Starcraft is one of the Most Popular Sports in South Korea

Don't believe me?  Read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_in_South_Korea
"E-sports have found a strong home in South Korea, StarCraft professional competition being the largest example of these."

Crazy, huh?!

Mark loves Starcraft.  Starcraft II came out this summer, and Mark enjoys spending his time playing online with some of our friends down in Provo.  We used to have a big DND group together for a few years, but then everyone's schedules were conflicting and we dropped our regular Tuesday night DND group.

Sometimes, Mark listens to these podcast-type game casts on YouTube.  It's like listening to football commentary - there's actually a guy sitting around talking about who's doing what and building what and attacking what and what the dude's going to need to do to fight back.  I don't get it - I don't play Starcraft.  I just overhear a lot of unit names and can understand if someone is talking about Starcraft.  Hah.

When Carmen and I were gone to Seattle for the month of November, Mark played a lot of Starcraft with his friends.  He used to describe his Starcraft playing as "poor" ... simply because he didn't play as extensively and obsessively as real Starcraft ... er ... experts ... had prior to Starcraft II's release.  (The first Starcraft came out in 1998.  That gives people a good long time to become really stinking good at the game.)  He was kind of the retarded kid in the group, but the other guys still let Mark play with them. ;)  Since Mark had some time to practice while I was gone, we joke he's now "mediocre" or "passable".

Anywho.

I'm thinking about this because Mark opened up Starcraft and the first splash page showed up with this guy on it:

Carmen saw him and said, "Jesus!!!"

Well ... you know ... you've got to give her some credit.  Jim Raynor does sort of have a beard.

I love that girl.