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Quote from: Sprungli on February 27, 2015, 12:37:39 PM

It's sad that some people choose to dislike sport, because it is a choice-participation in sport releases dopamine in the brain, it literally feels good for everyone if they actually try.

thats why ultimate frisbee is the best casual sport of all time

I've played Ultimate frisbee, it's like Rugby with a Frisby and less mud-fun as hell

its such a great workout, too

Not really...

What I dislike is it's culture and the fans of it.

How come?

I only follow baseball and football.

Every other sport is irrelevant and unimportant.

Because it is a pointless waste of time, money, and effort and only serves to breed a competitive mindset in youth. Competition is bad.

Because it is a pointless waste of time, money, and effort and only serves to breed a competitive mindset in youth. Competition is bad.

Competition is bad? How?

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Quote from: ShelfBacon on February 27, 2015, 02:28:32 PM

What I dislike is it's culture and the fans of it.

How come?

It may be a british thing and thus only really associated with football (soccer), but hooligans and the people who have literally nothing else to talk about, or spend their time doing just infuriate me. Like the people who spend £300 on an xbox one or ps4 just to play fifa and nothing else.

Though it isn't just sports. I find fans of more or less everything obnoxious in general.

So the people infuriate you because you don't like sports?

I mean, why's it matter if someone buys an Xbox just for Fifa?

You say they have nothing else to talk about. What would you like them to talk about instead of sports?

Like I said, I would have no problems with sports if it weren't for the fans. I'm more apathetic towards it.

It just seems a waste of money to spend a couple hundred on something which is only marginaly different to that last version- like I said, I specifically meant the people who buy one game and that's it. Just seems like a complete waste of money if you're not actually going to use it for anything more intensive on the new hardware.

I don't know, anything. TV, films, games, anything. It's the kind of people who sit behind me in form and I have never actually heard talk about anything other than football. It ends up seeming like they are incredibly boring people.

I like sports.

I like sports!

My first comment was directed at watching sports.  I'm usually down to play street hockey or B-ball though.

Doesn't benefit me and I find it a waste of time.

This when it comes to watching sports.

No, sports are good exercise.

Competition is the reason we're the dominant species on the planet and the reason you're sitting in a warm home on a computer bitching about everything all day.

All the more reason why it's a bad thing.

Quote from: Verbatim on February 27, 2015, 02:42:00 PM

Because it is a pointless waste of time, money, and effort and only serves to breed a competitive mindset in youth. Competition is bad.

Competition is the reason we're the dominant species on the planet and the reason you're sitting in a warm home on a computer bitching about everything all day.

Just like how a 600+ pound fat man in a scooter is the height of competitive evolution, right?

I think Verb's talking about over-competitive. You ever play chess? That's a form of competition with your buddy or your partner. It's fun to see who can outplay who especially if you're good matches. And then whoever wins, wins, and that's that. A thank you for shared fun and the challenge.

But sports. You get riots and shit. "Fan loyalty."

There's natural competition and then there's stupid competition.

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Quote from: Verbatim on February 27, 2015, 02:42:00 PM

Because it is a pointless waste of time, money, and effort and only serves to breed a competitive mindset in youth. Competition is bad.

Competition is the reason we're the dominant species on the planet and the reason you're sitting in a warm home on a computer bitching about everything all day.

Just like how a 600+ pound fat man in a scooter is the height of competitive evolution, right?

Nope.

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I think Verb's talking about over-competitive.

No such thing. Either you win or you don't.

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You ever play chess? That's a form of competition with your buddy or your partner. It's fun to see who can outplay who especially if you're good matches. And then whoever wins, wins, and that's that. A thank you for shared fun and the challenge.

That would be playing for fun. A chess tournament would be competitive.

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But sports. You get riots and shit. "Fan loyalty."

Stupid people rioting have nothing to do with athletes and competition.

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There's natural competition and then there's stupid competition.

There's just competition.

Then please, enlighten me about hockey fights. Never mind the riots. Let's focus on the players. Getting so pissed off at each other that they deck each other upside the head with hockey sticks.

Coaches actually essentially put "hits" out on rival players. It's been done in football as well. Injure or cripple the other player and they get a pay raise on their check.

And playing for fun. Really? The goal in chess is to win. So fucking naturally, you're going to play to win. That's the very fucking definition of competitive even if it's for fun.

Again. There's normal competition where everybody does their best to win and they have fun with it. And then there's whatever the fuck sports these days have turned into having players taking steroids and shit just to "win."

That's unhealthy competition.