Ahhhh. You think the block button is your ally. You merely adopted the block.
Sep 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Shot
Chaser
Sep 7, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
You can't write jokes like these:
People angry over my tweet about mental health are coming to my account, which they don't follow and has never followed them, to send rude messages in the hopes of hurting my feelings over the internet.
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.
Dec 27, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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.
Dec 26, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Your company continues to employ, in a talent hiring position no less, someone who was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women last year.
You are a pathetic virtue-signaller who doesn't give a damn about women.
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.
Jun 22, 2021 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
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.
Jun 21, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Imagine working this event and then trying to lecture others online about your politics and what good behaviour is.
Check the event date and time-stamps. Some people are just shameless.
"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.
Jun 19, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Losing is short-term and winning is long-term if you zoom out enough.
Every battle lost teaches me where I'm weak and I can put my efforts into improving.
Thanks to every enemy and misfortune I ever suffered. Without them I would be so much less.
Kobe Bryant, one of the NBA's most famously deadly scorers, once went a whole summer as a 10-11 year old without scoring a point. He was "terrible", in his own words.
I could have cried laughing in tribute to KEKW when LS and Nemesis said G3 S10 Spring final draft was unwinnable for Nemesis and he wasn't an issue for not doing anything with four kills and items.
They open VOD and go to where he is 4 kills up, and show him die for no reason in jungle, with vision of enemies. They quickly backtrack their comments to a neutral position like "was it my fault here? I'd need to rewatch the game" and then quickly close VOD.
May 8, 2021 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
It's wild to me that Doublelift still ascribes to "ahead" and "behind" thinking about LoL.
If LoL has shown us anything it's that every patch is a slightly different game and macro concepts can be learned by totally fresh line-ups within weeks and months.
Preparation and practice is about removing the impediments which hold you back and aligning the strengths of the meta with your personal strengths.
Nov 15, 2020 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Imagine life as a game of DnD and your different skills, strengths and weaknesses as abilities that can be quantifed as stats. Similarly, you have an "alignment" that is essentially your paradigm of principles that guide which actions you will take.
Now let's say in this game you know everyone else's stats and alignment, as you do with your party. Doesn't it become easier to anticipate how they will react or how they can help or hinder you?
Nov 14, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The notion you "don't need anyone" and are "strong and independent" is a bullshit psyop to make you cut off your support network.
Your love of and connection to others makes you stronger.
It's easier to be kind to your loved one than to yourself, often.
Don't run from that power. Understand it and lean into it. Then you become unstoppable.
Nov 13, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I initially linearly focused on depth in one area but ignored the horizontal plane of other skills. Now I branch out before "completing one".
It may help to visualise as a linear journey initially, though:
Craft
-> Experience and personality enhancement
-> Marketing
-> Business of field
-> General business and financial concepts
-> investment and how to save
-> delegation and building infrastructure
Nov 13, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
The reason I made the hiring decisions I did for Flashpoint 2 is the golden age of talent has passed.
"Tier 1" is as diluted as most country's currencies.
So why not scout the next talent and build the culture that could help them become true tier 1 talent tomorrow?
That is a far more meaningful task than dunking on the would-be all-stars and hoping they eventually respond with some fire.
May 9, 2020 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
If we're going to be anything approaching a community and work together to grow this space then it's essential the elder statements and figures with big voices be responsible with the public debate tactics they use.
An argument "won" in the fans' eyes because you got the other guy "cancelled" is not an argument won. It's just giving in to the worst aspects of our nature and playing off the evil that lurks in the hearts of all. We can be better than that.
Dec 9, 2019 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Listen Loco has come to an end. Along with the Worlds content from 2018, we managed over 100 episodes - a record for my LoL talk shows.
.@Locodoco and I have decided not to continue with the show, as it while it was fun we had an unhealthy relationship and could bring out the worst in each other.
It's better for us both to move on to other projects.
