Got destroyed by the 'afk' proxy 4rax once, I've never emotionally recovered from that 😂
@DarkTemplar426 ай бұрын
When it happened to me, I pulled all my probes to kill the CC faster, and was flabbergasted when I saw the marines
@josefanon85046 ай бұрын
RIP
@walterthewatermelon72556 ай бұрын
The worst for me was when I was playing a TvP and the protoss did a fake-afk build. I'd seen enough Harstem videos to know what I was looking at, so I scouted his hidden base and expected an easy win. But then I died to his timing anyway.
@michaelwicker95385 ай бұрын
@@walterthewatermelon7255 Protos imba, lol
@walterthewatermelon72555 ай бұрын
@michaelwicker9538 Lol it might be funny to submit it to IODIS.
@itskittyme2 ай бұрын
"pretending to be AFK" - the dude has 10 times more stuff than me after 5 minutes while I'm not pretending to be AFK
@LasseLundster6 ай бұрын
My favorite challenge, foiled completely by M3s who don't scout.
@Robothuck6 ай бұрын
Well to be honest, in the last game I think he forgot that AFK players dont build overlords in their main anyway so even if Jumy did scout that would have been a big clue lol
@bentosan6 ай бұрын
I saw that too and was screaming in my head to move the overlord
@user-bn1ns6xp3i6 ай бұрын
@@Robothuckhe moved the original overlord
@NuStiuFrate6 ай бұрын
Harstem: I wish there was a button to show my opponent it's time to leave. His opponent in the last game probably: I wish there was a button to show my opponent it's time to leave.
@PeterZaitcev6 ай бұрын
nice one
@jamesphillips22854 ай бұрын
I seem to recall the original Starcraft had a reveal map option.
@lilanedaria6 ай бұрын
I look forward to the 50th reenactment of Pretending to be AFK with grandpa Harstem
@dicksonZero6 ай бұрын
grandpa harstem pretends to be afk at his armchair while he is cooking at the kitchen
@stc28284 ай бұрын
“I will go roach since he might forget stargate exists” void ray instantly flys into mineral line😂
@toddwilkolak52776 ай бұрын
It's so refreshing to watch someone genuinely just having a great time gaming. So often I watch videos and people just complain about the game they play too much. Thanks for the continuous great content
@1un4cy6 ай бұрын
People need to just take the game for what it is instead of trying to change it so suit themselves.
@joshuaherd10155 ай бұрын
Check out uthermal then
@nick17524 ай бұрын
OMG yes. Now I know why I love to watch Harstem playing! It's exactly this reason, he's having fun!
@MatVeiQaaa4 ай бұрын
imo those who complain about the game they are grinding are either too young or not particularly good at it, also. From my observations really old players dont complain anymore, like 6+ years of experience.
@GRAYgauss2 ай бұрын
@@1un4cy If people did that, starcraft would have zero meta. Making the game for yourself is a great way to have fun, are we not watching prime examples of that? ...The problem is people lynchpinning their value on their rank even though it's such an abstract concept it is fairly worthless in the real world and for the worse cases, often at the expense of real world skills.
@WikiED6 ай бұрын
Poor Jumy, got bodied by uThermal's random cheeses then to be stabbed by Harstem's fake afk
@rickzor27006 ай бұрын
6:00 "if this guy stabs me at some point in life I probably deserve it". Best SC2 commentary ever haha
@Ben-gd1so6 ай бұрын
Poor Jumy getting farmed by Thermy's and Harstem's challenges recently
@Arexsis6 ай бұрын
I was just thinking the same thing, poor jumy 😅
@kaiser22616 ай бұрын
Content creator of the week
@dosquats6 ай бұрын
Pretending to be afk was the first Harstem content i ever saw. Nostalgic episode GG
@Garethax6 ай бұрын
ForJumy must've had a frustrating week, getting blasted by uthermal AND harstem with random stupid builds lol
@zes72156 ай бұрын
wrr
@Amoeby6 ай бұрын
OMG, I've been waiting for so long for this challenge to return!
@StampedingSteve3 ай бұрын
This takes me back to my SC2 days... i used to kill all my SCVs at the start of the game , liftoff the CC , fly to a corner and actually go AFK. It was great to do before getting food or something. I'd come back and about 40% of the time I would win. The best games would go on for an hour. People would get really confused and think the game bugged out after they walked the map 3-4 times. They'd type in the chat "Hello ???" and eventually leave thinking they spawned without an opponent
@yoye1012 ай бұрын
Man, you are evil!
@eggymatrix6 ай бұрын
What a long way you have come, the first "Pretending to be AFK" was the one that got me hooked, and it is amazing how your stile and ease in front of the camera evolved in the time. Great work! Keep digressing, keep cheesing, keep being awesome!
@markawilliams48606 ай бұрын
Poor Jumy. Can't escape meme builds from Harstem and uThermal.
@doc67816 ай бұрын
Poor guy is down something like 350mmr in the last 2 days to Dutch youtubers XD
@JustWatoo6 ай бұрын
I think he's got to have considered uninstalling after these matches. Maybe he just has a weakness against non-standard builds?
@124horst6 ай бұрын
21:45 "does he work fulltime in a circus" got me completely omg hahahha
@sebastiankamph6 ай бұрын
These afk challenges are the best ever! Actually stupid stuff is enjoyable to watch ❤
@Slothwell4 ай бұрын
"If my opponent scouts, it would suck. However if my opponent DOESNT scout .. it would also suck because this build is GARBAGE" My fucking sides. I don't play SC but this was entertaining enough that i didn't need to understand much
@bencheevers66936 ай бұрын
These are always a classic love this series!
@skylordquasar3 ай бұрын
I got to gold with afk mass carriers a few years back. Was beautiful.
@loraxak6 ай бұрын
After seeing Harstems previous versions of this I used to do a afk DT drop on a map with a rich vespene geyser it was so much fun when it worked.
@superverychillguy6 ай бұрын
This is my favourite bgmwss, one of the first videos of yours i watched. Glad to see you bring it back.
@TristanOnGoogle6 ай бұрын
"ForJumY" is the guy who lost 3 games today in a row vs uThermal right ?
@aloe77946 ай бұрын
6:01 captain being on point and hilarious with commentary, I love it lmao
@dogscangame5 ай бұрын
Thanks for bringing this back, we all appreciate you 🙏🏻👍
@daryladhityahenry6 ай бұрын
Lol I'm so glad at least this strategy work out quite well this time and even got a win!! CONGRATZZZ!!!
@Alloran6 ай бұрын
reminds me of the Bongcloud, just some good old break your brain style starcraft. The real victory comes from making your opponent doubt their sanity.
@trayfenodonnell53864 ай бұрын
"Is he a clown...does he work full time in the circus?" funny stuff man lol
@Sidicas3 ай бұрын
But its so amazing when the base blows up and the game doesn't end.
@lysy-zn2gg6 ай бұрын
Yesss, I was waiting for this one so long
@realdomdom2 ай бұрын
To this day, I have never seen a more hilarious thing than faking to be AFK.
@Terrorbrot4 ай бұрын
never played this game but i really enjoy watching you from time to time :)
@KumarBendrake6 ай бұрын
That was great fun, Harstem. Thanks
@DevJonny6 ай бұрын
suggestion for this: the vanishing army, early pressure, make a good sized army, attack and then retreat, then load all your army into transports, move it to the edge of the map and when they counter attack, base trade them
@davidloucks18854 ай бұрын
Here comes the sun, ladeeladee. Thanks for remembrance of that song brother.
@iantan59756 ай бұрын
Oh captain my captain, it brings a tear to my eye to behold such buffoonery
@danrothman61296 ай бұрын
I love Harstems laugh it goes like this- eHAASST HAAST HAAAA, gasps* EHHAAASST HAAASSTT HAAAST!
@yanshi48076 ай бұрын
I know this is going to be a banger 😂 love you captain ❤
@literatemaxАй бұрын
I think in that first game they knew you were bluffing because the "only" thing you had left kept stopping and starting its movement
@MrSonicjew3 ай бұрын
I love playing like this as zerg, taking your second base close by and spreading creep and spines, so fun
@tenj006 ай бұрын
Harstem, the guy who goes AFK into 3rax in a tournament against BigGabe.:) PS: My wishes for 2024.
@fostyfrosty71206 ай бұрын
Your third video about pretending to be afk was your first video that i watched, good times!
@TheLiverX4 ай бұрын
You know what they say: Play stupid games, win... stupid games. I think
@Lucius_Chiaraviglio5 ай бұрын
The funniest thing would be if you did all this build-up and found that your opponent was AFK . . . except then it would be even funnier if THEY had been secretly building up elsewhere as well.
@youknownothing12426 ай бұрын
Your game at 26 minutes I got so excited you were trying my suggestion from awhile back but alas no such luck! Was the pretend to be afk with zerg, don't move overlord, offensive proxy hatch offcentered at minerals, cancel soooo you can proxy your pool asap then use 2nd drone to make hatchery centered!
@berrycarriez10744 ай бұрын
I love this game but cannot play no where near the level most people can in this but would always enjoy watching your videos and this was one of my favorites back then when you did the original AFK build love watching you play man keep it up!
@jajemon6 ай бұрын
This is my favorite sc challenge .. it's just beautiful
@ZorroDk6 ай бұрын
In the last game: The overlord is quite a big tell, isn't it? When moving away the first overload and producing a new, then the new one will not be in the same position as the first one...
@mothrahlurker7886 ай бұрын
Not like people are going to notice that easily.
@ZorroDk6 ай бұрын
@@mothrahlurker788 Maybe not. I just thought that GM/Pro players might :)
@MKu646 ай бұрын
@@ZorroDk As a GM I can tell you that I would not have noticed 😂 But now I probably will 😅
@VegaMain4 ай бұрын
I don’t even play this game but I love watching. I don’t know why.
@yaboiyosef76406 ай бұрын
The original afk BGMWSS was the first Harstem video I ever watched
@Aerational4 ай бұрын
I've been doing a 5 CC opener in silver. I'll have 5 bases by 3 minutes and then start to spam down barracks. My 5th CC is built at main base ramp along with ebay for temporary wall then moved to natural and replaced with rax. After 5 CC I focus mainly on spamming barracks but continue to take more mining bases and try to fill the map. Generally by 7 minutes I have about 15 or so barracks, like 6 or 7 Orbitals maybe a planetary or two, and with the mule mining I can spam out marines at an insane pace. It's like zero focus on micro and I basically just become a human tower defense game. I usually lose my main base, sometimes I lose several bases... but so far I've been able to beat like 95% of my opponents by just eventually streaming so many marines from all over the map that it overwhelms people. Again... low rank, but maybe you could do something crazy greedy like that. I'll say this I've had people scout what I'm doing immediately, and start hitting base after base and often I can still overtake them just on sheer income/production basically. They generally start to feel really comfortable when they have destroyed a couple CCs, but don't realize I've already been mass mule mining and have Barracks EVERYWHERE. Basically if you can survive the early game your income and production are going to be so good you can generally overcome the losses you took tp start. Another key is splitting my scvs among all bases so no one base is a game ender to lose.
@mirastor17966 ай бұрын
In the last game, I was waiting for a BC to appear in your main 🤣
@kaloyanangelov80426 ай бұрын
Love this challenge!
@Static23326 ай бұрын
You should also bring back the proxy double forge or engineering bays for Terran. Maybe fake out some other kind of cheese?
@GnikWoc6 ай бұрын
hey @harstem, are you going to be doing any Stormgate content? Super suprised to not see any yet!
@olivander656 ай бұрын
The return of the king
@Caipi20706 ай бұрын
27:22 you get 225 minerals from cancelling the hatch, so you don’t need to wait for 200 minerals in the bank to cancel and build the spawning pool
@Aguyfrom2254 ай бұрын
I did something similar. I built my base on his third. Made full base on third but pretended i was an idiot. He marched across the map and destroyed my base but i had a fully functioning base at his third and killed his main. He had to dc. He thought it was a base trade. I realizing after the match he was a master rank. After that first placement match, it put me in diamond league immediately. I still have that picture today.
@xmickx4 ай бұрын
I love how he whispers so the enemy won't hear him
@mates67085 ай бұрын
great video. now every game against terran i get 3rax cheesed. really funny harstem...
@dustinmorrison63156 ай бұрын
I find it preposterous that a 5k Zerg hasn't scouted the entire map by 6 minutes into the game.
@riceontopstew3 ай бұрын
one of the only yt channels I cant watch at 1.25 speed
@FShani5 ай бұрын
I was so hoping that last game was an afk vs afk build. The rematch and no scout was setting it up perfectly.
@ramil80296 ай бұрын
nooooo! We waited for the return of this challenge for so many years, and you made a 35 min video, the longest game of which went way off the track of the challenge 😢😢😢 this deserved to be over 1hr video
@Borrelaas4 ай бұрын
In the first game i think the other guy would be less inclined to scout the top left if Harstem would've not just let the first CC stay idle flying over the natural, but rather had the CC fly towards the lower right and trying to keep him chasing it thinking it would land or something.. Just my thoughts
@SebastiantheXII6 ай бұрын
Would it be viable to use the lifted Command Center like an Overlord to scout the enemy?
@causeneffect85636 ай бұрын
Can you sing “Here comes the Stem”, instead of “Here comes the Sun”, because you, Harstem, are a mad genius and your videos bring a new day.
@user-rc3sv2wo2q5 ай бұрын
Can we get a "Beating Grandmasters pretending to be an idiot" game?
@jfabiovieira6 ай бұрын
Could we have a dummy (or not) tournament with a few players that can only play "Beating Grandmasters with stupid stuff" That would be awesome to see the casters confused and everyone else ahah I would watch that :D
@joshuaherd10155 ай бұрын
Aha Ahahaha Ah Ah Aha so funny
@robbasgaming70444 ай бұрын
I haven't watched sc2 for years. But what is this map called?? Rådhuset station? I live close by, it's a subway station in Stockholm lol
@JamesMichaelDoyle6 ай бұрын
i have to ask, why do people use hellions and not get blueflame? especially against mass lings?
@visoroverwatch32476 ай бұрын
I feel like i just lost some braincells watching this lol.
@neverping6 ай бұрын
Hartem, congratulations to come up with such challenge! Have you told uThermal about your new idea?
@ugaaga1984 ай бұрын
Would be more effective when pausing the game early on and then pretending not coming back, so the enemy continues the game 😂
@njdarda6 ай бұрын
i just watched forjumy getting tortured by uthermal and now this. ;-;
@Freakieboy1236 ай бұрын
Have you ever tried to play around with suboptimal but regular builds? (on purpose :P) e.g. in pvt build the nexus so late that your opponent expects a proxy gate and basically reacts to nothing by building cc on the highground with a bunker. Build 4 gateways on 2 base but don´t attack. I am sure you can think of a lot of stupid stuff in that way! :)
@HighLanderPonyYT3 ай бұрын
Great challenge! lol
@omnimoeish6 ай бұрын
lol that first game it was 19 to 49 workers at 4 minutes in.
@celestrius91976 ай бұрын
After the first match im thinking if you quit hellions at 4 and had 2 mines available behind minerals and gas for the mutas itd be too late for him to react probably. And this is definitely gonna bait out high muta
@michaeljackson765Ай бұрын
You should be able to share vision with your opponent if you choose, you can in broodwar.
@drewaforbes6 ай бұрын
One of the best BGMWSS :)
@mundolincurve75776 ай бұрын
you can still destroy your hatcheries to reveal your position and show the oponnent you are on top.
@thomasgrams97156 ай бұрын
There's something funny to me in saying, "we're gonna do a 3 rax follow up" after faking being afk.
@altonito7776 ай бұрын
Forjumy played against uThermal in his new random cheese to gm series, in the first game uThermal sprayed a 2nd place medal in his base before destroying him and then had 3 other matches against that same guy and now he also gets tortured by this afk build omg xD
@dschortz6 ай бұрын
Bgmwss dropping multiple nukes simultaneously.
@KamikazeWombat6 ай бұрын
I just yesterday watched a video of uthermal beating up on a probably hungover 4jumy. Poor guy lol
@Cylindryk6 ай бұрын
It would be very interesting to see this game commented by Lowko, by from your op perspective. ;)
@blazethegryphon99902 ай бұрын
The dumbest, most beautiful all-in I've ever seen!
@PylosLight6 ай бұрын
Favourite challenge ever :D
@jims4206 ай бұрын
You talking with a low tone helps with the afkness of the build..
@mattivoutilainen23486 ай бұрын
❤❤Love to see this again❤❤
@Mokinono456 ай бұрын
yay...the best challenge ever
@pavelvalis70236 ай бұрын
Classic Bumbz :D
@matthewsemenuk89536 ай бұрын
Seems to work well vs protoss
@hodgzer6 ай бұрын
You thinking so much faster than you can speak)))
@gabrielstarlight90036 ай бұрын
Someone needs to convince another pro to do this challenge in the hopes that they encounter each other on the ladder. It's a long shot I know but just imagine. It won't happen if we don't try.
@lyrilili6 ай бұрын
you could probably convince uthermal
@user-ft7np6rb3r6 ай бұрын
simple men, click, like and watch Harstem FOREVER!