MY FAVORITE GAME OF ALL TIME!!! | Is It IMBA Or Do I Suck

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[@blackholeinacan]

"You've given me more joy today then I have felt in a long time." -Harstem, recently married

[@meandmyself1600]

Damn, was too slow. Guess we will see a return of the forest episode

[@rahulshah1408]

It would be hilarious if this was a pinned comment.

[@pablovirus]

Let's assume it was recorded a while ago lol

[@cristianoancea1183]

Only women and unmarried men believe marriage will bring married men joy.

[@Dj0enderman3000]

@@cristianoancea1183 cap

[@sciencetube4574]

When they tell the story of the Punic Wars, people are always amazed how the Romans did so badly. But they fail to mention how Hannibal crossed the Alps with his army of Widow Mines and the Romans just blinked straight into them.

[@rahulshah1408]

And Carthage’s soil was salted with Roman tears.

[@widowmines231]

well romans won in the end, thrice.

[@phelanwolf6747]

@@widowmines231 look who is a traitor mine 🤣

[@widowmines231]

@@phelanwolf6747 We don't discriminate:)

[@enriquegarciacota3914]

The Romans won at the end because they had nukes, which are imba

[@stevef68]

People think peak Starcraft is played at the pro level, but THIS is the real peak level play! Metal leagues for the win!

[@asdfasdf-mn8iu]

Sadly as soon as you leave metal leagues, there's no going back. I would've demolished that T, so i can't play in those leagues anymore. And higher up it's mostly tryharding :/

[@asdfasdf-mn8iu]

@@eugenijusdolgovas9278 Yes they absolutely are. You should not be a smartass if you're wrong. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal

[@ulch11]

I love how Hanibal completely locks the toss in his base but doesn't take a single additional base himself either. Despite having the entire map to himself. Guess he wanted to keep things fair?

[@EternalHappElements]

Maybe it's a grandpa. Relaxed and sent nukes for regards in good old fashion.

[@user-ne1nw6hw2q]

Maybe more than two bases for him is too much

[@EternalHappElements]

Busy building towers and set up mines and nuke probably

[@GoXDS]

but why save money for a base when I can just build more nukes?

[@tempusavatar]

To recall Harstem's advice from the past: as soon as he had the contain the bases he should have taken were the 3 right outside his opponent. If you can mine out your opponent's expansions, it almost counts for double; your opponent will never mine those resources, and you still have your own expansions still in your pocket.

[@jb5819]

This was more a tower defence game than RTS. Loved it.

[@jeffreywilliams3421]

Tower defense, but you're defending from a hostile horde of towers

[@JustWatoo]

@@jeffreywilliams3421 actual lol

[@ZerglingLover]

@@jeffreywilliams3421 tower offense

[@Khorneate]

For the first time in starcraft history, dropping everything to micro the single min 3 reaper would have just won a game XD

[@henningbreede6428]

That's pretty common in proxy gate scenarios, especially vs 1rax proxy reaper.

[@F4aXxZ]

5 minutes in: I can confidently say it's the best IODIS video ever

[@nikospyridis9579]

Actually peak content

[@eclipseeffigy]

I thought you were kidding as there's no way to say that at only 5 minutes... now that I'm 5 minutes in, I can only agree 😂

[@ZerglingLover]

The eminem rap video crying rn

[@Spaminator3000]

The rest of the game had so many hilarious moments that I honestly forgot that it all started out with a probe rush into reaper ring around the rosie.

[@elessarbre]

@@Spaminator3000 To be fair to the Terran in gold league at pretty low APM that reaper was more useful as a distraction so he can focus on his macro while making the protoss lose more mining time and disrupt his macro even more.

[@victornunes9845]

I wonder how Harstem's first meeting with his father-in-law went 🤔

[@phileas007]

well he just told us the story

[@lillian8307]

I feel like every widow mine IODIS complaint has lead us to this point

[@vadstradamus]

This was like watching one of those "dumbest criminals" videos where they get stuck in a building, not because the door was locked, but because they kept trying to push a door that would have opened if only they had pulled

[@drawnsequence]

That process of blink into mines into recall at 15:00 was simply precious. Like a toddler that ran into a situation it didn't want, making a shocked face and then waddling away.

[@chloesmith4065]

Like a cat that missed a jump, saw you miss the jump, felt embarrassed, runs out of the room

[@polymoly7148]

This is the funniest IODIS i have seen ever. The comedic value is unmatched

[@chloesmith4065]

The prism carrying the Colossus is probably the best part

[@Mokinono45]

That ending though...the warp prism and tilt.

[@ssvensic]

How did this game not end with the first reaper is beyond me hahahahahahah

[@xitaris5981]

Because gold is like little league - the kids know some of the basics of the game, but are just as likely to score on themselves as they are to score on the opposing team.

[@drawnsequence]

@@xitaris5981 THIS IS GOLD???!!?!?!! I was certain it was at absolute best high silver.

[@Santisima_Trinidad]

​@@drawnsequence did you actually watch the video? He went over the league in the complaint form.

[@xitaris5981]

@@drawnsequence to be fair, you see this kind of stuff in plat and diamond. In Diamond, I lost ~22 drones from reaper harass and a Helion run by before 5 minutes, but I just focused on macroing and had a comeback because my opponent didn't know how to close out the game and also made mistakes in his macro while microing the harass.

[@RapiBurrito]

You can almost feel his soul leave his body a lil bit with every mine hit 😂

[@Zadrigo]

It may be Harstem's casting, but its Horsetem's laughter!

[@damedley75]

1:20 To sum up, his Gold League build order is BGMWSS into herO. This should be a good one!

[@the_rabidsquirel]

This is why I love low league games, you just don't see this comedy at higher levels.

[@magni5648]

Gold Leaguer talking about doing GSL build orders. This is how you know that this one's gonna be a banger.

[@allanturmaine5496]

I'm trusting you, Captain. This looks super clickbaity, but you tend to deliver.

[@allanturmaine5496]

Worth. Holy crap so worth.

[@Ole_Rasmussen]

Can't believe Harstem references blueberry muffin attacks in Hitman 16 hours after my oshi plays Hitman, although she has transitioned from blueberry to wrench

[@Dexortes]

Hey ho! New IODIS, my evening became perfect! 17:14 this is the BEST moment. Even 3 sec delayed recall decision cannot match this.

[@chloesmith4065]

Losing the observer in the splash is just phenomenal

[@damedley75]

27:30 This replay provided more joy than Harstem's recent nuptials and honeymoon!

[@Searom98]

Since there are some videos Hamster is justifying Harstem jokes with "Guys this clip was recorded 5 months ago". Probably this video is old, or else he will live in a cage again

[@fredgagne2548]

From the complain form i could alrdy tell that this was gonna be gold 😂 love you harstem

[@EternalHappElements]

Gold replays are gold

[@marcoCampanella]

One of the best episodes ever!! He literally had all the tools but yet he couldn't calm down, he freaked out and did panick moves! I can relate to that 😅

[@patrickwinkelmann4002]

I like this failed drone rush, he was still ahead in economy after 3 minutes.....thats impressive 😂😆😂

[@mythiccass3837]

A classic florencio style worker rush. Love it

[@loudaccord]

17:13... he got the observer blown up too. I literally lol'd

[@truthless4720]

I love Harstem's editor.

[@hamster_designs]

:3

[@Broformist]

Lowest league replays do make for best episodes usually. Had a great time with this.

[@d.l.3807]

Wow, that finishing blow really made me laugh. I almost never laugh watching an SC2 match but that was really, really funny.

[@DrQuestern]

19:20 This gotta be the best response to a nuke ever played in Starcraft 2.

[@chloesmith4065]

The best part is after you hear the ghost die, if he moves back, he'd still be fine

[@DarkChasm]

OMG 🤣that reaction following the @15:00 blink down the ramp followed by the donkeylaughter after the panic recall is priceless!! ❤❤❤❤ We love you Captain.

[@DarkChasm]

Completely surpassing the fact that @23:00 (16min of gametime) BOTH players are on a base and a half with sub 30 workers.....HOW!!!???

[@DarkChasm]

I genuinly think this might be my favourite IODIS episode, the level of incompetence is hilarious.

[@NaZtRdAmUs]

Can we just get games with Harstem laughing at all the silly plays.

[@CZProtton]

We, who actualy learned how to play, will never again experience this pure destilled fun those games give. Noone has any idea what is going on. I love it.

[@micolangello796]

I don't play this game at all. But I enjoy watching it. I think Im going to come back and watch this every time I feel sad. This was amazing.

[@joshuamazzola9697]

19:25 - got me....just snorted water onto the keyboard

[@burningsheep4473]

Well, it's Gold, so not much of a surprise there. But you know what this reminds me of. Me, back when I was starting to play Broodwar with friends - often vs the AI. Sooner or later, after often having Observers killed as they move forward together with the group they are in, you eventually learn to make a separate group for them. The Zerg AI always had Spores and Lurkers everywhere. Seems this Protoss has never quite learned that concept. Aside fromt the fact that he seemed like yet another player that thinks he should be trying to be fancy, even though he had thousands of minerals. He could literally just have sent forward a bunch of Zealots to activate most of the Mines. Instead of trying to do lots of Micro that he isn't capable of yet.

[@tutorialbiz]

Harstem, if you want more games like this then you should do a bronze league hero's series. It's my favorite series that I always return to by WinterStarcraft.

[@manonshadowfax2482]

19:27 is when I knew, there was more joy in this video than I ever could have anticipated

[@tvrkm6897]

Two maxims, opposite, yet balanced: "There's no way (something this dumb) can really happen." and "Only reality can be this dumb."

[@damedley75]

26:50 I want more games like this!

[@dominikmagnus]

Now, after I've seen second recall, I think DrkEcho considers it a timetravel mechanic, so when he made mistakes and recalled units back, everything that happened before recall never happened. That's why they wrote about failed probe rush so nonchalantly.

[@Szerspliexiust]

the beginning of that game was literally WORSE THAN BEING AFK LOOOLLL

[@WolfBergMenace]

You know how in mobas people panic ult when seeing enemies? This dude panic-recalls.

[@SquintyGears]

it feels better to write on paper but I will literally never go back and look at it. if it's in digital notes i can search it when i need it again later. also perfect roast hamster with the ipad 🤣

[@marionicolais3024]

You know its bad when Hamster gets the asthmatic laugh going.

[@fakemaillol123]

I had look at my match history after this one, ive played hannibal barcia 3 diff times in the last week. The reason i knew is he walls off this way every single time, thats what made me check lmao

[@plantex625]

You need to cast more low level games like this

[@LounoirRecords]

that ending man :D never laughed that hard this year oh dear, battle of incompetence for the ages

[@-Raylight]

The comedic timing is just so perfect, especially the recall and the F2 move into mass mines xD

[@danieldinnie5003]

I played a game like that long ago. A good solution for a low level player is Tempests. They out range the mines and can fire upon Siege Tanks and Liberators.

[@vmgNarra]

This must have been the funniest IODIS ever seen! A truely epic game. I laughed my ass off!

[@aaronimp4966]

Harstem, it's worse than you say. He lost to static defense, with almost nothing but artillery. This is like giving a guy a shovel, pointing, telling him to dig a grave, and you check back to find him dead, because instead of using that shovel to dig a grave, he somehow managed to erect a skyscraper with it, and and fell off the top while putting on the finishing touches.

[@13loodySword]

10:09 oof hamster why you gotta do this to me

[@hamster_designs]

Truth hurts...

[@chloesmith4065]

One thing worth noting is that he's floating like 1K minerals even at the end and he could totally just warp in like six zealots and walk across the map and kill everything while the mines are on cooldown after he previously walked his entire army into them

[@Robert-iu4bx]

Props to DarkEcho, he is not able to handle something and he writes for help. I like these videos from you Harstem, It is nice to help and sometimes make fun.... I am not even on the level of having a build and anyone would beat me - so I respect everybody who is attempting pvp in Starcraft....

[@Dave-ct1jk]

Ok, so youtube tells me I have already watched this video, but there is no way I have seen this before. I would never and will never forget this video. Hamster's edits and the captain going off his rocker - perfection.

[@hogztcp239]

I can see the frustration as to how inexpensive mines are when used in this manner.

[@brkillee]

I would really like to see more of this guy's replays as well Harstem! Please do another episode on this guy!

[@M0rchaint]

At the end of the game I thought I was listening to Pig - Snort Ha Ha Snort Snort Ha ha!

[@drakorez]

17:38 Look at that Artosis pylon lol

[@erickpoorbaugh6728]

The funniest thing about the 20-second delay in the probe rush is that if it weren't for that delay, he probably would have made it into the Terran main before the wall went up. So it wasn't just a waste; it was a waste that wound up dooming the rush.

[@justanotherspectator9]

Elite AI could have taken over at the end and still won for Dark. This IMBA was hilarious.... WOW..

[@xitaris5981]

Very Hard, maybe even Harder could have done it :P

[@DvSDiabloHR]

@@xitaris5981 Easy AI, the terran was barely doing anything.

[@Obsolete386]

I think the criminal part of this game was Hanibal, 18 minutes in, still on 2 base with almost no minerals

[@TRazielT]

omg I couldn't watch after the recall of the blink stalkers on the 3rd base. eyes full of tears from laughing too much :D brilliant

[@LeoJakeMaxi]

When I first started playing StarCraft and didn’t know anything I had a game as toss where Terran just put a mass of mines in the middle of the map and I kept running my army through it. It felt Imba but I definitely just sucks 👌🏻

[@Pyriin]

I just watched a youtube comercial of a notepad at the exact time harstem was talking about it. Cyberdyne is improving everyday

[@Fotta1989]

Brilliant editing. Thanks for the laughs!

[@amhm8664]

hahah this was indeed one of the best IODIS I've seen. I laughed out loud

[@ZerglingLover]

this video is top 3 best IODIS without a doubt

[@matteoaievola8643]

Please use this Widow mine stratagie to troll people in multiplayer and ladder, it's to good in the right hands

[@nachoboy3503]

This was the first one i laughed really hard at! This is a gem

[@yagonagos]

1:34 harstLUL emote

[@adicontra]

watching Harstem laughing is a challange "try not to laugh" :))

[@senioy]

I want to see more games like this.... this is amazing!

[@bladgier]

I can never grow tired of the cheeky nioch nioch laughs

[@anzyroadside2374]

Started with a Florencio MegaProbe! T'was a blast!

[@justinwill7420]

I needed this! Thanks

[@GundamFlexing]

19:27 MFW I see something horrific happen

[@arthursandomine5464]

The ending was priceless!😂😂😂😂 I'm a Protoss player but now I want to go in the game and do this play as terran! XD This was a episode of GOOOOOoold League Heroes!!!!!!! These guys took away my ladder anxiety

[@DistrictTerra]

Hahaha that final prism into the mine and turret

[@itsjustaname7311]

love the "list price -75% DEAL thingy on the imbalance complaint form :D

[@CrowrockHD]

That analogy at ~3 minutes in was hilarious!!

[@u1337ochka]

oh yeah the pain of DrkEcho is totally relatable, many games in gold-plat PvT go like this, where the terran does the worst most ridiculous crap you've ever seen on top of completely horrible macro, and you KNOW that what they do is so bad it is 100% loss, but it throws you off your game so bad you just fall apart. worst feeling in starcraft, worse than being cheesed

[@teeee8534]

lol the static image looked gold

[@HenriqueRJchiki]

19:25 prime gold league starcraft move right here

[@timdowd2345]

Oh wow I'm cry laughing! Your meet the father in law analogy is possibly the best thing I've ever heard.

[@hanneswiggenhorn2023]

20:49 at this moment, you are running head first into a fully formed terran defense line. You looked at a wall, searched for the strongest spot and tried to run head first through it

[@AntoniGawlikowski]

This style of IODIS is great! Good laughs and some relevant tips - thanks! :)

[@vinceb8123]

This is the definition of bullying someone out of the game instead of trying to win. Amazing!

[@TurboThunderGaming]

27:40 "oh yeah, you suck, insanely hard..." - that was said so cincerely. :D

[@bencheevers6693]

Update the year on the form imo, I'm pretty happy that we've gotten this fantastic content so consistently and for so long

[@zmangkrd5312]

Right off the bat he gets meme content. I love this series

[@Ragzling]

17:40 that artosis pylon tho ..

[@benjaminhoeft908]

This reminded me of Bronze League Heroes by Husky, one of my favorite SC2 eras

[@thedonger6299]

man the editing on these videos is so good lmao

[@xorossx]

This video brought me great joy to watch, really brightened my day 😂😂

[@emjizone]

8:16 Lucky for all of us viewers that this pack of widow mines wasn't active, or the combined explosion would have blown holes in all our screens. :p

[@EternalHappElements]

The probe opening...ah the sewer mermaid opening style