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End of the Road
I heard somewhere once that when people say ‘the illusion of choice’ what they really mean is if you look back and say ‘what if’ or ‘could’ve’ there’s only ever one answer: it wouldn’t be you. It would be someone else, and at that point they wouldn’t be asking the same questions. On or about
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The Next Avenue for Israeli Genocide Defense is Bullying the FGC?
Won’t someone think of the racists? Apparently, we must. Over with our friends in the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate scene, Felix Hasson, who plays under the name “T_Pot”, recently reached an agreement regarding a lawsuit that was filed on his behalf by the National Jewish Advocacy Center, who argued that the player was banned from
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RIP Brad “Slips” Vitale
I think the above sums up Brad “Slips” Vitale more than anything I could write. Brad passed away this last weekend, at the startlingly young age of 44. For a minute Brad and I hosted a podcast together, but we had been acquaintances for years before that. While he was a legend in the Tekken
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The Problem With Making Hax$ A Martyr Is the Cause Makes No Damn Sense
When I shared my post about the deceased Super Smash Bros. Melee player Aziz “Hax$” Al-Yami, I expected being told to kill myself. Truthfully, this is mostly a function of Twitter (sometimes called ‘X’ by the worst people in the world). Being owned by a white supremacist, breeding-fetish jerkoff with millions of followers kind of
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If You’re Gonna Use Hax$’s Corpse for Content, At Least Tell the Truth
Abdulaziz “Hax$” Al-Yami, a lauded Super Smash Bros. Melee player, died last month. The details are murky, but it seems to stem from complications related to a prior suicide attempt last year. I won’t eulogize the man; I didn’t know him, and all I can really attest to is that he was a prominent player
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Maybe I Just Don’t Get it
I have a hypothetical I’d like to propose. Two, actually. Both regard examples of potential sponsorship or extended partnerships, both foreign and domestic, that could happen in Esports spaces: Now mull those over in your head. What do you think the response from the FGCs across social media would be if either of those two
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I Did Nazi That Coming
It’s always the people you most suspect! In an attempt as pathetic as his plugs, Seon-Woo “Infiltration” Lee has decided that his latest path to find love and acceptance is to embrace the antisemites of the world. In a post on Twitter, he found comradery in a poster who, aside from telling baldfaced lies about
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Infiltration Has a Character Problem, Not a Truth Problem
For better or for worse, my blog post about Seon-Woo “Infiltration” Lee, and the myriad of odd and upsetting events that upended his professional gaming career, is my most popular and widely shared work. Whenever I get a notification about a spike in my low readership, there’s a roughly 97% chance it’s related to that
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It Only Took a Year
There’s a writer whose blog I read frequently, and he got me hip to this image of a French man going to a 2015 demonstration against the violent attacks at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. His sign, roughly translated, says “I walk but I am conscious of the confusion and hypocrisy of the situation.”
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Revisiting Hax$ – Mental Illness Isn’t Absolution, But it Matters
Years ago I wrote a post in which I analyzed a feud between two personalities in the Super Smash Bros. Melee pod – Aziz “Hax$” Al-Yami and William “Leffen” Hjelte. Hax$, through some of the worst arguments imaginable in an unbelievably long YouTube video, managed to flip his status as Melee elder statesmen into being
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Them's fighting words!! 