EPTOfficial Real Talk Thread of Realness - Page 7
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Rataplan
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Jaisse
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rd
United States2586 Posts
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Omri
Israel638 Posts
 great job. | ||
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Scrabo
Northern Ireland11 Posts
Would like to see Nony and Violet in the future. Great show JP. Keep it going! | ||
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FawxzTV
Sweden178 Posts
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AKomrade
United States582 Posts
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oZe
Sweden492 Posts
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provrorsbarn
Sweden766 Posts
Hes a great interview.....says whats on his mind... | ||
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mememolly
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On May 24 2012 14:25 jmbthirteen wrote: and they have no right to know what they are they kinda do when he is asking for money to help him live off esports | ||
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LambtrOn
United States671 Posts
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Vega62a
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On May 25 2012 01:19 mememolly wrote: they kinda do when he is asking for money to help him live of esports Not really. He is not demanding donations with the assertion that he will starve to death if he doesn't get them. He's not holding his content hostage. He's just asking for people to pitch in if they feel like it. Being as how he's basically been the face of the SC2 scene from beta until now, I don't think that's unreasonable. Hell, when you get down to it, it's never unreasonable to ask somebody to pitch in if they feel like it, so long as you're not holding something hostage. A person's income is entirely his own business. Nobody but the IRS has the right to know what somebody else makes. I don't know when the internet forgot this, but it's actually considered incredibly rude to ask somebody what they make, at least in America. | ||
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Logros
Netherlands9913 Posts
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mememolly
4765 Posts
On May 25 2012 01:21 Vega62a wrote: Not really. He is not demanding donations with the assertion that he will starve to death if he doesn't get them. He's not holding his content hostage. He's just asking for people to pitch in if they feel like it. A person's income is entirely his own business. Nobody but the IRS has the right to know what somebody else makes. he doesn't have to demand donations, he is a very well respected member of the community, I think it is borderline exploitative and irresponsible to ask for donations without disclosing how much you're making | ||
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Bigtony
United States1606 Posts
On May 25 2012 01:19 mememolly wrote: they kinda do when he is asking for money to help him live off esports You're out of your mind. He produces an insane amount of FREE content. No one cared about AHGL? You don't care about, but that doesn't mean no one did and that it didnt take a big investment. It's none of anyone's business what he makes. If people think he's rich now and want to stop donating that's up to them. | ||
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Zax19
Czech Republic1136 Posts
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Vega62a
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On May 25 2012 01:27 mememolly wrote: he doesn't have to demand donations, he is a very well respected member of the community, I think it is borderline exploitative and irresponsible to ask for donations without disclosing how much you're making Why on earth would disclosing your income be a requirement for asking for donations? That seems...absurdly arbitrary. You can easily choose not to donate. Every single person gets to make that choice. If they decide that the reason they do or don't want to donate hinges on his income, then that's their decision. If they want to donate because they appreciate what he does for the community, regardless of how much he already makes, that's their decision too. Exploitation would be him charging for a service and then not delivering on it. (For example, a subscriber-only daily in which all he does is play text twist instead of teaching us something about starcraft.) It seems horribly entitled to expect something from him when he's not expecting anything from you. Actually, for that matter, why would it be so horrible of him to hold his content hostage to donations (i.e .subscriber-only daily)? He's providing a service that is highly in demand, (the daily) so why would it be evil of him to want to make money off of it if people were willing to pay for it? In any other industry on the planet people would be pulling their teeth out at the financial opportunity that Day[9] is NOT taking advantage of. The fact that he doesn't speaks volumes to his character. But instead, he's maligned for asking us, if we feel like it, and have a little extra cash, rather then telling us, to pay for the service he provides. | ||
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Jutranjo
Slovenia140 Posts
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weishime
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
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