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1. Are they enjoying the game? 2. Are you enjoying the game? If the answers to these questions is yes, then I wouldn't worry about whether there is enough "roleplaying" going on or not. There is no ideal amount of roleplaying other than that amount which creates enjoyment for those involved in...

The asterix was supposed to be tacked on because of the longer season. Later because of suspected performance enhancing drugs. However, no asterix is actually in the record books. But the question here is not that Dash is using drugs. The examples you give don't "shoot that out of the water" at...

No, its a system to ensure that individual competitors are evenly sized. Their skill doesn't enter into the equation at all. He's only pool sharking if he hides his abilities and then later bets everyone a bunch of money that he can beat them and then he reveals his higher skill level. Dash...

Yes, there are unhappy wealthy athletes, movie stars, and rock stars. Many of who are unhappy because of the isolation required for them to dsicipline themselves into achieveing their status. There are also many others (probably many more than the unhappy ones) who are quite happy being rish...

Umm, running fast enough to win isn't being deceptive. Pretending you are slower than you are to come in second is. But Dash isn't pretending to be an amateur when he is not. He is an amateur. He's just a really good one. Does Usain Bolt have to submit a "my best speed" dossier before he...

And yet somehow these athletic superstars somehow manage to get by, have friends, get married, and have lifestyles that are envied by millions. Sounds really like it would be much too tough for anyone to handle. I'm sure if he had it to do all over again, Phelps would have given up swimming as a...

Maybe it would be and maybe they should. But it would also be fair. Was Sergei Bubka behaving unfairly when he dominated his sport to an extent no one could even come close to competing with him for the better part of a decade? All Flash (or Dash) would have done is elevate the level of...

You are engaged in wishful thinking if you believe that elite athletes don't have a natural advantage over the rest of the populace that is almost frightening in scale. Or that there aren't professional players who aren't lazy slobs who let their natural talent carry them (they don't usually...

I see what you think the problem is. I just think that your position is untenable, and pretty silly. No, it would not be. Why do you think it should be? He's just fatser than his competitors. He might get bored, but that should be for him to decide.

Yes, I am. For you to let your three year old nephew win is normal, and acceptable. You are an adult, and he is a child. Part of your responsibility to him is to help him learn and grow. For Dash to let his classmates win is patronizing in the bad sense - he is assuming a role equivalent to...

Yes. The life of an elite athlete has always proved to make it too difficult for people to actually enjoy themselves or find friends. :erm:

I seriously question whether it would even be unfair.

Really? If I'm faster than you it is cheating for me to win a race against you? The message of the film really is "be mediocre".

I have to question qhether using your strength to win a competition is actually cheating? We don't accuse people who are large in size with "cheating" because they excel at being linemen in football, or people who are tall with cheating when they excel in basketball. Why is it that using...

Your handle reminds me that if one truly wants obscure, archaic language, one should look to Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun.

I don't recall where I heard the term "dog-eared" first. It is just one of those things that I always remember knowing. Maybe I learned it from my father, who used to dog-ear the pages of books, and then tell me that it was bad for the book. I don't recall where I first heard of the term "Hey...

This is incorrect. The most common firearm used by troops in the U.S. Civil War was the 1861 Springfield, a rifled musket. The second most common was the Pattern 1853 Enfield, also a rifled musket, followed by the 1863 Springfield, another rifled musket. While smoothbore 1842 Springfields and...

I love the fact that suing people who are admitedly misappropriating your property is being "lawsuit happy".

This was a response to my point that making a pirate simply pay the retail value of the work they infringed probably isn't much of a deterrent as it would make it economically viable to pirate (because then the expected cost of the work is the retail value of the product less the expected chance...

I don't work in the entertainment industry. I do appreciate that the law helps them produce those things I like to consume. You do realize that laws were changed because of the introduction of photocopiers, don't you?