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You call yourself the Lavinian Legion but don't know who Lavinia is?

So you guys really like shy Lavinia then?

Agreed.

Although I'm very sure it's your card, graphics drivers are not loaded in safe mode. If it's a driver issue, safe mode should work fine. Try that and then uninstall and reinstall the drivers in safe mode.

I did not mean to sound accusatory, although I probably did. I genuinely think the stuff I listed is sufficient for holding a good tournament.

Why not organize it yourself? You have all the resources you need: a forum, polls, bracketmaker. If you ask nicely, they might even make a newspost. At least that's the answer I always got whenever I requested staff support for sabering tournaments.

Apologise for playing that race.

Just saying, but arma3 is amazing. That's all.

Will watch a shabby camrip at home.

Yeah, DS mentioned that some of you guys were playing lots of SWTOR, but that it wasn't quite his thing and he was doing GW2 instead. That was when I last talked to him not too very long ago. Are you in touch with anyone else besides that? And are you playing much JKA at all and/or planning to?

I remember Master and was part of the clan as a trialee under Cornugon before it disbanded in 2004. I have also heard of you and your efforts to bring back the clan a couple of years ago, but I'm not sure how that went. I tend to be very sceptical of revivals in general, given that they typically don't include any of the original members and tend to fall short in terms of what the past iterations have achieved skill-wise.

Confirmation bias makes this slightly more complicated, given that we are more likely to search for and also more likely to find things that confirm our initial belief. So someone who believes a game will suck is going to be more likely to have a worse time with it, regardless of how good the game actually is, compared to someone who believes the game will be great.

Tell that the Olympic Committee and the central international sports federation. Again, you've been given so many examples of non-athletic sports and have been shown that non-athletic activity is also physical activity (as per dictionary definition), I am baffled that you refuse to engage the counter-arguments. E-sports is sports insofar as it shares essential features of officially recognized sports. This has been mentioned very early on page 1.

You can dislike something without finding it false and you can like something without finding it true. Most of our statements are not trivially true or false, so if you find something true or false, you do so for a reason. If you have a reason but you don't say it, then you are not contributing to the discussion. If you don't have a reason and merely like or dislike what was said, then expressing this does not contribute to the discussion either (because you could have just as well typed 'yay!' or 'blergh!') In both cases a like/dislike button does not add anything to the discussion, but it has many significant drawbacks that I mentioned previously. EDIT: Boothand made the only good point in favour of the like button so far, namely that the forum (here) is not just about discussions. I would add to this by saying that this is a forum heavily populated by modders, so people show off work and whatnot to share it with others and get feedback on it. Feedback involves constructive criticism (at best), so the like button is out of place in that regard, but sharing does not involve any of that - and if someone shares their work with me, I find it perfectly fine to congratulate them on it without giving feedback, or state my appreciation for being able to use whatever they have made, or encourage them to continue doing it with a few nice words etc. This is where the like button fits in and why a dislike button would be out of place.

Ah insult, the mark of defeat. Well done, you have proven all of your points perfectly now and have made an excellent case for whatever you were saying. While we're at namedropping, Lim Yo Hwan was making about half a million USD per year in salary and endorsment contracts before he retired (next to whatever he was earning from tournament victories). Chen Zhihao is one of five players that made over 1 million USD in tournament money over the last two years alone (ontop of whatever he gets paid as a salary). How much money did you earn over the last five years or so? Do your friends get painted on a plane too?

You have yet to give an argument for narrowing down sports to athletic sports and you have yet to address all the arguments given by everyone else to the contrary. The only point you make is that playing games all the time can be unhealthy. But this is entirely off-topic unless you throw in a lot of additional premises. EDIT in response to your EDIT: You do know that many professional gamers make money above the national average of whatever country you live in, right? And I'm just talking about basic salary. Also, when you go pro, you don't just play and have a good time, it's a job for you. Do you know anything at all about the professional scene? I'm really wondering given the things you say about it.

I think the point is that there can be non-athletic sports and plenty of examples have been given. Merely saying that sports have to involve physical activity does not help, given that athletic activity is only one kind of physical activity. Having said that, nobody is stupid enough to believe themselves to be engaging in athletic activity when playing games (and nobody here claimed that this was the case), so you're attacking a straw man at best.

The Mass Effect debacle is a classic, but I think we have to be careful here. Not every news outlet is fox news, and not every report is trying to vilify people for playing games (even if the bad ones get all our attention).

Yeah, it's not an athletic sport, but neither are the activities @@Didz mentioned (including most kinds of motorsport), so either we petition the international Olympic Comittee to reverse its recognition of Chess as a sport or we just agree that sport is a term that is very flexible and is not exhausted by athletic competitions. Even the ancient Greeks held non-athletic competitions at their Olympiads, and they must know best.

Yeah, there will always be people who resist change. But whether they like it or not, history is on our side. (sorry to khrushchev this)

Have you heard of the guy on espn going on about how esports is not a real sport and how it's all pathetic and so on? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dll8eMJnTEE

And yet the presence of a person in your thread is evaluated on the basis of their contribution to it. If someone just posts something stupid, you will hardly like it solely because of their presence. And indeed, if someone posts something you vehemently disagree with (even if what they write is not stupid), you will also be hard pressed to like it as well. Given that merely stating agreement with a position contributes nothing to a discussion, a like button therefore contributes nothing to a discussion. Given that threads are supposed to foster discussion, the like button has no place on the forums.

I'd rather see the liking feature removed entirely instead of adding to it. It's completely useless at best and detrimental to discussions at worst. It is useless because it does not add anything to a discussion, given that the agreement of someone is neither an argument for any given point nor is it argumentatively supporting any given arguments. And it can be detrimental to discussions insofar as the widespread agreement with a certain point discourages people from speaking against that point and gives others a false sense of authority. There are many more issues like easy group polarization and slacktivism, but the like button amounts to nothing more than the internet's version of clapping after someone said something on a talkshow. EDIT: As an alternative, as I mentioned previously, I'd actually find it a good idea to give admins the option of publicly announcing underneath a user's post that they have been warned or banned for making said post.

Clearly you would not have written this sarcastic and bitter line if you had felt apathy towards whatever people say on tv.

All I really care about is good sabering. Since Battlefront will have none of that, my interest in the game is rather marginal.