The NASL playoffs are here and the finals are just around the corner. Here's a link to Team Liquid which gives a great overview of the playoff brackets and who's got a good shot at making it to the finals.
Para bai hu faisen i che'lu-hu hayi i gayu-na gi este na inachai'igi. Lao anggen un taitai este na blog siempre esta un tungo' hayi i gayu-hu no? Si Hulio, pat Si July i mas ya-hu. Ha ikak todu i kontrario-na gi i dibishon-na.
Mampos "geeky" este na betsu, lao taya' guaha, dipotsi mampos geeky este na blog.
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I don’t want to be an overlord wandering forever in the lost temple skies,
Or a Lair that can never transit to a Hive.
You caught me out like a burrowed baneling,
After losing you, I am like a queen without her king.
I remember when I first saw you, my heart was concussive shelled,
Who is this medivac, that was to save me from hell?
You sieged up and protected me,
You gave me stim-pack and set me free.
You are like a blink stalker that caught me by surprise,
Heck for you, I would even leave Aiur for life.
When I miss you, my zealots refuse to charge,
When I yearn for you, my forcefields misses too much.
They say my heart is full of ice,
My eyes are full of lies.
I might be doomed to walk this mortal life,
Without you by my side.
I still want to tell you that you’re so fine,
And you’re always on my Overmind.
I don’t want no MarineKingPrime,
I just need you to be my Valentine.
If you ever play against my brother tQmagnavox on the ladder or in a tourney, there is a very good chance that he is listening to this song below while he fights you.
Slowly overtime I've developed a similar habit of having a queue of Youtube videos loaded up and repeating over and over as I play for long periods of time. I find it can be helpful when things get intense to help keep you focused even as you hear screams and explosions are your forces and buildings are being ripped to shreds.
I unfortunately missed the last GUSC2 tourney that was held over the weekend (congratulations to tQprobe the winner this week!), because ti maolek i siniente-ku yan mumayulang iyo-ku keyboard, but as I was preparing for it last week I found myself listening to one song over and over again. My most difficult matchup has been kontra Terran, as I find the M and M and M deathball so frustrating and so difficult to take down in a straight up match. I have found as I wrote about in my last post, that if I can proxy pylon rush Terran and take down their army at their ramp or eventually wear them down an hour into the game by warping in an almost endless supply of cheap kamikaze zealots, I can beat Terran, but if the game ever moves into the middle to late stages, Terran eventually overruns me with its M and M and M.
The song I was listening to in order to give me inspiration for a nice way to defeat Terran was "Got You Where I Want You" from The Flys, which was a popular song in the late 1990's (when I used to be into contemporary popular blah blah music), and was featured in the soundtracks for Disturbing Behavior and Dawson's Creek. I have always loved the sound and tortured feel of the song and over the years, as I have changed my interpretations of what the point of the intent of the song (and the singer) are. Sometimes it feels sardonic. Sometimes angry. Sometimes hopeful. Sometime earnest.
When I added this song to my Starcraft 2 playlist, I found myself once again enamored with the lyrics and the sort of slow, twisting angry style of the song. Last week I actually translated it into Chamorro, or rather created a Chamorro version of the song. Here's a little tinamtam of what I came up with (the first is the original English lyrics, the second part is the Chamorro version and then an English translation of the Chamorro)
Hey, what's the point of this?
Oh hey, what's your favorite song?
Maybe we could hum along.
Well, I think you're smart,
you sweet thing,
Tell me your name,
I'm dying here.
Got you where I want you
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Nene para hafa este? Sangåni yu’ i mas ya-mu na kanta. Buente siña ta akanta Kao malate’ hao Siempre siempre Sangåni yu’ ni’ na’ån-mu Sa’ esta kumekemåtmos yu’
Hågu i magoggue-ku!
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Baby, what is the point of this? Tell me your favorite song Maybe we can sing it to each other? Are you smart? Of course of course Tell me your name Because I'm just about to drown
You, are my salvation!
The moral of the story is that eventually I was able to figure out some cool builds against Terran and the song was the perfect soundtrack as I found myself picking apart the Very Hard AI piece by piece, killing them on both land and air, and switching back and forth between units and tech to keep the advantage, limiting their expansions and even using warp prisms for drops. And the whole time, that song in the background shrieking the perfect followup to what I was doing, na put fin, gaige hao manu na ga'o-ku.
