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Josef bugman posted:Can I ask what you take away from watching it? Is there a narrative, to it or is it just random matches to look at technique. It's just... I don't get what people get from it. Most other sorts of media I can understand watching. Because they tell a stroy or evoke an emotional response. But I know people who just watch the sport because "well I want to watch it" and thats incredible to me. i don't really watch them but even I know a sort of meta-narrative and lore forms around sports. part of what made blaseball fun is it exaggerates this to an extent where it overpowers the sport itself almost entirely, becoming a story-churning machine mixed with the medium of idle clickers.
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Josef bugman posted:I mean fair, but do you also play it or watch it IRL? Which would you say is more fun? To me they are all not particularly fun, but I can fully understand playing/watching with folks in a way I have difficulty with when someone is on their own. But thank you, and I am glad you enjoy it! My dad really loved them and I played extremely incompetent outfielder as a kid  I'm also the type of person who watches twitch streams though. That said, everyone should watch little league baseball because it's hilarious to watch little kids who haven't quite figured out how to sprint run the bases. My little cousins play it now and lol
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May 13, 2021 13:29
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Henchman of Santa posted:I can’t speak for his baseball viewing but narrative is a huge part of following and caring about sports. Sports leagues are engineered to produce drama. A team’s journey from scrappy underdog to dynastic title winner is a common example. And watching a lot of games means you get to know the players, their style, their personality, etc. to varying degrees depending on the sport. But I know people who just watch a random game, not even one they are invested in either side, just a random match and it's just like how. I can understand that I suppose, it just seems like something I have a bit of difficulty understanding. Thank you all very much!
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May 13, 2021 18:00
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Henchman of Santa posted:I can’t speak for his baseball viewing but narrative is a huge part of following and caring about sports. Yeah that's what makes it so god-drat boring. Sports aren't inherently boring, it's the people who talk about it. So, in short: sports are anime. No wait anime is inherently bad uhh sports are Sonic oh gently caress wait no sports are...
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May 13, 2021 18:12
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Josef bugman posted:Can I ask what you take away from watching it? Is there a narrative, to it or is it just random matches to look at technique. It's just... I don't get what people get from it. Most other sorts of media I can understand watching. Because they tell a stroy or evoke an emotional response. But I know people who just watch the sport because "well I want to watch it" and thats incredible to me. There is some narrative tied into it. Yankees/Astros games this year have been pretty entertaining - The Astros won the World Series a couple years ago by cheating big time and it was a whole thing. Yankees were the team they knocked out of the playoffs to go to the WS and Yankees fans HAVE NOT let it go(prob the only good thing the Yankees have ever done, gently caress the Yankees) https://twitter.com/MaxTGoodman/status/1389720900019310596 NWS for language if that matters Specific matchups are fun, Really Good Pitcher A vs. Really Good Pitcher B. There's also been a history of Playing Games The Right Way and Unwritten Rules that are pushed around by the olds. But there's been an infusion of young SUPER talented kids that are just like gently caress all that and actually show emotion and stare at home runs after launching them a mile and tossing their bat. Then when people complain the response is largely "lol pitch better then". Like this that happened over the last couple weeks; basically what happens in the video is the batter (Tatis) looks down to see what the catcher is telling the pitcher (Bauer) to throw, winds up hitting a home run and is pretty stoked about it. https://twitter.com/fuzzyfromyt/status/1386212252848586752?s=20 So then Bauer addresses it: https://twitter.com/BauerOutage/status/1386369207298789376?s=20 And Tatis responds: https://twitter.com/tatis_jr/status/1386380363312689155 This kind of stuff is bringing personality to baseball that just hasn't been there....ever and I love it. e: It's worth noting that I'm not a fan of any of these teams, but will still watch these games because of stuff like this Joey Freshwater has a new favorite as of 19:27 on May 13, 2021 |
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May 13, 2021 19:22
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Joey Freshwater posted:Yankees were the team they knocked out of the playoffs to go to the WS and Yankees fans HAVE NOT let it go(prob the only good thing the Yankees have ever done, gently caress the Yankees) 
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May 13, 2021 19:45
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Sorry totally posted a popular opinion in the unpopular opinion thread
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May 13, 2021 19:47
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All sports and gameshows are poo poo, and should be replaced with The Running Man.
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May 13, 2021 21:49
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Sunswipe posted:All sports and gameshows are poo poo, and should be replaced with The Running Man. Actually Miranda is good one because she's actually slightly harder to kill in the suicide mission. Even if she's not loyal she will will never be the one to die if you pick her as the fire team leader the first time around. In this case though I believe that's to make sure you always have at least one choice for the barrier later (even if she's not good for that)
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May 13, 2021 22:41
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Sunswipe posted:All sports and gameshows are poo poo, and should be replaced with The Running Man. I like Taskmaster.
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May 14, 2021 00:12
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The midwest starts in western Minnesota. Illinois, Ohio, Michigan are all East Coast states. As is anything touching one of the great lakes.
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May 14, 2021 00:41
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Well, I guess the Great Lakes are connected to the Atlantic Ocean. But so is the Pacific Ocean, making California also a part of the Extended East Coast States
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May 14, 2021 01:04
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Sunswipe posted:All sports and gameshows are poo poo, and should be replaced with The Running Man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxu248aD6PY
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May 14, 2021 02:52
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silence_kit posted:Well, I guess the Great Lakes are connected to the Atlantic Ocean. The only midwestern state is Kentucky oh also Vermont.
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May 14, 2021 09:33
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Gaius Marius posted:The midwest starts in western Minnesota. Illinois, Ohio, Michigan are all East Coast states. As is anything touching one of the great lakes. Where is “Uganda is an East Coast state” on this alignment chart?
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May 14, 2021 11:15
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Platystemon posted:Where is “Uganda is an East Coast state” on this alignment chart? Next to Landerig.
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May 14, 2021 11:17
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The american Midwest is defined as any state in which canned cream of mushroom soup is considered a cooking ingredient.
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May 14, 2021 17:39
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If you call it a casserole instead of a hot dish you can get the gently caress out.
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May 14, 2021 17:51
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Next to forums double-agent Landerig.
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Gaius Marius posted:If you call it a casserole instead of a hot dish you can get the gently caress out. I only serve hot dish at room temperature
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May 14, 2021 18:20
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As an ignorant European who has never visited the states in my life when you guys say "Midwest" we hear "Kansas"
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May 14, 2021 18:49
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JollyBoyJohn posted:As an ignorant European who has never visited the states in my life when you guys say "Midwest" we hear "Kansas" The Midwest does include Kansas, and also Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Minnesota (this is the cursed heart of the Midwest), Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio are ethnically midwestern but are not practicing midwestern.
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May 14, 2021 18:53
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Manager Hoyden posted:The Midwest does include Kansas, and also Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Minnesota (this is the cursed heart of the Midwest), Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio are ethnically midwestern but are not practicing midwestern. ah so midwest is meant in the context of the whole continent not just the USA
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May 14, 2021 18:55
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Kansas and Missouri are both southern states.
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May 14, 2021 19:10
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It’s pronounced Missoura
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I hate when "south" is used to mean "bad." Like how people will say "southern Indiana is the south." It's not the south, it's just that poo poo-tier white people exist from sea to shining sea.
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May 14, 2021 19:35
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I hate when "south" is used to mean "bad." Like how people will say "southern Indiana is the south." It's not the south, it's just that poo poo-tier white people exist from sea to shining sea. But by performatively attacking the South I can feel better about being from bumfuck Ohio or rural New York!
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PHUO: There are poo poo-tier people across the globe, from the biggest cities to the tiniest bumfuck farming villages Anyone who feels superior to another person based on where they are physically located at the moment is a soft nationalist
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Captain Monkey posted:But by performatively attacking the South I can feel better about being from bumfuck Ohio or rural New York! something something Iowa Chops
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I hate when "south" is used to mean "bad." Like how people will say "southern Indiana is the south." It's not the south, it's just that poo poo-tier white people exist from sea to shining sea. The south is really nice and created basically all the American food worth a drat. But it's way too hot. Especially once you hit the humid states, absolutely hellish. The east coast has the best preserved historical sites and generally decent weather. The west has the best geography to see but it's being absolutely destroyed by the people living there.
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May 14, 2021 21:36
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It really is too loving hot
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JollyBoyJohn posted:I will never find another human being less relatable than those who say they hate eating and food is a chore. I'm incredibly squeemish and hate running into stuff like gristle in meat. 
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May 14, 2021 21:57
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Acerbatus posted:I'm incredibly squeemish and hate running into stuff like gristle in meat. I kinda understand this, i could not stand pork chops as a kid but I've grown to like them
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Manager Hoyden posted:PHUO: There are poo poo-tier people across the globe, from the biggest cities to the tiniest bumfuck farming villages I am aware of my prejudices and try to keep a constant vigil on them so as to not dissolve into a classist elitist chud... But seriously broadly speaking the South is full of Christians and rednecks and republicans and should be given to Mexico.
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May 14, 2021 22:30
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The South tried to leave, so really it's the North's own fault they're stuck in this loveless marriage.
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May 14, 2021 22:39
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credburn posted:full of Christians and rednecks and republicans Just leave pretty much any major city regardless of where it is in the country and drive until you start seeing woods and you'll find the same. No one region has a monopoly on anything good or bad.
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I was just gonna type that. Maybe instead of attacking people who are usually severely economically depressed you could explain why we could all be working towards a mutually beneficial future, and the people keeping them in regress are both of your enemies. Or you could be a loving tool who hates people because of their faith like it's loving Bohemia in the 1420's
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Gaius Marius posted:Maybe instead of attacking people who are usually severely economically depressed you could explain why we could all be working towards a mutually beneficial future lol
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Gaius Marius posted:I was just gonna type that. Maybe instead of attacking people who are usually severely economically depressed you could explain why we could all be working towards a mutually beneficial future, and the people keeping them in regress are both of your enemies. well now that you've said it, it seems uncool
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