haha, calling them athletes is pushing it. I don’t really consider golf a sport, and they are 1000 times more of an athlete than any MLG player. Hell, you don’t even have to be in shape to play baseball.

gamers are not athletes. it’s all good to have this argument behind your computer but try making your point in real life. you will get laughed at because no rational person sees a gamer as an athlete or gaming as a sport. it’s sad how badly you want that athlete label. i am not saying they are not skilled, they are,…

Why does epsorts players need go legitimise their efforts through the metric of other people. That’s what jI really don’t get about your posts. You’re tying yourself into knots trying to argue that sitting at a computer is a physical activity comparable to playing tennis. That’s just silly.

A study of video game “athletes” showed most of them were in pretty poor relative health, despite many being thin when compared to actual athletes. There is a misconception that thin = healthy. But they had the same mental traits as athletes. The problem I have with defining them by mental traits is that it goes…

And everything is poisonous. So we should define pizza as a poison and label it as toxic. Right? Who even gets to decide why some stuff we call poisonous and others don’t. You can die from any substance. The emphasis on physicality has nothing to do with activities you make your mind do. You need to turn a page to…

Are those participating in academic competitions athletes? They have to write quickly and precisely, and their mental capabilities are being tested. In fact, they even have to walk quickly to turn in their answers.

Horse racing requires physically exerting your entire body, not just ten fingers and right wrist.

Dude, let it go. They wanna think of themselves as athletes for playing games, so just let them. Sensible people agree with you.

Your definition includes chess players and you think office work is athletic even though though the sedentary nature of those types of jobs are leading to world health problems. And despite the fact that physicality of athletes is the primary thing emphasized by literally every dictionary, you think it’s all that…

I think they are non-athletic sports players, players who play in games that are mostly not physically demanding. Some of them might do extra exercises to improve their general physical fitness but it’s not a requirement of being a professional gamer, and not everyone does it. Their injuries mostly come from…

And chess players? And if not athletes, do you consider those jobs athletic?

Would you consider a skilled office worker an athlete, business can be very competitive? A typist? Someone who is agile is someone who is fast, you can have fast fingers without being a fast person. Literally everything we do uses a physical part of our bodies, that’s really pushing the definition. You might as well…

Those are all non-athletic sports. There is more than one type of sport. All athletes are sportsman but not all sportsman are athletes.

My point is that it’s not physical, so it’s a non-athletic sport. Your argument was that athlete had nothing to do with being physical. Not a single dictionary agreed with you.

I’ll be impressed when I can play Arkham Knight inside Doom...or on PC

We have to go Doomer.

Yo dawg I heard you like playing DOOM, so we put a DOOM in your DOOM so you can play while you play

I’m assuming you can get this set up to run an infinite amount of Doom in Doom .

Uncomfortable, yes. But now I want to see his 3D versions of all the characters.

Now beat it with two rubber bands, a bobby pin and a kazoo. MacGyver that shit.