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Dear Readers,
Sorry about the lack of PX lately! Shockeyy has been slowed down due to some family things and I have been dying at school. PX shall now, once again become weekly!
Wow there's a lot to catch up on. Hopefully I didn't miss a thread that has been awesome sometime within the last 3 weeks.
Moo
- Kau
Staff
Kau – Editor
Bloodyc0bbler – The Stove
Nyovne – IRC Comments
Grobyc – Ban of the Week
LordWeird – Interview
meeple – Troll Booth/Shit Bus
Thunk – Chalk talk
MystLord – VOD of the Week
Scaramanga – VOD of the Week
Table of Contents
Serious Business and Funsies ................ p1
The Stove .............................................. p2
Chalk Talk ............................................. p3
Semi-Funny IRC Comment of the Week ... p4
Random Image of the Week .................... p5
Troll Booth Willie .................................... p6
The Shit Bus .......................................... p6
Best of Blogs ......................................... p7
Ban of the Week .................................... p8
Vod of the Week .................................... p9
Interview ................................................ p10
- Talk to future you
- Martial Arts
- Why did you choose your ID?
- Collateral Murder
- Human Unicorn
- Bad News for Poland
- Corruption in Kyrgyzstan
- Earthquakes
- More Earthquakes
- mOnion the comedian
- Happy belated birthday evan
- April Fools!
- Blizzard's April Fools
- Happy Birthday Carnac
- New Picture by Glider
- Starcraft + Life Stories
- Tickets you got?
- Legends of Starcraft
- Is this why Bisu is Losing?
- And is Savior really sick?
- And is Jaedong really injured?
- Or all they all a part of this?!
- Another MDT special
- Karaoke
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p2
- Posting in Strategy does not make you better. Practice makes perfect!
- Dodging Scrabs! Thank mmp for this cool guide.
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[17:38] <CSheep> jathin
[17:38] <Jathin> which is really WTFtastic
[17:38] <CSheep> why did you link to cartoon porn
[17:38] <CSheep> ?
[17:38] <FragKrag> lol
[17:39] <Jathin> supsup
[17:39] <Jathin> because you never know when shit like this is gonna become the next big thing
[17:39] <Jathin> if no one ever sent me 2 girls 1 cup on IRC
[17:39] <Jathin> I would've neve rbeen able to say "old"
[17:39] <Bento> jathin is a visionaire
[17:39] <CSheep> ill keep that in mind
[17:39] <Bento> oh what the hell
[17:39] <CSheep> next time someone tries to link me that flash
[17:39] <Jathin> a real chavez
[17:39] <Jathin> you need to expand your horizons. you never know when weird shit like this comes up in conversations at cocktail parties
[17:40] <CSheep> please invite me to these cocktail parties
[17:40] <Jathin> I had an opportunity to make fun of a chick in my undergrad who had cancer to a prof the other day
[17:40] <Jathin> and he slapped me high five
[17:40] <Jathin> that shit opens doors man
[17:40] * [BS]Elaeli has quit (Ping timeout)
[17:40] <Jathin> my career is set
[17:40] <CSheep> at itnerview
[17:40] <CSheep> hey remember me
[17:40] <CSheep> we slapped 5s
[17:40] <CSheep> about that cancer chick!
[17:40] <Jathin> naw
[17:41] <Jathin> the dude went to med school at my institution, and I did a little research
[17:41] <Jathin> his name is Bob Dudas
[17:41] <Jathin> and he was called "Do-Bob" by his elders
[17:41] * Raziel3p has quit (Ping timeout)
[17:41] <FragKrag> LOL
[17:41] <Jathin> because he was the med student who did all the scut work that no one else wanted to
[17:41] <Jathin> so I was like, "so...tell me about Do-Bob"
[17:41] <Jathin> and he was like HOLY SHIT THAT WAS 30 YEARS AGO
[17:41] <Jathin> HOW DID YOU FIND OUT ABOUT THAT
[17:41] <Jathin> I got my ways, Do-bob. I got my ways.
[17:41] <Jathin> hahaha
[17:42] <GG-zeeone> lol
[17:42] <CSheep> lol
[06:13] <@HotBid> instead of xx becomes a progamer they should have
[06:13] <@HotBid> progamers tryign to be other stuff
[06:13] <@HotBid> like flash becomes a data entry typist
[12:16] <Hurricane|> she was all up in your cockpit
[12:16] <mahnini> you were all up in here cockpit
[12:16] <mahnini> also her
[12:16] <SayaSP> mahnini win
[12:16] <Hurricane|> that doesn't make sense mahnini
[12:16] <SayaSP> no
[12:17] <SayaSP> you are the idiot Hurricane|
[12:17] <Hurricane|> what
[12:17] <FragKrag> idort
[12:17] <Hurricane|> =[
[12:17] <SayaSP> YOU ARE THE IDIOT
[12:17] <SayaSP> YOU ARE THE WEAKEST LINK
[12:17] <FragKrag> idort
[12:17] <SayaSP> GOOD BYE
[12:17] <Hurricane|> how does a woman have a cock pit
[12:17] <FragKrag> where else would you put a cock in
[12:17] <Hurricane|> hrm
[12:17] <Hurricane|> good point
[12:17] <Hurricane|> =[
[12:17] <Hurricane|> haha point
[12:17] <FragKrag>
[12:17] <mahnini> hahaha
[12:18] <SayaSP> ............
[12:18] <SayaSP> wow
[12:18] <Hurricane|> I get it now
[12:18] <Hurricane|> sorry
[12:18] <SayaSP> that convo went so well
[21:37] <@R1CH> wow
[21:37] <@R1CH> fuck you godaddy
[21:37] <@R1CH> i apply a 10% off coupon and the price goes up
[08:33] <@Hurricane|> omgomgogmogmgogmgomgomgomg
[08:33] <@Hurricane|> can ultras burrow?
[08:33] <@Nyovne> yes
[08:33] <@Nyovne> LOL
[08:33] <@Hurricane|> sick
[08:33] <@Nyovne> they dig a hole like 40 meters wide
[08:33] <@Nyovne> it functions as a pittrap for thors and shit
[08:34] <@Nyovne> what you do is
[08:34] <@Nyovne> burrow ultras
[08:34] <@Nyovne> then creep over it
[08:34] <@Nyovne> so collossi
[08:34] <@Nyovne> fall in it
[08:34] <@Nyovne> and die
[08:34] <@Hurricane|> motbob
[08:34] <@Hurricane|> next time we 2v2
[08:34] <@Hurricane|> can we please turtle till i can burrow ultras in a guys base?
[08:34] <@Hurricane|> plzzzzzzzz
[08:34] <@motbob> so you're going to run ultras into someone's base and then burrow?
[08:34] <@motbob> kind of pointless imo
[08:34] <@Nyovne> pretty much
[08:34] <@Nyovne> knowing hurricane
[08:34] <@Hurricane|> yes
[08:34] <@Hurricane|> no
[08:34] <@Hurricane|> burrow right at the fact
[08:34] <@Hurricane|> so shit pops out
[08:34] <@Hurricane|> and dies
[08:34] <@Hurricane|> and we go LOLOLOLOLOL
[08:34] <@Hurricane|> then you kill them
[08:34] <@Nyovne> lmao
[08:34] <@Hurricane|> EZ game
[08:34] <@motbob> dude
[08:34] <@motbob> i swear
[08:34] <@motbob> nyovne
[08:34] <@motbob> is lying
[08:34] <@Hurricane|> I don't care
[08:35] <@motbob> why are you believing this
[08:35] <@motbob> "thors fall into burrowed ultra holes" wtf is this shit
[08:35] <@Hurricane|> DON'T CRUSH MY DREAMS
@intrigue_> hey if i skip classes
@intrigue_> but watch documentaries
@intrigue_> i'm still getting an education amirite
@Kennigit> yes
@Darkzler> yes
@HydroXy> yes
@Kennigit> wow
@intrigue_> wow
@intrigue_> 3/3
[09:29.22] <xbayrockx> listen you fuckers
[09:29.26] <xbayrockx> i will be australias best sc2 player
[09:29.32] <xbayrockx> and take all your prize money
[09:29.37] <Smileychan> you spelled "only" wrong
LOL Pholon talking to a spam bot on MSN:
Yolanda zegt:
What color Panties do you think i should wear? i might have you favorite color here somewhere...
Vincent zegt:
Blue
No yel--- AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Yum!
+ Show Spoiler [Huge image balanced on sonuvbob'…] +
from here
from this
Thanks Trozz!
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Congrats Nony... first post in the thread and wham it's derailed
Of all the reasons that I thought this thread would be closed... this is near the bottom of the list
This is just rife with wise-cracking and pissing contests... and it all comes to a $5,000 grudge match... if only all life was so sweet
So... these definitely aren't new, and aren't trolls... and in fact should probably be part of the "blast from the past" section... but perhaps many still haven't seen them and they definitely merit some mention. I never thought that I would know so much about Day[9]'s sexual adventures.
Ahaha wicker baskets
It is what it is...
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- MrHoon Comic!
- Congrats proxi.swami
- SC2 BR
- Be a nice guy!
- Photography
- How to Make a Graph
- Hope your parents are continuing to recover!
- Keeping track of closed threads
- Progamer rep packs!
- Who new a first blog could get so many replies
- Australia doesn't have poptarts
- Konadora hit by car! Heal up quick!
- Why America Sucks
- Congrats manitou
- Getting arrested
- Chatroulette and pianos
- Rumour Mill
- Rekrul was wrong
- 125k job?
- Top 10 movies in the past 10 years?
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youbuymykey was just banned by Chill.
That account was created on 2010-03-26 11:06:20 and had 0 posts.
Reason: omg kid im so fast holy shit
That account was created on 2010-03-26 11:06:20 and had 0 posts.
Reason: omg kid im so fast holy shit
ImBackSuckas was just banned by Chill.
That account was created on 2005-05-28 17:43:07 and had 7 posts.
Reason: Making an ID "ImBackSuckas" and "Banned2x" and "Banned3x" is doing me a great favour. Thanks.
That account was created on 2005-05-28 17:43:07 and had 7 posts.
Reason: Making an ID "ImBackSuckas" and "Banned2x" and "Banned3x" is doing me a great favour. Thanks.
BallKicker was just banned by EvilTeletubby.
That account was created on 2009-12-20 10:40:57 and had 84 posts.
Reason: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=118312
LOL.
That account was created on 2009-12-20 10:40:57 and had 84 posts.
Reason: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=118312
LOL.
must read^
xAviOr was just banned by Kennigit.
That account was created on 2010-02-24 13:21:11 and had 8 posts.
Reason: And just like that, he was gone
That account was created on 2010-02-24 13:21:11 and had 8 posts.
Reason: And just like that, he was gone
jAeHoOn10 was just banned by EvilTeletubby.
That account was created on 2010-02-10 16:32:00 and had 3 posts.
Reason:
That account was created on 2010-02-10 16:32:00 and had 3 posts.
Reason:
Perimeter was just banned by Plexa.
That account was created on 2010-02-25 08:20:28 and had 6 posts.
Reason:
http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/Plexa/sc2_reps/20100406_200011.sc2replay
lol gnope
That account was created on 2010-02-25 08:20:28 and had 6 posts.
Reason:
http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/Plexa/sc2_reps/20100406_200011.sc2replay
lol gnope
ShawnWilkesBooth was just temp banned for 1 week by Plexa.
That account was created on 2009-04-05 01:08:43 and had 11 posts.
Reason:
You're banned
That account was created on 2009-04-05 01:08:43 and had 11 posts.
Reason:
You're banned
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+ Show Spoiler [Mystlord's Recommended Game] +
Well I was going to recommend a game from KT vs STX from April 13th, but well, no VODs for those are up yet, so here's the next best thing recently – a TvT from the Winner's League finals, Flash vs Sea on Neo Moon Glaive.
And thus the game begins with Flash landing his Orange Command Center at 12,
and Sea landing his red Command Center at 7.
Both players go for the standard 12 Rax/12 Refinery, and getting their factory with their first 100 gas.
Sea loses his scout SCV, with not too much information gained, but feels confident enough to place his CC at the natural despite not getting too much information.
Flash opts to start his Command Center above the cliff, which means his expo will be slightly slower, but it shouldn't matter too much.
Sea scouts with his Rax, seeing both that Flash has a Tank and that he is building a CC to take his natural.
Meantime though, Flash gets a rather large force of Rine/Tank/Vult, and begins to push towards Sea's base. However, Sea has the crucial SCV outside of Flash's base, and sees the push incoming, so Flash pulls back in case of a Vulture counter attack.
Flash decides to establish his sphere of influence, marking his territory early in the game. He uses Rines for mine clearing, while slowly pushing forward with his Tanks.
However, Sea favoring mass Vultures, charges into Flash's Tank line, and absolutely decimates Flash's paltry force since Flash had about half of his Tanks lagging behind his forward advance force.
Sea, sensing a moment of weakness, then charges into Flash's natural with his Vultures, getting some SCVs and delaying mining. However, Sea did lose all of his Vultures in that attack, though he continues to push up with his forces, being rather aggressive.
Meanwhile though, Flash ignores all that and decides to take his third, starting his CC much faster than Sea, and even finishing it before Sea starts his third CC.
Unfortunately Sea made a tactical error when he decided to continue to apply pressure and add factories after he lost his Vultures. As a result he gets pressured by Flash's superior Tank numbers, losing a lot of Tanks as he scrambles to get his defense together.
Sea then tries to harass with Vultures at Flash's third, and Flash accidentally wanders a lot of units right into Mines!
And the MBC bench goes wild!
A few minutes later, he does it again!
And they go wild again!
At this point Sea is looking pretty good, having harassed successfully with his Vultures while maintaining his economy at a steady rate. He is also able to get his fourth up before Flash starts his thanks to his successful Vulture harass and Mines.
Sea also tries to push up the right side with a small force, probably trying to get his Tanks in a position to hit Flash's Factories from the middle, but is stopped by Flash's Tank force.
Now Flash has macroed up a rather large force, and is threatening a push into Sea's territories. Thanks to Moon Glaive's map positionalimbalance layout, Sea is forced to place Tanks inside his main, decreasing his Tank army by three Tanks, which is pretty big.
Looking at the minimap, Sea has his forces rather spread out for whatever reason, and soon Flash pushes with his extremely large Tank force into Sea's eastern position, which gets crushed immediately. Sea is now in a precarious situation as his army is looking small compared to Flash's massive Tank ball.
Now Flash, recognizing the superiority of his forces, decides to fight to control the key resource node on this map – the 4 o'clock expansion.
Control of the unoccupied main bases almost always ends up being game breaking because it's usually the last untapped reservoir of gas left on the map after every other expansion has been taken. In any case, Sea is able to push back Flash's dropped forces at 4, though he's now fallen behind on upgrades.
Once again, thanks to Moon Glaive's positionalimbalance layout, Sea has had to spend a stupid amount of resources on defense in his main, which is hurting him as he tries to grab more bases. Flash doesn't have this limitation.
And now Flash pushes to take advantage of Sea's separated forces. Sea has forces at 4 and his main, so naturally his main ball is smaller than Flash's. Flash takes advantage of this situation by pushing in and absolutely crushing Sea's main ball.
At this point, Sea is in a very desperate situation as his bases at the bottom of the map are severely threatened. Sea is forced to pull SCVs to defend, but even that isn't able to do much good, and he ends up losing all of his SCVs at one of his bottom bases, setting back his economy big time.
Sea is finally able to bring his forces to bear and crush Flash's push.
But now Flash has a very comfortable lead as his two bases at top right kick in, and his economic advantage takes off. Flash presses the advantage by threatening an attack at multiple locations, though now he seems content to try and prevent Sea from taking control of 4 natural.
Suddenly Flash brings his forces to bear on 4 main, and he crushes Sea's forces there.
Sea is forced to tap out.
Bad for Sea that he ended up getting hit by the positional er... wackiness of the map. However, that was well played by Flash, taking advantage of the fact that Sea's forces were spread throughout the map in small pockets. Flash hit hard and strong with a giant Tank ball, absolutely crushing any resistance from Sea, and gaining a huge economic advantage as he took out the SCVs at 6 while grabbing both bases at top right. Sea could have gotten back into that game, but he lost so many units to Flash's concentrated attacks that he couldn't build back up to an economic and army parity. GG.
And thus the game begins with Flash landing his Orange Command Center at 12,
and Sea landing his red Command Center at 7.
Both players go for the standard 12 Rax/12 Refinery, and getting their factory with their first 100 gas.
Sea loses his scout SCV, with not too much information gained, but feels confident enough to place his CC at the natural despite not getting too much information.
Flash opts to start his Command Center above the cliff, which means his expo will be slightly slower, but it shouldn't matter too much.
Sea scouts with his Rax, seeing both that Flash has a Tank and that he is building a CC to take his natural.
Meantime though, Flash gets a rather large force of Rine/Tank/Vult, and begins to push towards Sea's base. However, Sea has the crucial SCV outside of Flash's base, and sees the push incoming, so Flash pulls back in case of a Vulture counter attack.
Flash decides to establish his sphere of influence, marking his territory early in the game. He uses Rines for mine clearing, while slowly pushing forward with his Tanks.
However, Sea favoring mass Vultures, charges into Flash's Tank line, and absolutely decimates Flash's paltry force since Flash had about half of his Tanks lagging behind his forward advance force.
Sea, sensing a moment of weakness, then charges into Flash's natural with his Vultures, getting some SCVs and delaying mining. However, Sea did lose all of his Vultures in that attack, though he continues to push up with his forces, being rather aggressive.
Mine went off
Meanwhile though, Flash ignores all that and decides to take his third, starting his CC much faster than Sea, and even finishing it before Sea starts his third CC.
Unfortunately Sea made a tactical error when he decided to continue to apply pressure and add factories after he lost his Vultures. As a result he gets pressured by Flash's superior Tank numbers, losing a lot of Tanks as he scrambles to get his defense together.
Sea then tries to harass with Vultures at Flash's third, and Flash accidentally wanders a lot of units right into Mines!
And the MBC bench goes wild!
A few minutes later, he does it again!
And they go wild again!
At this point Sea is looking pretty good, having harassed successfully with his Vultures while maintaining his economy at a steady rate. He is also able to get his fourth up before Flash starts his thanks to his successful Vulture harass and Mines.
Sea also tries to push up the right side with a small force, probably trying to get his Tanks in a position to hit Flash's Factories from the middle, but is stopped by Flash's Tank force.
Now Flash has macroed up a rather large force, and is threatening a push into Sea's territories. Thanks to Moon Glaive's map positional
Looking at the minimap, Sea has his forces rather spread out for whatever reason, and soon Flash pushes with his extremely large Tank force into Sea's eastern position, which gets crushed immediately. Sea is now in a precarious situation as his army is looking small compared to Flash's massive Tank ball.
Now Flash, recognizing the superiority of his forces, decides to fight to control the key resource node on this map – the 4 o'clock expansion.
Control of the unoccupied main bases almost always ends up being game breaking because it's usually the last untapped reservoir of gas left on the map after every other expansion has been taken. In any case, Sea is able to push back Flash's dropped forces at 4, though he's now fallen behind on upgrades.
Once again, thanks to Moon Glaive's positional
And now Flash pushes to take advantage of Sea's separated forces. Sea has forces at 4 and his main, so naturally his main ball is smaller than Flash's. Flash takes advantage of this situation by pushing in and absolutely crushing Sea's main ball.
At this point, Sea is in a very desperate situation as his bases at the bottom of the map are severely threatened. Sea is forced to pull SCVs to defend, but even that isn't able to do much good, and he ends up losing all of his SCVs at one of his bottom bases, setting back his economy big time.
Sea is finally able to bring his forces to bear and crush Flash's push.
But now Flash has a very comfortable lead as his two bases at top right kick in, and his economic advantage takes off. Flash presses the advantage by threatening an attack at multiple locations, though now he seems content to try and prevent Sea from taking control of 4 natural.
Suddenly Flash brings his forces to bear on 4 main, and he crushes Sea's forces there.
Sea is forced to tap out.
Bad for Sea that he ended up getting hit by the positional er... wackiness of the map. However, that was well played by Flash, taking advantage of the fact that Sea's forces were spread throughout the map in small pockets. Flash hit hard and strong with a giant Tank ball, absolutely crushing any resistance from Sea, and gaining a huge economic advantage as he took out the SCVs at 6 while grabbing both bases at top right. Sea could have gotten back into that game, but he lost so many units to Flash's concentrated attacks that he couldn't build back up to an economic and army parity. GG.
+ Show Spoiler [Scaramanga's Recommended Games] +
Hi guys, since its been a few weeks since the last Pony Express I'll recommend three games
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Question of the Week
How are you taking this throwing games scandal?