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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. You gotta get pucks deep, duh
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QuarkJets posted:E-sports and sports are dumb for the same reasons I can not believe someone who has tried to become competent at both of these things could ever hold that opinion. There's a spectrum of "sport," they all require physical prowess and coordination to become good at. Something like soccer or hockey is high on the sport-o-meter, it takes unbelievable fitness and coordination to become good at. Things like golf and say, archery, are lower on the sport-o-meter, they require great coordination, but physical fitness, while greatly helpful, is not an abject requirement. E-sports, chess, Go, are entirely off the sport-o-meter though. Same with those Microsoft Excel competitions. They are just that - competitions that require a honed skill but absolutely zero physical prowess. You can be a professional Excel table guy, but you're not an athlete. Szechwan fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Oct 25, 2023 |
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Oct 25, 2023 17:20
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Is shitposting a sport?
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Oct 25, 2023 17:21
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Telling yourself something is not a sport doesn't make it not a sport, especially if there are sponsorships and competitions and events.
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Oct 25, 2023 17:24
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Sport is competitive art
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Oct 25, 2023 17:25
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Nintendo apparently did a thing again to stop people from making money off of Super Smash Bros. tournaments and I can't loving express how this is sincerely a good thing without everyone calling me a dick.
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Oct 25, 2023 17:33
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esports is a funny term, but cyberathlete is off the charts goofy
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Oct 25, 2023 17:42
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Oh boy, cyberathleticism! That's where I'm a Viking!
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Oct 25, 2023 17:44
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metathleticism
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Collapsing Farts posted:Is shitposting a sport? It's an e-sport for sure.
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Oct 25, 2023 17:47
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Gotta lol at anyone who isn't wearing a jersey to shitpost
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Sports are cool
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fridge corn posted:Sports are cool  Hobbies too!
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syntaxfunction posted: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. i mean chess isnt any more athletic than video games and its officially recognized as a sport by the olympics for some reason
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Oct 25, 2023 18:18
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Szechwan posted:I can not believe someone who has tried to become competent at both of these things could ever hold that opinion. Golf and archery would be on the same level as Starcraft and Counterstrike by this definition.
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The whole super serious sports culture also makes sports worse and only serves to separate people into super serious sports players and do nothing layabouts with fewer people in between due to high costs, demanding schedules, and psychotic sports parents. Earwicker posted:i mean chess isnt any more athletic than video games and its officially recognized as a sport by the olympics for some reason Never trust the IOC, or really any sporting organization e or otherwise.
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Oct 25, 2023 18:56
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Ive never seen a fat chess grandmaster
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Golf is not a sport because it doesn't matter if you are alone or surrounded by tons of people. It's just you against the grass. Bowling is not a sport for the same reasons. Video games are not sports. A competition is not a sport though a sport is a competition.
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Oct 25, 2023 19:05
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you can tell video games are art because the people who work on them are poor
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Szechwan posted:I can not believe someone who has tried to become competent at both of these things could ever hold that opinion. I really don't care if a thing is a sport or not sport, only reason to care is if you are way to invested in some sportsball team or some nerd pushing buttons/moving a wooden piece on a board. But isn't archery actually very physically demanding? Or is that only in old timey archery where you would have to rapid fire arrows with enough strength that they might get through an armor if it hit correctly enough? Noir89 fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Oct 25, 2023 |
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Waltzing Along posted:Golf is not a sport because it doesn't matter if you are alone or surrounded by tons of people. It's just you against the grass. golf isn't a sport because if you're just sitting around in a go-kart getting shithoused drunk all day without swinging clubs at a ball on a giant waste of water and land, people call you a "worthless piece of poo poo"
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They use cyber bows they buy, don't even make it themselves. They also don't get to take home the targets so it's a waste of game.
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If you think golf is a sport that means you think donald trump is an athlete
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Only action games can be esports, if it's strategy or rpg get that poo poo the gently caress out of here.
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I think it's a shame they took competitive video game playing and decided that "oh that's just like sports I'm gonna market it like sports" . It isn't really sports but that doesn't really matter because understanding it as it's own thing is effort and just emulating what sports do is easy. Put that person who never wears blazers in a blazer, get that person who says nothing but fills up air time doesn't matter how much they know about the game. It works, sort of, it just sucks in the same way actual sports do. Well less brain injuries which is good.
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Waltzing Along posted:Golf is not a sport because it doesn't matter if you are alone or surrounded by tons of people. It's just you against the grass. we need to give olympic runners turtle shells to throw at each other so they get some interaction and it becomes a real sport again instead of a lame single player score attack
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The vast majority of people enjoy sports because they get some type of narrative out of it, and they view the teams/players as characters. They don't watch sports because they "admire athleticism", which tbh would be gay. If people can get that narrative out of people playing videogames then its probably fulfilling the same emotional needs for the fans as sports does, which makes it seem like sports to me. This is why Pro Wrestling is the best sport, it is a scripted drama as opposed to most sports which are reality tv.
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Duck and Cover posted:Well less brain injuries which is good. lmao have you ever met gamers
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Fighting Elegy posted:This is why Pro Wrestling is the best sport, it is a scripted drama as opposed to most sports which are reality tv. I am very glad that there is a relatively successful local pro-wrestling league running here now, it's a good time to go watch it
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Duck and Cover posted:Well less brain injuries which is good. The brain injuries just happen before their career and not during.
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Earwicker posted:lmao have you ever met gamers Poggers. emSparkly posted:The brain injuries just happen before their career and not during. Ripperino.
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The only legitimate sport is fox hunting
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MrQwerty posted:golf isn't a sport because if you're just sitting around getting shithoused drunk all day without swinging clubs at a ball on a giant waste of water and land, people call you a "worthless piece of poo poo" So then baseball is not a sport
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QuarkJets posted:So then baseball is not a sport baseball is legally defined as a "pastime" i.e. something you do when you can't think of anything else to do.
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golf is a sport and requires a lot of physical conditioning, the days of the fat pro golfer are long gone imo anything is a sport if it's played competitively against other people, I don't think the physical aspects really make any difference at all as much as the objective-ness of the competition. For example, I don't think figure skating or skateboarding are sports because they require judges to dole out scores to determine the winner.
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abigserve posted:For example, I don't think figure skating or skateboarding are sports because they require judges to dole out scores to determine the winner. since when was that part of the definition of sports? i mean that rules out a pretty large number of traditional sports as sports, like gymnastics. competing to impress judges is still competing.
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abigserve posted:golf is a sport and requires a lot of physical conditioning, the days of the fat pro golfer are long gone They aren't. But neither is golf. All sports are competitions. Not all competitions are sports. Golf you have a course that is already pre-judged and your goal is to do better than was judged as average. The only way the other golfers affect one another is when they start taking chances because they don't have a chance to win otherwise. Still not a sport.
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Earwicker posted:since when was that part of the definition of sports? i mean that rules out a pretty large number of traditional sports as sports, like gymnastics. competing to impress judges is still competing. I guess. I dunno. Maybe the definition of what a sport is doesn't matter
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i have a friend who when we play minigolf, her strategy is to hit the ball really hard and then immediately sprint after it and chase it down like she's hunting a rabbit with a club or something, until it flees in terror and hides in the hole. not necessarily the particular hole we were playing. hunting is traditionally considered a sport
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