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30 Jun 2012, 12:31 pm

I used to play sports but that's because my mother put me on teams and I eventually came to dislike basketball and quit sports in general and went with my aspie obsessions.

The thing is, I don't get the point. People are payed millions of dollars to be the best person at kicking a ball into a goal or throwing a ball into a hoop. Yeah, you can play (American) football better than anyone else in the world. SO? FRICKING SO!?!?!?!? They deserve NONE of that money. NONE OF IT. The people who deserve it are the people who work their butts off in cancer research labs and actually contribute something to society. Not be the best a kicking a ball into a goal for other's amusement!

Now, the only sport I enjoy is fencing. Probably because one, it is a COMBAT sport, and two, the origins of the combat techniques are from actual military techniques used before firearms were invented. One of my old aspie obsessions is knights and medieval stuff.
Sure, I may go into a national or state level tournament, and heck even get paid for it.... but why do I deserve that money? What did I do to deserve it? Be the best at scoring a touch on my opponent's lamé?

Please, explain to me why something so pointless can be so popular.



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30 Jun 2012, 12:32 pm

What's the point of video games? There's your answer.



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30 Jun 2012, 12:34 pm

1000Knives wrote:
What's the point of video games? There's your answer.


Actually, I don't play a lot of video games either.

And one thing, people aren't payed money to play video games- oh wait, yes they are, the LPers on YouTube are... but in truth, they don't deserve that money either.



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30 Jun 2012, 12:38 pm

1000Knives wrote:
What's the point of video games? There's your answer.
what is the pointof any activity besides working, sleeping, and eating?

Enjoyment.

I like basketball. I meed to start wakingup earlier so I have time to shoot baskets before work


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30 Jun 2012, 12:39 pm

Delphiki wrote:
1000Knives wrote:
What's the point of video games? There's your answer.
what is the pointof any activity besides working, sleeping, and eating?

Enjoyment.

I like basketball. I meed to start wakingup earlier so I have time to shoot baskets before work


yes, enjoyment, but I don't see why they got so popular. Why isn't tag or something like that a national sport or something? People don't get paid for being the best tagger in your neighborhood



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30 Jun 2012, 12:49 pm

Wolfmaster wrote:
Delphiki wrote:
1000Knives wrote:
What's the point of video games? There's your answer.
what is the pointof any activity besides working, sleeping, and eating?

Enjoyment.

I like basketball. I meed to start wakingup earlier so I have time to shoot baskets before work


yes, enjoyment, but I don't see why they got so popular. Why isn't tag or something like that a national sport or something? People don't get paid for being the best tagger in your neighborhood
Tagging involves having quick reflexes and being able to run fast. So in highschool that could be track, cross country, football, or soccer.


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30 Jun 2012, 2:03 pm

Short answer is: tribal life. Sports is mainly a male activity when it comes to high salary, and most sports supporters are male. Male need the activity of sports not only as a substitute to actually fighting tribal wars and proving their dominance, they need it as a means to feel being part of a clan, a group of other men that share the same interest, to form a bond, be part of a dynamic. The human always used to live in packs, and the more civilized we became, the less important pack survival skills like hunting, tracking, trapping and fighting were. Sports is a way to vent our primitive need of being part of a group, both active and passive.



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30 Jun 2012, 2:12 pm

starryeyedvoyager wrote:
Short answer is: tribal life. Sports is mainly a male activity when it comes to high salary, and most sports supporters are male. Male need the activity of sports not only as a substitute to actually fighting tribal wars and proving their dominance, they need it as a means to feel being part of a clan, a group of other men that share the same interest, to form a bond, be part of a dynamic. The human always used to live in packs, and the more civilized we became, the less important pack survival skills like hunting, tracking, trapping and fighting were. Sports is a way to vent our primitive need of being part of a group, both active and passive.


What about individual sports?



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30 Jun 2012, 2:18 pm

1000Knives wrote:
What's the point of video games? There's your answer.


Not really, you don't get millions of people watching other people playing video games that they themself do not play. And getting so very excited about it, and spending untold billions to do so.

I get the point of playing sports at a casual or amateur level, but professional sports is totally incomprehensible.



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30 Jun 2012, 2:19 pm

edgewaters wrote:
1000Knives wrote:
What's the point of video games? There's your answer.


Not really, you don't get millions of people watching other people playing video games that they themself do not play. And getting so very excited about it, and spending untold billions to do so.

I get the point of playing sports at a casual or amateur level, but professional sports is totally incomprehensible.


Korea and Starcraft.



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30 Jun 2012, 2:29 pm

edgewaters wrote:
1000Knives wrote:
What's the point of video games? There's your answer.


Not really, you don't get millions of people watching other people playing video games that they themself do not play. And getting so very excited about it, and spending untold billions to do so.

I get the point of playing sports at a casual or amateur level, but professional sports is totally incomprehensible.
1000knives had a good example. Call of duty sells over 300million dollars worth on their "new" game in just the opening week each year.


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30 Jun 2012, 3:13 pm

The point is that there is no point. Playing is a way to prove that you are sociable. Watching with others and/or talking about the game afterwards with others is a way to "bond". It proves normalcy, and validates that you are a part of the "club".

I have always disliked team sports. I am considered to be a neurotypical. Go figure...



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30 Jun 2012, 3:39 pm

1000Knives wrote:
starryeyedvoyager wrote:
Short answer is: tribal life. Sports is mainly a male activity when it comes to high salary, and most sports supporters are male. Male need the activity of sports not only as a substitute to actually fighting tribal wars and proving their dominance, they need it as a means to feel being part of a clan, a group of other men that share the same interest, to form a bond, be part of a dynamic. The human always used to live in packs, and the more civilized we became, the less important pack survival skills like hunting, tracking, trapping and fighting were. Sports is a way to vent our primitive need of being part of a group, both active and passive.


What about individual sports?


Individual sports cater to the same thing, but not so much in the fashion of participation. Alas, individual sports are less prone to attracting as much attention and a cult following. Even popular individual sports like tennis, which still generates huge amount of revenue for the pracitioners, are not as popular as, say soccer or baseball. High society sports like tennis or golf cater more to the sense of exclusiveness. Still, it is exclusivity to a group as well.



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30 Jun 2012, 3:40 pm

Delphiki wrote:
edgewaters wrote:
1000Knives wrote:
What's the point of video games? There's your answer.


Not really, you don't get millions of people watching other people playing video games that they themself do not play. And getting so very excited about it, and spending untold billions to do so.

I get the point of playing sports at a casual or amateur level, but professional sports is totally incomprehensible.
1000knives had a good example. Call of duty sells over 300million dollars worth on their "new" game in just the opening week each year.


Yeah but that's like sales of soccer balls. The people who buy that game are going to play it, themselves. This is understandable.

It's not like the money spent on tickets to watch other people kick soccer balls around. This is not understandable. Can you imagine people spending 100x more on watching other people play CoD, than on playing it themselves? Billions to spectate on other gamers, to only millions spent actually playing it?



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30 Jun 2012, 5:01 pm

edgewaters wrote:
Delphiki wrote:
edgewaters wrote:
1000Knives wrote:
What's the point of video games? There's your answer.


Not really, you don't get millions of people watching other people playing video games that they themself do not play. And getting so very excited about it, and spending untold billions to do so.

I get the point of playing sports at a casual or amateur level, but professional sports is totally incomprehensible.
1000knives had a good example. Call of duty sells over 300million dollars worth on their "new" game in just the opening week each year.


Yeah but that's like sales of soccer balls. The people who buy that game are going to play it, themselves. This is understandable.

It's not like the money spent on tickets to watch other people kick soccer balls around. This is not understandable. Can you imagine people spending 100x more on watching other people play CoD, than on playing it themselves? Billions to spectate on other gamers, to only millions spent actually playing it?


No, but what about movies? Millions of people go pay money to watch actors do things in a movie because it's entertaining. Same reason people go to the baseball game. And don't say you don't like sports, video games, or movies, because if that's true, you just don't like fun. :P


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30 Jun 2012, 9:58 pm

Well the point of practicing any sport is to develop neural pathways and musculature which would make you more competent in any survival situation. One thing I've noticed is that those of us with abnormal brain development (everyone on this forum if my observations are universally applicable) tend to be extremely good at some out of the way things (I could beat two or three experienced fencers at once on my first day at a fencing club) while being completely horrible at some very common movements (I have no balance and can't throw particularly well).

As for the concept of being payed to play games, it just shows how screwed up modern civilisation is.