{"id":1871,"date":"2014-07-15T17:31:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T17:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2014-07-15T17:31:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T17:31:41","slug":"sports-and-games-world-cup-and-evo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2014\/07\/sports-and-games-world-cup-and-evo\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports and games (world cup and EVO)"},"content":{"rendered":"


For da love of da game<\/em><\/p>\n

High skill level is great to watch, whatever it is. It\u2019s showing us what can be done, it kind of expands our knowledge of an activity by adding those incredible moments in our heads.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s always funny to hear US people\u2019s frustration about football because nothing happens for 120 minutes. The ones who like it, know how hard it is to control a ball with your feet on a field wider than US football ones for 30 minutes more. <\/p>\n

You just need to try for 5 minutes to extrapolate at what level the world\u2019s best players are playing at.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s what I\u2019m going through with EVO. I don\u2019t understand everything at all but I have played some fighting games and I can see how high level those matches are.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s weird to see game designers think football is lame or football fans think video games tournament are ridiculous.<\/p>\n

But also people get mad when two players or two teams are so close. That\u2019s what is good and intense, people<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t know who\u2019s going to win. There\u2019s friction. Competitors both analyze, try to read the other, trying to find a way through them, it\u2019s the meta game<\/strong> that is so interesting not so much the outcome and which country\/team or player wins. It\u2019s the story inside their heads at the time they play that is so beautiful, from having the advantage to having doubt about it, from redemption to revenge, from \u201ccontrolled randomness\u201d to perfect ace, from despair to perfect execution. Invisible narrative, that\u2019s classy as fuck.<\/p>\n

I love to see how games are such a big thing, worldwide. Now I really wish there was more women because I want to see more meta game shit going on like an old woman playing with a pad and fucking the shit out of a dude using a big ass arcade stick. I want to see what a super tight mixed team can do too. Mind games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For da love of da game High skill level is great to watch, whatever it is. It\u2019s showing us what can be done, it kind of expands our knowledge of an activity by adding those incredible moments in our heads. It\u2019s always funny to hear US people\u2019s frustration about football because nothing happens for 120 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1872,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions\/1872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}