Richard Lewis on root gaming house. - Page 8

On May 02 2013 08:47 RebelSlayer wrote:
I thought it was about the basketball player Richard Lewis who used to be on the sonics.

On May 02 2013 05:24 -_- wrote:
The comparison of streamers to "camwhores" was frighteningly apt.

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I mostly agree with Richard Lewis. Everyone who donated to Root, donated to an organization who tried to create a teamhouse before and failed. They donated to an organization which is a revolving door for players; they stop by so they're not "teamless," then leave when any other team offers them *anything.* They donated to an organization which closed up shop so that Catz and Drewbie could play on Col.

Essentially, they donated in the hopes of growing ESPORTS and ROOT when there is every indication that Catz will fail. For Pete's sake! Their new sponsor makes gamer business cards! The owners of Gunnar glasses are probably saying "damn that's useless..."

So I agree with RL. But some part of me is still hoping Catz can pull it off. A year or so ago Desrow went to Korea. There was talk of him becoming a top foreigner, making it to the GSL, you know, crazy pipe dreams. I knew who wouldn't make it. He wasn't a hard worker who ground 50 games a day. He didn't have any hand speed. Just didn't have any of the tools. But I wished him GLHF and truly hoped he'd make it. Same for Root.

GlHf

On May 02 2013 06:42 TheSir wrote:


Cause?
People should do what ever they want with their money but Richard Lewis has a pretty good point here. I thought the fundraiser was pretty big joke, i mean a fundraiser to buy beds and house furniture etc? Now, thats a new low, just get a few hundred bucks and go to a freaking thrift store. They are all pro gamers, they should have a couple hundred dollars to buy that, otherwise please for the love of god, go do something else. Or do they need some fancy cow leather chairs or something? What im saying is, basically your gonna have to justify every purchase with a fundraiser like this.

Dont get me wrong, i like Catz and many of the ROOT players but if they cant sustain and improve their life with playing games then why should i as a consumer help? Their not even selling a product or offer anything.... All they did with the fundraiser was asking to people to help them and then, well lets hope we can do this cause otherwise we will gonna need another fundraiser. I couldn't find any information about how sustainable the plan would be, which i understand cause they probably dont know.

On May 02 2013 08:51 Richard_Lewis wrote:

Those saying I could have explored further are absolutely right. There are numerous other examples. I could have added another 1000 words on to it and then endured TL:DR posts because that would have pushed it over 3000 words but in the end the opinion that is central to the piece is ultimately more important than the specific examples.

Thanks to everyone for reading and as I said my column is a specific type of writing. I've done plenty of other factual pieces of writing that have required investigating, research and all the other stuff you're saying is lacking from this piece. That type of writing isn't really what a column is about and I hope people can understand that distinction.

On May 02 2013 08:51 Richard_Lewis wrote:
Only just saw this here,

Won't get into the ins and outs of discussing the points in the article. It's all fairly self-explanatory. You either agree or disagree. There's arguments on both sides.

People criticising the style of the article... The "Gonzorreah" column is the longest running column in e-sports. It's about six years old has been coming out weekly / bi-weekly in all that time. It has a specific tone that I know many in the SC2 community won't be used to but that tone is about being aggressive in its language and going after perceived wrongs within e-sports. It's been that way from the very first time it was published and I won't be changing it.

Is it representative of all my work? Absolutely not. People latch on to these types of pieces for a reason and the amount of people here who feel compelled to condemn it, seemingly without reading it, because it's "bad mannered" or "a vendetta against ROOT"... I can't manufacture them running a fund raiser to rent a gaming house, something a lot of people in the industry find distasteful. I imagine people would all be lauding the article if it was EG that had set up such a scheme.

Regardless, I believe good journalism is that which provokes debate and opinions. If people are having a discussion like this thread, I'll take the pitchforks that come with it because that#s what these articles are designed to do. It's not about page views, or hits. I tweet it out to people who follow me and encourage them to spread it if they think it has a point. The discussion is far more important within an e-sports context - I get paid the same if tens of thousands see it or dozens do.

Those saying I could have explored further are absolutely right. There are numerous other examples. I could have added another 1000 words on to it and then endured TL:DR posts because that would have pushed it over 3000 words but in the end the opinion that is central to the piece is ultimately more important than the specific examples.

Thanks to everyone for reading and as I said my column is a specific type of writing. I've done plenty of other factual pieces of writing that have required investigating, research and all the other stuff you're saying is lacking from this piece. That type of writing isn't really what a column is about and I hope people can understand that distinction.

On May 02 2013 09:02 Defacer wrote:


The topic is worth investigating and getting in-depth about. You should do a more serious feature article. Demoting it to a blog that you admit is designed to be more inflammatory/provocative than meaningful is kind of a waste.

On May 02 2013 09:03 MaestroSC wrote:



saying "I come off as an asshole, because I always come off as an asshole, when I write these columns" wont make anyone who is unhappy about the tone it was written in go
"Oh so he is always an asshole, and its on purpose.... nvm then I love it"

but I understand that you want to clarify, that these columns are always written from the perspective of an asshole, but the rest of your work usually is not from that same perspective.

TLDR:
I'm allowed to write articles/pieces in this column, from the perspective of an asshole, because its the longest running column in esports. Its been going on for 6 years now. But please do not let this lead you to the fact, that all of my pieces are written in this perspective.

On May 02 2013 09:08 Richard_Lewis wrote:


I guess I should be thankful at least I'm clarifying the tone of a column and not actually what a column is as I often have to do within the Counter-Strike community.

The last relevant factual piece I wrote was about mTw shutting down. I broke that story.- http://www.cadred.org/News/Article/191506/

Hopefully people can see the differences in tone between the two. Same guy writing it, just different articles designed to achieve different things.

On May 02 2013 09:27 MaestroSC wrote:


I get it. I write shit as an asshole all the time. =) sometimes it just makes u feel better.

On May 02 2013 09:32 Joedaddy wrote:


Wax I love you, but have you ever missed an opportunity to defend biscut? I can't remember a negative post about TB where your name didn't show up to defense the guy.

I don't understand why this guy has such a problem with ROOT asking for donations. People like to support things they care about, and that's ok.