08-23-2023, 12:59 AM
There are number of conversations I've seen around that have led me to this topic. I suppose it should come as no surprise that as much as min-maxxing and powergaming and other forms of retardation can make videogame appreciation beyond a set of abstract boxes to check impossible, the same just as easily, if not more easily, applies to actual sports which are in terms of pure rule-set are even less robust than most videogames (since sports relies on physical reality to do all the "hardcoding")
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Well, as it so happens I am not really a sports guy, and certainly not in the sense of audience member. Outside of fishing which is almost debatable in its status as a sport, I don't really care. But the ever-recurring soyjak above is about an accurate description of it as far as the average fisherman goes. It strikes me at this exact moment that this is a similar sort of paradoxical position the average gamer takes especially with competitive games. I could probably write a lot of stuff about fishing and it's something of a unique experience, there aren't very many things that are similar to it, but for the average Joe, it's mostly just a way to kill time. And I do take a certain sadistic pleasure in the fact most people are totally inept at this hobby and get skunked every single time. For once, the interest can actually gatekeep itself which doesn't happen in competitive gaming.
Simultaneously, this type of content is made for them and caters to them and their approach. And it's not just "content" we are talking about here. It's an industry going back long before that word was even used in the way it is today. There is a common saying even among people who fish that lures "catch fishermen, not fish" but this is no cause for self-examination or attempting to understand the situation whatsoever. At the exact same time the average moron on the shoreline is more or less just getting out of the house to drink beer, enjoy some outdoors and get away from his nagging cunt wife, gear and plastic spergery is the default. Which is bizarre, because it's an excuse anyway, so who fucking cares? And this stuff is never cheap. The economics behind plastic fishing crap are quite excellent because the mere characteristic of having different colors is sufficient to warrant you buying an entire other set (if not 5 or 6) of plastic worms that otherwise have the exact same profile. Rinse and repeat for each set of colors for each different profile and size and shape of bait and you've got an ideal consumption cycle for bored normiecons to spend hundreds of dollars on monthly the world over.
This is not unique to fishing either. Sports are not entirely divorcible from gaming by their nature, and every other sport has similarly lucrative industry built up around mere consumption of things adjacent to the playing of the game itself, whether its baseball cards or football memorabilia or whatever the hell else. As with the spread of info of all hobbies, many sports become a simple matter of "spreadsheets" and meaningless statistics and which ever negro kicks the most like a robot. With athletes the component of physical expression is more or less lost, as in fishing the mental stimulation is replaced with a follow chart where you loosely examin the weather and then pick the corrosponding color and "action" of bait. Expression is not really a factor in fishing, rather it's more meditative and about studying ecology. But in both cases any higher sense of dignity in athleticism as well as in outdoorsy stuff like fishing is replaced with simple mental loops to get le crunchy satisfying experience out of engaging with it in whatever deformed bastard form the average person is capable of at this point.
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I don't really know anything about this stuff, and even what I discussed is something of a stretch, so if you are an enjoyer of sports, I encourage you to share your encounters with Mexican subhumanity bastard-enjoyment here wherever you see them.
[Image: https://i.ibb.co/pP6DvD6/Screenshot-2023...u-Tube.jpg]
Well, as it so happens I am not really a sports guy, and certainly not in the sense of audience member. Outside of fishing which is almost debatable in its status as a sport, I don't really care. But the ever-recurring soyjak above is about an accurate description of it as far as the average fisherman goes. It strikes me at this exact moment that this is a similar sort of paradoxical position the average gamer takes especially with competitive games. I could probably write a lot of stuff about fishing and it's something of a unique experience, there aren't very many things that are similar to it, but for the average Joe, it's mostly just a way to kill time. And I do take a certain sadistic pleasure in the fact most people are totally inept at this hobby and get skunked every single time. For once, the interest can actually gatekeep itself which doesn't happen in competitive gaming.
Simultaneously, this type of content is made for them and caters to them and their approach. And it's not just "content" we are talking about here. It's an industry going back long before that word was even used in the way it is today. There is a common saying even among people who fish that lures "catch fishermen, not fish" but this is no cause for self-examination or attempting to understand the situation whatsoever. At the exact same time the average moron on the shoreline is more or less just getting out of the house to drink beer, enjoy some outdoors and get away from his nagging cunt wife, gear and plastic spergery is the default. Which is bizarre, because it's an excuse anyway, so who fucking cares? And this stuff is never cheap. The economics behind plastic fishing crap are quite excellent because the mere characteristic of having different colors is sufficient to warrant you buying an entire other set (if not 5 or 6) of plastic worms that otherwise have the exact same profile. Rinse and repeat for each set of colors for each different profile and size and shape of bait and you've got an ideal consumption cycle for bored normiecons to spend hundreds of dollars on monthly the world over.
This is not unique to fishing either. Sports are not entirely divorcible from gaming by their nature, and every other sport has similarly lucrative industry built up around mere consumption of things adjacent to the playing of the game itself, whether its baseball cards or football memorabilia or whatever the hell else. As with the spread of info of all hobbies, many sports become a simple matter of "spreadsheets" and meaningless statistics and which ever negro kicks the most like a robot. With athletes the component of physical expression is more or less lost, as in fishing the mental stimulation is replaced with a follow chart where you loosely examin the weather and then pick the corrosponding color and "action" of bait. Expression is not really a factor in fishing, rather it's more meditative and about studying ecology. But in both cases any higher sense of dignity in athleticism as well as in outdoorsy stuff like fishing is replaced with simple mental loops to get le crunchy satisfying experience out of engaging with it in whatever deformed bastard form the average person is capable of at this point.
[Image: https://i.ibb.co/9H3XkWP/Screenshot-2023...u-Tube.jpg]
I don't really know anything about this stuff, and even what I discussed is something of a stretch, so if you are an enjoyer of sports, I encourage you to share your encounters with Mexican subhumanity bastard-enjoyment here wherever you see them.
