The 73rd Issue
Letter from the Editor
Dear Readers,
In case you didn't know, last week's interview was actually with micronesia. Also, some things I need to mention: I have started working and I have to get up at 6 everyday (ugg), so PX will be posted earlier than usual. Also, next week I will not be able to compile PX, as I will be away in Vancouver, likely without much time around a computer. If someone wants to compile issue 74, go for it. If not, I will just do a two week edition the following week.
- Kau
Staff
Kau – Editor
Bloodyc0bbler – The Stove
Chill – Strategy
Nyovne – IRC Comments
Physician – Memory Lane
{88}iNcontroL – Troll Booth Willie, The Shit Bus
NeverGG – Progamer Pics
Fontong – VOD of the Week
pangshai – Battle Report
ShoCkeyy – Interviews
Table of Contents
Serious Business and Funsies ................ p1
The Stove .............................................. p2
Chalk Talk ............................................. p3
Semi-Funny IRC Comment of the Week ... p4
Progamer Photos ................................... p5
Random Image of the Week .................... p6
A Walk Down Memory Lane .................... p7
Troll Booth Willie .................................... p8
The Shit Bus .......................................... p8
Best of Blogs ......................................... p9
Ban of the Week .................................... p10
Vod of the Week .................................... p11
Interviews .............................................. p12
- KeSPA
- Cry now if you missed out
- More than you would probably like to know about kidney stones
- A New Hope?
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[14:58] <MarS_Wm> there is a TV show on at 11pm tonight called "My Wife is a Gangster"
[14:59] <MarS_Wm> Country: South Korea
[14:59] <MarS_Wm> Language: Korean
[15:00] <MarS_Wm> Eunjin fought her way to the top to become a living legend among South Korean gangsters. When she finally finds her long-lost elder sister, she accedes to her sibling's dying wish that she find a man and settle down. Efforts to feminise her with sexy clothes and coquettish training end in disaster, when Eunjin keeps slipping out of character and into rough street-talk.
[15:01] <MarS_Wm> what is rough Korean street talk?
[15:01] <dizzy44> kimchi kimchi soju
[15:02] <iLoveKTF> "FUCKING SKILLESS NEWBIE" obviously
[14:58] <MarS_Wm> there is a TV show on at 11pm tonight called "My Wife is a Gangster"
[14:59] <MarS_Wm> Country: South Korea
[14:59] <MarS_Wm> Language: Korean
[15:00] <MarS_Wm> Eunjin fought her way to the top to become a living legend among South Korean gangsters. When she finally finds her long-lost elder sister, she accedes to her sibling's dying wish that she find a man and settle down. Efforts to feminise her with sexy clothes and coquettish training end in disaster, when Eunjin keeps slipping out of character and into rough street-talk.
[15:01] <MarS_Wm> what is rough Korean street talk?
[15:01] <dizzy44> kimchi kimchi soju
[15:02] <iLoveKTF> "FUCKING SKILLESS NEWBIE" obviously
[01:44] <@NeverGG_> I'm worried if I get interviewed again the question will be 'Which gamer have you touched the most?'
[01:44] <@NeverGG_> The worrying thing is - there are multiple names.
Nal_rAwr: i'm by.curious
By|Curious: wat
By|Curious: im by.curious
Nal_rAwr: I am by.curious
By|Curious: im by.curious
Nal_rAwr: remember yesterday
Nal_rAwr: i'm by.curious
By|Curious: no
Anycall: looooooooooool
By|Curious: i dont
By|Curious: i dont
Anycall: by.curious
Nal_rAwr: remember
By|Curious: im by.curious
By|Curious: no
By|Curious: wat
Nal_rAwr: where'd you get the idea
Nal_rAwr: for that name
By|Curious: w a t
By|Curious: a a
By|Curious: t a w
Nal_rAwr: idea
Nal_rAwr: ?
Nal_rAwr: yesterday rite
By|Curious: wat
Nal_rAwr: yeah
By|Curious: no
Nal_rAwr: i'm bigbang
By|Curious: like
Nal_rAwr: "by.curious"
By|Curious: i made this id
By|Curious: 4 months ago
By|Curious: i believe
Nal_rAwr: oh
Nal_rAwr: well
By|Curious: soi ur trying to tell me that u have sex with men
Nal_rAwr: oh i thought i was by.curious
By|Curious: ?
Nal_rAwr: wat?
Nal_rAwr: anyways
Nal_rAwr: i'm in Nal
Khos: you're both spammers
By|Curious: u have sex with men?
By|Curious: khos
Nal_rAwr: i got recruit at 2am last night
By|Curious: we are discussing something
Nal_rAwr: can i join by?
By|Curious: no
Khos: DISCUSS THIS
By|Curious: u can come up with a better nick tho
Nal_rAwr: please can i join by
By|Curious: by.theby
By|Curious: by.annually
By|Curious: choose one
Nal_rAwr: uh
Nal_rAwr: hold on
Nal_rAwr: let me come up with 1
Nal_rAwr: by.sickle
Nal_rAwr: and i be
By|Curious: uh
Nal_rAwr: by.sickle
By|Curious: wat
Nal_rAwr: please
By|Curious: k
By is now called Khos
By|Curious: ya
Nal_rAwr: by.sickle
Nal_rAwr: YES
TuxedoBond: How about By|Sexual.
ktp: biclops, the bisexual cyclops
Nal_rAwr: so am i officially in the uber pro clan by
TuxedoBond: Would suit you nicely.
Nal_rAwr: y ty
Nal_rAwr: am i?
By|Curious: omg
SoYuKKUSENMAN: is there a by curious?
SoYuKKUSENMAN: o
SoYuKKUSENMAN: lame
By|Curious: will all of you die
SoYuKKUSENMAN: that episode was hilarious
By|Curious: irl?
By|Curious: rl death for u plz?
By|Curious: 1time?
Khos: you mad?
Khos: you mad?
Nal_rAwr: so am i officially by.sickle?
By|Curious: yes?
Nal_rAwr: yes
By|Curious: oops i put nal_rawr on ignore
By|Curious: how do i undo it
Khos: you dont
Nal_rAwr: uh
By|Curious: kk
By|Curious: o well
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Air Force ACE ~ New Faces:
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from FuDDx's blog
from sky_slasher's blog
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Teamliquid DIVERSITY; please don't hurt it.
Is there anybody out there? by IntoTheWow
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=46931#3
Reptilians and Faul CONSPIRACY by MarklarMarklar
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=68397
Proposition: Internet forums make you dumber
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=24218
Getting to know you: Part Deux by Smurg
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=44391
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On April 28 2009 05:09 vGl-CoW wrote:
in Soviet Russia, girl rapes you
in Soviet Russia, girl rapes you
From the "reverse rape" thread
On May 05 2009 01:19 zulu_nation8 wrote:
you should probably pay kwark back before you post on this forum
you should probably pay kwark back before you post on this forum
On May 05 2009 01:44 ghostWriter wrote:
FACTS: Bears eat beets. Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica.
FACTS: Bears eat beets. Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica.
The Shit Bus
The Shit Bus staff would like to make mention of a special poster this week. Instead of having a post we will just encourage you to follow this poster as he continues to navigate the wild and crazy adventure that is idiocy.
Charliemurphy
Since April 22nd Charlie has managed to have 5 threads closed before 40 posts could be made in any of them, 37 being the most posts made in one of his threads before a moderator realized Charlie had made a thread.
I submit that of the threads opened by a user, charliemurphy is the most thoroughly closed poster on TL.net (when coupled with amount of posts.. this excludes 100 post nubs who open 30 threads).
He is a valuable asset to this website. And we appreciate his public display of barely functional retardation.
Thank you Charlie.
-The Shit Bus Staff
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- Things Arrian hears his partner say
- EsX_Raptor uncovers new lifeform
- evanthebouncy brings you math puzzles!
- railxp posts some news article about a Time troll
- GrayArea needs something more ambitious than school
- iCCup.d(O.o)a teaches us the reason for not jaywalking across a freeway
- Retsukage, another photographer within our midst!
- Crossword fun by Scaramanga
- I agree micronesia, mailto is stupid
- lilsusie catches haji in photographs!
- Forum annoyances. How many do you do RoieTRS?
- Plexa's team of the week
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Sparkwind was just banned by Chill.
That account was created on 2008-03-05 00:42:26 and had 42 posts.
Reason: How is it that people understood the ability to communicate? We would not be here without our incredible ability to share ideas with one another.
There was always interaction between humans. Maybe even animals. Maybe even all organisms. Communication reflects on life, and life on communication.
While I was overseas, I found the meaning to my life. But is it the same as yours? If we could communicate this meaning, maybe we would know. Or would we?
I refuse to believe. But I must believe to refuse. Disturbing, isn't it? I find you in the unlikeliest of places; I find you at the likeliest of times. If only they were reversed, would my task be simpler? It is a loaded question, since the answer must be uncertain.
We rank your posting ability to be stellar. Despite my rating of having to reread, at least twice, 85% of your sentences, you were the hallmark of posting on our website. And thus, as your martyrdom completes the cyclic nature of this end, you shall live on.
Good luck in creating your new website. A greater website. I look forward to remembering you in a distant memory. As you fade away, was that my imagination, or did it actually occur? Lost amongst the many growing, entangled bits and bytes of information, layeth thine true savior. "Yay, he was good" I shall remember. And he was. And he was.
Remember this day. April 27th. Two thousand and nine. We shall remember it as 03/29/2008. You would have liked it that way.
Remember. Surrender is always an option.
That account was created on 2008-03-05 00:42:26 and had 42 posts.
Reason: How is it that people understood the ability to communicate? We would not be here without our incredible ability to share ideas with one another.
There was always interaction between humans. Maybe even animals. Maybe even all organisms. Communication reflects on life, and life on communication.
While I was overseas, I found the meaning to my life. But is it the same as yours? If we could communicate this meaning, maybe we would know. Or would we?
I refuse to believe. But I must believe to refuse. Disturbing, isn't it? I find you in the unlikeliest of places; I find you at the likeliest of times. If only they were reversed, would my task be simpler? It is a loaded question, since the answer must be uncertain.
We rank your posting ability to be stellar. Despite my rating of having to reread, at least twice, 85% of your sentences, you were the hallmark of posting on our website. And thus, as your martyrdom completes the cyclic nature of this end, you shall live on.
Good luck in creating your new website. A greater website. I look forward to remembering you in a distant memory. As you fade away, was that my imagination, or did it actually occur? Lost amongst the many growing, entangled bits and bytes of information, layeth thine true savior. "Yay, he was good" I shall remember. And he was. And he was.
Remember this day. April 27th. Two thousand and nine. We shall remember it as 03/29/2008. You would have liked it that way.
Remember. Surrender is always an option.
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Now with Battle Report! Thanks pangshai!
+ Show Spoiler +
The game today is a PvT between daezang and really on neo medusa. Having not followed progaming religiously for a while, I've very little to offer on either the players or the map, except for the fact that the map is an updated version of medusa, which was hugely imbalanced PvT. Seems like the balance has tilted in the opposite direction now (68.4% P>T to 38.9%), although it is possible too few games have been played on it to make it statistically worthwhile to mention. Anyway, on to the game.
Really spawns with yellow terran at the 7 oclock position, while daezang gets red protoss at the 10 position. Standard opening builds for both players, daezang warping a gateway in his main and scouting after, opting not to do the ever popular 10/15 build, and really getting a depot first to wall off his main choke. Perhaps worried about some sort of proxy cheese behind his mineral line, really sends out his scv on completion of his depot to mine out the minerals at his temples. Unfortunately for really, daezang's probe heads for his base first, and although really gets his rax up in time to prevent its entry, the probe manages to take out the rax building SCV despite really's best efforts.
Back in daezang's base, really's SCV sees 1 gate and a spinning core, and a robotics facility being added. In the meantime, daezang begins applying pressure to really's wall in with a zealot and a dragoon, forcing really to pull SCVs to repair. Because of the dragoon presence at his choke, really is also forced to get his expo CC much further into his main, delaying his expo timing significantly.
Daezang's pressure is relentless, and even after really has his tank out, he continues his harass of really's wall with his, now, ranged goons. Excellent control by daezang here, sacrificing his zealot to absorb tank shots while his dragoons continue pounding on the wall, microing his dragoons to take potshots at the tank, forcing really to retreat it, and then switching over to the depot, before finally being rewarded with its destruction.
Really, however, pulls his SCVs and completes siege mode in time, throwing up a quick makeshift defense. Not wanting to commit to a risky engagement, daezang quickly retreats after losing a goon, only scoring a couple of SCV kills despite breaking the wall.
Daezang moves back to his base with his 2 remaining goons and takes his nat. Soon after, a shuttle leaves daezang's main with a reaver and a zealot. When it enters really's base, his engineering bay is just complete, and he has a mere 3 tanks and no turrets yet for defense. What happens next is a reaver harass so brutal it makes me as a terran player want to cry. I'll let the pictures do the talking.
and after a while I stopped bothering with the screenshots. you get the idea
Because of daezang's fantastic reaver harass, really is in a whole world of hurt, and too weak economically and militarily to threaten daezang, and so daezang decides to further his lead by quadruple nexusing for a total of 4 bases on just 2 gates. At this point of time, really has only 1 factory, 3 tanks, and has finally gotten a turret up in his main mineral line. Yet, daezang, amazingly, is still able to harass, and with each SCV and tank killed, is delaying really more and more, and allowing his 4 base economy to kick in.
With the defenses in the main now too strong, daezang makes a foray into really's nat where he finds a huge loophole in really's turret and tank coverage. Alas, he barely gets 3 SCV kills due to glitches and general reaver stupidity.
Meanwhile, really knows he's ridiculously far behind, and has built a starport (and 1 other factory for a total of 2), hoping to come back into the game with a vulture drop. No such luck, as daezang is on top of his every move, anticipating the dropship moving out, and preparing a group of goons to intercept it. Even if the dropship had reached his mineral only, the vultures would've met a cannon and defending dragoons anyway.
Daezang's teammates unable to suppress their smiles after he intercepts the dropship
After the tragic lost of the dropship, really's next move was to pilot some vultures into the centre of the map, perhaps to scout, plant some mines, or harass some expoes -- whatever it was we'll never know, cause daezang shut that down instantly as well. With 9 gates and arbiter tech coming, the outcome of the game was obvious to anyone. At this point of time, really had just completed his 3rd and 4th factories, was floating a CC to his min only, and still had no scanners.
Another dropship attempt by really fares better, netting an inconsequential amount of probes before cannons and some zealots clean up. A simultaneous drop at daezang's mineral only is seen and the dropship flees without dropping its payload. Daezang, opting to play safe, sits with his army a little outside the terran choke, while adding more gateways. He gets a bit sloppy with his drop defense though, and a tank drop at his new expansion at the 2 nat takes out a good number of probes, not that it really matters anymore. Daezang is probably maxed out, and is mining from 6 bases.
In preparation to take another base, really pushes slightly out of his nat with his rather small army of tanks, playing very carefully, sticking to the sides and mining and turreting up. Doesn't matter. Daezang charges in anyway and blankets a good half of really's army with storms.
Really's army actually does pretty well, and surprisingly takes out a good portion of daezang's army (probably suicided into mines), but with his army dead, he has no choice but to type out., concluding a great PvT on neo medusa with daezang showcasing some fantastic early game pressure that allowed his reaver to do so much damage (31 kills) that it basically won the game for him. And here's a pic to revisit really's anguish.
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Question of the Week
Does the earlier PX release bug you?
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