the blog of Jerry Bolton
Posts tagged Starcraft
…post-immaculate
0Current Tunage: Scribbling Idiots – Start Livin’
“The Have Nots”, the recent album by these guys, is my next review. Look for it.
It occurred to me today that I got just as excited by Savior beating Bisu at MSL as I did about the Canadian Juniors winning Hockey gold at the world’s. I’m not sure if that’s weird, unique, or just abnormal… but it’s something.
How excited, you ask? Well, jumping up and down and cheering excited. Yeah.
…show us the way
0Current Tunage: Beat Rabbi & Deepspace5 – Deepspace5oul
I <3 DS5.
Month and a half left. Sanity compromised.
Tomorrow I enter my “deep late early twenties”. I hardly noticed it coming… too preoccupied.
I’m just chillin’. Rockin’ some DS5 (its beautiful).
I recently finished up Mark Driscoll’s “Vintage Jesus” and was very happy with it. It was refreshing, and full of reminders I needed to hear.
Next up: Francis Collins’ “The Language of God”, which three chapters in is quite promising. After that, Timothy Keller’s “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism” – a “done third year” gift from Steph. Very much looking forward to it.
Otherwise, it’s been work, Starcraft (lol), and fighting. Fighting for survival, for us, for life, for redemption… fighting against as much as fighting for? It’s all I can do not to lose my mind right now.
…the world’s greatest spectator sport
0Current Tunage: Thrice – A Song For Milly Michaelson
“Here we go, hold on tight and don’t let go.”
Many of my favourite teenage memories are of LAN parties with friends, mostly playing Starcraft. I have so many memories of great matches against skilled opponents (going by many aliases). On top of that, I recall when Blizzard (who made Starcraft) added the Replay function to the game, allowing anyone anywhere the ability to watch matches played by others – the Progaming scene pretty much resulted from this one innovation. Amidst the memories of playing, I have just as many of watching the world’s elite Starcraft players duking it out on Lost Temple and other old-school maps. Boxer vs Yellow, Yellow vs Nada, and so many other classic and magical matches. To this day I still watch those old replays sometimes.
Korea has, for many years since, been the hub of professional Starcraft play, constantly putting out the world’s finest. On top of that, it’s practically the national sport, with numerous television channels dedicated to televising matches.
Recently, I discovered that one such channel had hired on a new commentator… to do commentary in ENGLISH (!!!). So, between my deep anticipation for Starcraft 2 (due out sometime in the next couple years), and my many fond memories of playing and watching replays… I was STOKED today to discover that the channel with English Commentary has all their VOD’s (Video-on-Demand) up online to watch!
I know there’s a few of you out there who still have a deep-rooted love for this reincarnation of Chess, so to those people I say this: You must check out GOMTV as soon as possible. Some of the matches I’ve watched already gave me the jibblies… this is a legendary win.