Anecdote from Starcraft 2

[iGGz]

Starts at 4minutes, but the Ron Paul part starts at around 6mins

lol, why is he the only person who can open the door?

 

[Jeremy Tyler]

I thought about doing a series of starcraft economic videos about austrian business cycle theory comparing artificially low interest rates to bad scouting information or an artificial infusion of gas/minerals that leads to a malinvestment in excessive early barrack/factory production that is unjustified.... although constructing early bunkers would make more sense since then you could 'deconstruct them' in order to reapply the resources to more sensible projects.

Honestly, I think RTS players inately understand austrian economics.

Speaking of we should play some RPF starcraft sometime

RPF starcraft sounds amazing...we need our own subforum just for this!

 

[Jandrsn21]

I was thinking of running a series of FPS servers, with the loading page saying Ron Paul 2012, it would be a cheap way to mass advertise, but renting enough servers to get good traffic overall would be quite expensive.

 

[tasteless]

lol, why is he the only person who can open the door?

looks like some glitch where he gets stuck between the door and the ceiling and prevents it from opening

 

[Kregisen]

About a year ago I was playing halo on xbox and I think someone's username had to do with Ron Paul, and lots of people on the team started talking about him and several of them said they were voting for him. Pretty cool.

 

[Imperial]

I think they stole a lot of the ideas of the Zerg and space marines from warhammer 40K. Zerg's are Tyranids. Space marines are space marines. Protoss are a messed up version of Eldar.

Blizzard entertainment=hacks

As a big fan of Warhammer 40k, the entire universe was stolen from other systems. Warhammer itself is a spinoff of so much of Tolkein's fantasy, and then 40k was basically Warhammer in space. And Tyranids? Watch Alien.

 

[Tal]

I met a guy named Rothbard in World of Warcraft like 6 months back and it turned out he was a dane like me and a fan of austrian economics, we had a nice little talk about how stupid most politicians are and shared with each other the names of a few liberty websites (I told him about lewrockwell.com and he told me about a danish liberty website).

 

[fisharmor]

I dunno exactly but I know some austrian economics is in there somewhere .

Well, I find it interesting how every combat/ conquest video game ever understands how aggressive war is waged, and the Pentagon doesn't.
You build up some resources, and then you pick a target after weighing the resources on hand and whether they suggest a more than reasonable chance of victory.
And once you conquer a new territory, you need to build new resource generation into the new territory, or else you lose it.
If you instead choose to rely on your original resource sources, they get depleted, and you leave yourself wide open to problems occurring in your original territory.

The last 10 years has been nothing more than a case of politicians, generals, and talking heads running the show, when they should have gotten an early 20-something dork who lives with his mom to call the shots.
That kid would have stopped on on 9/12/2001, looked at what happened the day before, and said "Wait a second, in the grand scheme of things this is the map equivalent of having a random entity blow up a single refinery. I can either spaz, empty my resources and send people all over the map, or I can build four more refineries - one to replace the one that was lost, and three more to fund the expedition to find them."

 

[goRPaul]

I play League of Legends and i found a guy whose name was EndTheFed2012. I said "Ron Paul Revolution! Legalize the Constitution!" It was great.

 

[iGGz]

Well, I find it interesting how every combat/ conquest video game ever understands how aggressive war is waged, and the Pentagon doesn't.
You build up some resources, and then you pick a target after weighing the resources on hand and whether they suggest a more than reasonable chance of victory.
And once you conquer a new territory, you need to build new resource generation into the new territory, or else you lose it.
If you instead choose to rely on your original resource sources, they get depleted, and you leave yourself wide open to problems occurring in your original territory.

The last 10 years has been nothing more than a case of politicians, generals, and talking heads running the show, when they should have gotten an early 20-something dork who lives with his mom to call the shots.
That kid would have stopped on on 9/12/2001, looked at what happened the day before, and said "Wait a second, in the grand scheme of things this is the map equivalent of having a random entity blow up a single refinery. I can either spaz, empty my resources and send people all over the map, or I can build four more refineries - one to replace the one that was lost, and three more to fund the expedition to find them."

This is so awesome

 

[amberjack]

NO! In order to win you need to secure all the yellow mineral nodes and vespene gas in the middle east part of the map and out resource your opponents!

At least that's what SC2 would tell us.. maybe this game IS government propaganda..

Well, I find it interesting how every combat/ conquest video game ever understands how aggressive war is waged, and the Pentagon doesn't.
You build up some resources, and then you pick a target after weighing the resources on hand and whether they suggest a more than reasonable chance of victory.
And once you conquer a new territory, you need to build new resource generation into the new territory, or else you lose it.
If you instead choose to rely on your original resource sources, they get depleted, and you leave yourself wide open to problems occurring in your original territory.

The last 10 years has been nothing more than a case of politicians, generals, and talking heads running the show, when they should have gotten an early 20-something dork who lives with his mom to call the shots.
That kid would have stopped on on 9/12/2001, looked at what happened the day before, and said "Wait a second, in the grand scheme of things this is the map equivalent of having a random entity blow up a single refinery. I can either spaz, empty my resources and send people all over the map, or I can build four more refineries - one to replace the one that was lost, and three more to fund the expedition to find them."

 

[iGGz]

NO! In order to win you need to secure all the yellow mineral nodes and vespene gas in the middle east part of the map and out resource your opponents!

At least that's what SC2 would tell us.. maybe this game IS government propaganda..

Yeah, but we aren't

 

[Wyle]

Add Me

I play SC2 all the time. Add me


alias = wyle character code = 351

 

[Jeremy Tyler]

Bump for other players to post SN so we can add eachother and play some games

Email: [email protected]
Alias pieceocrap
code: 937

 

[LibertyRevolution]

I play sc2 also. I also spam for ron paul there.

 

[Cosakaz]

Starcraft 2 names? I'm a bronze, but I'm often up for a game.

e-mail: [email protected]
Alias is Cosakaz
I think my code is 108.

 

[CasualApathy]

Anyone on the EU server? I play every day and would love to make a Ron Paul clan or something

 

[xFiFtyOnE]

WTF! I didn't know we had a SC thread! I used to be addicted to the first Starcraft. Love SC2 aswell. When I get my computer fixed (fried MoBo) I will post my number so you guys can add me. I was Diamond league last season.

 

[Cosakaz]

Nice to know there are many others who play here on RPF . While I know nobody on the EU servers, I would love to have a clan on the NA servers. I'm a Zerg main, btw.

 

[Xenophage]

I haven't played SC2 in quite a while but I was at the top of my ladder in Platinum League when I stopped playing (never quite made it to Diamond). I'm down for games with RPF members