That's not it at all about raiding though. You raid because bosses require coordination from 25 people at a time. When you pull one off it's like your guild just pulled off something akin to the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony. Eventually beating that boss becomes so practiced that you don't really want to do it yet again, but at that point you're going so the guild brings you along first to newer bosses.

>> ^uberzip:

The worst thing that you can't see from this video is that the cab drivers don't let you wear seat belts.


I concur. I was in China one month ago, and made the mistake of flying to Beijing from Zhuhai instead of from Hong Kong to save a few bucks (hint: don't do that). This meant a number of miles to and from the hotel by taxi. Ho boy. Also, they're not "on the fast lane". Every lane is the fast lane in China.

There's a positive side to that however (if you survive): after 45 minutes of safety-belt-less crazy taxi drive, where trucks can outspeed you, and where all cars overtake each others on the left or on the right constantly while bikers drive in the opposite direction on the emergency lane...When you arrive at the airport and your plane takes off, you realize something. You've been cured from flight fright. For ever.

Yup, that's Tianjin. Even though its the 3rd or 4th biggest city in China it's still considered a bit "country" so yea the driving is pretty crazy compared to Beijing (which still has plenty of craziness). Even though they don't drive as fast there the cars do drive plenty fast on the freeway and you see plenty of accidents there. However, because it is so crazy people are typically on the look out and will go around you if you are going the wrong way or walking across the street. The worst thing that you can't see from this video is that the cab drivers don't let you wear seat belts. Seeing as they are never used you'll get a nice black stripe across your cloths if you do try to use them because they are so dirty.

>> ^jmd:

Starcraft is and still is a 2 sided player base. You can enjoy the game and beat it if you learn the basics and understand the objectives of each single player map.
However when it comes to multiplayer, there are those who try and play it single player in which you simply work with the structures and units you know and like, and attempt to fight what ever the enemy may throw at you. If possible you produce counter units to a specific unit you just got your first army wiped out with.
Then you got the person who actually understands and learns how to PvP in starcraft. This person knows almost all the units and isn't afraid to use them. He does not build what he likes.. he uses his first spawn minions to both harass the other player (resources are everything. If your collectors are dead or not collecting, you are losing) and see exactly what he is building. He then designs his army around countering it and destroying it. Alot of starcraft falls into the paper rock scissors syndrome.
It becomes a lop sided battle. Even a semi pro noob will totally trounce the average player if he sees and understands what he is building. That is what happened here.


This is frustrating to me, since you kinda have the right idea, but at the same time kinda not.
yes there are times when starcraft will be rock paper scissors, for example if your blindly make alot of shit that can only shoot ground and he makes something that flies and shoots downwards, generally however this is rare at the professional level, since perhaps a strategies biggest weakness is inflexibility.
In this case, it doesn't seem like rock paper scissors at all, just that torch has better mechanics than each player, and to a great extent its not about hand speed either, its a game of memory keepy uppys, (the game when you keep the ball in the air with only without using your hands, I don't know how else to call it) you need to remember to keep building constantly, and it only gets harder as the game progresses.

Quite frankly torch could have beaten these guys with any combination of units.

Also a word on Trevor, I love him purely because when he qualified for GSL, the community at large went "who is his guy?"

Turns out he turned up to world cyber games USA, picked up a mobile game on the day, won WCG USA, got a free trip to Beijing, and finished 3rd in the world at said mobile game, and now he plays SC2.

I concur with you assessments of the movies I mentioned and welcome your recommendations with great anticipation. In fact, I intend to search out copies this weekend. Thank you again.
>> ^steroidg:

>> ^chicchorea:
I am unfamiliar with the two films mentioned and look forward to seeing then. He has done some of the most beautiful films. Curse of the Golden Flower and House of Flying Daggers are stunning.

If you were looking for things similar to "Curse of the Golden Flower" in the 3 movies I named, then you'll probably be disappointed as they are very different. To me, Zhang Yi Mou is much better at depicting characters than big fighting scenes (though I think his direction of the Beijing Olympic opening was awesome).
"House of the flying dagger" and "Curse of the golden flower" were just too superficial for my taste. Sure they have pretty pictures and actors, but they lack the essence of humanity that's present in his other movies.
Another one of my favorite movies of his: "No one less" is terribly slow and uneventful from the first glance, but at a certain moment in the movie, the viewer couldn't help but to feel the raw emotional connection with one of the main characters, and I literally couldn't hold back my tears. It's the only moment in the movie that makes you feel that way, and it only last a few seconds... but it's all worthy.

>> ^chicchorea:

I am unfamiliar with the two films mentioned and look forward to seeing then. He has done some of the most beautiful films. Curse of the Golden Flower and House of Flying Daggers are stunning.


If you were looking for things similar to "Curse of the Golden Flower" in the 3 movies I named, then you'll probably be disappointed as they are very different. To me, Zhang Yi Mou is much better at depicting characters than big fighting scenes (though I think his direction of the Beijing Olympic opening was awesome).

"House of the flying dagger" and "Curse of the golden flower" were just too superficial for my taste. Sure they have pretty pictures and actors, but they lack the essence of humanity that's present in his other movies.

Another one of my favorite movies of his: "No one less" is terribly slow and uneventful from the first glance, but at a certain moment in the movie, the viewer couldn't help but to feel the raw emotional connection with one of the main characters, and I literally couldn't hold back my tears. It's the only moment in the movie that makes you feel that way, and it only last a few seconds... but it's all worthy.

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>> ^yellowc:

First of all, you HOST the World Cup, it is a privilege countries FIGHT for. You host this for an estimated viewership of 2 BILLION PEOPLE, almost 1/3rd of the WORLD'S POPULATION. When you accept the responsibility to host a World Cup, you INVITE the world to your country.
Second of all, when your local culture completely and utterly destroys the culture of football (as the rest of the world understands it), the common decency would be to understand this and accommodate the world and football before your own local interests, you are a HOST, good hosts put their VISTORS before themselves.
Third of all, reducing viewership is basically tying your own noose. Pissing off advertisers is never a wise move, the World Cup is no more immune to this than any other event.
Fourth of all, generally you're supposed to highlight your country's strengths and tourism when you host such an event. Not turn off millions of people from even considering a visit, all from one very silly over-bearing issue. Do you really want your country's image tarnished from a little fucking plastic horn? I hear virtually nothing about South Africa, all I heard in the Beijing Olympics was "China great host this", "China great host that".
Fifth of all, if you don't watch football (even just for the World Cup), please shut the fuck up, as you have no appreciation for the issue at hand. I'm sick of tolerance nazi's butting in to the discussion with no appreciation of the complaint, all you can do is scream blue murder.
Many South African comments are in the nature of "This is OUR World Cup, if you don't like it, leave/don't watch!". Yes well people are taking those options and if the numbers are big enough; The only thing that's going to hurt is African nations holding the World Cup in the future. Both in selection and future attendance.


Some good points there. What the hosts might need reminding about is how this World Cup will be remembered. Currently the football's not great (and that might well be due partly to the vuvuzelas themselves) and so you'd hope the atmosphere would make up for it. These trumpets don't create atmosphere - I learned today they are primarily there to distract opposition players and obviously they do that very well.

The fact is that regardless of how bad the organisers screw this up, the World Cup is not coming back to Africa for sometime. Next up is Brazil and no African country is bidding for 2018 or 2022. Given that it's 44 years since England hosted I'm guessing it could be a similar gap for African countries as I don't know many who would be better equipped that South Africa.

First of all, you HOST the World Cup, it is a privilege countries FIGHT for. You host this for an estimated viewership of 2 BILLION PEOPLE, almost 1/3rd of the WORLD'S POPULATION. When you accept the responsibility to host a World Cup, you INVITE the world to your country.

Second of all, when your local culture completely and utterly destroys the culture of football (as the rest of the world understands it), the common decency would be to understand this and accommodate the world and football before your own local interests, you are a HOST, good hosts put their VISTORS before themselves.

Third of all, reducing viewership is basically tying your own noose. Pissing off advertisers is never a wise move, the World Cup is no more immune to this than any other event.

Fourth of all, generally you're supposed to highlight your country's strengths and tourism when you host such an event. Not turn off millions of people from even considering a visit, all from one very silly over-bearing issue. Do you really want your country's image tarnished from a little fucking plastic horn? I hear virtually nothing about South Africa, all I heard in the Beijing Olympics was "China great host this", "China great host that".

Fifth of all, if you don't watch football (even just for the World Cup), please shut the fuck up, as you have no appreciation for the issue at hand. I'm sick of tolerance nazi's butting in to the discussion with no appreciation of the complaint, all you can do is scream blue murder.

Many South African comments are in the nature of "This is OUR World Cup, if you don't like it, leave/don't watch!". Yes well people are taking those options and if the numbers are big enough; The only thing that's going to hurt is African nations holding the World Cup in the future. Both in selection and future attendance.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^Sigh:
tra·di·tion   [truh-dish-uhn] Show IPA –noun
1. the handing down of statements, beliefs, legends, customs, information, etc., from generation to generation, esp. by word of mouth or by practice
2. something that is handed down
3. a long-established or inherited way of thinking or acting
You were saying about old? You don't have to tell people how to enjoy it, but they shouldn't expect anything else on the world stage to ever go back until they shut the fuck up.
>> ^Yogi:
>> ^harry:
It's the fucking vuvuzela. South Africa pretends it's tradition, but it's apparently something that was ivented about 30 years ago, I guess by a marketing dude.
It's a monotonous buzzing that continues for the full 90 minutes. Some channels (like the BBC) appear to manage their sound levels reasonably, but the Dutch broadcasters have been unable to cope, and the commentators are frequently drowned out.
I don't like football as it is, but this makes it totally impossible to even watch it in the background. I'll just count the number of cheers and cries in the street when Oranje is on.

Yes South Africa...collectively as a country is pretending that they like something as a tradition. Firstly it doesn't have to be old for it to be a tradition. Secondly you can't tell people how to enjoy a game in their own fucking country, so shut the fuck up.


A father buys a vuvuzela at a game...he hands it down to his son...now it's tradition. You mother fuckers think you can go into another fucking country MOVE out the indigenous population and set up a soccer tournament and then tell the locals how to fucking behave. You're simply what's wrong with the fucking world trying to force others to conform to your standards...for what? So you can watch a bunch of little games on TV while you sit on your fat fucking ass. Fuck you, you don't deserve to live.

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For some reason I feel sorry and embarrassed for the waitresses.

So at the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony the Chinese stuck the pretty mime out front and kept the ugly singer off stage, now we realise Whitney Houston has been doing the same thing all along.

Hehe I wouldn't be surprised if it's true. I heard horror stories about some nasty malpractice. Stuffs like putting washing powder into batter so they look more puffy when fried. Or use petroleum asphalt to burn away hair off meat.

For a period of time, no one dare to eat lamb skewers in Beijing because it's rumored that rotten or rat meat were being served.

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Really? I wonder where cardboard falls on that scale. Warm?

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I find it ironic that she thinks eating dog meat helps people sweat, since dogs don't even have the ability to sweat, hence the panting...

I think what she meant was that it gives people "heat". In Chinese food, every thing you eat has a purpose to balance the body. By example, eating red meat will give you "heat", whereas eating winter melon or water melon will give you "chill".

Dog meat is considered one of the "hottest" red meat available ("hotter" than lamb). Eating "hot" things are generally considered unhealthy during spring or summer periods unless you are located in a very humid area or if you balance them with "chill" food. However I heard some people eat them as some sort of aphrodisiac to increase their sexual potency.

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>> ^Mashiki:
Pretty sure it's a dupe of http://asia.videosift.com/video/Pic-a-day-walking-from-Beijing-to-Ger
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Yes. Sorry but: *dupeof=http://asia.videosift.com/video/Pic-a-day-walking-from-Beijing-to-Germany

Pretty sure it's a dupe of http://asia.videosift.com/video/Pic-a-day-walking-from-Beijing-to-Germany