| foodfather said:
A sport requires, equipment. That equipment requires maintainence, that said equipment, requires a garden / field / gym / stadium etc and the said person using this equipment will generally require a high standard of skill or if they are not that skilled a lot of practice, in order to use the said equipment correctly. Video games do not require equipment other than a TV, something everybody has and a living room/bedroom, again something everybody has. The only ''skill'' required is sight, sound, fingers and thumbs. To get straight to the point, the people that watch these extended ''lets plays'' are compeltely and utterly seceded from the physical word. They dont buy games, they dont watch movies, they dont watch tv shows and even if they did, it would be through piracy. Their level of contribution is minumal at best. It baffles me how many of these sorts of people there are. Its truly worrying. |
Regardless of if the joke still stands and is funny (it is), your comparisons aren't very good. A sport does require equipment, so do games. You cannot play football without a ball and you cannot play games without a device that plays games... or a controller, or a way for the games to be displayed to you... or a game. The only skill required to kick a ball is swinging your leg towards it. You are way over simplifying things.
If you are going to do good comparisons you have to compare like for like activities. High end football, a match between Man U and Chelsea requires equipment for the players to play with, a ground to play on, referrees, millions in wages for highly skilled player, 11 on both side. A stadium full of fans to watch. TV facilities to record and broadcast the game to millions on their TVs or internet devices. A professional League of Legends game between the best players in Korea require a specialist PC equipment for the players to play on with connections over LAN, their prize money, equipment to broadcast these matches on Twitch and other places and even stadiums/arenas full of fans.
There is no difference here in reality.
This said, that is tournament play, watching someone play through the newest installment of Deus Ex with minimal talking all the way through and you not playing it is a little odd. It would be like going to watch a sunday league team practice on a wednesday night because you enjoy it.
Hmm, pie.
