And yeah I mean.. this is no different from when someone like Lange left, for example. The only difference is the catalyst was less "Hey I'm gonna turn this into an actual career" and more "Hey this community is mad toxic and I don't want to be in it". This isn't some crazy unprecedented event where a huge contributor leaves our game.

You're allowed to not be happy about the reason, but try to see it from his perspective as an adulting ass adult. Folks move on after a while.

not much to discuss when we already know what happens

the upfrags and downfrags are confusing the fuck out of me

do people actually hate aim or does this dude just have 20 alts

were you virtue signaling?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwDThTU08Js

"A few degrees won't change too much" is not correct and I just wanted to jump in with some stats/papers/etc. I like and respect you kawa and tbh you're not totally out in left field, you're making some good points but maybe just not great wording. A lot of people fail to think about temperature increases as being too serious since it's ONLY one or two degrees, a difference we can barely feel. If it's 90 tomorrow and 91 the next day, it's like meh who cares. But we are people. The planet reacts differently and much more severely to changes like this.

Page 6 of this has a nice chart for the lazy like me

http://globalwarming.berrens.nl/globalwarming.htm

https://www.livescience.com/58891-why-2-degrees-celsius-increase-matters.html

Etc, these articles/figures are quite easy to find with a bit of digging. Sources include NASA and similar. So no, I mean you're partly right that.. 2 degrees may not fundamentally change the life of a gamer in the developed world, but it will have LARGE changes to nature and to humanity alike, some of them irreversible (depending on the scope and the increase etc.)

If you're throwing ice cubes on a fire, you may not be doing much, but you're still technically fighting the fire. And you're doing more than someone who's doing nothing. Imagine if a million people did the same thing!

No, it's not a fire hose, but don't shit on people because they're not helping ENOUGH for your standards

This is fair, I did assume. Point taken. Thank you.

This might seem like an easy answer to YOU, but you (and I) don't have to deal with the shit

Some of these harassers follow these people around the internet. From game server to game server.. sometimes they are doxing or otherwise prying into their personal lives, spreading personal information like real (dead) names, home address, family information, etc. They're making specific threats, I mean that's just the tip of the iceberg. You can't always just "ignore it". That's not a solution, at all. That advice is somewhat akin to "Don't get shot" or "Don't be poor" or something.

What, should they just shut down and isolate themselves from the real world, because of those white dudes you mention who like/need to harass?

man girls and there dumb drama! so dramatic when their sexually assaulted!! so bs

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmHcKEJgglH/

uhh ichiro

The Subway though, that shit hits the spot imo

That or a pasty

Fair enough! But this somewhat backs up the whole "nobody is kept in the loop" thing also.

Honestly I was just watching videos last night and it seems interesting. I definitely haven't had the urge to buy a Madden game this much in a long time. Last one I owned was 13 I think. I may cop this for PS4 if the reviews are positive

I was a bit surprised to find someone transcribed all this. But anyway.

I've gotten multiple private messages on Discord in the past 48 hours or so from people involved in various ways with Essentials (or formerly), thanking me for speaking out on this. That just goes to show me that this is a real issue that nobody had really been talking much about, except in private. I hate when everyone just pretends shit is cool, when it's totally not. I have no worries bringing shit into the open when I think it's for the best.

I'll just say that the best possible outcome from this would be for the production to go great, and I said the same thing in my message to Wolf (which I haven't gotten a response to.) I just think that in order for that to happen, there are some big changes that need to happen. Just because nobody is competing with you to cover Insomnia doesn't mean you don't have to try hard. I'm not saying NO work is being done, I'm just saying Multiplay has been majorly concerned in the past, to the point of expecting the production may fail last year. I don't see huge differences in my experience leading up to last year's event, and the lead-up to this year. Just mind-boggling silence, privacy, confusion and ignored messages.

I understand this year (correct me if I'm wrong) we are no longer on the main stage for finals. Multiplay are the ones who host us and allow us to have TF2 at iSeries. I'd hate to see them lose faith in us, and I'd hate for us to lose what we have. Some of the people who have supported us as Multiplay staff in the past no longer work there, and we won't have folks at Multiplay to bail us out forever. Even if our esport is small, we should still be busting our asses, lest we wake up one day and find that no organizer or group or venue wants to host TF2 tournaments anymore.

I just want to see the most passionate, hard working people running the iSeries production, just like it's been for years. And I think most people want that also. If that's not the current people in charge, then let's bust the skeletons out the closet and talk about it. I'm not trying to put past producers/organizers on an unfairly high pedestal, but the list of names who have run this before is pretty fuckin impressive, as has been the quality of the productions. I'm not seeing anything resembling that right now.

I'm hopeful that Essentials and Wolf can adopt more of an open, transparent approach to the organizing, keeping everyone involved on the same page (including talent), and more of a collaborative approach rather than "do it all myself". No man is an island, and broadcasting isn't an industry for control freaks. They can also ignore all this if they want, and continue to do it their way; I'm not trying to say I know everything. I was just sick of nobody talking about this problem.

This was never about "I deserve better", it's about "I think we ALL deserve better."