Guy railing against blizzard's heroes of the storm(he calls it league of legends like a fucking moron) with standard bull shit about us fat nerds and w/e. Just thought people would be interested in seeing. He talks about how we all love harry potter or what ever, Iunno I was having a hard time seeing his point of view.
Notice that most people are downvoting the video haha.
His viewpoint kind of reminds me of a family guy scene where Quagmire doesn't know what internet porn is, and says something like "huh? I thought computers were for nerds!"
My personal opinion? I feel the same way about 50% of the other stuff ESPN covers as this guy feels about esports.
He's another ignorant shitface who doesn't have a clue about generalizations and gaming in general. Just ignore him, these kind of people will disappear on their own.
Don't follow ESPN but from second hand testimony it appears he is the equivalent of Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly for sports fans. Boisterous, makes huge leaps in logic and loves generalization because it's a lot easier to illicit a reaction. As "entertaining" he is supposed to be you have to admit he does reflect the mindset of baby boomers in their 40s-60s who think e-sports is absurd and if it's not football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer, swimming, etc it's not a legitimate sport or competition.
On the one hand, moba games are bad and should be slam-dunked into the dumpster.
On the other hand, I always enjoy a good round of lulz hearing some asshole who doesn't understand the internet or computers talk about anything technology-related. We get to hear some golden quotes, like "The internet is a series of tubes". My gripe, though, is that this attitude towards information technology is systemic throughout the mainstream media. I can't even tell you how many Dateline NBC documentaries and ABC specials show 'the dark side of the internet', playing ominous music while depicting chatroom text scrolling. And in segments on the regular networks about anything tech-related, there is always a condescending undertone, and anyone into technology is painted as a socially-backwards nerd. People who play games are asked ridiculous questions, like "Do you have a girlfriend/boyfriend?" and think about that - it's a perfectly normal question for a normal conversation. In what other setting would a journalist ever ask such a stupid question?
Strikes me as someone ignorant trying to troll to get a response, and simply looking like a dumbass in the process due to practically no knowledge of the subject they're talking about.
He likely doesn't -actually- hate gamers/think they're all dwellers of their Mom's basement, but was trying to illicit a response + aiming at the majority of his viewerbase that probably knows just as little about gaming and general nerd/geek culture. His job is to get/maintain viewers for the network. Bashing points of view that aren't yours works well enough for politicians to get people to support them, makes sense for a network to use it as well. At least ESPN is poking fun at themselves rather than another network.
Probably honest about not wanting to cover esports, and ESPN management wouldn't be stupid enough to have him cover esports as anything other than a one time joke cast.
So basically a rather bad troll. Spend more time on internet forums, Mr. Cowherd. We have trolling gurus that will gladly provide you with a trial by fire so that you can graduate from being a trolling padawan.
meh, doesn't really matter to me. I dunno why some people are angry in this situation. I mean, sure, it's not great when he speaks from ignorance but if you know that he is doing it purposely to get a response, then why give him that response? In this case, sounds like he succeeded lol.
Keep in mind this is a guy that will openly try and bash the best athletes in respective sports. He talked badly about Kevin Durant, despite Durant being easily one of the best prodigies in the NBA for awhile. I believe he also said some player would turn out to be a criminal because he didn't grow up with a father figure. This guy will talk about anybody and anything he can to illicit a response, which goes for many other folks with their own radio show, especially on ESPN, like Mike & Mike.
Pretty much everything Vortok said goes true, so in the end, it's whatever. I'm sure there are eSports supporters that stereotype athletes in sports such as football or basketball as stupid and air-headed with their only way of succeeding in life is by throwing around a ball.