I played through Starcraft and Brood War so much since release I know the story front and back. I’ve probably beaten them both 2-3 times a year. Not so much with SC2 - but I’ll be back to replaying it a month or so before Legacy.

I mean this with all possible respect, but your loss man. SC2 is fantastic.

Yes, actually I remember bringing the manual into the hospital when my grandpa had his stroke/heart attack in 2002 (I bought SC when it came out but i rediscovered it then). It kept me somewhat sane for that agonizing month when we didn’t know if he was going to make it. (He did make it, but passed away 2 years ago…

I’m actually gonna write more about this tomorrow, but what a lot of people don’t realize is that there’s a starter edition you can download for free right now. I’d recommend getting that and checking it out, then buying the WOL/HOTS campaigns if you’re into the gameplay.

I would also settle for remakes of Warcraft: Orcs and Humans and Warcraft II with the quality of SCII.

Sadly they lost me after the original SC. They took FAR too long to develope part 2, and I was jsut no longer interesed.

I did that with Diablo it was like a mini-fantasy novel.

I don’t play StarCraft multiplayer at all. I’ve played maybe five matches total, enough to decide that it isn’t for me.

Does anyone else remember obsessively reading the game manual that came with the first starcraft game? It had the whole background story and everything and I LOVED it. I’m glad I will finally get the end of the story. This must be what George RR Martin fans feel like.

Finally picked up Heart of the Swarm the other day on sale for $10. Fantastic game. Only a few missions left til I beat it.

Quick history lesson: the first incarnation of MOBAs was called Aeon of Strife, and it began as a StarCraft custom map. DOTA and all subsequent MOBAs came from that.

parsnips are a cancer on society tho

“went on to spawn some of the world’s most popular games, like Dota and League of Legends”

“You have people who believe vaccines contain RFID chips, or people who believe jet contrails in the sky are chemtrails that are really aerosole vaccinations.”

communicable disease like measles, pertussis, mumps, rubella, chicken pox and poliovirus,

A lot of bad science education, where students are not taught scientific thinking. Students certainly have science class. Stale, jargon science, which can be made interesting, but it more based on fact memorization, rather than learning how to think about something scientifically or logically. I actually took a class…

Plus Jenny McCarthy, and Oprah (who gave platforms to her and Dr. Oz and has been a mouthpiece for so much pseudoscientific bullshit that I have zero respect for her at this point).

What makes me insane about conspiracy theorists is that the government does PLENTY of evil shit that’s supported by actual evidence and that is still happening. Vaccines don’t cause autism, but California did just get caught forcibly sterilizing female prisoners (which, I think, is a good reason to believe this is…

Andrew Wakefield, who should be sitting in solitary confinement in a SuperMax prison for the rest of his days.

Remember back when anti-vaxers were just a few misinformed hippies that no one took seriously?