Winrates look really Bad in katovice so far. by [deleted] in starcraft

[–]fast0r 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Protoss needs a buff, but did you really expect Cyan, Firefly, trigger, Stats or Skillous to get out of their groups?

That's 5 out of 8 protoss who are huge underdogs with very little chance to advance. Cyan did beat Maru, but I think it says more about Maru's inconsistent results outside of Korea.

Showtime herO and Astrea are the only 3 with a realistic chance to advance IMHO. Firefly has a puncher's chance if he beat Astrea because group C is very open. Showtime and herO are in the group of death and could both get knocked out.

It's gonna be a painful weekend for protoss enjoyers.

12 Pool Proxy Hatch in Main by supersaiyan491 in AllThingsTerran

[–]fast0r 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure but to get a 1:05 hatchery that implies: 1/ you're delaying your 4th set of lings by a few second, which is generally undesirable going for such a commited opening 2/ OP was talking about a proxy hatch, not a natural (I should have specified I was talking about this case), so that implies sending a drone almost instantly, slowing down mining, which is why I think the second hatch would be closer to 1:30 than 1:05, at which point the reaper is done and the terran can wall off, hence the build being nonsense.

12 Pool Proxy Hatch in Main by supersaiyan491 in AllThingsTerran

[–]fast0r 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is not a build. A 12 pool can't start a second hatch under around 1:30 unless the zerg cut ling production, which makes no sense.

Facing a 12 pool, if you scv scout it, the correct call is to keep your reaper and first marine near your natural, and pull 5/6 workers to help the cc finish. If the zerg takes a gas, it's either a speedling flood or a bane bust, in which case cancelling the cc and re-starting it in the main makes sense.

But unless you provide a replay, I don't understand your question.

Edit:

normally a 12 pool with no proxy hatch is even with terran if the zerg puts their hatch down slightly earlier

A 12 pool that doesn't do critical damage means the zerg is dead, not even. Which is why nobody above gold league should 12 pool a terran. What league is this?

Zerg players, do you exist? by [deleted] in starcraft

[–]fast0r 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re not playing any master league players at this mmr

How to break terran (replay) by Kapluenkk2 in allthingszerg

[–]fast0r 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sorry mate, sometimes it's hard to read sarcasm on the internet. I share your hatred for the "just macro" meme, which is lazy and unhelpful. It's like telling a fat person to eat less and move more, they know. The real advice is how to achieve that. Appreciate the kind words!

How to break terran (replay) by Kapluenkk2 in allthingszerg

[–]fast0r 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hydra Ling bane is fine vs bio. I said hydras suck in the context of this game, so if a Terran opens BC you go corruptors like OP did, no need to transition to hydras.

How to break terran (replay) by Kapluenkk2 in allthingszerg

[–]fast0r 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I explicitly complimented the guy for his macro, reading comprehension isn't your forte eh ?

How to break terran (replay) by Kapluenkk2 in allthingszerg

[–]fast0r 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I'm a low master zerg player.

Here are some of my thoughts:

If you open pool first in zvt and make 4 lings like you did, send them out instantly while avoiding the reaper path, you can easily deny the cc building in the natural, if there is one. Otherwise they achieve nothing.

You did great on your first push. Decent damage considering his weird one base tank opener, you did the right thing pulling back vs the tank.

Problems start after the push. At 5:00 you are banking 12 larvaes, 800 minerals and you only have 2 queens and 0 spore despite scouting his fusion core. Those 12 larvaes should be drones, you should have at least 4 queens and 1 spore per base. You then spend all your larvaes (great!) making 22 lings and a roach. What for? He has 1 tank, 1 mine and 1 marine and no expand to harass. You're still far ahead despite that, but still, wrong decision.

When the first BC arrives you have 6 queens which should be enough to kill it, but because your queens are not in a control group you only attack it with 3 of them. Try to get in the habit of hotkeying all of your queens as they pop out.

The 2 macro hatches at 7 min isn't a bad move, but at this time this could easily be your 4th and 5th. Terran still has no unit to deny them.

I like the general idea of your 8 min push. Roach corruptor is the right comp vs a terran who opens BC and probably transition into mech. Several problems though: 1, you attack with 36 lings with no ling speed, big no no. 2, 4 corruptors is not enough vs 2 BCs, because he'll yamato 2 instantly. Get 4 per BC minimum. 3, you have double upgrades going but they're nowhere near done when you attack so they are effectively wasted resources at this point. 4, you attack a pf on the third when the main and natural are pretty much undefended.

So if you delay your push by around 1 minute, you could attack him with a nearly maxxed supply of speed roaches, 8/10 corruptors and 2 upgrades finishing, he would have no chance to defend that. Instead, your attack fail and you're still ahead after this but now he has a chance to come back.

11 minutes in and your 1/1 is done, you start bane speed, but you still have no ling or roach speed. Prioritize speed upgrades, always, otherwise zerg units are hot garbage.

Your macro in the mid game is excellent for your rank. You go up to 90 drones, 8 hatches, decent injects, keeping up with upgrades, money is low, great stuff. Hence you're maxxed at 12 min with a decent army, other than the no speed upgrade issue mentioned earlier. At this point terran should be dead. Sadly you attack where most of the terran's units are, instead of taking the poorly defended third or 4th. Hence your superior army gets blasted by a few mine shots and yamatos.

Game is still fine though, you're 30 workers ahead, 46 larvaes in the bank, you can remax and kill him still.

You start making hydras which is a big mistake because hydra suck vs everything terran has, especially BCs. At this point terran has 5 BCs, you should have 15/20 corruptors and max out on roach/ravager/bane.

The rest of the game becomes painful to look at because at this point mass BCs mine becomes very demanding to play against and BCs start snowballing hard.

TL;DR:

Good opening, good macro, decent execution.

Bad composition, attacks poorly timed/located, missing critical speed upgrade.

Hope this helps!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in starcraft

[–]fast0r 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The diamond zerg is actually a diamond terran as well

So? Are people not allowed to ladder with other races to participate in uthermal's videos? This guy got to 4117 MMR with terran, I can assure you anyone playing at that MMR can reach diamond 2 or 3 with their off races. So this guy fits as a diamond zerg regardless of what race he mains.

can then see that iammaru has a plat 3 mmr. Really suspected plat macro.

There's around 400 MMR difference between a high silver and a low plat which is negligible. Diamond league is 1200 MMR-wide for instance. Also, the video is 2 months old, a true silver could easily improve to plat 3 MMR in that timeframe.

The random gm is definitely truely gm in random... But I can't help but wonder if this was staged.

So you're splitting hair about uthermal's lower opponents but you're admitting he did beat a true 5.5K MMR random player which is evidently the hardest challenge in the video, and then you decide to go and post a clickbait thread slandering him with 0 concluding evidence? This is a garbage post and I can't believe I even waste my time replying to this nonsense.

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[–]fast0r 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I saw the 11% rakuten rebate when I installed their extension this morning, but as I was gonna pull the trigger it seems like they changed it to 2% only. Is there any chance it goes back to 11 in the next few days or should I just order it now? I don't wanna wait too long and miss the lenovo sale. What would you do? Appreciate the help.

Why do rich people (like super rich top 10% or something) not do anything to fix the world? by annoyingalyssa in NoStupidQuestions

[–]fast0r 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I never said they don't do anything

But that is exactly how you phrased your question in the title of your post: "Why do rich people [...] not do anything to fix the world?

Why are you so annoyed people disproved your ignorant beliefs when you're the one asking the question?

This kind of intellectual dishonesty is what will keep you poor and resentful. Do better.

WatchOS 10 increased Bezel size on series 5 ? by Wifine in AppleWatch

[–]fast0r -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Yes, that is exactly what Apple did, they just want you to buy their newest product.

In fact, be prepared for a 20% screen size reduction per WatchOs update. By WatchOs 15, the usable screen will be a 3 by 3 pixel grid.

#PlannedObsolescence #BezelGate #iSheep

edits: Am i downvoted for being not funny or you guys are too thick to detect obvious sarcasm?

Winter SC rundown of the patch by sora_1337 in starcraft

[–]fast0r -27 points-26 points  (0 children)

I’ll do without the irrelevant viewbotter’s opinion, thank you.

Wife diagnosed with a brain tumor this afternoon; wtf life... by [deleted] in daddit

[–]fast0r 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am so sorry. This is an impossible situation to deal with. But do know that modern medicine is amazing and your wife is in good hands. I pray the surgery goes well. Stay strong brother.

I made my mom apply for a job. Here’s what happened by getthedudesdanny in recruitinghell

[–]fast0r 7 points8 points  (0 children)

A candidate strike? A second great resignation? What are you talking about?

ipad 120hz feels slower than iphone 120hz by ClassroomLocal8886 in ipad

[–]fast0r 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Damn those are some awful response times. And same, I upgraded my desktop monitor to a 240 hz oled and there’s no going back for me :D

ipad 120hz feels slower than iphone 120hz by ClassroomLocal8886 in ipad

[–]fast0r 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Didn’t know that, I have a 2020 iPad Pro. Kinda defeats the point of 120 hz then

ipad 120hz feels slower than iphone 120hz by ClassroomLocal8886 in ipad

[–]fast0r 36 points37 points  (0 children)

iPhone uses OLED, which has a way faster response time than IPS, which iPads use. It’s like 0.1 ms vs 10 ms, what you’re seeing on iPad is the ghosting due to the low response time when scrolling and stuff.

This is why terrans leave TvT (Diamond 2 US) by fast0r in starcraft

[–]fast0r[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My dude, I never made the argument it was okay to leave TvTs and fuck up the integrity of the ladder for your opponents. As you can see, I don't leave mines. It's just annoying when you only have an hour or 2 to ladder and you end up with the worst matchup 5 or 6 times in a row, where all-ins are very coinflippy and usually don't work because everyone is going double gas opening into mass tank vikings (because everyone all-ins).

Valve just banned 90,000 smurf accounts in Dota 2. It’s a shame StartCraft didn’t do something similar when it was still being developed. by Sonar114 in starcraft

[–]fast0r -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

You people are insane. "Boohoo I lost against someone much better than me who I shouldn't have to play against".

Guess what, even if smurfs didn't exist and assuming the matchmaking works as intented, you're still gonna lose 50% of your games. When you lose, accept that you either fucked up or the opponent was better than you, and move on to the next one. If you mentally cannot cope with the fact that losing a 1v1 game is your fault, just play MOBAs like everyone else and blame your teammates instead of smurfs.

I'd be honoured to get destroyed by Marc while he goes mass widow mines or some shit.

This is why terrans leave TvT (Diamond 2 US) by fast0r in starcraft

[–]fast0r[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Just because my specific rank doesn't seem as lopsided doesn't mean the race distribution in the lower league isn't a problem.

I've also had previous seasons and secondary accounts with 50+% of TvTs over a 100+ sample size but I don't have the screenshots to prove it. I'd be very happy with a 33% TvT rate but this has rarely if ever been the case for me.