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    May 15, 2020

    Starcraft Wings on the grill. Gsl on the lappy

    Wings on the grill. Gsl on the lappy

    Posted: 14 May 2020 01:50 PM PDT

    does anyone know the original source of this comic?

    Posted: 14 May 2020 05:58 PM PDT

    My life for...

    Posted: 14 May 2020 04:21 PM PDT

    SpeCial refuses to match fix

    Posted: 14 May 2020 01:38 PM PDT

    Official art of Vikings fighting a Colossus, by Peter Lee

    Posted: 14 May 2020 02:00 PM PDT

    I guess I'm partinG now?

    Posted: 14 May 2020 02:42 AM PDT

    Genna Bain is being treated for Covid19

    Posted: 14 May 2020 08:35 AM PDT

    The Truth About Extractors

    Posted: 14 May 2020 02:05 PM PDT

    Happy 30th birthday, San! I'm sure I'm not the only one who misses you! :(

    Posted: 14 May 2020 06:15 PM PDT

    watching artosis ladder be like

    Posted: 14 May 2020 09:53 AM PDT

    When you roll 19/20 prism micro, but 2/20 macro.

    Posted: 14 May 2020 10:43 AM PDT

    GSL Group Death is on in 23 hours! Maru Innovation Zest, all in the same group. Also Ragnarok. HYPE! Also, predictions, and reasoning? Does Ragnarok have a chance to advance?

    Posted: 14 May 2020 09:44 PM PDT

    Found ToD's favorite song (go to 0:31)

    Posted: 14 May 2020 01:08 PM PDT

    TSL 5 TLO's true or false day1 and 2

    Posted: 14 May 2020 10:40 AM PDT

    Artosis is Correct and Guy in Chat Doesn't Understand Mixed Strategy Equilibria

    Posted: 14 May 2020 05:28 PM PDT

    Anyone who watches Artosis stream Brood War regularly observes interactions like the following:

    1. Artosis loses and complains that, for example, his opponent had units in the wrong place
    2. Guy in Chat says, "Artosis, if your opponent won, they aren't wrong. You need to learn to beat people who don't play in the most standard fashion."
    3. Artosis bans Guy in Chat

    Let me explain why, from a game-theoretic perspective, Artosis is correct and Guy in Chat is an ignorant pumpernickel. Imagine the following game, with which Starcraft shares some essential features. The game is a modification of rock paper scissors:

    Rock beats Scissors 80% of the time (loses 20%)

    Scissors beats Paper 80% of the time (loses 20%)

    Paper beats Rock 80% of the time (loses 20%)

    Broken scissors (BS) beats paper 50% of the time, beats regular scissors 60% of the time, but loses 100% of the time to everything else

    The Idiot Killing Strategy beats Broken scissors 100% of the time but loses to everything else.

    A loss is worth 0 points, a draw (e.g. rock-rock) is worth 0.5 points and a win is worth 1 point.

    Let's discuss two questions:

    a) What are the Nash equilibria of this game?

    b) What strategy should Artosis play if he suspects that some of his opponents might be idiots who play broken scissors even if they shouldn't?

    Answer to a): the unique Nash equilibrium of this of this game is to randomize between rock, paper and scissors with equal probability. The broken scissors and idiot killing strategies should never be played by rational players in a Nash equilibrium.

    Answer to b): it depends on what fraction of his opponents he suspects might be naively playing broken scissors. Let's assume this fraction (x) is relatively small. Then the equilibrium for rational players is:

    P(paper) = 1/3 + 5x/9

    P(scissors) = 1/3 - 2x/3

    P(rock) = 1/3+x/9

    If say 20% of players are playing BS, then these probabilities are:

    P(paper) = 44%

    P(scissors) = 20%

    P(rock) = 36%

    So in other words, when there are a few idiots playing off equilibrium strategies like this, you don't completely avoid strategies that are sometimes defeated by idiots, and you don't switch to strategies that counter idiots but lose to everything else. You play the same strategies but you become a bit less likely to play the strategies defeated by idiots. However, this doesn't mean that you never get beat by idiots! You still have to play scissors sometimes -- it loses points to BS relative to paper or rock, but if you never play scissors, your rational opponents would always play paper.

    Now here's the kicker: something resembling the optimal strategy is exactly what Artosis does! He plays a variety of strategies, some of which lose to BS. He's a little less likely to play strategies that are vulnerable to BS. But he can't avoid them completely because that wouldn't work given that a substantial fraction of opponents are rational. And he gets rightly annoyed when his irrational opponents win because they play BS. Just because their strategy worked ex post in one game doesn't mean it was justified.

    Caveats:

    1. Of course, it is an empirical question whether Artosis is mixing between strategies in an optimal way. Like everyone except Flash, he could probably improve by playing some strategies more and others less. But figuring out which ones is hard! The model above just shows why, from an analytical perspective, the complaint made by Guy in Chat is unfounded.
    2. It may be that from a psychological perspective, Artosis would grow more as a player if, following every defeat, he asked only, "What could I have done better?" and didn't spend time asking, "Did my opponent win because they played BS?" But this is pure conjecture on the part of Other Guy in Chat. What we know for sure is: it is hilarious when Artosis complains about people who play BS and probably increases viewership of his stream and resulting revenue.

    tldr;

    Artosis

    doth bestride the Starcraft World

    Like a Colossus, and Guys in Chat

    Walk under his huge legs and peep about

    To find themselves dishonorable graves.

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    Group C of ITaX Pro Circuit 2 this Friday May 15 at 9pm KST (2pm CEST)! Catch Rogue, TY, Creator and Zoun in more GSL style action! More info in comments

    Posted: 14 May 2020 08:21 PM PDT

    The Diamond Disaster game (posted a few days ago) casted by Maynarde!

    Posted: 14 May 2020 05:07 AM PDT

    Army value graph for the most janky game I've ever played - 1hr36m with 0 engagements.

    Posted: 15 May 2020 12:24 AM PDT

    By far the best worst game I've seen in my life. Shout-out to Harstem for the great content.

    Posted: 14 May 2020 12:16 PM PDT

    Masters before end of Quarantine? Join me on my journey

    Posted: 15 May 2020 02:11 AM PDT

    Can we talk about how cool these would be as skins in a warchest ?

    Posted: 15 May 2020 02:07 AM PDT

    Contuining my playthough of the Wings Of Liberty Protoss Edition. An Arcade mode with the entire WOL Campagin playing as Protoss. Do give feedback, will be livestreaming more 8pm KST on twitch :)

    Posted: 14 May 2020 12:51 PM PDT

    How do you get to your enemy's base?

    Posted: 14 May 2020 11:56 AM PDT

    Ok, so call me stupid, but I got the game recently, and I tried to 1v1 a friend. I've been here for half an hour and I CANNOT FIND THE ENEMY BASE.

    So, at the risk of sounding like an utter moron, where is it?

    submitted by /u/Headache07
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    2vs2 teams missing as an option

    Posted: 15 May 2020 12:52 AM PDT

    Recently, often the 2vs2 teams option is missing when I team up with my friend. Sometimes it's there, other times it's not. Does anybody know what's up?

    submitted by /u/Joobei_
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    Tasteless and Artosis - Bunny Biology

    Posted: 14 May 2020 06:39 PM PDT
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