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United States1981 Posts
On October 13 2012 08:43 Areon wrote: What the fuck? If Stephano was trolling, I don't see how that would be funny in the first place. I can't think of how idiotically immature you'd have to be to find that funny. Bling laughed at it.
Not that I find it amusing, but still.
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EG Falling Directed by Roman Polański.
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On October 13 2012 08:40 whatevername wrote: I think teams have a disproportionate sense of the negative impacts of comments, and that a future struggle in esports will be discerning how serious teams should respond to complaints. I'm pretty plugged into the community, but I heard nothing about the Stephano "controversy" [seemingly a joke] nor the destiny "controversy" until the teams actually punished their players and publically apologized. I highly doubt anyone on reddit, a small population of the total viewership no doubt, actually gave a shit. EG and ROOT engage in behaviours - probably due to sponsor pressure - that simply arent necessary. Sponsors or teams need to wise up and interpret these complaints for what they are. Meaningless white noise. Well, i did know it, but i honestly forgot it already :') I don't really care about what progamers say to eachother. To me, public balance whine is worse.
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On October 13 2012 08:41 Popkiller wrote:Show nested quote +On October 13 2012 08:39 NeonFox wrote: Meanwhile Idra can still say people should be raped with a tire iron and call half of the NA ladder "faggots" without repercussions? Seems fair. Yes but those are adult males, not underage girls.
While there was no context to the images, I believe he was talking about beating that 14 year old GM on the ladder.
I have no proof, just what I've overheard.
If anything I think it just goes to show again how powerful the community is. Preeeeeetty scary.
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Wait so he 'joked' that he sexually harassed a kid?
Um...? What?
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Good handling by EG tbh, a bit sad we won't see him play but meh what he said was def over the line
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On October 13 2012 08:39 NeonFox wrote: Meanwhile Idra can still say people should be raped with a tire iron and call half of the NA ladder "faggots" without repercussions? Seems fair. Insulting adult males =/= joking about sex with underage girls
IdrA is still an asshole, but he does it within... context? I guess.
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On October 13 2012 08:41 Dali. wrote:Show nested quote +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 who like to make a big deal out of anything remotely controversial.
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On October 13 2012 08:31 Dali. wrote: Good resolution by EG. I mean for goodness sake he was JUST signed to the most lucrative team in this game and he's already created more drama than most players would in a career of playing. No wonder EG is cracking down.
Actually it was Reddit and their internet-crime-fighters subreddit that created all the drama. Normal people didn't actually care about what he said.
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I would not apologies for something that silly. wow. It's the internet people. If that wasn't being streamed it would all be fine. If I was Stephano I would threaten to leave EG, (wonder how they would react to that), go to Korea anyway with all his prizemoney, and maybe get picked up by another team.
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On October 13 2012 08:40 PviLLe3 wrote: so someone whos not native to english tongue gets his statements misconstrued and gets suspended for a month but idra saying he wants to rape david kim with a tire iron and calling people faggots gets laughed about, LOVE IT
damn, neon 2 posts above beat me to it**EDIT I'm pretty sure that it's the equivalent of IdrA saying that he did rape dk with a tire iron. And Stephano didn't get in trouble for calling anyone names, that's something completely different and unrelated.
I see your point, but EG made the right move IMO. You can't have someone admitting to abusing a child on your professional team and do nothing about it. Also, IdrA's flaming brings in views, money, and fans. Unlike the trick Stephano pulled
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LoL EG... You just make wierd decisions... You punish Stephano on his fullest and Idra can fucking do whatever he wants. EG is a fucking joke, sorry.
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Ok i just read what Stephano said and like what the hell? Hes joking that's for sure (i hope) and it was kinda dumb to PM that to someone else.
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On October 13 2012 08:41 setzer wrote:Show nested quote +On October 13 2012 08:39 Yemaka wrote: Wow, so many sensetive people on the internet ..
who the hell cares what he said. Obviously the organization Stephano represents cares when he makes statements of possibly performing illegal acts on a minor.
well, if people would stop being butthurt over some silly joke, EG wouldnt care either.. But because alot of people are little cry baby's and like drama, EG has to care...
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Make a bad joke: tens of thousands in money lost due to no salary and no tournament winnings. All to placate SRS, who won't be satisfied by this anyway. Yay...
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Look, I've got to be honest,.. I love children, I really do + Show Spoiler +but I could never eat a whole one.
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On October 13 2012 08:42 smOOthMayDie wrote: Starcraft needs a badass.
Gotta love Stephano even more after this :D I don't remember James Dean or Clint Eastwood playing child philanderers, but maybe my movie history is off.
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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.
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On October 13 2012 08:43 Areon wrote: What the fuck? If Stephano was trolling, I don't see how that would be funny in the first place. I can't think of how idiotically immature you'd have to be to find that funny.
I think that with a friend like bling, its funny.
Well, this is totally retarded. So much drama for a stupid joke, but a still a joke... well .
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