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Autonomous Monster posted:Wait a sec. Did you just hurl balls at each other like savages?
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Pretty much. I mean maybe there were teams and I just never got the message? Dodgeball berserker.
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How do you even do FFA dodgeball without someone getting hurt seriously? At least I remember in Highschool people could whip the balls pretty hard, last thing you'd want is to be taking a ball point blank.
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The reason why dodgeball is frowned upon lately is because the kids who are the worst at physical activity, and thus the most likely to be eliminated, are the ones who most need to be participating and getting exercise. The ideal gym punishment is running laps, not sitting down. But that doesn't instill the narratively appropriate tone of nerds being permanently and hopelessly inferior to jocks as an innate condition of their being because the system stifles improvement despite ostensibly existing to promote it. Stories need that kind of cruel irony!
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I liked Dodgeball in school because I was awful at every other sport we did (I was always a good sprinter too but we almost never did any track) but I was a Dodgeball king and I got a lot of adolescent pleasure out of smashing people hard with a ball. Good times.
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Bongo Bill posted:The reason why dodgeball is frowned upon lately is because the kids who are the worst at physical activity, and thus the most likely to be eliminated, are the ones who most need to be participating and getting exercise. The ideal gym punishment is running laps, not sitting down. But that doesn't instill the narratively appropriate tone of nerds being permanently and hopelessly inferior to jocks as an innate condition of their being because the system stifles improvement despite ostensibly existing to promote it. Stories need that kind of cruel irony! I think the real reason dodgeball is frowned upon is because when I was in middleschool way back when and we played it, multiple kids ended up with bloody noses every time it was played, let alone the broken glasses and what not. We had actual dodgeball balls, and when one of those hit your face when thrown hard it hurt. Parents didn't like this! They petitioned the school! The school removed dodgeball from being allowed. Then re-added it when a parent donated a bunch of super soft tiny little balls that literally couldn't hurt anyone, and were really terrible to throw.
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School activities always need to be planned keeping in mind that kids will be intentionally trying to hurt each other if possible because they are enormous little shits.
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KittyEmpress posted:I think the real reason dodgeball is frowned upon is because when I was in middleschool way back when and we played it, multiple kids ended up with bloody noses every time it was played, let alone the broken glasses and what not. We had actual dodgeball balls, and when one of those hit your face when thrown hard it hurt. Parents didn't like this! They petitioned the school! The school removed dodgeball from being allowed. Then re-added it when a parent donated a bunch of super soft tiny little balls that literally couldn't hurt anyone, and were really terrible to throw. That's also a problem with it, but in pedagogical terms the rules of the game just don't work toward their intended purpose.
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KittyEmpress posted:I think the real reason dodgeball is frowned upon is because when I was in middleschool way back when and we played it, multiple kids ended up with bloody noses every time it was played, let alone the broken glasses and what not. We had actual dodgeball balls, and when one of those hit your face when thrown hard it hurt. Parents didn't like this! They petitioned the school! The school removed dodgeball from being allowed. Then re-added it when a parent donated a bunch of super soft tiny little balls that literally couldn't hurt anyone, and were really terrible to throw. When we played Dodgeball, headshots were against the rules and got you put out and the ball given to the other team.
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Cucumber Quest fans, please look closely at the first panel of yesterday's strip.
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youcallthatatwist posted:Cucumber Quest fans, please look closely at the first panel of yesterday's strip. 
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What am I missing here? 
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https://twitter.com/paranaturalzack/status/585584969310941185paranaturalzack on twitter posted:@gigideegee this is my original character, Nate Murnite
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Bongo Bill posted:That's also a problem with it, but in pedagogical terms the rules of the game just don't work toward their intended purpose. At my school, "out" meant that you had to leave the court proper but you were still allowed to grab and throw balls at people; if you hit someone you were allowed back in. Games got pretty hectic towards the end, as you were forced to dodge shots from all sides.
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dodgeball isn't about state-mandated physical activity it's about if you don't have a supervised environment where kids are allowed to wing regulated semi-soft things at each other and get it out of their system they'll just do it after school with rocks
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The fairest game of dodgeball I've ever played was one were everyone hopped into the middle of a circle and two people throwing the ball stayed outside of the circle. When you got hit, you moved outside of the circle and could throw the ball at folks inside the circle. The winner was the last person left. The final two people were 'it' for the next round. Incidentally, I work at a number of Japanese elementary schools and once, to end an argument between the girls and boys over whether or not to play their overly complicated dodgeball that I still don't understand how works, I suggested my version. This kids and the teachers loved it. Still, I might try a variation based on this comic in the future.
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The best part about dodgeball is being a wiry little nerd that wouldn't get hit and basically just infuriating everyone left on the other side as you hoarded all the balls and tried to nail them in the feet with it. Failing that, time limit draw. Also we played Dodge Lacrosse one time and that was literally the worst idea ever suggested by a gym teacher and I swear like 4 or 5 kids almost died. The last thing dodgeball needs is weapons. Fun, though.
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AnonSpore posted:This is the best fictitious -ball since Calvinball, would play It's not that different from prison ball.
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pik_d posted:We played dodge ball on a basketball court, and if anyone made a basket (from half court obviously) that was the "release all your teams players" mechanism. We also had to stay behind the opposing teams basket, so we'd just collect the balls and throw them to whoever on our team was best at basketball. The way we played it, if you were in prison and got possession of a ball you could hit a player on the opposing team to get out.
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I just now got the dudes name is Ollie Oop. And his dad is a gym teacher.
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Look at Suzie in the first pannel. She's about to kick some major rear end and/or blackmail Max
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Leper Residue posted:I just now got the dudes name is Ollie Oop. And his dad is a gym teacher. Thanks for citing this obscure act of sportsmangames.
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People were talking earlier about Isaac not being visible, but he's sitting behind/above Lisa, kind of between Isabel and Suzy. He's wearing the white headband and his extremely anime eye is the rightmost thing in the last panel.
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That's not Isaac. Isaac's hair spikes forward, not straight up.
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Akett posted:People were talking earlier about Isaac not being visible, but he's sitting behind/above Lisa, kind of between Isabel and Suzy. He's wearing the white headband and his extremely anime eye is the rightmost thing in the last panel. That's Collin. You know, Suzy's friend, third Journalism Club member, etc. You can even see him getting beaned in the head with a ball in panel six, in color, making it really clear it's not Isaac.
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Leper Residue posted:I just now got the dudes name is Ollie Oop. And his dad is a gym teacher. I didn't even think of that, I thought that he was referencing the cave man. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alley_Oop
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XTREME *~Violence~*
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Johnny bears a striking resemblance to Vegeta in the last panel. And drat he has some muscle, I thought he was more scrawny looking.
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Johnny is a bully fueled by the power of friendship and diligent athleticism. And alliteration.
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Luneshot posted:Isabel's shirt owns. And Johnny knows what color a real badman wears.
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Guys I am so hyped for hit ball
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Luneshot posted:Isabel's shirt owns. She really knows how to coordinate headband and shirt, that's for sure.
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