not sure if entertained...

That was painful to watch.

Just reading the paragraph about it made me cringe bad. You actually watched it haha :p

tl;dw

thank god carmac wasn't there

There are works of art on youtube with only a few hundred hits, then some guy farts in someone's face and it gets millions of hits and makes it on to TV and front page of yahoo.

I would not take too much value in being "popular" or "unpopular" on the internet given its mostly full of philistine losers who are more interested in cat pictures than something real.

The likes on facebook.
The followers on twitter.
The thumbs up on this and that.

Its a fake currency like the plus system on ESR, its just stuff invented by nerds for other nerds designed to con random readers into thinking so and so is more popular than they are.

The net is garbage, use it for fun, don't take it seriously.

Virtually everyone in this video is world famous and a millionaire based on them doing stuff like this...


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I always thought that the plus system is superior, because it's like liquid democracy. The comments you agree with, you can plus and they get more "voice". Also, the people you plus do as well. And when someone gets popular (people like his opinions about stuff), then his plusses become stronger.

I often thought that the plus system should be introduced to facebook, because it's so much better. But then I realized, hey, that wouldn't work. The most popular people being fucking half-wit celebrities, like Justin Bieber and Kim Kardashian and shit. Then I realized it's not the plus system, it's the people of ESR. While we have people like hitsu, still the average common sense is quite higher than of the entire world.

This lead me thinking: does liquid democracy actually work if people are fucking retarded? Maybe having a good system is not enough. Maybe dictatorship is even better, because like, there is a small chance the dictator has some common sense, but no chance the community do.

So yeah, tough life.

I listed to Rod for 5 minutes and then realised I'd heard Rod say this stuff a million times so I skipped to where Thorin comes on. Thorin instantly attacks Rod for taking 90 minutes to make 4 points, saying that he has to be concise or people will get bored. I got bored and turned off because Thorin took forever to make that point and irony killed me.

I remember Thorin from ESR comments being a complete and utter prick, so I've always held that against anything he has started to do in the rest of eSports. He has talent, he can write and he has great attention to detail but has no relevancy what so ever and instead of going after Slasher he should learn from Rod. Rod might be rough around the edges in his presentation but the guy is everywhere that it matters even though he writes for a site that doesn't.

Thorin's pay check is from an equally uninteresting esports site but he's not really changed his ways in the years he's been writing and creating his personality. When taking on SK from Carmac he had the greatest platform from which to grow and he hasn't really learnt his lesson from there. People in eSports aren't really interested in walls of text or the longest video interviews on youtube, they're interested in reddit headlines and tweets - if you can't capture them with that then you won't get them at all.

SENSATIONAL

dissing slasher is so 80's, get over yourself