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[@Asrudin]

23:37 With infinite universes everything that can be possible will happen somewhere, but it still has to be possible in the first place. So there isnt a Belgium where people want to live in voluntarily

[@Harstem]

hahahahahahahahaha

[@scandinerdian1961]

This is so f***ing painful to watch. Jesus, I got actual tears and I don't even play sc2😳

[@allmhuran]

"With infinite universes everything that can be possible will happen somewhere" A common proposition, but false. It could be that there are infinite universes and all of them except this one contain nothing but landed vikings.

[@morty908]

@@allmhuran Wrong. The proposition is only false if and only if this universe or universes of nothing but landed vikings are possible. Uorufu asserts that among all possible events, none include people wanting to live in Belgium voluntarily, which if true, is consistent with the original proposition.

[@antonkot6250]

Also living in Netherlands for some time, but what's wrong with Belgium in that Universe?

[@Kakubeki]

"Did your opponent GAIN supply during this fight??" lmao

[@geuros]

I laughed so hard after the Terran first moved some mines, suggested retreat, and then came back with like 50 and burrowed in his face lol. As if you were chasing a mouse and then suddenly 1000 mice start chasing you instead

[@Shane2020xxx]

Or like 1,000 little, slow nibbling turtles 🐢 one should be able to walk away from.

[@maximk9964]

Me too, I actually laughed out loud, not in the internet sense, but for real.

[@KSAlejo]

For me it was the warp-in stalkers into the burrowing mines. That moment was priceless.

[@KenjaTimu]

When I played Starcraft 15 years ago I would have my observer follow a random unit so it would stay behind the army. But I guess flying them into turrets is better.

[@vmgNarra]

In a sense I envy this terran player. Here I am, sitting in gm and playing exactly what the meta demands, but this guy just does what he wants, chills and still wins. I bet he's having a lot more fun than a lot of the highly ranked players. Great game!

[@Jet-ij9zc]

I can picture them having a slight chuckle every time their opponents forget there's a mine somewhere even though that mine hasn't moves for 3 minutes

[@ignaciorosales5462]

Hahaha yah man, so stressing to play and this guy is just trolling and having the time of his life. Ninja expo, mass mines, mass viking hahahahahhahahahaha. I guess vikings was to kill observers, that way toss couldn't attack mines hahhahaha

[@cheetahman2830]

I think this was the best Iodis-episode so far and I ve seen them all. Holy crap what a slaughterfest. And really nice effort with the stalker-blink-into-base-presentation.

[@AntiDoctor-cx2jd]

best one is "he accuses me of IMBA" Harstem's zerg was accused of being imbalanced.

[@shadowpriest2574]

The best one was the one where the 2 base terran beat the 7 base protos. That one was legendary, and so was the commentary.

[@brandong3330]

This and the only make marines episode are tied for my favorite

[@ricardosantos6721]

@@shadowpriest2574 link?

[@shadowpriest2574]

@@ricardosantos6721 "7 vs 2 Base AND HE LOSES?! | Is It Imba Or Do I Suck" You know I can't link stuff, cus it gets deleted.

[@arjenritzerfeld6567]

Love the new form animations and more complex overlay explanations!!! Nice work hamster!

[@MrMcMuggel]

love that you show the hero the love he deserves Thanks hamster

[@lxnux_._.9310]

The Terran was banking money for the midgame mutas

[@Alex-xk9yd]

That moment at 20:18 is probably the most beautiful scene in SC2 I've seen lately. Also, new idea for BGWSS - mass vigings. This terran did it in this game so you can too, heh

[@wicem4]

50 to 60 supplies dead there. impressive

[@AIRDRAC]

That would basically be a slimmed down version of uThermals penguin brothers strategy (marauders+landed vikings) that he got well into grand master with :)

[@Iaotle]

Vikings are actually hella trash though so I don't think it would work unless the toss is going mass phoenix

[@DrQuestern]

20:17 fun fact: this is what most mech terrans see in their sleep then they dream of their beautiful mech army

[@geuros]

Terran pr0n hehe

[@vinceb8123]

the editing is getting better and better, very good job! little things like that animation at 2:25 make this a pleasure to watch ❤

[@フワー]

Can't blame her for losing the zealots over and over again. She's living in an eternal time loop trying to save her dear friend after all.

[@imalator935]

Puella doka magika reference ?

[@katsu9738]

LOL You are actually on point. I got the name "Homura" from PMMM

[@explosion9815]

The power of time travel and she still can't find the time to learn how to play SC2, lel.

[@Fimbu1vetr]

Hameru can win? No

[@dresdenmini8586]

I love hamster’s edits and humor, the way he and harstem sychronize their humor makes a perfect combo.

[@themodernshoe2466]

7:35 Here's a useful piece of knowledge to have for situations like this. You can fit units behind most mineral lines and the planetary doesn't reach them. Even after the bunker is up, he could have put 3-5 stalkers behind the nat mineral line (shift clicking around the outside of the nat to avoid the planetary) and shift held position. He could deny mining for at least a minute because the 3 marines the Terran had couldn't do anything to the stalkers. You can also do this with roaches, hydras, marines, etc.

[@princess_love9929]

I would love to see one of those takeover episodes where Harstem has to play from the Terran's position around 4:00 with the three marines and see if it really is impossible to hold a properly timed blink stalker attack

[@Framidan]

Lately the first minutes of a mach against toss are becoming a nighmare.

[@ArtyMcMuffin]

Wow at 16:30 that face...that was legendary, I bursted out laughing! Great job with the prism!

[@johnmartorana196]

It's like every single video, the editing gets better and better. Hamster takes quality Harstem content and keeps kicking it up a notch. And Harstem keep killing me with the metaphors as always. Nice video guys!

[@VirtuelleWeltenMitKhan]

black and white slow motion of Harstem ... that was super nice :D

[@HexRox]

Harstem is really showing us that Protoss mains can't count during that movie discussion part

[@turaln4858]

I just had ptsd flashbacks after this IODIS - couple years back when I was active in mm, I faced this build (as zerg, d3) and have to say - this is one of the most demoralizing builds to lose to, way more than more common cheeses like cannon rush because those are usually over quickly. With this one, you KNOW that what your opponent is doing is suboptimal, and it should not work, but for some reason you just cannot break them - especially if it's your first time playing against it and you're trying to think of a counter on the fly. For me, the solution was to get BLs with Viper parasitic bomb for protection, but I had a brainfart and tried every other useless comp before coming to it, so by the time I was breaking my opponent, I was quite all in with my army. And as my opponent was about to be fully broken, they snuck in some mines under my BLs when I didn't pay attention, I lost my army, and hence the game. The silver lining is, now I know what to do if I ever come back to active play and face this strat. The bad thing is, fighting back and forth for 40 mins against something u know is incorrect and still losing is just so frustrating that I still remember that game to this day.

[@Broformist]

I lost to mass mine viking at around 3K MMR when I was playing protoss once, was also super demoralizing. At first it was just mass mines and I started making lots of colossus and crushing it, and was happy thinking to myself my opponent is an idiot. But then I couldn't do much when attacking him because he was turtling with double planetaries and tanks behind them so I went home and started going into greed mode. After a while mass mines with mass vikings start coming in and suddenly I start losing huge chungs of army. I was on 7-8 Colossus with mass Stalker and I would've thought that was enough to stop any mines from coming anywhere close but nope, he had such huge mass of them that still enough of them get close to blow large chunks of my army away on top of Vikings killing off my colossus. Then I started added storms to that while remaking colosus and stalker too and he just keeps coming and coming and I just don't do enough damage to mines before enough of them come over and burrow in my face. Eventually I just ragequit and didn't want to play protoss again for months after that. :D In retrospect I think I should've been adding sentries and just stopped those mines with forcefields, oh well, derp.. I think that guy was probably a smurf account because he was macroing like a champ with it, expanding all over the map with mass planetaries turrets everywhere. He really was good at producing tons of mine viking fast.

[@_bits_and_bytes]

This Protoss plays like his stalkers don't have blink and it's soul crushing

[@whateverppl1229]

his expression when he realized what a typical plat fight looks like was priceless

[@Junebug89]

You might not like it, but this is what peak terran performance looks like

[@baumes_baum8054]

Sth that harstem missed is that this was ebay before barracks as well so the rax was even later

[@chloesmith4065]

eBay before rax pretty much always means planetary rush

[@mylesaway2566]

omfg that 'passive income' roast 🤣🤣🤣👌

[@katsu9738]

OMG Captain actually picked my replay. Thank you very much!

[@walden6272]

Is that really you? LOL I like the way you write the letter.

[@katsu9738]

@@walden6272 I did WHATEVER it takes to get to IODIS. It paid off 😎

[@potatopobobot4231]

Did the build order say not to micro units? 🤣

[@walden6272]

@@katsu9738 The way you kept losing all your stalkers to widow mines broke the Captain's brain too. LOL His reaction was hilarious.

[@vlandorrackhum5420]

That terran was a real dick from start to end, don't feel bad, you can improve

[@PashaSlavaUkraine]

edits on these videos are so nice, i sometimes make fun of you because your a guffy person. but content fireee. the information tab brilliant, the analogies you make are so spot on all the time, bravo.

[@Ballltas]

Also the most fun reactions out of Kevin of all time :D omg so gooooood

[@CrowMercury]

The moment I saw the observerS retreating with the rest of the army and the distruptor shot clearly going over the mines 100% ignoring them, I knew this guy got into platinum by A moving only.

[@ddenozor]

The lack of info about sneaky base on complaint form tells me Homura didn't watch his own replay. Or he is just trolling us.

[@kostadinpantev]

@20:20 it finally clicked for me. He is cosplaying as a brooding hen in a farm simulator and wants to hatch the mines. A new take on the Brood Wars.

[@HP-ip5ow]

17:50 Harstem's laugh sustains me

[@min009]

I thought he was gonna do some slick blink back when the mine shoot but he just tanked it.

[@tatatatartine2588]

One of the best episode of "Is it Imba". And the quality of editing!! Wow: molto bravo Hamster!!

[@onyxthedark]

once again, Hamster killing it! also, I don't know how good or not it actually was, but I remember my friend always going mass vikings during the beta

[@amir.r1639]

In fact vikings are good against armored unit but you can make more marin and murader they are cheaper , made faster and you can refull their hp faster and for free So mass viking isnt that good but if you have unlimited money its a good thing I think

[@phenixphangorn]

They aren't good, but they are fun. I go mass vikings every once in awhile, especially in team battles. If we're ahead enough for me to actually build mass vikings, I usually win with them, but it's tough to get a good enough economy and defense to survive until then if you're trying to rush straight to them. And no, I'm not sending anyone a replay, I already know I suck. XD

[@AAhmou]

This whole Protoss play looks like they are bashing their head against a wall to bring it down, while keeping a mallet right behind them.

[@diplomat1o11]

These last two IODIS episodes have been spectacular. Harstem continues to excel at casting while Hamster just evolved from Charmander straight to Charizard X in editing skills. Great job and keep it up!!!!

[@Waavlu]

So now that we have seen it done, are we going to see Beating Grand Masters with Stupid Stuff: Viking Edition?

Even better…with landed vikings.

[@dustincintron1682]

"I think ppl are allowed to do whatever they want in a street fight"

[@Killer-xl2ur]

170 episodes of IODIS is not a lack of creativity, it’s a sign for infinity quality

[@space_orphan]

This game was pretty hilarious. 5 adepts would have won the game early - planetary can't hit them if they're standing behind minerals, can deny mining and kill all the SCVs

[@KenjaTimu]

I like how 10 mines burrow right in front of him. He moves his stalkers backwards 2 pixels. The mines shoot and 1 shot all his stalkers. It's like he thinks mines are stalkers that can burrow to hide. He looks surprised that they shoot from underground. He looks like he doesn't understand what shot him.

[@space_orphan]

@@KenjaTimu yeah, so funny! It's like, he recognized he should move back, but didn't move far enough. Also, losing your whole army to a widow mine bum rush is hilarious. I'm shocked this is happening in Plat

[@KenjaTimu]

@@space_orphan he must play better than this. Maybe he just forgot to make probes this one game and normally has a strong eco.

[@walden6272]

That's true. Adepts would hard counter his built.

[@Argent7771]

As someone in Gold league ill say this while PvT is my best matchup Turtle Terran can be very frustrating to play against. Although I find it much much harder as zerg. Terran I do think is very frustraiting for newer players because of how cost efficient their units are and because their range and splash damage is extremely good against people who havent learned to micro yet. Mass widow mine is also very overwhelming in terms of how fast decision making is and it often feels like the Terran is just trying to troll you

[@Dionysus112]

every day i hope the new video is a Toss build guide :'(

[@vidarton]

I like how the info "i" obscures the E in editor at some point, so we get "iditor's notes" - maybe someone from New Zealand wrote that one?

[@stephansam537]

I actually won my first ever game in SC2 with a mass Viking land assault, it was epic😎

[@razorbackblood06]

I'm having problems with Terrans who turtle up, but this terran didn't really even turtle much.

[@whateverppl1229]

20:19 "i tried to run away from the widowmines" yeah, after they where already firing mate, about 20 minutes too late

[@deeteenw]

At 3:30 why wouldn't he just shade up the ramp and kill every worker in the main?

[@martinwinther6013]

"Lemmings" - its a c64 game from late80s or early 90s, a pretty bizarre puzzle strategy game where you eg lead the lemmings out over a cliff..

[@vulkandrache1928]

YES!! .. .. Why Nunu This Terran was totaly trolling at the end. He realized this was the game to play mass vikings in and have a legit chance with it.

[@groundedhippo9356]

The Protoss player would’ve played a mean game as Zerg 😂

[@Ripperdingo69]

Everytime he says stuff like "building a house mid hurricane" I can see them as movie titles lmao

[@danielskrivan6921]

1:35 getting name dropped even when our clan tag isn't there!

[@cancerguy5435]

14:57 I mean, unless there is a mirror somewhere in the room Harstem couldn't have seen himself filming it.

[@Junebug89]

He has a camera trained on himself lol, I am sure he could have checked the recording software.

Fantastic production quality , top tier analogies. Loved the uthermal joke especially. 👌 Best IODIS ever!

[@ThePyramid21]

12:30 😂 your sense of humor is truly imba .. hilarious

[@JakeMondNaver424]

27:33 "Kick in the cojones" Harstem knowing spanish slang? You make my day xD

[@valerioromano2312]

Beating grandmaster with stupid stuff: 3/3 Landed vikings

[@fixihartmann2793]

Hey kevin! Ty for your upload

[@mikeberking20]

You have the best edits on youtube, Harstem. Awesome channel !

[@sakesaurus]

8:04 +20 social credit for the glorious movie

[@mathieuleblanc5452]

Did Harstem give you a raise Hamster? Editing really was next level on this one :). Although, it might have been a paycut since it feels like you've been trashing the Captain a lil' bit more than usual this time around :P

[@efrandom5472]

Love the editing, hats off to you Hamster

[@anzyroadside2374]

This Terran efficiency against Protoss is amazing.

[@sharpasacueball]

The protoss worked hard to make it happen as well lol

[@anotherplatypus]

Of course this means... you gotta win a bgmwss series with landed vikings now. = )

[@PlantDaddy1991]

"Like building a house in a hurricane" had me fuckin' rolling.

[@thesultan1212]

I really like the new UI of the videos, keep it up

[@zxkredo]

One of the top edited videos on this channel! :D

[@ZAWARUD00]

I had an incontrolable laugh at 20:10

[@tommack383]

Feel like this could be a future BGMWSS, mass viking (at least vs protoss)

[@brandon0sh]

its amazing how every single IODIS episode is a perfect example of a viewer who doesn't get what harstem is saying, ever I solve this issue by not playing starcraft 2

[@Tsnafu]

I have beaten a number of zergs with mass viking - shoot all the overlords then land and kill drones, rinse and repeat - it breaks their hearts. You should give it a try Harstem, you'll laugh all the way to the winning screen

[@CanCobb]

My absolute favourite moment is 16:30 in this video, 12:40 on the game replay, when Red telegraphs the mines to the prism, warp in happens anyway, and then the mines just annihilate the whole lot. I had to run out of the room I was laughing so hard. Like I think the void ray made it? But this is like you've already seen Somme and you send the blokes in anyway.

[@ntm4]

Watching those vikings run from small groups of stalkers (which they trade well against) only to stand and fight a medium group of stalkers shielded by a group of zealots (which they suck against).

[@BatkoNashBandera774]

Reverse T-Rex but with Widow Mines in motion, once the start moving they are seen by the rest of us, but become completely invisible to Mr. Passive Income Protoss over here.

[@owenthailand]

Great episiode, as usual, however I missed the form at the end where Harstem go and evalute the complainer step by step. Please consider bringing it back!.

[@MrHikagemono]

Almost looked like the Terran was replaying the Viking mission from campaign

[@allanturmaine5496]

The "live" fact checking never fails to impress me. It's nice to see honesty like that.

[@howzany6832]

Just FYI Harstem, I always eat dinner with a Harstem video on, and my cat watches with me. And my cat NEVER watches anything I watch, only Harstem videos... so you must be doing something right.

[@amir.r1639]

Im confused did sc2 just removed or nerfed blink for stalker right now?! Beacuse he didnt use it when he needed it the most ,its the best thing agains mines OMG how he is on plat

[@henningbreede6428]

Because plat is really low level.

[@amir.r1639]

@@henningbreede6428 but its near diomand it means if you played normal build order from your first game in rank , at least you would understand how to beat these type of stuff but most players they just rush the game so they can come in high ranks this is why you find a plat or in rare case a master player which they dont know how to use their units or they just A-move with little macro and they cant multitask well I hate these players man

[@sefyravelvetpaw8166]

Even as I was reading that form, I knew immediately something was wrong. You said it best, they had so many solutions but never utilized them. They were putting all the square pegs in the round holes. Is this what it takes to get into platinum? Maybe I'm not as shit as I tell myself.

[@zergrush8709]

I wonder how an episode of iodis would go if there was a guest on that was tasked with defending the person's complaint.

[@hanrockabrand95]

🤣8:40 my new daily affirmation. It's like toxic assertive.

[@stefanjoksa]

I swear, this editor is the mvp!!! :D

[@guys886]

20:09 OH NO THE FLANK

[@eclipseeffigy]

😂 I love Harstem & Hamster's jokes, playing off of each other. Great episode!!

[@warwickthekingmaker7281]

there is a universe where mass viking wins a game but there's no universe in which Homura defeats the Walpurgisnacht

[@kijunglee2819]

Does anyone have a link to that 12 blink stalker timing attack build order? I’m curious to learn it

[@badoverwatchhighlights7614]

as a recent F&F convert, I gotta say they live in a wonderful space of spectacle without any pretense towards meaningfulness. Also they eventually become ridiculous spy movies.

[@swooooop]

omg that absent father analogy got me actually laughing out loud in real life which is clearly not usually the case when people say lol

[@skullaveraz]

Loving the editors notes!

[@oliverhughes610]

This makes me want to start playing again, but as Terran, and just making mines

[@voodoochild24262]

Hamster I couldn't stop fucking laughing at your perfect edits the entire video. Yassss

[@MattHallahan]

It is painful to know that Homura has a higher MMR than I do. The only time this man used blink was to get closer to enemy tank fire

[@paulrogers4234]

Watching that army get melted by the mines… jaw dropped

[@danielt.9611]

That letter alone is comedy gold.

[@localman7017]

Getting styled on with mass penguins is a fate worse than death

[@TacticalFlukie]

What's the song around 8:30?

[@Helycon]

Hyper - Spoiler Found it by looking up "cyberpunk meme song"

[@andreashalbfeld7671]

You're a content MACHINE!

[@jonbro32]

"No no, it has nothing to do with the knives. Your an idiot!" - Harstem, 2023

[@colossaldonut5190]

Gigachad Paul working 150 hour weeks. Sigma grindset.