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minus-squareCaptObvious@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 month agoI refuse to wrap my mind around “professional” video gamer.
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoSo guess you can’t fathom professional chess players, professional race car drivers, professional footballers, professional boxers, or professional athletes of any sort for that matter? They’re all games.
minus-squareCaptObvious@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoI’m going to pretend that we’re not now trying to call button-mashing “athletic.” Such exertion!
minus-squareianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoYep, because professional chess players are well known athletic masterpieces 🙄
minus-squareCaptObvious@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoProfessional, maybe by the definition this thread seems to prefer. Athletes, no.
minus-squarewholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·30 days agoExcept the person in question didn’t call gamers athletes but instead professional. I would also count athlete a subset of professional as well.
minus-squareCaptObvious@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·29 days agoI’m not the one who brought athletics into this. I’m just following the conversation. But no, “esports” do not meet the definition of “sport.”
minus-squarewholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·28 days agoNo one in this chain called it a sport that I saw. The root comment was “”professional” gamer”
minus-squareCaptObvious@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 month agoChess is an athletic competition?
minus-squareCaptObvious@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 month agoI’ve commented elsewhere on the death of modern Olympics.
I refuse to wrap my mind around “professional” video gamer.
So guess you can’t fathom professional chess players, professional race car drivers, professional footballers, professional boxers, or professional athletes of any sort for that matter?
They’re all games.
I’m going to pretend that we’re not now trying to call button-mashing “athletic.” Such exertion!
Yep, because professional chess players are well known athletic masterpieces 🙄
Professional, maybe by the definition this thread seems to prefer. Athletes, no.
Except the person in question didn’t call gamers athletes but instead professional.
I would also count athlete a subset of professional as well.
I’m not the one who brought athletics into this. I’m just following the conversation. But no, “esports” do not meet the definition of “sport.”
No one in this chain called it a sport that I saw. The root comment was “”professional” gamer”
Chess is an athletic competition?
It was in the Olympics
I’ve commented elsewhere on the death of modern Olympics.