I refuse to wrap my mind around “professional” video gamer.
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More like captain obvious troll. Find better bait, this shit is low quality
That’s cool granddad, you must be such an open minded and pleasant individual
Look up the prize pool for the esports world cup that is going on right now
Which one? There's pretty much world cups on most esports back-to-back from now to November, lol.
Which one? Besides the one in saudi arabia right now what else is there?
My point is that late-summer to late fall is pretty much the seasons for worlds in most esports. I don't follow literally all of them to know which one is going on currently, so my point is that mentioning which game would probably be helpful, as not everyone is as immersed in the esports scene to outright know which game has Worlds on which weeks.
I’m not talking about a global lan in any specific game. I was referring to the $60+ million esports world cup that has like 20 games going on
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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!
So it's about the amount of physical exertion, not about it being a game?
So you can't wrap your head around the concept of professional chess players? Professional poker players? Darts? Curling?
Hell, in rally, you just literally sit in a car. Such physical exertion! (And I'm Finnish and have been in an actual rally car, before you're going to try and make a point about how physically demanding you think it is.)
Hey hey, you leave curling out of this. You go sweep a rock until it barely crosses the hog line a few times and check your heart rate.
So now it's about heartrate? Playing Mario Kart and Dark Souls can get your heartrate into the 120+ range. And that's casual videogamers, playing simple games.
https://www.esportwissen.de/en/performance-in-esport/
During professional competitive play, heartrates go up to 180+ bpm. That's on the level of racing car drivers. Way more than chess, archery, or shooting of any sort would ever have.
So guess the Turkish shooter doesn't qualify for you either? Archers? Magnus Carlsen isn't a chess professional, he's just a really lucky dude with a lot of money for some random reason?
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Yep, because professional chess players are well known athletic masterpieces 🙄
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The term "professional" has nothing to do with athletics...
As long as you're getting paid to do it you're a professional something. Just means it's your profession.
I get the common usage of the term. It just seems weird that society is so bored that it’s willing to pay people to play games. although It’s probably no different in the abstract than paying any other performer or service provider for entertainment. I guess it’s fun to watch?
Hundreds of years ago, society was so bored that we all gathered together to watch people kill each other in an arena. If we were lucky we would get to see bloodshed and the emperor will release the lions!
Humans have been playing games far longer than the digital age has been going on for. Why would anyone pay to watch people throw a ball around for hours? I guess it's fun to watch?
Hundreds of years ago, society was so bored
I think "thousands" would be more accurate. We only have written records going back a few thousand years, and what we've gathered from what went on in Göbekli Tepe and other such places, they pretty much did something just for fun as well. I think trying to chase away the feeling of being bored is a quintessential human trait. In other words, our need for novel things is what actually elevated our species to be unlike any other.
I guess it’s fun to watch?
No shit, Captain Obvious
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Being a professional just means you get paid for it.
Professional gamers get paid to play games.
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