Posted on 04/25/2017 12:02:24 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
Moon Jae-in, viewed by many as the favorite in South Korea's upcoming special election for president, has an interesting piece of campaign propaganda: A StarCraft map.
That's a map for StarCraft: Brood War — the 1998 expansion for StarCraft that just went free (along with the main game). If you can't tell what's going on in this time-lapse video, Moon is spelling out his name with mineral deposits.
StarCraft, as is very well known, is something of a national pastime for South Korea, so the appeal Moon is making here is pretty apparent — like a U.S. president filling out an NCAA tournament bracket.
(Excerpt) Read more at polygon.com ...
The real question is whether he’s Zerg, Protoss or Human.
He better be protoss.
Anyone familiar with this game? I purchased Brood War thinking it was the modern game: gather minerals fight your enemy. I’ve seen some impressive demonstrations on YouTube.
But Brood War was a story line I’m not interested in. So...anyone on FR familiar with the game?
(I would have suggested "Light it up!" but given the present situation on the peninsula well...)
Need more Vespene gas.
He better not use any Confederate references especially relating to an early General Duke.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tz32kdjBQw4/hqdefault.jpg
What a great cartoon!
Trump should send a message, “Here comes the fleet”!
I still don’t know why koreans love broodwar so much, SC2 is a much better game.
But SC1 is free now.
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