re: Revielle writer wants LSU video Gamers to have student athlete status

I think skateboarding and bmx are a better comparison. People thought those were just a fad back in the 70s and 80s.

But watching people play is only fun for a very short period of time. Anybody can play these games, it's not like football where there are real restraints to the average fan going out on the field. People will get tired of this pretty quick.

Plenty of games require serious amounts of time to get where these guys are when you watch them on the internet.

I basically have zero time to play video games but I will occasionally get on twitch.tv and watch people play to see what the new games are like. Specifically end-game content

I remember when the Revielle was a descent paper when I was at LSU.

What was the name of the fat dude that used to write the funny op-ed articles? I think his first name was Jay...

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I am far removed from being a student at LSU, but it seems the Revielle is complete shite. I don't remember it being that bad when I was in college.

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A few weeks ago, a revielle article proposed LSU tear down Tiger Stadium and move it away from campus because of the traffic problems

It's almost like reading the onion

You don't get the level of pro gamers overnight. Saying you'd have the same experience as a pro gamer is like me saying I could go one on one with a buddy in basketball and its just like Lebron vs Curry.

Of course the prize money wouldn't be there but I could certainly find comparable competition if I was so inclined.

My point is the difference between me throwing the football in the back yard and me playing NFL football is huge, unbelievably huge, so huge that I'm resigned to the fact that I'll never know any experience like that. The difference between playing a video game at home and a video game at a competition is a real difference but not that unimaginable. So there's no huge disconnect between the fan and the performer so the appeal won't last.

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I can however, log on, pick Terrorblade, split-morph-manta-and destroy 3 people, sunder-split, destroy two More and RAMPAGE!!!

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But like I said, I might be wrong. Just throwing out my prediction.