Official State of the Game Podcast Thread - Page 442

On February 03 2011 04:58 Sylvr wrote:
Replace Day[9] with John Madden. Now how many parents do you think would hear that story and suddenly wouldn't buy his games for their kids? It would be more than enough to piss off the producers, I guarantee.

Everyone knows that nobody is a perfect little angel from conception to adulthood, and that most people have embarrassing stories that they wouldn't want to admit to in front of a camera, but when it comes to Americans, suburban middle-class soccer-mom housewives (aka, the biggest consumers on the planet) are especially stupid in regards to the reasons they stop spending their money on things.

Things that scare away consumers will lose you sponsors, and nothing scares away consumers like deviant sex stories. Its hard to become a household name with stuff like this reaching the public- and a household name is EXACTLY what we want Day[9] to become, as he is the furthest along in the venture, and the most likely to succeed.

I'm not saying that anything should be "off limits". I'm just saying that we shouldn't be shouting it to the masses at the top of our lungs and bringing extra attention to it that may potentially slow our progress- especially in this delicate stage of the process (starting to draw the attention of bigger and bigger sponsors).

If people are gonna try to dig up this stuff, then let em work for it instead of it being at the top of the google search for "Day[9]" (exaggeration, most likely. I didn't actually google Day[9] to check how far down the list these stories will be)

On February 03 2011 04:58 Sylvr wrote:
Replace Day[9] with John Madden.

On February 03 2011 05:10 LagT_T wrote:
I ripped the preshow from Youtube and uploaded as one mp3 file:
http://www.mediafire.com/?12tnmko19wlgh68

JP, if you prefer to keep the preshow only on youtube please let me know and I'll stop.

On February 03 2011 05:31 itmeJP wrote:

meh if I stop you someone else will just do it

On February 03 2011 04:33 ptbl wrote:


First of all, I don't disapprove of Day9's action at all. I don't care if he has kinky sexual tendencies. However, when people are trying to hide his past by brushing it under the rug, then it's a big freaking problem. It's not like people held a gun to his head and forced him to share his sexual adventures. He voluntary posted his "masturbation in the airplane bathroom stall" story on TL.net on his own cognizance.

He may become the face of SC2 (highly debatable), but he still needs to face the consequences. Being a "public figure" in e-sports doesn't mean his past is off limits, especially on anything he posted himself. Do you notice the mods deleting references to his past sexual adventures? No, they are not. It goes to show that what we post yesterday, today, and tomorrow will be held accountable, open to public consumption, and forever be connected to the individual.

On February 03 2011 06:04 KevinIX wrote:


That's ridiculous. What does Day9's past have anything to do with being a public figure. It's not like Day9 is running for public office, he's just a freaking SC2 caster. His story was obviously meant to be humorous at the time and he didn't anticipate that in the future, there would be thousands of people going back to read it. As someone who is trying to work with sponsors and tournament organizers to expand e-sports, he needs to be taken seriously and professionally. An old tasteless joke doesn't help, even if it was only meant for humor.

On February 03 2011 04:58 Sylvr wrote:
Replace Day[9] with John Madden.

On February 03 2011 06:32 Aquafresh wrote:
Well this is not what I expected to be discussed in this thread.

However.



This is inspiring. I would love to hear John Madden commentate SC matches. Better if you don't explain anything about the game to him beforehand, though it wouldn't be likely to make a difference either way.

On February 02 2011 15:17 hmunkey wrote:
Awful suggestion from iNcontrol. If Code A winners made $10k, what would stop MC/MVP from deliberately getting into Code A to win the tournament over and over?

It's certainly a more reliable source of good money.

On February 03 2011 01:05 hackmed wrote:


Day9 mention in a later post that he uses that story in his standup routine, theres no way that story is real.

On February 03 2011 05:13 delo wrote:


This is as far as I got before I started laughing.

"See...the thing is...IdrA...he goes to a different place, does different things and [cough] HEMMY YEMMY HAMMY YAMMY ASDFAGDFWQWEFQ YOU KNOW?...He gets 2-raxed and BOOM...that's the game."