• DogWater@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    How? Lol

    Why so aggressive?

    Videogames are a media designed to be played as their method of consumption. It’s a media product. A sport, as a media, is a professional sport. Playing a sport and playing a video game isn’t comparable because they are fundamentally different.

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      4 months ago

      The fuck are you talking about? Playing games is a way of spending your time. Football is a game. Video games are games. Tabletop games are games. There are tons of different games. And with all of them it is an undeniable fact that it is always better to actually play them yourself instead of only (!) watching other people do it.

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        4 months ago

        Bro why are you so angry.

        Media that gets consumed can be games, but sports are not media that’s what I’m trying to say.

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          4 months ago

          That is such an odd point to make. If I film some random people playing football it’s suddenly media? Settlers of Catan becomes something else entirely when I play it on a screen instead of on a table? You’re just not making any sense.

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            4 months ago

            We are talking about the difference between a sport and art. Something developed by an artist for a player to experience as the player vs people engaging with a framework of rules for competition

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              4 months ago

              Both are part of the larger group of pastimes. Both have, by necessity, rules. You are constructing artificial rules that make no sense.

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                4 months ago

                I’m not constructing artificial rules???

                I’m pointing out that watching sport is different than watching someone engage with art that is meant to be experienced first hand. It’s inherent to the medium.