• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 21:44
CEST 03:44
KST 10:44
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
Serral wins EWC 202512Tournament Spotlight: FEL Cracow 20259Power Rank - Esports World Cup 202580RSL Season 1 - Final Week9[ASL19] Finals Recap: Standing Tall15
Community News
[BSL 2025] H2 - Team Wars, Weeklies & SB Ladder2EWC 2025 - Replay Pack2Google Play ASL (Season 20) Announced26BSL Team Wars - Bonyth, Dewalt, Hawk & Sziky teams10Weekly Cups (July 14-20): Final Check-up0
StarCraft 2
General
Serral wins EWC 2025 #1: Maru - Greatest Players of All Time Greatest Players of All Time: 2025 Update Power Rank - Esports World Cup 2025 EWC 2025 - Replay Pack
Tourneys
FEL Cracov 2025 (July 27) - $10,000 live event TaeJa vs Creator Bo7 SC Evo Showmatch Esports World Cup 2025 $25,000 Streamerzone StarCraft Pro Series announced $5,000 WardiTV Summer Championship 2025
Strategy
How did i lose this ZvP, whats the proper response
Custom Maps
External Content
Mutation # 484 Magnetic Pull Mutation #239 Bad Weather Mutation # 483 Kill Bot Wars Mutation # 482 Wheel of Misfortune
Brood War
General
BW General Discussion [BSL 2025] H2 - Team Wars, Weeklies & SB Ladder BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ Afreeca app available on Samsung smart TV Google Play ASL (Season 20) Announced
Tourneys
[Megathread] Daily Proleagues [BSL20] Non-Korean Championship 4x BSL + 4x China CSL Xiamen International Invitational [CSLPRO] It's CSLAN Season! - Last Chance
Strategy
Does 1 second matter in StarCraft? Simple Questions, Simple Answers [G] Mineral Boosting
Other Games
General Games
Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Nintendo Switch Thread Total Annihilation Server - TAForever [MMORPG] Tree of Savior (Successor of Ragnarok) Path of Exile
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
TL Mafia Community Thread Vanilla Mini Mafia
Community
General
UK Politics Mega-thread US Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread Stop Killing Games - European Citizens Initiative Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine
Fan Clubs
INnoVation Fan Club SKT1 Classic Fan Club!
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread [\m/] Heavy Metal Thread Movie Discussion! [Manga] One Piece Korean Music Discussion
Sports
2024 - 2025 Football Thread Formula 1 Discussion TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023 NBA General Discussion
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Gtx660 graphics card replacement Installation of Windows 10 suck at "just a moment" Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
TeamLiquid Team Shirt On Sale The Automated Ban List
Blogs
Ping To Win? Pings And Their…
TrAiDoS
momentary artworks from des…
tankgirl
from making sc maps to makin…
Husyelt
StarCraft improvement
iopq
Socialism Anyone?
GreenHorizons
Eight Anniversary as a TL…
Mizenhauer
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 530 users

An article on Naniwa from Thisisgame - Page 43

Forum Index > SC2 General
Post a Reply
Prev 1 41 42 43 44 45 82 Next
DjRoomba
Profile Joined September 2011
Finland3 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-13 19:19:22
December 13 2011 19:18 GMT
#841
you are alon
EZ
Deimos0
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Poland277 Posts
December 13 2011 19:18 GMT
#842
I didn't want to say this, but you know... it's hurting esports :D But seriously - it really matters that he gave up this game. It always should matter whether it is about Nani, Stephano or Koreans. Not a single game televised should be treated like this. Even when players of other sports have nothing to gain in their match they still play and try to entertain viewers (rumor has it, Russians in volleyball tend to not try enough when they qualify early enough, but they still PLAY).

And arguments over differences in culture are ridiculous. Try demanding respecting western culture in arabian countries (at least in those, which follow islam rules quite strictly). Wherever you go, you obey cultural habits of your host. It's not questionable at all.
protect me from what I want
poorcloud
Profile Joined April 2011
Singapore2748 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-13 19:19:33
December 13 2011 19:19 GMT
#843
On December 14 2011 04:14 slicknav wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 14 2011 03:58 Ecrilon wrote:
Nestea should have shown a good game to the fans by worker rushing at the same time.
...
Get over it. Is it really better if Naniwa goes and proxy two gates instead?


yes, it is better.


It will certainly be better for his sc2 career.

And i'm tired of all those people who say "fuck it", "badass", "be yourself" with regards to this. This world is all about social/peer pressure and i'm sure most of the "bad asses" in TL conform to social norms one way or another. All of us can see that it will be smart of Naniwa to have at least pretended to give a shit. Then this thread wouldn't have even existed.
The_LiNk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada863 Posts
December 13 2011 19:19 GMT
#844
On December 14 2011 04:09 Sea_Food wrote:
You could edit this at the end of OP

TL;DR

Some Koreans do not understand that there are people in the world with different cultures. That happens when a nation does not have enough immigrants. People there will not learn to respect other cultures within their own borders.


Understanding cultures go both ways. You expect Koreans to understand Naniwa's "Western" culture of winning but you do not understand the Korean culture of respect. So ironic.

Last time I checked, "fighting to the bitter end" thing is very prevalent in Western cultures. 300 and Spartans and all.
Golgotha
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Korea (South)8418 Posts
December 13 2011 19:19 GMT
#845
guys. its korea. we freak out about the most trivial things. Yes, people are upset that Nani didn't try, but it SHOULD NOT be reason to fcking ban him from the GSL. I don't want another Cocoa.
Ponchey
Profile Joined August 2011
Sweden89 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-13 19:22:12
December 13 2011 19:20 GMT
#846

In the end I just really hope HuK can show the Koreans that the foreigners can be nice too...


I just love it when people bring this up. I think Huk is really funny, but consider one of the things Huk did at MLG Providence. When he played (and lost) against Naniwa, he put the "It's simple, we kill the Batman" meme image of Naniwa on his desktop, which would show to the entire audience on big screen in between games. Imagine this was the GSL, and Huk had put some meme image "making fun of" NesTea on the big screen. Wouldn't that be like one million times more disrespectful than what Naniwa did today? And still, I don't think I've heard anyone even mentioning this particular event from MLG since*. Everyone was busy talking about how Nani thumbs downed NesTea, as if he had just killed a bassetful of kittens.

How's that for double standards?



*Apart from being a side note in the whole "was Nani booed?" discussion.
softan
Profile Joined September 2010
Sweden113 Posts
December 13 2011 19:20 GMT
#847
I think most players at some point have played worse than they actually could on purpose when there's nothing on the line. The difference is most players hide it and Naniwa made it obvious, I'm not sure if one is worse than the other.
Russano
Profile Joined November 2010
United States425 Posts
December 13 2011 19:21 GMT
#848
On December 14 2011 04:12 Namkung wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 14 2011 04:03 Russano wrote:
On December 14 2011 03:59 Namkung wrote:
On December 14 2011 03:54 Russano wrote:
On December 14 2011 03:52 DarKFoRcE wrote:
Im pretty sure that this is going to have consequences for him. Some people might find it funny and all that, but its a korean tournament taking place in korea, and in their culture this is not considered funny, and they are the ones that decide~~


Unfortunately their culture is also known for having a shit sense of humor, so I wouldn't be surprised if it does turn out really badly for him.


yea bro.
what he did was so funny huh


I laughed at teh probe rush. To me it felt like a mothership rush. The casters laughed. Audience members laughed.


You guys remember ePGimix? He threw games for White-ra to make their series even. He was fucking lauded for that. Everyone LOVED IT. He compromised the integrity of the MLG brackets. Everyone loved it because it was fucking beast, and it helped white-ra who is also beast. I wasn't outraged then, and I'm not outraged now just because its fucking Naniwa, who along wtih Major are the most socially inept people we could throw at Korea.

and yes, Koreans and most every asian culture, are not anywhere near known for their sense of humor, especially when it comes to sarcasm.


Not sure if I should even take you seriously for comparing this to the case of epgimix case.
people laughed . Is that what you took out of this?
You looked at what happened and was just like oh man that was funny. and no other thoughts came across your mind? that what he did was even slightly inappropriate ?
I guess it didn't since you said "i wasn't outraged then, and I'm not outraged now" but as it turns out, a dominating majority of people seem to be outraged in Korea and it will surely have negative implications for naniwa. rightfully so.

where exactly do you come off as saying that most asian culture are not known for their sense of humor?
just by observing Asian people?
Actually let me use your logic here.
The koreans could then argue the foreigners are not exactly known to take things (sc2 being the prime example here) as seriously as they do.

I hope there are serious consequences for naniwa for what he has done .



My intial reaction, was yes, laughter. I didn't think it was a big deal til a bunch of koreans told me it was. The epGimix thing is an important comparison, just liek teh stephano and idra comparisons. There are many instances of players gaming a system, and not playing out matches because there isn't a reward in doing so, and they aren't, and shouldn't be villified for doing so.

and yes, asian cultures aren't known for their sense of humor, just like arab cultures aren't known for their acceptance of women's rights. and Yes, even foreigners aren't known for their huge commitment to starcraft when compared to koreans. A culture is one giant set of generalizations. What food's they eat, is part of a culture, does that mean everyone eats those foods? No, Is what they wear apart of their culture? Yes. Does everyone follow it? No.

I hope there aren't serious consequences. This world is turning to shit so often because people overreact about things that they don't have to. Which leads to shit like this wehre people demonize naniwa over something insignificant. People need to chill the fuck out, and not get butthurt over every conceivable slight.
DjRoomba
Profile Joined September 2011
Finland3 Posts
December 13 2011 19:22 GMT
#849
OMFG do you relly think that pros play to show ther fanns that is relly retarded they play to win and nani cude nott win any more so why the fuck nott just give up huh ?



User was warned for this post
EZ
tlin
Profile Joined December 2011
25 Posts
December 13 2011 19:23 GMT
#850
Tyler said it best:
"People act like what Naniwa did is unprecedented. It's not. It's common. Naniwa just took it to the logical, non-deceptive extreme."
Darksoldierr
Profile Joined May 2010
Hungary2012 Posts
December 13 2011 19:23 GMT
#851
I totally agree with it
What do humans know of our pain? We have sung songs of lament since before your ancestors crawled on their bellies from the sea.
TT1
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada10009 Posts
December 13 2011 19:24 GMT
#852
On December 13 2011 22:46 robih wrote:
its just pathetic how they make a big deal out of nothing


thats not for you to say, the korean esports scene has been around for over decade and their views on what they believe is appropriate sc ethiquette/behaviour will obviously be different than what your views of it are, i personally didnt care much for what he did but the koreans did and that alone is horrible pr for our community
ab = tl(i) + tl(pc), the grand answer to every tl.net debate
poorcloud
Profile Joined April 2011
Singapore2748 Posts
December 13 2011 19:25 GMT
#853
On December 14 2011 04:20 Ponchey wrote:
Show nested quote +

In the end I just really hope HuK can show the Koreans that the foreigners can be nice too...


I just love it when people bring this up. I think Huk is really funny, but consider one of the things Huk did at MLG Providence. When he played (and lost) against Naniwa, he put the "It's simple, we kill the Batman" meme image of Naniwa on his desktop, which would show to the entire audience on big screen in between games. Imagine this was the GSL, and Huk had put some meme image "making fun of"* NesTea on the big screen. Wouldn't that be like one million times more disrespectful than what Naniwa did today? And still, I don't think I've heard anyone even mentioning this particular event from MLG since*. Everyone was busy talking about how Nani thumbs downed NesTea, as if he had just killed a bassetful of kittens.

How's that for double standards?



*Apart from being a side note in the whole "was Nani booed?" discussion.


It was a culmination of various things, from "idiotic" to pausing to criticizing MLG to thumbs down. Thumbs down alone is a normal ceremony performed in GSTL many times, nobody minds. Naniwa did the thumbs down at a pretty bad timing, and that explains the reaction.

And i'm sure if MVP did something like that image to Nestea, it wouldn't have mattered since they are on good terms. Huk and Naniwa are on good terms i suppose.
canikizu
Profile Joined September 2010
4860 Posts
December 13 2011 19:25 GMT
#854
On December 14 2011 03:56 zanga wrote:
How about adding what the man himself has said about the issue and not just the least involved people?

http://twitter.com/#!/QuanticNaNi/status/146590749985742848

And of course when he says (as seen in the interview of "Naniwa Interview - Blizzard Cup Group B")

"I AM VERY SORRY ABOUT THIS"
...


As was he many times before, why should we care about his apologies anymore? He clearly doesn't mean it, you know it, I know it, as do many other people.
Dexx
Profile Joined January 2011
Germany175 Posts
December 13 2011 19:25 GMT
#855
If Naniwa does not face direct consequnces this is the best "branding" for him as the bad boy og the scene. While socially akward, he unintentionally made sure I will get a lot of attention in SK. GOM would be stupid not to use this in the future.
tetrismaan
Profile Joined April 2011
Denmark302 Posts
December 13 2011 19:25 GMT
#856
If naniwa has to accept the Korean culture, the Koreans should accept a foreigners culture as well. eSport will never be worldwide, if you have to act after one culture.

This is one of those things which makes sports fun.

I just love how naniwa doesn't give a flying fuck of what others thinks of him. Why the hell should he care? If every personality in Starcraft / eSport was the same, why would there even be fanclubs? This is something for the mass.
www.DanishStarcraft.com
Sea_Food
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Finland1612 Posts
December 13 2011 19:26 GMT
#857
On December 14 2011 04:19 The_LiNk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 14 2011 04:09 Sea_Food wrote:
You could edit this at the end of OP

TL;DR

Some Koreans do not understand that there are people in the world with different cultures. That happens when a nation does not have enough immigrants. People there will not learn to respect other cultures within their own borders.


Understanding cultures go both ways. You expect Koreans to understand Naniwa's "Western" culture of winning but you do not understand the Korean culture of respect. So ironic.

Last time I checked, "fighting to the bitter end" thing is very prevalent in Western cultures. 300 and Spartans and all.


Naniwa was in pissed off, so there is a reason why he dosnt act respectfully.


And FYI. 300 spartans was not a documentary. 300 spartans never did kill 10 000 persians. If you havent stayed awake during history lessons, western nations give up before they have only 300 soldiers left.
poorcloud
Profile Joined April 2011
Singapore2748 Posts
December 13 2011 19:27 GMT
#858
On December 14 2011 04:22 DjRoomba wrote:
OMFG do you relly think that pros play to show ther fanns that is relly retarded they play to win and nani cude nott win any more so why the fuck nott just give up huh ?



Well fans are the basic foundation of every sport. Without fans, there will be no competitive scene. So yes, fans are really important.

Naniwa not caring about fans is ok but of course fans will bad mouth Naniwa lol.
Sandster
Profile Joined November 2006
United States4054 Posts
December 13 2011 19:27 GMT
#859
On December 14 2011 04:25 canikizu wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 14 2011 03:56 zanga wrote:
How about adding what the man himself has said about the issue and not just the least involved people?

http://twitter.com/#!/QuanticNaNi/status/146590749985742848

And of course when he says (as seen in the interview of "Naniwa Interview - Blizzard Cup Group B")

"I AM VERY SORRY ABOUT THIS"
...


As was he many times before, why should we care about his apologies anymore? He clearly doesn't mean it, you know it, I know it, as do many other people.


I'm not so sure about that...I honestly think he just doesn't understand the implications of his actions. This isn't even about having a PR person to help you out, he just lacks understanding of basic social norms.
Tortious_Tortoise
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States944 Posts
December 13 2011 19:28 GMT
#860
It comes down to an overreaction on KR's part.This kind of thing happens. IdrA gave free wins by withdrawing from Code S after groups were selected. He also opted not to play some of his IPL games. With regards to Code S, GOM didn't get pissy at IdrA-- they made hims a memorial video.

I just don't understand why this is different.
Treating eSports as a social science since 2011; Credo: "The system is never wrong"-- Day9 Daily #400 Part 3
Prev 1 41 42 43 44 45 82 Next
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 8h 16m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
SpeCial 226
Nina 182
Livibee 112
StarCraft: Brood War
Sea 3980
Aegong 78
Sexy 45
Icarus 2
Dota 2
monkeys_forever584
LuMiX1
League of Legends
JimRising 608
Counter-Strike
Fnx 2097
Coldzera 127
Super Smash Bros
hungrybox620
Other Games
summit1g11356
shahzam1401
Day[9].tv455
C9.Mang0290
ToD247
Maynarde212
kaitlyn32
RuFF_SC218
Organizations
Other Games
gamesdonequick1608
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 17 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• davetesta75
• Hupsaiya 64
• sooper7s
• Migwel
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• intothetv
• IndyKCrew
• Kozan
StarCraft: Brood War
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
• BSLYoutube
League of Legends
• Doublelift7359
• Stunt1196
• Rush175
Other Games
• Shiphtur911
• Day9tv455
Upcoming Events
Sparkling Tuna Cup
8h 16m
WardiTV European League
14h 16m
PiGosaur Monday
22h 16m
OSC
1d 10h
uThermal 2v2 Circuit
1d 14h
The PondCast
2 days
Online Event
2 days
Korean StarCraft League
4 days
CranKy Ducklings
4 days
Online Event
4 days
[ Show More ]
Sparkling Tuna Cup
5 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

BSL 20 Non-Korean Championship
FEL Cracow 2025
Underdog Cup #2

Ongoing

Copa Latinoamericana 4
Jiahua Invitational
BSL 20 Team Wars
CC Div. A S7
IEM Cologne 2025
FISSURE Playground #1
BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025
ESL Impact League Season 7
IEM Dallas 2025
PGL Astana 2025
Asian Champions League '25

Upcoming

BSL 21 Qualifiers
ASL Season 20: Qualifier #1
ASL Season 20: Qualifier #2
ASL Season 20
CSLPRO Chat StarLAN 3
BSL Season 21
RSL Revival: Season 2
Maestros of the Game
SEL Season 2 Championship
WardiTV Summer 2025
uThermal 2v2 Main Event
HCC Europe
ESL Pro League S22
StarSeries Fall 2025
FISSURE Playground #2
BLAST Open Fall 2025
BLAST Open Fall Qual
Esports World Cup 2025
BLAST Bounty Fall 2025
BLAST Bounty Fall Qual
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2025 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.