Jumping the shark: video gaming in the Olympics?

[widebody911]

I can see the headlines now: Competitor expelled after tesing positive for Mountain Dew

http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/31/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/index.htm

[BlueSkyJaunte]

As a bro of mine once put it, "The day somebody looking like ME can be in the Olympics, is the day that the Olympics have become a laughingstock."

I'm not sure if he was talking about archery, or bowling, though.

[scottmandue]

Bowling.... gotta love a sport where you can get drunk, eat a meal, and participate.

BTW I'm not anti-bowling, when my friends and I were into going to Vegas on a regular basis when we got tired of gambling we would roll on down to the showboat, get $hitfaced, and knock down some pins.
good times, good times...

The guy with the "fakelife" website has a good rant on "video game are not a sport". It is pretty funny... maybe I will do a cut and paste.

[legion]

Is car racing a sport?

[motion]

"There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games." - Hemingway

[widebody911]

The only real sports are bull fighting, mountain climbing, and auto racing; all the others are just games Ernest Hemmingway

(edit - damn, Richard beat me to it)

[Jeff Higgins]

You both beat me to it. The modern interpretation, as seen on tee-shirts at "extreme" sports events around the world is, "if you can't die it's not a sport". Hemmingway had a better way with words, but the message is the same.

[Z-man]

Originally posted by motion
"There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games." - Hemingway

You betcha!

[BlueSkyJaunte]

People have died playing video games. Mostly in Korea.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4137782.stm

[scottmandue]

Okay, had to do it.
Hope I am not in danger of becoming one of the "cut and paste" bandits that hang on this board.
Also hope the author doesn't mind me using it but he did post it on the WWW.

edited for content:

"Hey lardass, computer gaming isn't a sport

What's all this bull$hit I've been hearing about Computer Gaming becoming an Olympic sport? Oh my god, you Counter-Strike homos are such b1tches. I'm going to let you all in on a little secret that everyone else in the universe knows: Sitting on your diabetic ass drinking Mountain Dew and playing Counter-Strike or Quake V or whatever the fuch is not a sport. It's called "Lazy" and "out of touch with reality". Maybe those are familiar to you? Then again, probably not. Afterall, you think playing a computer game should be a sport.
Now, because I consider myself to be a fairly open minded individual, meaning I at least pretend to give a $hit about what people think, sometimes, I decided to ask around, and see what the deal is with this, anyway. Here are some of the reasons I've gotten for why this should be a sport:

You break a sweat. Are you kidding? You fat ba$tards break a sweat while playing video games? That doesn't have $hit to do with whether or not it's a sport so much as it has to do with you being a worthless sack of $hit. I sweat when I jerk off, does that make beating your $hit a sport, too? What kind of ********* sweats playing Quake any damn way. Successful computer gaming requires logic and teamwork. Ignoring that the use of the word "successful" implies that you'd have something to be proud of, this a completely lame attempt at justifying their "cause". Since when does the use/requirment of logic and teamwork dictate whether or not something is a sport? Building high performance engines requires the use of logic, and last time I checked, THAT wasn't a sport. Come to think of it, so does software development. Infact, that requires logic AND teamwork, but I'll be darned if I'm going to watch 7 dudes sitting around hacking code.
And that's another reason the "use of logic" argument is bull$hit. These *unts couldn't even give me three examples of WHY it should be a sport to build a logical paradigm, so who are they trying to fool? Logic my eye!

If computer gaming is a real "sport" before paintball, *edit*"

[CamB]

That's an outstanding example of floccinaucinihilipilification.(1)

(1) Today's word of the day. Google it... assuming I spelt it correctly.

And... now that I've managed to use that word I can comment on the topic. I think it's wrong to have an Olympic sport where the US' representative goes by the name of Fatal1ty.

[motion]

Crap, can't find that bull-fighting pic from last summer...

[cowtown]

I can see it now - the Canadians will sweep the Competitive Philatelism events, and we'll take the Everquest XII Gold medal.

[legion]

I'll kick anyone's butt at Street Fighter II.

[Z-man]

All your Millipede are belong to us.
-Z.

[Jims5543]

Those look like Joshua trees in the background.

[motion]

Yep, Joshua Tree National Park. Good eye!