IMPOSSIBLE At This Level! | Is It Imba Or Do I Suck

[@Canadoom]

"Being old is bad for you." - Harstem, medical expert

[@Twas-RightHere]

Beat me to it

[@classiccroissant3231]

There are many documented cases of death due to old age.

[@FenrisEx]

Casn confirm. I am fucking old.

[@KenjaTimu]

I'm turning 49. 35 isn't old. I had barely lost faith in humanity at 35.

[@KenjaTimu]

@@L-Del you only think you have. There is a lot more.

[@colossaldonut5190]

The king of analogies is back! Loved the one about him cuttting off his own arm, amazing.

[@MrMcMuggel]

yeah, that was one of the best ones yet. And he slams out good analogies like the roach printer. Harstem goes brrrrr

[@arcademarine123]

An idea for beating grandmaster with stupid stuff: Get every upgrade in the order that they are displayed

[@danielskrivan6921]

Hamster is like an AI that's slowly becoming self-aware.

[@666mandrake]

+Daniel Skrivan Hamster is an anagram for Harstem. They could be the same person, very easily. I dont know tho. I am curious.

[@benibacon]

@@666mandrake Hamster is the editor of Harstem. If you check the description it literally mentions that and also gives a link to their twitter.

[@willsunnyf1]

@@666mandrake You can hear Hamster talking in the rank roulette series

[@666mandrake]

@@willsunnyf1 Ya, I remember, you are right.

[@hamster_designs]

A voice changer and a fake Twitter account are no proofs at all guys!

[@Gman791991]

That warp gate explanation is actually taught me a lot of things.

[@ghostsmoke11]

Me at age 33: *nervous sweating*

[@Shattered-Realm]

lol I'm 35 I don't feel old

[@teamredshirt]

Don’t let the pro gamer bias infect you. white Ra is older than all of us and still going.

[@MikeYZFR6ICT]

37 and I swear I’m better than I used to be but the crowd is getting sweatier.... but he did suck

[@teamredshirt]

@@MikeYZFR6ICT which is my point, age doesnt hold you back, it provides an excuse that everyone accepts. The dude wasnt bad because he was 30 (two years younger than Bly, two years older than Stats) he was bad becasue his decision making sucked, his mechanics held him back and his game sense seemed non-existant.

[@DB-yj3ii]

As 39 I might aswell just end it.

[@wyvernf6644]

9 Dislikes, once again Harstem underestimates how many crossfitters watch his videos

[@Nallenbot]

As a 40 year old in Plat, this was a big oof.

[@gabrielhoelzle8476]

No such thing as mercy in Harstem's dictionary xD

[@l.a.w.5738]

not a matter of age, he is just bad

[@triplesharigan]

u have to agree that your apm was better 20 years ago, i notice that my apm has been declining over the years.

[@WarRior-rn4kb]

@@triplesharigan im 37 now and my apm is going higher as I understand the game more..

[@triplesharigan]

@@WarRior-rn4kb well im looking at other games as i'm not that big of a sc2 player myself. But there i notice my output has declined somewhat over the years while my understanding remained somewhat similar. I think knowing what to do, and learning that will help increasing my apm if I would pick up sc2 it would actually increase but that has more to do with knowing rather than reaction speed

[@micharuoff6759]

I havent played Starcraft in years, just here for the analogies. Almost fell from my chair when he said he goes to the Monastery to get himself a Monk

[@teamredshirt]

The little “at least he has company” aside got me too.

[@ExpertLoliFucker]

must've missed that one. you got a timestamp?

[@archangle2988]

Attacks Hydras with zelots, and just before the zelot reach pops down a bunch of forcefields to protect the hydras from the Zelots .... wondered Harstem missed that gem, truely astounding next level gameplay .... i love it when Winter jumps into the replays to prove that A moving the army and wanking yourself of without touching the keyboard again for the rest of the game leads to a landslide victory while the actual player sending the replay spend a staggering ammound of actions to micro a landlide victory into a landslide defeat ...

[@dubstepbanane6277]

3:18 he is not a voyeur, he just thought, that he was playing Zerg and needed 2 workers to build 2 structures

[@jkyet]

Juice: it's impossible to play at this level Harstem: is this some sort of peasant joke I'm too high level to understand?

[@thedoctor3020]

you’d think that, if he played the original starcraft, he would know how a lurker works...

[@fluffyfang4213]

Oh god.... I'm imagining that same fight in the original and... he had the High Templar in front to get the storms off. I've played SC1 enough to be absolutely paranoid about High Templar being ahead of my army much less leading them through a single unit gap.

[@AB-xo3pl]

Lurker wasn't part of the original SC1. It was added in the Brood War expansion.

[@999MIX]

Harstem is like the Bob Ross of Starcraft but instead of saying nice things to people he roasts them in a polite way, it's amazing.

[@minimalgrammar1276]

He is *not* polite lmfao

[@AntoniGawlikowski]

I love your Content, Captain! One humble request though - you seem to have 4 basic sizes of WebCam feed defined in OBS , let's call them "Full Screen", "Large", "Medium" and "Small". Sometimes you use the "Small" setup when casting IIODIS and that's great, but sometimes (and in this video in particular) you opt for the "Medium" variant which takes roughly 1/4 of the screen and makes it hard to see what's going on in the game. Especially since you also comment parts that are obscured by your WebCam feed (vide 19:11). I think it would be great if you could stick with the "Small" setup... I love seeing your face and mimicry but it's equally well-visible that way and makes for a better viewing experience! Anyways - thanks for your top-quality content. It's great, light and entertaining :) Best regards and keep it comming!

[@zephyas1699]

The monk replacing the printer analogy for the zealot transition killed me! LOL

[@NeedASpot]

Dude Harstem has the absolute best analogies anyone has ever attempted to come up with on the spot

[@Huitzinga]

The wo dislikes were from two angry crosfitters.

[@the_rabidsquirel]

That really was the *perfect* engagement for the zerg, the enemy just feeding their lurkers through that tiny choke.

[@geburah8319]

I love how pleased with yourself you look after you made that crossfit analogy. wahahaha.

[@StayHydratedGaming]

Seeing the building placement at the front and lack of workers, I feel better about being able to reach diamond league now

[@rozmarinideas5340]

It's all about how much stuff you make. And cheese. Lots and lots of cheese

[@papacalypse154]

@@rozmarinideas5340 You mean DEFENDING against cheese =D then winning with your economic lead.

[@nekrosis4431]

@@papacalypse154 Either you learn a cheesy build (how to place 5 buildings at the correct time), or you learn how to keep your calm with cannons in your base. I think both works well.

[@ckhound1]

I would bet, just from looking at this game, that the reason he builds his things that way is because he has lost repeatedly to baneling busts, so in our mind (us diamonds) it gets drilled into you that this is an issue, and so you begin to build things in a way that you can in no way lose to that. That doesn't make it good, but it is a fairly logical step. The professional would obviously know that by scouting, unit and map control, and those things would prevent that from working, but we aren't that good and so therefore do the simplest thing to stop it. If this was a plat game youd just see the guy getting baneling busted repeatedly lol

[@Shegin]

According to video title: Expectation: Zerg complains about 3 or 4-base air-toss with crap tons of static defense and templars. Reality: Toss complains about units that doesn't do anything vs air-toss if upgrades is equal.

[@ИльяМиронов-я2л]

that's so cool to watch how did you change in less than a year. You are having very nice content, you deserve these 2k likes!

[@lynk_1240]

icecoldjuice has probably had a Nydus in his main too many times and didn't want to lose his structures to it

[@gavinlawhite8721]

I sat through 20 minutes of harstems bad analogies to watch mr Icecoldjuice here walk into the smallest choke in the game with 10 lurkers on the other side....

[@ClearAlera]

In my early 30s, could definitely use some easy sudoku books and a good walking cane catalog. Send them my way Harstem!

[@jakemertens1382]

When Harstem was talking about Hamster being trigger-happy with the stamps I expected like 30 stamps to spontaneously appear on the screen

[@NeoBladeSC2]

ROFL ... LOOOOLLL "Three complaints here: First, he is old! This seems to be true, but we will investigate this further." Harstem ... you are a fu******g genius!

[@Aisu7]

My favorite meme is people saying in the comments of IODIS videos "I'm [insert lower MMR than person in video] but even I'm not this bad" or something to that effect. I would love a series where Harstem just calls these people out and has a good look at their games instead. Might be a nice wake-up call for some people.

[@mykolapokhylets3105]

I love Harstem’s painfully educational metaphors. As an expat in NL, I find this to be a very Dutch-specific thing.

[@danielskrivan6921]

10:50 It's like when a Toss player transitions from air to DTs. Except the anti-air structures are detectors...

[@Vivisekta]

That monk analogy fucking killed me. Especially the way he said "monk" at the end. Man that's comedy.

[@manolgeorgiev9664]

monke*

[@Arkain89]

so glad we got a replay so boring Harstem decided to review the vegetation instead

[@asdfasdf-mn8iu]

Single-File unit choke, the dream scenario for lurkers and hellions. Must've felt like the enemy lets his probes flee to the extractor for a clean 20-probe-one-shot vs 3 hellions lul

[@tungnse]

Trying to smash head into the wall by crossing a narrow choke point while the other side is full of lurkers/tanks, damn, some sc players really forgot the word "strategy" in RTS all they bitch about is either race balance, APM or build order.

[@chrisgriffith1573]

Oh, shit. 35 is old? Crap. I too have been playing since 98. I was 31 then... I was never that good... but hell, I am not that bad, either... age has nothing to do with playing.

[@Thablackman530]

I Came for the gameplay. I stayed for the metaphors and analogies

[@fluffyfang4213]

I honestly believe that the only way Juice would think it was the Lurker's fault enough to send this in to Harstem is somehow not seeing the destructible rocks. Tidal waving onto the Lurkers and getting wrecked to splash damage would be one thing, but being completely unable to even hit something is what gets people to cry IMBA. Secondly, why bother even mentioning the early game? They ceasefired so long the Zerg could have gone back to one base in the last attack and still maxed out by the time they fought again.

[@BassicGene]

Yeah this game was a perfect example of this player having zero clue about map terrain and how army positioning works. If he went around the top again, he might have been okay (despite being behind in macro, he strangely constructed a very diverse army able to handle many compositions).

[@yolgiebear]

The smug smile at 9:28 😆😆

[@DobroSC2]

19:10 Here it is! Here is THE MOMENT of pure skill

[@karrrdo]

"Cutting workers" is a nice term for forgetting to make any :)

[@thepsyler]

I used to watch standup comedy, but this series is funnier then most of the shows nowadays :) BIG UP!

[@MrTubeStuck]

Harstem's face when those 2 probes were dancing around during the early game. You can see all the question marks fly out into the screen

[@AlexGarciaMatthew7-7]

Lol

[@Catchek]

I am new to playing protoss and absolutely i feel like a toddler who hasn't even started elementary school, as harstem describes.

[@nekrosis4431]

Who needs to construct additional Pylons? Yeeees, you need to construct additional Pylons.

[@Catchek]

@@nekrosis4431 sadly it happens to often. same as taking first gas.

[@BassicGene]

The funny thing about how he puts all his structures in the natural entrance is that it actually protects him from baneling busts and also makes a Nydus into the main pretty useless, since there’s nothing there to kill, and one force field can block access into the natural. 3000 IQ sim city if you know you’re not good enough to do scouting lol.

[@MrNicoJac]

Except that a competent opponent then starts raining down Biles or Swarmlings into your tech. And there's literally no room left for your own units to stand in, let alone defend.

[@albertnorman4136]

Nice draw with Serral by the way. Now, not having seen the game yet, I'm going to guess that he didn't use Disruptors, which seem like a natural counter to one of the few Zerg units with mobility issues. Also guessing that he didn't follow your example and make some Tempests to clear out stationary Zerg infestations.

[@drakorez]

Beating GM with stupid stuff challenge: Use this guy's strategy of putting your tech in your wall.

[@Jay-ef2hi]

:O - Harstems face when he finds out all his fans are old crossfitters from NA

[@Kylanto]

Hot tip: If you switch your keybindings, you can research warpgate before +1 air

[@cptfwiffo]

holy! That ***HARSTEM!!!!**** at the start blew me almost off my chair

[@augustsbautra]

To think this guy is diamond while playing own-hand-sawing-off build(s). The mind boggles.

[@manolgeorgiev9664]

Well, to be fair, he had 3 complaints, 2 of which were valid. So 66%!

[@HighLanderPonyYT]

Is this the last video with the stamps with the declinCed typo? I wonder.

[@cptfwiffo]

I cannot wait for that one video that gets through and is well-stamped

[@letopizdetz]

I need to play more often just so i can run into opponenets that don't attack me for 10 minutes and then push with hydra/lurker with no caster support.

[@EpicJuiceFilms]

I literally don't think you can make lurkers more cost effective against stalkers if you tried, single file through a tiny choke and sometimes losing vision... so cringe

[@Spanky00Cheeks]

Thumbs up for the CrossFit bashing... where bad for is the norm. Cardio and powerlifting shouldn’t be combined. You lose stability and safety in your lifts.

[@davidsisson194]

It's not that being old is bad, it's that we grew up with underdeveloped game systems with less graphics, slower processes and fewer buttons. These kids now have insane hand eye coordination from the new age games. I'm 39 and when I was a young squirt I played the Atari, it was 8 bit, ran at 1.2 MHz, had 128 bytes of ram and only 2 buttons (not counting directional). Playing advanced games at such a young age causes significant variations in brain development.

[@diveyy]

I don't even play SC but I watch your videos. Hahaha.

[@Doeff8]

Niiice. PROBLEM: I top that guy juice in many ways. Playing Warcraft in the 90's, indeed SC2 since the Beginning, and 47y old now. Low Plat / High Gold depending the weather. Hmmmm

[@ledrash6079]

Dang, u even older than me :)

[@custume]

yeah blame the editor for your premature stamping heheheheheheheheeh

[@vinnieg6161]

the way he walked trough that choke and instantly lost 80 army supply loooool

[@tarrker]

That carrier just chilling out in the melee line legit made me anxious Although, to be fair to this guy, the lurker/hydra combo can be tough to counter unless you see it coming. LoL :)

[@pantmagk3362]

17:34 that would be a fun idea for beatng gms wtih stupid stuff being able to build buildings only on second base (except pylons) maybe even being able to only produce probs at second base

[@systemslayer525]

I think this guys building placement was actually really good, I think if you built them like they were in a different way you can make a really good strong position there against zerg, I think the tech structures being on the natural is probably a good position too as you can protect them easier but should be placed like that if you're going double forge or something along those lines, if you take another look as well at how tight he made his placements he made an alley where probes can trickle out towards the 3rd efficiently and safely and it protects the late game run byes and stuff like that, forcing zerg to headbutt against the protoss army

[@Spanky00Cheeks]

Btw Icecoldjuice owns a CrossFit gym. Probably.

[@Siirr22]

Just finding this series from Lowko's channel, huge fan, out of curiosity does anyone know any episodes harstem actually says imba?

[@KoaFidCZ]

I always feel bad for that people, Harstem flaming at the end

[@ZC.Andrew]

I think if you send your replay in with the form, you expect it. It's part of the series

[@hamster_designs]

Also a lot of people want to be roasted by his analogies ^^ Not sure what that says about them, but they love it xD

[@philip8498]

i mean, there is a level at which sc2 becomes impossible. i call it wood league. at this level, no one can operate a mouse or a keyboard, making a victory in sc2 impossible.

[@AndreasMnck]

In all my years playing and watching Starcraft I dont think ive ever seen a Protoss not build a single building in his main. This man is a reformed proxy cheeser. Still has some odd habits but he is accepted into society.

[@firestarter000001]

I think i am behind Hamster on this, love the stamps and their sound:). I still remember when you =gave a guy 2 stamps some time ago:)

[@visoroverwatch3247]

I think imma reach Grandmaster just so i can beat Harstem and send an email "Am I Imba or does he just suck" lol. Just kidding I'm stuck on 2500 MMR range lol.

[@gam1ngfr3ak]

At least this replay helps show people that they, too, can easily get to Diamond without strategy or ever watching their replays Imagine if this player had just watched their replay. And watched themselves walk into that chokepoint... into Lurkers!! The answer to "IODIS?" would be self-evident

[@Junebug89]

This was possibly the most pathetic ending to a game I've seen in iodis. I don't understand how he didn't see his own units just doing nothing for the entire fight, pushing against the rocks.

[@ulfjohnsen6203]

These days, hiring a monk is probably the better idea....

[@FajerWerkaDwa]

To be honest after seeing how this guy makes his buildings one by one I think he probably doesn't know that he can shift click them in sc2 as he mentioned he plays since 1998. Also building all of them in 1 screen seems like a habit from scbw where you cant hotkey more than 1 structure and need to build units clicking on every single gateway...

[@Lightwait321]

twilight in the wall is the fedora of Toss builds.

[@renunciant]

He's right we play this race coz we're too dumb for the other one's lol

[@corresandberg]

Awesome Juice! Instead of letting your enemy walk into a choke point, and you can spread out your units and practice shooting at him...let's do opposite :) And Kevin, wasn't aware that a lot of Bodybuilders watch this Channel :) But highly likely, agree! You're awesome Harstem! Produce more!!!

[@viktorvince9504]

@Harstem u should update your imbalance report form :D because its 1. april 2021 and u have 2020 race balance regulations{first line in right half}...keep it up i love to watching is it imba or do i suck THUMBSUP*

[@hamster_designs]

The 2021 imbalance summit has been delayed due to the pandamic. So sadly we are still stuck with the 2020 catalog :(

[@matrixfan566]

9:37 Well, i'm one of the three (used to practice during first lockdown)

[@WarRior-rn4kb]

I'LL START WATCHING IS IT IMBA OR DO I SUCK WHEN I SEE MIRROR MATCHES..😉😉😉😉😉 get good harstem.. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@KoaFidCZ]

14:08 that's a bit unfair... he couldn't know how much drons his enemy has... no way at this level

[@MrNicoJac]

Nah, even a Silver should know that you're supposed to have more workers at 9m45s 😝

[@thezoru2744]

NA is really something else. This was DIAMOND.

[@NakedSnake1807]

Im diamond in EU, people seem generally pretty good.

[@tatotato85]

Diamond at the bottom, i play at 4200 mmr D1 and things i hope looks much better than this. Also i may add, i reached 4k in EU without much effort playing at 235ms

[@BassicGene]

This guy’s 3100 MMR is platinum tho. He probably sneaked into the bottom of D3 at one point with a nice win streak and subsequently came back down to Plat MMR. I’m in D2 (~3700) and nobody I play against in 3500-3900 MMR would ever try to run their whole army in through the middle choke on that map while looking at it when there are mass lurkers hitting you from the other side.

[@philip8498]

my man icecoldjuice took a whole bunch of green pills before this game

[@narmale]

xD

[@VirtuelleWeltenMitKhan]

The zerg saw the p army with his overseers and pressed the "all army hotkey". You can tell by a look on the map. gg no re

[@borosdavidattila]

10:25 No he just had no gas.

[@donmeswimee]

Came for the iodis stayed for the printer facts

[@mrsausage001]

Dear Harstem, I lost to Hyrda/Lurker, and I rushed my robo so that it finished at 12:45 in game. With such quick detection, how could I possibly lose? Zerg is imba and I hate it.

[@ukkiesc5087]

Not sure why I obsessed over this, but if an archon were to get stuck in the main base the buildings he would have to kill to get it out would be: 3 pylons, a gate, and a cyber core or the forge, fleet beacon and cyber core or stargate, 2 gateways and 2 pylons Or ofcourse build a warp prism from the robo in his 3rd base

[@illegalgiant_]

convinced this submissions was an april fool's

[@drakorez]

That fight was something else

[@Alex-rt3po]

Did someone edit your Liquipedia page today? There's a funny line there in the Trivia section

[@timothythomad5529]

Sigh, as someone who is 51, when I see someone describe someone 35 as "old," I just have to shake my head. Or maybe that's just the old-age tremors.

[@aleksk.7452]

Wow never thought that OJ Simpson would be a diamond SC2 player but I guess the world really is full of surprises

[@lynk_1240]

I have no idea how you think up these analogies Kevin, but they all somehow work.

[@potenviking]

Another time Hamster absolutely owns the IODIS!

[@AntiDoctor-cx2jd]

I don't think Harstem approaches these with the same bright-eyed enthusiasm anymore. This one is good, but now (a year lateR) it seems like he just wants to get it over with.

[@krystall2962]

13:03 why is the extractor burning?

[@hamster_designs]

This is a building skin. It burns instead of bleeding since these skins are supposed to be some futuristic and not biological style ^^

[@krystall2962]

@@hamster_designs Thank you :)

[@jonas4501]

Hamsters Editing is just great❤