StarCraft Post Mortem, or: "Worm Is A Jackass"

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StarCraft Post Mortem, or: "Worm Is A Jackass"

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The vast quantities of seepage from Worm's girlish, broken-water-main-style tear ducts were clogging up the other thread (which, unsticky the fucker already), so I think it needs to be moved to another, more waterproof (and maggot-PROOF) thread, like this one:

The Backstory: Worm, CGG, and I successfully start a 3-player free-for-all multiplayer game on StarCraft Battle.Net. A momentous occasion, as we'd all struggled for weeks in trying to get this going! There we were, three friends, happy for our success in getting to finally play this game together! Congratulatory messages flew from player to player before even the first unit had been built.

Then with the game in full swing, Worm makes the first offensive, which while valiant, does not quite succeed. I respond with a counterattack which does the job.

If he had said "Ah, nicely done! Well, see you, chums!" or had said "Hehe, I'll get you next time Gadget! Laters homes" or had said even "gg", then none of this would have had to happen. But what he did instead what launch into full petulant child mode, began hurling gross obscenities at both of the remaining players, and then quickly logged off without even seeing fit to send the remainder of his army at me. The attack had just BEGUN, and he was cursing us and stomping off. No "see you". No "laters homes". Just vulgarities and silence.

And that was just the beginning, because the stuff he has posted on this BBS since then is even more unbelievable, inexcusable, and disgusting. Let's dissect!
Everybody dives out to pick out a copy because you want to play, and you can't even properly configure your game for hosting.
His first defense here is that we had trouble with the technology. What this has to do with him getting his supposedly hardened-gamer ass trounced in five minutes I have no idea. Perhaps if this strategy doesn't work, he'll resort to calling my mother a whore, which, too late, I already did it.
you can't even be bothered to play in anything but 'dead serious' mode.
Dead serious! CGG, maybe you can back me up on this, but until Worm's weasel-like tirade began, we were all having the grandest of times! /msging bon mots all around, making jokes about who we were going to gang up on and when (even though none of us even had built any units by that point), and some of us were even enjoying vodka. This was far from dead serious. If you are insinuating that we weren't in "let's not click on any of our guys for ten minutes while we let Worm build up his army for his vaunted "Zerg rush", then I guess we'll have to plead guilty, but those little guys are just so much fun to move around.
and I don't have the tech tree tacked above my computer like you.
AAAAAAHHAHAAHAH! HAHAHAHAHAH! "HAHAHAHAH!" - Mr. Ha Ha Ha. That is the best. Here, for all of you at home, I will let you in on my "secrets of success" by reproducing for you here the ENTIRE TECH TREE which I have tacked above my computer and which I used in the attack which spelled the end of Worm's pitiful involvement in our game:

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WORM-KILLIN' TECH TREE

1.  Build gateway.
2.  Build cybernetic core.
3.  Make some guys.
Yessir, it's a veritable LABYRINTH of KNOWLEDGE which I had to deftly navigate through the intricacies of the Protoss tech tree to beat your sorry anus and send you into a string of whining and bitching which will you'll likely draw out longer than ICJ's 100 Games list. (Great job on that, Jonsey, BTW! Seriously!)
it only reaches legendary levels of being a dick when you train
I trained! I TRAINED! Did you hear that, folks! I TRAINED to get this good! Here now is entire history of my rigorous MULTIPLAYER TRAINING which I have engaged in to bring me to this grand level of skill!

1. Once I set a skirmish game on "auto" and watched what the computer did for five minutes.
2. That one time we all got in that game that was too slow so we quit.
3. Two other Battle.Net games, one of which consisted of three guys who had done nothing else but play SC every minute for the past nine years, and me. I had built one barracks by the time they had literally built 20. Literally. I did not learn much from this one, I admit.

Yes, it was only through hard, exhausting MINUTES of training that I was able to defeat Worm's grand strategy, which consisted of:

1. Building six Zerglings and sending them to their doom.
2. Building six more and sending them to the same fate.
3. Whining.
Pinner. Who suprisingly devoted a disportionate amount of time to getting good at it.
Why, that's quite kind of you to say! It is also utterly laughable, and would have been even moreso if you'd had a chance to see what happened AFTER you left. I built up a larger army and sent 'em all right at CGG! I did a lot of damage, but he held on and eventually took out the last of my guys with his SCVs, believe it or not.

The entire HOUR after that was spent with both of us pretty much unable to do anything because of lack of resources. Yes, these were two MASTERMINDS at work here, messaging back and forth "I don't have anything, you should come finish me off", "No, I I don't have anything... can we both forfeit??" It was the ultimate in RTS patheticity (your moaning and juvenility notwithstanding). It was only because of a very LAME, PITIFUL move on my part (abandoning my original base and setting up shop in Worm's now-abandoned base) that I was able to build up at least some semblance of force and mercifully put an end to the proceedings. But a meeting of strategic geniuses this was not.
it's not fun unless you get good at it
Let's put that to the test. Hey, CGG, answer these two questions for me, and I'll respond in turn:

1. Are you good at it?
2. Did you have fun?
I can't deal with this only 11 o'clock or later shit either, so it's really moot.
Just in case he wasn't pathetic enough, this last complaint that it was the TIME OF DAY which caused him to flame out, both in the game, and in the eyes of anyone who was hoping for even a faint glimmer of maturity.

In summary: LOSER.
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I really don't give a fuck what you think about my whiny tirade. You're the guy trying to foist a game everyone was bored of five years ago on your internet friends. I really don't give a fuck if I responded badly, I don't give a fuck if I look like an ass, and I'm sorry I didn't have the foresight to tell you to get fucked form the beginning.
Good point Bobby!

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I see your confusion. When I gave you ::fingerguns::, you thought they were REAL GUNS and interpreted it as me saying that you better play this game or else I would KILL you by SHOOTING YOU in the FACE with my ::fingerbullets::.

MY BAD, LOSER.

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Post by hygraed »

To be honest, Worm, I can kind of see where Pinback's coming from. It sounds like you were the only one who took it dead seriously, and as a result you were adversely affected by losing and you took it out on everyone else.

My advice? Learn to laugh at yourself. Embrace your spectacular failures. I think you might find that you'll have a better time overall.

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hygraed wrote:My advice? Learn to laugh at yourself. Embrace your spectacular failures. I think you might find that you'll have a better time overall.
Fuck that. I'm not going to become self-actualized, especially not to appreciate a motherfucking video game from 10 years ago. Jesus, if I'm ever going to change it's not going to get myself to be a better sport at video games.

I just had a moment of clarity. "I'm doing something I don't want to, and I'd only be tangentially interested if I was winning, which I'm not." Boom the walls crumbled and the game uninstalled itself.
Good point Bobby!

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hygraed wrote:My advice? Learn to laugh at yourself. Embrace your spectacular failures. I think you might find that you'll have a better time overall.
Thank you, hygraed. I've been needing to hear that for a very, very long time.

Why, I feel like a new salt already!

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Worm wrote:I just had a moment of clarity. "I'm doing something I don't want to, and I'd only be tangentially interested if I was winning, which I'm not." Boom the walls crumbled and the game uninstalled itself.
I made a guy uninstall a game once before by repeated pastings. It was "Jethro Q. Walrustitty" and the game was "Ultimate Mortal Kombat III."
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It's just a game I was playing purely out of imposition. There's not a different way to explain it. I'm glad I ruined everything early this time.
Good point Bobby!

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Worm wrote:It's just a game I was playing purely out of imposition. There's not a different way to explain it. I'm glad I ruined everything early this time.
When do you "ruin everything"? That's never been the case with you. I wouldn't say that is a characteristic of yours. Look man, I have to eat a piece of paper because of this fuckin' game, and I didn't even get to play with you. What do you care if Parrish knocked you into next week in SC? He runs a Starcraft portal for goodness sake. Even if he had never picked up the game before two weeks ago you still save face because he runs a hub.

I think you should send him a Starcraft-based mail for his hub. I do believe that.

I hope this hasn't soured you on playing some video games with us. And regardless of how the battle turned out, I appreciate you figuring out how to get the game working. I already put you on a higher level than anyone at Battle.net.
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Post by Worm »

Holy shit, robb. It wouldn't have soured me if I didn't foresee the future of everyone only play Starcraft until pinner flakes out. Honestly, I'm not going to play the fucking game because I don't want to.
Good point Bobby!

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Re: StarCraft Post Mortem, or: "Worm Is A Jackass"

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pinback wrote:Let's put that to the test. Hey, CGG, answer these two questions for me, and I'll respond in turn:

1. Are you good at it?
2. Did you have fun?
1. No, far from it. I doubt I'll ever be described as a "fierce, almost dangerous StarCraft competitor".

2. More than you will ever know, Ben.

Although, after your first major push against my base, further building projects became somewhat difficult.
SCV wrote:I can't build it. Somethin's in the way.
No shit you can't build there. Not atop of pile of rotting, smoldering Terran marine and Dragoon corpses.
SCV wrote:SCV good to go, sir.
Oh, and do take heed when Pinback says, "Finish me off!" I learned all to well that that is not the time to pour yourself another beer, respond to bowling invites from J1, or balance your checkbook. Congratulations on a fine comeback and well-deserved victory, BTW.

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Re: StarCraft Post Mortem, or: "Worm Is A Jackass"

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ChainGangGuy wrote: Oh, and do take heed when Pinback says, "Finish me off!" I learned all to well that that is not the time to pour yourself another beer, respond to bowling invites from J1, or balance your checkbook. Congratulations on a fine comeback and well-deserved victory, BTW.
See, this is why I knew I didn't really win the game, because for about a half an hour, all he needed to do was right click once on my base, and I was toast. I knew that. He knew that.

I knew that he knew that I knew that.

Let's just call it a "tie".
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Only Pinback would revel in making someone cry on their birthday.

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Post by Worm »

;_;

God, haven't you guys just realized you didn't want to do something and gave up? Your various hopes and dreams dashed? I've done it only with Starcraft and have otherwise never compromised myself. Pretty good track record!
Good point Bobby!

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Worm wrote:God, haven't you guys just realized you didn't want to do something and gave up? Your various hopes and dreams dashed?
Yes. And then I get mails from people years later saying, "Hey Robb! How's the release of 'Burning Down the House' coming?" I'm delighted that someone else can join me in this schooner of failure.
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Best.Of.

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Know what I hate? I really dislike it when you spend all this time trying very hard to build up, to create this military Sim-City like base and then have someone swoop in like the locusts from hell and leave everything in a pile of burning rubble. I really dislike that. That's why I don't play that game anymore. Plus the fact that the one time I went online and was playing as 'The Taliban Regime' I kept getting back stabbed by my own team players. It left a mark....

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Defense is very important.

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God lookit, Jack Straw can't replace me. Don't you want to play video games with JACK STRAW?
Good point Bobby!

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AArdvark wrote:Know what I hate? I really dislike it when you spend all this time trying very hard to build up, to create this military Sim-City like base and then have someone swoop in like the locusts from hell and leave everything in a pile of burning rubble. I really dislike that. That's why I don't play that game anymore. Plus the fact that the one time I went online and was playing as 'The Taliban Regime' I kept getting back stabbed by my own team players. It left a mark....
We don't back stab in the times that we've all played multiplayer together. Correct: I don't backstab. I am usually paired up with Gerrit and I don't want our fist meeting to be his fist in my face because I decided to cross him in the multiplayer version of Stuart Smith's "Rivers of Light."
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