He doesnt owe any of you an apology whatsoever. Be sad for the rest of your life because you're not getting one, nor are you entitled toone.

Fuck you Platinum, fat ass.

So basically you have to have a degree to post your opinion? I have my Masters and a career, but it certainly doesn't make my opinion on this matter any more or less important than anyone else.

Anyways, here is my quick opinion on the matter. I work in politics, so doing everything you can to not offend someone is paramount. While I understand that people will mistakes and I wouldn't consider this a large one, however, I don't like the idea of showing a picture of someone on stream is a great idea. It's one thing if she is the person that added the picture online herself, but used a still shot of her to a camera. I am not completely sure why, but that bugs me more than the "fat shaming"

Most of the other things have already been said, so there is no point of adding it. Just saying "Sorry, I shouldn't have done that" and I think no one would've cared about what you said. Either way, it's up to him and it's likely to pass over soon.

i think some of you guys need this shit in perspective.

ruwin didn't just, like, look up this pic with a couple of his old HS buddies and have a chuckle with them. that's cool, everybody does that, whatever. but ruwin is an entertainer, and he had a crowd. the real life equivalent of this is like walking down the street and seeing this guy juggling or doing a magic show and then, out of absolutely nowhere, he just whips out a big blown up picture of some girl and says "So I knew this chick in high school. She was so hot, and now she's fat." you're telling me that, as a bystander, you'd think to yourself "Yeah that's alright by me." i'm not saying you'd fuckin' leap into action and beat him up or anything, but you can't fuckin' tell me that you would see that and be completely okay with it.

well, that's what ruwin did. that's precisely what he did in the context of the real world. he's an entertainer, people came to see him do a specific thing that he's good at (play video games), and out of nowhere he pulled this shit. that's why it's not okay.

I didn't expect an apology because I was personally offended. I expected an apology because it's the decent thing to do; apologize, wait a few days for people to calm down, and continue to entertain. But nope, he just twisted everything into being about him being called "washed up" and then quit streaming, leaving people who financially supported him in the dust.

Don't try to make this about me. It was never about me, and nobody who finds ruwin's actions reprehensible thinks this is about them. This has been about being a decent fuckin' person since page 1.

crying over spilled milk

Is that why you shitpost here 24/7?

this thread has reinforced something important: none of you bozos know what 'literally' means.

when you are describing a situation where it is contextually assumed that you are being figurative, feel free to say 'literally'.
for example:
"I was so distraught by ruwin's comments that I literally cried myself to sleep!"

in any other scenario
don't
example:
"Ruwin is literally a douchebag for what he did to that poor girl!"

I am pretty sure he is not literally a douchebag.

instances of 'literally' in this thread prior to this post: 11
instances where 'literally was used improperly or meaninglessly: also 11

thank you kindly

sorry smaka I love you but it literally means both at the same time

it's not being used improperly, it's being used ironically

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nobody said ruwin did the right thing. but it is trivial compared to the amount of shit hes getting for it.

cool, i didn't ask that. i think most people, myself included, would walk by the scene and avoid confrontation (bystander effect, etc etc). i asked if you would have thought to yourself "This is totally okay by me" having seen that scene. so would it be okay by you? would you walk by that scene and just think it's hunky dory?

jesus, idk how this has popped up so much. i watched ruwin's stream a whole lot because he seemed like a decent dude who was entertaining. as a viewer of a LIVE video feed, i have no way of knowing what the person i'm watching will do. do you ppl think ruwin just pulled pics of chicks he knew in HS and called them fat every single day or something?

this was a one time thing. this was totally out of the blue. i, as a viewer, was blindsided completely by this. in my previous example, i'm basically just in the crowd enjoying the fucking magic show, and then he pulls that shit and i'm sitting here like "what the hell, i just wanted to see some more magic tricks."

lets kill the haterz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tqWLKMN1Mk

I think it would be in order to say that everyone needs to calm down, as the circumstances and the events do not warrant a full-scale uprising. Especially against a videogame entertainer who streams leisurely. Honestly, we've all talked about other people, how they look, how they act, etc., whether it be in their face, or behind their back. That being said, I don't think showing a picture in front of a couple hundred gamers(most under 18) and saying she's 'robust' will do any real harm to anyone. The woman displayed by Ruwin in the stream seems to be(from what I gather) a fairly successful citizen, and enjoying life.
I personally do not believe I would have actually done what he did in terms of showing a former classmates face, but I don't think it warrants an apology. We don't even know the woman.

Now, this apology video is the most bodily-cringing videos I've ever seen. As I've already said, I do not thinks Ruwin has to apologize, but if he were to apologize, this is not what I expected. This video should have been 2 minutes max.
He starts off by saying he's the 'realest nigga' which I could not find a way to put into words how awkward and unnecessary that sounded - he continues, saying that he will tell everyone how he feels with #nofilter and just goes on and on about the way he's treated, and how people say he's bad. Dead honest, he sounds like a little girl who just got called a whore on twitter and got in a fight over the internet. I don't know how old Ruwin is, but he obviously did not react in a respectable way, by any means.

tl;dr
-the community is being too sensitive
-that apology video was unnecessary, awkward, and immature

no
the idea that a word simultaneously means one thing and the opposite thing is an egregious misappropriation of the language and is stupid and i don't care what your dumb dictionary says

irregardless is in your dictionary but it also is inaccurate

and it's not being used ironically, it's being used in situations where it is completely unnecessary and inaccurate

word origin:
"1530s, "in a literal sense," from literal. Erroneously used in reference to metaphors, hyperbole, etc., even by writers like Dryden and Pope, to indicate "what follows must be taken in the strongest admissible sense" (1680s), which is opposite to the word's real meaning."

fu getawhale

p.s. see if you can spot the irony there buddy

he's not wrong
you are all cancerous fucks

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that's why it's ironic. smaka pls

few days would have passed, everyone would've forgotten, and no one would even care anymore l0l

one of the reasons i enjoy Ruwin's stream is the fact that he doesn't censor himself. Showing the pic on stream definitely not a classy move but oh well. Shit happens, mistakes are made. It's an isolated incident. Hope to see him streaming again

It was a somewhat contreversial change made only recently to accommodate the ignorant. I dislike that the word now has two opposite meanings.

If I lost to Freestate in MGE, I'd probably quit this game too.

um. okay. says a lot about you i guess.

well i don't really have much else to bring to the table. sorry you lack the minuscule amount of empathy required to see a scene take place and at least think to yourself "well that's not cool." and go about your business.

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that's cool but you apparently lack the empathy to see the line between having the opinion that a girl is unattractive and using your internet stream which has 300+ viewers daily as a platform to share that opinion for basically no good reason at all.

if you still don't see all of the things that's wrong with ruwin's actions and you keep justifying it with "it's just his opinion man" then i really don't think either of us have anything more to say to each other

Seriously, where the fuck is the recap???

4:20 AM - XTS // Bdonski: yo
4:21 AM - XTS // Bdonski: so some people sleep at the venue right
4:21 AM - SteveC: im not sure if its allowed for that venue
4:21 AM - XTS // Bdonski: it is
4:21 AM - XTS // Bdonski: they just sleep on the floor under the tables
4:21 AM - SteveC: oh
4:21 AM - SteveC: im turnt
4:21 AM - XTS // Bdonski: except this one girl
4:21 AM - XTS // Bdonski: nearby me
4:21 AM - XTS // Bdonski: she is
4:21 AM - XTS // Bdonski: probably 300 lbs
4:21 AM - XTS // Bdonski: she just sat in her chair and put a towel over her head
4:22 AM - XTS // Bdonski: and fell asleep
4:22 AM - XTS // Bdonski: its funny as fuck
4:22 AM - XTS // Bdonski: i want to take a picture but i think its impossible to without being noticed
4:22 AM - SteveC: you take that picture
4:22 AM - SteveC: and i will make it my avatar
4:22 AM - SteveC: for a week
4:25 AM - XTS // Bdonski: okay
4:25 AM - XTS // Bdonski: i got an picture
4:25 AM - XTS // Bdonski: idk how good it is

HOW COULD YOU BDONSKI?

fucking bdonski i expect an apology or i will hate him 4ever!!!1!

All this fucking talk. All you idiots do is talk. Fuck it, obe if you don't like the guy then don't watch him. You're never going to end the whole epidemic of people calling people names by posting on these forums. No one is going to look at your posts and be like, fuck, that guy had some good ideas. Do you want to know why? Because it's an internet forum. You are the most trivial person talking about the most trivial issue on the most trivial of mediums. You have accomplished nothing.

I'm not even going to tell you how to actually DO something because I know you won't follow through on it.

remember when TLR stole the trophy. such great tf2 memories.

see ya in a season, ruwin