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Torka posted:haha I wasn't here then you can't pin that on me its weird you say that because ppl usually complain i'm too cheery or earnest  i mean even the obama comment was meant as a joke i like many things like sports, summer, pretty girls, drinking a beer with my friends after hitting the gym, music and cooking and all sorts of things like that thanks for asking
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Dirty Job posted:Apparently reaction times necessary to be competitive in e-sports go down significantly after the player reaches their mid twenties, so you can rest assured that they'll wish they didn't give up their college educations in order to play video games 12 hours a day. no one has ever proved this, what really happens is people realize at like age ~24-27 that the game they like wont be around forever and they should probably do something with the rest of their lives
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Jun 22, 2014 18:28
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When your sport uses "gamer fuel" like normal athletes use gatorade, you know there's a problem. "All this unhealthy poo poo makes me PLAY HARDER!"
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Jun 22, 2014 18:28
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Twee as gently caress posted:its weird you say that because ppl usually complain i'm too cheery or earnest I can't deny the workout vid is p embarrassing idk maybe I've confused you with someone else, sorry
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Jun 22, 2014 18:31
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^^^ no prob! and yeah he has terrible form. if anyone ever asked him dyel,b? the answer is a resounding norocket_man38 posted:When your sport uses "gamer fuel" like normal athletes use gatorade, you know there's a problem. "All this unhealthy poo poo makes me PLAY HARDER!" imo checking counterstrike players for meth use is long overdue say no to performance enhancement drugs ppl
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Jun 22, 2014 18:31
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Twee as gently caress posted:I remember the days of yore on Something Awful when everyone treated Bush with the respect inherent to his Office just .. just screw you, man. now you want to take my esports too?? /typed with shaking hands from carpel tunnel at ave. 7235703 rpm
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Jun 22, 2014 18:32
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ArbitraryC posted:If you actually played the games your criticizing you'd realize you were really wrong. The "pros" are significantly better than amateurs just like in any other sport, the only real difference there is that because it's not a physical thing people can spend more hours a day practicing and as such it's a bit "easier" to catch up with you start dumping literally all of your free time into the game. When I watch football, I have a good chance of seeing a really exciting play. Soccer is the same way, even baseball. At least with NASCAR I might see a cool wreck or something or a car explode. With esports specifically, I am watching someone play a video game. The same amount of action and excitement can be imitated in real time on my tv or computer by myself. Esports adds this middleman/filter to the actual excitement. I can't really imagine viewing an esports event as being more than seeing some video game screen of something I could actually play myself mixed in with pictures of mouthbreathers grunting, drinking Mountain Dew, and clicking. Like, you can equate regular sports to esports all you want, but it's wrong. If watching esports gets your jollies then more power to you, but don't justify your interest by comparing it directly to regular sports.
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Jun 22, 2014 18:35
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Traditional sports originated in warfare and reflect the skills that made someone in warfare: the ability to rassle another dude or throw a javelin at him. E-sports reflect the values of technocratic capitalist society: the ability to autistically click on a computer managing little mans. We should look down on e-sports because almost everyone realizes that technocratic capitalism is deeply gently caress up at its core
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Jun 22, 2014 18:36
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crankdatbatman posted:When I watch football, I have a good chance of seeing a really exciting play. Soccer is the same way, even baseball. At least with NASCAR I might see a cool wreck or something or a car explode. With esports specifically, I am watching someone play a video game. The same amount of action and excitement can be imitated in real time on my tv or computer by myself. Esports adds this middleman/filter to the actual excitement. I can't really imagine viewing an esports event as being more than seeing some video game screen of something I could actually play myself mixed in with pictures of mouthbreathers grunting, drinking Mountain Dew, and clicking. Like, you can equate regular sports to esports all you want, but it's wrong. If watching esports gets your jollies then more power to you, but don't justify your interest by comparing it directly to regular sports. example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeM0rH_4ung ArbitraryC fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Jun 22, 2014 |
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Jun 22, 2014 18:40
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I want to have sex with Weh Sing Yuan.
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Jun 22, 2014 18:40
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get back to me in 2112 when 'esports' players are controlling their wizard elfmans with motion capture haptic feedback suits and are actually running around shooting fireballs or w/e and not just sitting around in front of a computer clicking. until then, it aint sports
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Jun 22, 2014 18:41
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Every single person who has posted in this thread is a tremendous human being. Including me, apparently.
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If i was good enough to wear a vest full of stupid sponsorships to places where people watch other people play videogames really good, and I had a good takehome from tournaments, I would probably do that because it's basically getting paid to do gently caress-all. Too bad I am a suck-rear end noob.
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Jun 22, 2014 18:47
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Waltzing Along posted:Every single person who has posted in this thread is a tremendous human being. Including me, apparently. nah only the people defending e-"sports"
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Jun 22, 2014 18:50
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Even when it is fake sports, women still suck at it. Are they born broken?
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Jun 22, 2014 18:54
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when i was in korea one of the main train station/malls had a "e sports stadium" on the entire top floor. it was always being broadcast on tv and you could just go in and watch the athletes compete p. real 2 me also hot groupies, and they made money doing it. probably the definition of sports
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Jun 22, 2014 18:54
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DeepQantas posted:Why are you posting on a digital sport forum if you don't even know that? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjZYMI1zB9s
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Jun 22, 2014 18:58
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This is Weh Sing Yuen, better known as SingSing: I want to have sex with him.
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Jun 22, 2014 19:03
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Copley Depot posted:Traditional sports originated in warfare and reflect the skills that made someone in warfare: the ability to rassle another dude or throw a javelin at him. you heard it here folks: capitalism is worse than war
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Jun 22, 2014 19:05
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I don't care about your gay little arguing about whether a fag clicking a ball is cooler than a fag kicking a mouse or whatever it is you retards are talking about with regards to capitalism (???) but I want to make a big cum inside the tight twink rear end in a top hat of professional Dota 2 player SingSing from team Cloud9.
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Jun 22, 2014 19:22
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Chuck Tanner posted:nah only the people defending e-"sports" Alejandro Sanchez posted:I don't care about your gay little arguing about whether a fag clicking a ball is cooler than a fag kicking a mouse or whatever it is you retards are talking about with regards to capitalism (???) but I want to make a big cum inside the tight twink rear end in a top hat of professional Dota 2 player SingSing from team Cloud9.
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Jun 22, 2014 19:24
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op is jealous of the ones of dollars people earn by begging for money on twitch.tv
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ArbitraryC posted:On the rare occasions I watch e-sports (mainly either fighting games or lol with my friends), I usually see some exciting plays. We'll cheer or be surprised that someone just pulled whatever off and it can just be as exciting to us as regular sports are for you. I play those games and so I know enough about them to follow the strategy and technical skill that goes into what the players are doing that I can enjoy watching them do stuff I wouldn't be able to do without playing 40 hours a week for a year. It's literally the exact same thing as watching any other sport you dabble a bit in, you know how to play and enjoy playing it but sometimes it's cool seeing people be really good at something. At the end of the day it's still a button press. It doesn't matter if you make Chun Li or the Devourer or whatever do it. You pushed some buttons, esports are dumb nerd poo poo.
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Razorwired posted:At the end of the day it's still a button press. It doesn't matter if you make Chun Li or the Devourer or whatever do it. You pushed some buttons, esports are dumb nerd poo poo. this is why i hate actors, anyone can say words like those noobs
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Alejandro Sanchez posted:I don't care about your gay little arguing about whether a fag clicking a ball is cooler than a fag kicking a mouse or whatever it is you retards are talking about with regards to capitalism (???) but I want to make a big cum inside the tight twink rear end in a top hat of professional Dota 2 player SingSing from team Cloud9. 
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i came to make fun of fantasy football, and now wtf people are calling videogames sports??
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After I cum inside him I want him to shout one of his catchphrases like "YEH BUDDDY, BUDDY PLEASE" or "MUDDAHFUKAHH WHAT YOU THINK YOU DOINGK" then turn me over and gently caress me until he shoots his weak asian seed in my ruined hole.
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Sitting Here posted:i came to make fun of fantasy football, and now wtf people are calling videogames sports??
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mr.capps posted:this is why i hate actors, anyone can say words like those noobs lol i love when sad nerds go 'oh yeah e-sports are gay kind of like throwing some ball around or getting on a stage and reciting a few lines  ' as if theater or sports didn't require a million times more skills than mashing buttons in front of a screen
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Everything we do is dumb and sad and gay and takes weird stupid meaningless skills and it's all ultimately meaningless, yet somehow we find enjoyment out of these retard activities and goals, such as my goal to Impregnate The rear end in a top hat Of Professional Video Game Player Weh Sing Yuen.
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Twee as gently caress posted:lol i love when sad nerds go 'oh yeah e-sports are gay kind of like throwing some ball around or getting on a stage and reciting a few lines jokes, haha, are best taken seriously
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so what you're saying is that if there were a video game that required the same level of skill as acting it would be a sport whoa
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mr.capps posted:jokes, haha, are best taken seriously im sure all 15 posters who made some variation of that post are all cool bros who go outside and think that e-sports are really lame and not really defending it
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Twee as gently caress posted:lol i love when sad nerds go 'oh yeah e-sports are gay kind of like throwing some ball around or getting on a stage and reciting a few lines At the end of the day though it's just entertainment and I can't really think of anything spergier than trying to tell someone why they shouldn't enjoy what they enjoy because of x/y/z reasons.
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Twee as gently caress posted:im sure all 15 posters who made some variation of that post are all cool bros who go outside and think that e-sports are really lame and not really defending it esports are actually cool if they involve kirby, but i was making a joke personally i think irl sports are only lame due to the lack of kirby, this can easily be fix
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ArbitraryC posted:I think the point is they're all games. They also do require more skills than mashing buttons in front of a screen unless you also think chess or go only requires the skill of moving pieces around a board. Most competitive games are designed around the idea that once you surpass a certain technical skill level (ie being really good at pushing buttons), the game becomes a medium for a battle of strategy and skill against your opponent where the goal is to outplay them with a set amount of resources, which is what all games boil down to. I am actually pretty good at Street Fighter 2, or used to be I guess, but I never once considered that dumb gay talent to be on the level of a loving World Cup soccer player.
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My watching people play a game is the only moral watching people play a game.
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people know actual sports and acting takes a higher amount of skill. some people like watching the narrative of stuff, some the strategy stuff, other people like watching the technical stuff, and yeah the later is really boring in esports and its loving dumb how the culture around it builds it up as the same level of technical skill in actual sports. like the culture around normal sports is really stupid too, but it can be taken more seriously because of the actual technical skill going on. its still the same type of "watching people play games" entertainment though, so who cares.
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crankdatbatman posted:I am actually pretty good at Street Fighter 2, or used to be I guess, I'm sorry, I hate to break the news to you but...
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