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We've been doing a lot of casting over the past six days (around 9 or 10 hours I think?) since we've been doing a match a day at MLG -- no, I don't know when we're releasing them right now. With all this time casting, I've started to notice lines that myself, Diggity, iNcontrol, and Day[9] constantly repeat.
Since I'm always looking to improve my casting and I think the community in general wants the best casting possible, I decided a thread of 'overused' lines should be created!
THE LIST OF SILLY OVERUSED WORDS AND PHRASES :
- It'll be interesting to see...
- On the field...
- Standard...
- Deviation
- Opting to...
- What a blunder (thanks to Day[9] for making me do this, jerk!)
- We are here on...
- One thing to note...
- It's the most normal thing in the world
- Nothing out of the ordinary
- This is awesome !
- He really should have....
- He really should be getting...
- He'll know exaaactly what's coming/what's going on/what his opponent is up to
- That was a cute/creative play...
- terrible, terrible damage!
I think in one cast I said 'opt' about twenty times. Terrible!
Please help out all casters improve their skills and tell us what we overuse! I will add them to the above list if this thread becomes popular. If you can cite specific VODs or casters and phrases (without flaming) that would help too as I'm fairly certain everyone is open to criticism.
If this thread turns into 'Who is the better caster?' it will most likely be closed -- so don't!
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"terrible, terrible damage!"
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"It's the most normal thing in the world" <-- or variations of this :D
But I love Day9 for it, and I think THAT is the most normal thing in the world.
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Sweden2523 Posts
"Nothing out of the ordinary"
"Very standard"
While they are used alot, maybe you can't qualify them as "overused" but it's the best I could think of right now.
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"This is awesome !" 
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"He really should have...."
"He really should be getting..."
That stuff is cool for post game analysis but I don't like it when strategies are critiqued during the cast. There's more subtle ways to go about it like.
"This fast expand is going to be in trouble if he moves those zerglings out."
instead of "oh no he really shouldn't be fast expanding, those zerglings are going to do a ton of damage."
maybe it makes no difference, just a little pet peeve
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When scouting: "He'll know exaaactly what's coming/what's going on/what his opponent is up to"
And Tasteless's "Hold that thought" and "pandabearguy" stuff, but I haven't heard him commentating for ages anyway.
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On July 15 2010 18:21 Scorch wrote:
When scouting: "He'll know exaaactly what's coming/what's going on/what his opponent is up to"
And Tasteless's "Hold that thought" and "pandabearguy" stuff, but I haven't heard him commentating for ages anyway.
I thought people enjoyed the pandabearguy stuff?
Keep em coming! Moar!
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"...needs to be careful..."
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'x in the face'. Or a derivative thereof. Husky is the worst offender for this one.
The worst one is of course the 'what I like to do here is...'.
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"Awesome" in general is hugely overused, it makes you sound like a 15-year-old, stop using it.
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"Keep in mind"<--- Tasteless <---- Love Him ^^
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"Lets see what he can do with this" -then the reaper dies to a zergling D:
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On July 15 2010 18:27 itmeJP wrote:Show nested quote +On July 15 2010 18:21 Scorch wrote:
When scouting: "He'll know exaaactly what's coming/what's going on/what his opponent is up to"
And Tasteless's "Hold that thought" and "pandabearguy" stuff, but I haven't heard him commentating for ages anyway. I thought people enjoyed the pandabearguy stuff?
Scorch just broke JP's heart.
This isn't really quotable, but I hate how in every TvP a commentator attempts to explain the "western standoff" that is EMPvsFeedback.
They'll start talking about how ghosts are really powerful because emp gets rid of shields and protoss tend to like their shields, then saying temps can feedback ghosts since it gets rid of energy and ghosts tend to like their energy, leading to the eternal struggle of looking at the abilities to figure out which one has a further range, and then realizing feedback is instant and emp isn't.
No matter the case though, they always settle and say "whoever does it first"
It's an important thing in big fights no doubt, but it can be said in like 5 seconds as opposed to the 2 minutes it always takes.
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at this point in time
beautiful composition
beautiful transition
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"Thisiscombatexbringingyouanother-"
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"X is in a huuuuuge/deeeep trouble"
"terrible terrible damage" is not overused since it's more of a joke then an actual line, it has a background with Blizzard commentators using it many times, and Husky claiming he was using it befor they did.
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EPT
