• godlessworm [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    yeah it’s still pretty funny tho to me cause it’s just gaming. at worst a professional gamer was inconvenienced by playing against someone using cheats or whatever the case is. who really cares. professional gaming shouldn’t even be a thing imo not to get too high and mighty. maybe me thinking that tho is why i don’t see it as a big issue

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      2 months ago

      Do you feel the same way about professional sports? If so then we just disagree but if you put esports in a different category then that’s a contradiction you need to examine.

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        2 months ago

        yes i do feel the same way about professional sports. people cheat at professional sports all the time too. i think that’s pretty funny as well. they’re playing a game for money.

        • BanMeFromPosting [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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          We should have a league with cheating and a league without. I’m not just talking steroids, I mean the whole thing - blackmail, bribing, etc.
          I want to know what country is the best at being scoundrels.

          What happens if you cheat in the no-cheating-league, you ask? We throw the cheater down into a Big Hole. If they can climb out they’re fine. If they’ve been very bad then we make the sides muddy. Bigness of hole determined by bigness of cheat.

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            2 months ago

            i would love this. it would make “who can cheat better” the whole sport and the game its self is just a set up for that.

            really that sounds like how sports should be in america anyway. whats more american than that?

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        2 months ago

        not to get too political on hexbear dot net but the hans niemann buttplug scandal was objectively hilarious and i would hate to find out it didn’t happen and was just a joke from a reddit comment