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@thecynicalshin Paul Shin @blazersedge I'm sorry you're under fire from a very sensitive community. But I find it really funny that people consider a game a "sport"
Wait wait wait, hold the press. Sports aren't games? mind=blown
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Oh, God... What if djWHEAT finds out?! lol Poor Ben Golliver.
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On September 08 2011 15:09 Snorkle wrote:Show nested quote +@thecynicalshin Paul Shin @blazersedge I'm sorry you're under fire from a very sensitive community. But I find it really funny that people consider a game a "sport" Wait wait wait, hold the press. Sports aren't games? mind=blown
Just tweeted that guy basically the same response lol
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you saw that too? I thought that it was funny.
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I'm glad there are lots of comments arleady and I'm actually surprised they are "civil" as in not like "fuck you bitch" or etc., whjich would give us a bad name
maybe i'll reply later but it seems it is doing well
i was offended by the article, but it is an offense to basketball too it seems
anyways from his twitter it seems he does not truly mean it (was exaggerating, or tongue in cheek like he says), i mean people write articles to get attention
at first it hoguht it was praising sc2 tho, when it mentioned "nerds" i thought "haha yea we joke about being sc2 nerds" then when he critcized sc2 again i realized he was attacking sc2...
comparing sc2 to excite bike? its like basketball to hide and seek or tag lol =/
Oh well at least gordon knows he has a community that understands and supports him <3
it is ironic though, that gordon is doing IPL3 open bracket partly to raise awareness and stuff like that between sports and esports, yet this article seemed to go in the opposite direction xD
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I picked up the tongue in cheek nature of the article but it is true that the article came off as inflammatory regardless. I think if some more credit to the SC2 scene was given or at least a curb away from constant bashing on the game, then the article could actually be seen as just some funny commentary.
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On September 08 2011 15:10 Yoshi Kirishima wrote:I'm glad there are lots of comments arleady and I'm actually surprised they are "civil" as in not like "fuck you bitch" or etc., whjich would give us a bad name maybe i'll reply later but it seems it is doing well i was offended by the article, but it is an offense to basketball too it seems anyways from his twitter it seems he does not truly mean it (was exaggerating, or tongue in cheek like he says), i mean people write articles to get attention at first it hoguht it was praising sc2 tho, when it mentioned "nerds" i thought "haha yea we joke about being sc2 nerds" then when he critcized sc2 again i realized he was attacking sc2... comparing sc2 to excite bike? its like basketball to hide and seek or tag lol =/ Oh well at least gordon knows he has a community that understands and supports him <3 it is ironic though, that gordon is doing IPL3 open bracket partly to raise awareness and stuff like that between sports and esports, yet this article seemed to go in the opposite direction xD Surely he is just taking the higher road in that scenario and not replying to the vulgar tweets.
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On September 08 2011 15:00 Slider954 wrote:Show nested quote +On September 08 2011 14:55 taLbuk wrote: It's really sad to see people from the eSports community lash out at this author so harshly. After reading his responses on twitter he is obviously a mature individual who cites his own ignorance and isn't being an asshole to people, yet people are saying some disgusting things to him.
Stop embarrassing the SC community with these witch hunts.
Take the day9 route, instead of insulting people, educate them on how awesome Starcraft is. Really disgusting things? I'm hardly seeing any disgusting or rude tweets. And thats what people are doing, linking articles and vids trying to educate the guy on SC2 and Esports. And he isn't citing his own ignorance, he keeps saying that the article was tongue in cheek and that we just didn't get the humor. The only thing he is acknowledging that he was ignorant of was the size of the community and the response he was going to get.
He cites his own ignorance when he claims he has learned alot about the game and it's players in such a short amount of time thanks to the feedback of the large community.
As far as disgusting things, most of that is being said over on other such popular websites hint hint.
Obviously the vast majority of people are being subjective and responsible by informing him via links and videos. Which is awesome.
And when I say people "lashing out" within the first HOUR of the article circulating across the different communities, many of the comments were really stupid and alot of people obviously just assumed it was another stupid random blogger like the previous 2 ignorant articles.
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I had to resist responding to this man purely because i know i wouldn't keep a civil tongue. i'll let the more eloquent community members handle that.
but seriously what the fuck.
what exactly is this article insulting? the NBA, Hayward, Starcraft 2? all of them at once? where's the stance on this.
the shit that's "news-worthy" these days is straight insulting to anyone who likes to consider themselves "sentient".
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Starcraft gets more publicity, and the guy who wrote the article will prob get flamed.
Everyone is happy?
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He's not worth our time tbh. He's ignorant as fuck.
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Not surprised, from his reaction. He lives off of sports, which are physical or strategic (which from him video games are not). Plus the author is old fashion, so he cant grow up and look at the world as it changes. I know many people like this, and it is sickening to see how close minded people can be but that is reality.
I hope e-sports becomes bigger then ever before. To show these idiots, that anything competitive can also be in the same category as the major sports.
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I already flamed him.. feeling pretty good about it actually. I have no patience for ignorance so sue me.
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Wow, he's still at it lol.
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Lol, even painuser is getting into it, i gave him some flack for the NASL stuff but he has gained a couple points in my book.
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How the heck does one read the back and forth between two people on Twitter? It's insanely confusing.
Why doesn't it just look like an instant message convo?
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On September 08 2011 15:10 AdamFox wrote: Oh, God... What if djWHEAT finds out?! lol Poor Ben Golliver.
WHAT UP BITCHES
Yeah, this is totally gonna be on Lo3 or WoC, and oh man it's gonna be epic.
As for the guy, Ben goliver, well, he fucked up and made a shitty article, and now he's been punished with a million nasty tweets. I'd say there's no point witchhunting him now
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I hope this guy can get some sleep because he wont forget this day for a long long time.
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It would be cool if he did some journalism and actually researched SC2 and embedded himself in the community for a few weeks, maybe even go to MLG Orlando to do an in-depth examination. That would make a great follow up story. It would be interesting to see if he still feels the same way after attending an MLG.
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