In Control of Information: Decoding iNcontrol - Page 20

On February 10 2011 10:20 Redmark wrote:
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.

On February 16 2011 05:55 Tschis wrote:


it has grown so much you can't control it
:O

//tx

On February 16 2011 16:57 schI2ler wrote:
Come on guys, we all know what it is:

Sean and Geoff started their own Wrestling Corporation, called "We The Finest".

Now they fly in all the Pros, to do a cage-match.

As you have heard, Idra will come too, he is the Big Boss everybody else has to face in a royal rumble

On February 21 2011 10:16 Blackboxeq wrote:
Why hello there not used You tube video exclaiming prize amount, we meet again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5HrIhVu46U

On February 24 2011 07:35 MarryMeSeanPlott wrote:
Was "yda fo eraelsd 'tsi ...gimocn" ever explained?