it disgusting.
Terran are the most volatile romp n' stomp habanero chili boomshakalaka slam dunk descendants from Spartan warriors while drinking blood of roman gladiators bad ass race out there. If you don't play Terran you can never call yourself a real man. - Mentat
Slunk
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Germany768 Posts
April 12 2010 18:26 GMT
#16
Real Man > Cool Kid

sry
niteReloaded
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Croatia5282 Posts
April 12 2010 18:32 GMT
#17
Good effort!
takes balls to create a thread like this after the first one got so much positive feedback
fAnTaCy
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States893 Posts
April 12 2010 18:34 GMT
#18
On April 13 2010 03:26 -Iron- wrote:
Oh then this actually is a Zerg player on the picture: http://gawker.com/assets/resources/2008/03/scorpionad.jpeg


NSFW that yo o.oa
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Polar_Nada
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States1548 Posts
April 12 2010 18:38 GMT
#19
On April 13 2010 03:26 -Iron- wrote:
Oh then this actually is a Zerg player on the picture: http://gawker.com/assets/resources/2008/03/scorpionad.jpeg

wtf thats nasty. tag that crap !!
[ReD]NaDa and fnaticMSI.SEn fighting~! ::POlar @ UC Irvine::
-Iron-
Profile Joined April 2010
Germany27 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-12 18:45:57
April 12 2010 18:43 GMT
#20
I couldn't withstand to post that picture.
But seriously:
this thread is fail... though the opener had the balls to try it but now he should move back to his kitchen
Terran are the most volatile romp n' stomp habanero chili boomshakalaka slam dunk descendants from Spartan warriors while drinking blood of roman gladiators bad ass race out there. If you don't play Terran you can never call yourself a real man. - Mentat
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