It’s nice that you want to fix the issue of loot boxes, Representative Lee. But how about you put this issue on the backburner for a little bit, and instead put your energies to getting rid of that shitbag head of the FCC Ajit Pai, the man who wants to destroy the open internet. Go after that asshole for now! And once…

“It’s a trap”.

You cannot possibly as obtuse as you pretend. Perhaps you might comment on why you think such pursuits are sports

No. Nor do I think hunters are “sportsmen”.

Sure.

Unlike some I don’t feel the need to impose my myopic and arbitrary definition on others.

And yet gymnastics are at the olympics.

It is in fact as you said a “definitional”issue because the fact is that the the people who get hung up on what is and is not a sport can’t even agree to a definition or a universal list of sports outside *OF* esports.

People who scream esports aren’t sports just don’t feel like…

No it’s not. No they’re not. You have actual pro gamers in these fucking comments telling you they’re not sports.

this guy is completely clueless of the kind of training and discipline that goes into being something like a top 8 Evolution competitor in Street Fighter.

+1 for “filthy casual.”

There’s no way to make an argument that “esports” are actually sports. They might be competitive. They might require preparation and some training; so does math league.

I do hate the term “esport.” It invites these senseless debates; how many times can the snake eat its own tail? I’ll take Competitive Gaming any day of the week. Then you can call people who make a living at it CGers, instead of “E-sports athletes,” which sounds convoluted and fake as fuck.

Best take.

I have no idea how people pronounce it, but I have never, and will never see the word “esport” and not hear it rhyming with “escort” in my head.

“And he doesn’t think esports are ‘sports.’”

Come on, Maddy, if your rosters are not full of people getting stuffed with cortisone and pills then bashing their heads in to devolve their brain development to that of an 80-year-old with Alzheimer’s at age 41, all while pizza sponsors take a stand over kneelers (heh) and a president demands the POC players lose…

No one needs a black belt to beat up an old man, but I do have one. My first paying job through high school and college was karate instructor, and since then, I’ve learned boxing too!

“Today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) unveiled its plans to roll back net neutrality regulations, and if those plans are successful, we can say goodbye to the internet as we know it”

Yeah, those filthy cybersex role-playing serivers like the Palace of Leather and Lace, a module I did not spend any time in at all back in my younger days, nope.