people bandwagoned his stream because it was entertaining and he was good at the game. people then started bandwagoning cuz he did something on his stream that a lot of people considered really shitty, and then instead of apologizing he made it about himself and ranted for 20 minutes about how much shit he gets, then he quit the internet. i don't know if i would chalk that up to "autistic 14 year olds with no opinion", more just people who lost respect for ruwin or don't want to watch his stream anymore (should he stream again in the future).

i can't speak for the people who came out of the woodworks and started saying he's washed up, or fake, or whatever. that kind of came out of nowhere and seemed pretty bandwagon-y.

so most of what needs to be said has been said, but dude, if one more person acts like just because some ppl who play this video game say "faggot" and "raped" liberally that our entire community is full of people who aren't offended by anything in the world then i'm gonna lose it. jesus christ.

no community is just one person, or a small group of people. it's such a fallacy to imply that nobody in this community is allowed to feel feelings or be offended by stuff just because some dudes go around acting like "faggot" is a synonym for "person i dislike"

seriously. i mean, fuckin seriously. i'm not even saying that you guys have to feel bad for the girl anymore. now i'm just asking you to be logical enough to understand that your circle of friends who play tf2 saying faggot and nigger does not represent every single individual who considers themselves part of this community.

i sure have. but i didn't have 300 people watching me, nor did i didn't break the barrier between internet video games and real life by showing a facebook picture on a livestream.

besides, the biggest misstep that ruwin took is honestly how he handled this whole thing. a 20 minute tangent that can be summed up as "don't like? don't watch. also if you have feelings then you're a nerdvirgin. i quit." is not how someone should react to something like this. i understand that the whole rant was probably fueled by him being upset at the people who keep calling him washed up and making fun of him for being cut or whatever (and rightfully so, i would be pretty upset by that myself), but just taking a day or two to chill out would have been a lot smarter.

good work.

to ragorism: I can't speak for anybody else who's bothered by what he did, but I personally watched ruwin's stream basically every day, and when he pulled this shit, I wasn't willfully subjecting myself to it or anything. That's the thing with livestreams; they're live. He's normally entertaining and inoffensive, and I really enjoyed watching his stream. Obviously if he starts again I won't be watching, but prior to this whole debacle, it's not like he was the resident asshole of the tf2 community or anything. He was just an eccentric dude who had a really entertaining stream and I happily tuned in every day.

I don't disagree with you that you should steer clear of stuff that offends you, but this blindsided me, personally. And yeah it bothers me. Sorry for having some empathy. I'll go back to policing everybody along with my fellow members of the "hurt feelings gestapo".

hey good job, you're playing off of ruwin's 100% accurate and well articulated statement that if you have any sense of empathy for this chick that he insulted in front of 300 internet strangers then you're a "nerdvirgin"

way to hand it to me man! i'll just go back to my tumblr with my tail btwn my legs and be a social justice warrior elsewhere.

difference is, this is a video game and those alts shit talked people over the internet or whatever. the picture that ruwin showed on stream can literally be traced back to that girl's facebook account. that's when the barrier of "shit talking over the internet" is broken and some shitty person can turn the whole situation into something uglier by fucking with that person.

ruwin was irresponsible. i'm amazed that there are actually people who are defending him. what's so hard about just apologizing? how did this thread turn into a ruwin apologist circlejerk?

the real world also tends to involve having a little humility and knowing when to back down when you've done something wrong. ruwin twisted this shit into "please feel bad about me because people called me bad at tf2" when he really should have either make an apology, bogus or not, and/or just waited a few days for people to cool down. slin literally fell asleep on a livestream and got a boner, and people poked fun at him for it. he just gave it some time for people to get over it and he streams to this day, no problems. what's so hard about that?

"stop being a pussy" isn't an apt response to this situation no matter how you slice it.

what? that's exactly what you're doing. you're saying that tf2 as a community uses "raped" and "faggot" liberally but i honestly only see it here. most people i associate myself with avoid that kind of language.

what i'm saying is that it's not fair to pick out the people who commonly use those words and say that the community as a whole can't be offended by anything ever just because those people exist within it.

good work.

the "shit that women babble about" isn't generally to a live audience of 300+ people. also the pic that he showed on stream was really easily traced back to that chick's facebook profile. there's nothing to defend there.

really? because i like how you're lumping the minority that uses "raped" and "faggot" and "nigger" together with everyone in the community, including the people who produced and provided content to entertain stream viewers for 36 hours over the weekend and raise 100k for charity. great work.

e: ruwin showing off and insulting that "chick from high school" was not okay, but the people bashing him for being "washed up" aren't in the right either. whatever the case, the best thing ruwin could have done was be a grown man and just apologize for treating his video game stream as a platform to insult a third party with a link that you can easily trace directly to her public facebook account in at least two different ways. ruwin could have waited a few days to cool down and for the drama to pass over. but nah, he spent 20 minutes soapboxing and turning the whole situation into something about him for some reason, then said "I quit, I'm out." he couldn't have handled this worse.

e2: as a side note, i really enjoyed ruwin's stream. but he made a really stupid decision by showing that girl's picture on stream and insulting her in front of 300 internet strangers, and now that he's in the hot seat, he's handling the whole situation extremely poorly. if he does cool down and start streaming again, i personally won't be watching him, but i can respect the fact that he was an entertaining guy, and likely will still be entertaining should be return to streaming.

hi, i've never used the word "autist" as a synonym for "idiot" or w/e, and i wasn't one of the people at lan who shouted racial slurs. am i suddenly not allowed to have some sense of morality and be irritated by ruwin's actions?

i get the point you're trying to make, but it's not fair to lump every person in this community together with some dudes who acted out at lan.

could have at least had the decency to rehost it instead of using the facebook url in front of 350 people... probably pretty easy to trace this back to her fb profile or something honestly.

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Great thread over on /r/truegaming regarding this.

http://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/21czz1/oculus_is_going_social_facebook_bought_oculus/

I personally respect the optimism. I'm just really worried about what this means for the games. :\

I always thought mge was about mechanics. Even if you're mgeing 1v1 as demo with fully loaded weapons, which is rare, the point is just to improve your aim to the point where you don't need all 8 stickies or all 4 pipes.

Playing pubs is a decent way to practice demo because you'll have to manage ammo and everything, but you deal with a lot of crap in pubs that you will never deal with in 6s, the number one thing being bad movement. Except in, like, entry-level 6s, your enemies will undoubtedly have better movement than a bunch of pubbers, or heavies, or turtling engies. You don't need to practice hitting people moving in straight lines, or enemies moving slowly, or enemies who are literally not moving at all - you need to practice hitting targets that move with purpose. Soldier and demo really strike me as the two classes that ultimately hurt your play if you play them more in pubs than you do competitively because you let predicting poor movement become muscle memory.

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