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Flayer posted:Currently I don't see how you could fit e-sports into the Olympics because of it's very nature - which game (or games) would be in? It's not like a traditional sport where the fundamental nature of it never changes. You also have the fact that a commercial entity owns the right to whatever game(s) were chosen, which is a whole other kettle of fish. You're more likely to see chess in the Olympics than e-sports unless there is a structural change in competitive gaming. Make them compete in Daley Thompson's Decathlon.
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Jul 26, 2021 13:24
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They need to cut down the number of swimming events, it's ridiculous. Like if you had for each track event the 400m forwards, backwards, forwards both legs together, forwards slightly less efficiently. Though having said that I'd like to watch the 400m backwards sprint.
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Jul 26, 2021 13:27
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Make them compete in Daley Thompson's Decathlon. Bloody hell my fingers just involuntarily twitched from remembering the running sections zxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzx
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Jul 26, 2021 13:27
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Darts requires as much skill and slightly more physical prowess than shooting, so either let darts in or get shooting out. Archery is just Big Darts. Javelin too. If they're gonna include e-sports, there should be a QWOP tournament just for the sheer meta-ness and hilarity
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Jul 26, 2021 13:28
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forkboy84 posted:
Me too. I saw a thing on YouTube about speed climbing(?) and it was bonkers. It looked just like they were running up the wall. There was a guy who was high level in normal climbing, and he had a try against the specialists and he was 3-4 times slower. I'm just assuming it's this too btw
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Jul 26, 2021 13:29
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forkboy84 posted:I'm looking forward to watching the rock climbing because I'm not sure how sports climbing works
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Jul 26, 2021 13:32
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Flayer posted:Currently I don't see how you could fit e-sports into the Olympics because of it's very nature - which game (or games) would be in? It's not like a traditional sport where the fundamental nature of it never changes. You also have the fact that a commercial entity owns the right to whatever game(s) were chosen, which is a whole other kettle of fish. You're more likely to see chess in the Olympics than e-sports unless there is a structural change in competitive gaming. You'd need to have esports specifically designed and developed for the Olympics and owned by the IOC. Every four years a new version is pushed out (same as you get incremental rule/regulation changes in other sports) and learned by all the esport teams who want to compete. It'd be an absolutely disaster but it'd be fascinating to see them try. They could surely contract it out to a mid-size developer.
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Jul 26, 2021 13:35
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forkboy84 posted:also rowing, sports played by toffs and gently caress them. Rowing has Lewis Clive, who fought the fascists in Spain, so I reckon rowing can continue as long as all the athletes have to deck a Nazi as part of their registration.
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Jul 26, 2021 13:36
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Legitimately they should add pro-wrestling to the olympics. It’s basically the same as any other multi-person performance-artsy sport like artistic swimming or figure skating.
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Jul 26, 2021 13:36
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Make them compete in Daley Thompson's Decathlon. "The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is launching a virtual Olympics, where you can compete for a gold medal...from home! Called the Olympic Virtual Series, players will be able to compete in five different sports - baseball, cycling, rowing, sailing and motor sport."
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Jul 26, 2021 13:36
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History Comes Inside! posted:Legitimately they should add pro-wrestling to the olympics. Yeah just calibrate it around both participants sharing points as a team. Like it's not just the suplexer who did the suplex, it's also the suplexee who had to provide most of the power and land on their neck without dying. It would be like paired figure skating yeah.
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Jul 26, 2021 13:39
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Yeah just calibrate it around both participants sharing points as a team. Like it's not just the suplexer who did the suplex, it's also the suplexee who had to provide most of the power and land on their neck without dying. I would choose to be the guy throwing my mate off the top of the cage, rather than the guy going through the table, if we were getting the gold mefal as a team
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Jul 26, 2021 13:42
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Flayer posted:Currently I don't see how you could fit e-sports into the Olympics because of it's very nature - which game (or games) would be in? It's not like a traditional sport where the fundamental nature of it never changes. You also have the fact that a commercial entity owns the right to whatever game(s) were chosen, which is a whole other kettle of fish. Easily solved by playing only the open-source version of Transport Tycoon
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Jul 26, 2021 13:51
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Speed Freecell
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Jul 26, 2021 13:51
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Synchronized Dwarf Fortress
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Jul 26, 2021 13:52
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UQM Super-Melee
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Jul 26, 2021 13:53
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Failed Imagineer posted:I would choose to be the guy throwing my mate off the top of the cage, rather than the guy going through the table, if we were getting the gold mefal as a team You can take turns.
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Jul 26, 2021 13:56
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u brexit ukip it posted:Easily solved by playing only the open-source version of Transport Tycoon No joke OpenTTD is always the first thing I install on a new machine.
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Jul 26, 2021 13:58
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Failed Imagineer posted:I prefer the more British approach of indirectly referencing scandals like "The X Affair/Incident" or referring to genocides as "The Uncertainty" or something the quibbles 
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Jul 26, 2021 13:58
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knox_harrington posted:They need to cut down the number of swimming events, it's ridiculous. Like if you had for each track event the 400m forwards, backwards, forwards both legs together, forwards slightly less efficiently. the horse ones but with the horses in reverse
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Jul 26, 2021 14:00
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When the horse rides the person it's usually terrible for everyone involved.
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Jul 26, 2021 14:01
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Let's just pretend I posted horsecock_garda.png and leave it there
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Jul 26, 2021 14:07
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czarina catherine rumoured to have come a cropper, that way
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Jul 26, 2021 14:12
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crispix posted:the quibbles Quite a lot of the FCO apparently still referred to what happened in 1956 as The Suez Adventure until quite recently.
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Jul 26, 2021 14:12
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History Comes Inside! posted:Legitimately they should add pro-wrestling to the olympics. Won't that just be a bunch of 40 minute spotfests with finisher kickouts and an announcer table spot? Presumably you mean a country enters two competitors who wrestle each other? Would one of the USA competitors be in a Soviet Russia gimmick and wear an red army coat over the US team leotard?
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Jul 26, 2021 14:17
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BizarroAzrael posted:Won't that just be a bunch of 40 minute spotfests with finisher kickouts and an announcer table spot? Presumably you mean a country enters two competitors who wrestle each other? the USA would have loads of finisher kickouts, Mexico would have the spotfests with all the dives and flips, and Japan would just be two dudes dropping each other on their heads for 30 minutes until one of them stays down
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Jul 26, 2021 14:27
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Julio Cruz posted:the USA would have loads of finisher kickouts, Mexico would have the spotfests with all the dives and flips, and Japan would just be two dudes dropping each other on their heads for 30 minutes until one of them stays down Sounds good. Tomohiro Ishii can finally win some gold which will never happen in New Japan.
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Jul 26, 2021 14:54
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Goddammit. anyone know how to bypass the paywall of the Sunday Times? I've tried all my google-fu and got nowhere.
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Jul 26, 2021 14:58
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Paying money usually helps
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Jul 26, 2021 14:59
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Don't pay money to Murdoch and/or organs of the Tory party  I've still got this tab open from the last time this came up (haven't tried it yet). I think Times might be one of the ones you can get around by timing it just right with an F5 then Esc though. Chubby Henparty posted:UQM Super-Melee
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Jul 26, 2021 15:05
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Unironically Megaman Battle Network 6 is a really sick esport. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtWeNgtpDBo
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Jul 26, 2021 15:18
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forkboy84 posted:I'm looking forward to watching the rock climbing because I'm not sure how sports climbing works, I assume it's a race but can't guess if it's head to head races or races against the clock. There are three disciplines in the Olympics: speed climbing, which is done head to head and uses a standard set of holds across all competitions; lead climbing, which is also head to head but more about the technical difficulty of the climb with the difficulty ramping up round to round and the winner being the climber who gets highest/completes when the other climber doesn't; and bouldering, where you have as many attempts as you can fit into a set time (I think 4 minutes) to complete the problem. IMO speed climbing is a bit of a weird gimmick but I guess it's the most exciting to watch for non-climbers, and the people doing it are obviously really strong and skilled. I'm well used to spending weeks or months on a hard boulder project, but climbing the same relatively easy route again and again for speed is a bit odd to me. I've seen a couple lead climbing competitions live and they can be pretty exciting - the climbers are going into the routes blind so they will naturally find different ways to approach them, some more successful than others. But I think the bouldering is the most impressive for raw strength and ability - problems are typically just a few moves long and you can keep retrying them, which means the moves can be really, really hard in a manner that would never appear on the lead wall. It's also my favourite climbing style to do personally, and the people at the top are just incredible to watch. Of course as a grumpy old man who learned his ropes in the traditional manner of being dragged up overgrown choss fests by older climbers I must note that none of this is rock climbing, which is done outside on actual rock, and what have any of these kids ever done on grit none of them would know what to do on an honest Yorkshire VS 5a etc. etc. big scary monsters fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Jul 26, 2021 |
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Jul 26, 2021 15:41
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I resumed my google-fu and found this absolutely lovely little nugget of a site which helped me get around the paywall: https://archive.ph/
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Jul 26, 2021 15:45
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Dabir posted:Unironically Megaman Battle Network 6 is a really sick esport. This is amazing, I had no idea this existed. MMBN is one of my favourite game series of all time. Thanks for posting it!
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Jul 26, 2021 15:50
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Olympic climbing should be teams of two where you have one climber and then one to chase the other team's climber. like this
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Jul 26, 2021 15:52
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Off topic (or not given the current flooding going on), but do folks like to watch extremely stupid people break their cars in entirely avoidable circumstances? I’ve recently learned of a wonderful YouTube channel that’s basically the U.K. version of 11 ft 8”. Except inverted and full of water. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd2c1YVHn6Y
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Jul 26, 2021 16:06
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sebzilla posted:Olympic climbing should be teams of two where you have one climber and then one to chase the other team's climber.
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Jul 26, 2021 16:06
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Chubby Henparty posted:Bloody hell my fingers just involuntarily twitched from remembering the running sections zxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzx /licks finger, rubs [Z] and [X] print off Speccy rubber keyboard edit even more niche /puts bottom half of 'cheeky chick' prize egg over knuckle, rubs sprint buttons on Track & Field arcade machine so fast they start making new cabinet buttons with collars on just to stop it.
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Jul 26, 2021 16:12
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sebzilla posted:Olympic climbing should be teams of two where you have one climber and then one to chase the other team's climber. I'm so glad this link was exactly what I was expecting
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Jul 26, 2021 16:16
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Lord Ludikrous posted:Off topic (or not given the current flooding going on), but do folks like to watch extremely stupid people break their cars in entirely avoidable circumstances? Oh my word that Merc and its completely hosed engine will keep me warm at night for quite some time. Sort of intrigued by the few that seemed to go through at the right kind of speed (in that the water never seemed to reach the grille) but still died immediately afterwards though - one or two might have just been electrics being outraged by the introduction of water, but some of them looked completely hosed.
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