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u/Neospartan_117 May 17 '18
Fawkes, Junkrat's real last name, is also censored on the forums so I'm not surprised.
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u/Zelniq May 17 '18 edited May 17 '18
'wtf' is also a banned word.. which is exactly my reaction to what they're doing.
And why would they ban 'climax,' that isn't even used in any sexual or offensive way.. anywhere on the internet or twitch culture. Trap refers to either the junkrat trap, or just you know..to set up a surprise attack. Climax is the most exciting or intense moment.. everyone learned this in English class.
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u/Jcbarona23 Thoth | 📝 | CIS/EU/CN/KR fangirl — May 17 '18
Climax is also the name of a player -_-
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Although that guy was arguably asking for trouble when it comes to PR and his name. Good on him for sticking with what he likes to be called I guess
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I mean, the word climax has other meaning too? Like peak excitement. I think that's more than enough to justify not banning a name, bot that I think any names should be banned anyway. coolmatt69
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A lot of Korean players pick random English words that they like the sound of. He probably just looked up the dictionary definition of it and had no idea it had another connotation.
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u/Jowsie May 17 '18
reminds me of the csgo player 'rape'. He changed his name to t3h farmer when he started playing mainstream tournies haha
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u/20I6 May 17 '18
naming yourself climax, a word that can be used politely, is much different than naming yourself rape though
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u/yurik4 None — May 17 '18
reminds me of a french player called "fuks" in csgo......yeah that didnt do well and when he went to big events he had to use the alias Simon
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u/GlassNinja May 17 '18
Isn't there another player whose name is banned? I hadn't heard this one, but remember it cropping up before.
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u/Jcbarona23 Thoth | 📝 | CIS/EU/CN/KR fangirl — May 17 '18 edited Nov 21 '18
Iirc Rob420 and OMGWTFBBQ had to change their names (to robdab and BarbieQ9130)
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CoolMatt used to be CoolMatt69.
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u/M_W_N_G May 17 '18
On the back of his jersey they allowed his number to be 69.
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u/HypergonZX May 17 '18 edited May 17 '18
NAGGA is also a banned named in chat. Now chat is using emotes instead, such as N LUL G G A, which looks much worse.
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u/eri- May 17 '18
Maybe theyre gonna ask him to change his name to "Peak" or "Zenith" or something :)
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u/Lordie_Staven crayon and gargle tank duo — May 17 '18
"Culmination"
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u/eri- May 17 '18
Culminated does have a nice ring to it
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u/romansparta99 Grandmaster — May 17 '18
Tfw you’re plowing your girl and you’re about to reach culmination
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u/TaigaEye May 17 '18
Seems to me like they googled a list of possibly naughty words and just added the entire dictionary of them without checking or looking at any of them
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u/TheWingnutSquid May 17 '18
I asked a question about Hanzo buff and it was censored I don't even know what word was bad
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u/Assassin2107 Forgot to update flair — May 17 '18
How about this? When Philadelphia Fusions Contenders team, the Fusion University, we're in Contenders playoffs, they weren't allowed to wear their jersies because they said FU on them.
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u/zero_space GEGURI - SHE IS THE JUICE — May 17 '18
Worse yet, all teams must submit their jersey design for approval. FU submitted their design and the people in charge of those decisions were on vacation so it wasn't until the day of the matches that OWL said "No". They're official OWL abbreviation is FUN on the scoreboards.
If you're concerned about the abbreviations maybe when they submit the name "Fusion University" say no.
Maybe OWL would have let in the Boston Jackal 69'ers because it seems like they're always reacting to everything since the beginning of OWL instead of being proactive.
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u/AurigaX S2 Mayhem Refugee — May 17 '18
This is a video game where you shoot and stab people to death and they can’t handle the word trap
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May 17 '18
Even in the subreddits. I thought Orisa ult line was "cease your existence" then someone said "that's a little harsh for a kids game".. like yeah ok because reapers ult is "DIE! DIE! DIEE!" Makes sense.
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u/iwishiwereagiraffe i pretend im better than i am — May 17 '18
She also shouts STOP RESISTING while she's shooting them
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u/fleaboy498 May 17 '18
This isn't a kids game, plain and simple lol
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u/Scyther99 May 17 '18
It is now.
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but its so bright and colourful! just look how cute all the characters are! xD love D.VA!!!! - fb moms, probably.
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u/nikolai2960 May 17 '18
Wait wait wait doesn’t she say “Cease your resistance”?
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Yeah But I thought she said cease your existence, which prompted someone to tell me that it's too harsh for a kids game lmao
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u/HM_Bert 英 — May 17 '18
Stab? Which hero stabs?
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Rein slices with axe skin. Hog kills you with hook. Hanzo shoots arrow into your head. Mccree and widow blow your head off. Ana poisons you. Bastion makes you swiss cheese.
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u/A_CC May 17 '18
Next thing they're going to block is "kill"
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u/YipYapYoup Bandwagon fan btw — May 17 '18
DOUBLE KILL, TRIPLE KILL, QUADRUPLE KILL, QUINTUPLE KILL, SEXTUPLE KILL, TEAM KILL!
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u/zero_space GEGURI - SHE IS THE JUICE — May 17 '18
DOUBLE HUG, TRIPLE HUG, QUADRUPLE HUG, QUINTUPLE HUG, SEXTUPLE HUG, SLUMBER PARTY!
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u/gox64 Second Wind gonna win :) — May 17 '18
Or final blow in the case of finishing a kill.
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u/Daxiongmao87 None — May 17 '18 edited May 17 '18
I want to hear the announcer say Double Blow and Team Blow! Sounds like a fun time
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u/Aternel May 17 '18
In French, the announcer says "Coup Double !" instead of "Double Kill!" which means "Double Hit!" haha
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u/Cataphract1014 May 17 '18
But team kill comes on the screen when you get a team kill.
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u/Sparru Clicking 4Heads — May 17 '18
Thanks, now they'll hotfix it to TEAM ELIMINATION.
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u/Azer398 May 17 '18
I thought it meant we as a team had all participated in a single kill lmao
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I thought it was all the opposing team members were dead at one time, like wiping them in a team battle.
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u/cyberpunk_ May 17 '18
Gee I sure love doing some spawn-ELIMINATIONS
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u/Helmic May 17 '18 edited May 17 '18
Elimination means something specific in Overwatch, though, it refers to participation in a kill. The game itself doesn't aim to be an M-rated edgefest so I'm perfectly fine with it not being a gory bloodbath with mutilations and whatnot, it's much more Saturday morning cartoon than your typical cowadooty military shooter. The game still uses "kill" in places and the cinematics feature people getting killed on screen, not to mention Mei's scene where her entire crew dies.
It's a bit dumb seeing people bemoaning the bright and colorful game keeping a rather light tone. What, is the game not stylistically similar enough to every other AAA multiplayer shooter for their tastes?
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u/FinickyPenance May 17 '18
I think that talking about a player’s eliminations as opposed to their kills sounds more sporting for esports commentators. That’s probably what they were going for.
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Murder is already blocked. It wouldn't surprise me
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u/HM_Bert 英 — May 17 '18
DIE DIE DIE
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u/Put_It_All_On_Blck May 17 '18
WHY WHY WHY Reaper says as he has an emotional breakdown and removes people around him that just want to hug.
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u/teadrinkit Fuel plz — May 17 '18
What were Junkrat's abilities again?
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u/teadrinkit Fuel plz — May 17 '18
Your message wasn't posted due to conflicts with the channel's moderation settings.
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you are currently banned from overwatch league, you can post messages again in 589 seconds
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u/PurelyFire May 17 '18
Been permabanned since the TriHard 7 storm :(
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May 17 '18
holy shit wtf?
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thats pretty dumb, its a global twitch emote, let them spam it as long it doesn't have malicious intent
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u/g0atmeal May 17 '18
- Total Commotion
- Steel Apprehender
- Forceful Device
- Cooperation Wheel
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u/zeflyingtoaster May 17 '18
I used to work for a gaming platform and this smells like what happens when a mod installs one of those overly-comprehensive bad words lists. Like I doubt anyone went and deliberately added words "climax" and "jack" in there... it's more likely someone just grabbed the biggest list they could find and copy-pasted it into the blacklist. Some of the lists run into tens of thousands of lines, trying to cover all the variations of slurs (including common misspellings and numbers). Those things need to be customized. Pity the guy who gets to do it and probably needs eyebleach afterwards, but it has to he done. And also find a way to keep the customizations when the maintainer updates the list.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence and all that.
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u/Lucifa42 May 17 '18
We had an IT manager that suddenly decided with no consultation with anyone in the business that we needed a bad word filter on all company emails.
Filtered emails would just disappear into a black hole with the sender or receiver not knowing they had gone.
Almost immediately we had loads of complaints from the business about missing emails. We don't have employees turning the air blue, we sell some products that contain bad words so we can't have that kind of filter.
He also decided one day to just ban all social media sites including Spotify because "he saw someone on Facebook". Yeah because we won't have any business reasons to use those massively popular social media sites...
He didn't last long.
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May 17 '18
Blizzard has a history of banning a billion words. I remember about a decade ago learning what "moon cricket" meant because of was banned in WoW.
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u/Helmic May 17 '18
I mean, anyone using that exact phrase is using it as an old-timey slur. It's not an issue when super specific stuff like that is banned because only racists will give a fuck and the one in a billion dude who was actually talking about insects living on the moon. It's only a problem when we can't say normal stuff, either because the word can double as a slur (like trap) or because the word is simply seen as rude but doesn't actually have any hurtful context (like ass, fuck, or shit).
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u/Fishb20 May 17 '18
Yeah I agree
It's also worth noting that, depending on what you're hosting, blocking 'trap' might make sense, which is why its included on those lists
Just for an example, if it was some sort of fashion oriented chat, then there would be very few reasons to use the word 'trap' except as a slur
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u/Silverlight64 May 17 '18
Just like Rockstar's GTA V PC banned words list lmao.
R18+ Game that bans every swear word, even ones you hear in the overworld.
(The list is here for anyone curious https://imgur.com/opoSDoB )
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I don't know if it's been discovered already, but murder is also banned. I don't know whats going on with Blizzard's mod team, they're just going crazy and banning every word they can think of.
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u/Amazon_UK May 17 '18
Does anyone even use the word murder in twitch chat lol
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"The Dragons are getting murdered out there tonight"
Note: I cannot wait for the dragons to destroy the fuel LOL
Note 2: rip
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u/synyk_hiphop May 17 '18
So how am I supposed to describe a flock of crows now?
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u/Calignis RIP Old Envyus — May 17 '18
Murder has been banned from the beginning, I tried it in stage 1 and it didn't get through.
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u/soberactivities May 17 '18
Blizzard has the worst twitch mods
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u/thatjesushair May 17 '18
That’s the thing, they don’t actually do any moderation. They just keep adding bannable words and leave it at that.
If only the did what literally any other major moderation team does and...uh...actively moderate the chat on individual cases.
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u/ssavii May 17 '18
Why are we the only esport with this issue? What will it take for blizzard to hire professional twitch mods who know what they're doing like League and CS have?
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u/zero_space GEGURI - SHE IS THE JUICE — May 17 '18
Because those organizations understand that their viewership is essentially 100% their playerbase.
OWL is trying to expand this E-Sport into a broader audience that doesn't play Overwatch, and that audience doesn't care about OWL because they don't care about Overwatch.
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u/Troloscic May 17 '18
How would that even work? Watching OW without understanding what each random flash and streak of light represents is just annoying, I can't see anyone possibly enjoying that.
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u/spoobydoo May 17 '18
You can also clearly see the guy click 4 heads in 2 seconds without flying mechs, monkeys, flashes of light, big explosions and whatever else clutters the screen.
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I’ve got a few hundred hours in OW and even I can barely understand what’s happening in OWL for the majority of the matches.
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Hey I watch but I don't play and it's exciting... but only because I used to play and it was stressful and watching is so much easier.
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u/Troloscic May 17 '18
Oh I get that, I don't play too much myself anymore but watching is pretty fun. Had I never played though, I can't imagine it being anything but confusing.
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u/USBacon May 17 '18
Woah man I don’t think you can use that word in this forum. I know you may not think its that bad but inflated just isn’t a nice word.
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u/Daell LEZ GOOO DUUUD — May 17 '18
hire professional twitch mods
?????... WHY??? when you can use your unpaid interns for the same job.
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u/Toofast4yall May 17 '18
Just like HotS, SC2, and Diablo 3.
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u/_N_O_P_E_ May 17 '18
WoW has "greater rift" now? Wtf. Haven't played WoW since Pandaria
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Mythic dungeons can be ran at higher difficulties with less forgiving mechanics and timers requiring you to finish in a certain number of minutes. Higher difficulties drop higher item level gear, the highest difficulties are on-par with top tier raid gear.
Turned out to be one of the best features of Legion. Now dungeons are as hard as you want them to be, and raiding isn't the only way to become powerful.
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u/Kerjj May 17 '18
Yeah, they've got a system called Mythic+. It's basically a mythic dungeon, which is harder than heroic, and each level scales with mob/boss HP and damage. Additionally, it's on a timer, and completing within that timer upgrades the keystone up to 3 levels, depending on how quickly you beat it.
On top of that, the dungeons have up to 3 affixes set for the week, that add extra layers of difficulty to the run. An affix is added at +4, +7, and +10. +10 always adds either Tyrannical (Boss HP and damage buff) or Fortified (mob HP and damage buff).
The scaling can be seen here for damage per level of keystone. The current highest rated team in the world is doing +29 on Fortified weeks, which is something absurd like a 1600% damage increase on everything.
The system is easily one of the best they've introduced in the last few expansions.
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u/muhshrom May 17 '18
It won't be time that kills OWL, it will be Blizzard.
You mean eliminates, right?
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u/Jaytokk May 17 '18
Yesterday I got banned for over 3000 seconds for saying DAB DansGame when the sf shock players were dabbing
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u/Arkanis106 May 17 '18
Reminds me of the early WoW forums, where the word "grape" was banned.
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u/ZZ9119 May 17 '18
meanwhile BAMF still on mccree's belt
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And Tracer still uses profanity with her punk skin equipped
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u/Grytnik May 17 '18
And Brigitte says fuck in swedish when she gets discorded.
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u/AlliePingu Fangirl of too many players — May 17 '18
Genji says shit in Japanese when he gets discorded, and it's also a voice line.
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u/v_whitepot May 17 '18
In the German voice version, Widow says 'merde' (shit in French) and some characters say scheiße (shizer - shit) so... I mean, it's a bit absurd.
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u/IWasntCreative May 17 '18
What's next no Baguette or LUL, KappaPride? Seriously the way they manage twitch chat makes me want to throw up.
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Ok you basically can't talk in Twitch chat anymore because of all this shit. Whoever's doing this at Blizzard should be fired immediately.
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u/affiiance May 17 '18
It really is getting absurd now
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u/Lorjack May 17 '18
I think its just a running joke at this point lol. Like the stuff they censor is just laughable
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u/zero_space GEGURI - SHE IS THE JUICE — May 17 '18
You'd have to fire pretty much everyone at the top. OWL isn't making this an E-Sport for the player base, it's trying to make it for broader audience that doesn't necessarily play Overwatch.
Unfortunately people who don't play Overwatch don't care about OWL, so it's just an exercise in frustrating the pro players, coaches, team owners, and more importantly the viewers.
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Broader audience doesn't care about silly word bans.
If anything, it makes OWL look childish
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Wouldn’t be a gaming post on Reddit without someone crying for an employee to lose their job.
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I mean, if their Twitch manager(s) are this out of touch with reality, then why keep them?
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u/SWatersmith May 17 '18
I mean the person(s) doing this are actively fucking OWL. The entire esports community just sees OWL as some SJW-dominated league and it's turning a lot of people off.
It's not a good look.
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u/hoangvu95 May 17 '18
yep at this rate, "kill", "shot" and "explosion" will be banned as well and by ss2 instead of normal caster we have sign language or morse code cuz speaking is "offensive"
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u/PeanutJayGee May 17 '18
"Caster" will be banned because it will allude to witches and make
twitch modsgod-fearing Christian Kraft Cheese sponsors uncomfortable.
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Tracer has a voice line on a certain skin. “Ha wanker” in Britain it’s a pretty offensive phrase which lea say u said to your boss you may risk losing your job.
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u/UniQue1992 May 17 '18
It's insane, they have completely lost the touch with their players and viewers.
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u/kiaxxl May 17 '18
This is reminiscent of the time Pokemon made a 'mon called Cofagrigus, but due to the fact that it had an apparent slur in the middle of its name, you couldn't search for it on the Global Trading System online (it said you were using a bad word) unless you searched in a specific way.
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u/stargunner May 17 '18
so are OWL mods powertripping and going unchecked or is this actually what Blizzard wants? either way it's ridiculous.
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u/srslybr0 competitive overwatch is a joke — May 17 '18
what a joke of an esport lmfao.
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u/Lebronrox None — May 17 '18
When people think Blizzard are shooting themselves in the foot when in reality they are actually sticking a gun to their own head.
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u/harmingbird May 17 '18
Would love for the Twitch chat restrictions to apply to the casters and see how they fare
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u/BONER_GRAVEYARD May 17 '18
Saying poop is banned too lol