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darkscream
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Canada2310 Posts
March 21 2014 22:39 GMT
#21
Huh, the two guys that got burned by/burned themselves out of IEM got together and did something productive.

Good on them both.
looknohands119
Profile Joined March 2010
United States815 Posts
March 21 2014 22:42 GMT
#22
On March 22 2014 07:11 Grobyc wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 22 2014 07:09 Furikawari wrote:
On March 22 2014 07:08 Grobyc wrote:
On March 22 2014 07:02 Arnstein wrote:
A racist interviewing a rage quitter. Nice combo, but I'll spend my time doing other things.

Why even bother commenting?


To let unaware people know?

Could at least elaborate. I have no idea what he's talking about other than the Naniwa IEM incident. Not very informative as is. What's with this racism? I also don't see how an interview that involves a rage quitter invalidates the interest of the interview. Not sure if it was Thorin who did the extensive retirement interview with IdrA but that was one of the best, most detailed interviews I've ever seen and enjoyed it thoroughly.


Thorin made remarks about Poland as a country and about the Polish people that much of the community thinks/thought were both racist and offensive during a recent episode of ChanmanV's show, "Unfiltered," shortly before the start of IEM Katowice (in Poland) where he was set to cast CS:GO for ESL. The offense was considered to be in particularly poor taste since Carmac, ESL's Managing Director of Progaming, is also Polish. Subsequently, ESL announced that he would not be allowed to cast the event and issued a statement condemning his remarks and his attitude.
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Darkhorse
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States23455 Posts
March 21 2014 22:44 GMT
#23
On March 22 2014 07:39 darkscream wrote:
Huh, the two guys that got burned by/burned themselves out of IEM got together and did something productive.

Good on them both.

Kinda think both of these guys burned themselves with IEM.

For those wondering what the "racist" comment about Thorin was about, http://www.esportsheaven.com/news/64245/thorin-from-unfiltered-to-unemployed. Judge the comments for yourself I guess I dunno where I stand on them.
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JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada16787 Posts
March 21 2014 22:46 GMT
#24
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grs
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Germany2339 Posts
March 21 2014 22:49 GMT
#25
Naniwa this, Naniwa that...can we finally bury the dead horse please? He is gone for good finally.
mnck
Profile Joined April 2010
Denmark1518 Posts
March 21 2014 22:55 GMT
#26
Absolutely amazing interview. Well done yet again Thoorin, you really are the best at this. Also, it sounds to me like Naniwa is just not passionate about the game at the moment but that it could change in the future, so I'm guessing if he grows bored of League he might give SC2 a shot again, and hopefully by then the game has changed. I agree with him that the game is not the game it used to be (and for me personally, not the game i used to love).
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Kergy
Profile Joined December 2010
Peru2011 Posts
March 21 2014 22:59 GMT
#27
Glad he praises our God and savior Faker.

It's sad to see him go, he sure made the scene a lot more interesting.
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nath
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1788 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-03-21 23:11:02
March 21 2014 23:10 GMT
#28
ironic. he calls out polish racism (the football comment) which I have experienced as a non-white person firsthand and is also in my humble opinion 50 years behind the rest of europe in its potency; while being racist in his other remarks. so counterproductive, if he had only said that it would have been a good comment/rebuke to polish people that they needed from a white guy. but yeah the other comments were not a good idea. pretty sure no one will think on this since he is so easily shat on with how he talked in general.
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Nekronaut
Profile Joined October 2013
Germany6 Posts
March 21 2014 23:12 GMT
#29
On March 22 2014 07:18 MaTRiX[SiN] wrote:
I am a bit confused by this interview. At first he says he did inhouse practice with the other startale members and that squirtle would look at his replays and help him out. Then later he says he only practiced on the ladder and he played 10~ custom games in a year with korean players and nobody gave him any help?

just listen to it again.

in the startale house he did have help, and in the other team house (he states he has been to more than just one) he didnt have any help
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SmoKim
Profile Joined March 2010
Denmark10305 Posts
March 21 2014 23:12 GMT
#30
On March 22 2014 07:44 Darkhorse wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 22 2014 07:39 darkscream wrote:
Huh, the two guys that got burned by/burned themselves out of IEM got together and did something productive.

Good on them both.

Kinda think both of these guys burned themselves with IEM.

For those wondering what the "racist" comment about Thorin was about, http://www.esportsheaven.com/news/64245/thorin-from-unfiltered-to-unemployed. Judge the comments for yourself I guess I dunno where I stand on them.


wow, that's some fucked up shit right there

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Flamehaze
Profile Joined May 2008
Poland67 Posts
March 21 2014 23:12 GMT
#31
Well evrything is fine, whn blizz will fix OP Terran and Zerg and buff so weak Toss he will come back train for 2 weeks and own evry1 for easy money.
ZAiNs
Profile Joined July 2010
United Kingdom6525 Posts
March 21 2014 23:13 GMT
#32
On March 22 2014 08:12 Flamehaze wrote:
Well evrything is fine, whn blizz will fix OP Terran and Zerg and buff so weak Toss he will come back train for 2 weeks and own evry1 for easy money.

Naniwa's 'retirement' has nothing to do with balance at all.
roronoe
Profile Joined May 2009
Canada1527 Posts
March 21 2014 23:20 GMT
#33
Enjoyed the interview, thanks.
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Flamehaze
Profile Joined May 2008
Poland67 Posts
March 21 2014 23:23 GMT
#34
On March 22 2014 08:13 ZAiNs wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 22 2014 08:12 Flamehaze wrote:
Well evrything is fine, whn blizz will fix OP Terran and Zerg and buff so weak Toss he will come back train for 2 weeks and own evry1 for easy money.

Naniwa's 'retirement' has nothing to do with balance at all.

http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/1dkcp6/naniwa_after_losing_02_to_tlo_fuck_so_imba/
Cant find link where he complains bout T being OP against P and that was before MSC nerf.
tshi
Profile Joined September 2012
United States2495 Posts
March 21 2014 23:28 GMT
#35
On March 22 2014 08:13 ZAiNs wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 22 2014 08:12 Flamehaze wrote:
Well evrything is fine, whn blizz will fix OP Terran and Zerg and buff so weak Toss he will come back train for 2 weeks and own evry1 for easy money.

Naniwa's 'retirement' has nothing to do with balance at all.

Its more about game-design isn't it?
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MaTRiX[SiN]
Profile Joined September 2003
Sweden1282 Posts
March 21 2014 23:31 GMT
#36
On March 22 2014 08:12 Nekronaut wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 22 2014 07:18 MaTRiX[SiN] wrote:
I am a bit confused by this interview. At first he says he did inhouse practice with the other startale members and that squirtle would look at his replays and help him out. Then later he says he only practiced on the ladder and he played 10~ custom games in a year with korean players and nobody gave him any help?

just listen to it again.

in the startale house he did have help, and in the other team house (he states he has been to more than just one) he didnt have any help

Listened to it again, he said that he and sase played 10 custom games with the startale members in 1 year but he also said "considering the amount of practice we did in the later stages", so it sounds like something happened that made them not want to help him anymore? Was it after he made it into the code s that they didnt want to help him practice?
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ZAiNs
Profile Joined July 2010
United Kingdom6525 Posts
March 21 2014 23:31 GMT
#37
On March 22 2014 08:23 Flamehaze wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 22 2014 08:13 ZAiNs wrote:
On March 22 2014 08:12 Flamehaze wrote:
Well evrything is fine, whn blizz will fix OP Terran and Zerg and buff so weak Toss he will come back train for 2 weeks and own evry1 for easy money.

Naniwa's 'retirement' has nothing to do with balance at all.

http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/1dkcp6/naniwa_after_losing_02_to_tlo_fuck_so_imba/
Cant find link where he complains bout T being OP against P and that was before MSC nerf.

He always says like that just after losing games. You clearly haven't watched the interview in the OP.
Deleted User 207082
Profile Joined August 2011
18 Posts
March 21 2014 23:32 GMT
#38
On March 22 2014 08:23 Flamehaze wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 22 2014 08:13 ZAiNs wrote:
On March 22 2014 08:12 Flamehaze wrote:
Well evrything is fine, whn blizz will fix OP Terran and Zerg and buff so weak Toss he will come back train for 2 weeks and own evry1 for easy money.

Naniwa's 'retirement' has nothing to do with balance at all.

http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/1dkcp6/naniwa_after_losing_02_to_tlo_fuck_so_imba/
Cant find link where he complains bout T being OP against P and that was before MSC nerf.

...And that picture is from 10 months ago so...? Naniwa has always whined about swarmhost and by now everyone should already know about this, but was it because of the balance reasons? Not in my opinion. Rather it was because how the unit is designed.
paddyz
Profile Joined May 2011
Ireland628 Posts
March 21 2014 23:38 GMT
#39
The player doesn't work for me
Flamehaze
Profile Joined May 2008
Poland67 Posts
March 21 2014 23:40 GMT
#40
Oki i rest my case your right it was couse of game design, but np he still can go back in few months train for 2 weeks and be best.
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