I seriously do enjoy your stream, sotg appearance and your joking character in all the ways possible.

On the one side I'm happy for you to be the face of NASL, but selfishly if this post means you'll appear less or in different way on your stream or anywhere else I can encounter you online, then it makes me sad.

WTL

47 Posts

February 25 2011 21:14 GMT

#64

Reddit isn't even a credible source for starcraft information so I wouldn't care what they think. It's a constant drama pit / soap opera over there. Have you seen their board in the past few hours? It's all stupid memes and pictures of their favorite players. I've never seen a civil starcraft discussion over there. They're the ones who blew this out of proportion in the first place. They should be shunned from the SC community if you ask me, they contribute nothing.

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BroOd

Austin10833 Posts

February 25 2011 21:15 GMT

#65

It's all about figuring out what's appropriate and when, and that's not always immediately obvious. Sometimes you don't see the barrier until you crash into it. Once you find that happy medium, you'll be golden, it's when you stray to far to either side of the spectrum that you run into problems.

xzumiex

Belgium100 Posts

February 25 2011 21:15 GMT

#66

Don't change how u are in State of the Game, such a blast to have somebody with entertainment-level 100 and dares to open his mouth!

Totally understand you have to change for a big thing like the NASL, promoting the ONE big event which will change the whole western e-sports community.

inControL fighting!

isSoCool

Sweden19 Posts

February 25 2011 21:15 GMT

#67

with fame come the haters. be yourself man, thats what got you where you are in the first place.

kazansky

Germany931 Posts

February 25 2011 21:16 GMT

#68

Continue to be what you are, incontrol, people love you for a reason. I wouldn't want you to change in any way as you are a part of what makes this community awesome.

Turgid

United States1623 Posts

February 25 2011 21:17 GMT

#69

On February 26 2011 06:14 WTL wrote:
Reddit isn't even a credible source for starcraft information so I wouldn't care what they think. It's a constant drama pit / soap opera over there. Have you seen their board in the past few hours? It's all stupid memes and pictures of their favorite players. I've never seen a civil starcraft discussion over there. They're the ones who blew this out of proportion in the first place. They should be shunned from the SC community if you ask me, they contribute nothing.

Please, let's not do this. Reddit has an active and important SC2 subcommunity that's important to the wider Starcraft, SC2, and esports community(communities). SC should be a no hate zone.

Tim17

France39 Posts

February 25 2011 21:17 GMT

#70

"Errare humanum est, sed persevare diabolicum est."
As long as you learn from your mistakes and keep getting better I'll be your fan

BroOd

Austin10833 Posts

February 25 2011 21:19 GMT

#71

Yeah, please don't start ragging on reddit users (many of whom are your fellow TL users).

Rayeth

United States883 Posts

February 25 2011 21:19 GMT

#72

In all honesty, Incontrol's continued joking around was the number one reason I liked him. He never let the haters get to him. He was true to himself and his own personality. By giving up that joking nature the trolls and a vocal minority win.

So my advice to you Geoff is this. Never stop ranting on SotG. Never stop impersonating voices. Never stop calling people bad if you think they are. Speak your mind. Don't censor yourself just so people can feel better about you as a caster. Let your casting stand for itself.

revel

United States17 Posts

February 25 2011 21:20 GMT

#73

I'm ecstatic that people do care a lot about the future of this game. This level of community explosion is not happening over Halo: Wars.

Looking forward to all the unquestionably great content headed our way!

Phisk

166 Posts

February 25 2011 21:20 GMT

#74

Wow, that sucks, you have a ton of fans because your personality. I thought the Kelly stuff was pretty funny, and hardly that mean since you know each other and probably can joke with each other like that, but I guess it looks a lot worse now when there is so much retarded Kelly bandwagon hate. Hope you keep your personality colourful and awesome like we all know it is, PC is for pussies.

Regstata

United States207 Posts

February 25 2011 21:20 GMT

#75

I hope incontrol's humor on SotG and his stream are not affected by the level of professionalism we are all expecting from his NASL casts. I'll be whipping my hair with you to the end.

EvolPenguin

United States73 Posts

February 25 2011 21:22 GMT

#76

Hey inControl,
I think this is a good post. I'm a big fan of you and everyone makes mistakes. I would like to second what Mr.Ch4rms (and probably others) have said, don't withdraw from the community. Change your interaction style with the community maybe, but don't interact less. Still stream and talk with your viewers, still do the SOTG, still post a lot on TL. People will appreciate it even more. Just my 2 cents, and good luck!

Valikyr

Sweden2653 Posts

February 25 2011 21:23 GMT

#77

I think you are funny and great most of the times but I also do agree with everything you said in this blog. Mocking Kelly and restreaming GSL was retarded and I never thought you would do that.

I hope the NASL turns out great and I'm sure you'll do your best make it as good as possible.

`Zapdos

United States935 Posts

February 25 2011 21:23 GMT

#78

On February 26 2011 06:20 Phisk wrote:
Wow, that sucks, you have a ton of fans because your personality. I thought the Kelly stuff was pretty funny, and hardly that mean since you know each other and probably can joke with each other like that, but I guess it looks a lot worse now when there is so much retarded Kelly bandwagon hate. Hope you keep your personality colourful and awesome like we all know it is, PC is for pussies.

It was hillarious, everything Inc does is hillarious, but the community is forcing him to step up now that he's the face of NASL. When he was a player and just a community member, most people didn't care but he has a lot more responsibility. It's kind of like how Day9 had to delete his airplane story which, by the way is the best story ever written.

I can respect the apology and also respect his decision to be a better person now that he'll be in the esports 'limelight'. Hope we still get glimpses of the old incontrol though ;]

Xeteh

United States589 Posts

February 25 2011 21:25 GMT

#79

This entire thing has been completely blown out of proportion. Welcome to the internet where people can find one thing to hone in on to try to bash someone who is something they aren't. Was the re-streaming thing wrong? Yeah, but its also quite obvious most people running their mouth didn't even see your stream that night, its not like you were running it full screen in HD and sitting back watching it without saying anything. Aside from the Huk match, you were mostly tabbed out on TL or doing something else and even when the stream was on screen it was half-covered by the top of the window.

Either way, don't change too much Geoff, the community likes you for who you have always been, not who you're trying to be.

Mikelius

Germany517 Posts

February 25 2011 21:25 GMT

#80

Inc, I know this must be hard for you, the whole going from a prominent guy in the community to the utmost forefront in a matter of days must be really hard. However, I think that you need to take into account that you will never make everybody happy, there will always be something that will rub someone the wrong way. What you have to do is to either let is slide or learn from it.

You are too valuable to SC and ESports to let bad opinions get to you and I for one am extremely happy and enthusiastic about NASL and hope it becomes a gigantic success!