EPTThen again, i am part of the starcraft community. Good job Orb not stating you're drunk this time, or throwing people Kawaiirice, Spade and Destiny under the bus, that shit doesn't help.
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MildSeven
Canada311 Posts
Then again, i am part of the starcraft community. Good job Orb not stating you're drunk this time, or throwing people Kawaiirice, Spade and Destiny under the bus, that shit doesn't help. | ||
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Bkennedy
United States266 Posts
Best of luck to you. | ||
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ZwuckeL
Germany563 Posts
On March 09 2012 14:32 CameronJ wrote: I'm not sure why you're so offended by someone getting angry on ladder. Every person who has ever played on ladder seriously has raged; I've raged. I don't know why your heart is so set and happy to see this personality go away, it frustrates me more than his "racist" comments to be honest.  there is clearly a difference of bm'ing at times or having a bm/narcissistic mind set. In my opinion not one single person with a mindset like orb's should ever become a known or representing induvidual in any scene. | ||
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baba1
Canada355 Posts
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dAPhREAk
Nauru12397 Posts
On March 09 2012 14:34 Forikorder wrote: only 6 minutes in and its completely hilarious so at least somethimg good has come of this ironically, the part with the pornstar is just very uncomfortable and boring. the rest of it was great. | ||
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BthreeN
United States48 Posts
On March 09 2012 14:37 Forikorder wrote: i believe there was some incidents of it during his employment and he did lie alot about it during his employment as well and there was no apology Thank you. I was under the impression that it all happend before. | ||
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slytown
Korea (South)1411 Posts
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cmen15
United States1519 Posts
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RodrigoX
United States645 Posts
Basically, an actual apology is worth something if the person has integrity. Then you come into consideration whether or not the person has integrity, and if they did have integrity would they do what they did in the first place. Only real option is they are sincere they never thought what they did would have consequences, or was morally wrong. | ||
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MountainGoat
United States508 Posts
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peekn
United States1152 Posts
Thanks for the apology post. I will still be watching your casts and streams, haven't angered this fan. | ||
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MrCash
United States1504 Posts
On March 09 2012 14:30 Reedjr wrote: I'm really conflicted about this. On the first hand, I love Orb's casting and have since he started doing stuff with the NASL. The fact that I'm likely not going to see anymore of that for awhile is really disheartening. I think this apology is honest, but it's still too little too late. However, he's not really apologizing for the right things here. The specific language he used is obviously not acceptable, but unfortunately he handled this situation poorly. I'd like to think that if he owned up to it and admitted that he said those things that would have been the end of it. The problem was more that he tried to cover it up, which is an understandable, knee-jerk reaction. I've seen Orb's stream before I saw him cast. The dude rages. We've all done things in the heat of the moment that we realize are unacceptable (even if those are multiple moments). But now I feel that I cannot take his word at face value. He says these things all happened long before his stint with EG, but he also said that his friends did it and... Well, we know the rest. This cannot be more wrong. These words have very specific meanings that will always be negative, and by using them in other contexts you're actually giving more power to those words. There is a reason why "cracker" isn't as offensive of a term and isn't used 50 times in every rap song. I didn't put the **** in cracker, because I think many people wouldn't even figure it out. The word had the intent to be both derogatory and insulting, however it's used far too commonly by everyone to be effective. Every offensive term you can think of is not used frequently and ones that are used the least tend to be the most offensive. Other social factors have weight, like original use of the term, well known figures who famously used the word in statements or speeches. It gets to be a rather deep and complicated social phenomena, however it is a fact. The other way to present this is that offensive words are not used frequently BECAUSE they are offensive, however that is a narrow way of looking at the topic. In reality both aspects are related and affect the use of the word and how it is interpreted. Also to add, the high use of the n-word in all the rap songs has not increased it's offensiveness in any way. | ||
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VirgilSC2
United States6151 Posts
On March 09 2012 14:40 BthreeN wrote: Thank you. I was under the impression that it all happend before. It did. | ||
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KevinBacon
Portugal48 Posts
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Dannnnn_The_Man
United States166 Posts
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Argolis
Canada211 Posts
On March 09 2012 14:38 eNbee wrote: I really don't understand all these posts about "He didn't do anything wrong" "fuck reddit for making this happen". Fuck reddit? No no no my friends, it, it's childish and disgusting behavior. The internet is a great tool for so many reasons, allowing people to behave like this is not one of them. On top of that Orb blatantly lied about the accusations and tried to worm his way out of them, before finally coming clean and posting a half-hearted apology, which didn't mention anything about his lies by the way. Good riddance Orb, and Orb-defenders : what is wrong with you? Please define the word nigger and explain how it is the "foulest language". I don't see why the community is so hyper sensitive to the word when it's used in a setting like a sc2 ladder game to an anonymous opponent but words like rape, faggot, retard etc aren't an issue at all. | ||
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Joedaddy
United States1948 Posts
Everything but the lying part. That happened during. | ||
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mrGRAPE
Singapore293 Posts
Seems like sportsmanship is still a term that's way off for eSports. | ||
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Sotark
Canada66 Posts
I honestly don't understand why people hold this against him. Yes, he is a community figure, but this is his PERSONAL account. Let him rage if he wants to, if ANY other word other then the N word was used, No one would care. forgive this man, He deserves it. | ||
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pi_rate_pir_ate
United States179 Posts
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