Crow Jane posted:

When I was six or so, my folks threw me a surprise birthday party. All my friends from the neighborhood were there, as well as lots of relatives. And... a clown, which I had always been scared to death of. My parents had paid a clown to come into our house.There are pictures of me at the party, I'm smiling but my little eyes are full of fear. I asked my mom about it years later, she said she had wanted to get me over my fear of clowns by introducing me to a nice one. Plus she thought it would be funny. Tbh, my parents kind of own, even if I didn't fully appreciate their sense of humor til I was a bit older.

I'm not overly scared of clowns anymore, but I did grow up to be a poster on the Something Awful forums, so clearly something went wrong somewhere.

Coca Koala posted:

Toxicity in esports is something that companies like Valve and Riot take pretty seriously, because if you can't log into a game without a thirteen year old calling you a loving human being constantly, you're not going to play the game and if you don't play the game, then Valve and Riot don't make any money. It's easy to ban the 13 year old for being an abusive prick, but now you have a situation where you have high profile, extremely visible players playing the game in what is essentially a massive advertising campaign for the game, right? And if the 13 year old sees this pro player saying something nasty to another pro player and nothing happens, then he's going to start making a bunch of noise about how "Well, why did I get banned when these guys can say what they want, and nothing happens?"

It's not a big deal when it's only one 13 year old, but there's a lot of assholes and there's a lot of assholes playing games like CS:GO or League or DOTA or whatever. It's way easier (and, honestly, probably better for the health of the game) to just crack down on pro players being dicks than it is to set up some weird double standard where you ban the abusive child who plays after school, but have some hidden (or non-existent) punishment for the abusive child who plays professionally.

Also, you have to consider that yeah, a lot of the esports players who are on teams like this are pretty young, think under twenty. They're teenagers, they're going to do teenage poo poo, and sometimes teenagers need to get grounded. You can't take away their video game privileges because that's tantamount to firing them, but suspending their allowance for a few weeks and making them go to an anti-bullying seminar seems like a pretty reasonable punishment for a teenager.

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Testekill posted:

To be fair, we just beat a pop-up franchise with no real history that had been given everything to be successful. You know, also the guys that bragged about getting the Bulldogs captain to walk out on the club and posted this poo poo on twitter since they'd already stolen one of the Bulldogs young guns are few years earlier.



Yeah, that didn't bite them in the arse or anything. I don't know who the baseball equivalent is but it's the Cubs beating whoever that is at their home turf while completely outnumbering their fans so badly that a senior player/official from the club complained to the AFL that they were booed going onto the ground.

`Nemesis posted:

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Baronjutter posted:

When I didn't think I could hate australians more than I already do....

Rev. Bleech_ posted:

there's a whole subforum because a single thread can't contain it. It's like Buttcoin, but with Derek Smart and tickle fetish videos.

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