But taking away the civil rights of people who are doing boneheaded and possibly dangerous stuff is not what we generally do in this country

Holy fuzzy!

“Everyone who survived childhood measles lived to adulthood, so measles aren’t that bad” is a survivorship fallacy. Measles outbreaks are absolutely a public health emergency, because measles do kill some children. A flu outbreak is a public health emergency because the flu kills some people.

“Of course it is possible for children, even those who are not immunocompromised, to die from complications of the measles. But not that many.”

Refutation of point 1:

Literally fuck off to the moon. Literally get into a rocketship and send yourself into the middle of the sun.

You’re fine with anything rich and powerful cishet white men do, as long as they do not literally grab at people’s genitals. Okay! Sounds totally rational! Definitely not trying to protect yourself from future consequences to your own actions!

Damn, when even Pelosi and the Post are coming down on you for something nutters are claiming is a Bernie Sanders Kremlin conspiracy, you know you fucked up.

Correction, we’re mad because we know the Dems WOULDN’T do this if given the chance, which they absolutely should. 

gosh, yeah, a seven-footer in the WNBA...........can’t imagine what that would be like...........

He’s wearing a shirt that has his own name on the front. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t care about the audience, just himself.

Didn’t say that. I responded to your bad faith argument about adding something to basketball that wasn’t there before by saying that items were part of the game, and part of how it was developed. Smash also lets you customize your ruleset, so you can play as you wish. It also allows Nintendo to set their tournament up…

In card games players minimise the influence of chance through strategy.

Random chance shows up EVERYWHERE in competitive settings, and to suggest otherwise is asinine. If basketball had been designed from the very beginning to have baseball bats and fans drop from the ceiling, players would be expected to adapt; why should Smash be any different?

“Almost as if random chance doesn’t belong in a competitive setting.”

Key difference is that basketball wasn’t designed with those random balls and weapons.

This. This is just another bullshit example of fans thinking they own the thing they’re a fan of.

Conversely, it seems to me the esports community wants to have their cake and eat it too - they want that sweet, sweet Nintendo money and prestige, but don’t want to play by Nintendo’s preferred rules.

When will “competitive” smash players realize Nintendo wants basically nothing to do with their toxic little corner of the smash fandom? 

Eh, Nintendo can do whatever they like. Its their game and if they organize tournaments its their choice how they need to be played. Even with the randomness of items a metagame can be arranged creating new tiers perhaps.