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"When a 21-year-old, 207 pound forward doesn't immediately recoil in horror when asked to compare the stress and rigors of the NBA to a freaking science fiction video game we know that the NBA game has been cleaned up too much. If a Zerg attack really gets his blood pumping as much as a game-winning shot, that's a terrible look. We don't want to live in a world where this can be true, do we?"
This quote kind of upsets me. Just because he plays basketball in the NBA doesn't mean thats all his life should be about and that feeling any sort of emotion towards anything else is wrong. He is a person just like anybody else, and has a multitude of likes, interests and passions. To state such a vile comment just shows complete lack of professionalism imo.
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Tongue in cheek? Does he even know what that means?
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Calgary25938 Posts
This is the kind of thing where you wish you could have a man-to-man talk with the author...
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I think I shall not be watching you CBS.
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Although it's easy to get extremely riled up over someone trashing the hobbies of many, livelihoods of a few, I think a step back should be taken from the article as a whole and really put into perspective:
i) This isn't some 12-year old prick who is ignorant because he doesn't know better, this is probably a 30 to 40-year old asshole who will never change his mind, even to his deathbed. Giving his stupid little blog your attention does show that Starcraft2 and ESPORTS has a support group, but I personally feel like all it does is give this dude more publicity than he deserves.
ii) IT'S A BLOG. He can say whatever he wants. If you want to get passionately infuriated about something, go to 4chan and try your hand at e-fighting against pedophilia comics.
iii) I personally feel worse for Gordon Hayward. He is just doing something he loves/wants to do, it HASN'T EVEN HAPPENED YET, and already the assholes and dicks are coming out of the woodwork to perpetuate some artificial status quo about society. He probably won't ever read this, but I hope he can keep all the haters from getting to his head.
iv) But yeah, if I could torture this blogger, I'd kidnap him, strap him down to the finest computer chair I can afford, and have him play starcraft until he realizes what all the hype is about.
BW + SC2 FOREVER.
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Fuck that guy, sees something new and his instinct reaction is to mime alarm noises and yell nerd alert and run away like a 10 year old boy runs away from cooties -_-.
Reminds me of a homophobe/xenophobe. Incredibly stupid. CBS, on the off chance you read this, I'll get my evening news from NBC now considering you have bigots like Mr. Golliver on staff. Thanks.
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Manny laying down the heat!
"Maybe the author would be interested to know that Tim Duncan was an avid StarCraft 1 player, playing for hours on his laptop with teammates on flights. I wonder if he would consider Tim Duncan "soft"."
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Yikes, people (mainly TLers probably) are flipping out on him on twitter and he's saying "it was a tongue in cheek post." I don't really believe him but I also feel like people are overreacting a little bit.
Maybe we should just chill out a bit on the ad hominem "you're-a-terrible-writer/person" attacks...
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On September 08 2011 12:05 danson wrote: Manny laying down the heat!
"Maybe the author would be interested to know that Tim Duncan was an avid StarCraft 1 player, playing for hours on his laptop with teammates on flights. I wonder if he would consider Tim Duncan "soft"." Probably the most coherent Twitter response I've seen so far. Once again, for the billionth time, we should all follow Mani's example (he's @Manifesto7 on twitter).
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Just an ignorant opinion :\
Pretty sad really, and doubt responding to it is going to change his opinion on it.
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On September 08 2011 12:04 Hyren wrote: Tongue in cheek? Does he even know what that means?
Please explain it to me, I've heard the term before but not really sure what it means.
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So, wait, I thought the whole IPL thing was a joke at first. It was an obvious mockery of the LeBron thing.
Even if he's playing for sure, and not in the open tournament, it's a publicity stunt. Gordon is in like Platinum league or something.. he's on my friends list right now and the highest I ever saw him was like high Gold. Edit: Yes, he is in Platinum league.
I actually live in Salt Lake City and love the guy.. think he's a total stud on the court. But that detracting from his NBA life? Yeah right. Dude gets paid like $4M/year to play ball and has a bright future ahead of him. He's going to 1 pro SC2 event mostly as a marketing target and somebody makes a huge deal out of it?
Ignorance, for the loss.
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And this is why you don't go bashing things you don't know about on a news site, it makes you look incredibly stupid. You should at least put way more time into actually researching the subject hard and going to events before you form an opinion.
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Well, on the upside, this will attract attention to Starcraft 2. Bad publicity is etc etc, right?
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There are always critics, just do what I always do: look up from my screen, sigh, look back at my screen, carry on flaming at nerd ballers.
oh, and what's basketball??
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Kotaku going for maximum views with that title lol.
God I hate that site.
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On September 08 2011 12:05 thedirtyleg wrote: Yikes, people (mainly TLers probably) are flipping out on him on twitter and he's saying "it was a tongue in cheek post." I don't really believe him but I also feel like people are overreacting a little bit.
Maybe we should just chill out a bit on the ad hominem "you're-a-terrible-writer/person" attacks...
I don't think it's wrong to say he's a terrible writer if he's written an article that was in our eyes bad. How good he is as a writer is reflected in what he writes, and this was clearly bad.
That said, that doesn't make him a bad person. Just an ignorant person who makes negative assumptions and for some reason likes to bash people for their hobbeys. Or at least that's how this article makes him come across.
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Why can't it just be impressive that a basketball player at the highest level has non-traditional interests? He's a smart guy, do we want all athletes to be gangsters and meatheads who only enjoy clubbing and knocking up random women? Assholes.
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On September 08 2011 12:09 julianto wrote: Well, on the upside, this will attract attention to Starcraft 2. Bad publicity is etc etc, right? Yeah I guess we're doing this one eg style haha~
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On September 08 2011 12:04 Chill wrote: This is the kind of thing where you wish you could have a man-to-man talk with the author...
When you put it that way, I imagine closed doors and more than just talking.
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