On Life: Real Talk. Please read and share.

Listen SC2 fans (and others too really), the news about Life sucks. As a fan if it makes you sad and you want to care to find out the verdict and also have your own opinions, I'm all for that. You care about something, and someone you care about in that same field is said to have tainted it. That is pretty darn terrible.



But that doesn't kill the field. So many widely followed competitions have had and still have a lot of accusations and issues with cheaters and corruption and still live on healthily. I'm not saying that we should just accept it, we shouldn't, but we should also not indirectly glorify it and say that it has the power to kill the game and field.



Even brood war still lives on in Korea; if anything it's returned and there's still a missing picture on the OGN wall of fame as a reminder of what's happened. It sucks, it'll never leave, but it didn't singlehandedly kill the love of the craft for everyone.



With that in mind, here's some more food for thought. I'm not caught by shock and awe about this news, and it's not cause I always suspected Life. It's just simply that it can happen to anyone. The sooner we accept that, the more we'll be on the lookout and be able to prevent it and fight against it. This being Life doesn't mean it is a worse or better crime. It could have been your joe shmoe and we should still have cared and kept each other accountable. It could have been out of necessity, greed or even just from naive pride, and we should all have still kept each other attentive to the possibilities. If it can be Life, it can be anyone so keep an eye and ear out, and offer a hand when you see someone slipping.



Discuss, share and care, I am not saying we should stop that. But let's keep it in perspective before we glorify it for all sorts of reasons. I still like sc2, I still like esports, and I'll be damned if I let this incident put a stop to a craft I enjoy.



Now go and have beautiful Sunday. Watch a movie. Build a snowman. Go to the beach. Play some video games. Play some good ole Starcraft 2.

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