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StarStruck
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
25339 Posts
October 12 2012 23:51 GMT
#161
What the hell?
Chloroplaste
Profile Joined February 2011
France281 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-12 23:51:44
October 12 2012 23:51 GMT
#162
I don't understand how this joke can be related to a suspension. Stupid community...
bgx
Profile Joined August 2010
Poland6595 Posts
October 12 2012 23:51 GMT
#163
On October 13 2012 08:45 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
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On October 13 2012 08:37 rd wrote:
On October 13 2012 08:35 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
On October 13 2012 08:34 shid0x wrote:
That's kind of bullshit to me.

When you hire a player like stephano you know he WILL do stuff like that,stephano is a real buzzmaker and he enjoys it.
Millenium had to face those kind of situations and even worse a lot and they didn't go apeshit for it.
Seriously EG i'm dissapointed.


You're disappointed in EG that they hired a self-proclaimed rapist? I don't think EG was aware of that when they hired him. And I reeeeeally hope that Stephano was just trolling.


Until we get further information that clarifies he actually sexually assaulted anyone, the assumption is that he was trolling. And the punishment is over-the-top bullshit.


I agree we can assume (hope) that, but this is the worst attempt at a "joke" ever on his part. What an immensely immature thing to say.

But you do realize this is Stephano- someone who's known for not only saying ridiculous things, but doing them too? It's not exactly the most absurd assumption in the world to think he was running his mouth off in a private conversation that he thought wasn't going to be streamed to the public, and then he backtracked and said it was only a joke (although I sincerely hope he was just trying to be funny, rather than him actually raping a little girl).

Now you have to put faith in your team that they are actually not defending rapist.
Stork[gm]
Freezd
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
United States139 Posts
October 12 2012 23:51 GMT
#164
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.



Jokes are usually followed up with a "haha just kiddin" or "I'm just playin man lol."

Not a "Fuck, I hope you didn't show that to everyone on the stream"

"I can't help it if I seem homophobic when the only gay people I know have pink highlights, wear hundreds of colorful bracelets and live at the local arcade playing DDR." - Youngminii
Fusilero
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United Kingdom50293 Posts
October 12 2012 23:51 GMT
#165
On October 13 2012 08:49 FrogOfWar wrote:
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On October 13 2012 08:37 Glurkenspurk wrote:
It's only a matter of time until SC2 is just boring robots playing each other.


This is why fighting games are wayy more fun to watch than sc2.


Fighting games are more fun to watch because players freely joke about abusing children??

Well, to each his own ... I guess.

The fighting game community are assholes, they have literally zero shame about it even when they're being called out by other communities (Iirc that happened during some Capcom sponsored tournament) some people like that others don't it's personal preference whether you want to free wheeling no restraint fighting games or the professionalism of SC2.
Glorious SEA doto
jdseemoreglass
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States3773 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-12 23:53:33
October 12 2012 23:52 GMT
#166
On October 13 2012 08:50 Clarity_nl wrote:
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On October 13 2012 08:47 SpiZe wrote:
On October 13 2012 08:45 tyner wrote:
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.


I know plenty of people who make jokes about having sex with people's sisters (that are around 13-14). It's funny stuff to say to some close friends and what not, a bit weird when you're on the internet and are a sponsored player.


No, it's not "a bit weird"
You know plenty of people that joke about having sex with people's under-aged sisters?
If I had a sister that was 14 and my best friend made a joke about raping her I'd punch him in the face and never talk to him again.

Sounds like you have some serious issues dude. Relax a little.

On October 13 2012 08:51 Freezd wrote:
Show nested quote +
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.



Jokes are usually followed up with a "haha just kiddin" or "I'm just playin man lol."

Not a "Fuck, I hope you didn't show that to everyone on the stream"


And sounds like you have a bad sense of humor.
"If you want this forum to be full of half-baked philosophy discussions between pompous faggots like yourself forever, stay the course captain vanilla" - FakeSteve[TPR], 2006
Noobity
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States871 Posts
October 12 2012 23:52 GMT
#167
I would like to point out, as a side bar, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aristocrats_(film) . People joke about far worse as a "handshake".

Don't get me wrong, Stephano doesn't have a leg to stand on here, but those of you pulling the "How sick are you?" card have really got to take their head out of the hole they've got it stuck in and realize that you can joke about a lot of sad and unfortunate things and not be a monster.
My name is Mike, and statistically, yours is not.
vijeze
Profile Joined February 2011
Netherlands719 Posts
October 12 2012 23:52 GMT
#168
I am appauled by this. It was merely a joke between two friend that happened to bestreamed. But EG is setting a standard right here.
vinsang1000
Profile Joined January 2012
Belgium365 Posts
October 12 2012 23:52 GMT
#169
crazy americans.

Do not comment, only european can understand.
rd
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States2586 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-12 23:54:35
October 12 2012 23:52 GMT
#170
On October 13 2012 08:45 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
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On October 13 2012 08:37 rd wrote:
On October 13 2012 08:35 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
On October 13 2012 08:34 shid0x wrote:
That's kind of bullshit to me.

When you hire a player like stephano you know he WILL do stuff like that,stephano is a real buzzmaker and he enjoys it.
Millenium had to face those kind of situations and even worse a lot and they didn't go apeshit for it.
Seriously EG i'm dissapointed.


You're disappointed in EG that they hired a self-proclaimed rapist? I don't think EG was aware of that when they hired him. And I reeeeeally hope that Stephano was just trolling.


Until we get further information that clarifies he actually sexually assaulted anyone, the assumption is that he was trolling. And the punishment is over-the-top bullshit.


I agree we can assume (hope) that, but this is the worst attempt at a "joke" ever on his part. What an immensely immature thing to say.

But you do realize this is Stephano- someone who's known for not only saying ridiculous things, but doing them too? It's not exactly the most absurd assumption in the world to think he was running his mouth off in a private conversation that he thought wasn't going to be streamed to the public, and then he backtracked and said it was only a joke (although I sincerely hope he was just trying to be funny, rather than him actually raping a little girl).


Who knows what kind of fucked up sense of humor he has between himself and Bling? It wasn't even intended to be seen on stream anyways. Even if it's Stephano, I really doubt he's going to rape a 14 year old. How often does he elude to committing felony crimes punishable upwards of 10?

If his humor is really that off-putting then rational people can think for themselves and declare they don't like nor want to support Stephano. Then they stop watching his stream and his games. That's it. I'm assuming they got their sponsors e-mailed when the comments were first made but I could be entirely wrong, which is why I'm not totally enraged just yet.
Sabu113
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States11053 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-12 23:55:01
October 12 2012 23:52 GMT
#171
On October 13 2012 08:47 JudicatorHammurabi wrote:
Obviously he didn't have anything to do with a 14 year-old, because he would be criminally charged.

He was joking, but they hell would you joke about something like that? That's plain fucked up.


I guess you don't like black humor.

-.- People are so thin-skinned and enjoy getting offended by anything. The joke wasn't an endorsement of paedophilia or anything of the sort. It was a "terrible" inside joke between friends.

Whatever. In a few months we'll see another angry post about how day9 and husky are so corporate and how we never see people's "real" feelings on things.

This thread should have been about shutting down SRS.

edit:
On October 13 2012 08:51 Freezd wrote:
Show nested quote +
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.



Jokes are usually followed up with a "haha just kiddin" or "I'm just playin man lol."

Not a "Fuck, I hope you didn't show that to everyone on the stream"



The response is precisely because of people like you. Same reason why you rarely see honest discussions about race or sex. Anything not perfectly PC will trigger some primal response.
Biomine is a drunken chick who is on industrial strength amphetamines and would just grab your dick and jerk it as hard and violently as she could while screaming 'OMG FUCK ME', because she saw it in a Sasha Grey video ...-Wombat_Ni
Medrea
Profile Joined May 2011
10003 Posts
October 12 2012 23:52 GMT
#172
On October 13 2012 08:50 turdburgler wrote:
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On October 13 2012 08:48 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
On October 13 2012 08:38 MicroTastiC wrote:
and a lot of people negatively responded to his jokes; but HE already ISSUED an apology.

http://i.imgur.com/kVVnY.png

some people cant take a fjucking joke?


I'm going to assume that you know exactly zero people who have ever been raped.


im going to assume you've never ever laughed at a comedian


You can debatably joke about rape, you can joke about children. You can't joke about raping children.

If it was even a joke, which is not really believable, given the words that were said and the context they were put in.

Honestly, this isn't the last we will hear about this.
twitch.tv/medrea
SilSol
Profile Joined April 2012
Sweden2744 Posts
October 12 2012 23:52 GMT
#173
On October 13 2012 08:49 Robotix wrote:
This community makes me sad sometimes.


You think it's ok for a public figure going around saying stuff like that? People just care about Stephano and get's let down when they see something like that occur in someones stream.

Like i don't think you see any type of celebrity going out saying that stuff without getting punished somehow for their behavior. People that are celebrities really needs to understand what it means to be well known sometimes. That stuff like this just bites you in the ass.

I can understand that players doesn't want stuff to come out in public and I'm not a fanboy of any players out there. For me they are just a player like myself but i can understand them sometimes but if you get caught doing this it's ur own fault.
http://fragbite.se/user/117868/silsol since 2006 http://www.reddit.com/u/silsol77
Grumbels
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Netherlands7031 Posts
October 12 2012 23:53 GMT
#174
This annoys me actually, I just can't believe that people took this so far out of proportion. These things are the reason why sports suck, pro players have to be so careful they might as well show no personality. It used to be the case that even the higher profile players could just post on the forums and be themselves, and while I won't defend the typical immature attitude that comes with it, now that's almost no longer the case: instead they are the stars and they have to be managed while we cheer for them and are far removed from them. I had hoped that we wouldn't go down this path when e-sports became bigger, that we would keep the kind of atmosphere where Stephano can say a dumb private joke without almost being run out of the community because of 'hurting e-sports'.
Well, now I tell you, I never seen good come o' goodness yet. Him as strikes first is my fancy; dead men don't bite; them's my views--amen, so be it.
Fishriot
Profile Joined May 2010
United States621 Posts
October 12 2012 23:53 GMT
#175
I'm impressed that EG did this to their star player.
Csong
Profile Joined March 2012
Canada396 Posts
October 12 2012 23:53 GMT
#176
wait what.....?
Herry
Profile Joined March 2011
England681 Posts
October 12 2012 23:54 GMT
#177
Even if it was a "joke"...it wasnt even funny. Honestly why the hell would you even say that without thinking about who might be watching or listening. He has to take his role in the community seriously, hence the suspension. just wow.
Dali.
Profile Joined June 2010
New Zealand689 Posts
October 12 2012 23:54 GMT
#178
On October 13 2012 08:43 rd wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 13 2012 08:41 Dali. wrote:
On October 13 2012 08:34 shid0x wrote:
That's kind of bullshit to me.

When you hire a player like stephano you know he WILL do stuff like that,stephano is a real buzzmaker and he enjoys it.
Millenium had to face those kind of situation and even worse a lot and they didn't go apeshit for it.
Seriously EG i'm dissapointed.


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.


That's utter bullshit. He is one of the highest salaried players in all of esports because tech companies are willing to throw money at an organisation that will provide exposure to their brands. EG.Stephano.RC is a manifestation of their investment. He choose to join EG for the nearly unparalleled opportunities they can provide. But with that comes the responsibility to not pull stupid shit like this. He is in a position to be constantly scrutinized. He can ether retreat from the public eye as much as possible and let his games be his promotion or he can act clean enough to keep the pay train chugging. His choice.
Clarity_nl
Profile Joined November 2011
Netherlands6826 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-12 23:54:47
October 12 2012 23:54 GMT
#179
On October 13 2012 08:52 jdseemoreglass wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 13 2012 08:50 Clarity_nl wrote:
On October 13 2012 08:47 SpiZe wrote:
On October 13 2012 08:45 tyner wrote:
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.


I know plenty of people who make jokes about having sex with people's sisters (that are around 13-14). It's funny stuff to say to some close friends and what not, a bit weird when you're on the internet and are a sponsored player.


No, it's not "a bit weird"
You know plenty of people that joke about having sex with people's under-aged sisters?
If I had a sister that was 14 and my best friend made a joke about raping her I'd punch him in the face and never talk to him again.

Sounds like you have some serious issues dude. Relax a little.


I can understand black humor. If people make dead baby jokes I'm not appalled. The humor is in it being absurd.
But when you specifically talk about a living person you know, and talk about raping said person, it's not funny, it's just fucked up.
FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT AGAINST STUPIDITY CLARITY, I BELIEVE IN YOU! - Palmar
Fusilero
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United Kingdom50293 Posts
October 12 2012 23:54 GMT
#180
On October 13 2012 08:51 Chloroplaste wrote:
I don't understand how this joke can be related to a suspension. Stupid community...

It's rarely the community itself that does this stuff, it's often SRS who aren't really into SC2 but believe they're saving the world or some shit by emailing the sponsors and trying to get anyone who makes comments like the ones Stephano made fired.
Glorious SEA doto
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