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@StarvingGamer said:

I never understood why people don't like EG. Is it because of Idra?

Also wooo I am excited!

That hate on EG is completely unjustified. It's popular to hate on them. They were an extremely successfull team is CS, which is what allowed them to make money and then they made good recruiting picks which allowed them to make even mroe money. This allowed them to spend money on getting even more good players, which is good for both EG and the players they support.   The Puma deal was not shady. This deal is not shady. I don't know about the DeMuslim or the other deals though.

EG is the greasiest organization there is.  They don't foster promising players like most teams.  They hand blank checks to the best players in the world and stack their rosters with players that other teams invested tons of money into and then lost to EG.  TSL lost Puma, who they had been training since he switched from SC1 and was a beast, and now HuK, who had been moved to Korea by TL and trained with some of the best SC2 players in the world, and worked closely with one of the best protosses in the world.  And then EG's players deteriorate because they aren't in their old environment.  HuK will definitely lose some of his touch without MC.
 
I'm just glad this wasn't the rumoured EG-TL combination stuff people were talking about.  Though TLO is known to dislike EG (read his blogs), and Jinro straight up said on his stream he would never join EG so it seemed unlikely that would happen. 
 
@SamDrugbringer said:

@DerBrick said:

@StarvingGamer said:

I never understood why people don't like EG. Is it because of Idra?

Also wooo I am excited!

The reason I think that a lot of people don't like EG is partly IdrA, they have the most money and can buy pretty much anyone they want. Just like the Yankees, they have the money to spend and will do what ever it takes. It doesn't help that they have done shady deals in the past, DeMuslim, Justin Wong and Puma are the three that I can recall. Doesn't help their image when the CEO of the company goes on Lo3 and just blasts Milkis for 2 hours.

...  Huh.  You know, I knew There was a SC2 sponsor called Evil Gamers, and I knew Jwong was sponsored by someone with the tag EG, and I thought they might be the same, but I never actually looked into it to connect it for sure.  So they're the same people, huh?

You should be able to run it on low fine (Like bottomed out settings wise but at 60 FPS or at 30FPS on medium).  If I can run it on my year old MacBook Pro, which is theoretically slower, then you should be fine.  Though I did hear the HD3000 Intel stuff was a step down from the Nvidia 320M in Macbooks and Mac Minis of last year.  Be sure to have vsync, textures (especially terrain) and effects on low.  A big one to make sure is turned off is 3D unit portraits, which shockingly takes a lot to have running.  Do keep in mind it looks completely different on low compared to what you normally see on streams, which is usually high or ultra.

D.  Because most new games suck and I'd rather just replay my old back catalog (Which is sizeable) than spend 60 bucks and play Generic Shooter A, or Action Game 12: Return of the Action.  I always go back and play Ocarina of Time every summer because it brings back tons of memories and is always fun to play.
 
Right now I'm playing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4, Zelda Majora's Mask, Civilization 4, Battlefield 2 (even though I keep getting funny disconnects online for some stupid reason.) and the Starcraft 1 campaign (holy bejeebers the Protoss part is hard at the end. Yo dawg you get 3 units and no production to kill a few hundred zerglings.)  I do play a few new games but very few, primarily sequels of old games I like like Starcraft 2 and SSFIV, and charming indie games like Revenge of the Titans (boss game), Osmos and Machinarium (Go get the Humble Indie Bundle, if only for Revenge of the Titans).  I also play Minecraft because it puts me in a zen-like state of pure relaxation. 
 
Edit: Also, Afroman, your Bob Ross portrait is exceptional.  You sir have good taste.

Revenge of the Titans.  Holy crap is that game addicting.  It's part of the Humble Indie bundle if you pay more than the average (It's totally worth it, you get Braid and Machinarium too).  I paid 20 bucks before they announced that you would get more games and I was pleasantly surprised that I would get more games so I installed everything.
 
Then I started playing Revenge of the Titans and lost a whole day's worth of time.  That game is insanely addicting.

Just buy the tickets.  It's so worth it, especially when compared to how much you get.  My brother bought the last UFC thingy for 60 bucks and for that price you can get most of a year of GSL.  I've bought every GSL from season 2 onward, and I still go back and watch the old ones.

where is the archive of this????

Tony Hawk 4 was really fun.  The last decent TH game was Underground. THUG2 was okay. 
 
I still like the first two the best.  3 was fantastic as well. 
 
Aw crap, now I have to find and play them again.  I have 1,2,3 and 4 still (And American Wasteland but that sucked) so I should be able to find them. 
 
My cousin and I STILL play THPS4 whenever I'm at his house.  We have for every year since it came out, and both used to be insanely good at it.

@NickL said:

Hate to be the downer but what?

Someone who has been practicing SC2 for a year (or more) vs someone who has been playing it in his off time at best?

I really hope this is a good match but I just don't see an even match happening even if boxer is overrated...

well he's a freshly retired brood war pro and according to TL that instantly makes him better than anyone currently playing sc2.  will be fun to see how that particular theory holds up, or if they'll say he was getting bad anyways and wait til the REAL good bw pros switch still.

Forever platinum. I am giving my two weeks notice at work tomorrow though so I should have more free time before and during school, which I have had almost none of the since the start of  season 2 (I used to play only diamond but I'm super rusty now).  I've been doing customs focusing solely on improving speed (and thus macro, as I used to be too slow to keep up with an increased income off 3-4 bases) and I feel if I keep up my practice regimen I should be able to break diamond with either Protoss or Terran by season 3 end.  I am about equal MMR with both, though I have much more experience with Protoss, and I lack any sort of game sense with Terran, which screws with my expansion timings.