meh interview

nice interview
did noone ask him why he put a bible next to his monitor? Is he a fanatic religious person? Or does he want to become a pope or sth like that?

He already explained that he is a nutjob in an old interview that spawned hundreds of posts here on ESR.

That's why he has the bible I thought?

He said he was a Christian, people said he was stupid and then he turned up at the next LAN with a bible...

Ah, I thought he already used to do it before that interview.

I actually did a interview with him a couple of weeks ago, where he told that he's going to become something like a pope, and I think that it's cool that he sticks by his beliefs since there's many who follows the pressure of their friends.

well bringing a bible to every lan makes him seem like nothing but a poser, there's a limit

Says the guy who brings a penis to every lan he attends.

ooookay?

ROFL

tbh if you aim to become 'smth like a pope' then it's pretty likely most of your friends also come from church / religeous meetings etc.

so he admits EU are better and that noctis did have an advantage

hey stunt, fuck you.

Actually it's something more like, europe has more top-level players, and america only has a few really good players (who nonetheless can all compete for top spots in international tournaments). That's perfectly reasonable, because in europe you have lower pings, more practice partners, and more players in general. I've never seen this as a reasonable rivalry, although people insist on reviving it everywhere, since europe is a continent with ~2.5 times more people.

The lower pings reasoning is rubbish if you are claiming Europe has 2.5 times the population.

But seriously,Russia and Turkey have no place in EU,that number would be alot lower,maybe 2 times the population of US :)

But i somewhat agree with you,hard to compare the euro scene vs north american,if not impossible

They dont give LAN version of the game or servers in Russia and Eastern Europe with a purpose cause then USA will suck:P

nice try ignorant one.

rpd guido

i don't think you know what a guido is. :o

u.

probably not

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RfUMBgfhn0

stfu fat nigger.

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yeah not bad

not too keen on chips that often

love a bit of good fish though

"Thursday: If I wanted to play a certain style, I could easily find the right opponent to warm up and whatnot. In the US I would have to wait and maybe schedule out a time to practise instead of just being able to find someone when I'm ready to play. I hope this is going to change in the future."

I guess euros would be angry they have a whole fucking scene full of kids playing all day, but yet still an American who can barely find someone to play can still win. I find that amazing.


hahaha.

See we are born with greatness because we are AMERICANS WE ARE BLESSED BY GOD.

GOD BLESS AMERICA and the USA!

laughing :D rly :)

laughing but deep down, you can only agree.

LOL UR STUPID

lol very intelligent reply!!! did it take you all day to come up with that?!?!

looks more like a natural reaction.

yeah like you idiots eating icecream.

i like icecream

you missed the reference

no maybe you missed an abortion from your mother.

nah faster than u finding China on map of the world! :))

oh god please.

1. GOOD FOR YOU, while you're at it why don't you point to where it fucking matters in life?

2. you live right next to china id hope so.

3. fuck you.

i really have to change my nick :p

haha +'d thats funny

no offense tho ;D

i love the german nationalism right here, the snippet being one of the least important parts of the interview, but hey, its something positive about a german, high five heinrich himmler!

you're just bitter calipt won dreamhack, with the Swedes standing by doing nothing, as usual :<

yeah all the good swedes went there, im totally bitter. even i have won against the guy placing second, i mean, awesome lan? :D

(point also being, im terrible at quakelive)

Awww, have a cookie.

plus'd by a german, how shocking. :^D

anti-german comment plussed by a brit, how shocking. :^D

ONLY QUAKELIVE?




JOKE

hi fiend

it's a very weird choice for a header to say the least, the article doesn't revolve around the calipt match nor is it something that stands out as something really noteworthy

that's true.

but that does not mean I can just let any Swede get away with make that comment ;)

;/

§;-}-<

hey he got your hair

where's the horse penis

in here ( Y )

this is a picture from the front.

o/

yesyes, heil

Really nice interview, rapha seems a cool guy :)

I'm sure he is a nice guy but no religious guy are cool.

ok, then: rapha seems a nice guy.

Close minded svensson... Go watch mtv

I'm very open minded and I have never ever watch mtv for what I can remember, don't even have that channel:)

I just think Christianity is bullshit, that's my opinion.

But alright.. sure he could be a cool guy though^^

I just think Christianity is bullshit, that's my opinion.

you'll never beat rapha blasphemer

I just think Christianity is bullshit, that's my opinion.

To say that no religious person is cool is not very open minded.

<3

What? Just because you think it's not open minded? Being religious in my eyes is very close minded they should open there eyes.. really..

But I don't dislike Rapha for that, his my favorite player right now.

So how do you jump from religious to automatically not cool?

What I really meant was that I think religions aren't cool.

with a failing strafejump

Sure in your opinion it's narrowminded, but maybe some of them consider you narrowminded as well. Well mostly likely some of them do.

If you were truely openminded you wouldn't give a shit about him being a christian. Saying that all christians are narrowminded is quite narrowminded.

I'm sure they do.

I guess your right.

Yeah sure they could be open minded,
but how people can base much of there life on a book is just...
Whatever we wont come anywhere didn't mean to offend you christian beliefs. If you have a good life being religious that's just great.

I'm not a christian. I do not believe in any God.
I believe that aliens made us:D

Hehe that's cool I think;P

No.

True. Everyone has an other opinion on what openminded is. And they all do it from their own perspective.

No, it's a standard. Having an opinion on it is exactly what the video is addressing.

that was actually really good

Yeah, his other videos are ok too. Similar style et cetera.

i think rapha's a cool guy, eh does interviews and doesn't afraid of anything

the roflknife demands blood

I felt the interviewer tried to much to shine light on noctis and downplay rapha's win. Not very enjoyable.

since i made it right after the final i tried to focus on that match and wanted to know his thoughts. never thought it could downplay his victory. but thanks for the critic

No problem in focusing on that match, I just thought the questions were asked in that fashion. I hope it was good critique at least.

typical euro stuff going on there. Downplay the American victory.

Why did you stop answering people in your own thread? =/

which thread?

Good interview.

Rapha's a class act

the best quake player by a country mile right now, and with a good humble, honest attitude

shame about the Jesus thing but no ones perfect eh

haha :D

The little you know about the bright side of religion, the more humble honest and christian becomes a peculiar threesome.

threesome, yes, awesome.

I had to look to a reference for that. Porn is ruining the new generations....

of all the things,reproduction/sex is the most natural thing a human can do,.

whats your beef with porn? :) Sure there are good and bed ones,but why porn in general ?

the only thing that is ruining anything is mental slavery to which religion is king

I was referring to me going and look if threesome had also a general meaning besides being the porn category.

nvm then :) lol @ my troll comment heh

shame about the Jesus thing but no ones perfect eh
:)

cool

he is right in pointing out the average skill level in europe is higher.

This is because there are 300 million people in the US and 700 million in Europe, not because Europeans are more talented. There is a larger talent pool to draw from. Also, the quality and infrastructure of the internet makes it easier to play there.

average

You can't be a church man and kill people as an e-sport

Yeah, religious people never kill anyone. Esports is murder.

:)))))))))

he can do it in QL and stay without sins, remember no gore?

Thinking about tracking and killing cant be a good things as a christian


but lol christians bound to have killed more in time then hitler

angry christian flames after this line

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LOL WHAT ABOUT DINOSAURS

before i read this, if he mentions god anywhere in the interview im going to shoot him

[+]'d

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlzoL-wQwio

thats exactly how i feel driving lol

hm yes the header is a bit weird =).
Great interview though! rapha <3

Hmmm. First of all i'm an atheist before I get the "your a christian" flame.

But why is it so populair to flame everyone who is a christian and says he is? It's as if everyone is afraid of those people. I mean if he believes in God then that's fine with. Sure if that makes him happy and if he thinks that's where he gets his strength from.. Well I doubt it, but if he really believes that? SO WHAT!
He isn't saying that we all should burn in hell for not believing in his God does he? If he did... well then I would flame his guts as well :D

Come on he's just a nice guy with a good attitude. And if he gets the question how he performed so well and he thinks it's because of his faith in God then it's him being honest and not afraid of the current OH NOOOO ITS A CHRISTIAN FOBIA. I mean the interviewer asked him why so that's his answer.
I doubt it's because of God, but because he believes it his willpower is stronger. And that does help him, allthough imho he is probably fooling himself ;)

If you make a personal issue public, it's is subject to public scrutiny. In fact, YOU are guilty of the same situation by scrutinizing comments that other people have made about the situation.

Additionally, trying to say that you are an atheist before your comment is like saying "no offense" before you say something horribly offensive.

Do you want an honest answer to why people are afraid of Christians?

by the power of all miracles, rapha is a nice guy, despite the fact that he's a christian

non-believers will never defeat rapha

they can't because he use divine and undetectable cheats

jokes apart ..this is how actually rapha plays, except god's part is played by his sub-conscious mind / intuition / keen sense of timing whatever you call it.

rapha is...god?

jokes apart ... every descent player plays like this

grammar nazi jamerio jokes apart.....its spelled as decent

and no not really :) at least not to the degree he does.

How do you know?

Is it that inconceivable that he's winning for other reasons, such as because he makes smarter choices based on the information rather than simply because he's predicted it?

rofl i thought the bible next to the monitor thing was a joke, apparently the world is sadder than I thought!

It is no Bible*

*It is actually a new school of thought, or what religious people call a denomination.
Crash is the Virgin Mary and Sarge is the messiah in the original Quake Bible. In the cooller `03 it has been revealed that God is created in the image of cooller. We know this by looking back at all the evidence collected during 03, which clearly indicates cooller knows exactly when all items will spawn, something which can only be know by a God, greater than God(qlz, they called him, a incomprehensible word with no vowels).

According to godless, heartless blasphemers, it has been said that coollerthesim, could only have risen after Zeus was struck down by the heretic toxic, which sparked the end of polytheism. It is for this reason the eternal arena created Quake 4, a direct plagiarism of Quake 3 only to announce Allah God powers can now be witnessed through the vengeful aim of toxic, of whom its been said arrived on a winged horse.

As Rapha, the most god fearing Quake player, it is clear(from evidence shown above), which of the two eternal arenas is the true religion.