Just Wow at both of these stories...

[PS5 Pro]

All I am saying is that technically they can call themselves an athlete. Thay may not match our modern day understanding.

I don't think it matches our any day understanding.


Calling a gamer an athlete is like saying being Gay is acceptable in the eyes of GOD.

Some people want to move goal post is what I'm trying to say here, so maybe your 2013 definition includes gamers. But as one of the most hardcore gamers around? I wouldn't go that far. Of course, this is my opinion and your free to have yours. I just 100% disagree tho. Now if you talking Kinect Sports? Closes thing to the real thing, but still naaaaaah

Next gen (xbox two, ps5) I can see Kinect being so precise that you could do things like have a football league and you throw passes from your living room. shyt, maybe this gen. Its how to make all the other positions work? Man, I gotta see whats good with Kinect Sports Rivals to see where we at in that department...

 

[Kartel13]

I don't think it matches our any day understanding.


Calling a gamer an athlete is like saying being Gay is acceptable in the eyes of GOD.

Some people want to move goal post is what I'm trying to say here, so maybe your 2013 definition includes gamers. But as one of the most hardcore gamers around? I wouldn't go that far. Of course, this is my opinion and your free to have yours. I just 100% disagree tho. Now if you talking Kinect Sports? Closes thing to the real thing, but still naaaaaah

Next gen (xbox two, ps5) I can see Kinect being so precise that you could do things like have a football league and you throw passes from your living room. shyt, maybe this gen. Its how to make all the other positions work? Man, I gotta see whats good with Kinect Sports Rivals to see where we at in that department...

loser

 

[Bud Bundy]

I don't think it matches our any day understanding.


Calling a gamer an athlete is like saying being Gay is acceptable in the eyes of GOD.

Some people want to move goal post is what I'm trying to say here, so maybe your 2013 definition includes gamers. But as one of the most hardcore gamers around? I wouldn't go that far. Of course, this is my opinion and your free to have yours. I just 100% disagree tho. Now if you talking Kinect Sports? Closes thing to the real thing, but still naaaaaah

Next gen (xbox two, ps5) I can see Kinect being so precise that you could do things like have a football league and you throw passes from your living room. shyt, maybe this gen. Its how to make all the other positions work? Man, I gotta see whats good with Kinect Sports Rivals to see where we at in that department...

If a pool player or a race car driver is called an athlete why not a gamer. It fits in definition.

 

[PS5 Pro]

If a pool player or a race car driver is called an athlete why not a gamer. It fits in definition.

Because then you can apply what you saying to literally anything.
And nobody recognizes a pool player as an athlete. I know professional pool players who go to Vegas for the championships every year (and this dude wins every year too) and I never heard him in his life say he was an athlete.

Race Car drivers are not universally recognized as that. It was a hot topic debate and not until very recently did "some" ppl start giving them credit for that. Still not a mainstream opinion for even those sports.
Because going by your logic, a Poker player is an athlete

A person who enters a BBQ cook-off is then an athlete

A 5yr old selling girl scout cookies would also fall under your definition

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiDwMgtjY1g[/ame]

 

[Bud Bundy]

Because then you can apply what you saying to literally anything.
And nobody recognizes a pool player as an athlete. I know professional pool players who go to Vegas for the championships every year (and this dude wins every year too) and I never heard him in his life say he was an athlete.

Race Car drivers are not universally recognized as that. It was a hot topic debate and not until very recently did "some" ppl start giving them credit for that. Still not a mainstream opinion for even those sports.
Because going by your logic, a Poker player is an athlete

A person who enters a BBQ cook-off is then an athlete

A 5yr old selling girl scout cookies would also fall under your definition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiDwMgtjY1g

If they are all competing for a prize sure. Why are you so attach to the word athlete and it meaning physical competition. Ask your self that question.

 

[Chill]

Playing games at a professional level require skills not common such as reaction and coordination to the average person so I'd consider them an athlete.

 

[PS5 Pro]

If they are all competing for a prize sure. Why are you so attach to the word athlete and it meaning physical competition. Ask your self that question.

Because thats what an athlete is
Athlete | Define Athlete at Dictionary.com

a person trained or gifted in exercises or contests involving physical agility, stamina, or strength; a participant in a sport, exercise, or game requiring physical skill.

That was the very first meaning aka the most common meaning
Here's the Worlds dictionary definition...

1. a person trained to compete in sports or exercises involving physical strength, speed, or endurance
2. a person who has a natural aptitude for physical activities
3. chiefly ( Brit ) a competitor in track and field events

Now when did you come to the conclusion those weren't the characteristics of an "athlete" is what I'm wondering...

Playing games at a professional level require skills not common such as reaction and coordination to the average person so I'd consider them an athlete.

While its true some people have better coordination than others, when it comes to video games it all comes down to who has no life. As children you have time to fukk around all day long. So I'd wanna learn every move from every character, every counter, every super. I'd learn how to do all these moves before the game came out. I'd read magazines and they'd have the controls in them. I know I'm not the only person who studied the Kobe Bryant Nintendo Power issue which had the controls in them
Tekken learning the 10+ hit combos for every character, learning how to connect combos with KING and all that.

I'm grown now, I ain't got time for all that. Only reason why I'm not there competing at EVO. I entered tournaments and won in my teens. I was the best player in my neighborhood and was the best player when I went to other peoples neighborhoods... in every game. I'd have to spend all my free time playing those games to get back on that level, but I wouldn't want to.
Life is too short to spend wasting it on shyt like this, for those that chose to spend all there time playing games? But you still not an athlete

 

[Chill]

Because thats what an athlete is
Athlete | Define Athlete at Dictionary.com

That was the very first meaning aka the most common meaning
Here's the Worlds dictionary definition...

Now when did you come to the conclusion those weren't the characteristics of an "athlete" is what I'm wondering...




While its true some people have better coordination than others, when it comes to video games it all comes down to who has no life. As children you have time to fukk around all day long. So I'd wanna learn every move from every character, every counter, every super. I'd learn how to do all these moves before the game came out. I'd read magazines and they'd have the controls in them. I know I'm not the only person who studied the Kobe Bryant Nintendo Power issue which had the controls in them
Tekken learning the 10+ hit combos for every character, learning how to connect combos with KING and all that.

I'm grown now, I ain't got time for all that. Only reason why I'm not there competing at EVO. I entered tournaments and won in my teens. I was the best player in my neighborhood and was the best player when I went to other peoples neighborhoods... in every game. I'd have to spend all my free time playing those games to get back on that level, but I wouldn't want to.
Life is too short to spend wasting it on shyt like this, for those that chose to spend all there time playing games? But you still not an athlete

It's not as time consuming as you think, once you play the game and learn your own characters moves and combos doing that stuff becomes 2nd nature, along with playing that game for a little bit and actually trying to learn it you realize what your opponent can or cant do and then that becomes 2nd nature. Also it ain't like when they play new games they're starting from scratch, alot of what they learned from the previous games they've played carries over.

 

[Big Blue]

I gotta agree with court on this. Gamers are not athletes.

 

[PS5 Pro]

It's not as time consuming as you think, once you play the game and learn your own characters moves and combos doing that stuff becomes 2nd nature, along with playing that game for a little bit and actually trying to learn it you realize what your opponent can or cant do and then that becomes 2nd nature. Also it ain't like when they play new games they're starting from scratch, alot of what they learned from the previous games they've played carries over.

I understand that totally, and I been at that level. But once you get older and you get out of that loop? I know what it takes to get back to that, and I don't have the time to spend on something like that. If I never let my skills deterioate over the years/etc what you saying could apply to me. But there are way too many new moves/characters/etc for an old expert to hop on a new game and compete. Not if you play other games. People who are elite in fighters most likely don't play other genres like that. You wouldn't have time to play thru RPG's, Then play online in Call of Duty, Then put in work in Madden and NBA2K. And then have an adult life.. nah, not enough time in a day. Its the reason why ppl who don't play games like Madden will be quick to say how each new version is the same as previous years. Madden players look at ppl who love Fighters and they say the same thing. And they both wrong...

 

[Kartel13]

I understand that totally, and I been at that level. But once you get older and you get out of that loop? I know what it takes to get back to that, and I don't have the time to spend on something like that. If I never let my skills deterioate over the years/etc what you saying could apply to me. But there are way too many new moves/characters/etc for an old expert to hop on a new game and compete. Not if you play other games. People who are elite in fighters most likely don't play other genres like that. You wouldn't have time to play thru RPG's, Then play online in Call of Duty, Then put in work in Madden and NBA2K. And then have an adult life.. nah, not enough time in a day. Its the reason why ppl who don't play games like Madden will be quick to say how each new version is the same as previous years. Madden players look at ppl who love Fighters and they say the same thing. And they both wrong...

shut the fukk up

 

[Rigamortus]

3) A 45 year old man is charged with child negligence due to spending hours online debating about video game consoles, the man appears to have a mattress dissolved in urine. In a bizarre statement when the man was asked about these charges he claimed "DDR3 will be more powerful than GDDR5 I swear on my kids lives" he is on his way to the local hospital for psychiatric evaluation

This dude is really 45?

 

[Bud Bundy]

why is ps4 so against his son possibly calling him athlete one day?

he must be ashamed to be a gamer.

 

[GoldenGlove]

Michael Jordan will rank 2 spots behind GoldenGlove

 

[Mac071415]

3) A 45 year old man is charged with child negligence due to spending hours online debating about video game consoles, the man appears to have a mattress dissolved in urine. In a bizarre statement when the man was asked about these charges he claimed "DDR3 will be more powerful than GDDR5 I swear on my kids lives" he is on his way to the local hospital for psychiatric evaluation

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