Pretending to be AFK 4.0 Beating Grandmasters with stupid stuff

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  • čas přidán 7. 12. 2023
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Komentáře • 202

  • @googie_140
    @googie_140 Před 6 měsíci +689

    Got destroyed by the 'afk' proxy 4rax once, I've never emotionally recovered from that 😂

    • @DarkTemplar42
      @DarkTemplar42 Před 6 měsíci +74

      When it happened to me, I pulled all my probes to kill the CC faster, and was flabbergasted when I saw the marines

    • @josefanon8504
      @josefanon8504 Před 6 měsíci +2

      RIP

    • @walterthewatermelon7255
      @walterthewatermelon7255 Před 6 měsíci +24

      The worst for me was when I was playing a TvP and the protoss did a fake-afk build. I'd seen enough Harstem videos to know what I was looking at, so I scouted his hidden base and expected an easy win. But then I died to his timing anyway.

    • @michaelwicker9538
      @michaelwicker9538 Před 5 měsíci +2

      ​@@walterthewatermelon7255 Protos imba, lol

    • @walterthewatermelon7255
      @walterthewatermelon7255 Před 5 měsíci +2

      @michaelwicker9538 Lol it might be funny to submit it to IODIS.

  • @LasseLundster
    @LasseLundster Před 6 měsíci +337

    My favorite challenge, foiled completely by M3s who don't scout.

    • @Robothuck
      @Robothuck Před 6 měsíci +14

      Well to be honest, in the last game I think he forgot that AFK players dont build overlords in their main anyway so even if Jumy did scout that would have been a big clue lol

    • @bentosan
      @bentosan Před 6 měsíci +1

      I saw that too and was screaming in my head to move the overlord

    • @user-bn1ns6xp3i
      @user-bn1ns6xp3i Před 6 měsíci +2

      @@Robothuckhe moved the original overlord

  • @NuStiuFrate
    @NuStiuFrate Před 6 měsíci +249

    Harstem: I wish there was a button to show my opponent it's time to leave.
    His opponent in the last game probably: I wish there was a button to show my opponent it's time to leave.

  • @itskittyme
    @itskittyme Před 3 měsíci +13

    "pretending to be AFK" - the dude has 10 times more stuff than me after 5 minutes while I'm not pretending to be AFK

  • @lilanedaria
    @lilanedaria Před 6 měsíci +168

    I look forward to the 50th reenactment of Pretending to be AFK with grandpa Harstem

    • @dicksonZero
      @dicksonZero Před 6 měsíci +11

      grandpa harstem pretends to be afk at his armchair while he is cooking at the kitchen

  • @toddwilkolak5277
    @toddwilkolak5277 Před 6 měsíci +35

    It's so refreshing to watch someone genuinely just having a great time gaming. So often I watch videos and people just complain about the game they play too much. Thanks for the continuous great content

    • @1un4cy
      @1un4cy Před 6 měsíci +3

      People need to just take the game for what it is instead of trying to change it so suit themselves.

    • @joshuaherd1015
      @joshuaherd1015 Před 5 měsíci

      Check out uthermal then

    • @nick1752
      @nick1752 Před 4 měsíci +1

      OMG yes. Now I know why I love to watch Harstem playing! It's exactly this reason, he's having fun!

    • @MatVeiQaaa
      @MatVeiQaaa Před 4 měsíci +1

      imo those who complain about the game they are grinding are either too young or not particularly good at it, also. From my observations really old players dont complain anymore, like 6+ years of experience.

    • @GRAYgauss
      @GRAYgauss Před 2 měsíci

      @@1un4cy If people did that, starcraft would have zero meta. Making the game for yourself is a great way to have fun, are we not watching prime examples of that? ...The problem is people lynchpinning their value on their rank even though it's such an abstract concept it is fairly worthless in the real world and for the worse cases, often at the expense of real world skills.

  • @dosquats
    @dosquats Před 6 měsíci +44

    Pretending to be afk was the first Harstem content i ever saw. Nostalgic episode GG

  • @stc2828
    @stc2828 Před 4 měsíci +6

    “I will go roach since he might forget stargate exists” void ray instantly flys into mineral line😂

  • @rickzor2700
    @rickzor2700 Před 6 měsíci +13

    6:00 "if this guy stabs me at some point in life I probably deserve it". Best SC2 commentary ever haha

  • @WikiED
    @WikiED Před 6 měsíci +45

    Poor Jumy, got bodied by uThermal's random cheeses then to be stabbed by Harstem's fake afk

  • @Ben-gd1so
    @Ben-gd1so Před 6 měsíci +44

    Poor Jumy getting farmed by Thermy's and Harstem's challenges recently

    • @Arexsis
      @Arexsis Před 6 měsíci +6

      I was just thinking the same thing, poor jumy 😅

    • @kaiser2261
      @kaiser2261 Před 6 měsíci

      Content creator of the week

  • @Amoeby
    @Amoeby Před 6 měsíci +16

    OMG, I've been waiting for so long for this challenge to return!

  • @eggymatrix
    @eggymatrix Před 6 měsíci +49

    What a long way you have come, the first "Pretending to be AFK" was the one that got me hooked, and it is amazing how your stile and ease in front of the camera evolved in the time. Great work! Keep digressing, keep cheesing, keep being awesome!

  • @Garethax
    @Garethax Před 6 měsíci +24

    ForJumy must've had a frustrating week, getting blasted by uthermal AND harstem with random stupid builds lol

  • @124horst
    @124horst Před 6 měsíci +3

    21:45 "does he work fulltime in a circus" got me completely omg hahahha

  • @StampedingSteve
    @StampedingSteve Před 3 měsíci +7

    This takes me back to my SC2 days... i used to kill all my SCVs at the start of the game , liftoff the CC , fly to a corner and actually go AFK. It was great to do before getting food or something. I'd come back and about 40% of the time I would win. The best games would go on for an hour. People would get really confused and think the game bugged out after they walked the map 3-4 times. They'd type in the chat "Hello ???" and eventually leave thinking they spawned without an opponent

    • @yoye101
      @yoye101 Před 2 měsíci

      Man, you are evil!

  • @bencheevers6693
    @bencheevers6693 Před 6 měsíci +8

    These are always a classic love this series!

  • @sebastiankamph
    @sebastiankamph Před 6 měsíci +4

    These afk challenges are the best ever! Actually stupid stuff is enjoyable to watch ❤

  • @markawilliams4860
    @markawilliams4860 Před 6 měsíci +42

    Poor Jumy. Can't escape meme builds from Harstem and uThermal.

    • @doc6781
      @doc6781 Před 6 měsíci +18

      Poor guy is down something like 350mmr in the last 2 days to Dutch youtubers XD

    • @JustWatoo
      @JustWatoo Před 6 měsíci +5

      I think he's got to have considered uninstalling after these matches. Maybe he just has a weakness against non-standard builds?

  • @superverychillguy
    @superverychillguy Před 6 měsíci

    This is my favourite bgmwss, one of the first videos of yours i watched. Glad to see you bring it back.

  • @loraxak
    @loraxak Před 6 měsíci +3

    After seeing Harstems previous versions of this I used to do a afk DT drop on a map with a rich vespene geyser it was so much fun when it worked.

  • @skylordquasar
    @skylordquasar Před 3 měsíci +1

    I got to gold with afk mass carriers a few years back. Was beautiful.

  • @aloe7794
    @aloe7794 Před 6 měsíci

    6:01 captain being on point and hilarious with commentary, I love it lmao

  • @dogscangame
    @dogscangame Před 5 měsíci

    Thanks for bringing this back, we all appreciate you 🙏🏻👍

  • @TristanOnGoogle
    @TristanOnGoogle Před 6 měsíci +5

    "ForJumY" is the guy who lost 3 games today in a row vs uThermal right ?

  • @daryladhityahenry
    @daryladhityahenry Před 6 měsíci

    Lol I'm so glad at least this strategy work out quite well this time and even got a win!! CONGRATZZZ!!!

  • @Terrorbrot
    @Terrorbrot Před 4 měsíci

    never played this game but i really enjoy watching you from time to time :)

  • @KumarBendrake
    @KumarBendrake Před 6 měsíci

    That was great fun, Harstem. Thanks

  • @yanshi4807
    @yanshi4807 Před 6 měsíci +1

    I know this is going to be a banger 😂 love you captain ❤

  • @lysy-zn2gg
    @lysy-zn2gg Před 6 měsíci

    Yesss, I was waiting for this one so long

  • @Slothwell
    @Slothwell Před 4 měsíci +1

    "If my opponent scouts, it would suck. However if my opponent DOESNT scout .. it would also suck because this build is GARBAGE" My fucking sides. I don't play SC but this was entertaining enough that i didn't need to understand much

  • @iantan5975
    @iantan5975 Před 6 měsíci

    Oh captain my captain, it brings a tear to my eye to behold such buffoonery

  • @Lucius_Chiaraviglio
    @Lucius_Chiaraviglio Před 5 měsíci +2

    The funniest thing would be if you did all this build-up and found that your opponent was AFK . . . except then it would be even funnier if THEY had been secretly building up elsewhere as well.

  • @trayfenodonnell5386
    @trayfenodonnell5386 Před 4 měsíci

    "Is he a clown...does he work full time in the circus?" funny stuff man lol

  • @Sidicas
    @Sidicas Před 3 měsíci +1

    But its so amazing when the base blows up and the game doesn't end.

  • @DevJonny
    @DevJonny Před 6 měsíci +3

    suggestion for this: the vanishing army, early pressure, make a good sized army, attack and then retreat, then load all your army into transports, move it to the edge of the map and when they counter attack, base trade them

  • @jajemon
    @jajemon Před 6 měsíci

    This is my favorite sc challenge .. it's just beautiful

  • @Alloran
    @Alloran Před 6 měsíci +1

    reminds me of the Bongcloud, just some good old break your brain style starcraft. The real victory comes from making your opponent doubt their sanity.

  • @fostyfrosty7120
    @fostyfrosty7120 Před 6 měsíci

    Your third video about pretending to be afk was your first video that i watched, good times!

  • @MrSonicjew
    @MrSonicjew Před 3 měsíci

    I love playing like this as zerg, taking your second base close by and spreading creep and spines, so fun

  • @berrycarriez1074
    @berrycarriez1074 Před 4 měsíci

    I love this game but cannot play no where near the level most people can in this but would always enjoy watching your videos and this was one of my favorites back then when you did the original AFK build love watching you play man keep it up!

  • @davidloucks1885
    @davidloucks1885 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Here comes the sun, ladeeladee. Thanks for remembrance of that song brother.

  • @youknownothing1242
    @youknownothing1242 Před 6 měsíci

    Your game at 26 minutes I got so excited you were trying my suggestion from awhile back but alas no such luck! Was the pretend to be afk with zerg, don't move overlord, offensive proxy hatch offcentered at minerals, cancel soooo you can proxy your pool asap then use 2nd drone to make hatchery centered!

  • @realdomdom
    @realdomdom Před 3 měsíci

    To this day, I have never seen a more hilarious thing than faking to be AFK.

  • @danrothman6129
    @danrothman6129 Před 6 měsíci +1

    I love Harstems laugh it goes like this- eHAASST HAAST HAAAA, gasps* EHHAAASST HAAASSTT HAAAST!

  • @olivander65
    @olivander65 Před 6 měsíci

    The return of the king

  • @literatemax
    @literatemax Před měsícem

    I think in that first game they knew you were bluffing because the "only" thing you had left kept stopping and starting its movement

  • @kaloyanangelov8042
    @kaloyanangelov8042 Před 6 měsíci

    Love this challenge!

  • @TheLiverX
    @TheLiverX Před 4 měsíci +1

    You know what they say:
    Play stupid games, win... stupid games. I think

  • @tenj00
    @tenj00 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Harstem, the guy who goes AFK into 3rax in a tournament against BigGabe.:)
    PS: My wishes for 2024.

  • @VegaMain
    @VegaMain Před 4 měsíci

    I don’t even play this game but I love watching. I don’t know why.

  • @mirastor1796
    @mirastor1796 Před 6 měsíci

    In the last game, I was waiting for a BC to appear in your main 🤣

  • @FShani
    @FShani Před 5 měsíci

    I was so hoping that last game was an afk vs afk build. The rematch and no scout was setting it up perfectly.

  • @Static2332
    @Static2332 Před 6 měsíci

    You should also bring back the proxy double forge or engineering bays for Terran. Maybe fake out some other kind of cheese?

  • @yaboiyosef7640
    @yaboiyosef7640 Před 6 měsíci

    The original afk BGMWSS was the first Harstem video I ever watched

  • @Aerational
    @Aerational Před 4 měsíci

    I've been doing a 5 CC opener in silver. I'll have 5 bases by 3 minutes and then start to spam down barracks. My 5th CC is built at main base ramp along with ebay for temporary wall then moved to natural and replaced with rax. After 5 CC I focus mainly on spamming barracks but continue to take more mining bases and try to fill the map. Generally by 7 minutes I have about 15 or so barracks, like 6 or 7 Orbitals maybe a planetary or two, and with the mule mining I can spam out marines at an insane pace. It's like zero focus on micro and I basically just become a human tower defense game. I usually lose my main base, sometimes I lose several bases... but so far I've been able to beat like 95% of my opponents by just eventually streaming so many marines from all over the map that it overwhelms people. Again... low rank, but maybe you could do something crazy greedy like that. I'll say this I've had people scout what I'm doing immediately, and start hitting base after base and often I can still overtake them just on sheer income/production basically. They generally start to feel really comfortable when they have destroyed a couple CCs, but don't realize I've already been mass mule mining and have Barracks EVERYWHERE. Basically if you can survive the early game your income and production are going to be so good you can generally overcome the losses you took tp start. Another key is splitting my scvs among all bases so no one base is a game ender to lose.

  • @ramil8029
    @ramil8029 Před 6 měsíci

    nooooo! We waited for the return of this challenge for so many years, and you made a 35 min video, the longest game of which went way off the track of the challenge 😢😢😢
    this deserved to be over 1hr video

  • @mates6708
    @mates6708 Před 5 měsíci

    great video. now every game against terran i get 3rax cheesed. really funny harstem...

  • @ZorroDk
    @ZorroDk Před 6 měsíci +1

    In the last game: The overlord is quite a big tell, isn't it? When moving away the first overload and producing a new, then the new one will not be in the same position as the first one...

    • @mothrahlurker788
      @mothrahlurker788 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Not like people are going to notice that easily.

    • @ZorroDk
      @ZorroDk Před 6 měsíci +1

      @@mothrahlurker788 Maybe not. I just thought that GM/Pro players might :)

    • @MKu64
      @MKu64 Před 6 měsíci +2

      @@ZorroDk As a GM I can tell you that I would not have noticed 😂 But now I probably will 😅

  • @xmickx
    @xmickx Před 4 měsíci

    I love how he whispers so the enemy won't hear him

  • @riceontopstew
    @riceontopstew Před 3 měsíci

    one of the only yt channels I cant watch at 1.25 speed

  • @Caipi2070
    @Caipi2070 Před 6 měsíci

    27:22 you get 225 minerals from cancelling the hatch, so you don’t need to wait for 200 minerals in the bank to cancel and build the spawning pool

  • @JamesMichaelDoyle
    @JamesMichaelDoyle Před 6 měsíci

    i have to ask, why do people use hellions and not get blueflame? especially against mass lings?

  • @Aguyfrom225
    @Aguyfrom225 Před 4 měsíci

    I did something similar. I built my base on his third. Made full base on third but pretended i was an idiot. He marched across the map and destroyed my base but i had a fully functioning base at his third and killed his main. He had to dc. He thought it was a base trade. I realizing after the match he was a master rank. After that first placement match, it put me in diamond league immediately. I still have that picture today.

  • @dustinmorrison6315
    @dustinmorrison6315 Před 6 měsíci +1

    I find it preposterous that a 5k Zerg hasn't scouted the entire map by 6 minutes into the game.

  • @HighLanderPonyYT
    @HighLanderPonyYT Před 4 měsíci

    Great challenge! lol

  • @neverping
    @neverping Před 6 měsíci

    Hartem, congratulations to come up with such challenge! Have you told uThermal about your new idea?

  • @GnikWoc
    @GnikWoc Před 6 měsíci

    hey @harstem, are you going to be doing any Stormgate content? Super suprised to not see any yet!

  • @user-rc3sv2wo2q
    @user-rc3sv2wo2q Před 5 měsíci +1

    Can we get a "Beating Grandmasters pretending to be an idiot" game?

  • @causeneffect8563
    @causeneffect8563 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Can you sing “Here comes the Stem”, instead of “Here comes the Sun”, because you, Harstem, are a mad genius and your videos bring a new day.

  • @mundolincurve7577
    @mundolincurve7577 Před 6 měsíci

    you can still destroy your hatcheries to reveal your position and show the oponnent you are on top.

  • @Borrelaas
    @Borrelaas Před 4 měsíci

    In the first game i think the other guy would be less inclined to scout the top left if Harstem would've not just let the first CC stay idle flying over the natural, but rather had the CC fly towards the lower right and trying to keep him chasing it thinking it would land or something..
    Just my thoughts

  • @drewaforbes
    @drewaforbes Před 6 měsíci

    One of the best BGMWSS :)

  • @SebastiantheXII
    @SebastiantheXII Před 6 měsíci

    Would it be viable to use the lifted Command Center like an Overlord to scout the enemy?

  • @omnimoeish
    @omnimoeish Před 6 měsíci

    lol that first game it was 19 to 49 workers at 4 minutes in.

  • @jfabiovieira
    @jfabiovieira Před 6 měsíci

    Could we have a dummy (or not) tournament with a few players that can only play "Beating Grandmasters with stupid stuff"
    That would be awesome to see the casters confused and everyone else ahah I would watch that :D

  • @mattivoutilainen2348
    @mattivoutilainen2348 Před 6 měsíci

    ❤❤Love to see this again❤❤

  • @robbasgaming7044
    @robbasgaming7044 Před 4 měsíci

    I haven't watched sc2 for years. But what is this map called?? Rådhuset station? I live close by, it's a subway station in Stockholm lol

  • @michaeljackson765
    @michaeljackson765 Před měsícem

    You should be able to share vision with your opponent if you choose, you can in broodwar.

  • @visoroverwatch3247
    @visoroverwatch3247 Před 6 měsíci

    I feel like i just lost some braincells watching this lol.

  • @PylosLight
    @PylosLight Před 6 měsíci

    Favourite challenge ever :D

  • @beholder369
    @beholder369 Před 6 měsíci

    o7 Great work, Cap

  • @celestrius9197
    @celestrius9197 Před 6 měsíci

    After the first match im thinking if you quit hellions at 4 and had 2 mines available behind minerals and gas for the mutas itd be too late for him to react probably. And this is definitely gonna bait out high muta

  • @thomasgrams9715
    @thomasgrams9715 Před 6 měsíci

    There's something funny to me in saying, "we're gonna do a 3 rax follow up" after faking being afk.

  • @njdarda
    @njdarda Před 6 měsíci +1

    i just watched forjumy getting tortured by uthermal and now this. ;-;

  • @jims420
    @jims420 Před 6 měsíci +3

    You talking with a low tone helps with the afkness of the build..

  • @ugaaga198
    @ugaaga198 Před 4 měsíci

    Would be more effective when pausing the game early on and then pretending not coming back, so the enemy continues the game 😂

  • @altonito777
    @altonito777 Před 6 měsíci

    Forjumy played against uThermal in his new random cheese to gm series, in the first game uThermal sprayed a 2nd place medal in his base before destroying him and then had 3 other matches against that same guy and now he also gets tortured by this afk build omg xD

  • @Cylindryk
    @Cylindryk Před 6 měsíci

    It would be very interesting to see this game commented by Lowko, by from your op perspective. ;)

  • @matthewsemenuk8953
    @matthewsemenuk8953 Před 6 měsíci

    Seems to work well vs protoss

  • @KamikazeWombat
    @KamikazeWombat Před 6 měsíci

    I just yesterday watched a video of uthermal beating up on a probably hungover 4jumy. Poor guy lol

  • @Freakieboy123
    @Freakieboy123 Před 6 měsíci

    Have you ever tried to play around with suboptimal but regular builds? (on purpose :P) e.g. in pvt build the nexus so late that your opponent expects a proxy gate and basically reacts to nothing by building cc on the highground with a bunker. Build 4 gateways on 2 base but don´t attack. I am sure you can think of a lot of stupid stuff in that way! :)

  • @pavelvalis7023
    @pavelvalis7023 Před 6 měsíci

    Classic Bumbz :D

  • @chrisa.3288
    @chrisa.3288 Před 4 měsíci

    Amazing

  • @heybroy0747
    @heybroy0747 Před 6 měsíci

    does the 4.0 imply there was a 3.0 and 2.0? or maybe a 2.5? anyone got the playlist? or maybe I could make it.

  • @dschortz
    @dschortz Před 6 měsíci

    Bgmwss dropping multiple nukes simultaneously.

  • @Mokinono45
    @Mokinono45 Před 6 měsíci

    yay...the best challenge ever

  • @gabrielstarlight9003
    @gabrielstarlight9003 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Someone needs to convince another pro to do this challenge in the hopes that they encounter each other on the ladder. It's a long shot I know but just imagine. It won't happen if we don't try.

    • @lyrilili
      @lyrilili Před 6 měsíci +1

      you could probably convince uthermal

  • @user-ft7np6rb3r
    @user-ft7np6rb3r Před 6 měsíci

    simple men, click, like and watch Harstem FOREVER!

  • @hodgzer
    @hodgzer Před 6 měsíci

    You thinking so much faster than you can speak)))