Exactly. It’s like the IOC and FIFA are in a “Hold my beer...” contest for who can be the most corrupt, evil fuckers on the planet.

This is just him saying to add another zero to his bribe money. Nothing more.

“We want to promote non-discrimination, non-violence, and peace among people. This doesn’t match with video games, which are about violence, explosions, and killing. And there were have to draw a clear line.” International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach 

QUOTE | “We want to promote non-discrimination, non-violence, and peace among people. This doesn’t match with video games, which are about violence, explosions, and killing. And there were have to draw a clear line.” - International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach doesn’t sound too eager to have esports…

PUBG really succeeded as it allows the player surprising freedom outside the core rules of the game.

Let’s be fair though; the real reason to be a juror on this case is how it gives you a platform for honing your juror skills, building your brand as a juror, and attaining more high-profile jury stints as you develop your career.

He’s a teenager that has been bullied and ostracized. Ellen is pretty well-known for having a platform to encourage normals that are underdogs.

Europe obviously has things figured out. We should totally model ourselves after them.

Trying to make globalism the enemy is about the dumbest thing he can suggest. Yes globalism has shifted some industries out of the US, but it also has helped to make us one of the wealthiest nations in the world. Even our poor people are head and shoulders above poor people virtually anywhere else when you consider…

It hits the Zeitgeist.You start on equal terms. It lets you decide how to play. You can not go in Berserker mode and win.

You don’t have to have a cynical eye to view it as smurfing, it’s the exact definition.
I don’t know how you can call it a redemption storyline, since it’s not as if they’ve really lost anything. Nor can you realistically call it ‘high tension’ when someone who literally spends their life playing a game manages to beat…

a more cynical onlooker might view it as a novel and less overt approach to “smurfing,”

Throwing and smurfing. This guy should be banned.

I think the reason for hating it is empathy for the dozens of other players that end up having to deal with a GM smurf in their game. The players who think they’re a Master Genji stuck in a Gold Genji body will make other excuses.

These have been staples of streaming since SC2 Beta where it was Cooper to Platinum and my views on it haven’t changed. Its unfair to the people on the other side.

“So, a person who wears a dumb “geisha girl” costume is not the same fucking thing as Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo) who assimilated and chose to live and breathe the culture.”

So mostly dead white ladies.

I think you read that wrong, cause it’s perfect for “non-white Becky”.

I am...if THE PRICE IS RIGHT!

I’m not big on buying into “personal brands”, but on the flipside, seeing as some people clearly do buy into it (how else could it be so lucrative???), I don’t fault athletes or celebrities for trying to craft them.