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[–]AdmiralBumblebee 2 points3 points ago

I have a source for this, me. I've both worked in a bank and in the back office at a grocery store.

You are correct.

Grocery stores also roll their own coins at the end of the day as it makes it easier to redstrib till loads in the morning

Stephano is Jeadong's favourite player in Starcraft 2 by kratos23in starcraft

[–]AdmiralBumblebee 32 points33 points ago

Already been done. I believe it was at IPL 3 where someone referenced JD in an interview and stephano had no idea who it was.

edit: At homestory cup 4 he mentioned during some downtime that he knew who jaedong was 'now'.

[s]Liquid vs EG rivalry continues in IPL YOMT! Nony beats DeMuslim 3-1 by tuewasherein starcraft

[–]AdmiralBumblebee 4 points5 points ago

"Nony beats DeMuslim 3-1"?

Hmm.

Question about strange account compromise. by AdmiralBumblebeein wow

[–]AdmiralBumblebee[S] 1 point2 points ago

I change my passwords using an ipad.

Thank you for the well wishes :)

Khaltosis in GSL... by Pyrilusin starcraft

[–]AdmiralBumblebee 4 points5 points ago

Moss, not mold.

No free stream on gomtv tonight at all? =\ by sectenor7in starcraft

[–]AdmiralBumblebee 1 point2 points ago

I was saying that you could watch both for free, thusly not being spoiled... assuming you care about that.

No free stream on gomtv tonight at all? =\ by sectenor7in starcraft

[–]AdmiralBumblebee 0 points1 point ago

I have a lite ticket. Can't watch.

I've purchased every GSL and GSTL prior to this, along with every paid gom event in the past (bw, wc3).

Still don't get to watch the first 2 matches tonight. Nor does it seem that I can even upgrade my ticket to premium at a pro-rated discount. I would have to pay another $25 to see the games live, on top of what I have already paid.

No free stream on gomtv tonight at all? =\ by sectenor7in starcraft

[–]AdmiralBumblebee 0 points1 point ago

The only major issue I see with this is the second broadcast spoiling the first. The simultaneous dual streams made this a non-issue previously.

I hope they've discussed this internally.

Stephano's '12 minute max' is now 11 minutes- unbelievable macro in this VOD by cLemenZaaain starcraft

[–]AdmiralBumblebee 3 points4 points ago

I posted one (of many) BO that puts it at around 11minutes.

Feel free to give it a try. Even if you fail occasionally you'll still end up around 12 minutes.

That doesn't make it a useful build order of course. It's simply a discussion of possibilities, not of practicalities.

Stephano's '12 minute max' is now 11 minutes- unbelievable macro in this VOD by cLemenZaaain starcraft

[–]AdmiralBumblebee 2 points3 points ago

You can 4 gate your way into platinum easily. I know, I've done it. There's been a number of players who've made it into masters with various 'bad all-ins'. Mass queens, cannon rushing, 7 pools, 5 rax, baneling busts, 7rr, etc.. often to prove the point I'm making.

Once you get there, you will surely have bettered your mechanics and knowledge of early game timings to transition to a different style of play... say 7-8 gate allins. That will easily take you up to mid-masters at least. Hell, there's people who do it all day long in high masters. It can even be useful in gsl's ;)

It has very little to do with the BO. It's more important to master the ability to execute. Stick with one build order until execution is irrelevant, thusly allowing your to focus on other aspects of play that require improvement. You're never going to improve your mechanics if your mind is pre-occuppied with executing a build order for 10 minutes.

IMO it's like someone who wants to learn to make awesome cupcakes from scratch. They spend hours on the frosting, and wonder why the cake tastes like shit.

Look, frosting is going to always taste awesome. It's fucking mostly sugar. Work on the cake. When the cake tastes awesome, then you can screw around with frosting ideas while your perfect cake is baking.

Stephano's '12 minute max' is now 11 minutes- unbelievable macro in this VOD by cLemenZaaain starcraft

[–]AdmiralBumblebee 5 points6 points ago*

Yes, really, he could have done better by about a full minute. It has nothing to do with his injects, but with the timing of his hatcheries, gas and queens.

I do not have a replay of it being done on this patch. If someone wanted to do so I can provide quite a few BOs that produce the aforementioned result. This was discussed heavily over a year ago, and if you're so interested you should be able to find the replays on your own.

I am personally incapable of doing the BO myself currently. I can barely play sc2 right now due to medical issues. (hand tremors)

  1. Yes they do take into account drone travel time, patch distance, drone transfer, and distribution anomalies. I know because in Evo Chamber I was the one who rewrote the mining routines to account for it. It took me 2 weeks of programming and testing to do so, and it was a huge pain. My local version has full drone simulation of metalopolis, and it's only very, very slightly better than the best public version of EC (r21 iirc).

  2. You're completely correct. I stated this multiple times in this post chain. Please read before you reply.

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[–]AdmiralBumblebee 2 points3 points ago

Reduction of inhibition?

Stephano's '12 minute max' is now 11 minutes- unbelievable macro in this VOD by cLemenZaaain starcraft

[–]AdmiralBumblebee 0 points1 point ago

At silver you shouldn't even be taking a second or third base IMO, let alone trying to come anywhere near a max. Game should be long over by then.

Stephano's '12 minute max' is now 11 minutes- unbelievable macro in this VOD by cLemenZaaain starcraft

[–]AdmiralBumblebee 6 points7 points ago

This can be done more 'sanely' at about 12minutes maxxed. Off a FFE at 12:20.

It can also be done way <11 minutes with an even less sane, and more difficult to execute build.

If folks are actually interested in this stuff. Let me know and I may write a guide on TL on the sane quick max builds.

Stephano's '12 minute max' is now 11 minutes- unbelievable macro in this VOD by cLemenZaaain starcraft

[–]AdmiralBumblebee 5 points6 points ago*

Nope. I play zerg ;)

Really though, it's most illegible scribbles on paper that tell me how to reproduce the BO using a custom version of Evo Chamber that I wrote.

If there's actually interest in it, I could just go write a guide on TL on how to max with T/P in 12 minutes, but I think it'd be completely useless. None of the builds, imo, are usable in an actual game. That includes the 10-11 minute zerg max.

Just for shits and giggles, here's output generated by my local mac version of Carbon Twelve's SCFusion for a 11:10 max as protoss. With some tweaks you can get sub 11-minute, but they become extremely hard to execute by a human.

(Note: anyone with windows can download SCFusion and get pretty good results like this. The times are within 2 seconds of human achievable times):

6 3*Probe

9 Pylon

9 2*Probe

11 Chrono Nexus

11 Probe

12 Chrono Nexus

12 3*Probe

15 Chrono Nexus

15 Probe

16 Nexus

16 Probe

17 Pylon

17 2*Probe

19 Chrono Nexus

19 Gateway

19 2*Probe

21 Nexus

21 Probe

22 Chrono Nexus

22 Assimilator

22 4*Probe

26 Move Probe To Gas

26 Assimilator

26 Move Probe To Gas

26 Cybernetics Core

26 Probe

27 Chrono Nexus

27 Probe

28 Move Probe To Gas

28 2*Probe

30 Chrono Nexus

30 2*Probe

32 Move Probe To Gas

32 Gateway

32 Probe

33 Gateway

33 Warp Gate Transformation

33 Gateway

33 Probe

34 Chrono Nexus

34 2*Probe

36 Gateway

36 3*Probe

39 Pylon

39 Gateway

39 Probe

40 Chrono Nexus

40 3*Probe

43 Chrono Nexus

43 Pylon

43 2*Zealot

47 3*Probe

50 Zealot

52 Chrono Nexus

52 Pylon

52 Zealot

54 3*Probe

57 Zealot

59 Move Probe To Gas

59 Pylon

59 Move Probe To Gas

59 Probe

60 3*Zealot

66 Pylon

66 Zealot

68 Chrono Cybernetics Core

68 3*Probe

71 Zealot

73 Pylon

73 Probe

74 Zealot

76 2*Probe

78 2*Stalker

82 Zealot

84 2*Probe

86 Zealot

88 2*Chrono Gateway

88 Gateway

88 Probe

89 Pylon

89 Convert Gateway To Warp Gate

89 Pylon

89 Probe

90 Convert Gateway To Warp Gate

90 Assimilator

90 Chrono Gateway

90 Stalker

92 Chrono Gateway

92 Convert Gateway To Warp Gate

92 Zealot

94 Chrono Warp Gate

94 Pylon

94 3*Convert Gateway To Warp Gate

94 2*Probe

96 Stalker

98 3*Zealot

104 Pylon

104 Zealot

106 Stalker

108 Chrono Warp Gate

108 Pylon

108 Zealot

110 Stalker

112 Pylon

112 Stalker

114 Probe

115 Zealot

117 Convert Gateway To Warp Gate

117 Stalker

119 Move Probe To Gas

119 Probe

120 Zealot

122 Probe

123 Move Probe To Gas

123 Stalker

125 Pylon

125 Zealot

127 Chrono Warp Gate

127 Probe

128 2*Stalker

132 Zealot

134 Move Probe To Gas

134 2*Stalker

138 Zealot

140 Pylon

140 Chrono Warp Gate

140 Stalker

142 Zealot

144 Pylon

144 Chrono Warp Gate

144 Stalker

146 3*Zealot

152 Pylon

152 Move Probe To Minerals

152 Zealot

154 Chrono Warp Gate

154 Zealot

156 Move Probe To Gas

156 Pylon

156 2*Stalker

160 3*Zealot

166 Pylon

166 3*Zealot

172 3*Chrono Warp Gate

172 Stalker

174 Chrono Warp Gate

174 Zealot

176 Stalker

178 2*Pylon

178 Chrono Warp Gate

178 2*Stalker

182 Chrono Warp Gate

182 2*Stalker

186 2*Chrono Warp Gate

186 7*Stalker

Waypoint 1 satisfied:

11:03.88: 193M 29G 23E 200/200S

Income: 2322M 342G

Buildings: 3 Nexus 3 Assimilator 22 Pylon 7 Warp Gate 1 Cybernetics Core

Units: 66 Probe 37 Zealot 30 Stalker

Upgrades: Warp Gate Transformation

Stephano's '12 minute max' is now 11 minutes- unbelievable macro in this VOD by cLemenZaaain starcraft

[–]AdmiralBumblebee 11 points12 points ago*

Person.

edit: to be clear, these builds were crafted using BO optimizers, but all of them (that I've made note of) have been performed by person. IMO, anyone in diamond should be able to max with any race by 12 minutes. It then becomes a question of how do you not die while you do it.

Stephano's '12 minute max' is now 11 minutes- unbelievable macro in this VOD by cLemenZaaain starcraft

[–]AdmiralBumblebee 27 points28 points ago*

It can be done at 10:19.

This has been known for well over a year now. The issue is that it relies on absolutely zero aggression at all, which is essentially a mistake by the opponent.

It should also be mentioned that you can max off a 7 gate at 12:50 as protoss, and you have more units earlier. The zerg overcomes your supply count for approx 1 minute until you're both maxxed. That's about 60-65 blink stalkers maxxed, no upgrades. You can fit an upgrade or two in there as well if you want, but that adds about 15-30 seconds.

Edit: Just looking through my BO notebook, and I noticed that I have a few protoss builds maxing at ~11:10-11:30. I play zerg, so I haven't looked at that section in a while.

note - I did a lot of work (programming and testing) on the build order optimizers. I have lots and lots of max builds, with various ups for all 3 races at or before 12:00. The problem is that against someone even remotely competent they are all garbage. That includes the 10:20 zerg max. Even slight pressure will push any build back a minute, with stronger pressures pushing the max back 5-10minutes. e.g. you try to max as zerg against a fast 4 gate. Now the protoss may lose that for other reasons, but you sure as hell aren't maxxing at 11 minutes, or even 14 minutes.

nasl sound guy fired!!!! the end of an era by blizzjokein starcraft

[–]AdmiralBumblebee 80 points81 points ago

He was doing an AWFUL job. Wrong audio on the wrong stream, constant open mics, wrong live mics, inconceivably bad levels. Quality that wouldnt be acceptable for even a high school play... for hours on end.

For fairly significant portions of the day nothing was even remotely close to being correct.

Contrast this with gstl going along fine on the same stage equipment.

‘Exeter Incident’ Solved! A Classic UFO Case, Forty-Five Years ‘Cold’ by marquis_of_chaosin skeptic

[–]AdmiralBumblebee 4 points5 points ago

The fact that it was loud and very bright likely made the bystanders think it was much closer than it actually was.

iPad JRPGs by Legal_Assassinin JRPG

[–]AdmiralBumblebee 0 points1 point ago

Does not seem to be?

Opinion poll: Tales of Symphonia, Tales of the Abyss or Tales of Vesperia? by Denanain JRPG

[–]AdmiralBumblebee 1 point2 points ago

I agree. The main story was, eh. It was almost a rehash of symphonia, but the stuff that happened AFTER the main story. I get chills just thinking about it.

Thinking about it though, the extra chapters wouldn't have been so great if the main story didn't have such a fantastic character development.

Opinion poll: Tales of Symphonia, Tales of the Abyss or Tales of Vesperia? by Denanain JRPG

[–]AdmiralBumblebee 2 points3 points ago

It's like symphonia, except three times as long, better character development and has more fun puzzles.

Opinion poll: Tales of Symphonia, Tales of the Abyss or Tales of Vesperia? by Denanain JRPG

[–]AdmiralBumblebee 1 point2 points ago

I don't know why legendia is left out. IMO it was the best of all the english releases by far. Good characters, classic game play, lots of extra quests.

Symphonia was fantastic as well, and vesperia was good.

I disliked abyss the most. Luke... from annoying brat for 98% of the game to cliché ending. The battle system was much better though.

Opinion poll: Tales of Symphonia, Tales of the Abyss or Tales of Vesperia? by Denanain JRPG

[–]AdmiralBumblebee 0 points1 point ago

Senel from legendia was pretty awesome I thought.

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