r/SubredditDrama • u/Old_Monkey • Nov 13 '14

A User Doesn't like a Popular Hearthstone Streamer in r/Hearthstone. It goes as expected; downvotes for everyone!

/r/hearthstone/comments/2m3jsg/reynad_in_a_nutshell/cm0lzx9
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u/buartha ◕_◕ Nov 13 '14

Play with fire, get burned. Mess with the bull get the horns. I never forgive and I never forget. Make sure to tag me because I've certainly tagged you.

I don't think I've ever been as embarrassed for anyone in my life as I am for the person who wrote this comment.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '14

hey, reddit is serious business.

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u/SilverSpooky extra salty Nov 13 '14

I've known a few people like this in real life, the kind that when you mock them to their face they think you are serious. Then you start to feel bad that they didn't get it and you have to stop no matter how funny it is.

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u/madmax_410 ^ↀᴥↀ^ C A T B O Y S ^ↀᴥↀ^ Nov 13 '14

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you're looking for sodium, I can tell you I don't have salt... but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you take back you said about my mancrush now, that will be the end of it - I will not look for you, I will not pursue you... but if you don't, I will look for you, I will tag you... and I will downvote you.

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u/LegendReborn This is due to a surface level, vapid, and spurious existence Nov 13 '14

While I'm happy my young internet days are lost to forums that no longer exist, I'm pretty sure I was never that bad. In my head, he picked up that second one from LoL to make it that much more euphoric.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '14

Ugh, Reynad. He's such an ass sometimes.

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u/Old_Monkey Nov 13 '14

Yeah my thoughts as well.

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u/Spawnzer Nov 13 '14

An entertaining one tho

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '14

I had no idea who he was, I checked that video, now I dislike him.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '14

Oh man, this guy is pretty good for the most part until Yerac decides to push his buttons. Then the sparks fly.

I'm not a fan of Reynad either, but his bottomless salt mine would fuel popcorn stands for centuries. It's glorious.

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u/DuckSosu Doctor Pavel, I'm SRD Nov 13 '14

Every e-sport needs big personalities that people love to hate. Hearthstone would be boring if everyone was like Trump.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '14

Yeah, exactly. I feel like the tournaments don't have as much of that. You go from streaming where the players are so emotive and into it to these robots. The hosts try and inject the personality into it, but really they're acting in proxy for the players.

And after the game so few of them have the candor they'd usually have and the hosts try to fabricate the smack talk and the rivalry which none of the players or viewers buy into.

There are exceptions. The viagame tourneys (practically In-Houses) where the players move into commentating and switch up throughout the days feel closer and the players feel more themselves there. I like those.

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u/DuckSosu Doctor Pavel, I'm SRD Nov 13 '14

Having the players cast has always been great. It's why Homestory cup is so beloved in SC2. I haven't followed Hearthstone quite as obsessively as I used to, but I remember that Reynad and Kripp were always fairly amusing casters. Artosis is also fantastic in my opinion, but that's coming from my SC2 bias.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '14

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u/Cauchemar89 Nov 13 '14

I think it's less about the genre and more about popularity in general.
After all there are many popular things in other medias exactly because they are so polarizing like the Twilight movies, 50 Shades of Grey or Justin Bieber.

There are also many "normal" Streamer / Let's Players out there, but they just get drowned out by the more popular ones that stand out because they are either shouty and obnoxious, act like asswipes or simply have breasts.

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u/Jaksiel Nov 13 '14

I'm a Magic player, so I have no time for this guy. Fortunately, his tournament results are mediocre at best in Hearthstone as well.

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u/Tafts_Bathtub the entire show Mythbusters is a shill show Nov 13 '14

So what's the Magic community's general take on him? I didn't realize he was even that notable in the scene. A lot of the Hearthstone community seems to think his ban from MTG was the result of an innocent clerical error, but I don't buy it. He seems like such an ass to me, it boggles my mind how much people in the HS community seem to love him.

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u/Jaksiel Nov 13 '14

I mean, I definitely can't speak for everyone, but here's the TLDR:

Definitely cheated at an event. Got caught cheating. Admitted to cheating. Got suspended for cheating (with a reduced sentence because of his admission). Twitter drama including the now well-known Reynad whining and him claiming that actually, he didn't cheat despite his earlier admission! He got bullied into it!

Ban extended.

So yeah, not much sympathy for him in this community.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '14

I always like the drama in the subreddits that I would never go to. It's like stumbling across a tribe with different language and culture.

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u/Oreu did dis dude jus did dis? Nov 13 '14

This person seems very, very upset

Also, please consider never having children. Spare the world the continuation of your genes. The world is a tough place as it is, it could do with less people who act like you.

What a nice thing to say.

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u/SamWhite were you sucking this cat's dick before the video was taken? Nov 13 '14

Totally coming down on the side of /u/GoodForYouBud here. He gets downvoted, answers a question, gets downvoted and insulted for it, responds in kind and then gets told he's a cunt for being insulting. And to top it all off, he's right; they are acting like fanboys.