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by edias 13y ago
It will be interesting to see if Chess, or other boardgames for the matter, will benefit from streaming services as much as video games have. I've seen the Chess-Network on twitch.tv break 1k viewers which is tiny compared to the 300k
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by edias 13y ago
I am in no way saying it isn't a problem or we shouldn't talk about it. It's terrible what the NSA is doing. All I'm saying is my HN experience has noticeably decreased do to the massive amount of shallow comments these
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by edias 13y ago
Yes, they are both useful and relevant when used in combination but alone stock price is pretty meaningless. Before Berkshire Hathaway issued a stock split (1 share becomes 2 or more shares) a share was worth ~$172,000. Today Apple trades a
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by edias 13y ago
Governments have different powers than citizens and different roles in society. Do they abuse those powers often? Yes, they have since this country was formed, nothing new here. What does smokeyj's comment add to the discussion? At bes
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by edias 13y ago
Is this seriously what HN has come to recently? Ever since the NSA revelations, that most of us have been assuming for a while anyways, I can't visit this site without seeing a front page articles about abuse by the government or a sna
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by edias 13y ago
That's fair, and I agree with you to some extent. Detroit filing for bankruptcy is certainly indicative of future trends as pension obligations and other long term expenses begin to mount, but the extent to which it affects the overall
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by edias 13y ago
I really doubt it. If anything I think it speaks to the value placed on online advertising, which I'm rather pessimistic about in general. It is a huge leap to go from slightly missed quarterly results to a downturn in the overall econ
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by edias 13y ago
I think you're answering your own question here. Coke without coloring isn't completely clear, so they hired a chemist to mask whatever natural color coke has. At least that's the impression I got from that sentence.
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by edias 13y ago
I think you're vastly exaggerating the situation, especially for people who are not at the extreme low end play skill. 10 years ago this may have been the case for some games, but a lot has been done towards fixing it. Guilds in WoW al
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by edias 13y ago
And you can't see a difference between genocide and sharing some user data? Everyday I read something along the lines of "Google has an ethical responsibility to do X" and it's getting tiresome. It's absurd to deman
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by edias 13y ago
>>The precedence I'm trying to establish is at least ethical in the sense that it puts the well-being of users first. Companies have a responsibility to put the desires of their owners first, and as a public company that generall
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by edias 13y ago
I think the type of entitlement the OP is talking about goes far beyond your examples. It's one think to dislike a company and criticize its decisions, but it's another thing entirely to say they have an "ethical responsibili
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by edias 13y ago
How much of that is twitch's doing and how much is just increased foreign interest in the Korean Starcraft scene though? GomTV had an English stream through GOM player well before being forced to use Twitch by Blizzard, and OGN still h
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by edias 13y ago
Twitch lag is a big issue for most European viewers and I even get issues on the East Coast for big events (50k+ viewers). Their adds are another source of constant annoyance for me. They often pop up when their not suppose to, constantly i
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by edias 13y ago
Warcraft (both WOW and WC3) are pretty much dead as far as esports go. Most have converted to Starcraft 2 which generally gets the highest viewers for individual streamers (10k is the highest you usually see for players like IdrA, Demuslim
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by edias 13y ago
I would disagree for the most part when it comes to twitch. Games such as Stacraft have many small details happening at once that informed viewers wan't to be paying attention to, and on a small screen a lot of it blurs together. I&#x2
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by edias 13y ago
A interesting comparison I think is between Starcraft 1 (1998) and Stacraft 2 (2010). In the original Starcraft you were constantly fighting against the game engine. Unit pathing, spell casting and a several glitches which players could uti
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by edias 14y ago
TheMaka already answered this specific case and there is indeed nothing technically "banned" in competitive SC2. BW however did have a few bugs that were banned by tournament ogranizers [1]. [1] http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Competi
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by edias 14y ago
It is in response to "their entire strength is in the fact that other units will auto-attack broodlings/interceptors first" which is true but only for the very new players.
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by edias 14y ago
Broodwar, the expansion to the original starcraft.
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by edias 14y ago
No, because it adds an element of skill that was missing from the SC2 carrier. Here is the video that caused the quirks to be included and Nony makes a very compelling case in it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rqx8s2qKXM
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by edias 14y ago
Not at all. Maybe for beginners but at the competitive level brood lords are so good due to their cost efficiency in that they create "free" units and have very good synergy with infestors which are also known for their cost efficiency.
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by edias 14y ago
What your describing is called the drone drill, where you have all the workers attack at once, but this is a trick only used for dealing with the 3 pylon block (something banned in tournamnet play) as zerg. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M
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by edias 14y ago
Your comment on starcraft maps is off. Both SC2 and BW have two sets of maps, UMS maps with custom settings used for fun games and competitive maps made to be racially balanced and produce "good" games. In SC2 UMS maps are part of the arca