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Wow, I have to say I've never been more sickened by anything on this site then some of the comments and attitudes displayed in this thread.
I guess some people just get to live in a perfect little bubble where life doesn't have struggles and your mentality never gets broken by things out of your own control. It's so easy to pass judgement when your not the one who has to fight for every inch in life. It's just a disgusting combination of naivety, ignorance and arrogance.
Maybe one day you will wake up to the reality that everything you've had and loved is out of your grasp. Your friends, your family, all of your possessions. When your future hangs in the balance. When everything that could possibly go wrong hits you all at once. Maybe on that day you will realize what struggling is really like, and you'll learn to have some empathy. Or maybe your just forever be an asshole.
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On January 29 2013 16:00 Reborn8u wrote:
Wow, I have to say I've never been more sickened by anything on this site then some of the comments and attitudes displayed in this thread.
I guess some people just get to live in a perfect little bubble where life doesn't have struggles and your mentality never gets broken by things out of your own control. It's so easy to pass judgement when your not the one who has to fight for every inch in life. It's just a disgusting combination of naivety, ignorance and arrogance.
Maybe one day you will wake up to the reality that everything you've had and loved is out of your grasp. Your friends, your family, all of your possessions. When your future hangs in the balance. When everything that could possibly go wrong hits you all at once. Maybe on that day you will realize what struggling is really like, and you'll learn to have some empathy. Or maybe your just forever be an asshole.
personally i do understand some of his struggle (not all) that i dont want to delve into.
but i also see SO MANY similarities between past (18-22 yr old) me and him in general too -- which makes this eerie.
i think he needs to sort out his mental issues, but i do feel sympathy for him.
i also have no doubt that he will be successful at whatever he eventually chooses to do.
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On January 29 2013 09:31 a slow decay wrote:Show nested quote +On January 29 2013 09:16 Kaitokid wrote:
what the hell is a triple chronoboost zealot? he mentions it when he talks about the games vs Squirtle. lol
I turned on his stream once and the first thing I heard him say was bashing Snute for being bad after he won HSC. Yes he is one of the worst judges of skill EVER. It's laughable to hear him talk about the game, he has great ideas but the way he judges player skill is just trash.
I remember him saying that the way MC plays games is just laughable. He also said Bisu would popularize mass
phoenixes in PvZ and PvT once he switches over. I dont know why, but he kept bashing foreign players like Socke
and a few others saying how trash they are.
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Perhaps the most interesting interview to date.
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On January 29 2013 16:00 Reborn8u wrote:
Wow, I have to say I've never been more sickened by anything on this site then some of the comments and attitudes displayed in this thread.
I guess some people just get to live in a perfect little bubble where life doesn't have struggles and your mentality never gets broken by things out of your own control. It's so easy to pass judgement when your not the one who has to fight for every inch in life. It's just a disgusting combination of naivety, ignorance and arrogance.
Maybe one day you will wake up to the reality that everything you've had and loved is out of your grasp. Your friends, your family, all of your possessions. When your future hangs in the balance. When everything that could possibly go wrong hits you all at once. Maybe on that day you will realize what struggling is really like, and you'll learn to have some empathy. Or maybe your just forever be an asshole.
I agree that some or many of the comments dont show anything good or anything of empathy. But I want to come in at the last part you wrote. He is in a very dangerous situation for his mental health. That has nothing to do with him as Player or Person or whatever. I reread the Interview again, just to make sure Im not judging to quickly, but I will repeat myself at this point again: As a professional counselor that is dealing nearly day to day with people that are on the edge: He is on the edge or maybe even went over.
I really think he needs help, and Im saying this with compassion. I feel for this young man in such a difficult situation.
Unfortunately this is a bad place to mention it. But I have not clue how to reach out to somebody who cares. So I hope for the best and hope that the community grows up a bit...
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well, that's a window into why he'll never be successful in sc2 (until he matures). it's actually similar to idra, though more extreme and compounded with mental issues. i mean to be fair, some of the stuff he says reminds me a little of me as a teenager, but that probably reflects basically all teenagers.
i think his biggest issue is that he seems to lack the ability to accurately analyse his performances and actions. he claims he's being honest, but i don't think he's being honest to himself. you can come up with an excuse for anything when you're upset or pissed off. later, when you've calmed down though, you've gotta examine it from the outside (grudgingly as it may be). and see through the bullshit that you first told yourself.
this is really what screwed idra over too, but he was simply a better player, more entertaining in interviews and less.. well, emo. so he has was able to get away with it to a larger extent.
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On January 29 2013 16:00 Reborn8u wrote:
Wow, I have to say I've never been more sickened by anything on this site then some of the comments and attitudes displayed in this thread.
I guess some people just get to live in a perfect little bubble where life doesn't have struggles and your mentality never gets broken by things out of your own control. It's so easy to pass judgement when your not the one who has to fight for every inch in life. It's just a disgusting combination of naivety, ignorance and arrogance.
Maybe one day you will wake up to the reality that everything you've had and loved is out of your grasp. Your friends, your family, all of your possessions. When your future hangs in the balance. When everything that could possibly go wrong hits you all at once. Maybe on that day you will realize what struggling is really like, and you'll learn to have some empathy. Or maybe your just forever be an asshole.
No reality is when everything tells you that this thought you're having of being a relevant competitive professional player is not working out then you might consider be a man for once in your life and look for something worthwhile.
Excuse me if the reality of being a professional is results. That is it, there is no two ways about it. And no it has nothing to do with being an asshole it's just straight up and straight forward mature thinking. He dug his own misery hole to sleep in and I can't feel empathy for a kid with a desire for a first world dream profession who can't build up one ounce of modesty.
Are people seriously that deluded? This is what life looks like folks! To all you youngsters out there, when it's on it's on and all that matters in any profession you choose is the total sum of your skills. If you find yourself lucky enough to not deal with emotional instability good for your the rest of us has.
Reality. Just because your mother told you you can be everything doesn't mean you can. The odds are always against you. Wake up and accept it.
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Fantastic interview. LS seems like a stand-up guy and while I can never say I was a "fan" of his, I'm always glad to see him do well.
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On January 29 2013 16:00 Reborn8u wrote:
Wow, I have to say I've never been more sickened by anything on this site then some of the comments and attitudes displayed in this thread.
I guess some people just get to live in a perfect little bubble where life doesn't have struggles and your mentality never gets broken by things out of your own control. It's so easy to pass judgement when your not the one who has to fight for every inch in life. It's just a disgusting combination of naivety, ignorance and arrogance.
Maybe one day you will wake up to the reality that everything you've had and loved is out of your grasp. Your friends, your family, all of your possessions. When your future hangs in the balance. When everything that could possibly go wrong hits you all at once. Maybe on that day you will realize what struggling is really like, and you'll learn to have some empathy. Or maybe your just forever be an asshole.
I'm sorry but going to 'follow your dream' and then complaining to the world when it doesn't work out because you don't have a proper plan or the ability to actually make it work is not commendable in my eyes. There are plenty of people with family issues, who have struggles in life and have to work hard before even getting to graduate from high school - should they all also post a tearjerking life story and blame it all on unlucky circumstances? No, they are too busy working their asses off to make sure their next ten years are better than the last, and that their kids won't have to deal with same bullshit they had to deal with.
Naivety is when you think a guy with no backup plan or any life skills going to Korea is "struggling because of things out of his control". He made a bunch of awful decisions, he continues to make awful decisions and living off the backs of others, and yet you feel sympathy for him and insist others should, too. Talk about being ignorant.
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Have to admit though i've never been a fan of LS that was a really great read, regardless of whether some of it was exaggerated or not.
kudos
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"I wasn’t worried about Ret because here I am in Korea and I’m beating Zergs better than Ret"
then,
"Ret, he was and is one of the best Zergs in the world"
so many contradictions. eh. I would respect him more if he actually got consistent results but...
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What an amazing interview, great work mate. I hope to see more of these in the future.
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This is probably the most interesting interview I've ever read. As for the rude opinions in this thread, you all are right, but still, you should have some sympathy for him and, please, stop using the word "emo", is disgusting see how you use it as an insult but without being an insult, it's just pejorative and it shouldn't be. Fucking society.
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On January 27 2013 16:04 mrRoflpwn wrote:Soo long... Show nested quote +I wasn’t disgusted with the community. I was disgusted with how some of the community acted towards me. Like they don’t realize that the way that they act towards me isn’t even relevant, just the way they act in general is killing the game. And it’s not about me, it goes beyond that. It’s how they act about everything like how “Starcraft 2 is dying” or like the whole Destiny post. Like you can’t act like that, it’s not good for the game it’s not beneficial.
I liked this part.
So does everyone else who has no idea how business or the real world works.
"guyz stop talking bad ur killing our gaem!"
Nothing to do with the lack of cashflow or viewers, nope. Just negative attitudes!
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I just wanted to say, i was one of the few people who gave him shit for betraying the sc2 community for LOL. After reading this interview i feel like an idiot. And honestly anyone still giving him shit for what he did in the past is just a hypocrite. Honestly can anyone claim not to have done something as bad as messing around on a video game during a non serious match. I remember i used to create maps that were islands and of course being terran i had the ability to lift, and oh i guess a significant part i forgot to mention is that only the islands had gas while the rest of the map only had minerals in order to insta win everytime. So last shadow i m sure u have more important things to do then read the comments on ur interview. BUT if you do i wanna apologize, for giving you shit about LOL. And honestly man, u deserve better than the flack this scbw---> tp sc2 community has given you over the years.
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Ugh, I read up to half of this interview but couldn't finish. There is just a disgusting facade of hate and woe that permeates his responses. On one had he goes to great lengths to give a sense, "I don't care what you think," attitude of self-righteousness but on the other seems neurotically obsessed with public opinion about him.
Edit - read a little more. Contradictions galore. Hate. Rage. So much pride and arrogance. Just disgusting.
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On February 14 2013 04:12 WhatsInAName wrote:
Ugh, I read up to half of this interview but couldn't finish. There is just a disgusting facade of hate and woe that permeates his responses. On one had he goes to great lengths to give a sense, "I don't care what you think," attitude of self-righteousness but on the other seems neurotically obsessed with public opinion about him.
Edit - read a little more. Contradictions galore. Hate. Rage. So much pride and arrogance. Just disgusting.
Hu, strange, I had the complete opposite reaction
I was even contemplating me being too unsceptic because how much I empathized with him.
Maybe it's my emotionally rocky upbringing. I dunno, but this was certainly one of the most interesting interviews to date.
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I would advise him to leave Korea for the sake of his mental health.
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Destiny vs LastShadow Showmatch incoming?
As someone who watched his SC2 stream consistently, ya I worry about the guy. But, as someone who can't stand LoL, I have no idea what is going on with him atm.
Wish everyone the best, as always. Take care of yourself MrShadow.
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