EtherealDeath's Blog: Aiur :(

Dream

EtherealDeath — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:46:51 +0900

Drones. Whenever I look into my mind's eye, all I know for certain is that I know. All else may as well be the work of a great deceiver, running an innumerable host of little robots. Yes, even the greatest genius might be trickery. "You only think that because you cannot comprehend the thought of the infinite algorithms." Malice. My adversary. "There is nothing infin...

Hot water dulls the mind

EtherealDeath — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:07:59 +0900

So, disclaimer: been a while since I did analysis, and this was a random shower thought (yes, I was taking a shower lol). So, half of this is likely badly flawed in some way lol. So, first we begin with Cantor's diagonal argument. If you do not know what it is, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor's_diagonal_argument We will rework the terms a bit. Namely, we will establish try to...

Sabotaging Citizenship

EtherealDeath — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:16:10 +0900

In a short conversation today with an unnamed individual X who has lived in the US for nearly two decades now, with a greencard, and is planning on applying for citizenship in the very near term, I mentioned that I am thinking about trying to get a job in military intelligence (probably in AF/Navy). The person in question is a Chinese citizen atm, as am I (I also plan on applying for US citize...

Passions, Dreams, Future Regrets?

EtherealDeath — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:42:23 +0900

I don't want this post to be too much a wall of text, so I will try to keep things short and summarize other things. Just know that I have been thinking about this very much for a long time, so if there is anything else you want to know in detail, just ask and I will respond. Some Background: Starcraft Background I'm not doing this out of some unconsidered urge. All that a...

Are you really willing to try to go pro?

EtherealDeath — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:42:08 +0900

Just think about it. I know a lot of people seem to like the idea of going pro, but do you really have the dedication to go pro the way koreans in the team houses go pro? Would you really dedicate a year or more of your life focusing on SC, which is for the vast majority of people a dead end after their careers are done? We will assume that somehow you managed to become pro enough to make it...

Protoss AMA

EtherealDeath — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:42:16 +0900

I'm bored, and I happen to be awake at nearly 5 am wtf. Ask away, I'm a high masters toss on NA and was high masters terran last season on EU as well, though my terran play is more focused and less broad than my toss play, so keep that in mind.

Spaghetti Monsters

EtherealDeath — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:52:15 +0900

So it's late at night. I decide... it's time to hit up an alt account for some fun (it's in masters though). Some asshat cheeses me, w/e win. I do my special non 4 gate busting 4 gate on a P, smashes his silly attempts at sentry zealot stalker blocking. Lovely. I run into an Atheist. How do you fight the Godless? I win with special tactics.

[IT] Iran since Pahlavi

EtherealDeath — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:28:03 +0900

Noting in the Palestine/UNESCO thread that some people aren't aware of what I would assume are very prominent issues in the international scene today, I've decided to do a series of weekly or bi-weekly short blogs on international topics ([IT]), concentrating on areas people might not be too familiar with. Don't consider these to be anything more than a quick overview/introduction. We will ...

20 Points...

EtherealDeath — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:05:14 +0900

...if you know where this statement comes from (without googling). _____ doesn't get the bull off the ice. Imho it's the best phrase ever for saying some is just full of fail or otherwise didn't work out. You should incorporate it into your daily speech - I've used it for the past 6 years, and it's quite a colorfully amusing statement. Just picture it in your head. A bull is on ice.

5 minutes

EtherealDeath — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:41:45 +0900

Don't you hate it when on an exam if you had 5 more minutes you could have finished it. Instead you slurped one. Yea, I just slurped one on my OS exam. Holy shit my handwriting speed is soooo fucking bad nowadays. So the question had something to do with writing a pseudocode implementation of a threaded (with max thread limits) implementation of a web server with some other things. A...

[5k]Gaming and I

EtherealDeath — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:42:24 +0900

I played my first video game in 1995. Sixteen years and 5000 TL posts later, here we are. Time for a short summary! WARNING - This will be a moderately long read. My first game occurred in a quite shady situation. Some background first - I moved from China to the US in 1992 at age 3, settling in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. If you didn't know, that place is about as southern as it gets, ...

[CSL Stream]UNC Chapel Hill

EtherealDeath — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:46:03 +0900

If you didn't know already, I play on the UNC Chapel Hill team for CSL. Thought I'd make a thread of some sort whenever we have a game going on, maybe update the title or whatnot. Anyways, blogging it for now since it's regular season and not really a major event so to speak. Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/brunasty Status: Offline :(

Intense Dream

EtherealDeath — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 23:02:33 +0900

So, fresh off of my 2 day temp ban for bashing Dream in his ro32 match against Tester , I had an intriguing dream. Backstory - I cannot sleep on a 24 hour cycle. Usually, this involves me waking up at night, then going to sleep around noon. Of course, on some days I have class in the morning, so on these days I just don't sleep for ~36 hours. I then immediately flip back into my nighttim...

Random Inspiration

EtherealDeath — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:16:23 +0900

So, partly due to a urge I've been having for some time and partly due to my dislike of staying in any one location for too long, I've decided that my plan post-college graduation (which occurs in the winter) is to travel around the world. Now, I don't mean this in a purely vacation sort of way. First off, I'm going to get a job probably in the US, probably in the DC area to hang out with s...

Travian

EtherealDeath — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:00:26 +0900

Anyone on TL still play that game? I noticed that all the Travian threads are pretty old (in the sense that no one has posted in them for a while now).

Hawaiinpig

EtherealDeath — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:07:30 +0900

Nice job yo, was a good laugh after returning from running around outside for an hour. Who remembers the old ugly black text that popped up in the heat of things such as Flash Jaedong finals? I wonder how fast Flamewheel will stalk this blog.

The Greatest Invention

EtherealDeath — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:43:05 +0900

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. - Genesis 1:27 Humankind has always been driven to create, to improve. We observe origination within tribes of hunter-gatherers, the rise of agriculture, the establishment of Uruk. Even from these humble beginnings, the human mind has always been aided by external tools which all...

Small Subwoofer on Laptop

EtherealDeath — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:35:45 +0900

I always wondered if the smallish subwoofer on my Asus G73SW would ever be of any use. In normal play and other stuff, it really couldn't do anything so far as I could tell. It was basically plug things into an external sound system or simply experience a slightly better than average default laptop audio. Then X Japan started playing. This is the most captivating laptop speaker produc...

The Cost of running a progaming team?

EtherealDeath — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:32:59 +0900

And by run it I mean run it in what I would consider to be the proper way, that is, having paid players in a team house. 1) First variable is the number of people involved. Let's say that you have about 2 of each race, so 6, maybe 7 players. Go with 6 for now. Managers? Def at least 1. Let's say you take care of marketing, so 1 team manager who handles league/supervises training. So we...

Some MLG photos and stuff

EtherealDeath — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 17:34:50 +0900

Apologies ahead of time for my using a shitty camera that I've never used before lol. You may see lighting variations and some blurriness as I get used to using this weird machine whilst trying to not spam flash (as it can be distracting) >< Day 1 There were a lot of fail pics due to my noobishness with my camera. Day 2 shall bring very many more pics with less annoying brightn...