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Letter from the Editor
Dear Readers,
Special pull-out (not really, but if it were a newspaper...) section this week: Replays Time Forgot. Enjoy~
- Kau
Staff
Kau – Editor
Bloodyc0bbler – The Stove
Nyovne – IRC Comments
CharlieMurphy – Troll Booth Willie, The Shit Bus
NeverGG – Progamer Pics
Fontong – VOD of the Week
pangshai – Battle Report
Manifesto7 – Chalk talk, Memory Lane
Grobyc – Ban of the Week
Vayesh – Academy of ESPORTS
besiger – Replays Time Forgot
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
Academy of ESPORTS .......................... p12
Replays Time Forgot .............................. p13
- How to Stop a Robber
- Cheap Windows
- What Do You Think About Healthcare?
- For the Curious
- Careful of the German Security Council
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Double layer pumpkin cheesecake
INGREDIENTS (Nutrition)
* 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
* 1/2 cup white sugar
* 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
* 2 eggs
* 1 (9 inch) prepared graham cracker crust
* 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
* 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
* 1 pinch ground cloves
* 1 pinch ground nutmeg
* 1/2 cup frozen whipped topping, thawed
DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
2. In a large bowl, combine cream cheese, sugar and vanilla. Beat until smooth. Blend in eggs one at a time. Remove 1 cup of batter and spread into bottom of crust; set aside.
3. Add pumpkin, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg to the remaining batter and stir gently until well blended. Carefully spread over the batter in the crust.
4. Bake in preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes, or until center is almost set. Allow to cool, then refrigerate for 3 hours or overnight. Cover with whipped topping before serving.
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MAP CHECKUUUUUU!
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the nite brings out the troll
The Shit Bus
ALERT:GERMANY SECURITY COUNCIL
Yo, girl in the wig. Imma let you finish but..
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- Glitched Bear
- Greatest Car Ever
- What Happens When food Gets Serious
- What Happens When Stalinrush gets bored
- Help FragKrag Choose a School
- $100 Dinner for Xeris!
- Pick Your Battle
- Haha Grobyc
- boesthius without hair
- How Xeris should have spent his money in the first place
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MantaRay was just banned by vGl-CoW.
That account was created on 2009-05-27 08:07:14 and had 20 posts.
Reason: how many wolves does it take to take down a troll??
probably just one because trolls are usually 5 ft. tall IRL and even lack the body strength to stop gusts of wind or particularly intense beams of light
That account was created on 2009-05-27 08:07:14 and had 20 posts.
Reason: how many wolves does it take to take down a troll??
probably just one because trolls are usually 5 ft. tall IRL and even lack the body strength to stop gusts of wind or particularly intense beams of light
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Ichigo1234551 was just temp banned for 2 days by Hot_Bid.
That account was created on 2008-10-12 07:05:26 and had 595 posts.
Reason: Don't create homework threads and try to lie about them being homework threads. Study for your test in these two days.
That account was created on 2008-10-12 07:05:26 and had 595 posts.
Reason: Don't create homework threads and try to lie about them being homework threads. Study for your test in these two days.
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Good ol' zatic
Click-click!
Click-click!
kdog3683 was just temp banned for 1 week by Chill.
That account was created on 2007-01-21 02:19:30 and had 808 posts.
Reason: You've been banned like a million times. STOP MAKING BAD THREADS.
That account was created on 2007-01-21 02:19:30 and had 808 posts.
Reason: You've been banned like a million times. STOP MAKING BAD THREADS.
Will kdog ever get permabanned?
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Academy of ESPORTS by Vayesh
Kennigit gazed at himself in the mirror, and satisfied with his hair, he gazed back at the bed of his escort of the night, a pretty blonde that was lying comfortably on the motel bed. She, like all the rest, had fallen for his profile on PoF, and he smiled at how easy it was . He turned, and grabbing his coat, he left his card on the bedside table. It read
Kennigit
Director of the Academy of Esports
If she ever figured it out, he might consider going out with her again. He hopped onto a bus, and let it bring him from the outskirts of the Ottawa, back into the main city and road it downtown. It was a uneventful ride, which he supposed was a good start, as the last time he had issues with public transit almost led to him killing a few kids on a subway. He recalled at how concerned he was of getting blood out of his Armani shirt, and the risk of shades breaking.
He wandered through Ottawa’s cold, foggy streets for a time before he eventually arrived at his apartment building. He let himself in, and rode the elevator up to his floor and entered his pad.
His first thought was to go back to bed, as he didn’t sleep, but decided against it, he had a school to run. He grabbed a Keiths from his fridge, then sat down at his laptop, and taking a drink he logged in.
The winding tunnel opened and Kennigit hopped into its swirling vortex. He quickly emerged in a large office, and looking down, watched all his clothes turn red. He still hated that, he loved the power, hated the uniform.
“You’re late, like always, but at least you showed up” a mocking voice behind him quipped.
Kennigit turned around and at first couldn’t identify where the sound came from, then looked down. There was his partner in crime, his Canadian compatriot Chill, who much like himself, was dressed all in red.
“Pff, everyone always say’s I never show up, but then I was at blizzcon, should just accept that I’m a changed man.” He replied.
“You? Reformed, I doubt it, in fact it deserves a…” chill said as giving him a thumbs down while shaking his head. “Now, as you won the coin flip last night, you get the joy of greeting the new blood,” continued chill, who then, turned and walked through a vortex. As he vanished, a sign appeared on the wall over where the vortex had been “chill[work]”
Kennigit shook his head, then snapped his fingers and appeared in the General hallway. He stretched a little, then walked into the classroom Commandments.
He marched through the rows of students, and strode up to the podium, dimmed the lights and flipped on the projector with the fabled rules.
“Welcome my children, to the Academy of Esports. Today begins the first day of your life, and if you can complete the rigorous training over your stay here, you will become someone of importance in the world. Now let us begin, starting with the top, and no wavering now, as the fun is only beginning” he announced with a smile.
Yes he thought, the fun was just beginning for these new blood.
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Replays Time Forgot by besiger
Hello and welcome to the third edition of " The Replays Time Forgot ". If you haven't read the previous two editions and have no idea whats going on, this is where I take a godlike old rep and mutilate it with my inane writing, but there are pictures, pretty pictures, so that kind of makes up for it.
So lets dive right into this one, some people have pointed out that they would like to see this rep so here we go :
Nal_Testie vs HbQ[GsP] on R Point (pvt)
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The game starts with Testie spawning at bottom right position and HbQ at the top right, they start gathering the shiny minerals right away.
another early morning for the scv's I wonder does this job pay well.
probes on the other hand have no union so they work for free
The game starts like any normal tvp, HbQ sets up a wall at his ramp and Testie goes for a normal 1 gate core build, but HbQ isn't planing on expanding just yet, he adds a second factory soon after his first one, but a sneaky probe spots it before getting blown up by a marine. Soon an attack force is seen moving out towards Testies shiny base.
Expanding is for wimpy zergs, this is how real men open
Here comes the pain train choo choo
Testie, having spotted a 2 fact prepares his defenses and gets ready to deflect the attack, HbQ rallies his factories to Testies base and continues making vultures but with some fancy micro and a zealot that poped out at just the right time Testie defends.
Come up here, no you come down here, no...
This sneaky zealot picked the right time to warp in
While his troops were laying down the law HbQ took his natural, Testie, seeing that he couldn't expand right away because of the 2 factory makes a reaver and a shuttle, but HbQ floats his barracks into his base and spots it, the barracks get destroyed but its a small price to pay for the information and the reaver does no damage.
Despite not being a wimpy zerg, HbQ reluctantly expands
I dont know if reavers can feel fear, but with this shuttles driver I would be terrified, he sure likes those turret missiles
While his reaver was doing nothing at all, Testie double expanded to catch up with HbQ, meanwhile HbQ expands again, at this point im starting to wonder, maybe he is a zerg after all.
Not wanting his reaver to go waste Testie uses it to harras HbQ's new expansions but it gets chased away by some tanks. All this time HbQ has been macroing like crazy and he prepares his first attack force.
Im in ur base, stoping your expansion
huh, when did this happen ? I really need to stop watching these reps on x8.
Testie has also been busy, taking fourth base and doing some crazy macroing of his own, he sets up an ambush for the mighty terran armada thats about to come rolling over his way. HbQ sets out to do battle, and expands two more times like the zerg he is, a huge battle ensues and ends in what we could call a " draw " both armies being obliterated, but a few vultures and one tank stay alive, so HbQ kinda wins.
im guessing the weather conditions aren't to HbQ's liking.
Glorious victory !!!!
After his great victory, HbQ rallies his survivors and some reinforcements and starts rolling toward Testies 4th base where he proceeds to set up shop and beat up on a poor nexus. Not wanting to lose his pretty nexus Testie sends all of his troops to save it, some mines get in the way but in the end, largely thanks to one ninja dt he manages to fight off the attack.
I hope atleast the DT have a decent union, this guy works hard for his money.
HbQ doing what all zergs do, saturating his expansion.
After the first battles, and with no truce in sight both players continue to macro and prepare for another showdown, this time Testie uses his shuttles filled with templars to soften up the terran ball before the big fight, using the high ground as a excellent position to throw a few storms. Another battle breaks out, but this time Testie is the victor !!
somebody better gets some AA up here fast.
This planet really has bad thunderstorms
Now with all this macroing and all his fancy expansions, HbQ decides hes not making enough killy things fast enough so he throws down more factories, now at 14 factories it seems like there is no stoping him ! Testie on the other hand makes the only thing i hate more than storms, the dreaded arbiters.
14 factories, can he do this ?
argh, I hate these things so much, i wanna rant so bad right now.
Now that the arbiters are out, not even his fancy 14 factories are helping HbQ that much, staisis is a bitch, but he still gathers up a large enough force to roll out and threaten Testies 5th base that he has taken while I wasn't really paying attention. When he finally arrives at the 5th base he does what any reasonable terran would do, he starts building a cc right next to the nexus before he even won the fight, now thats confidence right there.
i hope those arbs dont have any energy...
How could this possibly end badly ?
Despite odds being against him, the brave CC manages to get built but before it can start mining some mean dragoons come and chase it away, while all this was going on HbQ expanded AGAIN, I swear he must have been a zerg at some point, now with even more expansions he, you guessed it, adds more factories, now at about 22-24 (too lazy to count) he is obviously compensating for something, keep in mind all of this time Testie is macroing from 12 gateways and is doing just fine.
brb, i suddenly have a strange craving for ice cream.
can he seriously do this ? Isn't this like breaking the limitations of the game or something, ive never seen this many factories in a 1v1.
Now at this point Testie decides that HbQ has been expanding enough, and sends some troops to bust up his latest acquisition. He succeeds with his plan but HbQ arrives soon and mops up the ragged survivors.
No more zerging around for you HbQ
HbQ doesn't take kindly to trespassers.
Now at this point HbQ has so many expansions that I have no idea when he took all of them and how, but they are there, and Testie doesnt like it, he sends another band of merry protoss to destroy another one just below HbQ's might production facilities. Right after that little skirmish they both gather up in the middle for another go at each other, death ensues but in the end Testie is left standing once again, damned be storms.
Whats with all the CC hate ?
As a terran player, I am not amused by this turn of events. (-.-)
Now, almost all of the map is mined out except a few choice spots and the small islands, so Testie takes one of the last remaining non island spots, and also casually drops some high templars to storm the scvs at HbQ;s last mining base, sexy. Too bad some vultures do a drive by on the poor expansion.
used to be templars.
all up in those probe's grill (what does that even mean ? Slang confuses me)
Even after killing the probes mining there, HbQ wants more and sends his troops to level that expansion, and after that probably salt it so nothing grows there ever again, he is a mean mean person. But Testie isnt going down without a fight, even a hallucinated fight. After defending, he takes one of those fancy little islands, I wish I had one of those.
Huh, can one of you guys who plays this game tell me why are those dudes blue ?
Harass : you're doing it wrong.
Somehow, even without any expansions HbQ manages to gather a giant tank force, he must have been saving up for a rainy day. Testie also has a sizable army but he decides he could have even more, and cast some sort of hack or something to triple his army. A big fight happens and this time the survivors are few.
Bet you dont see this all too often
distraction in action
HbQ manages to commandeer the last mineral island from Testie and gathers his troops for one final fight, what happens next is a real nail bitter, who is gonna win, I have no idea, stasis, storm, everything is everywhere, i'm scared to look in fear of a epileptic seizure like that time i watched pokemon.
All your base are... oh screw you internet, im not doing it I still have some dignity left.
Avert ye eyes lest your soul be consumed by the awesomeness of this game
Now this is how a game of sc should end, go put on The Final Countdown and watch, both players gather up everything they have, even probes and scvs, Testie starts wrecking HbQ's base, but HbQ is having non of that, they meet in the field in front of his base for a final confrontation, a stasis goes off, will it be enough ? Once the dust settles, it seems no, all that are left are probes, they bravely try to fight off the tanks but to no avail, HbQ stands victorious and Testie taps out.
Is this game awesome or what
And that wraps it up, damn.
In conclusion, I believe Testie posted this game as a christmas gift, and it sure beat whatever crap i got from my parents that year, watch the game, be amazed, if you like it leave nice comments, if you don't I will come to your house and you don;t want that since i don't shower that often.
Now for the technicalities
If you want, check out the first two editions here:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=86531
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=94577
The replay is here :
http://www.repdepot.net/replay.php?id=21384
If you are unsure how to watch, go here :
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=83254 * hope it still works *
Listen to this during the end :
Thanks and have a good day.
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Question of the Week
How far have you made it in the scavenger hunt?