Sunday, April 3, 2011

Viruses and Malware -_- , starcraft rant ^_^

I should be studying for finals, but something has come to my attention (ie. its been thrown in my face several times in the last couple of days).

A total of 3 people i know have all caught malware viruses within the span of 5 days...i dunno if its the april fool's day thing, or they are really just fools (btw the two aren't mutally exclusive).

Golden rule on surfing the internet...always have anti-viral softwareSSSS!!!!!!! (was the emphasis subtle enough ><) Every anti-viral software have their own flaws...so its always important to combo several software togethers to cover their weaknesses...such as avast with malwarebytes (free softwares cause im cheap ^^) While that ends my rant of the day...lets go back to nerdy things ^^ Starcraft patch 1.3 has been out a while now...and i've witness is the extintion of the psi-storm fromt he protoss army (sad face D=) However what i've also seen less of is bunker rushes (Yay ^^) Zerg has been pretty much the same...fungal growth is less key in lower leagues. my ratings for the recent (sorta) patch: Terran: 6.5/10 -increase battleship speed was pretty cool, and i really like the nerf to the EMP of the ghost and the increase bunker build time. However the slowing of the stim-pack research by a total of 30 sec was too much for the race, maybe 10-15 tops or even left untouch Zerg: 8/10 - increase damage but slows stun duration...a nerf in my opinion but at least it came with some good as it deals 30% extra damage to armoured units like tanks and marauders. Protoss: negative 9000/10, this really hurt protoss late game ability to deal with mass mutas or mass infanty. Sure i agree psi-storm might've been too powerful...so why not reduce its damage, increase the nrg of each psi-storm or increase research time...removing the upgrade is awful (another upgrade removed by blizzard...wats next charge? extended thermal lance? blink?) maybe im biased cause im a protoss player -_- But they could've at least given protoss better detection -> observers are great but they should not hv to be built from robos.
Zerg has overseers at tier 2 (which there is no reason not to have in mid game or so) and the !@#$ spore crawlers
Terran has missile turrets, scanner sweeps, and ravens (not great but at least they can scan during emergencies)
Protoss have observers (great, but u are screwed if u didn't build a robo) and photon canons (i suggest observers be built requirement be a forge) or allow protoss to scan like terrans with nexus nrg.



*this blog has seem to become a place where i rant more than talk...maybe i should just rename this segment into a ranting blog...maybe "rants people should listen too" or "why won't life go my way!"