1: Live in a world where video games had completely replaced the role professional sports play in today's society (sorta like South Korea)?
2: Have your personal Dungeons and Dragons stats printed on your driver's liscence?
I choose 2. I can just imagine being pulled over by a police officer for speeding and hearing "Liscence and registration please?.......Oh I am sorry Mr. Bradford I didn't realize you had a Charisma of 18, my mistake." Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :
2. The lesser of two evils.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Not really.
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
quote:Originally posted by TL: 2. The lesser of two evils.
Elaborations on why you chose what you did, are greatly appreciated. With appreciation correlating with length, (obviously with diminishing returns.)
Posted by Architraz Warden (Member # 4285) on :
Wait, we can't have both?
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
quote:Originally posted by TL: 2. The lesser of two evils.
Elaborations on why you chose what you did, are greatly appreciated. With appreciation correlating with length, (obviously with diminishing returns.)
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
quote:Originally posted by TL: 2. The lesser of two evils.
Elaborations on why you chose what you did, are greatly appreciated. With appreciation correlating with length, (obviously with diminishing returns.)
Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :
quote:2: Have your personal Dungeons and Dragons stats printed on your driver's liscence?
Only if I can get multiple rerolls as desired.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
quote:Would you rather?
Not really.
Posted by TrapperKeeper (Member # 7680) on :
2. Then I would order a new drivers licence from the state of Texas.
Posted by ricree101 (Member # 7749) on :
I can't really say that either interests me, but if I had to choose, I guesse I'd take option 2. I'm pretty strongly opposed to number 1, and I guesse that option 2 could be funny sometimes, so it's not really that much of a choice for me.
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head:
quote:Would you rather?
Not really.
Would you rather implies that you will pick one of the options. I know you can pick one porteiro, I have that much faith in you.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
My answer is that I'd rather live in this world than in either of those two worlds.
Yes, I am aware that isn't the answer you want. Tough noogies. Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
1, obviously. What would be the use of my D&D stats? I can prove my INT is 18 in other ways. And professional sports are a waste of resources.
Posted by Swampjedi (Member # 7374) on :
The first option. Anything to get rid of football.
Posted by Kristen (Member # 9200) on :
Is that really the case in South Korea? Have video games usurped sports?
2, I guess because I kinda sorta role-played in high school out of boredom and that wasn't awful, compared to video games which rarely hold my interest.
Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :
Well, Starcraft is televised in Korea.
I kinda like both options. I'd have to go with 2, though. Of course, there's really not a good way to truthfully figure out some of the stats, especially wisdom and charisma, and perhaps constitution.
Posted by human_2.0 (Member # 6006) on :
We shouldn't just make sports virtual, but we should make everything about our lives virtual, except for the part where we have to have a real job to earn real money that we can then convert to our Virtual World ($1 = 10 virtual dollars--I hear someone actually bought a $50,000 virtual island and is virtually leasing it to other players...).
Posted by Flaming Toad on a Stick (Member # 9302) on :
2. Because all my stats would be zero.
(I've never played D&D.)
Posted by Irami Osei-Frimpong (Member # 2229) on :
quote:And professional sports are a waste of resources.
That's not true. Professional sports are a forum for excellence to show itself. The sports allow a place for dignity, justice, and hard work to presense. The same can't be said in most workplaces, or even homelives. In a sense, sports can serve to remind the mundane that excellent things exist, and that these excellent things can take place in the public as a communal experience, like a Mass at St. Peter Square or praying in Mecca. Then again, you probably think that religion is a waste.
I think that there is something to be said for being the presense of your betters and understanding the difference between you and them, whether the "them" are Gods or fantastic humans, it seems that that sense of reverence/shame (reverence for them / shame for ourselves in their presense) goes along way in human development.
I do think professional sports are over-valued, but they are not a waste.
It's possible that video games would attain the same status. I'm only a mild sports fan, but I wouldn't watch video games because the games are too easy and too safe.
[ May 26, 2006, 11:18 AM: Message edited by: Irami Osei-Frimpong ]
Posted by human_2.0 (Member # 6006) on :
I'm currently training for a triathlon. Don't tell me it is a waste of time. I'm getting fit and meeting cute girls... Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Whether or not it's a waste, it is certainly a somewhat frivolous way to spend time and energy.
Of course, so is music, books, posting on HR, etc..
Us first-worlders spend a huge majority of our attention on such "wasteful" endeavors.
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