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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
Liquipedia .............................................. p13
- Boxer's Biography
- Guide to Guides
- Quickly! Hoodies!
- Iranian elections
- If only this came up before all those "Name my Dog" threads
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Vanilla icecream
Ingredients
1 cup milk
A pinch of salt
3/4 cups sugar
1 vanilla bean
5 egg yolks
2 cup whipping cream
A few drops of vanilla extract
1. Heat the milk, salt, and sugar in a saucepan. Split the vanilla bean lengthwise and scrape the seeds into the milk with the tip of a paring knife.
2. Stir together the egg yolks in a bowl and gradually add some of the warmed milk, stirring constantly as you pour. Pour the warmed yolks back into the saucepan.
3. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly and scraping the bottom with a heat-resistant spatula until the custard thickens enough to coat the spatula. Strain the custard into the heavy cream. Chill thoroughly.
4 (most important)
For those without icecream makers, find a shallow pan (one you would use for brownies or the like). Empty the mixture into that, then put it in the freezer. Check it after like 30-40 minutes. As the edges start to freeze, stir it alot and put back into the freezer. Repeat this multiple times checking every 30ish minutes. Eventually you should have some vanilla icecream woot. You can also change the flavouring in your ingredient stage.
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We Made Fox Park SeoJeong Special:
Notes: I've been after a shoot with Pure for a while now. Mind and Nada were my initial choices for photoshoots with the We Made Fox team, but I finally got round to working with him yesterday. His photos were definitely not a disappointment to me.
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from this Facebook thread
from here
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The Shit Bus
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- Unfortunately Racenilatr, I have to vote not really
- Unfortunately ItsYoungLee, I have to vote for the Back to the Future car
- Grobyc causes nerdrage
- Good thing it isn't fastest AttackZerg
- Don't worry SilverSkyLark, it'll blow over
- Haha
- Don't worry LuckyFool, it'll blow over
- Condolences from all of us ShoCkeyy
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Elite101 was just banned by FakeSteve[TPR].
That account was created on 2009-06-09 02:43:05 and had 0 posts.
Reason: this is a personal message from fakesteve to the robotics team guy that knows a guy who knows me over the internet
whats up robotics team guy? i see your username is elite101, and i can only assume this means you think you're better than me. heads-up, a revelation is coming your way like a meteorite: no one is better than me
you see, in the grand scheme of things, there are superspecimens that define where the race will proceed over the next few centuries. i am one such specimen. you, unfortunately, are a sack of meat that will inevitably end up replacing the organs in my body once I become old and frail. at some point in your adult life, they will take you. men of three eyes and a single inch-thick strand of vivid red hair. they are the harvesters and they will preserve your entrails so that i may provide this world ever more shining wisdom well into my centennial and beyond
this is a pretty big secret so please dont tell anyone but since you know a guy i know i figured its the least i could do
dont drink too much, my liver is in bad shape
That account was created on 2009-06-09 02:43:05 and had 0 posts.
Reason: this is a personal message from fakesteve to the robotics team guy that knows a guy who knows me over the internet
whats up robotics team guy? i see your username is elite101, and i can only assume this means you think you're better than me. heads-up, a revelation is coming your way like a meteorite: no one is better than me
you see, in the grand scheme of things, there are superspecimens that define where the race will proceed over the next few centuries. i am one such specimen. you, unfortunately, are a sack of meat that will inevitably end up replacing the organs in my body once I become old and frail. at some point in your adult life, they will take you. men of three eyes and a single inch-thick strand of vivid red hair. they are the harvesters and they will preserve your entrails so that i may provide this world ever more shining wisdom well into my centennial and beyond
this is a pretty big secret so please dont tell anyone but since you know a guy i know i figured its the least i could do
dont drink too much, my liver is in bad shape
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+ Show Spoiler [Fantasy vs Jangbi] +
http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/games/12348_fantasy_vs_JangBi
Because I'm still having exams, this is going to be a less detailed one than usual. The game starts on gods garden with fantasy in the top right position vs jangbi in the top left. According to my recent chat with konadora, both players seem to have been playing like crap recently, and with both of them on my fantasy proleague team, that really sucks for me. So anyway, on to the game.
jangbi opens with a build that i used to do on LT. pylon in main near his cliff and proxy a gateway just outside his ramp with power provided by the gateway in his main. for some reason, fantasy decides to do the same thing with a rax at his nat. i haven't played much gods garden myself, so i suppose he's either going to get aggressive with rines early, or maybe wall below his ramp?
seems to be a wall as fantasy also starts factory below his ramp. however, he lifts off his rax, possibly to let his rine in, and jangbi pylons the spot, preventing fantasy from relanding his rax in the irght spot. with proxied zealots on the way, fantasy would have to rely on his micro to defend. after losing some early rines and a couple of SCVs, fantasy's vulture is out, and he finishes the remaining zealot.
after the initial action, the game slows down a little as both players tech up, with jangib getting goon range and robotics facility, and fantasy getting an addon to his factory while scouting jangbi, and probably looking to take an expansion soon. the action picks up once again as jangbi leaves his ramp unguarded and fantasy sneaks his vulture into jangbi's main, picking up multiple probe kills and scouting jangbi's robotics support bay before dying.
with his expansion complete in the safety of his back nat, fantasy starts a second factory and a starport, looking to defend the reaver with a quick wraith, and then abusing the cliff overlooking the 2nd nat with dropped tanks. however, instead of dropping his reaver and harassing mineral lines, jangbi instead opts to try a break with his reaver, engaging fantasy's 3 tank 3 vulture with 3 goon 1 reaver and 1 zeal. with some good reaver micro and zealot mine dragging, jangbi manages to destroy fantasy's factory below the ramp (forcing fantasy to cancel siege mode), but when he later tries to get up the ramp, he loses all his units to mines and fantasy's 2 defending tanks.
during the lull after the attack, fantasy adds 3 more factories for a total of 4, and takes his outside nat, while jangbi with his nat just warped in, gets another reaver and takes his back nat. with his 2nd reaver, jangbi once again tries to break the terran defense. despite not having siege mode, fantasy defends the attack, microing his vultures to plant mines beside the goons that were busy engaging the tanks.
having failed to break the terran defense, jangbi saves his reaver, and flies into fantasy's defenseless main and proceeds to kill some SCVs before fantasy can get his forces together. insignificant scv losses, and jangbi soon retreats, but not before ferrying a goon to fantasy's cliff and being annoying.
fantasy decides to take the fight to jangbi's nat, sending a team of 5 vultures to harass his nat. jangbi retreats his probes in time though, and with a reaver on his ramp, and new goons from his gateways, clears the harassing vultures. in th emeantime, jangbi responds with a drop of his own, netting a number of SCVs with his freshly upgraded shuttle speed.
undeterred by his first failed attempt, fantasy sends another 3 vultures to jangbi's nat, this time killing 3 probes due to jangbi's decision to attack with them. not letting up on the harass, fantasy flies a dropship across the map to jangbi's cliff, but jangbi catches it mid flight and kills the drop. it seems jangbi is pretty far ahead now, with arbiter tech coming and having stopped all of fantasy's attacks, however fantasy has had 3 base for a longer period of time.
with a 4th base at top left warping in, jangbi does a speed shuttle 2 reaver drop at fantasy's 2nd nat, but with 2 tanks defending, it ends in disaster for jangbi who loses his shuttle and a reaver. after defending the push, fantasy moves out with a small vulture force, engaging jangbi's goons holding the position outside his nat. this party of vultures takes out the dragoons, and catch a portion of the probes maynarding to the top left, taking them out.
more harass attempts at the top left are stopped by jangbi, and fantasy eventually turns his sights to jangbi's 2nd nat, where both players joustle for position with ferried zealots and dragoons and tanks and vultures. fantasy eventually wins the battle, but it is shortlived as jangbi promptly cleans up fantasy's remaining units.
in the meantime, fantasy has built up a pretty big army of tanks, and pushes out with a vessel, and about 1.5 groups of vult/gol and another 1.5 groups of tanks. with fantasy pushing very carefully with a lot of mines, and leapfrogging his tanks between the centre doodads, jangbi is unable to engage the push, and instead opts for a counter. poor choice, as fantasy has anticipated the counter and is well prepared with 4 tanks on his cliff. after forcing fantasy to lift off his nat and doing minor damage, he retreats with a severely depleted army.
in the meantime, fantasy has destroyed jangbi's nat and is shelling at the gateways in his main, being very careful with his tanks, and making sure not to commit silly mistakes and lose his tanks. jangbi tries to add gates at his top left base and rebuild his army, but fantasy's brand new army rolls out with +2 weapons upgraded. with his arbiters constantly getting emped, and unable to build up energy, his hope is quickly dwindling. fantasy simply groups up his army with tanks from his first army, attacks, and prompts the GG from jangbi.
Because I'm still having exams, this is going to be a less detailed one than usual. The game starts on gods garden with fantasy in the top right position vs jangbi in the top left. According to my recent chat with konadora, both players seem to have been playing like crap recently, and with both of them on my fantasy proleague team, that really sucks for me. So anyway, on to the game.
jangbi opens with a build that i used to do on LT. pylon in main near his cliff and proxy a gateway just outside his ramp with power provided by the gateway in his main. for some reason, fantasy decides to do the same thing with a rax at his nat. i haven't played much gods garden myself, so i suppose he's either going to get aggressive with rines early, or maybe wall below his ramp?
seems to be a wall as fantasy also starts factory below his ramp. however, he lifts off his rax, possibly to let his rine in, and jangbi pylons the spot, preventing fantasy from relanding his rax in the irght spot. with proxied zealots on the way, fantasy would have to rely on his micro to defend. after losing some early rines and a couple of SCVs, fantasy's vulture is out, and he finishes the remaining zealot.
after the initial action, the game slows down a little as both players tech up, with jangib getting goon range and robotics facility, and fantasy getting an addon to his factory while scouting jangbi, and probably looking to take an expansion soon. the action picks up once again as jangbi leaves his ramp unguarded and fantasy sneaks his vulture into jangbi's main, picking up multiple probe kills and scouting jangbi's robotics support bay before dying.
with his expansion complete in the safety of his back nat, fantasy starts a second factory and a starport, looking to defend the reaver with a quick wraith, and then abusing the cliff overlooking the 2nd nat with dropped tanks. however, instead of dropping his reaver and harassing mineral lines, jangbi instead opts to try a break with his reaver, engaging fantasy's 3 tank 3 vulture with 3 goon 1 reaver and 1 zeal. with some good reaver micro and zealot mine dragging, jangbi manages to destroy fantasy's factory below the ramp (forcing fantasy to cancel siege mode), but when he later tries to get up the ramp, he loses all his units to mines and fantasy's 2 defending tanks.
during the lull after the attack, fantasy adds 3 more factories for a total of 4, and takes his outside nat, while jangbi with his nat just warped in, gets another reaver and takes his back nat. with his 2nd reaver, jangbi once again tries to break the terran defense. despite not having siege mode, fantasy defends the attack, microing his vultures to plant mines beside the goons that were busy engaging the tanks.
having failed to break the terran defense, jangbi saves his reaver, and flies into fantasy's defenseless main and proceeds to kill some SCVs before fantasy can get his forces together. insignificant scv losses, and jangbi soon retreats, but not before ferrying a goon to fantasy's cliff and being annoying.
fantasy decides to take the fight to jangbi's nat, sending a team of 5 vultures to harass his nat. jangbi retreats his probes in time though, and with a reaver on his ramp, and new goons from his gateways, clears the harassing vultures. in th emeantime, jangbi responds with a drop of his own, netting a number of SCVs with his freshly upgraded shuttle speed.
undeterred by his first failed attempt, fantasy sends another 3 vultures to jangbi's nat, this time killing 3 probes due to jangbi's decision to attack with them. not letting up on the harass, fantasy flies a dropship across the map to jangbi's cliff, but jangbi catches it mid flight and kills the drop. it seems jangbi is pretty far ahead now, with arbiter tech coming and having stopped all of fantasy's attacks, however fantasy has had 3 base for a longer period of time.
with a 4th base at top left warping in, jangbi does a speed shuttle 2 reaver drop at fantasy's 2nd nat, but with 2 tanks defending, it ends in disaster for jangbi who loses his shuttle and a reaver. after defending the push, fantasy moves out with a small vulture force, engaging jangbi's goons holding the position outside his nat. this party of vultures takes out the dragoons, and catch a portion of the probes maynarding to the top left, taking them out.
more harass attempts at the top left are stopped by jangbi, and fantasy eventually turns his sights to jangbi's 2nd nat, where both players joustle for position with ferried zealots and dragoons and tanks and vultures. fantasy eventually wins the battle, but it is shortlived as jangbi promptly cleans up fantasy's remaining units.
in the meantime, fantasy has built up a pretty big army of tanks, and pushes out with a vessel, and about 1.5 groups of vult/gol and another 1.5 groups of tanks. with fantasy pushing very carefully with a lot of mines, and leapfrogging his tanks between the centre doodads, jangbi is unable to engage the push, and instead opts for a counter. poor choice, as fantasy has anticipated the counter and is well prepared with 4 tanks on his cliff. after forcing fantasy to lift off his nat and doing minor damage, he retreats with a severely depleted army.
in the meantime, fantasy has destroyed jangbi's nat and is shelling at the gateways in his main, being very careful with his tanks, and making sure not to commit silly mistakes and lose his tanks. jangbi tries to add gates at his top left base and rebuild his army, but fantasy's brand new army rolls out with +2 weapons upgraded. with his arbiters constantly getting emped, and unable to build up energy, his hope is quickly dwindling. fantasy simply groups up his army with tanks from his first army, attacks, and prompts the GG from jangbi.
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