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Titty Warlord
Apr 28, 2013
totalbiscuit speaks on the state of starcraft

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Putty
Mar 21, 2013

HOOKED ON THE BROTHERS































The Taint Reaper
Sep 4, 2012

by Shine
Red Bull gives you cancer.

Dick Spacious CPA
Oct 10, 2012

does he still have butt cancer?

The Taint Reaper
Sep 4, 2012

by Shine
Blizzard's only saving grace at this point is Diablo 3 and things not Satcraft and Warcraft.

Grakdesh
Jul 21, 2005

High-functioning otaku.

Titty Warlord posted:

totalbiscuit speaks on the state of starcraft



Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
well I guess his current facial hair makes him look better than that one pic everyone posts that he hates

Titty Warlord
Apr 28, 2013

Dick Spacious CPA posted:

does he still have butt cancer?

SIDS Vicious
Jan 1, 1970


whose total biscuit

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
he posted a lot in games/let's play in like 2008 and somehow he became a youtube celebrity

Wormskull
Aug 23, 2009

Oil Can Boyd posted:

whose total biscuit

The Cynical Brit.

SIDS Vicious
Jan 1, 1970


Silver Alicorn posted:

he posted a lot in games/let's play in like 2008 and somehow he became a youtube celebrity

thats very sad youtube celebrities for playing video games is really stupid

Wormskull
Aug 23, 2009

Oil Can Boyd posted:

thats very sad youtube celebrities for playing video games is really stupid

Cram it you poser rear end "Gamer."

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
if I'd put more effort into let's play in 2008 i'd probably be a youtube celebrity too. now there's too many ppl doing it

LaTex Fetish
Oct 11, 2010

man this guy is a human being

quakster
Jul 21, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
i was watching a game theory vid and he described pewdiepie as an innovator and i can't. i just can't

The Taint Reaper
Sep 4, 2012

by Shine
Put sun glasses on him and he's a clone of Guy Fieri

The Taint Reaper
Sep 4, 2012

by Shine

quakster posted:

i was watching a game theory vid and he described pewdiepie as an innovator and i can't. i just can't

innovator is just a misused word for popular.

quakster
Jul 21, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

The Taint Reaper posted:

innovator is just a misused word for popular.
i know. but the fucker likes ayn rand. i just can't

Liquid Penguins
Feb 18, 2006

by Cowcaster
Grimey Drawer
bled out of rear end for year before talking to doctor
posts the next day on hot videogame controversy

Putty
Mar 21, 2013

HOOKED ON THE BROTHERS

The Taint Reaper posted:

Put sun glasses on him and he's a clone of Guy Fieri

not enough hair imo

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

Liquid Penguins posted:

bled out of rear end for year before talking to doctor
posts the next day on hot videogame controversy

that's just how long it takes to see a doctor on the NHS

Falsum
May 10, 2013

Crazy for the Bros
Isn't Starcraft pretty much dead nowadays, or at least a shadow of its Brood War days?

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
starcraft is dead compared to what is essentially an easier map mode for warcraft 3

Action Tortoise
Feb 18, 2012

A wolf howls.
I know how he feels.
OP you used the wrong thread tag

The Taint Reaper
Sep 4, 2012

by Shine

Falsum posted:

Isn't Starcraft pretty much dead nowadays, or at least a shadow of its Brood War days?

StarCraft II is dead, Wacraft has less subscribers than when TBC launched, Heroes of the Storm is garbage, heathstone is for people with Stockholm syndrome, and only Diablo 3 ROS is good.

it's a pretty sad state of affairs over there.

VideoGames
Aug 18, 2003
total biscuit needs to speak to a doctor about his rear end cancer. red bull gives you tumours

Doctor Goat
Jan 22, 2005

Where does it hurt?
starcraft 2 is free now and nobody wants to play it

i own heart of the swarm and i don't even want to

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
what happened, blizzard. :allears:

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

after playing the original starcraft 2 and hearing that the campaign was shorter and worse there was no way i was buying the expansion

program666
Aug 22, 2013

A giant carnivorous dinosaur
He is full on apologetic with CoD being the same poo poo all the loving time, and at the same time disregards Borderlands 2 for the same reason, except BL2 have some actual innovative gameplay. It's fairly obvious that he has a huge bias towards FPS, no problem there, I just wanted to watch a guy that actually focus on gameplay instead of just saying so, and that preferably is sick of FPSes in general to the point of blind hate.
Still my favorite thing on youtube.

sword_man.gif
Apr 12, 2007

Fun Shoe
this is tthe same man who made a r. butthurt video at the beginning of cataclysm about how it was too hard now and he was quittin because of it

lol

sword_man.gif
Apr 12, 2007

Fun Shoe
This is a repost from my rant forum on my site and since I'm interested only in it being read, rather than advertising or shilling it out for hits, I'm going to just repost it here. Before I do let me give you a quick introduction.

I finally registered on the SA forums a week or so ago having been a loyal reader for a couple of years. I don't like the new design of the site, I want to kill it with fire, I liked my good-old Web1.0 scrolly site, give it back please.

I'm posting this here because you lot are smart, and as such, I have no issues with you telling me that you think I'm wrong with this pseudo-rant. This may also be preaching to the choir a bit and for that I sincerely apologize. I hope at least you get some enjoyment out of this. If you're one of those fellows who likes to Digg, the article also has a Digg page, do with it as you see fit - http://digg.com/general_sciences/At...you_intelligent

With that said and done, here goes.

"It's novello time, and it's about religion, so unless you're ready to deal with some views you may not agree with, switch off now. In the words of Illidan "You are not prepared".

Let's get this out here right now. I'm a 23 year old law graduate with an IQ of 155. My political beliefs are liberal and leftist, I listen to Metal and I enjoy violent movies, books and videogames, and I've been a Christian since birth. Baptised, confirmed of my own free will, son of a priest (who are pretty notorious for rebelling against their father's religious beliefs just for the sake of it). I'm part of the Anglican Church of England, which is pretty much the result of Henry the 8th getting pissed off with the catholics not allowing him to divorce his wife(s). We're the state religion of the UK, if you could even say the UK has one, we're pretty liberal about most things, women priests, gay priests, homosexuals in general, sex before marriage, contraception, we take the modern, reasonable way of looking at all of them. At the end of the day, the Bible taught us about forgiveness and being excellent to one another. It had a bit of a round-about way of doing it but what do you expect for a 2000 year old book written entirely by clerical males? It's gonna be a bit out of date, you've gotta read it in context.

I have no problems with anyone's beliefs. Be whatever you want, as long as you believe (or don't believe) for a good reason. But here's what I really don't like, trend-atheism/trend-theism (also referred to as e-atheism, since it seems to be most prevelant in the domain of anonymous blogspammers and Digg-users).

In my late teens, I spent a long time thinking. Yeah, just sitting around and thinking, thinking about faith. Thinking about what it is that I believe in. Rationalizing the various conflicts and contradictions that faith presents us with, looking at the viewpoints of other faiths, or those with no faith at all, taking into account the new things we discover every day and factoring in the influence of science. Some people would claim that, if I had indeed done that, I'd have come to the conclusion, as an intellectual, rational thinker, that God does not exist. They would of course, be wrong.

My beliefs center around several factors. Firstly, it is important for us as human-beings to realize our own limits, and the limits of our understanding. Centuries ago we believed the world was flat. "The Bible told us so!", would be the first cry. Wrong, it really didn't. In the Old Testament, Job 26:7 explains that the earth is suspended in space, the obvious comparison being with the spherical sun and moon. The Old Testament, you remember that one? The one with the fiery bushes, the pillar's of salt, the cool plagues and such? Even that managed to get it right. There's a few more references as well to the 'round' earth (and before you say anything, flat is not a shape, it could have been a flat octagon for all they knew) but I'm not going to go into that yet. We've had computers for less than a century, powered flight for just over a century and of course our amazing horseless carriages. Genetics, electricity, nuclear-bombs, toaster-strudel, the world is in the palm of our hands! And it didn't take us too long did it?

Reality-check, we're still primitives. In the great scheme of things this technology is a mere blip on the historical radar. We've got an awful long way to go before we're able to dissect and understand the mysteries of the universe. We haven't even put a man on Mars yet, let alone left our solar system to find out what exactly is out there. How can it be that we have suddenly, so recently, become so arrogant as to believe we know more than we really do? The Laws of Science are written by man, based on our understanding of how things work. They are theories that, while prove true today, may be debunked by another amazing discovery tomorrow. Which leads onto my next point.

Name this quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Arthur C Clarke, physicist and author, smart fellow. It also hilights the point I'm making. Our understanding of the universe is peerless only amongst ourselves. We are not as smart as we think we are. Just as fire wowed the neanderthals, what would it take to wow us? What would make our jaws drop and our minds boggle? Well, any sufficiently advanced technology of course. And what is technology after-all? Man-made machines. The concept of technology is a human concept, a concept that may, in other parts of the universe, not even exist, replaced by something even more advanced than that, so advanced that we cannot comprehend it. Not surprising really as we mammals only use 10% of our brains.

So where am I going with this? Simple really, take yourself off of your high-horse, you, and the human race, is not as smart as it thinks it is. Now, open your mind a little, and let's explore some possibilities.



The definition of a God. Let us turn to the good book.

Wikipedia.

"God most commonly refers to the deity worshipped by followers of monotheistic and monolatrist religions, whom they believe to be the creator and ruler of the universe. Theologians have ascribed a variety of attributes to the various conceptions of God. The most common among these include omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, perfect goodness, divine simplicity, and eternal and necessary existence. God has also been conceived as being incorporeal, a personal being, the source of all moral obligation, and the "greatest conceivable existent"

Hmm, a tall order one might think. Could such a being exist? Some argue that logically, he could not, however, there is very little logic in denying the possibility that a being or beings of such power and advancement exist that they could indeed, be considered 'God' within our definition. That's not to say that God is a small green alien with a flying saucer and a phaser though that would give some of the overzealous fundamentalists something to sweat over, much to our amusement. But what is this God? A creator? Sure, we create. We create technology, we're getting to the stage of being able to create life in one form or another, using the basic building blocks of nature. Could it not be surmised therefore that it is entirely within the realms of possibility that someone or something created those building blocks? Like a programmer creates a new program, someone must have also created the coding language in which he created it. We scramble for answers. We come up with theories. Some believe in the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. Some believe a man in the sky created it everything in 6 days and then mooched around on the 7th. Which is valid?

Neither, and both. They attempt to apply meaning to something where meaning may, or may not exist. Creationism and the Big Bang are in that sense, as bad as each other. They are both merely attempts for us to explain the unexplainable. The Big Bang contradicts our laws of physics (something most catalyse an explosion, therefore something must have been there in the first place, where did that come from, at which point your brain melts). The Creation Story contradicts our laws of physics (Same reasons, who created God after all?). Everything we've so far managed to come up with, from the sublime to the ridiculous, the complex to the simplistic, it's an exercise in desperate straw-clutching. At the end of the day, we don't know jack.

And that's ok. Someone once said that the journey matters more than the destination, it's not the winning, it's the taking part, at least ya tried sport. These explanations of where it all comes from, be they ancient or modern all boil down to the same need. To know. Who'd have thunk it, we've got brains for a reason, and they rather like being used. Those neurons like to be fired, the little grey matter likes a little exercise every once in a while. Just as the Creation Story was a way to explain an unexplainable concept, so is the Big Bang theory. If one were to compare the human mind to a computer, try feeding the Big Bang theory to the medieval man, and it's like trying to shove Bioshock into a Commodore Vic20. Good luck. And what will our children's children's children's grandchildren's children think of our Big Bang theory? My money's on exactly the same thing.

So what am I trying to tell you, stop asking questions, stop looking for answers and just believe whatever the hell suits ya? Absolutely not. Believe whatever suits you, but question it, never stop thinking, never stop asking or learning. In this day and age it seems people are way too willing to believe, or not believe. Belief, or non-belief should be a life-long arduous process and it should end involuntarily, when you fall over dead. Someone (there's a lot of talkative someone's aren't there?) once said 'Never stop believing', I say, "Never stop asking yourself what you believe, and why".

It's time to criticize, so let me load port and starboard cannon and fire a volley at both atheists and theists alike. Believing, or not believing, does not make you intelligent. Smart people do not come to a conclusion on the basis of insubstantial evidence. Smart people do not mindlessly attack other people's beliefs just because they don't conform to their own. Smart people do not assume that their own rigid, poorly formed definitions of logic and faith, reason and belief are mutually exclusive and that if one exists, the other cannot. Smart people think outside the box, not pick fights with those poor souls trapped in it.

What makes you intelligent, is knowing why you believe what you believe. Knowing that you are but one mind, and knowing that at any time you could be proven wrong, only for that person to be proven wrong ad infinitum as we as a race advance.

I suppose you're waiting for my personal beliefs, waiting for this to be some kind of sermon, preaching why my God is better than your God, or non-God. You'll be waiting a long time, because it's not coming. My personal beliefs are just that, personal, they're mine, they belong to me. You cannot take them away from me, only I can. What I can give you though, are my opinions.

Right now shots are being fired. They're not physical shots, they're bullets and shells of ignorance and bigottry. And it's no one-sided battle let me tell you that much. Factionalized camps everywhere you can imagine. Atheists, Theists, Satanists, Christians, Republicans, Democrats, Capitalists, Communists, every group you can imagine, all shouting 'Your God/Non-God sucks, mine is better!'. These days, the internet's become their battleground. So much for sharing knowledge, we're sharing ignorance.

The bigottry and the condemnation has to stop. The sad thing is, I'm having to condemn the condemners. Isn't it lowsy how you generally have to be a hypocrite in order to make a point these days? Food for thought. We can look at the extremes and see the simplistic, secular vs sacred, trend-atheists vs fundamentalist evangelical christians, the most common stereotypes. But in reality, it's so much more complicated than that. It's this stereotyping and narrow-minded attitude that prevents us as a race from achieving the greatness we can. I could make as many decrees as I wanted till I was blue in the face, and I'm going to just to let off a little steam mind you,

"Trend-atheist Digg users, shove your agendas where the sun don't shine, refusing the possibility of a supreme-being does not make you a genius or a radical thinker, it makes you a bloody sheep hiding behind a cloak of anonymity"

"Evangelical Fundamentalist morons, get your overly simplistic, judgmental, dogmatic Crayola God out of my face, you have about as much understanding of the universe as a wet lettuce. That does not make you holy, pure, or guaranteed a private booth at the big game in the sky, it makes you a bloody sheep hiding behind a cloak of propaganda that you only believe because you're told to"

Wow, that feels good, I can understand why you internet-bound condemners like it so much. Gives you that warm, fuzzy feeling doesn't it? What, I'm not allowed to indulge in such a guilty pleasure every once in a while? Play fair Wink

Where's my conclusion? Hell if I know. Did you have the mistaken impression this was some carefully constructed plea for tolerance? Absolutely not, it's an angry slap in the face to my peers. Wake the hell up and use your brain, because my God/Non-god/Explosion/Man-in-the-sky/Vic20 gave you it for a reason.

TB.

Liquid Penguins
Feb 18, 2006

by Cowcaster
Grimey Drawer

Silver Alicorn posted:

what happened, blizzard. :allears:

no lan support

99% of my time with starcraft 1 was in a college dorm just loving around in battle royal games

while I attempted to play 2 online, and loved both single player campaigns, it just isn't what drew me to the franchise in the first place

The Taint Reaper
Sep 4, 2012

by Shine

Silver Alicorn posted:

what happened, blizzard. :allears:

Dota 2 happened.

They also let go the people who made their games fun.

Doctor Goat
Jan 22, 2005

Where does it hurt?
totalbiscuit butthurt? you don't say

Falsum
May 10, 2013

Crazy for the Bros

sword_man.gif posted:

this is tthe same man who made a r. butthurt video at the beginning of cataclysm about how it was too hard now and he was quittin because of it

lol

Didn't he go back to WoW later and then quit again because Blizzard made the game easier (even though apparently his guild was carrying him for the harder raids)

Doctor Goat
Jan 22, 2005

Where does it hurt?

Liquid Penguins posted:

no lan support

99% of my time with starcraft 1 was in a college dorm just loving around in battle royal games

while I attempted to play 2 online, and loved both single player campaigns, it just isn't what drew me to the franchise in the first place

this game is free now

there is NO REASON not to have lan support

it still doesn't

The Taint Reaper
Sep 4, 2012

by Shine

Falsum posted:

Didn't he go back to WoW later and then quit again because Blizzard made the game easier (even though apparently his guild was carrying him for the harder raids)

Blizzard didn't make wow easier, they just made it grindier to the point where there was no fun to be had.

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Falsum
May 10, 2013

Crazy for the Bros
Oh yeah obligatory TB link http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2634792

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