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- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 1 week ago:
The rules are quite loose? Why else would they have eagle eyed officials watching closely to disqualify athletes for infractions.
Games can absolutely be played asynchronously. Games can have scoring systems instead of head-to-head.
Would you say pinball is not a game?
I didn’t think I needed to get out the dictionary definition of game, but I hope this clears it up… Definitions from Oxford Languages: “noun, a form of play or sport, especially a competitive one played according to rules and decided by skill, strength, or luck.”
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 1 week ago:
Why track and field events not games? They have rules, can be won or lost, and can be played casually if you think that is a requirment.
Take shot put, hammer throw, and javelin, for example. The game is who can throw the object in a certain way the furtherest. I could play a shot put game with some friends at a river bank by drawing a line in the sand and seeing who can huck the heaviest rock on the shore the furthest.
There’s a reason they call them Olympic Games.
Really any activity with some structure is a game if it is play and not “real”, even better if it can help practice a skill useful in life. There is a difference between a running race (a game) and running for your life from a bear (not a game). Between MMA and a street fight. Between war games and a shooting war.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 1 week ago:
If your game doesn’t involve traveling above 100mph and pulling more than 2g it’s not a sport 😤
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 1 week ago:
What athletic competition would not be a game if all sports are games? I mean, honestly, what is the difference you see between “sport” and “athletic competition”?
You can extend or contract “game” as much as you want, but I can’t think of a definition of game that would encompass all sports but not all athletic competitions (if there really is a difference).
- Comment on Apple to Analyze User Data on Devices to Bolster AI Technology. 3 weeks ago:
I had scanned through it, and it looked like the exact same stuff that Google and Microsoft say. Paraphrasing: “we value your privacy” “we’re de-identifying your data” “the processing occurs on-device”…
Apple probably is better on privacy than other big tech corpos, but it’s a race to the bottom, and they’re definitely participating in the race.
- Comment on Apple to Analyze User Data on Devices to Bolster AI Technology. 3 weeks ago:
Apple is the best on privacy though right?
- Comment on From a purely political perspective, if you oppose the US tariffs as a US resident, should you buy or avoid buying products subject to tariffs? 3 weeks ago:
That link is just awful. Very difficult to tell where events are or how big they will be.
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 5 weeks ago:
Same with Deftones.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 1 month ago:
- Comment on Not the Toll Roads Notification of Toll Evasion!! 2 months ago:
It sounds funny but it actually is more real than you might think
In Southern California there’s a bunch of toll roads for the rich people in Orange County they call The Toll Roads.
- Comment on Delicious 3 months ago:
My brain absolutely refused to read
Jeanut Putter and Belly
as it was written.
- Comment on Yo, Duplo, what you doing on the 24th? 4 months ago:
What a rediculous, and untrue, comparison to make. NASA (1) isn’t a consumer manufacturing company, (2) makes an absolutely insane variety of types science experiments from space telescopes to supersonic planes, (3) absolutely makes/uses parts with orders of magnitude tighter tolerances than Lego holds.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 5 months ago:
It’s better than dealing with whatever terrible nonsense they put on LGs and Samsungs. I was really close to getting an LG because everyone says it’s the best looking but I just couldn’t imagine going back to completely unmodifiable TV OS, so I got the Sony instead which still looks absolutely fantastic and I have my custom launcher on it set exactly how I want it.
- Comment on But yes. 5 months ago:
More like a steam turbine (which is way cooler cause it’s like a jet engine). Steam engine makes me think of a piston engine like on a train.
- Comment on Mazda's $10 Subscription For Remote Start Sparks Backlash After Killing Open Source Option 6 months ago:
God dammit Mazda, you were supposed to be one of the good ones!
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 6 months ago:
Bandcamp seems decent but it’s got a small and niche catalog.
