The Glade 4.0

Thor, Hellion, Banshee is incredibly effective, especially when you're at a very high gas count late game.

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I never did drop by here to say thanks for the games and advice (akak Khross and Dash). I actually watch a lot of replays and know that I'm very, very lacking in skills. But, I have been practicing hard and it has been paying off. It seems (whether true or not) that I am much more prepared for early pushes, but sadly I still get caught off gaurd now and then. I still do not scout, it requires WAY too much APM and everything at the base slips when I do it or the scout goes idle and dies.

I am MUCH better about watching the front door for probe pylon pushes and terran bunker or barracks rushes in the base (yeah, that stuff still happens down on my level). I also see a lot of people pushing to take my natural as their first expand, but since our play session, I've managed to fend off and punish the people who do them.

I still manage to lose to Zealot pushes, even when I wall in. If I'm not walled in I'm done, if I am walled in I can still lose depending on how soon I see the attack coming and how fast I get a couple SCVs to the front door. Unfortunately I don't see this often, but when it happens I'm always feeling super pressure to survive.

I still don't feel like I'm at a point where I can push our early and harrass my oponents without feeling like I'm leaving myself vulnerable.

As far as builds go, my favorite is to push fast for a banshee (immediately followed by or even wait for a second) with cloaking and go for the win. A lot of people quit out fast with cloaked banshees killing their harvesting units.


Anyway folks, hope to see you all around. I'm still muddling through, and moving slowly up in the top 100 of my Bronze league. =)

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Gorse

Was fun playing with you Gorse. Not sure if you've already seen it but I just told my brother the same thing, check out this video if you havent already:

http://day9tv.blip.tv/file/3732340/

I've been slacking on SC2 lately. I need to get some time to play soon. Hopefully my schedule will ease up soon.

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“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general”. - Mark Rippetoe

http://day9tv.blip.tv/posts?view=archive&nsfw=dc

Game 3 of Grand Finals Mana vs Naama
Intense game. Actually the rest of the series is good, going all the way to game 5. No spoiler on who wins it all. o_o

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A very good series and well played by both of them. I was happy to see some creative Protoss play in Dreamhack overall.

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“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general”. - Mark Rippetoe

I was kinda rooting for the BYOC guy. Complete no-name goes to LAN event, comes out playing amongst some of the e-sports best.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I know i don't normally like SC2 multiplayer, but star battle is a blast.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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I watched a Totalhalibut video of that tonight. Looks pretty fun.

They added a new ship to it (based on the void ray) in the latest release, which really changes the dynamic of the game. By itself, it's actually a bit underpowered and fragile, but it's so very, very mobile and dangerous, when played well it completely changes the strategies the other ships need to use.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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I am becoming very good at Star Battle, and have adopted the Void Ray as my new ship of choice. I have to learn to take fewer risks though. I'm dying too much, but have 43 confirmed enemy player kills in the last 28 games.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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And I finally did it. Finished every campaign mission on brutal difficulty so I could have Sarah Kerrigan as my portrait.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Don't you mean the recolored Nova portrait? Go look. I'll wait a second. Did you go look? Exact same portrait with different colors.

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

Looks the same as kerrigan in the cutscene. Kerrigan was first. I suggest Nova is the recolored one.

It's pretty sad, though. 1690 achievement points, and only 50 of them are outside of the campaign.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Doesn't look a thing like her in the cut scene. It just looks like a recolored Nova portrait.

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

I don't know. My immediate assumption, had I never seen Starcraft, would be that my avatar and the picture below are the same person. Close enough, anyway.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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I'm not seeing it.

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

The first thing I thought when I saw Taly's avatar was, "Hey, isn't that a shopped red-headed Nova?" It's the lips and the eyes that are giveaways for me. Then, I watched the short comm message from Kerrigan during the last mission and figured, well Blizz put it in there, so I guess it's really Sarah.

Speaking of Kerrigan -- so I wonder what happened:

Heart of the Swarm will pick up right where Wings of Liberty ended.

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

Yeah I read about that, but based on what they are saying, the proposed plot completely contradicts the final events of the Human campaign.

Unless it's supposed to be a what if Raynor did not succeed scenario.

EDIT: Okay, did some reading on various forums and one proposed theory that I can kinda see/accept is that:

"You'll see that better future, Matt... but it ain't for the likes of us."

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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We'll see how it unfolds I guess in 2065, when the final installment is released.

They have a potentially great love story here -- hope they don't drop the ball.

blizzard subscribes to the joss whedon school of "nobody can live happily ever after" ending.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Well, there are different interpretations of happy endings, of course. Cookie cutter ride off into the sunset in each other's arms is kinda tired at this point.

I just don't want yet another, "My true love, alas we cannot be together because you are the Queen of a hive-mind alien race, and I am an intergalactic renegade of love wanted dead in 100 systems" scenario.

This game replaced any and all other competitors for "favorite Blizzard character" with Matt Horner. What a great character.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Matt might not be nearly as interesting without guys like Jim...and even Tychus and Tosh...around him, but yes, he and Raynor sure do play off each other well. Egon and Swann, on the other hand, I coul do without.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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