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gimpygimpy
Profile Joined November 2008
United States8 Posts
June 18 2009 05:39 GMT
#141
On June 18 2009 12:59 VIB wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 18 2009 12:25 stanley_ wrote:
my friend's clanmate played combat in a bo 3 and won 2-1 and combat uploaded that 1 win in the bo 3.

that's the main reason i dislike this guy just shady stuff.
lmao that is awesome ^^

IMHO Dishonesty is genetic. You're born with it, you cannot learn to be honest through experience. This Combat guy is incorrigible no matter what we do.

So all in all, the most productive thing left for us to do. Is make fun of him. Because that guy is a joke gold mine.



Self Righteous
gimpygimpy
Profile Joined November 2008
United States8 Posts
June 18 2009 05:40 GMT
#142
On June 18 2009 10:41 skronch wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 18 2009 07:11 Barbapapa wrote:Comparing Combat-ex and other Vod-posters is like comparing South Park with Fox-news.
you're right. both combat-ex and fox-news spew self-indulgant, mindless shit.


Confused
gimpygimpy
Profile Joined November 2008
United States8 Posts
June 18 2009 05:41 GMT
#143
On June 18 2009 11:01 Hot_Bid wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 18 2009 06:08 disciple wrote:
On June 18 2009 05:57 Chill wrote:
On June 18 2009 05:17 disciple wrote:
well he screwed it up badly, but the year long flaming that Hot_Bid was talking about in the previous thread is just not necessary. I agree that the forgiveness must come later but think about it the other way. Sooner or later you will all become parents, and when your kids lie to you about smth which they eventually will do, you will most likely beat them, forbid them to watch tv for a week and thats it. If your so called love to the game and to fair play is so strong just focus on this and stop gangbanging ot combat-ex. Sure he did smth childish but you have no reason not to act mature yourself...

Combat-Ex was caught abusing two weeks ago. This is a year-long flaming.

Well you cant stop him making his videos, but you can just ignore his efforts. Why are you wasting your time with him anyway? Your points make sense, everything you say is completely reasonable but still its just not necessary - hackers and abusers will always exist on every level even on competitive. I'm not defending him and not saying "just let him be". Ignore him and dont let him in your house, thats all imho. The community is too large to bother so much about a random guy (maybe combat-ex is not completely random but still) who is cheating since forever and uploading his videos on youtube.
What are you trying to achieve anyway? Combat-Ex is not welcome to TL anyway, so this must be done with some kind of educational purpose - "dont do like combat-ex, cause he is a fag and the gaming world must get rid of guys like him"? Believe me I'm with you on everything and I support hot_bid about everything he said, but putting the banner on the main page, even discussing this so inside out is just... an overkill imho. I dont think all this will help in anyway to clean the gaming from the hackers

Who are you to say what is a waste of time for us? We can decide what is productive and what is not. It is not up to you to decide whether the community is "too large to bother with him". That is the community's collective decision, not yours. If you want to ignore him that's fine, don't talk about him or click any of the threads. But I think we can decide for ourselves if we want to make fun of an idiot cheater or not.

You make it seem like we're seeking him out to talk about him, but really we're just doing it on our own forum. Is it really that horrible to make fun of an abuser on a community forum? Everything doesn't need to be necessary or educational. We don't like abusers and people with huge, unjustified egos. We like making fun of them. This public bashing is basically the only recourse and punishment we have against hackers and abusers. Do you really need to judge us and tell us we're wasting our time?

PS anyone can buy the adspace, it's not an official TL banner

PPS we're not trying to force him to stop making videos, we are just talking about the drama / stupidity / abuse



Combat Obsessed
evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12816 Posts
June 18 2009 05:45 GMT
#144
On June 18 2009 02:49 AoN.DimSum wrote:
haha read the youtube comments in the apology video. Everyone is bashing tlnet now.


So you see TL's problem? We coop ourselves up in our little bubble while COmbat probably has somehow 12341312312 fanboys.
In a way he's more successful than the most of us in that people actually like him and he does inspire people to play low money. Yes he's pathetic in asking for wins, but again, he's trying to give helps, and regardless of the qualities, they are of use if you've never played low level before.
Personally, stepping on a person who's already been down makes you a coward, it takes balls to challenge people who's been in high positions, but once he's down, throwing stones after him is just like playing D- ranks on Iccup, and makes you no better than Combat.
So please think about it before jumping the bandwagon
Life is run, it is dance, it is fast, passionate and BAM!, you dance and sing and booze while you can for now is the time and time is mine. Smile and laugh when still can for now is the time and soon you die!
gimpygimpy
Profile Joined November 2008
United States8 Posts
June 18 2009 05:49 GMT
#145
On June 18 2009 14:45 evanthebouncy! wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 18 2009 02:49 AoN.DimSum wrote:
haha read the youtube comments in the apology video. Everyone is bashing tlnet now.


So you see TL's problem? We coop ourselves up in our little bubble while COmbat probably has somehow 12341312312 fanboys.
In a way he's more successful than the most of us in that people actually like him and he does inspire people to play low money. Yes he's pathetic in asking for wins, but again, he's trying to give helps, and regardless of the qualities, they are of use if you've never played low level before.
Personally, stepping on a person who's already been down makes you a coward, it takes balls to challenge people who's been in high positions, but once he's down, throwing stones after him is just like playing D- ranks on Iccup, and makes you no better than Combat.
So please think about it before jumping the bandwagon



Gets it
gettodaroflchoppa
Profile Joined May 2009
104 Posts
June 18 2009 06:07 GMT
#146
On June 18 2009 14:38 gimpygimpy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 18 2009 12:03 MamiyaOtaru wrote:
On June 18 2009 09:14 gimpygimpy wrote:
I smell jealousy and self-righteousness.

"Oh, I just CANNOT BELIEVE that someone would sink SO LOW as to pad their stats.....DISGUSTING!!! I am SO revolted. I am as pure as the wind-driven snow. I am sooooooo relieved that I am better than this pig with 4,604 loyal subscribers...."

So wait, having 4,602 loyal subscribers means he's beyond reproach? You must worship Britney Spears then, she has 159,740 subscribers. Dunno if they are loyal though...

Seriously though, why would you bring that up? Having all those subscribers is part of why people are pissed off, and no, it's not jealousy. It's because those thousands of people think they are learning something (other than bad habits) when they are not. Those thousands of people are there because a fraud is good at misrepresenting himself.

If Anonymous dislikes David Miscavige it's not because Anonymous is jealous that David has thousands of followers. It's because Anonymous is pissed that thousands of people have been suckered into Scientology. Might Scientology help some people? Possibly. But not as much as real medicine or psychology.

People like Nony and Day9 are real doctors and psychologists. CombatEx is David Miscavige. What you are seeing here is not jealousy. It's poeple sick of a fraud duping gullible twits and said twits coming here to tell us how we are jealous of the great leader.



Jealous


On June 18 2009 14:39 gimpygimpy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 18 2009 14:08 AlwaysGG wrote:
lol wow the never ending hatred of combatex.

actually i knew he is not a real deal all along by just watch a few of his fpvod then i stopped
it is really funny...

idk what to said i feel sry for the guy but then again hey,,, 可憐之人必有可誤之處so i dont really feel that sorry for him. because he deserve it.



Self Righteous


On June 18 2009 14:39 gimpygimpy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 18 2009 12:59 VIB wrote:
On June 18 2009 12:25 stanley_ wrote:
my friend's clanmate played combat in a bo 3 and won 2-1 and combat uploaded that 1 win in the bo 3.

that's the main reason i dislike this guy just shady stuff.
lmao that is awesome ^^

IMHO Dishonesty is genetic. You're born with it, you cannot learn to be honest through experience. This Combat guy is incorrigible no matter what we do.

So all in all, the most productive thing left for us to do. Is make fun of him. Because that guy is a joke gold mine.


Self Righteous


On June 18 2009 14:40 gimpygimpy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 18 2009 10:41 skronch wrote:
On June 18 2009 07:11 Barbapapa wrote:Comparing Combat-ex and other Vod-posters is like comparing South Park with Fox-news.
you're right. both combat-ex and fox-news spew self-indulgant, mindless shit.


Confused

On June 18 2009 14:41 gimpygimpy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 18 2009 11:01 Hot_Bid wrote:
On June 18 2009 06:08 disciple wrote:
On June 18 2009 05:57 Chill wrote:
On June 18 2009 05:17 disciple wrote:
well he screwed it up badly, but the year long flaming that Hot_Bid was talking about in the previous thread is just not necessary. I agree that the forgiveness must come later but think about it the other way. Sooner or later you will all become parents, and when your kids lie to you about smth which they eventually will do, you will most likely beat them, forbid them to watch tv for a week and thats it. If your so called love to the game and to fair play is so strong just focus on this and stop gangbanging ot combat-ex. Sure he did smth childish but you have no reason not to act mature yourself...

Combat-Ex was caught abusing two weeks ago. This is a year-long flaming.

Well you cant stop him making his videos, but you can just ignore his efforts. Why are you wasting your time with him anyway? Your points make sense, everything you say is completely reasonable but still its just not necessary - hackers and abusers will always exist on every level even on competitive. I'm not defending him and not saying "just let him be". Ignore him and dont let him in your house, thats all imho. The community is too large to bother so much about a random guy (maybe combat-ex is not completely random but still) who is cheating since forever and uploading his videos on youtube.
What are you trying to achieve anyway? Combat-Ex is not welcome to TL anyway, so this must be done with some kind of educational purpose - "dont do like combat-ex, cause he is a fag and the gaming world must get rid of guys like him"? Believe me I'm with you on everything and I support hot_bid about everything he said, but putting the banner on the main page, even discussing this so inside out is just... an overkill imho. I dont think all this will help in anyway to clean the gaming from the hackers

Who are you to say what is a waste of time for us? We can decide what is productive and what is not. It is not up to you to decide whether the community is "too large to bother with him". That is the community's collective decision, not yours. If you want to ignore him that's fine, don't talk about him or click any of the threads. But I think we can decide for ourselves if we want to make fun of an idiot cheater or not.

You make it seem like we're seeking him out to talk about him, but really we're just doing it on our own forum. Is it really that horrible to make fun of an abuser on a community forum? Everything doesn't need to be necessary or educational. We don't like abusers and people with huge, unjustified egos. We like making fun of them. This public bashing is basically the only recourse and punishment we have against hackers and abusers. Do you really need to judge us and tell us we're wasting our time?

PS anyone can buy the adspace, it's not an official TL banner

PPS we're not trying to force him to stop making videos, we are just talking about the drama / stupidity / abuse



Combat Obsessed


Self Righteous
MamiyaOtaru
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States1687 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-06-18 06:10:01
June 18 2009 06:09 GMT
#147
bleh. need delete button
lIlIlIlIlIlI
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
Korea (South)3851 Posts
June 18 2009 06:12 GMT
#148
--- Nuked ---
Sentenal
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States12398 Posts
June 18 2009 06:17 GMT
#149
On June 18 2009 15:07 gettodaroflchoppa wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 18 2009 14:38 gimpygimpy wrote:
On June 18 2009 12:03 MamiyaOtaru wrote:
On June 18 2009 09:14 gimpygimpy wrote:
I smell jealousy and self-righteousness.

"Oh, I just CANNOT BELIEVE that someone would sink SO LOW as to pad their stats.....DISGUSTING!!! I am SO revolted. I am as pure as the wind-driven snow. I am sooooooo relieved that I am better than this pig with 4,604 loyal subscribers...."

So wait, having 4,602 loyal subscribers means he's beyond reproach? You must worship Britney Spears then, she has 159,740 subscribers. Dunno if they are loyal though...

Seriously though, why would you bring that up? Having all those subscribers is part of why people are pissed off, and no, it's not jealousy. It's because those thousands of people think they are learning something (other than bad habits) when they are not. Those thousands of people are there because a fraud is good at misrepresenting himself.

If Anonymous dislikes David Miscavige it's not because Anonymous is jealous that David has thousands of followers. It's because Anonymous is pissed that thousands of people have been suckered into Scientology. Might Scientology help some people? Possibly. But not as much as real medicine or psychology.

People like Nony and Day9 are real doctors and psychologists. CombatEx is David Miscavige. What you are seeing here is not jealousy. It's poeple sick of a fraud duping gullible twits and said twits coming here to tell us how we are jealous of the great leader.



Jealous


Show nested quote +
On June 18 2009 14:39 gimpygimpy wrote:
On June 18 2009 14:08 AlwaysGG wrote:
lol wow the never ending hatred of combatex.

actually i knew he is not a real deal all along by just watch a few of his fpvod then i stopped
it is really funny...

idk what to said i feel sry for the guy but then again hey,,, 可憐之人必有可誤之處so i dont really feel that sorry for him. because he deserve it.



Self Righteous


Show nested quote +
On June 18 2009 14:39 gimpygimpy wrote:
On June 18 2009 12:59 VIB wrote:
On June 18 2009 12:25 stanley_ wrote:
my friend's clanmate played combat in a bo 3 and won 2-1 and combat uploaded that 1 win in the bo 3.

that's the main reason i dislike this guy just shady stuff.
lmao that is awesome ^^

IMHO Dishonesty is genetic. You're born with it, you cannot learn to be honest through experience. This Combat guy is incorrigible no matter what we do.

So all in all, the most productive thing left for us to do. Is make fun of him. Because that guy is a joke gold mine.


Self Righteous


Show nested quote +
On June 18 2009 14:40 gimpygimpy wrote:
On June 18 2009 10:41 skronch wrote:
On June 18 2009 07:11 Barbapapa wrote:Comparing Combat-ex and other Vod-posters is like comparing South Park with Fox-news.
you're right. both combat-ex and fox-news spew self-indulgant, mindless shit.


Confused

Show nested quote +
On June 18 2009 14:41 gimpygimpy wrote:
On June 18 2009 11:01 Hot_Bid wrote:
On June 18 2009 06:08 disciple wrote:
On June 18 2009 05:57 Chill wrote:
On June 18 2009 05:17 disciple wrote:
well he screwed it up badly, but the year long flaming that Hot_Bid was talking about in the previous thread is just not necessary. I agree that the forgiveness must come later but think about it the other way. Sooner or later you will all become parents, and when your kids lie to you about smth which they eventually will do, you will most likely beat them, forbid them to watch tv for a week and thats it. If your so called love to the game and to fair play is so strong just focus on this and stop gangbanging ot combat-ex. Sure he did smth childish but you have no reason not to act mature yourself...

Combat-Ex was caught abusing two weeks ago. This is a year-long flaming.

Well you cant stop him making his videos, but you can just ignore his efforts. Why are you wasting your time with him anyway? Your points make sense, everything you say is completely reasonable but still its just not necessary - hackers and abusers will always exist on every level even on competitive. I'm not defending him and not saying "just let him be". Ignore him and dont let him in your house, thats all imho. The community is too large to bother so much about a random guy (maybe combat-ex is not completely random but still) who is cheating since forever and uploading his videos on youtube.
What are you trying to achieve anyway? Combat-Ex is not welcome to TL anyway, so this must be done with some kind of educational purpose - "dont do like combat-ex, cause he is a fag and the gaming world must get rid of guys like him"? Believe me I'm with you on everything and I support hot_bid about everything he said, but putting the banner on the main page, even discussing this so inside out is just... an overkill imho. I dont think all this will help in anyway to clean the gaming from the hackers

Who are you to say what is a waste of time for us? We can decide what is productive and what is not. It is not up to you to decide whether the community is "too large to bother with him". That is the community's collective decision, not yours. If you want to ignore him that's fine, don't talk about him or click any of the threads. But I think we can decide for ourselves if we want to make fun of an idiot cheater or not.

You make it seem like we're seeking him out to talk about him, but really we're just doing it on our own forum. Is it really that horrible to make fun of an abuser on a community forum? Everything doesn't need to be necessary or educational. We don't like abusers and people with huge, unjustified egos. We like making fun of them. This public bashing is basically the only recourse and punishment we have against hackers and abusers. Do you really need to judge us and tell us we're wasting our time?

PS anyone can buy the adspace, it's not an official TL banner

PPS we're not trying to force him to stop making videos, we are just talking about the drama / stupidity / abuse



Combat Obsessed


Self Righteous

lol

Seriously though, his spamming is annoying. Its not even funny like the other people who try to defend combat.
"Apparently, Sentenal is a paragon of friendship and tolerance. " - Ech0ne
VIB
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
Brazil3567 Posts
June 18 2009 06:17 GMT
#150
On June 18 2009 14:45 evanthebouncy! wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 18 2009 02:49 AoN.DimSum wrote:
haha read the youtube comments in the apology video. Everyone is bashing tlnet now.


So you see TL's problem? We coop ourselves up in our little bubble while COmbat probably has somehow 12341312312 fanboys.
In a way he's more successful than the most of us in that people actually like him and he does inspire people to play low money. Yes he's pathetic in asking for wins, but again, he's trying to give helps, and regardless of the qualities, they are of use if you've never played low level before.
Personally, stepping on a person who's already been down makes you a coward, it takes balls to challenge people who's been in high positions, but once he's down, throwing stones after him is just like playing D- ranks on Iccup, and makes you no better than Combat.
So please think about it before jumping the bandwagon
Either you didn't read anything that have been posted here already. Or you're just trying to play the unique snowflake. Combat has way more haters than fanboys and does way more harm than help.
Great people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small people talk about other people.
evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12816 Posts
June 18 2009 06:29 GMT
#151
On June 18 2009 09:15 YPang wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 18 2009 09:01 floor exercise wrote:

LOLOL its so much funnier in chinese.

HAHAHAH this is so amazing HAHA
Life is run, it is dance, it is fast, passionate and BAM!, you dance and sing and booze while you can for now is the time and time is mine. Smile and laugh when still can for now is the time and soon you die!
evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12816 Posts
June 18 2009 06:32 GMT
#152
On June 18 2009 15:17 VIB wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 18 2009 14:45 evanthebouncy! wrote:
On June 18 2009 02:49 AoN.DimSum wrote:
haha read the youtube comments in the apology video. Everyone is bashing tlnet now.


So you see TL's problem? We coop ourselves up in our little bubble while COmbat probably has somehow 12341312312 fanboys.
In a way he's more successful than the most of us in that people actually like him and he does inspire people to play low money. Yes he's pathetic in asking for wins, but again, he's trying to give helps, and regardless of the qualities, they are of use if you've never played low level before.
Personally, stepping on a person who's already been down makes you a coward, it takes balls to challenge people who's been in high positions, but once he's down, throwing stones after him is just like playing D- ranks on Iccup, and makes you no better than Combat.
So please think about it before jumping the bandwagon
Either you didn't read anything that have been posted here already. Or you're just trying to play the unique snowflake. Combat has way more haters than fanboys and does way more harm than help.


Okay! This is interesting. The Harm/Help part might be hard to testify, but let's focus on the ppl who hate him and the ppl who like him.
You say that more people hate him than more people like him. I'm not saying you're wrong, but I have a hunch that more people actually like him.
Is there any way for us to verify it? Should be interesting
Life is run, it is dance, it is fast, passionate and BAM!, you dance and sing and booze while you can for now is the time and time is mine. Smile and laugh when still can for now is the time and soon you die!
Ecael
Profile Joined February 2008
United States6703 Posts
June 18 2009 06:35 GMT
#153
On June 18 2009 15:29 evanthebouncy! wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 18 2009 09:15 YPang wrote:
On June 18 2009 09:01 floor exercise wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kSEB9_2H5I

LOLOL its so much funnier in chinese.

HAHAHAH this is so amazing HAHA

Hahaha that was hilarious.
VIB
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
Brazil3567 Posts
June 18 2009 06:37 GMT
#154
On June 18 2009 15:32 evanthebouncy! wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 18 2009 15:17 VIB wrote:
On June 18 2009 14:45 evanthebouncy! wrote:
On June 18 2009 02:49 AoN.DimSum wrote:
haha read the youtube comments in the apology video. Everyone is bashing tlnet now.


So you see TL's problem? We coop ourselves up in our little bubble while COmbat probably has somehow 12341312312 fanboys.
In a way he's more successful than the most of us in that people actually like him and he does inspire people to play low money. Yes he's pathetic in asking for wins, but again, he's trying to give helps, and regardless of the qualities, they are of use if you've never played low level before.
Personally, stepping on a person who's already been down makes you a coward, it takes balls to challenge people who's been in high positions, but once he's down, throwing stones after him is just like playing D- ranks on Iccup, and makes you no better than Combat.
So please think about it before jumping the bandwagon
Either you didn't read anything that have been posted here already. Or you're just trying to play the unique snowflake. Combat has way more haters than fanboys and does way more harm than help.


Okay! This is interesting. The Harm/Help part might be hard to testify, but let's focus on the ppl who hate him and the ppl who like him.
You say that more people hate him than more people like him. I'm not saying you're wrong, but I have a hunch that more people actually like him.
Is there any way for us to verify it? Should be interesting
Number of his subscriptions vs ... Number of TL members?
Great people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small people talk about other people.
Hot_Bid
Profile Blog Joined October 2003
Braavos36402 Posts
June 18 2009 06:47 GMT
#155
On June 18 2009 14:41 gimpygimpy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 18 2009 11:01 Hot_Bid wrote:
On June 18 2009 06:08 disciple wrote:
On June 18 2009 05:57 Chill wrote:
On June 18 2009 05:17 disciple wrote:
well he screwed it up badly, but the year long flaming that Hot_Bid was talking about in the previous thread is just not necessary. I agree that the forgiveness must come later but think about it the other way. Sooner or later you will all become parents, and when your kids lie to you about smth which they eventually will do, you will most likely beat them, forbid them to watch tv for a week and thats it. If your so called love to the game and to fair play is so strong just focus on this and stop gangbanging ot combat-ex. Sure he did smth childish but you have no reason not to act mature yourself...

Combat-Ex was caught abusing two weeks ago. This is a year-long flaming.

Well you cant stop him making his videos, but you can just ignore his efforts. Why are you wasting your time with him anyway? Your points make sense, everything you say is completely reasonable but still its just not necessary - hackers and abusers will always exist on every level even on competitive. I'm not defending him and not saying "just let him be". Ignore him and dont let him in your house, thats all imho. The community is too large to bother so much about a random guy (maybe combat-ex is not completely random but still) who is cheating since forever and uploading his videos on youtube.
What are you trying to achieve anyway? Combat-Ex is not welcome to TL anyway, so this must be done with some kind of educational purpose - "dont do like combat-ex, cause he is a fag and the gaming world must get rid of guys like him"? Believe me I'm with you on everything and I support hot_bid about everything he said, but putting the banner on the main page, even discussing this so inside out is just... an overkill imho. I dont think all this will help in anyway to clean the gaming from the hackers

Who are you to say what is a waste of time for us? We can decide what is productive and what is not. It is not up to you to decide whether the community is "too large to bother with him". That is the community's collective decision, not yours. If you want to ignore him that's fine, don't talk about him or click any of the threads. But I think we can decide for ourselves if we want to make fun of an idiot cheater or not.

You make it seem like we're seeking him out to talk about him, but really we're just doing it on our own forum. Is it really that horrible to make fun of an abuser on a community forum? Everything doesn't need to be necessary or educational. We don't like abusers and people with huge, unjustified egos. We like making fun of them. This public bashing is basically the only recourse and punishment we have against hackers and abusers. Do you really need to judge us and tell us we're wasting our time?

PS anyone can buy the adspace, it's not an official TL banner

PPS we're not trying to force him to stop making videos, we are just talking about the drama / stupidity / abuse



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evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12816 Posts
June 18 2009 06:50 GMT
#156
On June 18 2009 15:37 VIB wrote:
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On June 18 2009 15:32 evanthebouncy! wrote:
On June 18 2009 15:17 VIB wrote:
On June 18 2009 14:45 evanthebouncy! wrote:
On June 18 2009 02:49 AoN.DimSum wrote:
haha read the youtube comments in the apology video. Everyone is bashing tlnet now.


So you see TL's problem? We coop ourselves up in our little bubble while COmbat probably has somehow 12341312312 fanboys.
In a way he's more successful than the most of us in that people actually like him and he does inspire people to play low money. Yes he's pathetic in asking for wins, but again, he's trying to give helps, and regardless of the qualities, they are of use if you've never played low level before.
Personally, stepping on a person who's already been down makes you a coward, it takes balls to challenge people who's been in high positions, but once he's down, throwing stones after him is just like playing D- ranks on Iccup, and makes you no better than Combat.
So please think about it before jumping the bandwagon
Either you didn't read anything that have been posted here already. Or you're just trying to play the unique snowflake. Combat has way more haters than fanboys and does way more harm than help.


Okay! This is interesting. The Harm/Help part might be hard to testify, but let's focus on the ppl who hate him and the ppl who like him.
You say that more people hate him than more people like him. I'm not saying you're wrong, but I have a hunch that more people actually like him.
Is there any way for us to verify it? Should be interesting
Number of his subscriptions vs ... Number of TL members?


But see that won't quite work because over 90% of TL does not know who he is (think about all the inactives, and people who has 1 post) and besides we don't really know how many people are registered on TL, unless a mod can give us some information on that.

But consider this though
VioleTAK has 12,817 subscribers
Combat has 4,610 Subscribers

Think about the content and quality of VioleTAK's video, see how many subscribers he have, Regardless of the quality of Combat's videos, he has 1/3 of VioleTAK's subscription number. You cannot argue that he's not successful at building a fan base.
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Ecael
Profile Joined February 2008
United States6703 Posts
June 18 2009 06:55 GMT
#157
On June 18 2009 15:50 evanthebouncy! wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 18 2009 15:37 VIB wrote:
On June 18 2009 15:32 evanthebouncy! wrote:
On June 18 2009 15:17 VIB wrote:
On June 18 2009 14:45 evanthebouncy! wrote:
On June 18 2009 02:49 AoN.DimSum wrote:
haha read the youtube comments in the apology video. Everyone is bashing tlnet now.


So you see TL's problem? We coop ourselves up in our little bubble while COmbat probably has somehow 12341312312 fanboys.
In a way he's more successful than the most of us in that people actually like him and he does inspire people to play low money. Yes he's pathetic in asking for wins, but again, he's trying to give helps, and regardless of the qualities, they are of use if you've never played low level before.
Personally, stepping on a person who's already been down makes you a coward, it takes balls to challenge people who's been in high positions, but once he's down, throwing stones after him is just like playing D- ranks on Iccup, and makes you no better than Combat.
So please think about it before jumping the bandwagon
Either you didn't read anything that have been posted here already. Or you're just trying to play the unique snowflake. Combat has way more haters than fanboys and does way more harm than help.


Okay! This is interesting. The Harm/Help part might be hard to testify, but let's focus on the ppl who hate him and the ppl who like him.
You say that more people hate him than more people like him. I'm not saying you're wrong, but I have a hunch that more people actually like him.
Is there any way for us to verify it? Should be interesting
Number of his subscriptions vs ... Number of TL members?


But see that won't quite work because over 90% of TL does not know who he is (think about all the inactives, and people who has 1 post) and besides we don't really know how many people are registered on TL, unless a mod can give us some information on that.

But consider this though
VioleTAK has 12,817 subscribers
Combat has 4,610 Subscribers

Think about the content and quality of VioleTAK's video, see how many subscribers he have, Regardless of the quality of Combat's videos, he has 1/3 of VioleTAK's subscription number. You cannot argue that he's not successful at building a fan base.

On the first sight it looks like an accurate comparison, but I don't really feel like that's the case, unless we stretch the definition of fanbase to be looking at his vids occasionally and finding it interesting. The degree of intensity of the two groups probably doesn't really compare, we are really more concerned with the amount of people who has sufficient trust in Combat to take his words as they are.
VIB
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
Brazil3567 Posts
June 18 2009 06:59 GMT
#158
Active : 762 last 15 minutes. That is the last 15 minutes. Just picture per day viewers looking at that banner etc etc 4k subscribers is nothing compared to the pwning size of TL.

But don't get much further on this. I just commented on that to point out how he is also highly unpopular and harmful. But harmful is the keyword. Unpopular is just a multiplier and isn't as important alone. How many flies eat shit and love it again?
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Manifesto7
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Osaka27178 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-06-18 07:13:07
June 18 2009 07:09 GMT
#159
I agree with evan in that he does a fine job building a fan base, and does us all a favor by getting more people into our "scene", whether it be ums/$$ players or non-SC players.

I also don't really care about the "harmful" factor, because that is pretty much crap. There is enough material our there for people to judge for themselves. People listened to my RWAs and I barely knew what I was talking about. If it entertains them, go for it. There are so many commentators and progames that he is not the lone voice in the wilderness. Being able to listen to anyone else talk BW gives you a different perspective on things. That is why we have a strat forum.

Where I lose interest is the methods of how he does it. I don't like that he attracts people to the scene but has to use the behavior we revile to do it. It is not good for any game, or sport, to have a cheater promoting it. Barry Bonds will never be the face of baseball and Ben Johnson will never be a respected track coach.

If Combat just cut the bullshit out of his repertoire, he would realize people don't care nearly as much about his rank as he does. The cost of beinging able to say "I'm B" seems to have cost im his credibility, when in fact just being his natural level and producing the same videos would have earned him the same results.

So Combat, if you read this, be yourself. Don't abuse the system, don't abuse the community, because when you do your value loses work, even to yourself.
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VIB
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
Brazil3567 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-06-18 07:24:01
June 18 2009 07:22 GMT
#160
On June 18 2009 16:09 Manifesto7 wrote:
I also don't really care about the "harmful" factor, because that is pretty much crap. There is enough material our there for people to judge for themselves.
In my opinion your undervaluing misinformation. Many people subscribe to him because they don't know any better. Like many of my friends did and as many others reported on the hundreds of other Combat threads.

I would have zero problem with him if he would make it very clear in each one of his vods that he isn't the best source for learning, and if you wish to improve yourself refer to x, y and z. As opposed to advertising all around that he is the best. Well that and of course, if he wasn't dishonest ><
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