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[LordSlowpoke]

Was playing TF2.
In the middle of a MvM round.
Mom calls me, tells me to go do something.
Do it, come upstairs, continue.
She calls me again to go to something.
Rinse and repeat.
Then, she tells me to download some pictures from her phone and upload them to do something in a certain website.
I start doing it.
She comes up.
Takes computer away to finish job.
Tell her to hurry up.
She laughs at me.

Maybe MvM is bad luck for you? vOv

Maybe your parents know how much you do MvM and are trying to break you out of it by conspiring to separate you from the computer as much as possible. vOv

stop using vOv

you are not allowed to do so anymore

[TrollZeGamer]

Makes me rage like the FUCKING HULK when youtube buffers the whole video, but when i try to skip ahead, IT. FUCKING. REBUFFERS. THE. WHOLE. DAMN. VIDEO.

[Reverie]

He can do it if he wants!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

vOv <3

[Worldmaster27]

It is too late.

It has already been assimilated.

vOv

[Graknorke]

Bullshit, I've got the assumption that somebody thought it was profitable, and the source is that they did it.

You might be surprised to find out that everything corporations do doesn't become immediately profitable upon execution. Or maybe it could even be a bad idea and completely unprofitable. That's why I'm telling you to be a bit patient, it'll be gone soon enough. Otherwise we'd have actual Starcraft tournaments on ESPN. It's a publicity and pandering thing.

People can think a thing without being correct, you know.

[Bauglir]

Bullshit, I've got the assumption that somebody thought it was profitable, and the source is that they did it.

You might be surprised to find out that everything corporations do doesn't become immediately profitable upon execution. Or maybe it could even be a bad idea and completely unprofitable. That's why I'm telling you to be a bit patient, it'll be gone soon enough. Otherwise we'd have actual Starcraft tournaments on ESPN. It's a publicity and pandering thing.

But... I'm not saying it is profitable. It's not at all surprising to me that things take time to pay off, or can be complete mistakes. I'm not even slightly invested in it remaining a thing! Where are you getting the idea that any of these things apply?

You asked why it's considered a sport. The answer is that somebody thinks it will pay off at some point. The evidence that somebody thinks this is that it was done - after all, the reason for everything a corporation does is because they think it will pay off.

[Dutchling]

Bullshit, I've got the assumption that somebody thought it was profitable, and the source is that they did it.

You might be surprised to find out that everything corporations do doesn't become immediately profitable upon execution. Or maybe it could even be a bad idea and completely unprofitable. That's why I'm telling you to be a bit patient, it'll be gone soon enough. Otherwise we'd have actual Starcraft tournaments on ESPN. It's a publicity and pandering thing.

Well, first off, people are argueing that relevant people think it will be profitable. Or maybe it's just Dota trying to buy some popularity, I don't know.

And Starcraft stopped being relevant a couple of years ago. It sort of failed at being a long term e-sports phenomena.

[TamerVirus]

ψ(｀∇´)ψ

Am I doing it right?

[Reverie]

I didn't even know Dota was popular enough to be televised, like, at all.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

You asked why it's considered a sport in comparison to other video games.

Context helps. Once again, what is different about DOTA2 in comparison to the other long-running tournaments in competitive video games? Nothing. If there was profit in this, ESPN would have been showing Starcraft tournaments years ago. It's pandering because it's a hyped up MOBA. I'd be surprised if they actually gained viewers instead of losing them overall during the showing, honestly.

I also find the notion that the popularity of something correlates to it's sport-ness completely ridiculous, because if this were the case we'd not consider Curling a sport because it's got less viewership than the other *real* sports.

Turkish oil wrestling is a sport. Playing DOTA2, or any video game, is not. Despite popularity.

[Bauglir]

If there was profit in this, ESPN would have been showing Starcraft tournaments years ago

Context helps. They think there's profit in it now. That means that, in the past, they either thought there was no profit, or they hadn't thought about it at all.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

It could even be a publicity trick. You know, possibly.





Possibly.






No, really, that's what it boils down to. We're talking about DOTA2, the dried out husk of a MOBA, right now. I guarantee ESPN didn't make a profit on this showing, and if they did I'll eat one of my shoes. Boiled.

[Bauglir]

Which, yeah, comes down to somebody thinking there's profit here. So we're finally in agreement?

[Mictlantecuhtli]

You're the only one I see implying they made a profit. I guarantee they didn't. You also keep dancing around why DOTA2 is more of a sport than, hm, LoL? Or are you stuck on popularity = sportness?

[Dutchling]

Some confusing "thinking they can make a profit" with "making a profit"