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Antylamon
United States1981 Posts
On October 13 2012 08:43 Areon wrote: What the fuck? If Stephano was trolling, I don't see how that would be funny in the first place. I can't think of how idiotically immature you'd have to be to find that funny. Bling laughed at it.  Not that I find it amusing, but still. | ||
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bgx
Poland6595 Posts
Directed by Roman Polański. | ||
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Yorbon
Netherlands4272 Posts
On October 13 2012 08:40 whatevername wrote: Well, i did know it, but i honestly forgot it already :') I think teams have a disproportionate sense of the negative impacts of comments, and that a future struggle in esports will be discerning how serious teams should respond to complaints. I'm pretty plugged into the community, but I heard nothing about the Stephano "controversy" [seemingly a joke] nor the destiny "controversy" until the teams actually punished their players and publically apologized. I highly doubt anyone on reddit, a small population of the total viewership no doubt, actually gave a shit. EG and ROOT engage in behaviours - probably due to sponsor pressure - that simply arent necessary. Sponsors or teams need to wise up and interpret these complaints for what they are. Meaningless white noise. I don't really care about what progamers say to eachother. To me, public balance whine is worse. | ||
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Noobity
United States871 Posts
On October 13 2012 08:41 Popkiller wrote: Yes but those are adult males, not underage girls. While there was no context to the images, I believe he was talking about beating that 14 year old GM on the ladder. I have no proof, just what I've overheard. If anything I think it just goes to show again how powerful the community is. Preeeeeetty scary. | ||
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MCXD
Australia2738 Posts
Um...? What? | ||
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neurosx
Luxembourg1096 Posts
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Flonomenalz
Nigeria3519 Posts
On October 13 2012 08:39 NeonFox wrote: Meanwhile Idra can still say people should be raped with a tire iron and call half of the NA ladder "faggots" without repercussions? Seems fair. Insulting adult males =/= joking about sex with underage girls IdrA is still an asshole, but he does it within... context? I guess. | ||
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rd
United States2586 Posts
On October 13 2012 08:41 Dali. wrote: EG (read as: sponsors) are paying him out the ass to perform on a world stage in front of tens of thousands. Shenanigans will only be tolerated so far. No one with good sense can imagine a situation where making a joke which can easily be interpreted as a confession of raping an underaged girl in a public setting while representing your employer will be brushed off. With income comes responsibility. If he doesn't act responsibly, he shouldn't be rewarded with income. Bravo EG. Him casually trolling on a convo that happened to be streamed has nothing to do with his ability to perform on world stage, or even represent his sponsors. It just incites the worst of our community who like to make a big deal out of anything remotely controversial. | ||
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Blackmill_
2 Posts
On October 13 2012 08:31 Dali. wrote: Good resolution by EG. I mean for goodness sake he was JUST signed to the most lucrative team in this game and he's already created more drama than most players would in a career of playing. No wonder EG is cracking down. Actually it was Reddit and their internet-crime-fighters subreddit that created all the drama. Normal people didn't actually care about what he said. | ||
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ViktorY
Sweden1 Post
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Mavvie
Canada923 Posts
On October 13 2012 08:40 PviLLe3 wrote: so someone whos not native to english tongue gets his statements misconstrued and gets suspended for a month but idra saying he wants to rape david kim with a tire iron and calling people faggots gets laughed about, LOVE IT damn, neon 2 posts above beat me to it**EDIT I'm pretty sure that it's the equivalent of IdrA saying that he did rape dk with a tire iron. And Stephano didn't get in trouble for calling anyone names, that's something completely different and unrelated. I see your point, but EG made the right move IMO. You can't have someone admitting to abusing a child on your professional team and do nothing about it. Also, IdrA's flaming brings in views, money, and fans. Unlike the trick Stephano pulled | ||
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eshA
Switzerland46 Posts
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SilSol
Sweden2744 Posts
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McDutch
Netherlands184 Posts
On October 13 2012 08:41 setzer wrote: Obviously the organization Stephano represents cares when he makes statements of possibly performing illegal acts on a minor. well, if people would stop being butthurt over some silly joke, EG wouldnt care either.. But because alot of people are little cry baby's and like drama, EG has to care... | ||
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Grumbels
Netherlands7031 Posts
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JazzJackrabbit
Canada1272 Posts
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Cabinet Sanchez
Australia1097 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + but I could never eat a whole one. | ||
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farvacola
United States18825 Posts
On October 13 2012 08:42 smOOthMayDie wrote: Starcraft needs a badass. Gotta love Stephano even more after this :D I don't remember James Dean or Clint Eastwood playing child philanderers, but maybe my movie history is off. | ||
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tyner
176 Posts
On October 13 2012 08:40 Flonomenalz wrote: Ah, I see. Well, that's just unfortunate. People say silly shit like this jokingly all the time, but sadly for Stephano, he said it to someone that was streaming and got caught. Yes, child molestation and the like isn't a joking matter, but we can't white knight and pretend like we've never joked about taboo subjects. Well, he's going to Korea anyway. I don't know who you hang out with, but people don't "joke" about having sex with 14 year olds. | ||
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Insoleet
France1806 Posts
On October 13 2012 08:43 Areon wrote: What the fuck? If Stephano was trolling, I don't see how that would be funny in the first place. I can't think of how idiotically immature you'd have to be to find that funny. I think that with a friend like bling, its funny. Well, this is totally retarded. So much drama for a stupid joke, but a still a joke... well . | ||
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