http://www.teamliquid.net/blog/darkcarnival en-us Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:41:29 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=296334 Dark.Carnival This will be the last part of these blogs even if it's really long. It'll cover Providence and a few closing remarks and then it's donezos. Links to part1: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=295288 part2: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=295592 part3 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=296065 Okay so Orlando ends and Providence is roughly a month later... Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:41:29 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=296334 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=296065 Dark.Carnival Okay time for the next part!. Here's part 1 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=295288 and part 2 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=295592 Raleigh is over and there's a nice little break between events. It's nice having it spaced out. At this point my practice regiment has declined a bit, due to a few reasons; my internet for one has always been an issue for me as i... Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:48:15 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=296065 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=295592 Dark.Carnival This is the continuation of my 2011 year in StarCraft, most of which is focused on MLG. Here's a link to part 1: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=295288 Alright so we're past Columbus and there's again another month and a half break between events. During the down time between Columbus and Anaheim our team picked up inka, the american protoss who was on LG and before that EG. ... Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:43:10 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=295592 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=295288 Dark.Carnival So 2011 is basically over, or for StarCraft2 it is. There's still a few tournaments going on but for most of us it's break time for a few weeks. With that, I felt a little reflection of this year for me would be nice to write about. The main focus being MLG since I attended every event this year. A little introduction of myself; I'm DarkCell on the team Quantic Gaming which I've been a part ... Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:08:42 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=295288 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=119121 Dark.Carnival I've played Terran almost exclusively since the start of the beta, except for playing random in 2v2 and a few short stints as zerg/protoss. So this comes from a bit of experience, and are my personal opinions/suggestions. For starts, I really want to see a change to Siege Tanks. Mainly a gas reduction to 100gas, and a supply reduction from 3 to 2. The build time change in patch 8 is okay, it... Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:53:58 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=119121 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=116536 Dark.Carnival Rejoice non-double zerg 2v2er's! The evil filth that is known as the ZZ team has been overcome by Randomers. Behold the glory! For hours, days, weeks, me and my ally, Uptown (Locked on TL) have been crawling ever so slowly in our 2v2 division to reach the top. Why? For fame? For rank!? For bragging rights?! NO! It was to be above those double zerg users, those bastards who pick the mos... Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:57:12 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=116536 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=114248 Dark.Carnival Played 2v2 tonight for the first time. I rarely ever played any 2v2s in broodwar, because I played on 14.4k internet so having more than one or two people caused tremendous lag. Thankfully that isn't the case now (except for disconnections during the day) so into the fray we went. I don't know how the match making decides people to play against, but everyone we played was absolutely terrible... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:31:21 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=114248 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=114108 Dark.Carnival Having played since the first day, I probably don't have as much time logged in as a lot of other people, but not for lack of want. That said, on the ladder my record is currently 120-92, about 30-35 of those are disconnects. Overall I've played about/little over 200 games. Not a lot of games, but enough to give some opinion on the game. The game is fun, and that hasn't changed at all from t... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:52:44 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=114108 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=113572 Dark.Carnival This will be my last daily blog for the beta, i'm sure I will make more blogs regarding it later, but for a daily update this is the last. Didn't play much today, but I had a clear focus in what I wanted to do. I've played around with early bio builds in all three matches, and while they can work, the theme I'm finding is that it is weak vs. good players, or at least someone who doesn't just... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:13:34 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=113572 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=113470 Dark.Carnival I've discovered my internet doesn't disconnect after 9-10pm, so I waited to play until then today. It's much better being able to play without being on tilt over disconnections. I'm getting my ISP to come out and hopefully do something so that I'm able to at least have the option to play earlier in the day. Most my games today have revolved around early timing attacks, which seem to work qui... Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:10:17 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=113470 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=113321 Dark.Carnival Didn't play much today, combination of being sleepy and not wanting to deal with disconnecting all the time. Once I realized that leagues/divisions make zero sense at all I stopped trying to move up from the Gold league and broadened my build orders to encompass different timings and unit combinations. I've still only used terran, though I will vs. a computer to check out unit timings to com... Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:50:49 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=113321 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=113178 Dark.Carnival Stopped playing earlier than the past couple days, partly because I'm tired and started making dumb mistakes, but my net decided to shit bricks and earn me another disconnect loss. My record is 77-54, and a good twenty or so of those losses is from disconnections. I don't know why my net is doing this to me, maybe there's a problem with the router firewall or something, but until about 10pm I r... Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:44:07 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=113178 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=112899 Dark.Carnival I was able to play for a long time today (yay) and damn, it's awesome. Discovering a new build, or using a build that consistently rapes face, is beyond fun at this point of the beta. I've used only terran, once as protoss to test something with a friend, but aside from that, all terran. my rec is 34-18, so minus the ten games i played yesterday, i was able to squeeze out 42 today. The match... Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:14:58 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=112899 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=112738 Dark.Carnival When I first found out SC2 was finally in development, I was really excited, but not over the top because I knew it was a long way off. I haven't kept up at all with any information besides the initial announcement and when they announced Zerg. My first real glimpse of SC2 was watching Day9 do his cast on some of the games. I didn't have a beta-key, but because one person is FUCKING AWESOME(... Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:30:07 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=112738 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=109921 Dark.Carnival I was curious if anyone else experiences these when they sleep. Basically, at some point during the first few hours of falling asleep, I'll wake up but not fully aware of my surroundings, I'll "see" things or feel things in my bed, or the room I'm in. Usually it's a kind of insect, spider or a snake (although once it was a balloon...lol). I will "see" it or feel it and be... Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:07:49 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=109921 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=106618 Dark.Carnival With NaNoWriMo over, my free time during the night has been mostly devoted to TSL. So far my record is 42-55 with 3088pts. Getting to D+ wasn't too bad, took longer than I expected. Than fought my way through D+ and finally got C-. Now I win a few games, than lose a couple til I'm back down to D+, and repeat said process. My worst match up by far is ZvP, which is a bit depressing because whe... Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:20:38 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=106618 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=106425 Dark.Carnival Reached 50k for NaNoWriMo! Hit it about twenty minutes ago, and since it's technically the 25th, got it validated on the site and bam! I'm a "winner." Shame what I wrote is really bad. I'm only about 2/3rds done with it, so there's more writing to be done. I'm not sure if I want to finish the story though. When I started it, I did so by winging it, which is the main reason the writ... Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:23:23 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=106425 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=106067 Dark.Carnival Oh such fun to play on iccup after 3am when I'm sleepy. Couple nights in a row I've done this: check time, see it's 3am, decide to play a few games before heading to bed. Find a game that isn't on python and manage to lose by making retarded mistakes. Tonight was quite lovely. Oh, what's that? 12 lings? I've got eight! I'll build 2 and no worries, I've got ramp advantage! Oh what's that? I p... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:38:35 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=106067 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=105723 Dark.Carnival I had forgotten about this years NaNoWriMo until a post on TL reminded me. Unfortunately I was already in the middle of writing something else, so when November 1st rolled around I had no clue what I was going to do. Deciding to wing it, the first few days went well, at least in word count, the writing itself was complete shit. I've managed to hit the half mark, 25k words of 50k, and it's ge... Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:17:33 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=105723 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=105116 Dark.Carnival I started up broodwar again going on about a week now. I quit back in 05/06 (i don't remember which exactly) and played maybe a handful of games since then, including attempting TSL (for one day). I've been cutting down on my usual gaming habits, which mostly included dota, and in between breaks of that wow/aion/counterstrike. So now there has been an empty feeling because I wasn't doing anythi... Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:25:05 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=105116