UberDanger’s personal life is irrelevant to his reddit vote manipulation
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One of the huge topics on reddit right now is the fact that UberDanger, along with a bunch of other YouTube content creators, are applying malicious tactics to their reddit posts in order to increase their popularity.
Supposedly, there is a massive group on Skype of League of Legends content creators on YouTube who post links to their reddit submissions and upvote each other in order to ensure everyone in the group reaches the front page and receives maximum visibility.
Just this is enough to get all associated content creators banned from reddit, as long as the reddit moderators and administrators are able to verify that it actually happened.
Unfortunately, the validity and severity of this is being diminished by people who are going for more – not just removing immoral content creators from reddit, but also trying to ruin their lives.
An example of this is UberDanger.
UberDanger posted a vlog on YouTube stating that he did, in fact, participate in these unethical practices on reddit in the past. This should be sufficient evidence to ban UberDanger’s content from reddit and move on, never seeing him again.
But people keep bringing up the fact that there is a rumor going around claiming he performed statutory rape on a fifteen-year-old girl in the United States when he visited Boston to attend PAX East.
The validity of the rumor is unproven, as the girl in question has not personally come forward claiming it happened (as far as I’m aware). Thus, there is absolutely no reason to bring a random rumor into a discussion regarding a more serious topic about vote manipulation.
Those who keep mentioning the statutory rape accusations are only hurting their own case. It’s common for people to attack the individual if they feel as if their argument in the original debate is lacking.
The argument (UberDanger and his content should be banned from reddit) in the original debate (YouTube content creators, including UberDanger, are abusing reddit and breaking its terms of service) is not lacking.
So stop taking this too far, and keep UberDanger’s personal life out of it.
If he did in fact commit statutory rape, that’s a job for his local justice system, not a job for the “reddit detectives.”
Apparently some other relatives from New Jersey had gone here while they were visiting Illinois, and recommended the restaurant to us.
We sat over in this corner, away from most of the other people. It wasn’t actually as dark as it seems in the photo; my phone’s camera just happened to have a bit of trouble adjusting to the bright outdoors, and compensated the lighting in the wrong direction.
The first thing to mention is that they have a senior discount and an “after 1 PM” discount. We didn’t actually realize this time-based discount until we were leaving the restaurant, and I was a little upset because we had arrived at about 12:56 PM.
But, when we checked the receipt, we noticed that the cashier had given us the post-1:00 price without us having to request it, even though the payment was made before the eligible discount time. It’s always nice to see businesses be flexible and value the happiness of their customers, rather than stick hard to the rules in order to make more money.
As for the buffet itself, it wasn’t really my preferred style of restaurant, but from a neutral perspective, it’s a pretty decent restaurant. It has a lot of different American food, so if you’re a fan of American, this might be the place for you.
I personally prefer to get American food from fast food restaurants where you just get a large serving of one item, rather than tiny bits of a variety of foods. This is important to keep in mind when I say I wasn’t that thrilled at this restaurant – it’s more of a conflicting preference thing, rather than the restaurant doing anything wrong.
While I was getting food, I didn’t notice any strange odors, but when I went back to my table to sit down, there was a strange smell in our corner. It’s difficult to describe, but the best I can do is the smell of undried clothing mixed with the sweat of someone who eats a lot of fatty foods. So, if you plan on going to this particular restaurant at this particular location, you might want to avoid that corner.
My favorite part of the trip was the dessert. They have a massive variety of desserts, including cakes, chocolate fountains for strawberries, cotton candy, and an ice cream dispenser. This was actually the first time I had ever had cotton candy on a stick since I was a tiny child.
We had an older male as our server, and he seemed a little bit too nice. He made sure that we had everything we needed, and came (almost excessively) often to refill drinks. One peculiar thing I tend to do at buffets is to reuse my old plate for my second serving in order to help them cut down on dishwashing costs. At the Golden Corral, I didn’t even have a chance to do that because my old plates were taken away so quickly.
Overall, from my own personal perspective (which means taking my own preferences into consideration), I would rate this restaurant 5/10. From a non-biased perspective, I would rate this restaurant 7/10. I would say it’s a solid restaurant, but there was nothing that made me say “wow,” which is generally needed for me to give anything a 9-10/10 rating. 
Apparently my parents knew the owner of the restaurant. The food wasn’t exactly the best – my meat was a bit burnt when I usually like it cooked rare, and my soup was a bit bitter – but it was a decent-enough restaurant with good value for the price.
After we finished eating, we entered the heart of Chicago, and went to the Willis Tower (formerly known as the Sear’s Tower). We went through the skydeck tour; on the path to the elevator, there was a lot of informational stations, one of which was a video.
The elevator ride up to the top took only about a minute, which meant that we were traveling at about 18 miles an hour.
Once we got to the top, I took a ton of photos looking out the windows. I uploaded these in higher-than-1080p resolution, so it’s definitely worth checking them out in full quality in the Google+ album.
The last time these relatives visited us, back several years ago, we went on a tour via boat. My dad managed to find out where it was, so I took a picture.
There were souvenirs at the top of the tower. I didn’t really want one, so instead of buying them, I just took pictures of them. These are wooden replicas of the Willis Tower.
After making our way back down, we went on to tour Millenium Park.
This was a stage near the exit to the parking garage where we parked.
Of course, we visited Cloud Gate, commonly referred to as “The Bean,” and widely accepted as the finest piece of art in Chicago.
There must’ve been a field trip going on, because while we were at Cloud Gate, a bunch of tiny children flooded around the sculpture and stood under it. This is another photo, this time from the opposite angle as the photo above.
Near Cloud Gate, there was a tree with white flowers; according to my dad, it’s the exact same tree that we have in our backyard.
On our walk to Crown Fountain, we encountered a bunch of art students drawing “1004 Portraits,” a series of sculptures by Jaume Plensa.
And finally, we made it to Crown Fountain, the last notable Chicagoan feature in our walk. Unfortunately, it wasn’t activated, but the shifting faces still worked.
Remember, these photo highlights are just that – highlights. Be sure to check out the complete album to see all the photos I took during our trip in 2048-pixel-width resolution.
