EVE Alliance Tournament Discussion

We are coming for you*

cuming on u*

As soon as it came out of my mouth I died a little inside. Being around internet vernacular tends to rub off after a while. I'm ashamed that it happened, and I'll try my best to make sure that it never occurs again.

Racial slurs can be used similarly. That's no excuse though.

Bastard is not a bigoted comment. Compare apples to apples, please.

Would it be okay to use a racial slur on air just because it is a commonplace in the vocabulary of the anonymous internet user - even if you meant no offense?

I am also, ahem, outraged and appalled by Brent's comments!

Since we are unable to lynch him publicly for this transgression, I think that he should provide due compensation to all the listeners and affected parties. By compensation, I do refer to ISK... because Brent is a known space-rich ***.

Ermm I disagree, if somebody called me a bastard and meant it, since I was born out of wedlock, I'd probably be quite offended, not only because of the word he or she said, but the fact that they wanted to offend me in the first place.

A lot of people say bastard all the time and I don't mind, because swears are thrown around a lot and have become a valid part of the English dictionary and any psychologist will tell you that F*ck is just as valid a word as B*gger.

At the end of the day, its not your right to say what is and what isn't a bigoted comment, if somebody was targeted and got offended, then let them bring it up, you have no right to. If they do bring it up, and you support them, thats different, but doing the white knight thing is as cliche as it is fake at this point.

Tbh, i think its a bigger insult when you defend somebody who didn't ask to be defended, because you are calling them weak, and thats just as bad as using the variety of words that exist to insult somebody.

Also GG to Brent for apologizing, it takes a man to own up to his mistakes, and for Brent, as a first time commentator and broadcaster, it is a totally acceptable slip to make, especially since he owned up to it.

Well done on the commentating, and well done for your apology.

Edit: Also, I'd like to add that unless you are a robot, you could totally tell from his face and his demeanor that he regretted saying it the second the words came out of his mouth. The fact alone that he was visibly regretting it, and the fact that there was embarrassment in his voice when he apologized, should be more than enough to prove that he didn't mean it and that it was an unfortunate slip.

Again, I personally laughed a little, and I don't think he should apologize because of what he said, I think he should apologize for where he said it, since it is a PG and professional broadcast.

I hope I don't need to tell you all that Brent is not a CCP employee, he has no history of commentating on a PG channel like this that I know. Brent was there as an outreach from CCP to the EvE online community, and when CCP involves the larger community, they can't control every single thing, and they can't train everybody on how they need to commentate and what not.

It was a mistake, he apologized, story over.

Its not about him, its about Brent and how he is basically being bullied. I posted that to support Brent and to show him that not everybody agrees with what people like Concha say.

TL;DR can i win something in this thread?

Hey Everyone,

On behalf of the tournament team and CCP I would like to apologize for the inappropriate language. The term used has no place on any CCP stream and this has been made clear with the team and our player volunteers.

-CCP Bro