http://www.teamliquid.net/blog/GheedBlog en-us Mon, 21 May 2012 19:03:29 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=339105 Gheed I've been enjoying Diablo 3, but rather than review it normally, I'd rather launch into a series of straw man arguments. So, without further ado, I present to you: A Polemical Diablo 3 Review. Within, I will list a series of common complaints with the game and then explain why the people who have those complaints are stupid. It was overhyped! Uh, how? I guess I could see how you might feel ... Mon, 21 May 2012 16:11:57 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=339105 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=334009 Gheed Don't get me wrong; I love competitive gaming. I love playing video games and watching people who are better than me stream video games. But I hate esports. Originally an innocuous buzzword used to describe professional competitive video game playing, it has since morphed into an abomination that saps the life out of everyone in the community. Rather than a group of nerds who like playing St... Wed, 02 May 2012 10:20:39 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=334009 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=328804 Gheed Banner by CreatorGX Bronze Part 4: A Legendary League Part I: Descent to LoL Recently, I started playing League of Legends. Casual, killing esports, rabble, rabble, rabble, I know. Nope, nothing to see here. Definitely no esports. While starting to play and level up my LoL account, I often found myself thinking back to the bronze league. As someone who is not yet leve... Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:58:24 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=328804 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=319375 Gheed Banner by CreatorGX Bronze Part 3: Casually Cruel Anyone who has ever played fetch with a dog will understand the following truth. If you pretend to throw the ball, but instead quickly hide it behind your back, the dog will faithfully run after the ball you did not actually throw, look for it, and then return, confused. You may repeat this process once or twice before the dog eith... Sat, 10 Mar 2012 08:17:27 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=319375 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=313577 Gheed One man. One league. Infinite insanity. Bronze Part 2: Hell is Other People It's harder than one might think to intentionally lose in the bronze league. Sure, a loss is just an F10 + N away, but getting them to actually kill you is like trying to coax a wild rabbit to let you pet him. They're cute, but skittish. Come on, little guy, I just want to post pictures of you on the... Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:59:31 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=313577 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=308882 Gheed One man. One league. Infinite insanity. Bronze: Delving Deeper. Learning that I could worker rush has been similar to how I imagine it would feel like if you learned you could control time. It just feels wrong; it just shouldn't be. It flies in the face of every rational thought or instinctual feeling you have—it's unnatural. But, once you know, you can't un-know. And believe ... Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:46:00 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=308882 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=304674 Gheed Part 1: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=271453 Part 2: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=271998 Interlude: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=272765 Part 3: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=281817 Part 4: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=283221 Part 5: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=286351 So, afte... Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:37:58 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=304674 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=286351 Gheed Part 1: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=271453 Part 2: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=271998 Interlude: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=272765 Part 3: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=281817 Part 4: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=283221 Sunlight somehow managed to break through the old bath towels I had erec... Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:42:54 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=286351 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=283221 Gheed Part 1: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=271453 Part 2: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=271998 Interlude: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=272765 Part 3: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=281817 In my previous blogs, I discussed my descent to what I had imagined must have been the deepest depths of the North American ladder. The ... Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:28:35 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=283221 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=281817 Gheed Part 1: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=271453 Part 2: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=271998 Interlude: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=272765 On and on I went. A worker rusher. That's what I was, what I had become. When I would log onto SC2 my mouse would wander unthinkingly to the Find Match button. Before I would realize what I was doing,... Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:25:05 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=281817 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=272765 Gheed Part 1: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=271453 Part 2: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=271998 There is a concept in World of Warcraft called a "retard check." Opposed to a "gear check," which is a boss that requires minimal strategy and can simply be beaten by standing in a circle and pelting it with fireballs, a retard check requires play... Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:11:38 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=272765 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=271998 Gheed Part one: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=271453 I was a douchebag of a kid. A bully in real life, in game I took to griefing and flaming. I was the kid who hid all his peons in the Garden of War after he had lost the game. I was the kid who refused to turn on allied victory in your "7v1 Compy Stompy" game as I constructed 12 dragon roosts in my base. Later, I fo... Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:24:54 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=271998 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=271453 Gheed It must have been a frustrating day in the platinum league. Perhaps I just didn't want to play another TvT. Or maybe I had to pee. I don't really recall. Whatever the reason, my transformation from casual Starcraft player to worker rusher was abrupt. That fateful match I was pitted against Boxxybabee on the Shattered Temple. At 22 seconds into the game I got the idea. That idea was &qu... Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:07:42 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=271453 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=234949 Gheed The following is a list of mispronounced or misused Starcraft terms. If you pride yourself a pedant, you probably already know these things. If you don't, then you probably won't care, which leads me to question why I bothered typing this. Units and Buildings Archon More trivia than misuse, Archon derives from the Greek word ἄρχων, meaning ruler. Its plural can either be the Anglic... Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:07:13 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=234949