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You know what I would do if I was Incontrol? Reverse (incon)troll.
Later tonight, he'd make the long-awaited announcement: that this whole thing was a sham all along, and that he would regret it forever more. He'd only meant to make an innocent announcement about Idra's conversion to Zoroastrianism. It was only a little EG in-joke. But people ran with it, talked big to people who weren't in on the joke. People started guessing. Someone made that first thread over in the SC2 forums.
It's not as if he meant badly. It's just that, you know, he wanted to be loved. Inside that hard, rough exoskeleton laid a soft and chewy interior. When he would read the excited posts that were caused, yea verily, by his gentle guiding, Incontrol felt happy for the first time in his life. So he fanned the flames, made his cryptic comments, smiled his cryptic smiles. And JP, ret, Idra, those guys just went along with it. It was only a little joke, right? Just a little joke. He was just injecting a little life into the community. That was what he told himself.
Was this how Madoff felt? The situation soon grew out of control; he watched as the community worked itself into a fervor, even without his prodding. He felt that shrinking feeling of being next to something great, that paralyzing fear that you feel when you are approaching a point of no return and you don't know which path leads to the snakes. And, in his heart of hearts, he loved it. He felt like he was flying on a huge draft of hot air. Of course, he was. Just one more day, he told himself. I'll just let this grow for one more day, and then I'll tell them the truth. I just want to do this showmatch first. It'll be funny.
One day turned into a week, and a week into a month. It was no longer possible to slow down the rumor train. All he could do was hang on for dear life and enjoy the ride.
The first cracks in the facade came when he misspelled a famous player's five-letter name. What kind of retard can't spell Jinro? So the reasoning went. Ever so subtly, ever so gradually, people became fed up. "That's the last clue I'll take from you!" one man cried, and the others followed. Those fools, those forum-goers, had made an emotional investment; and finally the day had come when, like the Wall Street investors, they all wanted to withdraw.
The deluge of emails, PMs, and Facebook messages was overwhelming.
Gretorp broke on the third day, Incontrol shortly after. Faces drenched with bitter tears, they admitted to the full measure of their wrongdoing. All of the hype, all of the clues, all of the 4 games it took for Jinro to roll Idra were for naught. There would be no messiah for ESPORTS in the west. There would be no Daniel Negreanu Four Warpgate Power Hour. There would only be broken promises and shattered dreams.
The community revolted. Here, finally, was an abuse of progamer privileges that the people could not stand. Their patience lasted through a thousand LR threads, a million balance whines, an untold number of disappointments and 5-minute games. This, though, was the straw that broke the camel's back.
When they could resist the hordes no longer, the Team Liquid administrators banned Incontrol from the forums. Within the space of a week, Evil Geniuses was dissolved following several class-action lawsuits, Justin Wong and all. The Starcraft 2 community had been hit with what political commentator Ma Jae Yoon called "the greatest electronic-gaming-related scandal of all time". It would never recover.
It was as if all of the people's enthusiasm had been spent on one dream, one thread. The GSL still went on, of course, but it was a lifeless husk of its former self. If the live-report threads had been 90% garbage before, it now made up the difference. Eventually the most die-hard fans left the scene; the magic was gone. The malaise even spread across inter-forum lines: not even Bisu could any longer rouse cheers for SKT. Foreign Starcraft was dead, and Team Liquid became a ghost town. In time, the saga of Incontrol and the Announcement That Never Was Announcement was forgotten by all.
Which is why, they think, when he returned 2 months later and revealed the unbelievable truth it hit the world like a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick. That was the day, professors of a distant future would declare, that the new age of human civilization started. That was the day, as they would say, that every man, woman, and child on the planet Earth learned the name Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty.
+ Show Spoiler +All I'm saying is no pressure, guys. I don't think anyone has any high expectations, just do what you do best 
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lol its definitely some sort of tv show....
my logic apart from all the obvious stuff, is that he started talking about all this shortly after EG partnered with g4tv for that tourney or showmatch or w/e it was.
if anyone wants to bet money on this im up for it :D
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Hey you know what would be awesome? if the announcement was blizzard hiring InControl as a balance expert. I'm refinding the link but theres a sound clip of InControl and Idra talkin about the fact that blizz has only a 2 person balance team. Blizzard is based in Cali (google search said so anyways) and InControl said that it was terrible but he didn't seem that blown about it. just popped into my head wonder if?
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On February 10 2011 10:23 TrainFX wrote:
lol its definitely some sort of tv show....
my logic apart from all the obvious stuff, is that he started talking about all this shortly after EG partnered with g4tv for that tourney or showmatch or w/e it was.
if anyone wants to bet money on this im up for it :D
I highly doubt that, all the evidence points towards some kind of tournament, eventhough tv broadcasting might be a part of that.
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Canada13379 Posts
This just in: incontroltv was just an announcement wherein incontrol will announce the announcement he announced would be announced after the announced idra/jinro showmatch which will be preceded with an announcement for EGincontrolTV which will be hosted on owned.tv and incontrol announcing a .tv empire which will be used to announce the biggest announcement in the history of western e-sports announcements!!!
(sorry, I just couldn't resist announcing this announcement)
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^ too many announcements to be announced.
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On February 11 2011 00:34 twstdletz wrote:
...Blizzard is based in Cali (google search said so anyways) and InControl said that it was terrible but he didn't seem that blown about it. just popped into my head wonder if?
What? Please try to use sentence structure, I've read this like 4 times and I still don't know what you're trying to say.
InControl said what was terrible? The Blizzard balance team? I can't picture him saying that, Blizzard's balance team is the best in the entire world. Furthermore, InControl is my absolute favorite ProGamer, but I don't think he has the credentials to be on Blizz's balance team.
He is without debate an intelligent human being, and an amazing SC2 player, but If you've ever looked at Blizz's employment process, you would know that their requirements are fucking absurd, and you would need prior experience in the industry to be considered for a position like balance designer. Furthermore, being on the balance team would mean InControl was no longer eligible to compete in tournaments.
So yeah, it would be cool, and I would be glad because it would mean that my favorite player had landed a baller position at my favorite company, but it would be a huge blow to the scene because we would not get to watch him compete in tournaments anymore.
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Yeah it's a pipe dream and I'm sorry about the sentence structure :/ And no InControl was pretty positive on the game I liked that in the clip. Idra was saying that the game was terrible and that everyone thought that and InControl was like "actually I love this game." He was saying terrible in reference to the fact that in such a large corporation only 2 people were assigned to the balance team. Idra was saying that he assumed by now that Blizzard would have hired one or two pro-gamers to advise. All I was saying was how awesome would it be if that was the big announcement? Blizzard hiring InControl and Gretorp.... (and yes unlikely in the extreme but c'mon we can hope 
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On February 11 2011 13:33 twstdletz wrote:Yeah it's a pipe dream and I'm sorry about the sentence structure :/ And no InControl was pretty positive on the game I liked that in the clip. Idra was saying that the game was terrible and that everyone thought that and InControl was like "actually I love this game." He was saying terrible in reference to the fact that in such a large corporation only 2 people were assigned to the balance team. Idra was saying that he assumed by now that Blizzard would have hired one or two pro-gamers to advise. All I was saying was how awesome would it be if that was the big announcement? Blizzard hiring InControl and Gretorp.... (and yes unlikely in the extreme but c'mon we can hope
ahh okay, cleared up now. And I agree it would be awesome to have an active community member calling some shots at Blizz.
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You guys, I figured out what it is! Incontrol and Uncontrollable are getting married! And they moved to L.A. so that Day9 could do the honors!
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If iNcontrol doesnt announce whats happening someone else will!!
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heh I actually like this meme
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On February 16 2011 05:45 iNcontroL wrote:heh I actually like this meme
it has grown so much you can't control it
:O
//tx
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On February 14 2011 15:25 sinani206 wrote:
You guys, I figured out what it is! Incontrol and Uncontrollable are getting married! And they moved to L.A. so that Day9 could do the honors!
But how does Gretorp fit into the equation, then?
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I know the announcement.
MorroW, looks the same, if you mirror it.
Fucking nailed it
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gretorp is the best man clearly
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but is it a better meme than whip your hair back and forth? hell i'm using that outside SC now lol
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On February 16 2011 06:13 Aeres wrote:Show nested quote +On February 14 2011 15:25 sinani206 wrote:
You guys, I figured out what it is! Incontrol and Uncontrollable are getting married! And they moved to L.A. so that Day9 could do the honors! But how does Gretorp fit into the equation, then?
It's Gretorp! Of course he's the best man. Why do you think he keeps calling everything Geoff does "handsome" ;-).
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On February 16 2011 06:21 rolfe wrote:
but is it a better meme than whip your hair back and forth? hell i'm using that outside SC now lol
Someone needs to make a "I rock my chair back and forth" parody.
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