Gas mining versus extra c

In my last blog that everyone hated I asked about cheese/rush strategies or strategies toward the end of acquiring lulz that I could do in order to have some fun with vastly inferior competition. Well, it turned out sort of how I expected.

The first game was a 4v4 that quickly turned into a 3v4 because the guy who set the LAN up somehow failed to network his own computer or something like that. I didn't understand it. But anyway this was on literally the worst map ever made. It was a 256x256 where the main was shared between all players and lacked gas. That's right. You had to expand to make your gas. Anyway, after mind controlling workers and thus controlling all three races, I decided the game had gone on too long and betrayed my team with infested terrans. w00t.

I got to play a 2v2 with my friend next. It was lulz. He double expanded and I built tanks, which ended in a kickass medic/ultralisk combo. Turns out that if you have medics healing ultralisks, they're practically impossible to take down. Who knew?

Next was a UMS called "Get to the Choppa" which was lulz but also fail. Finally my friend played a game against them on the blizzard map "Wheel of War" and with only 8 mutalisks managed to kill every worker on their side of play because none of them had ever seen mutalisk micro before. That was lulz too.

Then they wanted to play more 4v4 and stuff that was boring so I left and now am getting drunk.

So, remember my first blog? Well, my friend and I are going to get a chance to embarrass some people at a LAN party at this university hosted by some tools. I know they're tools because they hosted a tournament that my teammate won and I got third in. Temamate is good, but at the time I was like a 40 APM Protoss who knew only two builds: 5pool & DT rush. And I got third... And that was only because I messed up my assimilator timing in the semis, or I would have got second. I'm a bit better know, and esspesscially good at 2v2. And these guys suck and are assholes. So, we're trying to figure out good builds to beat them with. Right now, we're considering Stove into Dark Archon mind control recalling their SCVs, mass scouts, and double nuke rush. Oh, and infested terran rush. Any other good ideas?

Oh, and just to prove these guys suck, one of them is a terran whose standard build is 4 racks... and another is a zerg who doesn't build his first overlord until after he expands...

So I'm going to present you with two conferences identified as conference A and conference B, and discuss some of their bowl games. Then you people are going to discuss the conferences. And I'm sure most of you can figure out what teams and conferences I am referencing; I am keeping them anonymous just to get you thinking

Conference A:

One team ranked in the top 15 loses it's bowl game against another top 15 team (that happens to be in Conference B). The loss comes on a field goal with about a minute left, but the team completely mismanaged the clock (second time this season) and commits stupid penalties that keep them out of field goal ranges.

Another team absolutely blows out their opponent in a BCS bowl. However, the losing team had it's head coach leave in the weeks leading up to the game, as well as having the interim coach (and offensive coordinator) announce that he was leaving after the bowl game.

A third team wins a close game in overtime. However, against a Conference USA opponent, they do not convert a single third down and only win because the opposing kicker missed four field goals that would have won the game.

Oh, and I should mention that one of these teams did win the national championship. Congrats to them and the conference, but do bear in mind that the other team's starting quarterback (the winningest quarterback in FBS history) lasted just 5 plays before getting injured. And barring a freak interception return for a touchdown...


Conference B:

In two BCS games, conference B teams dominated teams deemed to be too fast or too athletic for them. Instead, both of those teams were absolutely shut down by the defenses of the Conference B teams, and the offenses were able to do more than enough against defenses that were supposed to be too fast for them.

Outside the BCS, take a look at the first team under conference A, because the next team in conference B was the one who beat them. Chalk up another win.

And next, we see another conference b team knock off a top 15 team. This time, after a kick-off return that should have been a touchdown yielded a touch down, the Conference B team comes back and dominates for two-thirds of the game, and then hangs on for dear life.

Other teams didn't do as well, although two of the other losses were by three points or less. Overall, Conference B went 4-3 in bowls, but 2-0 in BCS bowls and 4-0 against teams in the top 15 when they played.


So...

What do you think?

So basically I got in a car accident and my driver's side headlight is kind messed up. But I need to drive to St. Louis (about 4 hours) this Friday night to visit my girlfriend. And the shops can't do a new headlight until next week. So, I'm left with three options.

(1) Postpone my trip till Saturday morning.

(2) Try to drive on the interstates at night with one headlight.

(3) Make my own headlight and use it for the time being.

Basically, I don't think (2) is a good idea, but I don't want to resort to (1). So what I'm presently thinking is that I get a lamp frame that can take two or three bulbs, put two/three bright bulbs in those and duct-tape it to the car, and wire them through a DC converter inside the car. The other option is to get a flood light and duct-tape that to the car. This has the problem of me having no control over it.

So, great TL people, what should I do and why should I do it? And if you think (3) is a good idea, give me some advice on how to do it.

Disclaimer: This is all purely hypothetical. If you are dumb enough to do any of this I am not going to bail you out of jail. Seriously, airport safety is no laughing matter.

So, I was traveling in the airports a few days ago, and started to realize how pointless and boring this all is. Really, we're sitting on a dumb rock called Earth and we're too lazy as a society to walk from place to place, so we had to make some shit fly. But then because as a species we're completely fucked up, you knew that someone was going to use such a great invention in an awful way, so now it takes way to long to get from the parking lot to your plane. There's got to be a way for that to be more interesting.

Of course, do anything too interesting and your ass gets thrown in jail. So instead I will present five things that you can do in a airport to cause general confusion but shouldn't get you arrested.

(1) When the security guard asks if you're carrying any liquids, remind him that most of your body is made of liquids. When just one person does this, you look like a jack-ass. But get a whole group of people...

(2) When the airline is boarding the elite and first class members, ask the attendant if members of the mile-high club get priority boarding.

(3) Take about three poker sets through security. The rows of chips just show up as black cylinders on the X-Ray meaning that those nice "World-Series of Poker" sets look like homemade pipe bombs. There's no danger here, but watch as security runs around like chickens with their heads cut off. Especially if you have like four sets.

(4) Once on the plane, place a large carry on underneath your seat. Eventually, the flight attendants will ask you to move it to the overhead bins. Tell them you can't because you need to feed your pet mice during take-off. When they ask how you got the mice through security, tell them you found them on the Jetway.

(5) I'm just sick enough to think that this might be funny: If you're in a really long security line, pull out a small computer and start playing that one level from Modern Warfare 2. You know the one I'm talking about...

There, those are five things that you can do. I'm really interested in what everyone else thinks. Remember, the goal is not to get arrested...

versus gas mining.

So I'm basically awesome at Terran. Not like I actually win, but like I have a teammate who plays Zerg and kinda wins and then I sometimes get some battle cruisers and some nukes and then we win because battle net can be filled with tools at 3 AM. So, usually these people stay around long enough that I get to have some fun. So if I'm tired of going medic-ultra, I start building stuff in people's bases. But let's say I've only got one SCV that I can spare cuz it's a elimination race and/or my teammate went Sauron-Zerg and I don't have an expansion. So now I've got a choice. I could buiild a commnad center in my opponent's main and go proxy worker rush, or I could build a refinery and start mining from it. I guess what I'm asking is which of these better sends the message "I suck at this game, but you're worse than my friend who is better than both of us and you ally." Any thoughts?