Can't help from laughing. I guarantee I was one of those kids you're talking about. I never went outside once we got video game systems. But even before then, I'd rather sit in my room and build shit with legos, etc., than go outside and play with friends. Some kids just aren't interested in that - and I still managed to be a collegiate athlete on scholarship at a D1 school.
And you know who else was there? All those 'sports' kids who couldn't count their own fingers and toes, getting degrees in stupid majors so that they could sports super hard for a few more years before joining the real world and realizing they had no life skills because all they did was play sports.
1. I created this thread because you suggested it and unwanted to see if anyone could reasonably explain (commercial reasons aside) why you'd think a video game as a sport? Not one of you have answered that. What you have done is made this very personal.
2. Wilshire, I guess ill say you just never know someone. Because your comments in this thread are so not the Wilshire I have grown to enjoy and would think established a friendship of sorts.
You're making some of the rudest, judgmental statements I've ever seen. Athletes who cant count their toes? As if all athletes are dumbasses? You were an athlete and in can tell your not. I as and carried a 3.75 GOA through H.S. and no in wasnt skating through. I took all AP courses. This thing you have that athletes are just dumb jocks, is the same as all smart people are socially awkward dorks. Its not true in any sense.
Yes, some athletes could give two shits about earning a real degree to be ready for life. But, many, many of them use it as a way to be prepared for the real world. You have a hate for athletes that shows through rather easily in your posts and its so unlike you. I find it confounding.
I have said 3 times and will say it again the my original post wasn't well thought out. Not a gamers are obese, but it does become of factor in obesity. Same as setting around watching tv, as Tleilaxu pointed out. Ill say it again, sorry for not thinking it through.
But, the reason for the post, for one of you gamer gods to explain to me how you could consider setting on your ads, twiddling your thumbs a sport. Not, one of you have or even tried.
So, I'm therefore done with the conversation, which has turned into a hate bashing session on athletes. As if the are the bane of the world. The do more good than many people would ever imagine (pro athletes). Athletics is a way to prepare children for certain aspects of life. Bit, not sports alone and I would never suggest that. I've even said that if none of my kids played sport a that would be ok. They would just need to be involved in something. Its a rule in my household. To be proactive.
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They are both equally abused and equally worthless for a person development. Neither has anything to do bettering the player when done improperly.
I call bullshit to the tenth degree. Sports teach a lot of life lessons. How to work with other people. How to take orders and be part of a team. It teaxhes us the ups and downs of life. Winning and losing. If youndont see that, you just don't want too.