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zere

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December 25 2011 20:11 GMT

#21

Well, there are quite a few hints in your writeup that, I think, have to be pointed out:
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playing a role in e-sports
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becoming a widely-known gamer
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achieved a staff position
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make a name for myself
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restart my "career"
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my chance to become famous
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I expected to be paid
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trying to become someone in e-sports
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What kind of fame was I going to get?
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becoming someone
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Hopefully I grow
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I'm a total unknown
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I'm a nobody
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hopefully I'm a somebody
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to become something

Don't you think that you might be a tad bit too much focused in yourself? I mean, Joey Johnson isn't a TV commentator because he wants to be famous in the Snooker world; David Harmon doesn't get to cover the Tour and the Vuelta because he wants to be looked up to. Playing a role for the sole sake of 'being significant' is predestined to fail, that much I can tell you, and that's not something that's confined to the world of ESPORTS.
Also, I agree with Xeris.

Humanfails

224 Posts

December 26 2011 00:04 GMT

#22

On December 25 2011 23:26 Xenocide_Knight wrote:
I feel like you had it a lot better than a lot of people in esports. Just think how much it would have sucked to be a BW pro back in the day. Making basically no money, practicing 12 hours a day, eating ramen, your parents don't support you and/or kicked you out. They didn't do it for the money or fame or success. They did it because they loved BW.

you know, thats actually Otaku in the originating sense of the word. Im glad Otakii can get famous andstart making money at something these days, but back then the reason they were kicked out was for being Otaku. netflix the documentary on the word. It's derivation is surprising, and fits pretty well with people that have developed anomie and focus purely on single interests that make them seem one dimensional and ghost-like to "normal" people. I think whats interesting is that when these people have an interest that rewards them, people recognize them as a complex fully formed person and the shunning stops.

But yeah, people that spend 12 hours every day playing brood war even if they get kicked out is the definition of Otaku, basically.

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