The best playlist for Starcraft laddering

Hi guys and dolls. I´ve been kind of busy at my new job. But at the very least I ahve been getting in at least one ladder game each day. Im trying to get going making some nice "content". My computer is messing with me and xSplit is NOT working which is a problem sincce I reaaally want to stream. I also would like to pay for xsplit but  I can not do that until it works. Apparently my problem is a known bug for ATI users and sxplit. Anyway I have a tip for you. The best playlist for your laddering and Idra would agree! The list of all dubstep on Spotify! Enjoy!!!

And hey btw Idras showing on IEM was siiicko. Check out the games vs Puma! So great! I am an EG fan I tell you. I just ordered this beautiful t-shiurt.

Anyway. See tyya, ill keep you posted on stream developments.

Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars. And some Street Fighter bashing

I have not really enjoyed my 3ds that much. I bought the big game Super Street Fighter IV on day one and was playing it on the subway a lot. And it just does not resonate with me. I don´t like the 3d. A lot of people talk about whether or not the 3d adds anything to the gameplay. I do not care about that. I just want it to look pretty. And SSFIV just does not look pretty. The 3d is boring and the backgrounds are dead dead dead. the gameplay just is not my style. Maybe I just don´t have the reaction time to play this kind of game. I feel like spamming just the best thing to do and I don´t like it.

But now, finally I have found a game that I really like. I was interested in Tom Clancy´s Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars from day one, but mixed reviews made me hesitant to spend 400 kr on it. Two weeks I found out that cdon.com sold it for half that price and I was all over it. I am really enjoying this game. Turn based strategy is a new love for me (if you do not count my enjoyment of chess) and I have only really enjoyed it since I played Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn for the Nintendo Wii.

Shadow wars has great gameplay, sweet sounds, and best of all, some really pretty 3d. The intro has a short  first person perspective video in 3d and that was something that I have been looking forward to seeing. I will try to give you better impressions further into the future. Don´t have time to keep blogging now. But whatever.

Nintendo e3-show in one hour!!!

http://e3.nintendo.com/

Playing records tonight at Black Atlantic gig. Also super funny Nony/LiquidTyler clip ;D

HEY.

Tonight I spin some pop tunes at THIS event where The Black Atlantic and Moa Granhagen will be playing live. It is going to be a sweet night so come by Debaser Slussen and say hi to me.

Also, the first 50 seconds of this video flooored me!

Playlist fOu.

HEY!

Long time no blog! I am super busy working long hours, trying to find a job, and applying for a PhD student position. OMG! But quite possibly I will have a new job by the end of the next week so I hope to get back to blogging more frequently then. Anywaaayss

Please enjoy my Starcraft 2 gaming plalist for the month of May. I will be adding tracks to it for the duration of May.
Yesterday Australian band Miami Horror played at Strand. I attended with famous tweeter gokidgo. The truly non-ironic non-pretentiouss manlyness was quite a spectacle and actually quite refreshing to watch. Better live than on spotify. And I promise to blog about that stuff beforehand rather than afterwards in the future.

Now; back to PhD student application. See yeh´s.

Dreamhack, European gaming house.

There is so much going on that I find it hard to keep up. But a short post for today. Today we have mostly Starcraft related news and it is a BIG day for Stockholm and Sweden. Dario "TheLittleOne" a.k.a "LiquidTLO Wünsch has announced a pro gaming house being started in Stockholm with several prominent and Swedish members of the Starcraft 2 pro gaming scene. This means that these players will be living and playing together 24h a day. It really shows that the Starcraft 2 scene is stepping up and getting serious!

Also, today the Dreamhack Stockholm Invitational Starcraft 2 tournament kicks off in Kulturhuset. The tickets for this event was sold out in no time. Fortunately the good guys and girls of Dreamhack allows us all to enjoy the tournament through livestream from 17.00 today (GMT+1). Playing are tip-top gamers from all over the world such as LiquidJinro, EGIdra, LiquidHuK, and oGsMC.

Hey! All Out Dubstep is streaming a set TONIGHT!

Hey I know something you should do tonight. Get some club feeling in your comfy chair at home!

All Out Dubstep is part in Swedens club life that really shows what talent and ambition can accomplish. They regularly host club nights in all three of Swedens largest cities and I dare to say that they are the Swedish dubstep scene. They also do crazy stuff like arrange cruises with all the sweetest club acts and DJ:s in Sweden as well as a gaming area(!)!

Anyways. What I wanted to let you know is that tonight they will be streaming a set starting 19.00 (GMT +1) with probably the greatest dubstep known to man. I will totally be tuning in. You should check it out too. Do some bunker rushing, 4 gating, baneling busting, hadouken spamming, or AWM camping with the dirtiest beats in your ears. Or just get a better soundtrack for your lolcat surfing.

Check out this link (or FB). See you in the stream chat!

Gamer Pics #1, Dragons Lair Stockholm, Warhammer 3D pictures

Today I bring you Gamer Pics #1. If you want to be in a gamer pic, drop me a line and tell me why at sthlmgeek@gmail.com

So this is me playing Super Street Fighter IV and it´s all just an excuse to show that I have bought a Nintendo 3ds! I bought the Aqua Blue version and I am pretty happy with it. You should expect some updates about Streetpass and other fun stuff in the future.

Anyway, I put my 3ds to good use yesterday at the game night at Dragons Lair Stockholm. I had some trouble with the lighting and such but please, if you have the possibility to view .mpo files (3d images) you are very welcome to download this archive and check out some sweet Warhammer figurines!

It seemed to be a sweet night at Dragons Lair and the place was filled with tabletop and computer gamers battling it out. I checked out a Warhammer 40k game for the first time ever and played some Left 4 Dead and Starcraft with Tiger. I missed out on the free Magic the Gathering playing and I am a bit bummed out about that but it was a good night anyway.

Looking forward to the Dreamhack Invitational going down on Tuesday. Too bad I missed out on the tickets!

Later players.

Camera, Mouse Bungee, future bloggings, culture night.

Duuudes it´s my birthdayyy1!! And I, recieved a brand spanking new Casio camera. 14.1 megapixorrz and shift stabilization (whatever that is). I have never owned a digital camera so this experience is really new to me. I have no sense of how to take good photos so it should be interesing.

Anyways whats new I dont know. Tonight is Stockholm Culture Night (Kulturnatten) and for you nerds out there it might be nice to know that you can get yourself a free trial game of Magic the Gathering at Dragons Lair before 20.00 tonight. After that it´s free board game gaming all night, and also WoW and Left 4 Dead. I am going to go there if I still feel like it at 22.00 when my buddy Tiger gets out of band practice. If you go there, don´t forget to register for free membership at their homepage first.

Also tomorrow I intend to upload my first geeky outfit of the day. Why you ask? Because I am just going to start uploading whatever I feel like to this blog. Expect outfits, reviews, musical performances, and tips on what to do in Stockholm aaaalll mixed up baby.

Staying on the geek theme I present to you, the other present I recieved today!

Yes it is a "Mouse Bungee".



I am just going to go ahead and label this as completely unnecessary. What is worse is that I have matched my gaming setup by buying all black pieces and this grey monstrosity kills the theme! However I AM going to use it because I love my little brother who provided this piece of computer equipment. And also because it actually is a little bit useful. It lifts the cord to the mouse up to allow for free movement of the mouse. The cord moves very easily through the device so it does not in any way hinder movement. Get it if you want to go ultra pro or if you don´t know what to get your gamer friend for her/his birthday.

Finally, I leave you with this picture I took on a walk to nearby Ulriksdals castle (Ulriksdals slott).

Beware of the giant frogs people!





Following it up

I just lost two 2v2s playing random and I am in a shittey mood. I like to play random in 2v2 as practice so that one day, I can play random on 1v1 ladder without plummeting in rank. But today I was the SHITTIEST zerg ever and I want to QQ all the way to the bank.

Since last time. I have been DJ-ing some, I have been playing Arkham Asylum, and of course some Starcraft 2. I feel like I want to play a lot of ladder but there is often something that stops me. I was able to tell myself that playing ladder games is not a big deal, and thus I was able to promise myself to play five ladder games on my Friday off. Unfortunately that did not happen. I played three games, and realized (or fooled myself into thinking) that I was now playing gold players I was then once again stricken with a fear of playing ladder when conditions are not optimal.

Conditions are optimal when I feel relatively well rested, I have a lot of time freed up so I will not have to interrupt the game for anything, my girlfriend is feeling happy and will not think I am blowing her off by playing video games, and maybe most importantly, I need to not have adrenalin from a previous game in my system.

The smell of the gold league is what now ressurects this fear of (losing) league games. It is very sad since I am really finding much joy in the 1v1 league. The high silver/low gold league has just the right mix of cheese and regular games. Unfortunately my latest games are´nt really that interesting. This game was pretty exciting though. Silver level excitement! Enjoy.

Steppes of War Silver League TvZ

Introduction and some SC2 replay

So like yeah. I am a geek. And I live in Stockholm. Even though I am not really from Stockholm. Lately I´ve been playing a lot more computer games than I´ve generally done in the past 3 years. When I was a teenager I played soooo much. Man, I hardly ever went outside if I was not on my way to a late night session of Perfect Dark, or perhaps a day of table top RPG playing.

Anyway in recent years I´ve been losing a lot of my nerd friends. I started DJ-ing and made more of like, hipster friends. Also I played in bands, I started Kendo, I went to law school. But after going to a local Gaming Café and trying out Starcraft 2 I was hooked. I bought myself a gaming laptop on an old credit card that I got after buying a sweet Gibson Les Paul. And suddenly I find myself with an urge to talk about Starcraft 2, but noone to talk to! My girlfriend thinks the whole thing is stupid, and compains that I spend too much time gaming. But whatever.
The forums have too many trolls, and so mych of the discussion just ends up stupid because of n00bs like me. So I thought to myself, a blog is the answer. And maybe it is the first step to getting more involved in the gaming world.

For this first blog I present to you a replay! It´s not super interesting but since my aim is to upload all my replays, here it is. I am a silver league Terran player that likes to play random in team games. I feel like my mid to late game macro is stronger than most of the players I face in Silver League, but I often have trouble with early pushes like the baneling bust.
What might be interesting about this replay is seeing an example of getting supply blocked at the WORST possible time and for a long time, during my opponents first push. I do get supply blocked a lot. I know the good tips from day9, check supply, money, minimap, and spam production building hotkeys. I have praticed it but it is not second nature to me yet.

Another thing that I find interesting about this replay is the not so effective use of Dark Templar by my opponent. I think many silver level players play like this. Overestimating some technique. Mass voidray in the back of opponents base, DT amongst the workers, proxy reaper rush, and so forth. Since this usually wins them the game these players just don´t practice the basics of the game. But I must admit, they probably have more fun than me while they play :) .

I have lots more to talk about, like life in Stockholm, maybe a little talk about music, and of course other games, but this post is becoming a long one. So I will just sign off.

Signing off.

Silver league TvP Candyman v George on Blistering Sands
Silver league TvP Void Ray play Candyman v Hukar on Scrap Station