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Originally Posted by cadandcookies
Apparently I can't give anymore reputation to Karthik, so I'll actually have to post instead (what a shame, isn't it?).
Maybe all you Ontario people are seeing this differently, but what I'm seeing as a remote observer is Ontario losing one of the best emcees in FIRST over how the community is acting.
That's a sad, sad thing to see.
Karthik: if you aren't going to be emceeing in Ontario again, feel free to come on over to Minnesota some time. We'd love to have you and your enthusiasm.
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+1.
I think we all need to cool down a bit. With all the fun (trust me, this season is still fun, even if its fun quotient is smaller than other years), this year has been frustrating. Week 1 is almost a different game from Week 4, and it won't surprise me if Championships is an ACTUAL dog-and-pony show. 1114 has been victim to two subjective rules that would have been called differently in different regionals, and called without common sense (from my MN vantage point).
I think we expect far too much from anyone from a Hall of Fame team or with a beautiful green reputation bar. We can look up to these people (believe me, I do), but we need to remember we're human. I wouldn't want to be remembered for my immature reaction to the outcome a qualifying match that directly affected our ranking (we lost by three points, and there were three things the referees "didn't see" including the pedestal not lighting up for twenty seconds). Karthik's reaction was honest and mature, and sometimes, that's not easy to take, even when we disagree with it. I
wish I could handle disappointment with that much maturity while still managing to express it. We're all human, and HoF teams are made of humans. We should respect each other as such.
I think we need to take a step back. Just because we feel like we're being preyed on by invisible GDC vultures sometimes doesn't give us the right to do the same to others. Open disagreement is fine, but please be mature about it (yes, I realize how hypocritical that sounds when I admit I can be immature, but at least I try not to be). And don't hide behind a puppet account to do it. If you don't want people to know you said something, maybe you shouldn't say it (rare circumstances make anonymity reasonable, but this doesn't).
100% agreed, cadandcookies. Karthik should consider trying MN, though the circumstances causing his departure from MC-ing Ontario would make me less than happy about it. We don't bite, and the cold is somewhat more tolerable.
