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frumpykvetchbot posted:That's some hot take and I would enjoy watching olympic games where all the athletes are roided up neckless doom soldiers whose hearts explode before age 25. But I don't think you go far enough. They should also rescind the ban on performance enhancing cyberprosthetics. Just imagine 400m records if sprinters could have massive brushless motors and wheels for legs. That is reserved for the special olympics only.
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I want this for real do it now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqB6rY94DCw
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Dec 27, 2021 21:10
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Tarquinn posted:What other sports could be improved by being honest and fully embracing their unethical sides? All of them! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAdG-iTilWU
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Dec 27, 2021 21:28
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i used to hate all the races in my younger years but learned the errors of my ways and come to appreciate them as I got older
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Dec 27, 2021 21:35
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Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:I've overheard a guy hating on Formula E because the cars don't sound like real cars. Do Formula E cars go "Boing Boing" as opposed to "Vroom Vroom"? Edit: A race I don't hate is The Melbourne Cup. Because we get a public holiday for it. I mean it sucks for the horses that are tortured by little men in shiny satin all so rich people and gambling addicts can watch them run in a circle. But public holidays are cool, so what are you gonna do?
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Dec 27, 2021 21:45
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Formula E cars go "shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" I'd like to see the Tour de France start with a fist fight, because those dudes have zero upper body strength and it would be hilarious
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Dec 27, 2021 22:22
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dc3k posted:i want to see tour de france but instead of drugged up dudes doing it it's those creepy rear end robots that walk like humans. teach them to ride a bike. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GjBa_WmwyA
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Dec 27, 2021 23:03
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:The tour de france would be greatly improved if they stopped worrying about what drugs the athletes are taking. Let them dope themselves up! It will enhance their performance, it's what it's made to do. Yes, make sports more extreme. And no, I don't mean snow boards and half pipes. Edit: Although... adding a couple of half pipes to the tour de France would be a step up.
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StoryTime posted:I've been playing a racing game called Dirt lately, and I gotta ask why the gently caress do people dig these ditches next to the roads in Jämsä, Finland. They're like custom built for somersaulting a Mini Cooper S into a forest. gently caress that race. Also there's a specific turn that is definitely not "left 3 tightens", it's "slam the breaks fucko or we both die". The Finns dig them because they get free Mini Coopers.
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I hate the Tour de France because my family would always go to my Grandparents' house in the summer and my uncle would bogart the TV with what as far as I can tell is the most boring human spectacle in existence. Tennis or even golf would have been a massive step up. I'm your typical goon who doesn't like any sports except rap or country but bicycle racing is the absolute bottom of the barrel.
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Dec 29, 2021 12:45
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I love all forms of motorsport. Road, oval, rally, karts, cars, trucks, motorcycles, open wheel, tin top, paved, dirt whatever. I couldn't give less of a poo poo about horse or bicycle racing or stick and ball sports, but I love me some motorsport.
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Dec 29, 2021 20:58
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i agree im more of a one day kinda guy paris-roubaix all the way
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I hate every horse race because the entire sport is needlessly dangerous and exploitative (that being said, I do like taking illegal chinese horse steroids)
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Dec 29, 2021 21:05
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StoryTime posted:I've been playing a racing game called Dirt lately, and I gotta ask why the gently caress do people dig these ditches next to the roads in Jämsä, Finland. They're like custom built for somersaulting a Mini Cooper S into a forest. gently caress that race. Also there's a specific turn that is definitely not "left 3 tightens", it's "slam the breaks fucko or we both die". also i like to drink and drive until i cant keep my subaru between the ditches. my favorite stages are probably greece or wales.
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Dec 29, 2021 21:07
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Dakkar is cool too
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Dec 29, 2021 21:15
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I thought everyone knew Richard Burns Rally is the only acceptable WRC game.g
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mobby_6kl posted:I thought everyone knew Richard Burns Rally is the only acceptable WRC game.g
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Dec 29, 2021 22:16
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the human race seems pretty poo poo to me, if I'm being honest OP
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Dec 29, 2021 22:35
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There should be a poker gimmick race called Race Of Spades I think that would be pretty cool
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Dec 29, 2021 22:40
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 Race Bannon is a punk rear end bitch and I hate him.
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Pug Rodeo posted:
Are you suggesting Johnny Quest had a bit of a Race Problem?
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2 pages and nobody's said America's Cup yet, for shame. Clearly the worst of all races. First of all, the lawyer team is more important than the sailing team and they spend years fighting court battles over the rules for the race. Second, they've abandoned the only thing that made the race cool: being able to design the boat and invent some new boat-tech that was so much better than the other guy's dumb boat that they sued you over your boat being too good. Third, the participants are universally all rich assholes. The trophy presentation should be a lineup like  <- but the middle one higher like an olympics podiumAnd lastly, once they finally have the boats and finish the lawsuits, it's a loving bore! They sail around doing tiny laps in an enclosed harbor and they skip days with bad weather. God drat, if some rich fuckers are gonna have a prestigious sailboat race, make it a loving ocean voyage! Re-create the Tea Race and have a Fuzhou to London marathon. You could do that these days and have video for the whole thing on the internet. Imagine the ratings when one team hits a storm.
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a mysterious cloak posted:
Watching cyclists fight is hilarious. You'd think they'd be kicking each other but no, it's just noodle-armed haymakers and grabbing at each others' helmets until a spectator comes and separates them.
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Klyith posted:2 pages and nobody's said America's Cup yet, for shame. Clearly the worst of all races. My friend is into sailing but did not mention the lawyer battles. Expand on that
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Klyith posted:2 pages and nobody's said America's Cup yet, for shame. Clearly the worst of all races. I feel like sailing is one race type where they could just have a whatever goes completely open race type that would be pretty safe. Anyway the only acceptable motor sport to me is competitive plowing. (In before your mum!)
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Dec 30, 2021 01:54
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I spent a day on a racing yacht once. Watching whales near the Great Barrier Reef. It was pretty great.  The Bloop posted:the human race seems pretty poo poo to me, if I'm being honest OP I feel that race could also be improved with more drugs.
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Dec 30, 2021 10:59
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All racing sucks rear end. I will watch literally any other sport
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Dec 30, 2021 11:22
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BrigadierSensible posted:Do Formula E cars go "Boing Boing" as opposed to "Vroom Vroom"? I think the argument was that electric motors don't make the same screeching nyyeERRRMMMmmmmm sound that "proper" Formula cars with internal combustion engines do.
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Big Beef City posted:All racing sucks rear end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfvpKiKgFGk
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i think racing in Mario Kart is ok
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ilmucche posted:My friend is into sailing but did not mention the lawyer battles. Expand on that Other sports and races, you have a league commissioner or FIFA or whatever who is in charge. If the NFL changes the Tuck Rule or FIFA changes the definition of offsides, and you don't like it, you can't sue to stop them. The courts would tell you to gently caress off, they're free to run their sport however they like. If you don't like it go make your own football league. America's Cup is different. The ultimate authority isn't a commissioner or league, it's a legal deed. The guys who originally had the trophy gave it to the NY Yacht Club with a deed that set conditions for how to have a race, and that anyone who won the cup would have to defend it in future races. That deed is based in New York City, so if you think the current owner isn't following the deed you can sue them over it. The NY state court system is the final authority for the sport. The deed dates from the 1800s. They knew about steam power so they made "propelled by sails only" explicit. But they didn't know about catamarans or hydrofoils or carbon fiber. So, uh, does a catamaran count as a "yacht"? Is a giant rigid carbon fiber wing-blade a "sail"? The original deed said that each side's boat had to "constructed" in their respective home countries, what does that mean in the modern world? Well, you could settle those questions like gentlemen with friendly handshake deals. Or you could drag your opponent into court. (Actually they do manage to have the race with friendly terms most of the time, but that also makes it more boring -- if everyone agrees to sail the exact same design of boat, what's the point of a "built your own boat" challenge? The one thing that makes America's Cup cool is the history of extreme & crazy boats.)
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I hate the Preakness Stakes. Horse racing is dumb anyway but at least the Kentucky Derby is an excuse to laugh at people in silly hats and drink whiskey in a slightly different way than usual.
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What if they do, or have, made Orc's tho
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Greg of Doom posted:What if they do, or have, made Orc's tho I would watch orc racing
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There's a lot of lame races but my favorite is probably Bathurst 1000. 
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Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:I think the argument was that electric motors don't make the same screeching nyyeERRRMMMmmmmm sound that "proper" Formula cars with internal combustion engines do. Also, if that part was real, a car with a boost button powered by likes on social media doesn’t sound like a real car either
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Dec 30, 2021 17:48
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Kender was pretty hosed.
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teardrop posted:Also, if that part was real, a car with a boost button powered by likes on social media doesn’t sound like a real car either It's right here https://www.fiaformulae.com/en/championship/fanboost
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They mentioned hydrofoils changing the game, all this sounds pretty wild. I love motorsport for the technical bullshitery that goes on and this stuff sounds like it's taken to the extreme
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i dont like world of outlaws dirt track racing i love it 
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