Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

The debate I intended to spark from that article I posted was less about definitions and more about whether or not ESPN should show coverage of it. I mean they do poker tournaments as well as eating competitions and those don't seem to make anyone bat an eye, but suddenly it's a video game and people on Twitter lose their shit. Granted it's Twitter and people on it will lose their shit over any perceived grievance, regardless of how trivial it is. I just thought it was kind of a cool leap forward for the medium and it's impact on popular culture as well as the types of games out there.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.