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aringadingding
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UtherTruthBringer
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ETisME
Hong Kong11898 Posts
Stay close to the scene, there's always a spot for you  | ||
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Limfocyt
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billynasty
United States256 Posts
However your Useless Facts series & focused fluff material was always super popular. Nobody can question the effort you put into SC2, but not everybody has to be a caster either. If you choose to do SC2 content in the future, perhaps working on that other material would be more rewarding for yourself & entertaining for the scene you surely love. There's a void there with that kinda content & people always got a kick out of it. Just my opinion. GG | ||
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j2digital
11 Posts
I guess I'm part of it because what I have to say is slightly negative against other casters. I would feel like you would save the cast when it would be you Nate and ZG. You bring professionalism that those two seem to lack at times. WCS is less without you! | ||
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ShambhalaWar
United States930 Posts
On June 04 2019 17:56 SharkStarcraft wrote: I have to say that I never particularly enjoyed your casting as it did seem very vanilla, monotone and a bit lacklustre in terms of ingame knowledge, but I could definitely see the tremendous amount of effort and work you put into everything sc2 as well as your burning passion for the game and its community. So here's a big thank you for your efforts even though I would not consider myself a fan. Why not just say the first half of your last sentence and leave it at that? Same for everyone else with similar comments. | ||
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SMOrangeUtan
21 Posts
I have to say the moments I really enjoyed your casting was when it was about the NA scene. One could see you feeling confident there it gave you like a shimmer and you ascended in your casting there. I actually liked your approach of a more analytical type of casting at times, I guess a lot of the casting is about hyping which is something I find less interesting but I guess its considered the better casting. I loved when you gave insight on the players you knew better than anyone. The insecurity you showed at times did hurt you to a point although I think that your cocasters could have helped you there by like trying to work more with what you said but I guess that is very very hard compared to goofing up about it a bit so I don't blame them. I hope your family member gets rid of the beast that I really learned to hate over the years. I really think that concentrating on the niche that is the NA, scene might be a good catch for you and if you feel you have the time to expand your knowledge maybe you can become an expert of yet another region. I feel you can do great casting if you have the confidence you have when talking about the NA guys. Wish you the very best! Oh and I am aware this might be inappropriate but for me rifkin is the worst caster in terms of casting but also as personality everything about him feels wrong and when I tried to watch his stream I felt rebuked and just had to turn off no matter how high quality the games might have been. | ||
EsportsJohn
United States4778 Posts
Had some success casting when StarCraft: Remastered first came out but had to sideline it due to finances and personal strain. StarCraft is a game that forces you to break yourself down and face all of your demons...unfortunately, it can also have the side effect of completely destroying your sense of self-worth. I ended up taking a huge step back and only play games super casually now, but I think it's been a big help for me. | ||
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Wombat_NI
Northern Ireland13116 Posts
It’s a terrible loop. I’m not as lacking in self-confidence (or at least used to be anyway). If you want to be good at something, especially something creative or subjective you need feedback, instead you get shredded by people who basically just insult you with a preface of ‘this is intended as constructive criticism’ and you can either just get your confidence destroyed in trying to get that feedback, or cut it off for your mental health and then have no useful feedback to go off with and improve. Except maybe you’re now actively doing something [i]worse[\i] than before because you’ve lost confidence in your initial approach. | ||
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BadHabits
Canada45 Posts
and you're definitely better than that guy who builds battlecruisers... | ||
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BorisOkunskiy
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I know you are a very busy person, and I certainly don't want to get those extra seconds of your life you'd spend on reading this post. In fact, given that reason no. 2, I feel almost ashamed writing this and "wanting" you to read this. Unfortunately, I can't really help practically with the reason no. 3 (I honestly can't, I live in a small city in Russia and $4000 is what most people make annually here, sometimes even less). And much to my regret, I don't have anything to offer with regard to the reason no. 2, aside from prayer and best possible wishes for your family member. Regardless, I still hope this tiny bit of positive energy will find its way to help — from literally the opposite side of the world — in a small way (no matter how naïve or lame or whatever it may sound). I do think, however, I understand the reason no. 1 — and there must be a reason that this reason sits at the top and is the one you've been the most elaborate about. I don't feel like I can in fact be the only one who can affect your opinion of yourself (aka "self-confidence"), partly because I read this story and it kind of "clicks" with me. However, I simply hope my little feedback will make you feel better about yourself, again, in a small way. And just to extend on my hope, I further believe that all those small positives will eventually win over the negatives — and we will be seeing you again. Just to provide you with a bit of a context: - I've only started watching StarCraft videos 7 days ago on YouTube, and the first series I've seen was MaSa vs Scarlett TvZ of WCS Challenger NA Season 2, commented by you and Nathanias. - I've no previous exposure to any kind of ESports whatsoever (but I do love StarCraft though, ever since SC1 and Brood War). - Just to clarify: I've never watched any Esports series before in my entire life. And so I absolutely fell in love with these series — solely because of your commenting style, period. Over the course of just these 6 days (yeah, right, 6 days, not months, not years!) I've watched numerous other matches with lots of different commentators — and no, you are in fact the best. You are the one who is capable of bringing those new people, like me, on board, and infecting them with the passion. You seriously have a gift. Now of course I'm not a pro SC2 player, not even on any of the leagues — and will never be, because coincidentally I'm a full-time software developer myself, have 2 kids and simply don't have time and energy I can commit to that — no matter how badly I would otherwise want it to happen. However, I would like you to realize that you don't really make these videos for pro players, other commentators and so forth. It's the ordinary people like myself who watch them — and we don't really leave any reassuring comments anywhere (because, quite ironically, we don't want to be bullied by those cool cats, trolls and all other sorts of internet characters). And on behalf of such people please allow me to say: thank you. Thank you for your passion, your commitment, your tolerance to the cruel community members, all your aspirations and all your hard work. I really want you to know that your work has really changed my life, a bit, in a small way. I really hope we will see more of you in future: something tells me this is not over. Until then, best of luck to you and your family. Your big (new) fan, Boris | ||
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Chris1987
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It seems a shame and a genuine loss for the community, but hey, you gotta look after number one first. I think most of us can agree that if your mental health and financial security is at risk then it is far from reasonable to expect you to do anything other than what you have decided. Good luck in your future endeavours Ravi, and if you do come back, please change your handle lol. | ||
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