nice article
"and even secured a major everywwin offline"
what does everywwin mean? couldnt find it on urban dictionary

I told him to get someone to proof-read it.

hue

Oh pls do it for cooller!,,

"Amongst names like Fatal1ty, Zero4, Cooller and Toxjq, Cypher already stands in the gallery of the titans of Quake."

rofl, saying that without mentioning rapha is like meaning that he's simply a random who won 2 IEM World Championships, 2 ESWCs, 1 DH. (I'm not even typing all the tournaments that he's won)

What's even more frustrating me is that he won each of these tournaments where the level was crazy

kool

I think you don't get the meaning of the word "like". It means he didn't list all the players for fucks' sake.

Still mentioning Fatal1ty, but not rapha. Interrresting.

Maybe because he's more well-known outside of Quake?

That's probably the reason, but feats and hype wise lord fat is not in the top20 of quake3/ql alone, even less so considering them all.

And where is skill?

Still mentioning Zero4 instead of rapha.

Zero4 is the father of all Quakers. Both Cypher and rapha looked at him as a role model gamewise early on their careers.

very well done , nice job! was an enjoyable read

Nice column (not news)

titan website about cypher:
"Being close to retirement halfway through last year, after joining Titan he set a new goal for himself: to win every single tournament he participates in."

lol

No matter how much you want it but online tournaments in quake live cannot never be the true benchmark.

Online environment is very harsh in quake live, lets say cypher and evil are almost equal in skills so it becomes very cruel to compete serious in online environment.

It is nice to have these big online tournaments but is wrong to judge cypher losing against evil on moscow server.
Both almost equal in skill, so the most likely winning factor becomes the server where they play.

So the next true benchmark for cypher will be a lan tournament,
then he can prepare mentally to win the tournament no matter who he will face.

Hi evil

GJ nice read!

I feel Cypher's pain right now. Hopefully, we'll see the machine Cypher at Quakecon.

I have article?

No, you don't want that...

titan website looks like shit.

also stopped reading after "If there is one player in Quake who doesn't require the perfect storm to make a frag happen, however, that player is Alexey “Cypher” Yanushevsky. "

wtf ins, learn to compose sentences on english instead of google translating your shit from portuguese

That's actually a correct sentence.

gramatically yeah. he doesn't miss a letter, on the other hand however is completely out of place

It's not. It's connected to the first part of the sentence and refers back to the previous sentence. You can put however at the start or the end of a statement, or if it's a complex sentence such as here, the middle. You will see in many scientific texts that they actually prefer putting however in the middle of sentences.

no, because you have If on the start you have no use for however. comma is there anyway, because of if

You're wrong. In this case however means nevertheless which is used when the connecting sentence is a contradiction of the previous sentence. Without however the whole train of thought is broken.

Correct or incorrect; that sentence doesn't flow well.

That's true. Though I would attribute that to the fact that the sentence it is referring back to is separated not only by a different paragraph, but a page break also.

The sentence makes no sense. If it does then show me a single use of a "if-however" sentence structure in a good written piece.

It makes no sense. the 'if' part poses some sort of question. The correct way would be:

'If there is one harosh who doesn't need vodka to hit bazooka, it's cypher.'

This is how it's structured properly- you set a question and answer it. (maybe question is not the best word it might be a hypothesis or setting up some possibility)

If you wanted to structure the sentence with 'however' you would do:

'Mortal men have no means of touching Cooller's tralalala, however, for cypher it's just a past time activity like juggling potatoes'

You make a statement and you use however to contradict or oppose it.

But the original sentence makes no sense you pose a question with if, never answer it never make a statement to contradict it with 'however'

'....but wild animals can be difficult at times to study in their natural environment, given their strong inclination to avoid any contact with humans, due to countless years of predation. If there is one place on earth that provides an ideal environment for study, however, that place is The Galapagos Islands.'

24 is correct; however, the sentence was not set well as it did not clearly contradict the previous sentence, which, as 24 has already said, appeared in a previous paragraph and on the other side of a page break.

Hmm can you provide the source or anything that explains the grammatical reasoning of it.

I have seen too many people use 'should/could/would of' or not knowing the difference between there/they're and their, that I need harder evidence that it's actually correct.

The sentence you posted is still lacking the same logical structure that I addressed in my post.

Also I am not a native speaker so I am open to the idea that I might be wrong, but I'd like to be proven wrong. :)

Wow, are you guys really debating over one word... *facepalm*

I just read it all too, the procrastination is strong in me... Keepo

It appears that you are missing a question mark there.

wp :D

It's fun to learn about language. :)

I once found myself working for a guy that didn't know what procrastinate meant and even accused me of making it up.

I started with a new company exactly 1 month and 2 days later.

I didn't procrastinate further about seeking a job with a cool but educated boss.

I am a native speaker, and I lived in Britain for 30 years. It seems that you are hung up on one use of the word 'however'. Whilst in most cases it does follow the strict logic that you have laid out, language can be flexible. You can see that I posted not just one sentence, but one and a half. The second sentence is the contradiction of the first.

In my sentence, 'however' is not used to introduce contradiction, but to acknowledge it. When the sentence is spoken, there is generally less stress on the middle syllable, 'howEVer', and more placed on the final, 'howevER'


'....but wild animals can be difficult at times to study in their natural environment, given their strong inclination to avoid any contact with humans, due to countless years of predation. If there is one place on earth that provides an ideal environment for study, howevER, that place is The Galapagos Islands.'

'....but wild animals can be difficult at times to study in their natural environment, given their strong inclination to avoid any contact with humans, due to countless years of predation. HowEVer, if there is one place on earth that provides an ideal environment for study, that place is The Galapagos Islands.'

'....but wild animals can be difficult at times to study in their natural environment, given their strong inclination to avoid any contact with humans, due to countless years of predation. If, howevER, there is one place on earth that provides an ideal environment for study, that place is The Galapagos Islands.'

Cool beans, thanks

This is correct - the "however" in the offending sentence was referring back to the previous paragraph which is acceptable, especially if it is the last concluding sentence in that paragraph that is being referred to. The page break is the offending item here not using "however" to refer backwards, or to refer across paragraphs. We should really be questioning this rather cavalier use of page breaks.

Even worse than that, however, is FFT taking english lessons from a french person :D

:) Well I'm glad that I'm passable as a French person somewhere at least; however, I happen to be very much British in origin.

Sorry - just assumed from the flag ;)

The French are well known for their military impotence and defeats, however, SwarmDMX still got told by a French flag. :D

See 'using however as an aside'.

http://www.sonoma.edu/users/f/farahman/subpag...owever.pdf

http://www.englishforums.com/English/UsageOfH...p/post.htm

there.

Plussed for the mortal men part. Please continue composing that piece.

Look forward for updates on the Titan website coming soon- 'Some men are born, some men are Cooller!'

Lie, there is only one Cooller!

You know how they say- Cooller made us in his image?

Ye. He pummeled his way out of his mother.

Luckily he didn't try to rj out. :p

Still better than telefrag.

Do not joke about Cooller.

Could you detail how it's a correct sentence, the first part "If there is one player in Quake who doesn't require the perfect storm to make a frag happen" seems to be a simple sentence, minus a subject, therefore an incomplete (and incorrect) sentence.

I think ins intended to use "however" as a conjunction, to connect it to this first part to "that player is Alexey “Cypher” Yanushevsky."" (the intended subject). However, it fails.

Even if we accept that it's a grammatically correct sentence (and my intuition tells me it isn't); there are many other ways of correctly phrasing what he intended to say e.g. ""If there is one player in Quake who does not require a perfect storm to make a frag happen, it would be Alexey “Cypher” Yanushevsky. ""

No, I didn't want ",however," there at all. x)

=D You did great considering English is your second, maybe third? language. If you need any help proof-reading your articles in the future hit me up on ESR/IRC.

It's not grammatically correct on it's (*its :D) own, but it is in context; however, the context within which the sentence was set was shaky.

The sentence is fine, it's (*its :D) setting in context could be better.

*its!

You know I've always wondered about the possessive apostrophe, is it because a sentence is incorporeal, so it cannot possess? It's the same with animals right? Like we would say, 'the person's coat' but 'the wolfs coat'. Is that right?


Help me I'm confused! :D

According to this, one should never use an apostrophe for a possessive it.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apostrophe

so....

'My wolf's coat is soft and fluffy.'

'My wolf's name is Bertrand Russell II, its coat is soft and fluffy.'


hmmm

Not being a native speaker I don't have much of a clue actually. :D
I just figured there's no such thing as "it's" except if you use it short for "it is/has". "Its" being the neuter version of his/her.

But thankyou for your help! :)

It's actually a typo, cause there were 2 sentences there instead of just one, and I guess it slipped by, oops!

you fucking illiterate midget!

ikr :(

Needs:

How Cypher approaches the game; The chat

zadrot ebaniye

The chat

weed

=)

Yeah, the obligatory Trash Talk when he loses.

People tend to over analyze this stuff.

All the top players play the same. Some a little bit more defensive, some a little bit more aggressive. Small differences in weapon preference, small differences in style, but fundamentally all the same.

And it's not rocket science, as articles like this (or explanations from ddk) make it out to be.

says Anonymous.

u haf 2 praxis ur aim & timeing men
hue

Very true, but meaningless in this context.

tell that to kellogs aka k1ller aka retired_rail_angles_meister

depends
the less you know about kwek the less player styles differ to you. just like enuit people have dozens of words for snow while the majority of mankind doesnt (and thus cannot differ between various kinds).
if you study something a lot the obvious things begin to fade out for you (like players timing items, using mainly rocket/shaft/rail...) and you develope a sharpened sense for the things that were minor variations to you before - until those become major aspects in your perception.
at that point you see unique characteristics in each players style and you could write a book about that stuff while for everybody else that didnt even play the game its still on the "they collect stuff, jump around and shoot level".
the level on that we are able to perceive things and see differences vastly differs with experience and interestlevels. so if you say there are no difference between the players thats both right (to you) and wrong (to others) no point in arguing about it :)

I think he is wrong in his comment, but has a point, which also is reflected in what you say. A good theory should hold against new data, eventually allowing to predict results. Since this is a game, a good game theory should also help understanding what is wrong with one game and help improving.

However, it's quite hard to have any sort of validation about quake theories. I've talked to most pros about the game, and the variance in how they put the game into words is quite big. Some are very analytic, some just have a feeling about it. The variance is big also in how they practice, in how their setup works etc. They are all very good though. On the other hand, people cratfing theories, aren't necessarily good at the game, which may or may not mean the theory is worth nothing, or that the theory describes the symptoms but not the causes.

You could do an in depth article on the pro's different approaches to the game!

Not that anyone could force you, but you know, it would be cool.

well i doubt theres much gain in terms of improvement of top players possible by doing theories (if any). plus its actually the easiest part in this to evaluate someones weakness by analyzing his games.. but to put this insight into training methods and into practice in general would be the hard part (if not impossible at the casual level we are at when it comes to pro gaming in quake.. i see little point in the enormous effort this would require)
.. not that it wouldnt be interesting to research the effect of various training methods on player performances tho (but again, we are not at that level of srs bizness in quake ^^)

i think at this point its far more benefical for the casters in streams / writers of articles / interviewers to have a good level of analytical ability than for the players themselfs =) im quite ok with players just doing what they do (playing games) without much thought and high quality casting from guys that know their stuff

Learning how to aim with RL is exactly rocket science.

had to make sure it was written by ins before plusing. +

oh please... 'old copper phone lines to state of the art fibre-optics'

copper lines were never the problem, but limited server peering and retarded traceroutes...

"Over the years he has accumulated an imposing collection of interestingly shaped trophies, in fact enough to, once melted, influence the stock price of rare metals."

lol

Best sentence

That one made me chuckle as well.

Just typo.

it is ode to Cypher, with huge amount of admiration.
yes, he totaly deserve this,
but i'd prefer if article was more technical, with more examples and analysis.
maybe part 2?

i don't why, but i always thought cypher is always the most underappreciated of all the big 4 (w/c is rapha, av3k, cooller and cypher himself)

this article of ins brings him justice

prolly because hes also the least mature one. and by that i dont refer to his age but his behaviour. there are pros that are plain nice and even if they loose they just become sad and silent instead of bitching (rapha, av3k, k1llsen..) then there are the douchebags that are both loved and hated at the same time, when they loose they can start bitching like mad but in a deliberate sarcastic-troll fashion (strenx, cooller). cypher on the other hand is still that kid that cannot stand loosing and becomes unbearable as a result.
i might be totally making this up there but thats my impression from interviews / lanstreams / gossip and whatnot.. some of them seem cool, some a little stressful and cypher like the guy i prolly wouldnt be on a good friendship base with.

Sterns more matur than cypher. Lol

Well considering I've never met him I wouldn't know what he's really like, but the way he plays tells a lot about someone. If there's one thing you can say about cypher is he has style. He has such an entertaining play style that it's impossible not to admire it. He always takes risks and doesn't apply the standard methods to lock down a map. I love watching him play even now when he's been losing online to evil so much I prefer to watch cypher because even though evil's game is awesome, it just doesn't have cypher's flair.

Absolutely this. I can't root for Evil against Cypher, simply because his play style is just so damn hot.

cypher is playing for few months without control, afraid everything on map :<
i dont like it

I'm not worried about him. Come QuakeCon, Cypher will be on top again.

That's how stylish cypher is. Even when he's avoiding fights for 6 minutes straight, he's still exciting to watch somehow.

everytime someone says quake is chess like i cant stop loling.

its not. otherwise agent would win everysingle tournament.

quake is like paf paf bzzzz bzzzzzz. items are for those who cant hit 100acc

It's like chess on steroids.

What hitsu means is that Quake has an element of execution, unlike chess (unless you consider being able to think faster than your opponent execution).

would be pretty awesome to pummel your opponent in the face when he wants to make a move though.

Error: The target user can't receive judgements B(

I found myself worrying today that you had disappeared from esr and quake, having not seen you around in quite some time. It gladdens me to see the hitsu still active, throwing polarised opinions like bombs just for the lols.

im banned/on probation everywhere.

dont worry, im lurking in the shadows.

on Twitch? just get a new user Einstein

Einstein was already taken :X

well played potat, well played

[+]

Nice article, should do a little bit of proof reading next time though ;P

Agreed.

Also, if Evil/Cypher end up playing at Qcon, I bet Cypher absolutely curb stomps him.

Learn english grammar please bruno

you try writing something in portugese

he cant, thats why he doesnt post articles in portuguese.

ins has a lot to learn from cmss.

exactly

NEEDS MORE ''NINJA'' WORDS

Great article.....only wish Cypher was more of an gentleman so we can have a true hero !!!!!

cYpheR might come across as a bit of an ass and arrogant at times, I do think he's a nice guy at heart though, he was friendly when people chatted with him on his stream. Not to mention the guy has looks like the hero from a Japanese rpg or something (no homo) In my book he's one of the most prominent esports figures of all time

you need to anticipate your opponent's every move before they even make it

That's what I was doing wrong all those years, I was anticipating my opponent's move after they had already made it.

I don't really know what was the idea behind the article but besides the pretty lazy formatting of the piece (out of control, in control, timing etc) if it was supposed to be a Quake article it seemed rather trite and it was supposed to be some sort of PR piece it lacked a lot of hype.

apparently ins wrote a raw gritty article and then some retard titan employee gave it his idea of a facelift

and ins accepted it

raw and gritty? was it sexual in nature?

very good reading

He knows it is important to make some ninja rail

What about a part II, maybe with Cypher interview?

Great read. I can't wait to see something similar for the other big names in quake right now.

Cyper (without the "h" in between) means "i don't give an actual fuck about this game or its players at all" in belrussian

You seriously think he doesnt give a sh*t about a game he has dedicated a large part of his life to since he was like 14 years old

Great article men)