Oddbean new post about login | logout Sports are games though. I think baseball is boring but basketball and football are fun. I understand why some people would enjoy baseball and dislike football. I just don’t understand people that don’t like any sports at all.
No. Sports are not games. I dint mind sports or games. I mind the fanaticism. That's truly disturbing.
How are sports not games? And what does the fanaticism have to do with anything? There is fanaticism with everything even bitcoin.
I think what he's trying to say is that the culture around sports is very different, and far more annoying. Obviously, sports do fit the definition of a game.
He's right, btw. Sports culture is a psudeo-pornographic substitute for genuine honor and tribal loyalty, and like all modern perversions, only observation scales, never participation. It's a purified embodiment of everything evil about the modern world.
It is a substitute for tribalism for some people but why is that a bad thing? It’s a nice outlet for humans tendency toward violence. Better to let people play a physical game against each other than a violent one based on gang identities or something like that.
Because it's meaningless. Wars are fought over things that actually matter. Sports is, as I said, pornographic. Flat, hollow. Dystopian, even.
Wars are fought for profit lol I’ll take sports over that any day. What has meaning to one person may be worthless to another. Humans create meaning which makes it subjective. Dedicating your life to sports is meaningful to the individual. Just like dedicating your life to music or art. Just because you don’t like it, doesn’t mean it has no meaning. Clearly it has plenty of meaning to millions of people around the world. If people are willing to pay for it, then it has some meaning. And how is it dystopian?
NIGGER, THERE IS NO MORE FOR-PROFIT INDUSTRY ON EARTH THAN SPORTS. Meaning is also not subjective. If we didn't have a military industrial complex, we'd be South Africa right now. The overwhelming threat of violence is the only reason either of us have anything.
That’s the most retarded shit I ever heard lmao the military industrial complex doesn’t protect you from anything. It preserves the current corrupt system and makes those in power richer. You sound like a bootlicker gfy, muted.
Nigger thinks the world began 200 years ago.
>Actual nigger breaks into sportsnigger's house "Stop!" he says. "Don't you understand? If you take my TV and rape my wife and daughter, the rich will only get richer!"
A game is something you play. A sport is something you participate in, pursue, or compete in. Play is not the same as sport. I eschew fanaticism if that sort. It's gross. No other human deserves that kind of devotion and brain-numbing cultishness.
You participate and compete in games too.
Maybe pursue too, but Idk what you mean by that.
It's a definitional difference. The history of sports is much more martial than games, though, some games are applicable to developing martial prowess. Look at the sports in the original Olympics. People died in those. Playing a game is not the same thing as competing in a sport. This is no commentary on athleticism by those who play professionally or compete professionally. Another way to look at it is the sports are things you do: you swim, you wrestle, you throw a javelin. There usually are only one or two rules and possibly a safety consideration or two because we're all too civilized these days. For that matter, bowling and curling are sports, where as all other ball games that I'm aware of are just that: games you play. The fanaticism is gross. Too many people live vicariously through "their team." too many men, especially, neglect responsibilities for those kinds of vicarious thrills. I find that a very menial mentality. 🤷♂️
I guess I just don’t see what fun/entertainment exists today (or ever) that people don’t become fanatic over.
How about this revolutionary thought: Don't be fanatical about anything except your rights? Even that Skype be tempered a bit so you aren't a one-note song.
Your definition is mistaken, though the distinction you're drawing is real. A sport is a type of game. Every sport is a game but not every game is a sport. There are other types of games that are not sports, and do not share the same quality as sports do. It's a lot like niggers. All niggers are monke, but not all monke are niggers. Other types don't talk like niggers, they don't commit the overwhelming majority of crimes, but niggers are still monke
I’m not understanding your view that sports are not a game. They literally make video games based on sports. You keep score. There are rules. There is some skill involved. There are winners and losers. It’s a game. You’re conflating what some fanatics do to the entire sport. That is not how YOU have to engage with it. Most people casually watch sports. It’s just entertainment like watching a movie. Can it be harmful? Sure. So can drinking water. But blaming the sport instead of the irresponsible individual is unfair.