>be me, mid-90s kid who grew up playing stuff SC1 and BW
>entire life post-school everyday was logging onto BNet and joining custom UMS games like Cat N' Mouse, Impossible Scenarios, Protect the President, etc.
>would spends hours at a time for years scouring the early '00s internet for tidbits of StarCraft-related stuff because any sort of auxiliary media like art and lore was sparse outside of what was in the games
>go batshit insane with glee when SC2 was announced unaware of the direction the series would take
This was truly some Monkey's Paw shit- though, things were still fine for awhile. WoL did a good job of emulating that SC1 atmosphere and the game felt like it was BW but updated to modern technological sensibilities. HOTS, on the other hand, was truly the end of what we came to know and love as StarCraft.

will you mashmak plebs stop filling your inventory with low value garbage when I'm trying to fucking rob you?

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First time I see a non-toku variant of this image