What do you think of gamers getting scholarships now?

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鬼殺し wrote:

Insane fine motor skills or masterful strategic thinking, the parallel with traditional competitive games like chess and shogi lies in what you're doing with your body while you're playing. Hint: it rhymes with 'shitting clown'. (and if you use that to segue into para athletics I'll roll my eyes at the screen at you, because I know you're tempted. :P)

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faerwin wrote:

esports can be very healthy for the body. Notably the brain. There is training regimen for esports and it include actual physical activities to keep your body in the best shape possible because that also increase performance while on the computer and it reduces the risk of injuries.

As for reflexes, it depends entirely on the game. Many esports games aren't just about reflexes but about how to take down your opponent and that comes to quickly thinking and thinking flexibility. There's also the whole planning of some games.

A game like CS:GO or Overwatch is a lot more reliant on reflexes than thinking but a game like DOTA is the opposite.

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鬼殺し wrote:

Oh man, just looking at that makes me terrified.

For some reason when I think athletic prowess I default to Nadia Comaneci. Was raised in a household quite soaked in gymnastics culture and her perfect 10s are deeply, deeply baked into my memory as one of those never-to-be-again moments. She wasn't the product of a highly advanced gym or state of the art training techniques. Just a hell of a lot of work.

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Charan wrote:

But rope-less climbing like that? Jeeze. I have trouble glorifying something that cares so little for its practitioners' well-being.

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What was it like at the top?

We ended up on top exchanging hugs for a while. We were all pretty freaking stoked.

What’d you do yesterday?

I went bouldering in the morning a little bit because I wanted to break in my shoes a little, and then I went hiking with my mom and some of her friends. Then I watched the last Hobbit movie and just vegged.

You didn’t even take a rest day before you free-soloed El Cap?

That’s part of the plan. You don’t want to be coming off bed rest. You want to be coming off light exercise. Because physically (the climb) is not that hard to execute. It’s more you have to be in exactly the right (mental) place, so I was trying to create the right place.

How was your sleep last night?

Oh, I slept like a baby. I woke up at around 2:30 or 3:30, like, ‘Let’s do this!’ And then looked at the clock and was like, ‘oh,’ and then went back to sleep and then woke up around 4:30.

When you’re 70, you’re going to come into Yosemite with your grandkids, and they’re going to see El Capitan. And you’re going to say?

Kids, that thing takes about four hours to climb by yourself—after years of effort. (laughs)

Which parts are going to stick in your mind when you’re 70?

The Monster was one of the best because you feel completely safe and, without a harness on, it felt really easy there. I bet that’s the fastest the Monster has ever been climbed. I was in there like ‘this is so cruiser’, having a great time.

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鬼殺し wrote:

Inspiring stuff. Thanks for this!

Related: sometimes I'll just watch videos of martial artists breaking really hard things with their bare whatevers. Most recently, it was Muay Thai girls kicking down trees or making serious dents in concrete pillars with their freakin' shins. The power of adrenaline and the disciplined mind. I love that stuff. Been a really long time since I've felt even anything close to that. Tried taking up my old teenage martial art again a handful of years ago, since the dojo was still around and I wasn't bad at it. Muscle memory was fine, but Jesus did it remind me just how easily our bodies deteriorate if let go and/or racked with chronic illness. Imagine a white belt physically with a black belt's muscle memory. It was...yeah, short-lived. :)

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tidbit wrote:

I bet they won't earn too much real-life skills learning to play FPS's and mobas all day. Maybe it'll teach them to not lose their temper over minor things? Then again, taunting/raging is a strategy. Maybe we'll get more people who over-react for no good reason.

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IMSilver wrote:

Higher education is an ENDANGERED ANIMAL on life support...! MOST """degrees""" are USELESS and OVERPRICED...! FACT

offtopic:
Just CURIOUS..., is this also how you TALK in REAL LIFE...? QUESTION

randomly shout CERTAIN WORDS followed by a PAUSE, then shout FACT.

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鬼殺し wrote:

(I did not watch it, no. Heebies, like you said!)

Okies, not exactly damaging the pillar (that was the tree, got confused) but she's still kicking the damn thing real hard. This is a fun video, mix of real martial arts and just flexible girls doing fun things in everyday life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5iw7gVd0zU

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Charan wrote:

I do have fairly decent pain tolerance for a number of factors -- they say a really nasty Crohn's attack is as close to a guy will ever feel to giving birth**, and I've had my share of those, to a point where only a double hit of morphine in the ER could take the edge off. Regarding the MA, though, damn...that's all gone. I have vague teenage memories of dive-rolling over bent-over adults on gravel...why...god, why?

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Chest-bursters in Alien were inspired by the screenwriter suffering Crohn's attacks and not being able to put it into words.

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DurianMcgregor wrote:

This seems pretty iffy at best. How will schools benefit from this? That needs to be answered before any good schools will consider giving out these kinds of scholarships. If it's only bad schools doing this then it's not really very exciting.

Same way they benefit from sports scholarships.

I dont think the video game scholarships are going to make the school money lol

at least not yet