On November 16 2016 03:56 opisska wrote: It's gonna be a little awkward next time a Liquid player preaches about the importance of a healthy lifestyle ...
A healthy lifestyle is determined by many things, but I'm assuming you were aiming towards the healthy diet in your post.
A healthy diet consists of a sum of total micro and macronutriënts, to cover your needs. If you eat something considered unhealthy lacking micronutrients for example, you'll just have to compensate with the rest of your daily diet.
Unhealthy meals do have their place in healthy diets. Monsters could do too. Your total daily/weekly sum has to be on point, not every meal has to be on point. That's not the idea behind a healthy diet, either.
But Monster is not just about diet, but really about the lifestyle - the whole point of energy drinks is fighting your natural sleeping schedule and creating fake "energy". That's why the thing is essentially caffeine dissolved in something disgusting. There is no health reason to ingest that much caffeine, it doesn't bring any benefits (at least not in the lavish quantities found in the typical energy drink) and the lifestyle of staying up and sleeping irregularly that it "enables" is bad for you in the long run as well - irregular sleep schedule has been repeatedly found to be a key risk factor to control if you are after longevity.
On November 16 2016 10:22 Jaaaaasper wrote: Remember when TL only took sponsors that they could feel good about? Naz just keeps selling out harder.
I'm not sure where or how you figured that you know exactly what I do or don't think good partners stand for. We worked on a Monster pitch as long ago as end of 2011 early 2012 and have actively worked with Red Bull for both team and website. There is no change in philosophy here. It may not be your philosophy and if you were to run your own company and it is totally fine to do it differently.
On November 16 2016 10:34 Monochromatic wrote: Nazgul sold TL, this wasn't his call to make.
I want this to be absolutely clear I'm one of our two CEO's together with Steve Arhancet, which is the exact same as it has been the past two years. Both of us are major stakeholders in the company and are here for the long run to take this as far as we can. The group of partners we have found are absolutely amazing, smart and honorable people and they work in support of our decision making. If you were to ask any staff member that works for us they will tell you the exact same. This is our call to make.
On November 16 2016 10:38 Jaaaaasper wrote: Well he still runs the company. The chain of selling out goes Curse -> Selling out to the wizards or who ever -> now this.
I apologize for interrupting your circlejerk, but you should consider not speaking of selling out until you understand who something was sold to. From your message it becomes abundantly obvious you have no idea and that you did not research this information whatsoever. Our group of investors/owners, as well as our remaining involvement and ownership, is not what I would personally consider selling out. You are free to form your own thoughts, preferably based on knowing what you are talking about.
On November 16 2016 16:39 Cascade wrote: I was about to tell you to go to TeamLiquidPro for that, saying that this (teamliquid.net) is a starcraft site. But I realise now that this post, including the comments, is crosslinked between teamliquid.net and www.teamliquidpro.com... Which only raises further questions regarding the relationship between the two sites...
It's a fair point that me and Plexa can discuss on whether this is a good fit still today. He also responded on this subject before me, but either way this is how we have done it for the past six years for announcements that apply to the Liquid players and teams in all of these games.
On November 16 2016 16:39 Cascade wrote: I was about to tell you to go to TeamLiquidPro for that, saying that this (teamliquid.net) is a starcraft site. But I realise now that this post, including the comments, is crosslinked between teamliquid.net and www.teamliquidpro.com... Which only raises further questions regarding the relationship between the two sites...
It's a fair point that me and Plexa can discuss on whether this is a good fit still today. He also responded on this subject before me, but either way this is how we have done it for the past six years for announcements that apply to the Liquid players and teams in all of these games.
Six years ago, I'm not sure TL had players in multiple Esports who were kicking ass. Nuckledu is, possibly for a brief moment in time, the winningest player in SFV and it doesn't seem that TL is doing anything to tell this story, anywhere. I think that's pretty weird.
On November 16 2016 16:39 Cascade wrote: I was about to tell you to go to TeamLiquidPro for that, saying that this (teamliquid.net) is a starcraft site. But I realise now that this post, including the comments, is crosslinked between teamliquid.net and www.teamliquidpro.com... Which only raises further questions regarding the relationship between the two sites...
It's a fair point that me and Plexa can discuss on whether this is a good fit still today. He also responded on this subject before me, but either way this is how we have done it for the past six years for announcements that apply to the Liquid players and teams in all of these games.
Six years ago, I'm not sure TL had players in multiple Esports who were kicking ass. Nuckledu is, possibly for a brief moment in time, the winningest player in SFV and it doesn't seem that TL is doing anything to tell this story, anywhere. I think that's pretty weird.
On November 16 2016 03:56 opisska wrote: It's gonna be a little awkward next time a Liquid player preaches about the importance of a healthy lifestyle ...
Integrity is for poor people.
Or they could be like every extreme sport athlete that's sponsored by an energy drink company, and just drink the canned-water that looks like the energy drink they're promoting. (:
As a long time member of the site, you keep doing you, this is your baby. People call it selling out, I call it an opportunity to invest more money into esports. The players themselves necessarily don't have to drink the energy drink all the time or ever, they just need to showcase the brand.
On November 16 2016 16:39 Cascade wrote: I was about to tell you to go to TeamLiquidPro for that, saying that this (teamliquid.net) is a starcraft site. But I realise now that this post, including the comments, is crosslinked between teamliquid.net and www.teamliquidpro.com... Which only raises further questions regarding the relationship between the two sites...
It's a fair point that me and Plexa can discuss on whether this is a good fit still today. He also responded on this subject before me, but either way this is how we have done it for the past six years for announcements that apply to the Liquid players and teams in all of these games.
Six years ago, I'm not sure TL had players in multiple Esports who were kicking ass. Nuckledu is, possibly for a brief moment in time, the winningest player in SFV and it doesn't seem that TL is doing anything to tell this story, anywhere. I think that's pretty weird.
Do you follow the proteam on social media? TL is a community site for certain games that isn't aligned with who is on the team
I haven't followed on social media, so thanks for the link. The video that was linked in the last post is exactly the sort of thing I was hoping to see.
I guess I personally find this fragmentation confusing, but if all it takes to fix that is to follow one handle on Twitter then that works for me.
On November 16 2016 03:24 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: The EG-ification of TL continues
As in TL is becoming a successful team with lots of good marketing potential and a good understanding and management of electronic esports?
fuck yeah
You mean ruining the game to make obscene short term profits?
All EG SC2 ever were was a marketing / drama-mongering team. Buy an en-vogue player, turn them into a meme-machine for some quick views and advertising dollars and move on to the next game. IdrA was 100% honest when he said he was getting paid to be a jerk online.
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