Thorin takes a shot at Ninja\u2019s ability following quote in ESPN magazine article Esports analyst Duncan \u2018Thorin\u2019 Shields has taken his latest shot at popular streamer, Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins. Thorin has gained a reputation as someone who doesn\u2019t hold back with his opinions, regardless of how controversial or cutthroat they may seem. Ninja, on the other hand, is someone who has tailored his public persona to appeal to the masses, which includes no longer swearing during his streams. This difference of tactics when it comes to making content makes a potential war of words between the two an interesting prospect. Thorin\u2019s latest shot at Ninja comes after he made it as the first gamer to appear on the front of ESPN\u2019s magazine. Normally reserved for sports stars, Ninja\u2019s appearance on the front page has been signaled as a sign of the times that gamers and esports is now being taken seriously in the mainstream media. During the interview, he claimed that he could play at a top level of any esport, but Thorin has hit out at that particular comment. Although he didn\u2019t mention it was specifically Ninja he was referring to, it\u2019s widely accepted that\u2019s who he was talking about. It’s cute a variety children’s entertainment streamer imagines he could compete in a real hardcore esports game. Ah, bless! \u2014 Thorin (@Thooorin) September 18, 2018 As expected there was plenty of Ninja fans who were quick to defend the streamer, including pointing out that he\u2019d competed at a top level in a number of titles. That, of course, didn\u2019t change Thorin\u2019s opinion. Unsurprisingly, I’m not particularly interested in the opinions of people without a background in Counter-Strike on how they think other people would do in Counter-Strike. Funny that. \u2014 Thorin (@Thooorin) September 18, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thorin takes a shot at Ninja\u2019s ability following quote in ESPN magazine article Esports analyst Duncan \u2018Thorin\u2019 Shields has taken his latest shot at popular streamer, Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins. Thorin has gained a reputation as someone who doesn\u2019t hold back with his opinions, regardless of how controversial or cutthroat they may seem. Ninja, on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}