EPTThe New Yorker profiles Scarlett - Page 6
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Kofuku
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Superbanana
2369 Posts
Yet another material to feed my Scarlett fanboysm, it tells much more about her that a couple of questions and answers.  But on a more serious note, Kas ruined the fajitas timing T_T | ||
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spoonmaster
United States347 Posts
Our world is a hard one to grasp at first, but I think those piece does a good job at taking the noise and clutter and streamlining it down to the essence of the passion behind the fans at the end highlight that at the end of the day we just love playing and watching the game. Scarlett did great things for the StarCraft community, and her acceptance as a top player has really molded SC2 as the pioneer of acceptance in the gaming world, especially as the article mentions in contrast to fighting games. As someone with close friends in the FGC world it's somewhat shocking to hear the offensive things come out of their mouths that are socially acceptable. Sad to see that almost proud mentality to hold a sexist view by stating that removing the offensiveness boils their fanbase to "simply StarCraft". Either way,I've always been a big fan of Scarlett, and I think this post is a great share amongst those who don't understand esports or StarCraft. Love it. | ||
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Ashakyre
United States99 Posts
Yes and no. As I recall, in the early days of Scarlett gaining noteriety whenever there was a thread about her the topic of her sexual identity became the focus for a large percentage of the commentators. Eventually the TL mods wisely grew tired of every Scarlett thread being an ongoing sexual identity debate thread and banned people for discussing Scarlett's sexual identification, while allowing a seperate thread to debate / educate people on the various topics pertaining to sexual identity, the same way that Left/Right politics are generally condoned off to a seperate area, a classically liberal "agree to disagree" approach. Slurs about transgenderism were banned outright but as I recall sincere inquiery and sketicism were allowed. I read those threads the related links and learned a lot about the issue. So, generally, I feel that here on TL the "people who had the power" took the conversation in a constructive direction without stifling free inquery. So, while one can be upset that people were making disparaging remarks about transgenderism in the first place, hateful slurs were banned, and the prevailing attitute was acceptance. If your standard for judging a community is that intolerance never happans, your goal is not tolerance, but social control. The question is whether intolerance is spoken out against. Is there a sizable chunk of people that recognize a behavior as wrong? Yes? Then the overall community isn't reflective of that behavior. So you have to ask what double standards are never recognized as unfair? We'll, 100 internet point to the first person who mentions an obvious double legal standard mentioned in the New Yorker article that no one so far on this thread has identified as morally wrong. Any takers? | ||
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c0ldfusion
United States8293 Posts
Holy crap, Scarlett is a prodigy. Truly deserving of carrying the banner as the foreign hope. | ||
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Stijn
Netherlands363 Posts
On November 18 2014 02:39 Ashakyre wrote: We'll, 100 internet point to the first person who mentions an obvious double legal standard mentioned in the New Yorker article that no one so far on this thread has identified as morally wrong. Any takers? If you think it's worth discussing, why don't you just say it? | ||
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SetGuitarsToKill
Canada28396 Posts
On November 18 2014 02:46 c0ldfusion wrote: I just read this article. Holy crap, Scarlett is a prodigy. Truly deserving of carrying the banner as the foreign hope. No kidding. I kind of knew she was pretty exceptional since she made GM and won stuff in less than a year of starting the game, but it seems like that carries over to a lot of other things. Pretty interesting, wish I was that smart and talented. | ||
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c0ldfusion
United States8293 Posts
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OtherWorld
France17333 Posts
On November 18 2014 02:50 c0ldfusion wrote: This is a solid piece of journalism. If you haven't, you guys should read the whole article. It's worth the time. Yep, this is top level journalism. I would totally buy a book written by this guy telling stories of different progamers in the style of what he did with Scarlett here. | ||
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PhoenixVoid
Canada32746 Posts
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Carnac
Germany / USA16648 Posts
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Holdenintherye
Canada1441 Posts
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SetGuitarsToKill
Canada28396 Posts
On November 18 2014 02:59 Holdenintherye wrote: Most surprised to read that she practices so little o.O Practices so little now, I'm sure she didn't get good that way. Watching games and thinking about it is almost as useful as regular practice if you know what you're doing. | ||
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DinoMight
United States3725 Posts
On November 18 2014 03:02 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: Practices so little now, I'm sure she didn't get good that way. Watching games and thinking about it is almost as useful as regular practice if you know what you're doing. Yeah you need to be actually good before you can just watch. I can watch PartinG all day long but I'm still garbage at PvT :/ | ||
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MassHysteria
United States3678 Posts
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THELEHGOTERRAN
United States1837 Posts
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HEADD
Czech Republic611 Posts
On November 18 2014 03:02 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: Practices so little now, I'm sure she didn't get good that way. Watching games and thinking about it is almost as useful as regular practice if you know what you're doing. But didnt PRO need practice micro and macro?if they practice like 8hours micro/macro they will have better splits with marines or better blink micro like parting or better anti-mine micro as zerg. And thats why they winning big turnamets.You cant get better micro/macro only by watching vods i think. Is this true or not? | ||
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c0ldfusion
United States8293 Posts
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SetGuitarsToKill
Canada28396 Posts
On November 18 2014 03:27 HEADD wrote: But didnt PRO need practice micro and macro?if they practice like 8hours micro/macro they will have better splits with marines or better blink micro like parting or better anti-mine micro as zerg. And thats why they winning big turnamets.You cant get better micro/macro only by watching vods i think. Is this true or not? Well, Scarlett doesn't really win tournaments so there is truth to that I'd assume. Still, it's better to be somewhat successful and not blow out your wrists than to win a few things and then ruin your body (RIP Mvp), it seems like that's what she thinks. | ||
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HEADD
Czech Republic611 Posts
On November 18 2014 03:32 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: Well, Scarlett doesn't really win tournaments so there is truth to that I'd assume. Still, it's better to be somewhat successful and not blow out your wrists than to win a few things and then ruin your body (RIP Mvp), it seems like that's what she thinks. Well it will be interesting know how much other players like snute/bunny practice or Teaja he also have wrist injury and he winning turnamets:D Btw scarlett wins like 4 major turnamets but still waiting for premier And ofc is better practice 4 hours and still been on scarlett level(one of best foreigners, beating top koreans) than practice 10hours and ruin wrist in 1 month and then retire.. | ||
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