Shhh.
Let him believe he knows everything.
You always do that, lol. I think of it as punting.
Something along the lines of “This post upsets me but I can’t think of a good response, so I’ll just express general disdain!!!”
im physically incapable of effortposting is what it is
But feel the need to post and say something 
What’s the difference between a sport and fighting games?
Sport just seems to be tacked onto whatever activity draws crowd to watch people play a game (Football, Chess, Poker, Pool, Bowling).
Whether that is ture or not the nerf was still fucking stupid.
I agree with you. I was simply agreeing with the other poster that the Sentinel nerf was planned before launch, not because of people whining.
A sport is a game, but not every game is a sport.
I believe the most accepted definition of sport is that the activity has to be primarily determined by physical athletic performance. I would not call chess a sport, but that should by no means diminish the accomplishments of top players.
It sometimes seems like people use sport to mean “very serious and important game”, but I believe they are misusing the terms. A game can be treated very seriously, and a sport can be a casual contest between friends. No amount of interest or money or viewship or legitimacy will change the fact that a video game is not actually a sport.
Anyway, back to fighting games specifically. Being mass market video games, they are intended primarily as entertaining hobbies for people who are not necessarily going to invest a large amount of time into learning them. They are not designed as tools to measure the performance of two combatants, which is why they are not marketed as utilities for professional players. If professional players want to devote time, that’s awesome, but that was not their primary intended purpose.
Isn’t that just your opinion and a belief widely held, not fact?
I don’t see why someone can’t design a video game to measure performance between two players or why it is suddenly not being a video game if it does.
And fighting games focus are on the player vs player aspect, so they are a measure.
And I doubt sports were intended to blow up into these massive time sinks.
I’ll admit that I’m no linguistics expert, but I believe that’s the currently accepted definition.
Also, you could develop a game that is intended primarily as a serious competitive tool, but currently that game is not being produced. All fighting games that have been produced (to my knowledge) have aimed for a broad audience interested primarily in low investment entertainment, and due to the high cost of production, I do not believe that will change in the foreseeable future.
As for fighting games being a tool to measure performance, they are first and foremost attempting to entertain the players engaged in their use, win or lose. That’s the reason there is so much time and effort put into assets and presentation compared to endless measurement of fairness and requirements for the game to have competitive longevity, because entertaining average players is the primary intent of the product.
Now, that could change if the culture shifts a little and suddenly people become very interested in the high level competitive aspects of fighting games (much like we collectively became obsessed with poker a few years back), and then you could produce a “serious” game, but I don’t think that’s in the cards (lol).
What’s your definition of a sport? I presume it’s different than mine.
My definition of sport was shat upon when I saw pool, poker, bowling and the spelling bees on ESPN so I don’t know anymore.
Again, I bring up the old sports in that I don’t think they were designed with the intent of being of what they are today so I question how much the designers intent matter when looking at what they become.I don’t think the people working on ST or 3S intended either game to be play for over 10 years but look.
I’m sure the old sports looked like the current fighting game community where it was a few people who took it seriously and practiced and trained to beat everyone else.
sports make you fit
fighting games make you fat
for this solely reason sports > fighting games, although both involve the same type of mind set, mind games whatever
What if it can be proven that working out, eating healthy and etc. improves your ability in fighting games?
I’m sure it does help. It certainly helps in chess.
The olympics recognizes darts, chess and billiards as sports, which is what started the idea of esports.
EDIT: Fatal1ty, the top Quake player for years, insisted on a good diet and lots of running to keep his reaction times up.
It’s not really surprising general health is more important than most people think (the trend for fat top FG players aside)
And a fucking TV channel determines what a word means? They just broadcast what will give them ratings, and try to reach to a broader audience. (Although I don’t know who in their right minds would watch a spelling bee contests. It’s not like YOUR child is competing there every time. Only retarded middle aged females I guess.)
MTV (MUSIC TV) is now all about reality shows and other crap, so does this turn reality shows into music?
You get fat by eating more calories than you burn, not by playing fighting games.
And why do have to be choosing just one instead of doing both like a normal, healthy person?
gotta ask daigo if it really is working out for him
when you have a tight schedule probably?, sometimes you have to put the extra hours to really improve on something taking away the time to do other things like exercise. Most top players to seem to exercise regularly anyway you can see a lot of examples. I could be wrong on this though I don’t know them personally.
Dial it back a couple of notches.
It made me look at “sports” and things that aren’t “sports” but competitive contest and see what’s the difference or if the word “sport” is just a marketing label.
Does something become a sport when people have to begin training their mind and body at a young age to play it?
Does that mean basketball, baseball, soccer and football weren’t “sports” for a period of time?
If it’s something you do outdoors, why is basketball played indoors on hardwood?
In the context of “fishing for sport” does it mean a contest?
It’s not that complicated… Some people use the term to describe physical activity (even if you do it by yourself) and some use it to describe any kind of competition against other people.
So if you replace the word with “physical activity” and “competition” you avoid any type of confusion.
But CALLING something “sport” is not really what people want right? They just want their preferred type of activity to be more socially accepted, and popular.
At least compared to highly respected activities such as this. 