ESL: Since men are so bad and toxic we made a league only for women. Not because women can't compete with men right now.
Semmler: Seems disingenuous to make it about toxicity when that's not the context of why you're hosting this competitive circuit.
Women in esports: boo hoo. Poor white man feels oppressed. You that mad that women get to play in a tournament? You get no pussy
Thorin: Don't dismiss an opinion from an industry veteran with connections and relationships with women for countless years.
Women in esports: If you're not a woman you can't have an opinion on this. Besides you're a fucking white male!
You must hate women so much! You are saying you don't want women in esports.
Feminism! Feminism! Ha! Feminism, Thorin. Block me. BLOCK ME. BLOCK ME PUSSY LIKE YOUR MOTHER THE WHORE! OMG HE BLOCKED ME JUST FOR BEING A WOMAN AND DISAGREEING WITH HIM!"
Wonder why only cynical marketers and future sex offender male feminists want to help you gals and you can't seem to get the most talented and prolific individuals in this industry to engage with you or your initiatives?
Tell you what, you do that cute thing where you tell me to get out of the industry I built and still rests on my fucking shoulders. I AM ESPORTS!
Begone, peon.
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Let's see if we can hit 10k people over the last week or so claiming I have made statements they conveniently never link and show zero overlap with my long established positions.
Bonus points if they call me ignorant and/or tell me I should do some research and listen. Just for the ludicrous lack of self-awareness.
Bingo if they tell me about some women I famously directly helped and hired in esports but as if I had never heard of any women even working in the industry.
Can only imagine the bodies he must know the locations of if you didn't even remove him from a position where he gets to decide if women work as talent at your events.
One of the women even claimed he had used his position of influence at another esports company to manipulate her.
I grew up as a little autistic kid in the North East of England wearing hand-me-down clothes.
There was no esports for hundreds of miles from me when it began and the dot com bubble had burst and tanked all the early industry. I was told I'd missed "it".
Once I got them to send me to London I had to get them to send me to the US over hiring Americans who were already there.
I went to that event, my first on a plane, with something like $50 wiggle room for anything to go wrong. Madness when I look back now.
I put in a lot of effort and I could get a few ideas out through my sloppy and cliche-riddled writing, a subject I had never focused on in school or as a hobby.
I also always followed my curiosity about what I wanted to know in an interview.
Best way to show you have skin in the game when it comes to not accepting blood money would be to return it publicly, right? Seems pretty easy to do if you're serious.
Not if you really wanted money and to pretend to maintain your "values" (fashion trend) tho
"Well ackshually that doesn't work and has been debunked..."
-People who failed and never properly followed the instructions to people who did follow them exactly and succeeded.
The Internet in a nutshell.
The wisdom is there but hidden in plain sight through gate-keeping, social stigma, accreditation worship, search algorithm and people's inability to appreciate layers of symbology and learn their language.
Luckily the more work you undertake towards wisdom the more you realise it is not for everyone. It is not to be publicised directly nor will it be understood.
Hint and leave the curious eager to start their own journey and the dismissive to wallow in nihilism.