Ben_H

My ever-growing 80s/90s rap playlist on Rdio keeps playing The Notorious B.I.G when set to shuffle when I want to listen to Eric B. and Rakim or Brand Nubian. I might have to switch to two playlists instead. :(

My Xbox live gold subscription is about to run out. Ugh!

The keyboard on my Mac lappy is slightly warm right now because I'm watching SC2 streams, and this is making typing this post slightly uncomfortable.

It needs to be pure darkness. I have covered every LED in my room other than my clock radio. 
 
I listen to music when I am trying to sleep, silence bothers me.  Or Bob Ross painting videos, because those things are amazing and super relaxing. Happy little trees.

B4-4 is the group that just keeps on giving: 
 
  

  

  Behold the story of a small inner city child who stumbles upon a strange View Finder and is then transported to magical beach that is ruled over by an evil, child molesting orange wizard and his two even gayer doppelgangers.

First they came for the HD streams and we didn't speak out because we weren't assholes. Then they came for the premium content....

... Not every game needs to be a juggernaut on the scale of Call of Duty and to become as such Starcraft would inevitably have to dumb itself down even further. I'm a terrible, terrible Starcraft player (I quit playing MP, very, very quickly after feeling little incentive to continue playing, due to getting my ass handed to me, as your article states,) but it's plain enough that the wealth of tactical options far outstrips even the more complex Call of Duty gametypes.

To appeal to this larger audience, you would most likely have to lose a lot of that depth and in doing so Starcraft would lose what makes it special. Those who are good at Starcraft have very special minds that are capable of processing the information presented in a way that enables them to succeed at the game, and I have huge amounts of respect for competent Starcraft players, and while I'd like to be a good Starcraft player, I would never ask that it is dumbed down so that I may be able to compete. Instead, I move on to other games that my mind is better equipped to succeed in while maintaining my respect for Starcraft and those who have what it takes to be good Starcraft players.

There's no real way in the game to do that, but one way is if you know someone's Battlenet name you can look it up on SC2Ranks, and from there from the page that shows the person's info you can get access to a link to their Bnet profile. It's a real pain, they really need to implement better ways of looking people up.