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JollyBoyJohn posted:Was the streamer a cowboy called Arcus and wasx the game ninja gaiden? Haha I think it actually was. It was Ninja Gaiden at least. That guy is clearly speedrunning away from something in his life.
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Caesar Saladin posted:its okay until you replay the nes ducktales endlessly every day for nine months of your life, which is really the endgame yeah? All competition is that stupid if you want to be the best
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Nice Van My Man posted:I saw my kid start falling down the rabbit hole of weird speed running stuff and had to explain to him about how YouTube will try to suck you into poo poo for deranged loons and convince you it's popular by making it everything you see, but it's actually just a subset of weirdos and no one in the real world cares. He seemed to figure it out and drifted away from it without me having to ban anything. Imagine a non gamer, non internet savvy parent trying to explain that to a kid 
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Oct 25, 2023 08:31
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caught my kid trying to juggle his baseballs and had to explain to the little freak that it's a useless skill for deranged loons. (he kept saying something about "fun"?) he's back to practicing his fastball again thank god, now he can win some games in a real sport
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Oct 25, 2023 08:34
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My kids will be allowed to play video games, but they will be forbidden from discussing them on the internet.
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Oct 25, 2023 08:37
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I don't think I remember anyone playing sports that resulted in piss bottles and atrophied limbs. Every time someone tries to tell me video games as sports is legitimate it indicates that now is a good time to leave them to themselves.
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syntaxfunction posted:I don't think I remember Did you play football and get brain damage? Maybe that's why you have trouble with your memory
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syntaxfunction posted:I don't think I remember anyone playing sports that resulted in piss bottles and atrophied limbs. Does Cross Fit count as a sport?
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Oct 25, 2023 10:55
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Private Cumshoe posted:Did you play football and get brain damage? Maybe that's why you have trouble with your memory I wasn't never a sports person. I just think by and large people advocating e-sports are bad people and are very dumb if they think it's like a real sport. The Moon Monster posted:Does Cross Fit count as a sport? Cross Fit doesn't even count as proper exercise.
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Oct 25, 2023 10:56
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It's not a real sport unless you get cauliflower ear, ill fitting headsets to scream racial slurs at children doesn't count stop stealing sport valor you nerds
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Oct 25, 2023 10:59
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Pretty sure sports injuries are more common and generally more debilitating than video game related injuries. And if you're going to shift the argument to criticize the character of the players, I've got some potentially alarming news for you about the sports world.
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Oct 25, 2023 11:35
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The only people who have strong opinions that a sport isn't a "real sport" tend to be people who aren't good enough to do the sport I remember being told skateboarding isn't a sport and now it's an Olympic one
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Oct 25, 2023 11:38
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I guess it depends on if you see "sports" as something athletic or not. You know, something that requires a significant physical component. Googling it, this is what the internet defines "sport" as: "An activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment." I think a lot of people look at stuff like chess, videogames etc and see it as "competitions" but not "sports" because it's just people sitting on chairs and doing the bare minimum of physical exertion.
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Casual reminder that there's a very good chance your parents are boomers so your frame of reference of what constitutes good parenting might be incredibly skewed.
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Oh I don't give a poo poo about sports players, I just think e-sports is even dumber. It's like comparing bad TV to tiktok people pretending to be NPCs. It's all bad, but one is just somehow dumber.
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Oct 25, 2023 11:54
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I walked my son into the forest and left him with a spear, some furs and some dried jerky. He shall seek his own destiny now
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Video games aren't a REAL hobby
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syntaxfunction posted:I just think e-sports is even dumber. it's very dumb. They have people pretending to be sportscasters, and they give the teams little jerseys like what they're doing actually matters to anybody lol. Sometimes they listen in to the players teamchat and it's exactly what you'd expect, a bunch of dull monotones from half-dead guys who never smile and can't maintain eye contact. If you want to lightly touch Death, watch interviews with players and take a drink every time they answer an interviewers question in 5 words or less. Take two if there's an awkward pause while the interviewer comes up with a follow up question that will make the Dork Elemental actually provide some content
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:it's very dumb. They have people pretending to be sportscasters, and they give the teams little jerseys like what they're doing actually matters to anybody lol. Sometimes they listen in to the players teamchat and it's exactly what you'd expect, a bunch of dull monotones from half-dead guys who never smile and can't maintain eye contact. If you want to lightly touch Death, watch interviews with players and take a drink every time they answer an interviewers question in 5 words or less. Take two if there's an awkward pause while the interviewer comes up with a follow up question that will make the Dork Elemental actually provide some content Both the fact that you watched enough e-sports to describe this so vividly and that you're posting this on a dead website forum make you much more of a Dorkus than the acne ridden 20.y.o who's like half your age.
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You know Vic, being mean to me isn't going to make your life any better
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:it's very dumb. They have people pretending to be sportscasters, and they give the teams little jerseys like what they're doing actually matters to anybody lol. Sometimes they listen in to the players teamchat and it's exactly what you'd expect, a bunch of dull monotones from half-dead guys who never smile and can't maintain eye contact. If you want to lightly touch Death, watch interviews with players and take a drink every time they answer an interviewers question in 5 words or less. Take two if there's an awkward pause while the interviewer comes up with a follow up question that will make the Dork Elemental actually provide some content Tbh this sounds identical to most professional sports in America, sounds like they nailed it.
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I was just going to say, this reminds me of hockey players after a game, just an empty stare devoid of any signs of intelligence, rambling slighly different sentences 10 times about how the match went.
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Noir89 posted:I was just going to say, this reminds me of hockey players after a game, just an empty stare devoid of any signs of intelligence, rambling slighly different sentences 10 times about how the match went. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b5IpCpeb0M
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you can enjoy e-sports all you want, go ahead, but the jerseys and everything which look like something soccer players would wear are goofy. Its funny branding stuff, like its designed so they can get energy drink sponsors. Even calling them e-sports instead of competitive video games is just silly branding. They don't have any athletic aspect at all which is like, the bare minimum for a sport. Next speedrunning will be called a sport and that's just shameful.
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Noir89 posted:I was just going to say, this reminds me of hockey players after a game, just an empty stare devoid of any signs of intelligence, rambling slighly different sentences 10 times about how the match went. 
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:it's very dumb. They have people pretending to be sportscasters, and they give the teams little jerseys like what they're doing actually matters to anybody lol. Sometimes they listen in to the players teamchat and it's exactly what you'd expect, a bunch of dull monotones from half-dead guys who never smile and can't maintain eye contact. If you want to lightly touch Death, watch interviews with players and take a drink every time they answer an interviewers question in 5 words or less. Take two if there's an awkward pause while the interviewer comes up with a follow up question that will make the Dork Elemental actually provide some content This but about all sports.
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Labeling something as a sport doesn't make it a sport. Not all games are sports but some are. NASCAR is not a sport. Golf is not a sport. NASCAR is closer than Golf, though. Madden is closer than NASCAR. But none of those 3 examples are actual sports. No video games are sports. Many video games are simulations of sports. It's a complex and stupid issue. And just because something is in the Olympics doesn't make it a sport. Thank you drive thru.
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The worst conversations on earth are about sports and lovely dudes want to have those conversations with you constantly
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Collapsing Farts posted:I walked my son into the forest and left him with a spear, some furs and some dried jerky. He shall seek his own destiny now Stop coddling your kid
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Khanstant posted:The worst conversations on earth are about sports and lovely dudes want to have those conversations with you constantly Have you accepted Jeezoos Khriste as yer poop and vomit?
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I would rather have a long insufferable conversation with every Christian on earth than to have to hear anyone ever ask about those cowboys ever again
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Caesar Saladin posted:you can enjoy e-sports all you want, go ahead, but the jerseys and everything which look like something soccer players would wear are goofy. Its funny branding stuff, like its designed so they can get energy drink sponsors. Even calling them e-sports instead of competitive video games is just silly branding. They don't have any athletic aspect at all which is like, the bare minimum for a sport. Next speedrunning will be called a sport and that's just shameful. "Athletic ability" aside, every extant sport was just a silly little game before becoming popular enough to warrant sponsors, colorful uniforms, and merchandising opportunities, you're just not used to seeing it happen in real time. It's the same reason people clock Scientology and LDS as cults but don't bat an eye at older religious sects. At the end of the day I don't give a poo poo because I'm not going to watch either, but the fact that I avoid e-sports broadcasts for the exact same reasons I avoid regular sports broadcasts makes me think the nerds are doing a pretty admirable job with their efforts to legitimize gaming.
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people say video games are sports because they think it adds some kind of extra legitimacy to them but it doesn't, there's nothing that wrong with being a game and it doesn't make it any less valid than a sport. Like their dad is disappointed in them for not playing a sport but shut up dad, counterstrike is a sport, i'm basically a jock
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syntaxfunction posted:Oh I don't give a poo poo about sports players, I just think e-sports is even dumber. It's like comparing bad TV to tiktok people pretending to be NPCs. It's all bad, but one is just somehow dumber. E-sports and sports are dumb for the same reasons If golf is a sport then so is starcraft
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If you participate in the rich person "sport" of dressage, where you basically just trot around on a horse in a fancy way, ancient greeks would say that you're an athlete. It's all arbitrary who cares
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If video games are sports then they can't be art, checkmate gamers
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Can they be performance art?
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Caesar Saladin posted:people say video games are sports because they think it adds some kind of extra legitimacy to them but it doesn't, there's nothing that wrong with being a game and it doesn't make it any less valid than a sport. Like their dad is disappointed in them for not playing a sport but shut up dad, counterstrike is a sport, i'm basically a jock are you ok m8?
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Devils Affricate posted:If video games are sports then they can't be art, checkmate gamers Sports are the purest form of improvisational theater.
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Barudak posted:Sports are the purest form of improvisational theater. That's deep
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