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+Elizabeth OfYork  So that's an excuse for liberalism to invade the Church and to destroy all it's traditions?  You seem to forget precisely which idealogy has killed more people by a landslide...  Marxism has slaughtered an INFINANT amount more people than Fascism, infinant.  Also you shouldn't be making claims like I'm a Fascist because I'm critical of the Jesuits, their subversion of the Church, Liberation Theology, and Marxism, that doesn't make me a Fascist, please display that rationale.  The Vatican has become the tool of Satan, there is no denying that, it is a Political machine concerned with Politics and not with it's flock.  The Church shouldn't be leading Marxist revolutions by the sword and pistol, or is that too hard to grasp.  It has come full circle on the Vatican and the plot to destroy the Church is in full swing and working.You can drone on all you like about who we allied with in WW2, who then became a much bigger enemy than Hitler ever was to us.  The enemy of my enemy is my friend, ever hear that one before?   Or do you take a seasonal allying with an enemy as an endorsement of their brilliant Marxist plan to execute 60 million of their own people? 

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I just have to say this to anyone who would vote for Scott Walker: you do realize that his billionaire donors don't give a fuck about you, your state, your healthcare, and your financial stability...don't you?

Scott Walker is protecting taxpayers against public sector piggies and their bloated pay and benefits.

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Hear TRUTH! It's pitiful. Wake up sheeple.

Ok back to the garden. The woman you gave me she ........

I've always thought that the Olympics (since it is the highest form of athletic competition) was about a blending of cultures to celebrate unity while having a showcase of how far humanity's physical and mental capabilities can take us manifested in the form of sports; these are the greatest feats of dexterity, agility, strength, and determination on the planet (or something like that). I certainly welcome esports and pro gamers but I don't think something like LoL should be in the Olympics.

Also - I just ran across a post on Gamasutra by a former cyber athlete who says that yes, esports are physically demanding and athlete is the right word. He has also been a track coach for 15 years, and compares gaming to Olympic shooting, which is a focus sport - except cyberathletes have to maintain that focus for hours of play during a tournament. As with shooting, they have to play these games for long exhausting periods to stay competitive as well. He also brings up medical exhaustion.

I'd definitely consider them athletes. Look at the pro-fighting game circuit, and see how hard they study the competition, and practice their strategies and learn their characters, as well as the core ins and outs of the games, and coping with balance changes and patches. There is A LOT that goes into being a professional in a game, and they're definitely athletes for it. Maybe not physical athletes like a basketball player, but definitely mental athletes, like Chess and Poker players.

I didn't ignore them; they weren't relevant. I'm not going to consider the dozens of other non-sports. Clearly you're a computer gamer who wants to be viewed as an athlete because of it. Now THAT'S retarded. There's nothing wrong with playing compter games, but they don't fit any meaningful definition of sport and gamers fit no meaningful definiition of athletes. It's not a matter of conditioning. It's a matter of the words actually meaning something that computer gaming is not.

If you think billiards players or even bowlers are athletes you can't consistently argue pro gamers aren't, at least not if you're trying to pass heavy physical exertion as the criteria. Like so many things among our idiotic species, this comes down to nothing but prejudice. There's absolutely nothing more inherently respectable or worthwhile about being able to throw a ball through a hoop than there is about being good at some video game. Get over your elitist bullshit.

What about pylon racing, ie racing aeroplanes around pylons. The activity is exactly the same as gaming, sitting in a seat, using a joystick & buttons etc. Rowing is no different abstractly, the boat and oars are controlled by mind to muscles to levers. Muscle types differ in all sports ie fast twitch / fast reaction times, yet other sports like Boxing use & train those too. Does what you think stop being a "real" opinion just because it's a 2D representation on YT?

you're right, there is a massive bias to wards superficiality, but in the past it was with good reason. The strongest, healthiest malew was the best provider, and the strongest healthiest female bore the most children. There were and still are excellent biological reasons to value health and physical capability oin a mate. But I'm glad the we now live in an age where intellect is valued. It means I win on both fronts! By the way, keep your weight even when you ollie!

Nice job ignoring the more relevant examples. Billiards requires minimal physical exertion, Same with bowling, darts, and other such activities that no one minds being called sports. The reason people see classifying video games as sport is not because it's any less "sportlike" than the aforementioned examples. It's because all sports is equally retarded, but we've been conditioned to find the traditional ones normal, while anything new is ridiculed.

Considering just how much time players spend preparing and competing in tournaments for games like League of Legends, StarCraft 2 or certain fighting games, it at least demands a form of mental exertion (and quite a lot of keyboard speed for the former two, since you need to have a LOT of Actions Per Minute) to keep at it for as long as one does when trying to viably enter a tournament without getting their ass mutilated three ways from Sunday.

As a Gamer NO they shouldn't be considered athletes, besides their fingers, brains, eyes there is no other physical activity. Unless playing DDR It should only be considered if it's activity involving PHYSICAL EXERTION and SKILL. Billiards would fall under this. If they wanna lump gaming with chess fine cause I'll consider them Mental Athletes with mathletics, spelling bee champions. Wii,Xbox Connect, PS Move would be the only gray area