Personally, I think that if the community didn't tolerate, let alone play up to, the retarded "stream monsters", this really wouldn't even be an issue. However, there is also often a lot of insightful and entertaining discussion going on too it just often gets lost in streams which don't get any or much press coverage. Anyone that does knows that, while they are a bunch of fun-loving people, there also is a whole lot of racist, sexist, and childish bullshit going on.Indeed. ![]() I've watched a shit load of fighting game streams. I hope this media attention might actually be a wakeup call for the higher ups in the community to start telling these morons to shut the fuck said: But somehow "stream monster" has become an endearing term for assholes trying to outdo each others attempts at trolling and being as despicable as possible. And the argument that "this doesn't happen offline" is irrelevant this is tolerated online and needs to stop. The FGC, nor Reddit, nor anyone should be immune to being called out for it just because "they don't really mean it" or some such nonsense. But it's nice to see there's actually being some attention given to the disgusting amounts of sexism that can go on across the internet in general and that it really shouldn't be tolerated as much as it has been. The FGC does lots of awesome things and is a terrific community the same can be said about much of the internet. As a fan of the FGC and GB member I hope to see better relations between the two in the future. That is the way sites will build bridges with the FGC. If you want to cover the FGC, then you have to cover what makes the scene what it is, as Tom Cannon put it, what defines the FGC. The article about Noah is not a FGC article, it's a Noah article, the Aris article is not a FGC article, it's an Aris article. Now Patrick would tell you that Giant Bomb has covered the FGC, when they ran the story about Noah Solis just after Evo 2011 last year - īut Noah is no more representative of the FGC than Aris is. What do I mean by this? I mean that if Giant Bomb wants to cover the bad, then they have to cover the good too. If Patrick and other members of the video game media don't meet the FGC half-way, then nothing will be accomplished. Patrick at least understands that the FGC sees itself presented very poorly in the media. After everything that's happened, why is the FGC now hesitant to speak with the video game media? He is the hardest working man in the FGC and a prime example of the hard work and passion in the FGC. And now MLG is hoping he will produce their Mortal Kombat, King of Fighters XIII and Soulcalibur V tournaments at the MLG Winter Championships. ![]() Spooky (of Team Spooky) hasn't been home for 3 weeks, he streamed Winter Brawl, the second Road to Evo event, then he streamed Team Street Fighter and commentated all week for Cross Assault and now he's streaming Final Round XV. As a Road to Evo event, Evo Championship seeding points will be given. The Cross Assault grand final will be held here today (Saturday March 3rd) at 10PM PST. Keep an eye out for the comments from Twitch,tv's own Ben 'Fishstix' Goldhaber.įinal Round is the biggest FGC tournament event on the East Coast, Final Round XV (15 years!) is happening this weekend. Please watch this video, this is the FGC, this is heartfelt and should be shown to as many people as possible. People will tell you about their first event, or maybe a particularly memorable grand finals, or the fun times hanging out with friends after the event, or the fantastic trip to a new place where they met new people and became friends. Ask any long-time player about their favorite memories and almost no one will tell you about the time a caster yelled some obscenity, or the time someone popped off in another guys’ face. Yes, the scene is rowdy and uses colorful language. By that logic, Aris is the FGC, because Giant Bomb, Kotaku, Destructoid, Penny Arcade etc. ![]() ![]() In the eyes of the average internet savvy gaming culture person, the FGC is the people that are covered in the media. Unintentionally or not, coverage by the video game media (including Giant Bomb) has painted the FGC in a very negative light. So what I'm trying to do with this blog is give an accurate representation of what the Fighting Game Community is all about. Disclaimer: I'm going with the assumption that we all agree that the actions of Aris on the Team Tekken half of Cross Assault was completely wrong and that if you have an opinion on the matter that you want to discuss you have 2 articles by Patrick and various additional articles by many video game journalism websites in which to do so.
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