EPTOfficial State of the Game Podcast Thread - Page 2596
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CajunMan
United States823 Posts
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Defacer
Canada5052 Posts
That's not to say that it doesn't happen all the time or that it's evil. But still, it's dick-ish. There is a reason that most comedians are self-loathing and hate themselves. A lot of them know they make a living almost entirely from being dicks. | ||
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chocopaw
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AxiR
Germany944 Posts
Edit: Its up on twitch! | ||
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dcemuser
United States3248 Posts
On December 18 2012 17:41 CajunMan wrote: Wait a fucking second lol. I didn't hear the whole thing till just now. Really? That's all he fucking said? 2good spend 15 minutes shitting on all the other girls in esports and you guys go nuts because he said that about scarlet.... are you fucking serious... My mind is blown haha wtf is wrong with you people? Sometimes you people leave me in such a state of wtf I just don't know holy shit. I'm pretty sure 95% of the comments about the other esports women were compliments (at least in part) to their looks or some other attribute. Classy? No. Sexist? Yes. Incredibly offensive? Extremely unlikely. The only other really negative thing was he said that Lindsey Sporrer was stupid. That line was pretty out of place too. | ||
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scypio
Poland2127 Posts
On December 18 2012 17:46 dAPhREAk wrote: im not surprised that people make offensive jokes about child molestation, rape, mass murderers, holocausts and genocide.... i am surprised that people would come on and justify them as appropriate. Laughter has been a way of dealing with such traumatic / hair-raising events since forever. It happened during World War 2, it happened after the 9/11 attacks and it will happen again and again. Yes, this may not work for some people - in such simple ignore the jokes you do not like or even flip the switch. But leave the pitchfork in the shed. | ||
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z0rz
United States350 Posts
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ratbert
Germany1041 Posts
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Mabius
Canada323 Posts
Grow a pair. | ||
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Maesy
United States1444 Posts
On December 18 2012 19:25 Mabius wrote: The TL community or Starcraft 2 Community in general is a living breathing hypocrisy. You guys stand by and laugh while someone makes sexists comments or uses offensive language but the second a scarlet joke happens WHOA... HOLD THE FUCKING PHONE...!!! What if any of those girls they were judging really got hurt by those comments or felt bad after? Why do their feelings not matter as much as scarlets? Grow a pair. Second person to think we're only defending Scarlett. Glad you bother actually reading the complaints. | ||
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Velr
Switzerland10699 Posts
CALL THE POLICE! | ||
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felisconcolori
United States6168 Posts
On December 18 2012 19:49 Velr wrote: Oh noes, someone made a not 100% appropriate joke. CALL THE POLICE! That only works in some parts of Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa. (Appropriateness of the joke itself may vary by geographic location as well.) Within the United States, the police largely won't regulate speech. (Unless, of course, it is specific and directed at the individual police officer's appearance, lineage, or sexual preference. In which case the offender may be "regulated" on a number of other charges, but not the specific speech itself.) TL; dr - Police don't care unless you are insulting the officer's mama. | ||
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nihlon
Sweden5581 Posts
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Velr
Switzerland10699 Posts
On December 18 2012 19:56 felisconcolori wrote: That only works in some parts of Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa. (Appropriateness of the joke itself may vary by geographic location as well.) Within the United States, the police largely won't regulate speech. (Unless, of course, it is specific and directed at the individual police officer's appearance, lineage, or sexual preference. In which case the offender may be "regulated" on a number of other charges, but not the specific speech itself.) TL; dr - Police don't care unless you are insulting the officer's mama. Yeah and yet... For some reason.. Mainly US citizens seem to be offended. And i can't imagine any country in Europe to have a problem with such a joke, as long as you don't denie the holocaust or are obviously and truely racist your fine in pretty much all of them... Oh, and if it's just a "joke" a comedian makes it is something diffrent again even if it's obviously racist. | ||
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Phil0s0pher
Australia317 Posts
On December 18 2012 20:09 Velr wrote: Yeah and yet... For some reason.. Mainly US citizens seem to be offended. And i can't imagine any country in Europe to have a problem with such a joke, as long as you don't denie the holocaust or are obviously and truely racist your fine in pretty much all of them... Oh, and if it's just a "joke" a comedian makes it is something diffrent again even if it's obviously racist. I was offended by it and I'm Australian. | ||
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Velr
Switzerland10699 Posts
"mainly" | ||
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Phil0s0pher
Australia317 Posts
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Catbus
80 Posts
On December 18 2012 20:14 Phil0s0pher wrote: I was offended by it and I'm Australian. Some people just like being offended. You must have a really rough time generally if you let things like these offend you. | ||
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felisconcolori
United States6168 Posts
On December 18 2012 19:45 Maesy wrote: Second person to think we're only defending Scarlett. Glad you bother actually reading the complaints. This is unrelated, but I'm surprised given your previous habits. Worst habit is definitely BM'ing after every loss even though I know they were my fault purely to see if they whisper me with an aggressive reaction for my own entertainment. I think I'm going to end up growing a hilariously awful reputation for it soon. Makes your defense questionable, IMHO. Then again, I can see where someone might find the joke offensive. I doubt it was offered in that fashion, however. At the same time, there's a great deal out in the world that is offensive to someone. I find the lack of outrage at the incredible depth of misogyny inherent in Western culture (not even touching extremist Middle East countries), the lack of any appreciable respect for the differences of others or any attempt to instill such an ethos in children, and the hypocrisy expressed towards various groups by everyone to be offensive. Then again, I also enjoy the humor of George Carlin, Sam Kinison, and Tosh.O. (Sometimes. Sometimes Tosh moves from funny into questionable.) It's your choice to be offended. It's the choice of other people to not be. There won't be any converts made by long, impassioned pleas. So could we maybe move on? | ||
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Maesy
United States1444 Posts
On December 18 2012 20:27 felisconcolori wrote: This is unrelated, but I'm surprised given your previous habits. Makes your defense questionable, IMHO. Then again, I can see where someone might find the joke offensive. I doubt it was offered in that fashion, however. At the same time, there's a great deal out in the world that is offensive to someone. I find the lack of outrage at the incredible depth of misogyny inherent in Western culture (not even touching extremist Middle East countries), the lack of any appreciable respect for the differences of others or any attempt to instill such an ethos in children, and the hypocrisy expressed towards various groups by everyone to be offensive. Then again, I also enjoy the humor of George Carlin, Sam Kinison, and Tosh.O. (Sometimes. Sometimes Tosh moves from funny into questionable.) It's your choice to be offended. It's the choice of other people to not be. There won't be any converts made by long, impassioned pleas. So could we maybe move on? Really surprised you would go digging for my posts. Didn't I post that in 2010 or early 2011? Also not really sure what general BM has anything to do with this topic. | ||
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