RaR

FML.

Kahlan — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:27:55 GMT

So last night was just a shitty night for me anyway. I actually felt like I was playing pretty well, I just made little fuckups that cost me a lot of points. One game I actually managed to lose after destroying the guys proxy gate push. I was a good 5 probes ahead on income and I still managed to fuck it up.

But here's the real FML. I'm about 4 minutes into the game, and I'm feeling really good about it. The guy looked like he's going to Marauder push, so I've got a couple Zealots, getting Sentries/Stalker. Just feeling good about where my tech is. Then he pauses. I ask him a couple times why he paused, no response. So I'm like "fuck this" and go to unpause. And I hit Surrender. God I fail...

I need school appropriate music videos

Desiree — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:53:27 GMT

So I'm doing a fun friday next friday and my kids want me to play a bunch of music videos on my Promethean Board during the class.

So I need some recommendations for school appropriate music videos. Most of the music I listen to is alternative, so no hip-hop/rap/pop; thus suggestions for the later forms of music would be great.

For requests from the kids I have some random Asian Justin Timerlake dude:

YouTube- Taeyang - Wedding Dress [HD]

and System of a Down...lols.

I already have that 30 seconds to Mars one and a Spilled Canvas one. I need about 50 minutes worth of music videos.

Um...and I really need some Latino friendly stuff =(.

Putin is a beast

Desiree — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:16:07 GMT

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11222492

He hunts motherfucking whales with a motherfucking crossbow. We haven't had a president that manly since Teddy Roosevelt, but he's famous for having a stuffed animal named after him...

Debo be thuggin

Sarana — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:13:25 GMT

This guy is hilarious.

YouTube- Debo baneling thuggin

You can watch this guys stream sometimes at http://www.teamliquid.net/video/user....php?user=Debo

Spiderman Shattered Dimensions

kittyciara — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:04:16 GMT

Is there anyone here picking this up? I'm really close to getting it as it looks really good.

TvZ: Im ahead and end up falling back vs muta/ling; how to fix it?

Zonnza — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:55:50 GMT

I play as random and one matchup that Im trying to improve is my terrain vs other zerg.

The usual that the enemy seems to do is to rush to muta's and get enough lings/defences at the start.

As T against Z, I always do destiny cloud fist (1-1-1); and i pump marines and get a halion or 2 out and rush. Pretty small force. Sometimes I try to proxy factory into their main and pump 2-4 halions, if this works I win but lately zerg in higher plat and lower diamond counter this.

In most cases, I get my wall off, and get my base going; get turrets up after my starport is up and make vikings + some ground unit, usually marines & halions.
I try sometiems to get a dropship of 4 marines/1tank into their main early on, usually fails if they have muta's up extremely fast.

In the end I get ahead, I play 1 base for a bit longer then usual to get this lead. And this is where I get screwed. Im usually ahead and then start to fall behind because the zerg is keeping me from expanding. If I pull back my forces to defend my base and try to get an expo up while defending, the zerg takes this opportunity to expand again, sometimes doouble exand with a sneaky hidden expo. If I attack with my units to stop him from expoing, he sends his muta's to defend with maybe 5-10 lings and then rushes my expo with 20-30+ lings and 0-5 muta's OR goes for my main where I dont have turrets x.x
If I dont attack the guys expo's, he gets a much better econ and starts to pull farther ahead and I get owned. Sometimes they just attack while double expoing to make sure I dont attack them, and this usually gets their army killed and leaves me with minimal forces (10ish supply of units). They can get their army back up asap with saved larva while I get screwed and have to start focusing on getting my defences set up fast for that incomming 2nd attack.

Usually I get attacked when I expo and they expo or double expo, and at this point its just wave after wave of brute force/suicide units to eat me up slowly and I lose after a long drawn out period of time.

Sometimes the other zerg is so good that he keeps me in my main forever, and I end up running dry on minerals and lose.

I don't know how to deal with this as terrain.

I thought about trying to rush turrets faster but then if I do that, they may give up on muta's and that's wasted minerals.
I tryed doing extra bunkers for defence, but they just dont care about them and attack anyways since they can save up larva and rebuild army fast.

Anyways, anything you guys got to help can be useful, this is my weakest matchup atm followed by playing as P vs Z.

Housing Market: Next Steps?

Kiratal — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:19:07 GMT

Seeing as most of the people on this board are in their 20s/early 30s, the results of this situation will probably have a direct impact on the looming largest expense in their lives.
Whatever the ultimate play by the government is, it could increase or decrease the price of homes by a huge margin.

There's always plenty of good opinions from people who know more about economics than me around here, so I figured I'd see what you guys thought was up.

What do you think will happen?

What should happen?

And if you're so inclined what are you hoping for/doing now?

In case you've somehow been living under a rock lately, a brief catch-up of the current situation:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/39024784

The Ghost Writer

Desiree — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:33:14 GMT

I love political thrillers/suspense movies and this one was pretty awesome.

The cast is simply amazing: Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Tom Wilkinson, et. al. And at long last Ewan got naked for the camera again (I've been disappointed since Deception came out, Hugh Jackman and Ewan in a movie about sex clubs and no deliciousness...wtf). So um, maybe your gfs/wives will watch it with you ;).

Polanski did an amazing job with the shots as well as the suspense building, extremely subtle and artistic. It might be slow for some people, but I really enjoyed it.

YouTube- 'The Ghost Writer' Trailer HD

Are you a lonely Star Wars fan?

Desiree — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:37:14 GMT

Have no fear a speed dating event just for you is here!
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/sta...ry?id=11406677

Ferrari 458 Italia

Pilar — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:27:43 GMT

i saw one today and it looks every bit as gorgeous as advertised, despite the fact that they r prone to spontaneous self-combustion. i think Ferrari has just recalled all the 458's to fix the issue.

i've never been a Ferrari fan until now:

YouTube- Top Gear Ferrari 458 Italia review +...

COD: Black Ops

Mod — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:06:58 GMT

http://kotaku.com/5628044/winning-bi...ur-wager-modes

So I know how some of you feel about the COD series, but some of these game modes sound awesome. They aren't giving Counter-Strike the credit in gun game, but yeah, looks sweet.

Game on

Symbois — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:25:48 GMT

I didnt think it was as good as date my avatar, but still worth a watch.

YouTube- The Guild - "Game On" (avail...

League Desktops

Kahlan — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:35:28 GMT

These are pretty amusing...

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/to...8233141?page=1

Just for the record, I am annoyed that the SC2 logo and league emblem aren't consistently placed. You'd think the person would have made one, then used that as a base to color and caption each one. Having the logo in different spots and not even quite centered is just sloppy.

How to hit a tweener again and again

Pilar — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:06:26 GMT

2009 U.S. Open Semi:

YouTube- Roger Federer - Amazing Through-the-Legs...

2010 U.S. Open First Round (last nite):

YouTube- Roger Federer shot between legs US Open...

Edit: dunno why the 2009 clip can't be embedded. oh well.

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE

Mod — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:16:59 GMT

http://www.time.com/time/health/arti...014332,00.html

All my hard work will pay off with a longer lifespan.