I never had a system as a kid, but would play it often at a friend's house. Positively prehistoric.
CORE for life! That game was both great and not so much at the same time. It was neat for a while, but eventually we would just stick to Starcraft, for custom games and the like.
Two games I loved but no one really played: Deadlock (Deadlock 2 was OK as well) and Rise of Nations.
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
Man i was looking for the name of this game...
Command & conquer!
One of the first games i played in a LAN (On PC because i had already played some games on amiga with Null cable in direct connection) along Duke Nukem !
Original C&C circa ~1995 is still one of my favorites. Several of its successors are good; but the original got so much right for basically inventing a genre. I was truly inspired the last time I played it. I remember the first time I played it, maybe I was 9 or so; I was sleeping over at a friends house, they showed me the game and I don't think I hung out with them the rest of the night. To be fair to myself; that kid was a douche. But his game was pretty great.
Yes and the National Baseball League (EDIT: Major League Baseball. How I did that is beyond me.) championship is referred to as The WORLD Series. And there's a Miss UNIVERSE beauty pageant. And let's not forget WORLDStar Hip Hop.
Give me a break dude. If I wanted to play language games I would have gone into academia.
If the definition of "sandwich" is meat between two slices of bread, then yes. However, this would tend to get you into trouble, because if you have something like pepperoni on pizza and you fold it in half, that too is a "sandwich." However, that isn't really how people use the term sandwich. Not to mention, a hot dog isn't guaranteed to be eaten between bread. Our kids never do, they don't like buns. So, no, a "hot dog" is not a sandwich, but it is something that could be eaten as a nominal "sandwich."
I'm not changing the meaning of sports. In fact, I am keeping it the same. The definition of nerd hasn't changed, only the value associated with the term. So, what you want is an overarching broad meaning change to the word sport. I'm not for that. What you also want is a different valuation of the word game. I'm fine with that.
Words are defined inter-subjectively. You can have any definition of a word that you like. That doesn't mean people are going to agree with you. You want to change the definition of sport to include any game, or at least the games you define as "skillful." I am against that. So, here we are. Could we arbitrarily call anything in the world a sport? Sure. But that would make the word so broad to be essentially meaningless.
Again, this precludes a very broad definition of sport which I don't agree with. You can achieve excellence in many things, that doesn't qualify it as a sport by definition. And I'd still disagree that Baseball or Football are all that complicated, but that is really besides the point.
Sure, people's opinion's change, as does their assignment of value. None of this precludes a definitional, or conceptual change, to the nature of sports. What you seem to be hung up on is that since sports are given cultural value, anything you want to have the same cultural value should be labeled a sport. I'm not buying that. If you want the cultural acceptance, change the culture. That's what happened to the term "nerd." It didn't conceptually drift into meaning the same as "jock" or "aficionado" or anything. It still means the same as it always did. It just doesn't have the negative connotation it once did.
Boxing isn't suddenly not a sport because people don't like to watch it. A game isn't suddenly a sport just people some people do like to watch it.
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
Lmao one of the first links that came up was this: http://www.archive.themanadrain.com/...?topic=33623.0
If you want me to not hang out with you anymore, please be an adult and say so instead of punching my sandwich like an asshole.
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