So I just got to thinking that given how much we love SC, there must have been some funny/interesting moments during some B.net or some chat about it with friends that took place. I have a couple to share and I'd love to hear any that you guys have. 1. My dad and I are both Chinese and speak only Chinese to each other. We also both love SC. In regards to Dustin Browder's comments about not localizing the names, here is an all-too-perfect example in my own family. Our names for the unit names in SC2 is as follows: Zealot: Protoss basic guy Zergling: small bug Dragoon: spider Hydralisk: hydralisk Archon: blue ball Ultralisk: big bug Scout: small airplane Queen: queen Carrier: big airplane Mutalisk: small airplane Observer: small bug Guardian: "dong,dong,dong" (cuz that was the sound it made! lol) Reaver: big bug Devourer: big airplane Shuttle: transporter Scourge: bomber Arbiter: the fog creator (wtf?? lol) Defiler: blood spewer (cuz of plague) High Templar: Magician Dark Templar: invisible guy I won't list the Terrans cuz they're pretty straightforward even in language exchange. EDIT: What the hell I'll add a few actual anecdotes for fun: 1. I once had a scourge chasing down some hapless science vessel. They go at equal speed. So I decided to show off how pro I was by ensnaring the science vessel. *select*click*target* aaaaand both the Vessel and the Scourge got ensnared, traveling and equal speeds and never hitting it lol. 2. Back during an earlier patch of SC, there was this lil hack where you could make a drone build a hatchery from your base INTO and UNDER the enemy structure. It was a weird one, and my friend knew how to do it. It was just some weird thing where you go up into a corner and click a few times 'n what not. But the guys on bnet were just freaking out, goin "OMGzors! How do you do that? teach me teach me!" So we did. For pure entertainment purposes only. So for the next 30 minutes we got our opponents to line up their overlords, painstakingly put all their zerglings into a perfect circle, drag a hydralisk around the parameter of their base, and kill off all their own workers, etc. And then we left the game. I don't think i've ever laughed so hard for so long in my life. Anyway, good times
Hahah, I have names like that too. Except not that many, We just called Hydralisks - Spitters and Ultralisks - Elephants. A fond memory I have is playing a UMS map with a 70 year old grandpa. I think we were playing Saving Private Ryan,
Heck I remember playing SC on N64 when it first came out for it. That was insane. Good luck getting any type of a "rush" out. Computers were actually hard to beat on that system. Forget micro . Otherwise my memories of SC include only screaming that I "get my ass downstairs."
Well, me and my friends call goliaths "golos", goons "gunas", lings "dogs" or "lingos", wraiths "ships". Defilers plague we call it "menstruate" but in a shorter spanish word, and we call dark swarm "fart" (also in spanish: pedo), the queens ensnare is "buggers" or "snort" (also translated from spanish "moco")... Thats about it. Well, a memory I have is that of a friend challenging me to a 1:1 on lost temple. When I was getting my first two zealots I was swarmed by 60 zerglings, later he told me that it was a use map settings map used for fooling people.
