This is the story of the risks and sacrifices Nick 'Tasteless' Plott and Dan 'Artosis' Stemkoski made to become the renowned 'Tastosis' personalities they are today.
If tasteless wouldn't have lost against his brother then maybe he wouldn't have gotten the opportunity of his life to be a professional E-sports caster. That butterfly effect. Awesome story.
wtf are you talking about? Tasteless is very scummy & unethical. He has zero friends who aren't using him for his fame/networking. But I agree that Artosis is a great human being. ♥
I absolutely LOVE Starcraft 2. I am always going to gsl (yes I live in korea) and I am trying my best to spread the sc2 news on youtube. If anyone ever wants to team up who lives in korea send me a message and lets save esports together!
They get no benefit from promoting others' material.. So they won't do it. Even if it's for the good of the community -- most streamers are very very self-obsessed and narcissistic. Happens all the time in other industries, too
These 2 are the image of Starcraft and i cannot think of a more iconic duo, in the world of casting. They do have shitloads of passion for the game, compared to others who just cast for the chance at a quick buck. Gotta love them and the great atmosphere they bring together with them.
This stuff makes me so happy, The Plott crew are such an awesome family & Artosis is such a legend, this is so amazing to hear these stories again haha. Love it so much, thank you for this :)
"If I can somehow show you with my words what I'm seeing and you can have that same experience, I know you're going to be a fan for life." True story Artosis, true story. Thanks for everything.
These are the first people who understand my feelings for Starcraft. I've never been better at anything in my life than I was at the game and I wish I didnt have to grow up.
So glad remastered is back, when I was playing BW it was hard to get korean vods and I never knew all of this until ASL, never had the chance to check Tastosis until now and oh man they are amazing!
i waited so long for this documentery and it came out when i took a very long break from sc2. thank god i finally saw this in the sidebar i am so excited! my favorite casting archon's documentary, and finally a real documentary on sc2 unlike liquid rising, etc.
Omg what an amazing movie. I am a huge fan of day9 he was one of the first people i watched for starcraft and i learned about this story from one of his dailies but watching this movie brought it to another level. And that is how nicks carrier started... amazing. So nice to see 2 brothers love each other like that. so nice to see artosis and tastless rocking it together we need more things like that.
sorry you missed out on the 2010-2014 period :( Imo it was worth it. My first trip ever was to MLG Anaheim in 2011 and I can say it was pretty much the top. Boxer, MMA, MVP, HuK, TLO and more. It was insane. Probably my best memory ever to be there in person. It was so expensive, stupid plane ticket, for only 3 days too. I am from Canada; still worth it.
I was a little kid playing broodwar in the USA in 99. Perfectly positioned to play from a young age. But it was kinda hard and I was 11 and didn't know anyone who played or that there was an online scene. And shortly after, due to weird circumstances I moved with family to a developing country and didn't own a computer for several years and had no stable internet until I was in my 20's (and it's only gotten decent recently). I'm 31 now and I love gaming and toyed with the idea of making it a career, but I'm not good enough and got started too late. I live a happy life and try not to have regrets, but I do sometimes wonder though what my life might have been like. Like if I had an older brother who was into gaming, or had been maybe 15 in 99 instead of 11, or had stumbled across the right website, or some small things like that. I was in the right place at the right time.
Honestly the game itself is better now than it ever was then, no matter the viewer count. The scene is stable enough that it barely missed a beat with the Corona shutdown, and even managed to revive an old event (TSL 5 was great) while GSL is 10 years old now, and the level of play just keeps getting higher. We are even seeing Korean pros like Taeja and DRG (and several other who I can’t remember off the top of my head) return to pro play *after* military service, which was traditionally seen as the barrier between pro gaming and “real life”. In short, I’m not sure I would consider WoL the “Golden Years” of Starcraft 2.
Back when BroodWar was in the height of it's popularity, it really was something else. The memories I have from that era will stay with me til the end of my life. It was such an impactful experience for so many people - I met some amazing folks who didn't care I was just some kid, it was all about the love of the game.
Even if SC2 is sorta dead outside Korea, I still love Tastosis. I met Artosis at Pax East once and he hugged me. It's much easier to like famous personalities when they're actually nice, decent humans.
1987retroman It's not dead, what it is though is less popular. I think of it like baseball. Used to be massive, and still is just as massive, but less popular.
Mahalo for this video! I love it! Ty Dan for wanting to share your favorite thing with others n becoming Artosis the caster!!! Was horrifying hearing about alphabetical groups! Crazy! Yet that's exactly what changed things for us to know Tasteless as a caster instead. Amazing story! Aloha from Hilo, Hawaii island in the Kingdom of the Hawaiian Islands, H. I.🌺💦💫
I can happily listen to their casts without even watching the game that's how good they are. I often put on my earbuds just to listen to their casts from i watched before
The thing that cracks me up is the “oh wow that was an hour long game, crazy” when we know that 2011 Tastosis had HOTS Swarmhost games in their future...
Holy hell Tasteless looked super edgy and Artosis looked like he was 14 years old in this. Now Tasteless looks like the super-chill uncle and Artosis is... Well, Artosis.
Idra and Artosis looked exactly what I thought of when I thought about someone who played broodwar back in day when I would beat someone and they would rage. More or less I pictured a dude that looks like them
Love that Nick's brother has "Napoleon's march to Moscow" poster in the background. I'm looking at my own right now! (Next to his head upper left side on the back wall)
I used to play SC near the open screen doors of a California home, on warm, beautiful nights. I don't remember anything more memorable and FUN. I didn't know about this happening (SC becoming so competitive) but when I got my butt whooped, I knew... and I experienced this level of gaming without outside knowledge of pro players. If you think SC II is just another game, you're wrong. It's not my nostalgia either, but it was the best time of my life. When people say "Life isn't a game, life isn't Star Craft," they don't know that people like me, with high anxiety disorder, have found peace in sitting calmly and playing... forgetting about stress. That IS life.
The uniqueness and style of each pro in starcraft is so much more apparent and entertaining too. Like, so much to the extent that you couldn't smurf and hide your identity. People would "recognize" your style. That's how woven starcraft is in one's personality and how infinitely beautifully awesome it is
sc2 is too in depth and difficult to play for it to be a giant esport, it's still highly successful for an rts and thousands of people still enjoy it, that is enough for me.
I think it boils down to MOBAs having both a lower skillfloor, and viewers being able to understand in simple terms what is happening. SC on the other hand, requires viewer understanding of the game. I know that is not excuse cause every sport has depth, but casuals connect with MOBAs easier I suppose.
Starcraft was huge, it has the potential, blizzard ruined the momentum in WoL and no-one cared about it anymore. After you lose so much ground it's hard to bring in new players when you're contenders are either free to play or $15. Not three $50 seperate expansions
I played SC in my childhood and wasn't even mediocre competitively. I didn't play SC2 nor do I plan to, but I thought that this documentary could be very interesting to watch, but... After only 10 minutes I noticed that I started to think about doing something else. I don't know how it's for people who are passionate about the game, but what was really missing for me was some footage of the game and maybe them talking over it (to be honest I thought it was a SC documentary not a documentary of the caster duo). And I was pretty surprised that there was no part about the game or its history. The documentary also wasn't very good at telling me what it even is about. In that case a narrator would have been really helpful. As I said, to people who are really into the competitive scene this may be totally awesome, but to me just people talking over a slow melody is really boring.
From what i remember: It was a bug used maybe in 2004 (don't remember exactly) in battle net, mainly in the map "Lost Temple" (most popular map at the time), so the zerg could fly a drone over any area of the map and safely expand early on the game into the islands. Here's more info: wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Bugs#Flying_Drone
Esteban Francisco ohh so it was like a map hack?? lameee. I thought you meant a glitch that was just in the game naturally. Like the scv thru mineral glitch. Thanks for letting me know tho was currioujs. I play brood war every day. Getting good or as they say getting good enough to know I'm bad at the game lol.
it was in the game in its vanilla flavor, exploting any bug is lame, not the bug itself... personally i would just use it once against a friend... many lols achieved xD
