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Fyodor
Canada971 Posts
On October 13 2012 11:08 DoubleZee wrote: Really? You think that if Stephano was a pedo he would go around telling fellow pro gamers about it on b.net? REALLY? Come on... See item number 2. | ||
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rysecake
United States2632 Posts
People care more about the drama and the personality than the actual sport. | ||
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MaestroSC
United States2073 Posts
Do you think he just goes around shouting to the world "O HEY IM A CHILD RAPIST! WOOOOT" jesus christ... the people in this thread are some of the most retarded people to ever grace the internet... | ||
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baranar
Sweden21 Posts
To find your fame and fortune. Through the valley you must walk, you will face your inner demons Now go, my son and rock! Who the f cares what he said really :D | ||
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SilSol
Sweden2744 Posts
On October 13 2012 11:09 Kasu wrote: I merely said that he thought Stephano was joking. That proves nothing about anything Stephano may have done, but it does prove: At least one person (BlinG, who actually knows Stephano) believed it was a joke. This negates the "I don't find it funny, therefore he must have been serious" argument. I just want to say one thing. You never know a person completely 100% and over internet/tournament meetings, chatting etc that's nothing. So you can't say or BlinG cant say he knows Stephano and that he can be sure he was joking. I do think he was joking but i just wanted to say that ;D | ||
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GreEny K
Germany7312 Posts
On October 13 2012 11:09 rysecake wrote: This is why foreign esports are a joke. People care more about the drama and the personality than the actual sport. What do you think would happen if a pro basketball or football player said this? | ||
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DoubleZee
Canada556 Posts
On October 13 2012 11:06 Angelbelow wrote: Unfortunately people (apparently the subreddit called /srs/) contacted the sponsors and forced EG to take action. Ohhh ok. It all makes sense now. A group of /r/srs trolls got together and spammed sponsors until EG had no choice but to suspend him for a month. Here I was being a dumbass, thinking there were some PC sensitive sallies out there that were legitimately affected by his words. Sucks for Stephano =/ | ||
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yeeshdontjudgeme
146 Posts
On October 13 2012 11:06 Angelbelow wrote: Unfortunately people (apparently the subreddit called /srs/) contacted the sponsors and forced EG to take action. Why am I not surprised it's reddit? It always seem to be reddit that gets people fired (Orb), forces people to retire (Milkis), and NOW gets people suspended. Sometimes I feel like reddit is just filled with egotistic losers. Some people in this community need to remember that, in the end, we're watching grown men play VIDEO GAMES for entertainment. whysoserious? | ||
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DoubleZee
Canada556 Posts
On October 13 2012 11:11 GreEny K wrote: What do you think would happen if a pro basketball or football player said this? A pro baseball player wrote "faggot" on his eye black this season. It was in spanish. He got a 3 game suspension and has to do community service. | ||
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Tgaud
France16 Posts
I think that EG is dumb as Fuck for having him punished. Its punishing fans, stephano, EG, sponsors, everyones. No one is winning in this.. Punishing someone when no one is fucking hurt ? lets see 3 different scenario : 1_ if it wasn't a joke. (less probability) If a lot of country, sexual majority is far below 14, in some country it can be even 9.. (yeah..). In france, it's not unusual to have a 14Years old girl pretending to be 15 or older, with makeup & everything. No one have been hurt, not even the girl. If he says this to his friend, it's that he's the first one shocked by the story. (maybe she gladly told him her age AFTER the fact that she slept with a famous pro gamer). It wasn't a rape anyway. just not legal age, and stephano is still young.. a young boy playing video games. Anyway remember stephano was in FRANCE for the facts. so why does USA care ? that's not illegal and that's not their problem. Or they should care before everything of country were sexual majority is 9 or 12.. and girl have sex everyday 2_ if It was a private joke for his friend and didn't know it was streaming. Well then, its just a private discussion, and private joke. You can joke of ANYTHING with your friends, its not a volunteer public declaration. Why should he be punished for that ? In france, its very common to do job like that. A good joke is often shocking, its a part of humor. The more it's shocking or suprising, the funnier it is, often. So why is he punished, we're not here to judge what make his friend laugh (and yeah he's laughing, look the stream, so YEAH its a fucking joke) ? 3_ He did knew there was a streaming (high probability) He did what ppl like him : provocation, border line, he made the show. He made a joke, and fake to pretend he didn't know for the stream in order to shock viewers. (maybe he believed that ppl in USA had some sense of humor, as long as no one has really been hurt) Think about it. The 14years old girl... the stream... doesn't you remember of Destiny ? He just made a big Fake Remake of destiny for joking. Destiny pretended to sleep with a 14years old girl on a stream, common, its OBVIOUS. Some ppl just didn't get it and took it seriously. Anyway in Europe we know that in USA there is two rules : 1_ money before everything. Sponsor get the law for the apparences. 2_ You can Sue ppl for any kind of crap. Make a lot of noise, and cuz ppl problem for just a simple word, that hurted anything, well, a lot of Bullshit. You are a girl take An elevator with a man ? Let just pretend he raped you ! you can get some free money from it. You are a stupid feminist community and heard about a pro gamer making a private joke to one of his friend ? "lets just ruin his life, he has to go to hell !" EG you are fucking stupid, and just know that in europe, we Hate you, EG, for your stupidity in this matter. Stephano is the only good thing really happening to you, and you crush him for nothing. You lost a ton of FAN in europe, and just know that (I speak for myself, but I think a lot will think the same), we will fucking boycott everyone of you sponsors, dumb as fuck, products for punishing innocent young ppl for just "telling a private joke who hurted no one". Sorry for my english its not my native language. neither do stephano. | ||
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Kasu
United Kingdom345 Posts
On October 13 2012 11:05 Fyodor wrote: 1) It didn't have the commonly understood constructs of a joke (Punch line, set-up, etc) 2) It is by Satouri who has shown bad, anti-social judgement before. (arrests, controversial remarks, etc) 3) It was allegedly meant to be private. What makes you so sure it was a joke? 1) For someone who whined about another poster "arguing semantics" earlier, you're awful picky about the definition of a joke. Maybe if we say he was trolling BlinG you will understand. 2) Just as easily applied to making a joke in poor taste, which is FAR less of a stretch than child abuse. Why must you pick the very unlikely option? Drama? 3) Yes, because of people like you and threads like this. After the consequences how can you possibly not understand why he would want it to be private? | ||
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MaestroSC
United States2073 Posts
On October 13 2012 11:09 rysecake wrote: This is why foreign esports are a joke. People care more about the drama and the personality than the actual sport. No. This has nothing to do with esports or foreign esports. Esports are a joke because people are so busy trying to make it mainstream, that noone is having any fun. So the community shrinks and shrinks til its down to the minority assholes who are telling the players to stop having personalities. Esports is a joke because people are more interested in shouting about the future and "whats good for esports" than shutting the hell up and just enjoying the scene that they chose to follow. How about instead of constantly bitching and trying to fix shit, you just enjoy it. Thats why you came here at one point, but now you have it cemented in your mind that its not enough for you to enjoy it, so you need your interests to be mainstream. | ||
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m0ck
4194 Posts
On October 13 2012 11:05 Fyodor wrote: 1) It didn't have the commonly understood constructs of a joke (Punch line, set-up, etc) 2) It is by Satouri who has shown bad, anti-social judgement before. (arrests, controversial remarks, etc) 3) It was allegedly meant to be private. What makes you so sure it was a joke? You know what you want to believe, we get it. But you know what is definitely a criminal offense? Falsely accusing someone of rape. Which is what you want to do. And which seems pretty perverted in itself.. | ||
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Chocobo
United States1108 Posts
It's fucking ridiculous that you have to censor yourself and be a corporate robot 24 hours a day if you want to be a fucking pro video game player. If he said this in an interview at a live event? That's very different. But this was a stupid in-joke between friends, it didn't mean anything, it's just a bit of silly black humor. I hate that we live in a world where the Political Correctness Police are so powerful that not even a private message on battle.net is a safe place to talk with your friends without having your job and your livelihood be put at risk. It's a damn shame. AND HE DIDN'T EVEN SAY ANYTHING OFFENSIVE. He didn't insult anyone, he didn't disparage a race of people. No one was harmed at all. Just one simple moment of Howard Stern-like shock humor between friends, and he's suspended from his job for almost a month. Fuck this whole situation. | ||
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emythrel
United Kingdom2599 Posts
On October 13 2012 11:03 babylon wrote: You are operating under the assumption that words cannot hurt people. But words have and do continue to hurt people every day. (See: every slur under the sun.) Not everyone is you, and not everyone has lived your life, and not everyone has had the luxury to develop a "thick skin." There are people out there (esp. victims of bullying) who get triggered by sights, smells, and yes, sounds, including -- would you know? -- words. That is an uncontrollable, involuntary reaction, and people have every right to confront you for that, whether it's because they themselves are triggered by it, or because they know someone else who gets triggered by it, or simply because they know it encourages bullying. Your intention essentially means nothing once the harm is done. Your argument boils down to the following: "I don't get offended if someone insults me. Therefore, nobody else should! Furthermore, my right to free speech & the inconvenience of having to choose a different word or having to say nothing at all >>> the pain and/or significant discomfort of others." If you aren't going to read a post properly, then don't argue about the content. read my post properly. There is a difference between calling someone a bitch once, which does no harm, to anyone, and repeatedly doing so. I fully recognise that words can be used to destroy a person, I am bi-polar and spent much of my childhood being bullied for "being weird" but some random person calling me names doesn't effect me for precisely that reason. You do not matter to me, your opinion doesn't matter. It only matters to me if you go out of your way to insult me, at that point your right to say and do as you please infringes on mine. I don't get offended because its simply easier than being offended, try it. Watch a comedian you find offensive and instead of gettin all worked up, just turn it off. No one should get offended by what a random person says, the vast majority of people actually don't get offended. They get offended when repeatedly subjected to insults. The reason why homophobia is such a visceral subject is because everyone has been subjected to it for so damn long. The first time someone calls you a faggot or gay, you don't even know what the words means and thus can not be offended. It is only after prolonged exposure to the word that it takes root and you instinctively, no thats the wrong word, become programmed to find it offensive. It is an offensive word, it can be used to do massive damage to people, but pretty much every gay guy I know wouldn't care less if you called them a fag, unless you did it more than once and were directing it at them. | ||
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Kasu
United Kingdom345 Posts
On October 13 2012 11:10 SilSol wrote: I just want to say one thing. You never know a person completely 100% and over internet/tournament meetings, chatting etc that's nothing. So you can't say or BlinG cant say he knows Stephano and that he can be sure he was joking. I do think he was joking but i just wanted to say that ;D No, but you can generally get a pretty good idea of their sense of humour, which is really all thats required. Also, BlinG would still know Stephano better than 100% of posters in here  | ||
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shizaep
Canada2920 Posts
On October 13 2012 11:05 yeeshdontjudgeme wrote: You know what's ironic about this situation? Most of the community, including me, would have never even heard about these comments if EG didn't take action. I had no idea it occurred but thanks to EG and the almighty internet police overreacting I know now. It's not even a big deal. IT'S A JOKE. Why can't people joke anymore? Plus, don't even act like none of you have ever joked about something taboo. We're human, it happens. Also, they're professional VIDEO GAMERS. Video games are supposed to be fun. All you internet knights need to get over yourselves and have some fun for once. Yeah, I agree with what you're saying. EG is not at fault here though. They had to take action because people complained to their sponsors. It was either make a "public apology" or risk getting a shitstorm from their sponsors and lose funding money. It's the people's (read: reddit's) fault, not EG's. | ||
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wcr.4fun
Belgium686 Posts
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nvs.
Canada3609 Posts
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emythrel
United Kingdom2599 Posts
On October 13 2012 11:10 SilSol wrote: I just want to say one thing. You never know a person completely 100% and over internet/tournament meetings, chatting etc that's nothing. So you can't say or BlinG cant say he knows Stephano and that he can be sure he was joking. I do think he was joking but i just wanted to say that ;D You never know anyone, ever 100%. Virtually every serial killer had someone in their life who had no fucking clue they were knocking off prostitutes or raping children, in fact often their family and neighbours are completely shocked to learn that the person had a bad bone in them. Playing devils advocate is usually just a pretense to say what you really think. everything you said before and after "I do think he was joking" is either bullshit or how you really feel... I don't know which, but say what you mean, don't argue for the other side. | ||
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