So dumb. What is the point of tweeting a pic of a knife on a plane? What a rebel. -_-

Just a stupid decision. I know he's young but he should act older than a 14 year old kid. (shrug)

vzSo

Switzerland33 Posts

January 10 2013 04:28 GMT

#83

in4 cnn making a video about sc2 players are "murders"

CaliPark

United States20 Posts

January 10 2013 04:32 GMT

#84

RLY STEPHANO!?>!?!

TheFear

United States55 Posts

January 10 2013 04:47 GMT

#85

SC2 doesn't need bad publicity like this. It's a shame that they go above and beyond to correlate violence in video games/movies and try to say it has an impact on the behavior in the kinds of atrocities like in the elementary school tragedy over in Newtown. Quite a stretch of the imagination to think that the correlation not only puts the blame on FPS games (or any game for that matter), but to throw SC2 under that bus also doesn't follow logically. Apparently he played some SC2 (that Newtown murderer did that is), because playing an RTS in space somehow inspires people to do stupid things. Sad stuff. Even if a correlation existed which would be a stretch, correlation isn't equal to causation. I would hope that there isn't a big enough sample size of atrocities to get a statistically significant read on this, but if there were I wouldn't be surprised if this whole kind of argument was thrown out the window.

Anyhow sorry if I side-stepped the direct issue at hand a bit, but I think these issues deserved to be mentioned as an aside in relation to this situation here with Stephano. Hopefully people don't begin to draw a negative image of SC2 and/or e-sports from overblown trivial matters like this. Professional gamers need to step up their game in defending the image of gaming, and improving their mannerism to continue to promote/grow e-sports. I think overall a job has been well done, and I am not trying to imply that Stephano failed in this regard in absolute terms. I think poor judgment was demonstrated and it was a foolish error on Stephanos' to post the picture on Twitter. I also think it is unfair to butcher him for a relatively trivial mistake in the grand scheme, but there's no need to overstate it and aim to put a negative perception/connotation to the game that he plays as well. (By overstating, I mean I think the media may have done this but I did not read the article so I cannot be sure. I just assume some of the stuff mentioned in this thread was accurate.) I am thinking people that encounter the article will not assume negatively of Stephano or SC2 overall if/when they do some of their own research on what he and e-sports in a greater sense truly entail. Hopefully the questionable situation can turn into a trigger for spreading the exposure of e-sports by making people curious to examine it (even by a flawed pretense) rather than give it a negative perception by default without further examination (I know I am a bit optimistic. heh.)

Please note: I made a few assumptions of what the article contained based on the context ITT, I didn't actually read the article since it wasn't available in English. Figured it was worth mentioning in case the tone of my post was somehow out of line, it seems to be accurate though.

LimeNade

United States2125 Posts

January 10 2013 04:49 GMT

#86

On January 10 2013 13:09 IPA wrote:
So dumb. What is the point of tweeting a pic of a knife on a plane? What a rebel. -_-

Just a stupid decision. I know he's young but he should act older than a 14 year old kid. (shrug)

lol thats not being a rebel thats just being stupid especially with the terrorism that has happened via planes in the past decade. People are mega sensitive to this kind of thing assuming that airplanes are weapons free of any kind. They won't read his tweet and say "thank god hes showing the air lines that they need to step up their security!". Most people are going to say wtf is someone bragging about having gotten a knife on the plane whether its accidental or on purpose. If its accidental keep it to yourself, no need to tell thousands of people.

tshi

United States2495 Posts

January 10 2013 04:53 GMT

#87

On January 10 2013 07:32 Fionn wrote:
Stephano is pretty much saving SC2 one hidden knife and pedophile joke at a time.

LieS! If eSpotS is going to succeed, we as an eSportS community must band together around eSports to keep eSports alive from tearing itself from within by eSportS.

ESportS

skYTosS

United States188 Posts

January 10 2013 04:54 GMT

#88

That's not a smart thing to do.

Bcuzofu

6 Posts

January 10 2013 05:01 GMT

#89

Haha this is priceless, Scandinavian newspapers are super boring..

ke_ivan

Singapore374 Posts

January 10 2013 05:15 GMT

#90

lol. it is funny though.

MichaelDonovan

United States1453 Posts

January 10 2013 05:38 GMT

#91

On January 10 2013 13:05 JuliusCaesar wrote:
Translation:
lyes Satouri is one of Europe's foremost "StarCraft" player, but also one of the most controversial. During last year's DreamHack Summer visited Satouri nightclub Silver in Jönköping where he got so drunk that he had disposed of the police . In October, the Frenchman's club, Evil Geniuses, turning from him for a month since he live joked about having sex with minors .
- I want to sincerely ask all my fans, my teammates, Evil Geniuses and their sponsors to apologize for my comments. They were insensitive, inappropriate and far across the border. The serious consequences they have for me is justified. I take full responsibility for my mistake and I will be more careful in the future, greeted Satouri.
Tweeted knife picture
The caution lasted barely three months. The other day left "Stephano" France for a spell in professional Starcraft saved South Korea. On board the plane visited Satouri toilet and took a picture of the knife he had in his hand luggage. The Frenchman posted the picture on Twitter and wrote: "I managed to fly armed with a knife. I did not even try to do it, so I can only imagine how easy it would be for a bad guy to do it. " Tweet has since been deleted, but in a subsequent post clarifies the Frenchman that his intention was never to bring a weapon on board . "I must point out that it was in my hand luggage by mistake, haha."
"No smart move"
Ilyes Satouris prank got Dreamhack CEO, Robert Ohlén, to tweet a message to "Stephano": "No smart move young Padawan, to photograph yourself with a weapon on board an aircraft and post it on Twitter " .
"It shows, Satouri replied," how innocent and harmless I am (and also what an idiot I can be sometimes). "

From http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/spela/article16044217.ab

Woah nice google skills.

LlamaNamedOsama

United States1900 Posts

January 10 2013 05:41 GMT

#92

Lol guys, looks like esports has made it big, paparazzi's now looking at esports stars as celebrities...

TAMinator

Australia2706 Posts

January 10 2013 05:50 GMT

#93

On January 10 2013 14:41 LlamaNamedOsama wrote:
Lol guys, looks like esports has made it big, paparazzi's now looking at esports stars as celebrities...

It wouldn't grab the readers attention if they didnt do that.

Stephano is becoming more Evil as the days progress

LTY

United States223 Posts

January 10 2013 05:56 GMT

#94

Any translationS?