i’m going to protest against the Oscar Awards because there are no Asian people nominated :s
seriously, people who play the race card piss me off. just shut the fuck up. if USA is really racist then why did the majority vote for a black president? seriously what more do they want?
new mkx DLC and netcode confirmed to not come to PC version, that’s pretty unfortunate
also, the MKX XL all-in-one edition hits stores march 1st, so yeah, confirmed that SFV, MKX, and KI S3 are all hitting within one month of each other which is pretty ridiculous saturation if you ask meeeeeeee
Suicide Squad actually looks pretty fun. I was worried it was going to be all Man of Steely joyless from the last trailer.
If you really wanna be American, you would sue the Oscar Awards.
AND!.. You would buy a gun.
How ironic, Will Smith is in the Suicide Squad too.
And one of the new heros in Star Wars;Force Awaken is black too!
Definitely a better trailer this time around… but Joker still looks stupid. Might be just me, but trailer seems to have a Guardians of the Galaxy vibe.
if black peeps want to be serious about stopping racism then they should concentrate on boycotting the word “nigga”. how are you going to expect racism to stop when you call yourself and your friends a racial slur? why is common sense not so common?
Don’t forget Pokken on March 18 ;).
And new BB, GG, KoF and Tekken soon afterish probably? Madness. And rumour is Square wants the new Dissidia to go all e-sportsy…
we can only have so many movies about drug dealers, slaves, civil rights, crime and rappers
you forgot athletes
if you like sports, this is a really interesting article: http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2016/01/19/If-I-could-go-back-I-wouldn-t-play-football/stories/201601190177
talks about a super bowl-winning receiver who could have played either professional baseball or football, chose football and now wishes he had played baseball because of the way his injuries are now affecting his life
i think it sort of brings to the forefront a lot of really interesting issues about football as a sport… it is so incredibly violent and injury-prone, even at a young age, but it is so ingrained in the consciousness of US culture (especially the southern states, or athletic kids raised in poor families that see football as their way out) that it’s almost like a bit of a jail
people are now realizing what football is doing to people, basically turning them into vegetables by age 40 and leaving them with a lifelong struggle. many ex-football players struggle with serious depression due to brain injuries and several high-profile ones have even committed suicide. and for every NFL star that makes decent money, there are 1000 other players who destroyed their body for nothing and flamed out before making the pros. the ones that DO make the NFL tend to last only a few years before they’re too injured to play or forced out of the game by younger, faster players, eager to get into the meat grinder themselves. if you last past age 30 (and aren’t a kicker) in the NFL, you are doing extremely well. you’re probably also living a super fast lifestyle that will leave you broke and bankrupt if you don’t manage your money well (which, if you came from a poor family, is harder to do).
it’s actually a pretty tragic situation. a lot of my football-loving friends in the US have started watching considerably less football over the last few years, just because it’s so much more difficult to enjoy the physical play now, knowing the long term effects of it. it’s just not a very sustainable sport
You gotta wonder about hockey sometimes too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uynSbumHzBI
Fighting is clearly already on its way out, but it is a very fast paced, physical game. Guys are going to get their bells rung. You line up a legal hit but the guy you are hitting flinches the wrong way or loses an edge and suddenly you’ve nailed him in the head and given him some more brain damage.
Dunno what the big deal is really. Since 1950 a couple hundred people have died mid-race in automobile crashes. 50+ guys have been killed in the ring boxing. Mountaineers die all the time. Teach kids the risks early on, let them make their own decisions.
A lot of it is research into sports related injuries that we didn’t have before
A player like Scott Stevens would be suspended for his entire career if he played today and would be universally hated because of his dirty hits - but back then and even today he’s revered as some kind of God when all he did was catch defenseless guys with brutal headshots
it’s not only research into sports injuries, it’s how everyone who plays sports now is 5x stronger than they were even just 10-15 years ago, let alone 50 years ago. the training, medicine and athleticism of every sport is at an all-time high.
also, saying you can just tell kids the risks of playing a contact sport early on doesn’t work, when their family is poor and he can go to college if he plays football or is stuck in welfare for the rest of his life if he doesn’t. for a lot of these kids, it’s not really a choice at all. this is not a voluntary hobby (like mountain climbing) or a largely rich man’s activity that you do after you’re an adult (like car racing). it’s athletic kids in poor, often racially profiled families who are looking for a way out, and football is it.
what will start to happen, though (and is already happening), is that schools will get sued for kids who end up super injured because of negligent coaching and “put some tape on that and get back out there” attitude of machismo in the young ages of football and other contact sports. and then that will probably change the culture of the sport, slowly, over time.
That’s because he is a God.
First of all, it is a bit of a generalization to say that all he did was catch defenseless guys with brutal headshots. People have just seen hits like the ones on Lindros and Kariya so many times that they assume that’s all he ever did. The vast majority of his hits were very clean, it’s just that the way that the Devils played hockey then didn’t give people a lot of options aside from getting leveled by Stevens. I actually think it’s kind of dumb to call him a dirty player. He racked up very few penalty minutes considering what a physical player he is. Like it or not, he played well within the rules at the time. It isn’t Scott Stevens’ fault that the league allowed that sort of physical play. Scott Stevens’ early 2000’s Devils is my favourite hockey team of all time. They were the most daunting team to play against in the league, so much so that they had to change the rules of the game. I know everyone likes flashy plays and non-stop offense, but you have to sit back and admire how the Devils dominated most of the league with only strategy. Sure Gomez was a decent offensive player at the time, but most of the Devils’ games were all about getting a one goal lead and then spending the rest of the game funnelling players into Scott Stevens’ shoulder. Injuries definitely occurred, but it was all within the rules of the game at the time.
Complaining about that stuff is like complaining about plink dashing in marvel, or option selects in SF4. The game wasn’t intended on playing that way, but sometimes people just push the game to a different level and you’re left floundering. That’s what the Stevens and the Devils did.
TL;DR - Scott Stevens is the fucking best
I feel like this conversation has happened before, or maybe it’s just deja vu.
Anyway, if you think Football is bad you should see how most Pro-Wrestlers end up. That industry has ruined so many lives. Suicides, drug overdoses, concussions, for the longest time it was rare for Wrestlers to live past 40. Everyone knows about Chris Benoit, but there are tons of other cases of really fucked up stuff happening with wrestlers due to head trauma and drug abuse.
For example, the Von Erich family was six sons whose father was a wrestler in the 60’s. Of the six, one is still alive today (the would be in there fifties I believe). One died as a child, one died of a drug overdose, and three of them committed suicide.
I’m thinking steroid use contributes to the deaths and concussions of these football players. Damn those guys are effing huge, they gotta be on steroids, no? How strict is football’s drug testing?
I agree wrestlers die at a very early age and that is no doubt because of steroids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U7jUbKQYdw
here is a sportcenter top 10 video of stevens’ hits
if you can find me a hit that he’s known for that wasn’t a charging, elbow to the face(aside from that beauty hip check at #10), then i’d love to see it
ps the trap is literally the worst thing to ever happen to hockey
“the vast majority of his hits were very clean” i guess is a valid excuse for the day he played in(but hilariously misguided with respect to what we know today in terms of player safety), but my point was:
stick stevens in today’s NHL and you’re looking at a matt cooke type of universal hatred for him. chris pronger would have him on speed dial
they only test for certain things
hgh for example, is not a ped they started testing for until recently and havent caught many players(though most consensus is everyone is on it)
I dunno man, a lot of those in the top 10 look pretty clean to me. The one I can’t defend is the hit on Kariya because it’s pretty late and nasty. The Lindros hit that he’s most known for is really a shame since it ended his career, but I think it goes back to what Cody mentioned before. Lindros’ head is down, and at the speed they are going, it really isn’t possible for Stevens to notice that and make an adjustment. Lindros’ height works against him. It sucks, it’s a shitty thing that happened, but you can’t account for everything, what happens if he doesn’t take the body in those situations? A guy Lindros’ size just powers his way in and get’s a scoring opportunity, which is pretty much what he did against every other team. Also, Lindros was notorious for skating with his head down and had the concussion history to prove it. It’s tough to call, who do you put the responsibility on in those situations, and similar situations today. If someone alters course at the last minute and ends up getting concussed because of it, is that the fault of the guy playing the body?
I agree that the trap was a nightmare for the game, but seeing it put into action so perfectly really made me love that team. I also agree that if Stevens played the way he did back then in the league today he would definitely be universally hated. I don’t think he would though, his game would have to alter, but this is all just pointless hypothetical.
Sports are definitely evolving in that sense. I’m definitely glad for it too, people shouldn’t be shortening their lives for this stuff. It will be interesting to see what happens in the next 20 years. WWE has already changed their policies on concussions and are extremely wary of letting anyone wrestle who has a concussion history, even their big stars like Daniel Bryan.